Orange County officials have repeatedly delayed – and now deleted – the hiring of contractors that health director Clayton Chau recommended without competitive bidding.
Tag: Series: CARES Act Funds
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Here’s How HB City Council Plans to Spend About $30 million in Federal Covid Funds
Money is being allocated to 18 different projects, including a skatepark, and improvements to city facilities.
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How Are OC Cities and the County Supposed to Spend COVID Bailout Money?
While some cities have started spending, most are waiting for the final federal guidelines on what they can use the money for.
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OC Asks Public for Input on Covid Recovery Spending, Months After Deciding How to Spend It
The biggest spending so far is on law enforcement salaries and OC’s first veteran’s cemetery.
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Taxpayer Groups Demand Transparency on How OC Spends Hundreds of Millions in COVID Money
Over the past year, Orange County officials have spent massive amounts of federal coronavirus recovery dollars – all without a public presentation about where it’s all gone so far.
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Has Orange County’s Secretive Approach to Covid Contracting Gone Too Far, Broken the Law?
Legal questions are being triggered by revelations of a closed-door contract-changing process involving most of the elected supervisors.
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‘Vaccine Passport’ Controversy Puts Renewed Focus on OC’s Secretive, Costly and Glitchy Vax App
County officials have been contradicting themselves on whether they approved millions in extra spending on the app, and won’t yet reveal the full terms of what the extra money is for.
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How Will More Than $1 Billion in New Aid Be Spent in OC? And When Will the Public Get to Give Input?
Will the public be brought into the discussion early, or towards the end after the plan has been mostly already decided in private? It’s a key question facing local officials as they prepare to receive a wave of new stimulus money.
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Journalists’ Association Calls on Top OC Official to Apologize for Criticizing Questions About Pandemic Spending
OC’s regional association for journalists is calling Andrew Do to apologize for criticizing Voice of OC’s questions and public records requests about secretly-approved contracts during the pandemic.
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OC Leaders Secretly Approved Over $200 Million in Covid Contracts; Voice of OC is Getting the Public a Peek at Where it Went
While county supervisors have gotten monthly lists of such contracts, the public has not – until now.
