Orange City Council majority is unable to do what they need to do in order to keep their city financially solvent. While praising public safety responders, they refuse to actually do anything financially necessary to keep those same public safety responders.
Tag: Reggie Mundekis
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Mundekis: Orange Becoming a Charter City Distracts from Fixing Financial Problems
Orange City Council must fix the City’s finances but is creating distractions from financial survival with discussions to become a charter city to take on the State in court. Legal battles will drain money from an already cash strapped city.
Posted inGovernment
State Proposal to Relax Control of Local Fairgrounds Across California Sparks Privatization Fears
State officials aren’t saying much in public about a proposal to change the governance structure over its large public lands, raising privatization concerns. OC Fair officials plan on bringing the conversation out into the open this week.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Mundekis: When an STR is Opened, a Home is Lost and a Neighborhood is Harmed
Short Term Rentals (STRs) are portrayed as harmless ways for property owners to make money. The harm starts when the STRs open and bring problems into neighborhoods. More harm is caused when residents are pushed out of homes to convert homes to STRs. Banning STRs eliminates these harms.
Posted inNEWS
OC Fair Considers Loaning $5 Million to San Diego’s Fair To Stem Their Coronavirus Losses
OC Fair Board Directors are expected to consider the request today at their 9 a.m. teleconference meeting.
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 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 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.
Posted inCosta Mesa
Residents Demand Copies of Anniversary Event Contracts
Activists say the city has spent more than $250,000 on the event and refuses to disclose the contracts.
