The
influence of Yorba Linda's five City Council members extends far
beyond city limits through participation on several county and
regional bodies with wide-ranging authority.
Since
the election of two new council members, the city representatives on
these pivotal panels have changed, with new members or alternates
appointed to 11 of the 15 boards.
Three
of the panels that meet monthly pay per meeting stipends for the
members, while the other 12, with meeting schedules ranging from
twice yearly to monthly, are unpaid positions.
One
key change is on one of two boards providing public oversight for the
four toll roads stretching through the county. Peggy Huang replaces
Craig Young, who chaired the 15-member panel overseeing the three
Foothill/Eastern roads – the 133, 241 and 261. Pay is $120
per meeting.
Unchanged,
however, is the city's rep on the county Fire Authority board, Gene
Hernandez, the current chair. The panel serves 23 of the county's 34
cities and county territory with 72 fire stations, three in this
city. The 25 board members oversee a $323 million operating budget,
meet monthly and earn $100 per meeting.
Serving
a second two-year term at the county Mosquito and Vector Control
District is Huang, one of 35 board members for the 60-year-old agency
charged with controlling mosquitoes, rats, flies and Red Imported
Fire Ants and providing surveillance for vector-borne diseases.
The
district covers the entire county with a $13.5 million budget funded
by property taxes and two special assessments. The board meets
monthly, with members earning $100 per meeting.
Council
members also participate in four organizations that meet monthly to
solve common problems, lobby state legislators and other public
officials on matters of concern to member cities and seek state and
federal funding.
Representatives
include Tara Campbell as delegate to the League of California Cities,
Orange County Division; Huang as delegate to the Association of
California Cities, Orange County; and Hernandez as delegate to the
Southern California Association of Governments and the Orange County
Council of Governments.
New
to the Finance Committee, the council's standing body that meets
before regular council meetings to review the city's check register
and other fiscally related items before approval by the council, are
Huang and Beth Haney, replacing Mark Schwing and Young.
Other
appointments: Lindsey to the Trauma Intervention Program advisory
committee; Huang as liaison with the Chamber of Commerce; Lindsey and
Haney as members of a joint advisory committee with the Yorba Linda
Water District; and Haney as liaison with the water board.
More
appointments: Lindsey as Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency
delegate; Campbell to a planning forum on north county growth and
management; and Hernandez on an oversight board for fiscal matters
related to the disbanded Redevelopment Agency.