OC Leaders Secretly Approved Over $200 Million in Covid Contracts; Voice of OC is Getting the Public a Peek at Where it Went Mar. 11, 2021 OC supervisors' Chairman Andrew Do (right) speaks with Michelle Steel, the board's former chairwoman, at a 2019 event organized by a PR firm that got $750,000 in secretly-approved county contracts in 2020, including for vaccine promotion. The contracts were not publicly disclosed until Voice of OC filed record requests in early 2021. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC 796 Shares . Orange County officials have secretly approved at least $222 million in taxpayer contracts since last March, when county supervisors set up a behind-the-scenes process for emergency spending without public disclosure of where the money is going, according to records obtained by Voice of OC.