1990s Orange County. Challenge For The 1990s : Community leaders were asked what top five issues face Orange Conunty in the next decade and what will be the single biggest challenge.

“Political Leadership: The future of Orange County should be a promise to those who live and work here of everything we could hope the best in America could be. Our current problems and the cloud that hangs over our future ability to solve them are the result of, and caused by the lack of, visionary, positve, problem-solving leadership.”

Assemblyman Gil Ferguson (R-Newport Beach) Top five issues: Transportation. Crime and drugs Loss of jobs as major employers move out of the county because of transportation and housing costs Senior citizens’ health and long-term care Political and social divisiveness