Days after recommending the contract, HCA Director Veronica Kelley changed course in a letter to county supervisors after one of them asked her if the mental health advertising contract is worth it.
Tag: Los Angeles Angels
Angels Get Millions for Cancellation of Stadium Sale After FBI Investigation
Taxpayers will lose millions both in the payout and in additional maintenance at the stadium over the next few years without any direct income from the team.
Anaheim Mayor’s Committee to Increase Transparency Won’t Have Public Meetings
The committee will be recommending much of the mayor’s policy on how to tackle the corruption scandal at city hall, but their work won’t be made public and many activists were cut out.
Covid Shows Different Ducks, Angels Giveback Approaches as City Moves to Sell Angel Stadium for $150 Million
The team owners have different approaches to charity and deals.
Angel Stadium Appraisal Apparently Leaked, Despite Anaheim’s Efforts to Keep Secret
Despite Anaheim’s efforts to keep the stadium appraisal secret, there are mounting questions about whether the value of the stadium has already been leaked.
Anaheim Won’t Release Stadium Appraisal Until ‘Right Time’
Despite calls from residents, two Councilmembers and a vote by the previous Council to make the Angel Stadium appraisal public, city officials now say they won’t release the appraisal public until “the right time.”
Angels Make $100 Million a Year at Stadium While Anaheim Barely Gets a Slice
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.
Angel Stadium Made $1.6 Million for Anaheim Since 2010
While the Big A has made $1.6 million for Anaheim since 2010, sports financing economists say the city can get more if it allows the Angels to develop parking lots surrounding the stadium in order to bolster tax revenue and generate developer fees and avoid direct stadium financing.
Anaheim Mayor Sidhu’s Angels Negotiating Team May Not be Subject to Transparency Law
Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu formed a negotiating team for a deal with the Angels, but it could fall outside of the state transparency law since it wasn’t created or voted on by the City Council.
Experts: Anaheim Negotiators Could Make More Money From Angels
The Angels, along with sports teams across the country, are given too much of the revenue sports stadiums generate and taxpayers fail to reap benefits because cities don’t negotiate hard enough, according to experts.


