CA State Legislature Could Soon Back Planned Golf Course Site in Irvine for OC Veterans Cemetery
Quirk-Silva’s move at the committee hearing led to backlash from Shea, who said the city tried numerous times to meet with the Assemblywoman about changing sites.
Quirk-Silva disputed those claims.
Four days before the Assemblywoman’s bill was heard by the state VA committee, Shea and Haddad sent a letter to committee chairman Sen. Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera) June 21, committing FivePoint to spending $28 million on the golf course site for construction of the cemetery. A portion of it, $18 million, was originally slated to develop an 18-hole golf course and Haddad committed another $10 million for the cemetery at the golf course site.
Quirk-Silva’s bill made it out of the Veterans Affairs committee and is currently on hold in the Senate Appropriations committee from a unanimous July 8 vote. It’s expected to be heard late August.