Despite all the recent blogosphere fussin’ about the core budget of the Orange County Human Relations Commission, the OC Board of Supervisors, as the Reggie notes, voted to maintain the agency as part of a larger overall spending plan.
The 5.5 billion dollar budget passed today for the 2010-2011 fiscal year probably ensures that no layoffs will take place at the Human Relations Commission even as $97,000 was slashed from its coffers. These are difficult times nearly everywhere to be sure, but it is heartening to see the agency preserved – although clearly not at full strength – as there were predictable calls for its complete liquidation.
Earlier this month, prior to the seating of new Supervisor Shawn Nelson, there was a 2-1-1 vote in favor of continuing the $300,000 core budget for the OCHR. High anxiety is nothing new to those who continue the work of the commission founded in 1971 as the question of funding is a perpetually politicized one. Even the new budget is only modestly reassuring as, apparently, the BoS will review possible alterations before the end of the fiscal year.
It is, however, a testament to the OCHR’s reputation in the community at large that the political will, even in these times of austerity, does not yet exist to obliterate it. Those ‘bridges of understanding’ that the commission has worked to build won’t be burned…at least not this year.
With hatred towards minorities and immigrants at an all-time high here in the O.C., this is good news.
If the Supes want to cut the budget they should start with Janet Nguyen’s and Tom Daly’s wasteful satellite offices…
show me the numbers that supports your claim that hate crimes are at and all time high, and please only include true hate crimes not verbal altercations between fools.
Hey rusty miller — maybe you can point out where art said hate “crimes” in his sentence first.
Reading comprehension is a must!
Yippie !! They can have another year to cheapen the meaning or racist and hate crime. I was afraid we had lost our Thought Police Chief Kennedy. ah , stop it, you are racial profiling me right now Art.
How does the commission cheapen the meaning of hate crime? Part of their data collection comes from police agencies around the county…
there is no hate crime towards whites for starters, secondly how can you know what is in a persons head? sure, some fools shout out obvious racial slanders when doing the deed but most is just a decision made by the thought police.
What thought police? The OCHR compiles the data, it doesn’t determine it. Part of that “Thought Police” you insist on must include the Police itself!
cut the hatorade and lets remember the noble, famous words of Rodney King “Can’t we all just get along?” If anyone is interested in seeing how well tax dollars are spent at the good old OCHRC, my staff will present “bridges of understanding” using stuffed animals to show diversity and predatory animosity inherent in the animal kingdom can be transcended by just good ole plain talk
gabriel, the ability to infer also is a must(I parody your incomplete sentence). How would you infer hatred towards minorities? I would like you to give me some examples of implied hatred.
rusty,
Arizona, Costa Mesa, Orange…
How about the Slater Slum stabbings by neo-Nazis? Or the founding of the American Third Position Party (are you a member? haha) Radio White in Orange, white power leafleting in Huntington Beach, etc, etc, etc.
All that plus Art’s examples! haha. You aren’t of the perception that Orange County is a place of racial harmony are you? HA!
art, give me specifics not global thinking characteristic the mentally disturbed