SANTA ANA – Orange County's Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to appeal a judge's ruling that requires the county to repay $147 million it withheld from a state fund that supports schools and community colleges.
Toward the end of a meeting that lasted more than seven hours on Tuesday, Orange County's Board of Supervisors agreed that they would like to hire Chandra Waller to be the County's top manager, but they couldn't agree on how much to pay her.
Many of the 250-plus residents who turned out for a town hall meeting expressed concern or disdain over a proposed year-round homeless shelter in their neighborhood.
A handful of Fullerton residents -- armed with statistics, charts, and what they described at their own good sense -- showed up Tuesday to the OC Board of Supervisors meeting to deliver the following message: Don't put a homeless shelter in my back yard.
SANTA ANA – Binders full of women – and men – have been delivered to the offices of the five county supervisors.
Now the real work begins: winnowing nearly 900 applicants for the county's vacant clerk-recorder job to a maximum of 10 before conducting public interviews with the surviving candidates.
In the wake of a blistering report by Orange County's Grand Jury that raised troubling questions about hospital lobbyists writing controversial changes to the county's $1.5 billion health plan for the poor and then fundraising for Supervisor Janet Nguyen, a majority of her colleagues Friday said they supported changing the board governance for CalOptima.
SANTA ANA – Orange County's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved the purchase of a former furniture store in Fullerton for conversion into a year-round emergency shelter for the homeless, the county's first.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan Tuesday to spend $3.2 million to acquire a closed Linder's Furniture site in Fullerton to convert into a year-round homeless shelter.
Vice Chairman Greg Winterbottom was unanimously selected as the new chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Board of Directors. Winterbottom replaces outgoing Chairman Paul Glaab.
Shawn Nelson took over Tuesday as chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
Nelson was elected by a 5-0 vote of his colleagues despite concerns publicly voiced by Supervisor Janet Nguyen to the Orange County Register that his often-combative style of questioning staff from the dais would be an issue.
“I didn’t expect any surprises today,” Nelson said after the vote.
Supervisor Shawn Nelson, representing the Fourth District, was unanimously elected Chair of the Orange County Board of Supervisors today during an annual reorganization of the Board.
The county supervisor, who represents north Orange County, can be discomfortingly direct in public meetings, speaking up about things that others might prefer were left unsaid.
The concern he raised at the Dec. 18 Board of Supervisors meeting is familiar to anyone who has worked to create affordable housing – especially for larger households – in ZIP codes where the cost of shelter is well above average.
