Supervisor Janet Nguyen doesn’t like the County’s lawsuit against the AOCDS
Maybe this is why Chris Prevatt is a shill for Supervisor Janet Nguyen? She voted today to stop the lawsuit against the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs that Supervisor John Moorlach has been championing for awhile.
At issue is about $187 million in savings that Moorlach thinks the County will realize if they prevail. The pension spike that a previous Board of Supervisors granted to the Deputies also was granted retroactively. Moorlach has argued that this is illegal. Whether it was legal or not will be for the courts to decide – but it did suck for taxpayers.
Nguyen’s voted mattered not. The Supervisors voted 4-1 to continue the lawsuit, according to a press release I received today.
Currently our unfunded pension liability here in Orange County is $3 billion, according to Moorlach. He also had this to say in the L.A. Times, “For just a little bit more we can take it to the appellate level and get some resolution. . . . This is something that would pay tremendous dividends if and when we succeed,” Moorlach said. The appeal, he said, would cost a relatively small amount of money: “It’s sort of like going from the 5-yard line to the goal line, it’s not that much.”
Nguyen’s rationale was that we should drop the lawsuit so as to not waste any more public money.
I have split feelings on this. Every court so far has found against the Supervisors. But if Moorlach is right about the payoff, it seems nuts not to see this through.
Maybe the County can fire a few workers who don’t have degrees, if they run out of funds? Say like Prevatt?
Janet Nguyen is a Joke!
Just curious – exactly what is “a relatively small amount of money” in terms of this issue and pubilc funds?
Interesting – the Supervisors went into closed session 2 weeks ago to decide whether to pursue this appeal or not. No reportable action occurred, which means they did not reach a decision. Now, two weeks later, a decision is made. It would be interesting to know what happened in this missing two weeks to lead to this decision. What kind of deal making, horse trading and arm twisting might have occurred. Unfortunatley, like the 15 minutes missing on the Nixon tapes, we will never know.
Wow how nice for the BOS to make the out of state Law firm representing the County 3 millon dollars richer even though they have now lost twice in Court. This law frim dosen’t care if the County loses the law suit as they will continue to collect 3 more millon dollars from Moorlach &Friends.It must be nice the
Bos can throw away good money at a LOSING cause. Money that could have been used to save Jobs!!!!!