I posted last night about the coming collision between the City of Orange and the County of Orange over Acting Sheriff Jack Anderson's proposal to site a 292-bed state prisoner re-entry program in Theo Lacy Jail in the Orange.

The Board of Supes voted 3-0 today to approve Anderson's proposal to secure $100 million in state money for the Musick Jail expansion -- of which the Theo Lacy program is a part -- after listening to the objections of past and present City of Orange officials. Peggy Lowe captures the gist of what happened over at Total Buzz, and you can watch for yourself on the archived video of the Board meeting.

The Orange City Council will be taking the matter up as an emergency item in a few minutes, and Anderson will be there to address the Council.

I think it's a matter of how far the City wants to fight this.

When asked by the Board of Supes if approving Anderson's request violated the 1995 judgment between the city and the county, county counsel said it didn't -- but I'm wondering if it wasn't one of those situations where local government counsel makes the Sign of the Cross over what their elected officials want to do and make it OK.

I'm not a lawyer, and I don't even play one on TV, but judging by the past changes at Theo Lacy that have triggered  the judgment -- moving cel modules a few feet, for the example -- my layman's opinion is the state prisoner re-entry program rises to at least that level of change in operations or facility.

Supervisor John Moorlach seemed a little hesitant, having only recently been apprised of the settlement agreement between Orange and the County regarding Theo Lacy. After listening to Sup. Bill Campbell's comments, Moorlach noted Campbell had "used two words that are really big in my district: 'settlement' and 'capacity'." But given that the Board had to either approve Anderson's request or miss the deadline to apply for the $100 million, Moorlach and the other Supes voted "yes" because they didn't have much choice.

I think Jack Anderson has been doing a fine job as Acting Sheriff, but if one watches the Board video it's pretty clear the ball was dropped at some point and the City of Orange was not kept in the loop regarding the Theo Lacy prisoner re-entry program presented to the Board today.

I'm also wondering if Anderson inherited some deal made earlier between former Sheriff Mike Carona and the City of Irvine to not locate the re-entry program at Musick, where the expansion will take place.

We'll see what the Orange City Council does tonight.

UPDATE: Peggy Lowe over at Total Buzz reports the Irvine City Council will also take up the issue tonight...