Legislature passes on-time budget for seventh consecutive year

SACRAMENTO –The California State Assembly passed its 2017-2018 budget bill today with a 59-20-1 vote. Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva (D – Orange County) issued the following statement after the vote:

“This on-time, balanced budget exemplifies fiscal restraint, strengthens the state’s rainy day fund, increases public oversight, and makes targeted investments in our communities,” said Quirk-Silva. “For instance, it brings opportunities and much needed resources to working families with the Earned Income Tax Credit Expansion.”

Sacramento, CA â€“ California State Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Orange County) has successfully secured several victories for the people of North Orange County in this year’s State Budget bill.  

Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva has staunchly advocated her priorities such as public safety, veteran affairs, health and human services, education, business incentives, and more.

The following funding items were secured by Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva:

Orange County, California - Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, (D - Orange County) issued the following statement in response to the Irvine City Council’s vote on Tuesday, June 6, to change the site originally designated for a veterans’ cemetery FivePoint developer-owned strawberry farmland near the I-5/I-405 interchange. The developers will build the cemetery at no cost to the city in exchange for the property from the first proposed cemetery site.

“I have remained impartial as to which site is chosen; understanding, of course, it is a local decision. I continue to urge all involved to be reasonable and do what is best for our veterans. I wholeheartedly back the decision of the Irvine City Council,” said Quirk-Silva.

Annual Ceremony held in recognition of Small Business Day

SACRAMENTO – Today, during California Small Business Day, Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva (D-Orange County) and the California State Assembly honored Dr. Stephen Tsai. Dr. Tsai is the founder of East West Medical Group and has been practicing Acupuncture in the Fullerton area for nearly 30 years.

“It is my pleasure to honor Dr. Stephen Tsai, founder of the East West Medical Group of Fullerton CA, at the California Small Business Day Awards,” said Quirk-Silva. “Together with his wife, Dr Tsai began as a tiny clinic with a vision for integrating eastern and western medical techniques and philosophy.”

SACRAMENTO – On Tuesday, May 30, a day after Memorial Day, Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (Fullerton) was the focus of a stealth texting, email and robocall campaign in Fullerton that has been operating in order to mislead public opinion against the veterans cemetery project; saying that Orange County money would be spent on a “pet project” outside Assembly District 65 and given to Irvine.

“A resting place for California’s veterans is not a ‘pet project,’” Quirk-Silva said. “It is a necessary and important project for our veterans in California. The state funds in question were secured for a cemetery that all Southern California Veterans have earned. It's shameful that some would try to disrupt the funding for a veterans cemetery a day after Memorial Day, and for political gain.”