THEY DIDN T EVEN LOOK AT MY DOCUMENTATION Lots of people were xeroxing it, frankly lots of people were using it inappropriately to claim that they were in fact the health caretakers of their children, said Barbara Ferrer, director of the L.A. County Public Health Department.
Madrigal dutifully got the required paperwork and brought it to an L.A. County vaccination site. He was turned away. They didn t even look at my documentation, he said.
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As Madrigal found, the new rules haven t trickled down to staff at every one of the county s hundreds of vaccine sites.
Oxnard s finance director has been known to break bad news.
Whether it s a budget in the red or decimated reserves, Kevin Riper has been the bearer of grim news ever since he was hired two years ago.
But the budget update considered during Tuesday s City Council meeting took on a different tone.
The financial situation has turned around for the general fund, Oxnard s main spending account, with $17 million more in revenues than anticipated at the start of the pandemic.
It s owed to a variety of reasons but the main driver of a much improved financial situation is the voter approved Measure E. The new sales tax, an additional 1.5% for city services, begins April 1.