There were 28 crimes reported in Santa Ana on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, by our friends at CrimeMapping.
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Santa Ana draft Housing Element update now available for review
City of Santa Ana, Downtown Orange County
Community Alert: City Announces Draft 2014-2021 Housing Element Update Now Available for Review
SANTA ANA, CA (November 6, 2013) – The General Plan contains the City’s values and vision for its future. The Housing Element of the General Plan communicates goals, policies and programs to address Santa Ana’s local and regional housing needs and a sustainable quality of life.
Over the past year, the City has been working with the community to update the Housing Element and refine the City’s housing policy. This effort studied a variety of housing considerations including maintaining and improving current housing stock, housing for groups of special needs, and where future housing can be developed. This has also been an opportunity for the City to include relevant polices promoting health, safety, multi-generational housing options, cultural arts, wellness, and mobility as part of the Housing Element Update. Continue reading
The SAPD gets $201K to do more DUI and traffic enforcement
The Santa Ana Police Department has been awarded a $201,300.00 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) for a year-long program aimed at preventing deaths and injuries on our roadways through special enforcement and public awareness efforts. The grant received by Santa Ana will aid in the city’s ongoing effort to improve traffic safety and the quality of life. The Santa Ana Police Department will use the funding as part of an on-going commitment to keep our roadways safe through both enforcement and education. Continue reading
The Undisputed Champ Boxing Club will open in Santa Ana on Dec. 14
The new Undisputed Champ Boxing Club is celebrating their Grand Opening in Santa Ana on December 14, 2013, from 9 am to 1 pm, at 901 East Fourth St., in Santa Ana.
The event will include: Continue reading
City’s loaded survey results to be reviewed at public workshops at union halls
Now that the Santa Ana City Council is done conducting their loaded community survey, which reportedly faltered online forcing them to conduct “numerous community meetings” in order to get any answers at all, they are ready to conduct yet another public meeting – a Strategic Planning Community Workshop (that I am sure will barely be attended).
According to a city press release, at this meeting, “staff will inform attendees about the community survey results, solicit additional feedback, and will provide an update on the remainder of the process.”
This one-day workshop will take place at two separate locations: Continue reading
Free flu shots at the Annual Senior Health and Info Fair on 11/8
Please Join the Office of Assemblymember Tom Daly and the City of Santa Ana at the Annual Senior Health & Information Fair on Friday, November 8, 2013 from 8:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. at the Santa Ana Senior Center, located at 424 West Third Street, in Santa Ana.
Join us for a fun event with plenty of information on senior programs and services in the community. Plus great raffle prizes, giveaways and refreshments! Continue reading
Did Irvine man flee after his girlfriend and daughter fell out of his truck?
Orange County District Attorney Press Release
For Immediate Release, Case # 13CF3484: November 5, 2013
SANTA ANA – A man is scheduled to be arraigned today for fleeing the scene of an accident which led to the death of his girlfriend on Halloween night and endangering a 13-month-old girl. Francisco Javier Montano, 21, Irvine, is charged with one felony count of hit and run with permanent injury or death, one felony count of child abuse and endangerment, and one misdemeanor count of driving without a valid license. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of seven years in state prison and six months in jail. He is being held on $200,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon in Department CJ-1, Central Jail, Santa Ana. The time is to be determined.
At approximately 8:00 p.m. on Oct 31, 2013, Montano is accused of driving a Toyota RAV4 eastbound near 1600 West Edinger Avenue in Santa Ana with his 21-year-old girlfriend Gloria Sanchez and 13-month-old Jane Doe. Continue reading
New electric vehicle charging stations being installed with MSRC funding
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michele Mician, 760 323 8214
SOUTH COAST CITIES “CHARGE UP” THANKS TO MSRC FUNDING
SOUTH COAST AIR DISTRICT – [November 5, 2013] – The Cities of Cathedral City, Palm Springs and Santa Ana are installing new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, with the help of Clean Transportation Funding from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC). These new EV charging stations help carry out the mission of the MSRC to invest in projects that reduce harmful emissions from mobile sources like passenger vehicles. Continue reading
Steve Jackson to talk about the Constitution in Santa Ana on Nov. 11
The Santa Ana Tea Party Patriots are hosting an event on Monday, November 11, 2013, at 5:30 pm, at the Green Parrot Villa, in Santa Ana, featuring well-known Constitutional expert Steve Jackson as their speaker.
