A community group is taking it upon itself to educate Anaheim residents about the problems uncovered in a 353-page report on corruption in the city’s government.
The nonprofit Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development (OCCORD) held its first in a series of public forums Thursday evening. The goal: to discuss the problems at city hall laid out in an independent corruption report released by the city in late July and the preceding FBI investigations into former Mayor Harry Sidhu, and other prominent government and civic leaders.
About 90 people attended the two-hour event at the Ponderosa Park Family Resource Center in central Anaheim.
Anaheim resident Daisy Chávez showed up to get the CliffsNotes version of the 353-page corruption report, and to hear about potential solutions from community leaders she trusts. “I don’t have time to go through all of [the report] so I appreciate forums like this,” Chávez said.
Chávez said she feels a responsibility to collect information for her parents and others in her community who have even less time to attend city council meetings and forums, much less read the massive report.
“They’re too busy having to pay bills and rent,” Chávez said of her parents. “They rely on me when it comes time for election season, so it is my responsibility, and I take it very seriously, to my family and my community to be able to get information and pass it on to folks,” she said.
My concern is that they are not going to get to the folks who are really being impacted by this.
— Daisy Chávez, Anaheim resident on the need to involve community members in conversations about city…
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