Author: ICNV Staff

As part of the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the City of Irvine is receiving $56 million to be spent on civic improvements over the next three years.

City staff has drafted a plan for allocating the funds, divided into five areas. The recommended plan will be presented to the City Council for discussion and action at the Council’s October 12th meeting.

In November 2020, environmental advocates were excited to learn that the City of Irvine was leading the effort to establish a California Community Choice Energy program, known now as the Orange County Power Authority (OCPA). The City of Irvine is funding the project through 2022.

Now, nearly a year after the OCPA was established, clean energy advocates are voicing serious concerns regarding the lack of transparency and a series of questionable decisions by the OCPA Board, including the hiring of an inexperienced CEO who is being paid $239,000. And Irvine taxpayers — who are funding the OCPA — have been kept in the dark as to how their money is being spent. (So far, Irvine has advanced $7.5 million to the OCPA and will be responsible for millions more over the next year.)

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In recent weeks, members of a newly formed organization of Orange County veterans — Veterans for the ARDA Site Cemetery — have been hard at work contacting the State Legislature regarding the long-promised Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery that was scheduled to be built at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station on the “ARDA” site at the Great Park in Irvine.

Veterans from all branches of the U.S. military established the new all-veterans organization to underscore the fact that the Irvine voter-approved ARDA site is the preferred location by the vast majority of Orange County veterans.