Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens announced after the Board of Supervisors cut the Sheriff’s Department by $28 million that she would be laying off two Assistant Sheriff’s and five Captains to meet the budget shortfall. Her management team learned yesterday…
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Differently Abled Shut Governor’s Office Down
by Misha Houser • • 5 Comments
Disabled activist Christie Rudder, along with two other Orange County activists (see photo at right)  from the Dayle McIntosh Center, was one of 15 people arrested today at the Governor’s office Tuesday evening in Sacramento. Rudder kept me updated on their progress throughout the…
Budget Committee Says No Taking Local Funds
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
The LATimes reports this morning on the meeting of the California Legislatures Budget Conference Committee. The committee has said no to Arnold’s plan to steal funds from local governments, and also reduce dramatically some of the other program cuts he…
County Workers Union Chief Speaks Out on Layoffs
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
Orange County Employees Association General Manager Nick Berardino sent the following message out to his 11,000 plus members highlighting the difficulties and differences of approach from county managers in addressing pending layoffs due to budget shortfalls. As the State budget…
County Budget Cuts in Probation Department Won’t Touch Managers
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
On Monday, the County CEO Tom Mauk released the proposed County budget for 2009-10. I just caught wind of the proposed layoffs for the Orange County Probartion Department for the 2009-10 budget year. In an email to County workers OCEA…
Is $17 Billion a Lot of Money? More GOP Doublespeak
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
 The late Senator Everett Dirksen once said wryly about spending public money, “A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.†Red County’s Matt Cunningham is positively shameless when it comes to being…
OCTA Cuts Budget by 25%, Will Layoff 400 Workers
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
Earlier today OCTA workers rallied before the Board Meeting to protest proposals to cut 400 jobs. The OCTA Board didn’t hear them. The OCRegister filed this video report today. The Orange County Register reports: Since June 2008, OCTA has ordered…
