At the Budget Session meeting on July 14, 2026, Grant Thornton, a licensed independent CPA firm, presented a sobering five-year financial forecast for the City of Fullerton. The firm, which had recently […]
The Fullerton City Council will discuss a $290.4 million budget proposal for fiscal year 2026-27 during a study session on July 14, 2026. The council faces a projected $3.8 million shortfall in […]
At the Fullerton City Council meeting on June 16, 2026, Fullerton Resident Karen Lloreda proposed that the city construct a memorial for the Acjachemen (Juaneño) tribe during public remarks, following the presentation […]
Late Saturday, the City of Fullerton sent out a notification regarding a special meeting on July 14, 2026, at 5:30 pm focused on the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2026-27. This meeting, […]
34 Cities, One County, Very Different Balance Sheets Orange County looks uniform from the freeway — sun, stucco, strip malls — but its 34 cities are running on wildly different financial engines. […]
The City of Fullerton is set to engage residents in shaping its solid waste and recycling future through two upcoming community meetings. These sessions will provide an opportunity for attendees to learn […]
Fullerton is your City, and these decisions affect your community. Take the survey: https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/757796deffbd4ed3956645fc0e07b0c6 Next meeting: Budget Study Session – The Budget Study Session on the FY 2026-27 Proposed Operating Budget will be […]
The City Council of Fullerton, California, is set to convene a public hearing on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at 5:30 pm. The hearing will take place in the City Council Chambers at […]
The City of Fullerton has officially announced a General Municipal Election scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Voters will have the opportunity to elect two members to the City Council representing Districts […]
CR&R, Republic Services and Valley Vista head to final negotiations for a 10-year waste deal; council orders Republic to drop a $10 million payment, with a decision expected in September. The Fullerton […]
Roughly 14 people turned out to the Fullerton Public Library on July 7 to help set spending and revenue priorities as the city stares down a multi-year deficit. On the evening of […]
Residents and businesses in Fullerton will pay more for trash service beginning July 1, 2026, as a new regional disposal agreement drives up county landfill fees far beyond the usual annual inflation […]
Proposition 13 is one of California’s most popular and most protected laws. Voters passed it in 1978, and it caps property taxes across the state. But a long-running debate asks whether parts […]
Star Chamber is a term that you use when referring to secretive, arbitrary hearings and procedures. It has become the modus operandi for the Trump administration, and now Orange County government–specifically the […]
Join the community meeting to discuss Fullerton’s budget shortfall of approximately $13.7 million for the fiscal year 2026-27. Discussion begins at 5:30 pm tonight (Tuesday, July 7) about Fullerton’s Budget Community Meeting […]
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Date: June 30, 2026 Subject: Solid Waste Management Services — Request for Proposal (RFP) Evaluation Editor’s note: This is a cleaned, readability-edited version of an automatically generated transcript. Filler words, false starts, […]
The City of Fullerton’s drinking water met every state and federal safety standard during 2025, with no violations of maximum contaminant levels recorded across the system, according to the water department’s annual […]
A federal watchdog found that the Department of Housing and Urban Development failed to properly service the majority of a sampled set of federally backed loans meant to help struggling homeowners keep […]
The Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District (OCMVCD) this week confirmed mosquito samples infected with West Nile Virus (WNV) in the cities of Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden Grove and Westminster. Orange County now […]
U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California) visited a Fullerton fire station Tuesday to highlight $250,000 in federal funding for communications upgrades that city officials say will improve emergency response throughout the city. The […]
The vote counting in the 4th District County Supervisor primary is all but over, and of four candidates, Fullerton Mayor Fred Jung finished a surprisingly distant fourth. Connor Traut is first with 37,375 […]
The city’s first competitive solid waste procurement in roughly 70 years is heading toward a vote scheduled on short notice — and residents have reason to scrutinize how the bids are being […]
Representatives of the Fullerton Woodcrest community at Palm Gardens Apartments attended the Fullerton City Council meeting on June 16, 2026, to ask again for a permanent solution to their problems with parking. […]
The City of Fullerton is undertaking its first competitive solid waste procurement in decades, breaking away from a nearly 70-year relationship with a single hauler. Historically, the city has relied on MG […]
There is a special meeting scheduled for 4:00 pm on June 30, 2026, and it’s unclear why this was not announced earlier. One can only surmise that it is to discourage the […]
Vice President J.D. Vance visited the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on Thursday, June 25, 2026, for a public conversation marking the release of his new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way […]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 25, 2026, in favor of Monsanto in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell, holding that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) preempts state-law failure-to-warn claims […]
A pattern playing out in city halls — and at Fullerton’s own train station Organizations in crisis rarely announce themselves as such. More often, they produce charts, reports, and performance metrics that […]
Representative Derek Tran (CA-45) presented over $3 million in federal funding he secured to improve local fire stations, school traffic signals, and emergency operations in Brea, Los Alamitos, and Fountain Valley. The Fountain […]
The City of Fullerton has discontinued bicycle rental lockers at the Fullerton Transportation Center, citing vandalism, theft, rising maintenance costs, and an inability to source replacement parts. Commuters learned of the decision […]
The Fullerton City Council approved a continuing spending resolution in a 4-1 vote on June 16, 2026, allowing the current fiscal year’s budget to extend into FY 2026-27. The resolution provides spending […]
The Fullerton City Council voted unanimously, 5-0, to adopt an updated Open Space and Conservation Element as Appendix M of the city’s General Plan, satisfying a state mandate that the city missed […]
Mayor Fred Jung: I met with all the bargaining units. Does anyone else have anything to report? Very good. We’ll move on to our presentation. I’m going to call on the good […]
An independent financial review presented to the Fullerton City Council on Monday concluded that the city’s $2.9 million accounting error and the disappearance of roughly $10 million in unassigned fund balance were […]
