County Counsel Leon Page is recommending the law, known as COIN, be suspended in light of a recent state ruling that invalidates parts of the ordinance.
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 inGovernment, Health & Wellness, News Briefs, Top Stories
Supervisors Start Preparing for Possibility That Ethics Commission Passes in 2016
The measure will likely pass if it makes it onto the ballot, according to supervisors’ Chairman Todd Spitzer.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Top Stories
What Happened With Spitzer’s Order on Financial Interest Disclosures?
Supervisors Chairman Todd Spitzer ordered a “comprehensive review” of who on the county payroll must file annual disclosures of their financial interests. Did he get it?
Posted inCountywide, Housing & Homelessness, Norberto Santana Jr.
Santana: Civic Center Shows What Politicization of County Board Brings
As the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors votes to take on a bigger management role within the government it oversees, Santana warns that Orange County provides a cautionary tale about what happens when you put politicos in charge.
Posted inEducation, Government, Health & Wellness, Huntington Beach, Top Stories
County Health Officials Remain Under Fire for Trash Dump Near School
Health Care Agency leaders are refusing to formally investigate a trash dump adjacent to one of Huntington Beach’s most impoverished elementary schools despite repeated claims by school officials that bird droppings and odors from the dump are making children sick.
Posted inGovernment, News Briefs, Top Stories
Supervisors OK Changes to Troubled Xerox Contract
Months after declaring the company was at fault for costly delays in its work for the county, board members approved a contract change aimed at getting things back on track. But doubts persist.
Posted inAnaheim, Government, News Briefs, Top Stories
County Approves $5.8 Billion Budget
The county planned for having more than $60 million in extra discretionary money, and about half of it was provided to two departments: the sheriff and district attorney, amid salary and benefit increases for their staff.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Top Stories
Cost of County Health Records Project Balloons
Supervisors are set to approve the second phase of a contract for a new records system for mental health patients that is nearly double the original estimates.
Posted inGovernment, News Briefs, Top Stories
Supervisors Appoint Page as County’s Top Attorney
Leon Page, who is currently senior assistant county counsel, is slated to replace retiring County Counsel Nick Chrisos on July 24, after Page’s new contract is negotiated and approved.
Posted inGovernment, Top Stories
Supervisors Approve List of DA Staffers Who Must File Financial Disclosures
More than 200 in the DA’s office will have to file financial interest disclosures as part of the fallout from revelations that DA Chief of Staff Susan Kang Schroeder had not been filing them.
