Author: Roger Bloom

A profoundly dishonest political stunt by Councilmember Tammy Kim means that the City’s part-time employees and contract workers will have to wait indefinitely for a restoration of the City’s “living wage” ordinance that ensures those employees earn $20 per hour.

But, when it came before the City Council for final approval, Councilmembers Kim and Treseder refused to support it.

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As community members began circulating recall petitions in response to Councilmember Tammy Kim’s efforts to stifle public comments with which she disagrees, Kim set up an anti-recall fundraising committee. (The recall is a political impossibility since Kim ends her Council term in December, and there is no recall on the November ballot.)

Kim argued forcefully against any discussion regarding Irvine establishing its own Fire Department. Her strong opposition resulted in Irvine residents questioning Kim’s conflict of interest.
 

The City Council voted 4-1 to adopt an amendment to the City’s General Plan that would allow up to 57,656 apartments and housing units to be built in Irvine. (Vice Mayor Larry Agran voted NO.)

Vice Mayor Agran disagreed, noting that the state deadline is still six months off. Agran urged the Council to spend that time hammering out a creative approach to meeting the state mandate by drastically lowering rents in existing apartment units in town rather than building tens of thousands of new housing units.
 

Irvine’s mobile home park for seniors, The Meadows, near Jeffrey Road and Walnut Avenue, is...