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The first votes are in for the city of Fullerton, where at least two new city council members will join the dais and the voters will decide on a tax measure that will shape the city’s financial future.
New tax revenue and juggling road repairs are top priorities during the pandemic-induced recession.
According to city staff, if an upcoming tax increase on the November ballot is denied by voters the city could run out of its savings by 2025.
Aggressive police unions, spending on law enforcement over youth programs and few citizen oversight boards — activists and leaders say OC’s debate is years in the making.
Voters will do well to remember how their local leaders responded to this pandemic: did their leaders do what they could, when it needed to be done, or did they wait for someone else to take charge?
City of Fullerton attorneys are put on notice they have to prove allegations that resident and blogger Joshua Ferguson stole secret city hall documents, potentially jeopardizing the city’s lawsuit against Ferguson.
Fullerton City Councilman Bruce Whitaker is disputing that the City Council took a formal vote in September to sue local blogger Joshua Ferguson, and the blog he contributes to, for publishing secret city hall documents and seeking a publication gag against him and the blog.
The Fourth District Court of Appeals has temporarily suspended an OC Superior Court judge’s order barring resident Joshua Ferguson, and the blog he writes for, from publishing secret Fullerton city hall documents. The blog has already published documents shedding light on how former City Manager Joe Felz dodged a potential DUI after drinking and crashing his car in 2016.
Fullerton city attorneys are asking an OC Superior Court judge to keep local resident Joshua Ferguson, and the blog he writes for, from deleting confidential records and to appoint someone to look through electronics to find the records. Ferguson filed a public records lawsuit against the city last week.
Legal pot shops could come to Fullerton after the City Council decided to study the issue and revisit it in March to decide if they want to move forward on it. Meanwhile, the city is struggling to address the illegal shops operating in the city.