California News – 11-11-2021

K Buenavista — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 03:41:05 +0000

Many Disney executives relocate from California to Florida

Out of the company’s announcement in July 2021, Walt Disney World announced its plans to relocate 2,000 of its employees from California to Florida
The chairman of Disney Parks, Josh D’Amaro, in a letter to employees has said the move would allow creative and business teams to become better integrated
This new Disney campus will be located about 20 miles to the east of Disney world in Lake Nona

According to a statement from the California Department of Public Health, adults in California will not be denied a COVID-19 booster shot
The health authorities make announced this in an attempt to increase the number of booster shots being administered in the state
The US CDC also says that those who have received any of the three vaccines should receive a booster shot if they live or work in positions that put them “at-risk”

A man 55-year-old man named Shankar Hangud was sentenced to life in prison without parole on November 10 after confessing to killing his wife and 3 children
The man said that he murdered his wife and three children over the span of several days and across two Northern California counties in October 2019
His children were ages 13, 16, and 20 years old

The Calaveras Unified school district made a unanimous decision to not support or enforce Governor Newsom’s new vaccine mandate for schools
This decision came in a meeting taking place on November 9 that applied to both students and staff
The district acknowledges that they may come across possible repercussions such as loss of funding and other legal actions on them by the state

On November 12, more stimulus checks are expected to go out in California
The California Franchise tax Board has reported that they will send about 748,000 stimulus checks to “qualifying residents” who had filed paper tax returns in 2021
As a part of the “Golden State Stimulus II program, each payment will be worth $600 and these payments are a part of Governor Newsom’s $100 billion budget that was signed into law in July 2021

The Federal government recently decided that California is ineligible for $12 billion in public transit funding because of an extensive dispute over changes to the state’s public pension law
In order to be eligible for the transit grants, Federal law says state and local agencies must protect the interests of their employers

In a declaration on November 9, Newsom advocated for additional conservation efforts and has pleaded with residents to cut their water use by 15%
Almost half of all California residents are under this regional drought emergency which affects 19 million people

On November 10, Governor Gavin Newsom has said that California has begun positioning equipment and finalizing contracts with temporary health care workers
This action comes as health care offficials beleive there to be a “Winter surge” in COVID-19 cases

K Buenavista — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:52:35 +0000

On November 9, a 50-year-old man named Jeff Carpoff was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to a billion-dollar criminal fraud scheme, According to the US Justice Department
This man was an owner of DC Solar, a solar generator manufacturer that appealed to investors because they came with numerous federal tax credits
The company supposedly lied to investors saying that 17,000 mobile solar generators had been manufactured even though they never existed

On November 9, Governor Gavin Newsom told Californians to prepare for another surge in COVID-19 cases at an economic conference in Monterey
In the most recent week for which data is available, 2.3% of COVID-19 test came back positive

On November 9, Directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California have declared a regional drought emergency
The directors call for increased efforts to maximize water conservation and they report that water years 2020 through 2021 were the driest sequence on record in California

From a report conducted by USD, it indicates that there will be sharp price hikes with Orange County renters seeing an average monthly rent increase of $410+ over the next 2 years
This forecast predicts that by the end of the third quarter of 2023, rents will increase by an average of $252 over the current level in LA County, $348 for SD County, $310 in Ventura County, and $241 for the Inland Empire

As of November 10, California has distributed almost 4.5 million stimulus checks and about half of the payments are expected to be issued under the Golden State Stimulus II program
Under guidelines set by the state, only certain Social Security beneficiaries are eligible for the stimulus checks
One of the major requirements to receive the check of up to $1,100, people must have an adjusted gross income between $1 to $75,000 on their 2020 tax return