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Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait shut down discussion on two items by City Council members Lucille Kring and Kris Murray during a heated meeting, prompting accusations from the councilwomen that Tait was stifling debate.
Anaheim elected officials and workers will be barred from lobbying the city for two years after they leave their jobs under a new “sunshine ordinance,” the strictest restriction on government lobbying in Orange County.
Whitney Secor Ayers, a new vice president of the Hospital Association of Southern California, has been warned twice this year about violating the county’s policy on lobbying by former employees.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors this week again delayed adding a “public” representative to the board of directors of CalOptima, the health plan for low-income elderly and disabled residents.
The City Council indefinitely postpones plan to erect billboards next to homes after facing a packed chamber of upset constituents.
After concerns from labor and two county supervisors, a $200-million voice and data contract is delayed. Supervisors will now meet privately on the issue on Nov. 13.
In recent years, taxpayer-funded lobbyists promoted state legislation that would have enabled Orange County Water District Director Denis Bilodeau to collect unlimited contributions from agency vendors.
The city sent a letter to the resident who lodged a complaint after a lobbyist’s presentation on the city’s proposed charter.
The bill would close the “revolving door” that allows nonelected
agency and commission board members to lobby former colleagues.
New OCTA policy aims to discourage public board members from
resigning, then lobbying OCTA on behalf of private clients.