Year: 2021
The City to Spend Taxpayer Money to Rename Great Park … Without Asking for Community Input
At their July 27th meeting, the Great Park Board of Directors — consisting of all five Irvine City Councilmembers — voted 4-1 to officially rename the Orange County Great Park. (Councilmember Agran was the sole No vote.)
Known to most people only as the “Great Park,” Mayor Khan and City Councilmembers Kim, Kuo and Carroll voted to rename the park the “Irvine Great Park.” The name change could cost taxpayers upwards of a million dollars — to change all of the official documents, signage, and marketing materials.
Councilmember Agran — who voted against the name change and has been skeptical about corporate sponsorships — insisted that “before the City commits to what would likely be a multi-million-dollar name change, a thorough staff report should be prepared for City Council and community review.”
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Is the Long-Promised State Veterans Cemetery in Irvine Dead? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Recent articles in major media have misleadingly stated or implied that the long-planned State Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery on the “ARDA” site at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in the Great Park is dead.
On the contrary, the ARDA site remains the only legally available site for a State Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery.
Despite continuing propaganda from developer FivePoint and their surrogates, Irvine residents have always supported the 125-acre ARDA site.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Isn’t Over Yet … And Our Children Are Most at Risk
Over the past month, California and Orange County cases of COVID-19 have increased. As the CDC has repeated, this is now a pandemic largely of the unvaccinated.
As long as there are unvaccinated individuals, the highly contagious and highly transmissible Delta variant will continue to spread throughout the community, and new variants will continue to emerge.
In order to stop the spread of this deadly virus once and for all, we must encourage everyone we know to get vaccinated, including children 12 years of age and older.
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