To: The County of Mendocino, 501 Low Gap Road, Ukiah, California To whom it may concern: This letter is religious in nature. It concerns the City of Ten-Thousand Buddhas (CCTB) located in Talmage, California. Please forward this letter to the government in Talmage. I have reason to believe that the religious institution, The City of [...]
Agreeing that “reality has kicked in,” Kathy Bailey appeared before the Anderson Valley Community Services District’s Budget Committee last Wednesday to discuss the looming closure of Hendy Woods State Park, Anderson Valley’s premier tourist attraction. The “Hendy Woods Community,” Bailey said, has submitted a formal proposal to the State Parks Department to “provide volunteers, revenue [...]
Supervisor John McCowen wanted to discuss an item on the County’s never-gonna-happen “legislative priori ties” list for the upcoming year.
Hi, It was definitely stupid for me to mutter at the council meeting that the seven protest letters that we received were “not very compelling.” I absolutely own that. It was a comment that could only be correctly interpreted by someone who had seen the letters. So it is not surprising that I’m getting criticized. [...]
The Ukiah City Council, as predicted, slam dunked the ratepayers and gave the City waste hauler everything it could hope for in a twenty year deal for the City’s waste collection and operation of the Transfer Station in South Ukiah. The new contract includes about $15.00 in charges per ton of Solid Waste delivered to [...]
Louise “Wheezer” Gonyo was recently elected president of SEIU Local 1021. Gonyo is assumed to be one of the SEIU hardliners who claim the County is insisting on wage concessions simply to break the union, not to balance the budget. The SEIU rank and file are being told that the County would settle for nothing [...]
by The AVA
Kathy Bailey, bless her all her days, argued for Hendy Woods at last week’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors. Here, she responds to Supervisor Pinches’ suggestion that the threat to close the state’s parks might be a back door ploy to raise taxes. Bailey responded that she had been to Sacramento and spoken to [...]
by The AVA
October 24, 2011 — Mendocino County Assessor-Clerk Recorder, Susan M. Ranochak announced: “Two errors were made by my office and discovered after publication within the Measure A section of the Sample Ballot for the November 8, 2011 Special District Election. Measure A is the one-eighth cent sales tax increase measure being voted on throughout Mendocino [...]
by The AVA
Major Scaramella, as readers may recall, was somehow — probably by mistake — appointed to the School District’s structurally pointless school bond “oversight committee” last year. Last month The Major was on the losing end of a 5-1 vote to point out the obvious in the committee’s annual report — that the oversight committee hasn’t [...]
TO: MENDOCINO COUNTY NEWS MEDIA FR: MENDOCINO COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICE Ukiah, California… October 6, 2011 ASSEMBLYMEMBER WESLEY CHESBRO TO ADDRESS THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors will receive a presentation by Assemblymember Wesley Chesbro, representing the 1st Assembly District, on October 25. Chesbro is slated to provide an “end of session” [...]
