COUNTY
ELECTIONS
Trustees Race
STORY AND PHOTO
NIKKI NELSEN
Phillip Yarbrough hopes
to serve his seventh term
on the Rancho Santiago
Community College District
board. He has been an
active member of the board
of trustees since 1994 over-
seeing Area 6, the areas bor-
dering Santiago Community
College. Diane Singer is
running against Yarbrough.
Singer has five years un-
der her belt as an Orange
Unified School District Area
1 board member, she has
experience serving and
finding resolutions on an
active board.
Area 4 on the RSCCD
Board of Trustee map is
also up for grabs. Larry
Labrado supervises this
area. Labrado is the cur-
rent chairperson of the
Board Facilities and Policy
Committees. He also sup-
ports the advancement of
education for Orange Coun-
ty youth and educational op-
portunities for latino children
and adults. John Ortega is
the opposition who oversees
Area 2 of the Orange Unified
School District and oversees
the K-12 students in the area
for the last seventeen years.
ORTEGA
SINGER
YOU HAVE
KNOW THAT I FIGHT
YOU HAVE LEADERSHIP,
FAIR BUT I FIGHT... I LIKE
MANAGEMENT’S JOB IS
From 7.75 percent tax rate
to 9.25 percent, then down
to 8.75 percent. Santa Ana
elects to have the highest
tax increase.
Within the last couple of
years California and Santa
Ana has made attempts to
provide safer streets. Measure
X is meant to support these
actions. It’s an attempt to solve
homelessness, have quicker
first responders and provide
enhanced parks and streets.
This proposal will apply a tax
increase on retail purchases of
$1.50 until 2029, and down to
$1.00 by 2039. The tax increase
is expected to bring $60
million a year in the first phase.
The second phase is planned
to bring in $40 million annually.
TO THINK THAT PEOPLE
TO DO THINGS RIGHT. THE
DO THE RIGHT THING.
HANNA
I THINK PEOPLE
MANAGEMENT, AND
LEADERSHIPS JOB IS TO
John Hanna is in charge of
Area 2, the border of Irvine
and Santa Ana, and his term
will also be up. However,
Hanna is running unopposed
and will automatically keep
his Area 2 position on the
RSCCD board until 2022.
Hanna has held this position
since 1998. “So if someone
was going to come running
against me, they knew
they’d be in for a fight. I think
that kind of discouraged
some people from running
against me and I like to think
that people thought I did a
good job.”
Measures
THOUGHT I DID A GOOD
SO IF WE WERE ABLE
JOB .
TO PASS SOMETHINGS
THAT COULD FURTHER
ENHANCE PURSUIT OF
WHATEVER THEY WANT
TO DO IN THEIR FUTURE,
THEN THAT'S WHAT I
SANTA ANA LOOKS
TO ADD A .75%
INCREASE ON
RETAIL PURCHASES
WANT TO BE DOING.
10
Two More Key
Measures
MARIJUANA BUSINESS IS GROWING AND
CHANGING. YOU CAN ALSO HAVE A SAY ON
HOW YOUR CITY COUNCIL GETS VOTED IN.
el Don Santa Ana College · October 29, 2018
Y
The city of Santa Ana has Measure Y on the ballot which would implement a gross square
footage tax between $0.25 to $35.00. It also adds a gross receipts tax of 10% for cultivators,
manufacturers, sellers, cannabis testers and distributors, excluding medical weed sales.
AA
Measure AA is set to erase the way a voter elects city wards. Santa Ana is currently a city
that has elections in which the city votes for their representatives and also the ones who
represent other wards. For example, if a person resides in zone 5 they do not have a vote in
who will represent zone 6.