Supervisors narrowly agreed to remove multiple members of the board and block the remaining ones from speaking publicly on Tuesday.
Tag: Orange County Board of Supervisors
Orange County’s five supervisors run a $10.5 billion county government, from public health and jails to the unincorporated areas no city covers. We cover their votes, their budget and the decisions that reach every city.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Duran: Message to OC Board of Supervisors, Housing First Saves Lives!
HHROC recognizes Housing First saves lives and wants the Board of Supervisors to immediately prioritize and vigorously implement the Housing First program to help save the lives of the unhoused infants, children, disabled, seniors, sick and healthy human beings trying to stay alive while living on the streets throughout Orange County.
Posted inEconomy
Orange County Reins in Public Spending Amidst Possible Budget Shortfall
Cuts could be coming to the county budget amidst concerns about tax revenue not keeping up with rising costs.
Posted inGovernment
What’s Changed After An Orange County Supervisor Pleaded Guilty to Bribery?
Orange County Supervisors have spent most of the year grappling with a $10 million scandal and trying to figure out ways to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Kriz: 2024 Longest Night Memorial – The Names of the 378 People Who Died Without Fixed Abode (Homeless) in OC Between Dec 1, 2023 and Nov 30, 2024
379 people died without fixed abode in Orange County in the past year (from Dec 1, 2023 and Nov 30, 2024). This is significantly less than last year, when the number was over 500, but nearly 2x the level that it was in 2019, five years ago when the number was a little over 200.
Posted inSafety, Security & Justice
Orange County Supervisors Look to Ban Whippets
Retailers who have found a loophole to sell the nitrous oxide for inhalant purposes may soon be prohibited from doing so throughout OC’s unincorporated areas.
Posted inInvestigative
Orange County Leaders Ramp Up Questioning Of Another Major Pandemic Contract
The parent company of the county’s vaccination app hired a consulting firm created by the husband of one of the top staffers in the department overseeing its contract after no public discussion or debate on their multi-million dollar contract.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Mavrovouniotis: County Government Should Clean House
Thirty years after the Orange County bankruptcy, OC government is plagued by corruption, opacity, and lack of accountability. The Andrew Do scandal wasn’t an accident. In the upper echelons of the county bureaucracy, ignorance rules and disinformation is routine, hobbling county services. Reform is long overdue.
Posted inCountywide
OC Supervisors Approve Outside Audit After Bribery Scandal
The audit will be limited to contracts within specific departments over the past five years after elected officials debated what should be investigated in the fallout of former Supervisor Andrew Do’s bribery scandal.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
Is Orange County’s Flagship Mental Health Program Finished?
A partnership once hailed as the future of Orange County’s homeless outreach is now disintegrating as county leaders and the nonprofit they helped create sue one another.
