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Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen briefs Huntington Beach council on county projects, animal-shelter reforms and voter-roll checks
Summary
Supervisor Janet Nguyen presented a county update that included large infrastructure projects, investments in libraries and John Wayne Airport, animal-shelter reforms (shelter re-opening and transparency), and actions to verify voter registrations after anomalies were identified.
Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen updated the Huntington Beach City Council on a range of county matters, including infrastructure spending plans, public-safety partnerships, animal-shelter reforms and steps the county is taking to verify voter rolls.
Nguyen, who represents the First District, told the council the county budget oversight role includes more than two dozen departments and a roughly $10.7 billion annual budget. She said the county will invest about $273 million in storm channels in her district over the next seven years and has completed an $18 million bridge replacement at Warner Springdale; the county also approved a design agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Westminster-East Garden Grove flood-risk management project.
On animal care, Nguyen said the county has ordered Orange County Animal Care to resume full-time, seven-day-a-week hours and to post monthly shelter metrics on the county website, including intakes, adoptions and euthanasia numbers. “We will be transparent and allow the public to know where these animals are,” she said, adding that the county also will expand training and post-medical records for animals entering shelters.
Nguyen described a voter-registration problem that gained attention after a resident registered a dog and the dog was able to vote in a primary; county staff reviewed and verified tens of thousands of records and the county has directed counsel to request animal-license files from cities to help cross-check registrations. “We did verify over 7,000,” Nguyen said, noting additional outreach to roughly 2,400 people whose registrations lacked required identity information.
Nguyen closed by listing upcoming community events organized or supported by her office, including an adoption expo on October 11 at Mile Square Park and a free community health expo planned for October 26.
