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Orange County Employees Association General Manager Nick Berardino is retiring Friday after more than four decades at the union. He leaves a legacy that touches all corners of Orange County and stretches to Sacramento.
Huy Pham’s death was a tragic turning point in the city’s outsourcing battle that still seems a long way from being resolved.
Chief not convinced Huy Pham had cocaine in his system the day
he jumped to his death from City Hall.
Coroner’s toxicology report shows the drug in Huy Pham’s body
when he died.
Costa Mesa City Council members are feeling the heat from two
months of intense union campaigning against their outsourcing plan.
Some Republicans are growing impatient waiting for local party
leaders to fire back.
The stress of the fallout from the outsourcing decision on Costa
Mesa City Council members is starting to show, most recently at
this week’s City Council meeting.
More than 50 speakers took their turn at the podium at Tuesday’s
regular meeting, many accusing the council of “cooking the books”
to justify its outsourcing plan.
In the email, Tom Hatch spoke of Huy Pham’s memorial service,
efforts to reach out unions and how proposals for outsourcing will
move forward.
Last Wednesday local GOP Chairman Scott Baugh held up Costa
Mesa’s plan to drastically cut its workforce as an example for
others to follow. A city employee’s suicide the following day has
made that a far more complicated proposal.
Mayor Gary Monahan said a picture of him celebrating St.
Patrick’s Day at his bar hours after Huy Pham’s suicide at City
Hall was the result of a setup by a union official. Others who
observed Monahan that day say that is not the case.