Now through December 13th, the City is accepting donations for Irvine’s adopted Marine Battalion families.
This a terrific family activity, with parents teaching our children the importance of giving.
Unwrapped gifts that are suitable for infants or children 12 years of age and younger can be dropped off at three Irvine locations.
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In 2020, the previous City Council agreed to fund the Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) through 2022. So far, the City has advanced $7.5 million of Irvine taxpayer money to the Power Authority, with no oversight by the current Council.
Irvine City Councilmember Mike Carroll is Chair of the five-member OCPA Board and Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan is also a board member. However, neither Carroll nor Khan have offered Irvine residents a public presentation and discussion about the agency at any Council meeting this year.
Last week, Councilmember Larry Agran stated: “I have been on this Council since December of last year. Here we are nearly a year later and because of the ‘Rule of Two,’ I can’t even get a presentation from the OCPA to determine if the City should be a part of this entity or if we are being put at grave financial risk.”
Climate scientists say that we must achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, if we are to avoid an irreversible ecological tipping point. That is 20 years earlier than previous estimates, which means we must immediately accelerate our efforts.
The Cool City Challenge, a remarkable public-private partnership, is one of California’s strategies for reaching this ambitious new goal.
Thanks to the commitment of more than 200 Irvine residents who have volunteered to be Cool Block leaders, our City joins two others (Los Angeles and Petaluma) in receiving a $1 million grant from the Empowerment Institute to help fund a climate “moonshot strategy.”
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We recently asked readers to let us know where YOU think the long-promised Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery should be built — here in Irvine on the ARDA site at the Great Park, or alongside the 91 freeway at the Gypsum Canyon site out towards Riverside County.
The response was overwhelming! Within the first week, we received hundreds of responses.
A full 90% (yes, you read that right — 90%!) of the hundreds of residents who have taken the poll indicate they support building the State Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery on the planned, voter-approved ARDA site at the Great Park.
We are sharing a small sampling of the many, many comments we have received.
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During the October 12th Irvine City Council meeting, Councilmember Larry Agran expressed strong concerns regarding the City’s funding of the Orange County Power Authority (OCPA).
At his first opportunity to speak, Agran noted that weeks ago he had submitted a request for the City Council to agendize a presentation and discussion of the OCPA for the October 12th Council meeting. However, Mayor Khan’s heavily-criticized “Rule of Two” prevented Agran’s request from making it onto the Council meeting agenda.
Instead, Agran was forced to use his time during the “Council Announcements” portion of the City Council meeting to raise his concerns — including the fact that since taking office last December, the Council “has yet to receive even one public briefing, with appropriate disclosures and accountability for all OCPA financial dealings.”
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