Year: 2025

The measure, approved during the Council’s June 3rd meeting, sets a minimum wage for the City’s part-time and seasonal workers at $20 per hour. Full-time employees will be paid a minimum hourly wage of $25.

These City minimums will also apply to employees of City contractors doing more than $200,000 annually in business with the City. The state’s minimum wage is currently $16.50 per hour.

Zeoli has been doing everything from hiring staff to building a new computer and database system to planning new facilities in North Irvine and the Great Park — not forgetting to order some new books as well.

“Pretty much just movin’ and shakin’,” she says. How many librarians use that job description? Currently, she says, the focus is on August 4th. That’s when the Heritage Park and University Park libraries, now closed for renovation, will reopen as City libraries, no longer part of the Orange County Public Library system.

The Irvine CONNECT shuttle operates on weekdays from 6am until 8pm; and on weekends from 8am until 10pm. Shuttle frequency is every 20 minutes, and passengers are able to track the shuttles in real-time.

The current Yale-Barranca route makes about 70 stops, including Sierra Vista Middle School & Lakeside Middle School; Irvine High School & Woodbridge High School; Lakeview Senior Center; Northwood Community Park & Heritage Community Park; Kaiser Permanente Hospital & Hoag Hospital; Northwood Town Center; retail centers on Alton Parkway & Barranca Parkway; the Irvine Spectrum; and the Irvine Train Station.