Progress with Politics: A New Podcast Episode with Councilmember Larry Agran
On February 8, the Irvine City Council discussed some of the City’s most vital questions for the next decade:
Orange County Power Authority’s renewable energy content
The development of the ARDA site into a Veterans Memorial Park
The establishment of an Office of Health and Wellness
In today’s podcast episode of “Conversations with Councilmember Larry Agran,” Larry wraps up the meeting’s results with these observations:
“We are all committed to 100% renewables as a necessary way to fight the climate crisis, but the Orange County Power Authority is struggling to deliver greener energy, greener electricity at a cheaper price than Southern California Edison. It plans to roll out commercial plans in April and residential plans in October. One assumption is 95% of residential customers are going to stay in the program, and I’m concerned that more than 5% of residents will opt out. ”
“Somehow the City Council got diverted to thinking the whole 125-acre ARDA site should be converted into a vast botanical garden, only setting aside five acres for veterans memorial purposes. The Irvine citizens’ initiative which I helped draft was quite specific…I am grateful we made a little progress tonight with the clean-up of the 125-acre ARDA site, but now is the time to at last deliver on the Veterans Memorial Park.”
“[Creating our own office of public health] would augment the services Orange County Health Agency delivers and make Irvine not only the smartest, safest and greenest City, but healthiest as well.”
For more on the progress and politics happening at Irvine’s City Council, listen to the podcast below.