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Dear OCEA member,
This holiday season, I am reminded how the work each of you do each day enables so many families throughout our communities to enjoy a safe and healthy time with family and friends. In fact, many among our ranks will be working throughout the holiday to make sure Orange County works, that its streets are safe and that its residents get the services they need.
Today I wrote an editorial in the Orange County Register to highlight the incredible work you all do and to remind residents that you are the unsung heroes who keep our communities working (see below).
Wishing you and your loved ones joy and love this holiday season, from your family at OCEA. Thank you for all you do.
In solidarity,
Jennifer Muir Beuthin
OCEA General Manager
Remember the unsung heroes this holiday season
By Jennifer Muir Beuthin, Contributing writer
Every year the Register recognizes influencers throughout our communities—leaders who have made a mark, whose stories provide a glimpse into the incredible and diverse fabric that makes Orange County so special. Congratulations to each of the honorees.
For each of the 100 most influential people who are singled out every year, we can all probably name people in our own circles who make a huge impact on our lives each day. And so these influencer stories also help us all tap into our own personal feelings of gratitude, feelings that are especially poignant as we shop and cook and prepare to spend time with loved ones during the holidays.
In that spirit of gratitude, I wanted to highlight the efforts of a group of incredibly influential people because the very nature of their work often means that when they’re successful, most of us hardly know they’re there.
The municipal workforce in our county impacts just about every aspect of our daily lives, and this holiday season is no different.
For those of us who have family visiting from out of town, your guests will be greeted at John Wayne Airport by Sheriff’s Special Officers whose job is to make sure the public is safe inside and outside the walls of the airport terminals. You can feel confident knowing that SSOs have intervened not only to protect the public from dangerous situations, but also to perform CPR and save lives when travelers have fallen ill.
May 2, 2018
Today: Unions turn in signatures on petition to put living wage initiative on Anaheim ballot; Irvine voters to decide location of county’s first veterans cemetery and six of nation's worst truck bottlenecks are in SoCal.
May 1, 2018
Today: May Day is a chance to recommit ourselves to solidarity among working people; unions at Disneyland have enough signatures to put living wage ordinance on Anaheim ballot and Kaiser Permanente workers to begin picketing over outsourcing.
April 30, 2018
Today: Santa Ana asks court to order all OC cities to provide homeless services; OC cities to ask legislature for regional agency to speed up homeless housing projects and sheriff’s department awards deputies for exemplary service.
April 27, 2018
Today: Santa Ana wants all 34 OC cities included in federal homeless lawsuit; Santa Ana is then hit with lawsuit seeking by-district voting and County won’t hire outside lawyer to defend DA and sheriff In jailhouse informant lawsuit.
April 26, 2018
Today: Santa Ana wants all 34 OC cities included in federal homeless lawsuit; Santa Ana is then hit with lawsuit seeking by-district voting and County won’t hire outside lawyer to defend DA and sheriff In jailhouse informant lawsuit.
April 25, 2018
Today: Supervisors reject mayors’ proposal for homeless shelter in remote canyon; South O.C.'s solution to homelessness is class warfare at its NIMBYest and Newport council unlikely to continue with closed session today on city manager hiring process.
April 24, 2018
Today: OC faces stark accountability crisis; Anaheim sued over seizure of homeless peoples’ property and public servants are losing their foothold in the middle class.
April 23, 2018
Today: O.C. anti-corruption task force collapsed amid infighting between federal and local investigators; canyons homeless shelter opposed by two supervisors and Southern California home prices hit record highs in March amid slower sales
April 20, 2018
Today: South OC mayors propose new homeless shelter at former Silverado school; Cal State tuition to remain steady in 2018 and Southern California unemployment at historic low of 3.9%.
April 19, 2018
Today: Santa Ana Council now wants district elections on the November ballot; Santa Ana wants Irvine, Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel added to homeless lawsuit, and dispute over Costa Mesa councilman’s residency will be reviewed by state attorney general’s office.
Publication Date: December 30, 2016
For more information, contact Jennifer Muir Beuthin