Four hours after the Mendocino Board of Supervisors whacked County workers’ pay by 12.5%, CEO Carmel Angelo told the Supervisors that Standard & Poor’s had given Mendocino County a BBB-minus credit rating.Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 year. Rather pay with a check? No problem— e-mail and let us know. Or, [...]
County CEO Carmel Angelo informed the Supervisors that the County’s ever-larger debt is again ever-larger. “Complicating the budget picture is a change in accounting methodology related to the Teeter Program for the FY 2009-10 Audit,” began Ms. Angelo. (The Teeter Plan allows California counties to borrow against anticipated tax delinquency penalties and interest. For years [...]
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This Week: A new press release reader at KZYX; mystery meat & baseball in San Francisco; Norman Solomon for congress; and much more
Dear Deputy Walker: NOTICE OF LAYOFF — Due to continued funding problems, on May 24, 2011, the Board of Supervisors authorized the elimination of six deputy sheriffs positions in the sheriff’s office. I regret to inform you that, as the employee in your department with the least seniority in your classification, you are subject to [...]
County CEO Carmel Angelo, a nurse by training, Big Nurse in prac tice, recently saw her lush contract renewed for another four years via the automatic, undiscussed consent calen dar route. The Board’s thinking seems to be that ” The devil you know…”
The Supervisors opened last week’s meeting with a mutedly triumphant announcement that they had come to a tentative agreement with the public attorneys union.
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This Week: Congressman Wine Guy on Osama;The Major helps redistrict the 5th; Sheriff layoffs in HumCo; and much more
Have you ever been sorry you asked a question? At last week’s Supervisors meeting, Supervisor McCowen made the mistake of asking CEO Carmel Angelo what was taking so long to consolidate the half-empty County offices in Fort Bragg, especially the ones the County pays Dominic Affinito $316,000 a year for? Subscribe now to access our [...]
Most of the news coming out of the County Admin Center is bad. How many more layoffs? How many more cops will have to go? How many more millions of scarce General Fund dollars will the County have to chip in to the pension fund next year, and the year after that? How big will [...]
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NO HYDRAULIC FRACTURING Editor, Several weeks ago, most likely due to the Academy award nomination of the documentary, Gasland, the New York Times had not one, but two, front page articles within a week on the topic of hydraulic fracturing and the lax regulation regarding it. Hydraulic fracturing is the breaking up of underlying rock [...]
