Sacramento took away tens of millions of dollars from the City of Orange’s budget. Measure Z dollars are required to stay in Orange to benefit our residents. To preserve our safe, clean community and the services we depend on, we have run out of time to continue doing business as usual: please join Orange’s first responders and vote Yes on Measure Z.

Measure Z protects lifesaving, 911 public safety services. Permanent brain damage can begin just four minutes after someone stops breathing. Seconds count in emergency situations.  Measure Z will help our city hire more emergency personnel for any Orange resident or family who needs 911 medical response.

City of Orange fire engines don’t have enough firefighters to meet National Fire Protection Association standards for safe firefighting levels – we’re 25% short.

Orange has added only 3 police officer positions in the last 25 years. Meanwhile, in the last 10 years alone, Anaheim added 37, Garden Grove added 24, and Tustin added 8.  The Orange Police Department is struggling to recruit and retain the quality police officers that our community needs and deserves. Many are considering leaving and already transferring to other cities. Police officers are under siege nationwide, and the threat of lower police staffing levels resulting in higher crime is here.

How will Orange remain a safe place to live without enough firefighters protecting our homes and businesses and enough police officers patrolling our neighborhoods, parks, and schools? Unfortunately, it won’t. Without this desperately needed funding, we will lose our city’s honest and hardworking police officers and firefighters to neighboring cities. We cannot risk negatively impacting our community’s safety. The price is too high.