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Author: Roger Bloom

The Match-Up for Irvine Mayor

In addition to the new Council district races, which have yet to come into focus in the wake of the primary election, Irvine voters will weigh in on the one remaining citywide election in November, for Mayor. (Irvine’s current Mayor, Farrah Khan is terming out this year.)

The 2024 Mayoral race has been quietly underway for some time with two main candidates so far: Vice Mayor Larry Agran and Councilmember Tammy Kim.

Other candidates could enter the race — the filing deadline isn’t until August, more than four months from now. But Agran and Kim are likely to remain the leading contenders.

The two Mayoral candidates present a clear choice to the voters on many important City issues.

To review their voting records, click here.

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Irvine Celebrates the City’s 100th CERT Training Class

On March 20th, the latest crop of volunteer trainees graduated from the City’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program, capping 28 hours of instruction and hands-on work spanning eight sessions.

The ceremony is more than a turning point in the trainees’ lives. As the culmination of Irvine’s 100th CERT class, it marks a milestone in the City’s 25-year disaster preparedness effort.

“CERT is dedicated to engaging the whole community in disaster preparedness by educating and training its members to be self-sufficient during a disaster and to effectively assist others and their families,” said Christine Tully, emergency management program specialist in the Irvine Police Department (IPD) and the City’s point person for CERT. “Our vision is to make Irvine a resilient city, effectively prepared to recover following a disaster, through preparedness training, education, and community outreach.”

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Sacramento Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Repeal New Utility Tax

As we previously reported, a proposed new utility tax was snuck through the California State Legislature in just three days at the close of last year’s session with no public testimony.

If the Public Utilities Commission approves the tax as it currently stands, the monthly bills for millions of users who consume small amounts of electricity and solarized homeowners will go up while the bills of large consumers of electricity will go down.

After public backlash, a group of lawmakers in Sacramento has now introduced a bill to severely limit the new so-called “utility tax.”

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March 5th State Primary Election (Irvine Results)

Now that the results of the March 5th state primary election have come into focus, Irvine will be expanding the City Council to seven members and transitioning to district elections come November; State Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) survived an onslaught of negative mailers and ads to become his party’s nominee for Congress; and current Representative Katie Porter (D-Irvine) will soon be out of a job.

As of March 14th, the Orange County Registrar of Voters has counted 670,614 ballots countywide, with an estimated 18,795 still to be counted.

Measure D on the Irvine ballot has been approved by voters, 60% to 40%. That means the Irvine City Council will be expanded from five to seven seats, with six Councilmembers elected from geographic districts across Irvine plus the Mayor, who will be elected citywide as the seventh member of the Council.

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