The day after county supervisors took a straw vote in favor of giving one of their colleagues nearly $4 million in discretionary funds amid a budget deficit, Orange County Grand Jurors are questioning if supervisors have too much discretionary power.
The panel also took a hard look at the OC Board of Supervisors’ discretionary funds – money elected officials can dole out to nonprofits, programs and others in the districts they represent.
Jurors highlighted how each supervisor now receives $2.5 million a year to manage staff as large as a dozen people along with spending in their own district in their new report titled “Growing Political Appointees and Discretionary Spending within the OC Board of Supervisors.”…