Here are the event details:
Do You Know Your Constitution? How did it lay the Foundation for America’s Exceptionalism? Continue reading
Wellness Corridor Kick-Off event set for Nov. 15-16 in Downtown Santa Ana
City of Santa Ana, Downtown Orange County
SANTA ANA, CA (November 5, 2013) – Join the City of Santa Ana and Latino Health Access at the upcoming Resource Fair and Kick-off for the Wellness Corridor on Friday, November 15 and Saturday, November 16, 2013. The Wellness Corridor aims to create a healthy and safe place for people in central Santa Ana where children, youth, and their families have the ability to make healthy choices. Individuals that live in communities that offer healthy food and opportunities for physical activity increase the likelihood that they will eat well, be physically active, and increase overall wellness. Continue reading
SAPD arrests father for attempted murder of his infant daughter
On November 1, 2013, a two month old baby girl was admitted to a local hospital in critical condition. The infant was treated for head and skull injuries.
The investigation revealed that during the morning hours of November 1, Andres Tafoya, age 30, was left alone to watch the baby girl while the infant’s mother was at work. Tafoya is believed to have punched the infant multiple times to the head causing injury. Tafoya assisted in taking the baby girl to the hospital, but fled prior to police arrival. Continue reading
There were 22 new crimes reported in Santa Ana on Monday, Nov. 4
There were 22 new crimes reported in Santa Ana on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013, by our friends at CrimeMapping.
Here is our latest Daily Santa Ana Crime Report: Continue reading
OC Sheriff’s Department receives Second Chance Act grant
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Jeff Hallock, (714) 647-7042/Gail Krause, (714) 647-1840
OC Sheriff’s Department Receives Second Chance Act Grant
SANTA ANA, CA – (November 5, 2013) – The Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Inmate Services Division was awarded a Second Chance Act grant of $319,000 from the Department of Justice to provide services to inmates who have a high risk to reoffend. The award is for one year with the possibility of additional funding over the next two years. Continue reading
Why is the Santa Ana City Council messing around with the Mayoral elections?
Is it desperation? Santa Ana Council Members Sal Tinajero and Vince Sarmiento placed an odd 85 A item on tonight’s City Council agenda:
DIRECT CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS TO PROPOSE A CHARTER AMENDMENT ESTABLISHING A PRIMARY ELECTION FOR MAYOR SEAT TO BE CONSIDERED BY VOTERS AT THE 2014 GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION – (Mayor Pro Tem Tinajero and Councilmember Sarmiento
If I am reading this correctly it looks like a proposal to make the Mayoral election in November, 2016 a Primary Election, with a General Election to be set at some later date. This is completely crazy! The only good news is that the voters would have to approve this in the November, 2014 election, as it is a change to the city’s charter. Continue reading
Rehabbed former SAUSD Trustee is back with her husband, Bill Lockyer
Bill Lockyer, an evergreen of California politics, is retiring next year after 41 years in public office, and he’ll be chief honoree at the Democratic Foundation of Orange County’s annual awards dinner on Nov. 17, according to the O.C. Register.
The Register also reported something far more important than Lockyer’s retirement – he has apparently reoncicled with his wife, former SAUSD School Board Member Nadia Maria Davis. That is big news given the awful times she has had since she became an alcoholic, got elected to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, went to rehab, had an affair with a meth addict, Steve Chikhani, a San Jose construction worker, and ultimately became a meth addict herself.
Dan Noyes, the Chief Investigative Reporter at ABC7, sat down with Nadia for two stunning interviews that turned into two articles. Click here to read his first article and here to read the second one. Here are a few excerpts from the first article: Continue reading