Author Archive for Reggie Mundekis

Orange Works to Balance Budget

The City of Orange has posted documents for the first 2009-2010 budget study session (Tuesday after the city council meeting.)  This is the current proposal to close the $10.9 million gap. Reduce Departmental Operating Budgets  $3.0 million Defer Salary Increases…

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius Obama HHS Appointee

Kathleen Sebelius has been Governor of Kansas since 2002.  While Governor, Sebelius saved over $1 billion from the state budget, championed targeted tax relief, focused on emerging business sectors, and crated a Post Secondary Technical Education Authority to create a…

Pumping Paychecks – Update

If you were to walk into the county economic development agency (or any economic development agency for that matter) and tell them this story, they would be wining and dining you to get you here as fast as possible.  It…

Disability Service Cuts – Get Heard!

California Dept of Developmental Services Public Forum This forum is to receive input from consumers, family members, service provides and other stakeholders on possible cost containment strategies, including but not limited to those identified in Controlling Regional Center Costs Report…

New College Plan for Old Base

On February 23 , the Trustees of the South Orange County Community College District (SOCCCD) heard the revised plan for the Advanced Technology and Education Park (ATEP) campus on the site of the former Tustin Marine Base. When the base…