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Two members of the Orange County Fairgrounds Board of Directors said they are confident safety concerns raised in two different reports, including a state Fire Marshal report, won’t pose a threat to the O.C. Fair opening July 13 for its annual three-week run.
Smokers attending the Orange County Fair will likely face greater restrictions on where they can light up, after a new policy was approved last week that limits smoking to designated areas.
Plans for an Orange County veterans museum are moving forward, with the approval of an architecture firm to design the facility.
Panel votes unanimously to waive attorney client privilege over Deputy Attorney General who fired the board in 2009 after they engaged in discussions to privatize the Orange County fairgrounds.
Local prosecutors want to have a frank discussion with Deputy Attorney General Helen Arens – seeking information about what prompted her abrupt firing of Orange County’s fair board as a client in December 2009 when the board was trying to sell the fairgrounds.
Members want the district attorney and governor to investigate a shadowy state financing agency.
After more than three years of controversy, the Fair Board is moving on from its investigation of the failed privatization effort.
Orange County Fair Board members will finalize their review of the controversial bid by Republican appointees three years ago to privatize the 162-acre public fairground in Costa Mesa.
Fairgrounds leaders prepare for series of forensic audits on how public funds were spent during the Schwarzenegger administration to privatize the 160-acre property in Costa Mesa.
It would be the largest such monument in the state. Board members were appointed to investigate ways and means for the project.