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To: eComment <ecomment(asanta-ana.org> <br />Cc: bvaaquea(cr�,santa-ana.org <bvazquez(a�,santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Santana: Confronting Orange County's Public Spending Problem <br />"County of Orange officials overspent this past fiscal year by nearly $30 million, <br />mostly from the Sheriff and District Attorney — a fact few officials like to publicly talk <br />about. <br />According to records accompanying the request for added funding, Sheriff Don <br />Barnes overspent by $20,594,301 due to "higher than budgeted salaries and <br />employee benefits, including overtime and costs for dual -filled positions required to <br />meet current year operational needs as well as due to the reopening of the James A. <br />Musick facility." <br />District Attorney Todd Spitzer's overspending also was driven by an increase in <br />salaries and employee benefits of $5,977,739, along with a hike in services and <br />supplies of $1,627,797. <br />Under state law, county supervisors are required to produce a balanced budget by <br />July 1, the start of the new fiscal year. <br />Yet the sad fact is that the county budget doesn't seem to stay balanced very long." <br />https://voiceofoc.org/2025/05/santana-confronting-orange-countys-public-spending- <br />problem/ <br />The shooting in Las Vegas involved more than 40 Orange County Sheriff's personnel <br />who were attending the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival. <br />During the Las Vegas shooting on October 1, 2017, several AOCDS members who <br />were off -duty deputy sheriffs and "District Attorney investigators", more lies. <br />#WorkersComp <br />https://www.aocds.org/press-release-las-vegas-shooting-work-com p-benefits/ <br />Sheriff's deputies have one of the highest paying union contracts in the county, which <br />supervisors just increased <br />https://voiceofoc.org/2024/02/orange-county-sheriffs-union-jumps-into-supervisor- <br />races-spends-250k/ <br />