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The Anaheim City Council voted on a $15 million relief package, with $6.5 million of it going to advertise for the resort industry — which is shut down indefinitely. Another $2 million goes to the Anaheim Community Foundation to provide direct assistance to residents and community nonprofits. And up to $6 million will be directed to homeless services and housing assistance for residents.
This Tuesday, the election for three seats on the board – which oversees school district finances and can approve or reject charter schools – is hotly contested.
Anaheim officials will apparently work off a stadium proposal from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim when private negotiations begin on Friday.
The Anaheim City Council minority members will now have a tougher time putting their policy proposals before the full Council after majority members decide they don’t want to hear minority-faction proposals more than once in any six-month period.
Despite nearly eight months of seniors lobbying the Anaheim City Council for help, councilmembers this week shelved discussion of a rent control ordinance that could help seniors living at Rancho La Paz Mobile Home Park, who face looming rent increases.
The Anaheim City Council refused to release the Angel Stadium appraisal and a potential public review period of a final deal Tuesday, when Mayor Harry Sidhu terminated any discussion with a procedural move.
The Anaheim City Council could decide to release the stadium appraisal after residents have been in the dark for months on the value of the land and the status of negotiations between the Angels and the city for the public 155-acre stadium. Council members also may consider sunlighting any proposal submitted by the Angels.
Anaheim City Council members are moving forward with a rent-relief safety net program for all local seniors after debating – and rejecting – a rent relief program for seniors living at the mobile home parks, after seniors at Rancho La Paz mobile home park have pleaded for help for most of the year.
Despite the previous City Council’s November 2018 vote to conduct an Angel Stadium appraisal and release it to the public, the current Council has denied — for the second time — to release the appraisal.
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.