OC Fair Considers Loaning $5 Million to San Diego’s Fair To Stem Their Coronavirus Losses
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OC Fair Board Directors are expected to consider the request today at their 9 a.m. teleconference meeting.
OC Fair Getting Travel Trailers, Looking at Buildings on Property for Coronavirus Emergency Medical Use
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The OC Fair is getting travel trailers and is looking at three buildings on its 150-acre state property in Costa Mesa for potential emergency housing and medical services, as county officials try to find ways to stretch out hospital capacity for coronavirus response.
Whistleblower Hearing Set for Friday Over Fired OC Fairgrounds Executive
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The informal State Personnel Board hearing is scheduled to be held in Rancho Cucamonga, more than a year after Carleton was put on paid administrative leave by then-fairgrounds CEO Kathy Kramer.
OC Fair Board Criticized for Attempting Ticket Price Hike While Spending $309,000 on Dinners for Themselves
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The exclusive nights of short ribs and tri-tip have sparked criticism from local residents who say the burden shouldn’t be on the public to grapple with the agency’s financial concerns, while Fair Board members spend public money on perks and sit on approximately $55 million in financial reserves.
OC Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa Could Be Used To House Local Homeless People
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As a local housing and homelessness crisis continues to claim lives, Orange County officials may soon look to the 150-acre county fairgrounds for help by sheltering homeless people on the property.
OC Fairgrounds CEO Sacked
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OC Fair Board Directors have ousted their embattled CEO, Kathy Kramer, following recent controversy over her fundraising relationship with a private Christian college and news she’s leaving the county for another fair agency in Washington early next year. Kramer is alleging board retaliation for participating in a 2018 investigation into allegations of misconduct by two former board members.
OC Fairgrounds CEO Kathy Kramer to Leave Post
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Fair officials confirmed Kramer’s departure, which comes after Voice of OC revealed Kramer sat on the fundraising board for a private college that the fairgrounds has given state money to.