Though it has previously approved spending $1.25 million in taxpayer funds since 2008 for public relations to improve recycling participation, the Orange County Board of Supervisors is now considering spending another $750,000 on the PR program, according to a board staff report.
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RIESTER Pacific, Inc. of Los Angeles is the private beneficiary of the spending and will be tasked to expand business and student outreach, add a speaker's bureau, continue a media campaign to improve recycling awareness, participate in community events, and write a report about the effectiveness of its own work.
Michael B. Giancola at the county's OC Waste & Recycling department has recommended approval of the consulting contract at the board's May 4 public hearing.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
