City leaders are looking to ban the sale of the substances in the city, following the lead of several other Orange County cities that have already made the move.
Tag: City of Irvine
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Irvine Asks Voters to Change Election System While Budget Deficit Looms
Irvine voters will be able to weigh in during November’s election about whether or not they want their city to start using ranked choice voting in 2028.
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Coleman: What Should Irvine’s Library Budget Look Like? Newport Beach Already Shows Us.
Newport Beach publishes its library budget line by line, branch by branch, down to how much is spent on collections, staffing, and support services. Irvine asks residents to assemble theirs from scattered budget documents
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Irvine Looks to Charge For Parking at Great Park in Face of Budget Deficit
The council is also expected to hold a budget deep dive during a special meeting on Aug. 3.
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Handy and Gonzàlez Montaner: Irvine’s Libraries Were Fated to a Funding Shortfall Long Before RCV Reached the Dais
A recent opinion piece pits ranked choice voting (RCV) against Irvine’s new library system. The author suggests the Councilmembers championing RCV are distracted from the more pressing issue of library funding. In fact they should be credited with some of the most concrete efforts to improve the situation.
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Coleman: Irvine’s Libraries Are Working. Now the City Has to Fund Them.
Irvine’s new public library team built something remarkable in its first year: storytimes in parks, 34,000 library cards issued in the first 6 months, three branches open. Now the city faces a June 2030 deadline on two of its three leased library buildings, with only 65% of the funding it needs to replace them, while three council members push ranked choice voting on a self-imposed deadline.
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Irvine Looks to Ask Voters About Ranked Choice Voting In November
City leaders are looking to put the question to the voters on November’s ballot, asking them if they’d like to change election systems to a new method known as ranked choice voting – a move that could quadruple election expenses.
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Stockstill: Crunching the Numbers in Irvine
The Irvine City Council will consider ordering an audit of selected past city spending after learning that the city faces a $6 million budget shortfall this fiscal year and the potential for a larger one next year. The audit request comes after several members of the council expressed substantial concern about past city spending, and is an echo of a similar audit that took place two decades ago related to spending at the Great Park.
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Is Irvine About to Change Its Election System?
Officials are eying ranked choice voting, which would allow Irvine voters to rank candidates in order of preference when voting instead of choosing a single candidate.
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Nystrom: A Green Vision for Oak Creek; Nature Park Fulfills Irvine’s Open Space Promise
Irvine has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the Oak Creek Golf Course into a vast public nature park that anchors a low-density village.
