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South Orange County cities are watching their law enforcement costs soar by more than 20 percent over the last four years largely due to salary and benefit increases authorized by county supervisors.
They showed up to Tuesday’s county supervisors meeting and accused officials of providing false data on the shelter’s kill rate. Meanwhile, officials point to evidence that things are improving.
A pit bull that attacked a Huntington Beach woman in her ninth month of pregnancy had been declared a “vicious dog” earlier in the year, but county officials reversed that declaration, according to documents.
This situation is so bad at the 74-year-old facility that the panel recommends a housecleaning of top management. The report, the second in less than a month on problems at the shelter, reveals bad employee morale, mistreatment of dogs in kennels, and rat infestations.
The county could sell sponsorships for items ranging from dog shelter kennels to hygiene kits the county hands out to homeless people, according to proposal that drew both excitement and concern from supervisors.
Audit report slams top county executives for allowing contracts to go to a friend of a former OC Parks deputy director and be split up to avoid scrutiny from the Board of Supervisors.
As Bill Campbell enters his last weeks in office, high-ranking political aides are quietly finding jobs in the county bureaucracy.
Despite a countywide hiring freeze, senior aides to county supervisors seem adept at finding jobs on the county payroll.