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Anaheim chipped in $30 million to help renovate Angel Stadium in the late 1990s, but it’s only made the city $1.6 million in the past 10 years and sports economists, along with a sports finance author, attribute that to a revenue sharing formula based on the number of total tickets sold, not the total dollar amount tickets produce.
The Anaheim City Council, on a split vote, decided against wading into a national fight about an impending immigration rule change that would make it harder for immigrants to gain permanent residency status or entry to the country if they receive public assistance.
Mayor Harry Sidhu originally said the reinstatement of the Angels lease was a “one-year extension,” but then said Aug. 27 he knew, along with a majority of the Council, that the January vote was a reinstatement of the 1996 lease and the extension of the team’s termination window.
Anaheim City Council members talked about what they’d like to see in the upcoming Angel stadium lease negotiations over eight months after it voted to reinstate the lease.
Rancho La Paz seniors have been lobbying Fullerton and Anaheim city councils for nearly six months for help on raising rents. Seniors secured a rent subsidy from Fullerton. Anaheim decided to let the market runs its course.
Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu and Angels Baseball said the city won’t be put back into the team name within a day of Councilman Jose Moreno hosting a community meeting, where he and some residents expressed a desire to have Anaheim back in the team name.
Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu paid off his 2016 Assembly campaign debt and a portion of his 2018 mayor campaign debt by fundraising for both campaign committees beginning in December. It’s a move some local politics experts said is an example of loopholes in campaign finance regulations.
The appraisal of the 155-acre site of Angel Stadium is still in draft form, but the Anaheim City Council will be discussing the lease reinstatement it authorized in January and potential negotiating framework in the upcoming weeks.
Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu has limited the time for Council debate, despite the Council not voting on the rule, and experts said it sets a bad precedent and sends a bad message.
Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu was appointed to the negotiating team responsible for hammering out a new stadium lease with the Angels on the 150 acres of city-owned land at Angels Stadium in spite of protest and concerns by some councilmembers.