chemical leak disaster<\/a> that temporarily displaced thousands of residents.<\/p>\n\u201cI ask you to please consider allocating $500,000 that could be used to help our most vulnerable residents impacted during the evacuations and hazmat incident,\u201d she told supervisors. \u201cWe have infrastructure and systems in place to deploy these dollars in a timely manner. Let\u2019s ensure these funds come home to the communities that need them most.\u201d<\/p>\n
Supervisor Janet Nguyen, who won election to Do\u2019s vacated seat, rallied support for sending the funds back to District 1 and claimed that some of her colleagues had already discussed distributing the money elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese funds were recovered in connection with the Andrew Do corruption matter,\u201d she said. \u201c[They] should be returned back to the benefit of the first district community that were deprived of the attendant services and public benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n
Supervisor Katrina Foley pushed back during Tuesday\u2019s meeting on the notion that officials had talked about allocating the funds elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve had any discussion about where the money should go,\u201d Foley said. \u201cNo one has weighed in on this yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
When supervisors ultimately discussed where to allocate the money, no stiff opposition to directing it back to District 1 emerged. But some debate ensued over which constituents were victimized.<\/p>\n
Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento noted that District 1 boundaries changed in 2022 and no longer includes Santa Ana residents.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do believe that these funds need to go back to the constituents that they were intended to serve,\u201d he said. \u201cI just want to make sure that all those constituents are being addressed. I am supportive of making sure that those dollars come back to benefit the needs of the residents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Foley added that Huntington Beach elected officials and residents had spoken on the allocation issue, but were not part of Do\u2019s district during the scheme.<\/p>\n
In addition to Huntington Beach, Nguyen represents Cypress, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Los Alamitos, La Palma, Seal Beach, Westminster, Midway City and Rossmoor. <\/p>\n
Nguyen argued that her current constituents were entitled to the funds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe key here is that the official county redistricting announcement says that the new supervisorial district maps went into effect on January 6, 2022,\u201d Nguyen said. \u201cThe first district discretionary allocation payments occur after that date.\u201d<\/p>\n
Board Chair Doug Chaffee noted that after directing county staff, a final vote on the allocation would come at the June 23 supervisor meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know there\u2019s been some issue that originally that money went out during COVID when there were different concerns,\u201d Chaffee said, \u201cbut we just had another kind of disaster, and there\u2019s a special need now, so it\u2019s parallel to that in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Orange County Board of Supervisors discussed adopting a $10.5-billion budget, the question of where a sliver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,145389,1409,20462,4579,11198,6228,588,16976,4263,7589,28801,3335,288,97487,7826],"class_list":["post-357031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-andrew-do-scheme","tag-city","tag-constituent","tag-district","tag-dollar","tag-fund","tag-huntington-beach","tag-meeting","tag-money","tag-need","tag-nguyen","tag-official","tag-resident","tag-rhiannon-do","tag-supervisor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}