Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/tag/reggie-mundekis/)
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.
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?
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.
Activists say the city has spent more than $250,000 on the event and refuses to disclose the contracts.
Officials are citing an exemption to the Public Records Act typically reserved for law enforcement investigations.
Effort fails to oust Reggie Mundekis for payments she authorized
and comments she made about the local party’s transparency.
Half-off fares start in mid-November. Details of pending route
reductions will come early next year.