Excerpted by Daily Pilot
By Sara Cardine
For the past 50 years, community health center Share Our Selves has made strides to serve as many vulnerable and low-income people as possible, offering medical, dental and social services throughout Orange County with a main office in Costa Mesa.
Excerpted from OC Breeze
Sixty-one California lawmakers sent a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom advocating for immediate and structural reforms at the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD). Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, EDD has displayed a shocking inability to disperse unemployment benefits as millions of Californians struggle without income. (Full Letter Attached)
Excerpted from Associated Press
The agency is working to merge the call centers and train more workers to handle complex calls to eliminate the need for call backs, Hilliard said. But she could not give a timeline for when that would happen despite repeated questions from Democratic Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris. Other lawmakers said it was unacceptable that so few workers are able to answer questions about claims over the phone.
Excerpted from the San Francisco Chronicle
By Chronicle Editorial Board
Excerpted from the San Francisco Chronicle
By Carolyn Said
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, July 30, 2020
ORANGE COUNTY TO PRIORITIZE TESTING
FOR FIRST RESPONDERS
Irvine – Following Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris’s July 22nd letter requesting the Orange County Board of Supervisors and Orange County Health Agency refocus testing priorities for first responders, today, the OC Heath Agency announced expedited for testing for the people on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For Immediate Release
July 27, 2020
Key Assembly & Senate Working Groups
Unveil Joint $100 Billion Economic Stimulus Plan
This week, I sent a letter to Supervisor Steel and the OC Board of Supervisors, to discuss the critical delay in COVID-19 testing being experienced by first responders. This is a problem we must address urgently.
