Irvine’s first election since expanding to seven Council seats and switching to Districts has concluded. The switch to District elections (away from at-large voting) was overwhelmingly supported by Irvine voters last year largely because Irvine was last among other larger OC cities in representation (only five Councilmembers for a 310k+ population), the threat of looming […]
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Tonight, the City Council voted 3-2 to place Council District Map 151 and Council expansion on the March 2024 ballot for Irvine voters. Mayor Farrah Khan and Councilmembers Mike Carroll, and Larry Agran voted in support of Map 151, with Vice Mayor Kim and Councilmember Kathleen Treseder voting against. Here is the election schedule for […]
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Irvine Voters may be voting on a ballot initiative on the March 5, 2024 primary election, to enlarge the Irvine City Council from five to seven members and to create district elections. If passed the initiative would create six district City Council representatives with the Mayor being an At-Large Representative. All Irvine residents, registered and […]
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In all the years I have lived in Irvine, I have never seen so much corruption in Irvine’s decision-making process, including an increasing lack of transparency and intentional discouragement of public participation. Since public distrust of our City Council has substantially increased, Irvine residents are asking for corrective action. Increasing our City Council size and […]
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At its meeting on January 10, 2023, the Irvine City Council approved agenda item 8.3 to discuss expanding the size of the City Council and agenda item 8.4 to discuss moving to district elections. They also approved the creation of a council subcommittee to explore these proposals more fully. Subcommittee members include council members Larry […]
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A motion to expand the size of the City Council and adopt District Elections will be voted on at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. If the motion passes, Irvine voters will see these issues on the November ballot. While a majority of the Councilmembers stated support for expanding the size of the City Council in 2020, […]
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