Consensus builds for a full-time airport overseer.
The future of Orange County Executive Officer Jan Mittermeier is far from certain. On Thursday, as part of an action viewed by critics as further widening the gulf between her and the board, Mittermeier suspended all work on contracts, employees and vendors related to airport planning. In the days after the March 7 election, Mittermeier was criticized for not having a strategy in place to deal with the measure's passage. Proponents say creating a separate job, and possibly a separate department overseeing airport planning, will help move the process along. I believe it can and has to be done.