While bus drivers and operations employees directly employed by OCTA get to keep their jobs and even their pay as some stay home, bus drivers employed through two private contractors the agency gives money to have been laid off, and will see their benefits follow their jobs out the door.
Tag: Healthy Communities
Posted inCountywide, Emergencies & Disasters, Top Stories
Orange County Officials Agree to Start Disclosing COVID-19 Hospitalization Data
Officials announced the upcoming data release in response to a question from Voice of OC, which for nearly a week has been pressing county officials to disclose the number of people hospitalized for COVID and how many surge beds are being pursued.
Posted inCountywide, Emergencies & Disasters, Top Stories
After Long Silence, OC Officials Planning to Provide More Info on Hospital Needs
Officials were preparing to for a 2 p.m. Monday news conference to start giving more data about their plans for a surge in people being hospitalized with COVID-19.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Emergencies & Disasters, Top Stories
Drive Through Food Pantry Reorganizes After Long Lines
The Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County will be retooling their drive through food pantry designed to help those in need during the coronavirus pandemic and are prepared to serve 8,000 people.
Posted inCountywide, Emergencies & Disasters, Housing & Homelessness, Top Stories
OC Trying to Add 2,300 Homeless Shelter Beds to Slow Virus Spread
The goal is to open three new types of shelter, though the timeline wasn’t clear.
Posted inEmergencies & Disasters, Government, Health & Wellness, Housing & Homelessness, NEWS, Politics & Elections, REGIONS, Safety, Security & Justice, Top Stories, Westminster
Westminster Could Join Number of OC Cities Banning Evictions
It would be the latest city to join a growing list banning evictions throughout the county amid the coronavirus public health emergency. Many residents in Little Saigon area live in rental units with many others living in accessory dwelling units and mobile homes.
Posted inAnne Marie Panoringan, ARTS & CULTURE, Food
Panoringan: The Foodservice Industry Trend We Didn’t See Coming: Hand Sanitizer Manufacturing
Blinking Owl Distillery is changing course and will be producing hand sanitizer for the foreseeable future.
Posted inCountywide, Emergencies & Disasters, Government, Health & Wellness, Irvine, NEWS, Politics & Elections, REGIONS, Santa Ana, Top Stories, Westminster
How Coronavirus Will Affect OC Special Elections This Year
In-person voting has been cancelled for a special recall election in Westminster. It’s still up in the air whether Santa Ana’s special recall election will follow suit.
Posted inCountywide, Emergencies & Disasters, Government, Safety, Security & Justice, State, Top Stories
More People Could Get Out of Jail Under New Court Orders
The new measures will result in less people in the jails, reads an administrative order from OC Superior Presiding Judge Kirk Nakamura, “thus alleviating some of the pressures for arraignments within 48 hours and preliminary hearings within 10 days.”
Posted inEmergencies & Disasters, Housing & Homelessness, Safety, Security & Justice, Top Stories
OC’s Shelter Capacity is Shrinking, For Now, Amid Scramble to Expand in Crisis
At a time jurisdictions up and down the state are expanding emergency homeless shelters to slow the spread of coronavirus and save lives, two of Orange County’s main shelters are being downsized with replacement shelters that have 200 fewer beds in total.
