Feb. 5 – Southern California Transit Forum at Chapman University in Orange
OCTA, the Orange County Business Council, Chapman University, Disneyland, and Congressmember Loretta Sanchez are among the many sponsors of this forum which will take place on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m at the Paul and Daranne Folino Theater at Chapman University in Orange.
The forum will give the general public, transit agency officials and transit-focused advocates and leaders the opportunity to share views and consider potential solutions to meet current transit funding challenges and preserve the future of transit in Southern California.
This will be a great event for transportation and business leaders, policy makers, labor representatives, transit advocates and members of the general public interested in transportation policies and their impact on their community.
Invited speakers include read more…
Santa Ana City Council removes Historic Resources Commissioner Who Sued City
Santa Ana Councilmember Michelle Martinez agendized the removal of her appointment to the city’s Historic Resources Commission and the City Council unanimously voted to remove him.
Here is the story from the Orange County Register – A fight over the future of more than a dozen old homes here cost a city commissioner his post late Monday.
The City Council voted 7-0, with no discussion, to remove Jeff Dickman from the city’s Historic Resources Commission. Dickman helped lead a lawsuit late last year against read more…
The Orange County Great Park is kicking off the Great Skate with the return of Snow Day on Saturday, January 30, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Join us in celebrating the opening of the Great Park’s winter ice skating rink. The park will be transformed into a winter wonderland, with sledding, snowman making, and snow play.
Other activities will include read more…
From OC Metro – Anaheim officials this week will decide whether to appoint Kleinfelder West Inc. as the environmental services team for the Anaheim Regional Transportation Inter-Modal Center Project – or ARTIC – according to a staff report.
ARTIC, which is a project fielded by the city, the Orange County Transportation Authority and other local and federal agencies, is scheduled for completion in read more…
From Preservation Magazine – New Yorkers have always known there is someone who cares about their homes at least as much as they do.
Yes, the tax man.
Which is why, in the late 1930s, city officials used Works Progress Administration funds to hire dozens of unemployed workers to photograph every single building in the city for the Department of Finance. By 1941, those photographers had taken read more…
The Public Safety Committee of the Santa Ana City Council will meet on Tuesday, January 26. This committee meets when the participating Councilmembers call for a meeting and does not have an ongoing regular meeting day and time.
The meeting will be at the Santa Ana Police Department, which is accessible by OCTA Routes 51 and 62.
Here is the agenda that City staff sent out: read more…
Former SAUSD Trustee Nadia Davis-Lockyer appointed to the California Community Colleges Board
From Inside Bay Area – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday named Nadia Lockyer – a candidate for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ District 2 seat in this June’s election, and the wife of state Treasurer Bill Lockyer – to the California Community Colleges Board of Governors.
She issued a statement today saying she’s honored. “At a time when budget cuts are threatening higher education, I will work especially hard to strengthen California’s Community Colleges. As unemployment projections look bleak, California’s Community Colleges are the key to economic recovery, giving us hope for a bright future.”
Lockyer, 38, of Hayward, is executive director of read more…
From the Mother Nature Network – The Fox drama 24 returns for Jack Bauer’s eighth really bad day on Jan. 17 with its tense real-time formula intact, and its carbon-neutral initiative firmly in place. “When we started around season four, the goal was to be able to make 24 and not leave a carbon footprint,” says star Kiefer Sutherland. “I don’t know if that’s possible because we have to read more…
The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) will host a Community Meeting to present the status of the project-level planning and obtain additional input from local agencies and members of the general public.
The meeting will take place from 5pm – 7pm at the Council Chambers inside Anaheim City Hall, 200 South Anaheim Boulevard in Anaheim. The meeting is accessible by OCTA Routes 42 and 47.
The meeting was scheduled at the request of OCTA and the City of Anaheim.
