The OC Fair is getting travel trailers and is looking at three buildings on its 150-acre state property in Costa Mesa for potential emergency housing and medical services, as county officials try to find ways to stretch out hospital capacity for coronavirus response.
Tag: Orange County Fairgrounds
Posted inCountywide, Emergencies & Disasters, Top Stories
Will Virtual Government Be Open to The Public?
With so many remote local government meetings on the horizon, and so many technical glitches on the part of the county and cities regarding public comment, there’s a rising tide of worry. Some are calling for delays on public planning hearings, like tonight’s debate on a controversial building project in Santa Ana called One Broadway Plaza, until video and audio feeds at city council and other public chambers are adapted for remote viewing audiences.
Posted inState, Top Stories
Whistleblower Hearing Set for Friday Over Fired OC Fairgrounds Executive
The informal State Personnel Board hearing is scheduled to be held in Rancho Cucamonga, more than a year after Carleton was put on paid administrative leave by then-fairgrounds CEO Kathy Kramer.
Posted inCountywide, Culture, NEWS, News Briefs, Outdoors, State, Top Stories
OC Fair Board Turns Down Ticket Price Hike For Now
Fair Board directors at their first nighttime meeting on Thursday didn’t vote to approve any ticket price hikes at the fair gates for this summer, following public backlash and uncertainty by some directors that they had enough information to make such a decision.
Posted inCENTRAL COUNTY, Costa Mesa, Countywide, Culture, NEWS, REGIONS, State, Top Stories
OC Fair Officials Consider Hiking Ticket Prices
Potential admission price hikes come as some community members ask: does the OC fair really reflect Orange County? Or is it losing its way as a callback to the county’s farming origins and drifting instead toward a more Disneyland-like business venture focused on vendor contracts, concerts, and being a major event venue?
Posted inCountywide, Housing & Homelessness, NEWS, State, Top Stories
OC Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa Could Be Used To House Local Homeless People
As a local housing and homelessness crisis continues to claim lives, Orange County officials may soon look to the 150-acre county fairgrounds for help by sheltering homeless people on the property.
Posted inNews Briefs, State
OC Fair Aims to Hike Admission Fees Next Year
Staff say increasing minimum wage and looming employee pension costs will make the admission price increases necessary.
Posted inInvestigative, News Briefs, State
OC Fair Board Appoints New CEO
Fair officials appointed Michele Richards, a former executive staffer who’s promising a new era of transparency for the state agency amid years of controversy leading to the October ousting of Richards’ predecessor, Kathy Kramer.
Posted inInvestigative, State
OC Fairgrounds CEO Sacked
OC Fair Board Directors have ousted their embattled CEO, Kathy Kramer, following recent controversy over her fundraising relationship with a private Christian college and news she’s leaving the county for another fair agency in Washington early next year. Kramer is alleging board retaliation for participating in a 2018 investigation into allegations of misconduct by two former board members.
Posted inInvestigative, NEWS, State, Top Stories
OC Fairgrounds Gave More than $100K in State Money to Private College while Fairgrounds CEO Sat on the School’s Fundraising Board
Orange County Fairgrounds CEO Kathy Kramer joined the fundraising board for Vanguard University, a private Christian college, in 2017. Since then, the fairgrounds has paid the school over $100,000 in contracts and sponsorship deals brought up to the fairgrounds Board of Directors by her staff.
