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Mendo’s Budget Gap: Worse Than We Thought

Last month we asked County CEO Carmel Angelo for clarification of several problematic budget categories discussed at recent meetings of the Supervisors. We assumed that…

Boonville Debates Modern Infrastructure

Although last Thursday night's meeting about the proposed water and septic system for downtown Boonville was advertised as "Notice of Preparation of Environmental Impact Report,"…

Arrested & Overlayed

Last March we wrote about the case of Chris Gurr who lives on the Boonville Road on the Ukiah side of the hill.

Ambulance Services On The Edge

Supervisor John McCowen opened Tuesday’s discussion of the local ambulance services with a worrying anecdote: “I was told that last Friday we had a period…

Howard Hospital Foundation v. Kemper

Last March Howard Hospital Foundation President Margie Handley introduced the “project manager” her foundation had hired for about $40k to prepare a cost estimate for…

Our $225k Bargain Basement CEO

With Supervisor/Board Chair Dan Hamburg calling Mendocino County CEO Carmel Angelo “a bargain,” and Supervisor John McCowen saying she deserves a raise because she’s been underpaid for years and she’s got great contacts and she almost single-handedly got some money from the State for the post fire disaster over-excavation reimbursement of upwards of 100 burned out home-owners (which should have been caught a lot sooner if they’d listened to Lee Howard when he first pointed out what was happening, and was the absolute minimum she could do under the circumstances), the Board of Supervisors unanimously (Supervisor Carre Brown wasn’t in attendance but she certainly would have voted Yes too) approved CEO Carmel Angelo’s huge automatic pay raises over the next four years in four steps to $225,000 a year plus equivalently generous perks, followed by a comparably giant pension for the rest of her life.

County Notes (Oct. 3, 2018)

FOUR (COUNT ‘EM) AUTOMATIC PAY RAISES FOR CEO Carmel Angelo have been put on next Tuesday’s consent calendar by the beneficiary herself. Consent Calendar Item…

County Notes (Sep. 26, 2018)

The Ghost of Tom Mitchell seems to be hovering anew over the Supervisors Chambers in Ukiah. Mitchell, long-time readers may recall, was Mendo’s CEO before…

Who Needs Supervisors?

Several “retroactive” Consent Calendar Items are on next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda. The Board of Supervisors (lead Supervisor John McCowen) have complained several times…

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