Although the Clerk of the Board said that Supervisors Dan Hamburg and Kendall Smith were “absent by prior arrangement” from last Tuesday’s abbreviated Board meeting, it was pretty clear that they simply didn’t want to be present when their three colleagues voted to formally reduce Supervisor pay from $68,000 per year to $61,000 per year.Subscribe [...]
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KEEP THE CODE Editor, Something Wicked This Way Comes is, of course, the famous line from the Shakespearean play Macbeth, which forewarns of an impending ominous, dangerous and traitorous entity. Fast-forward from the seventeenth century, to a real threat we now potentially face in Mendocino County, which is perhaps no less insidious or alarming; with [...]
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THE AVA SUFFERED a major fubar last week when at least faulty 300 papers were distributed. If you got one with duplicate pages, please call or e-mail us and we’ll send you a replacement copy.Subscribe now to access our entire site—only $25 for 1 year. Rather pay with a check? No problem— e-mail and let [...]
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, [...]
Why do you want to be Supervisor? I want to see a fresh approach to old problems. For example, I want to see the County do a better job of preserving its roads. One way to do this is by following Fort Bragg’s lead and use cost-effective technologies like rubberized chip seals. Not only would [...]
To listen to both County employees and Supervisor John McCowen it is clear that the County’s hope that the budget gap of about $500k will be closed will never happen, and that the “balanced” budget is yet another pipe dream.<!–sell price=”25″ recurring=”1Y” group=”101″–> The employees ratcheted up their rhetoric at last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors [...]
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This Week: Opposing wine regulations; Outsourcing mental health treatment; Protesting the Supervisors; and much more
August 16, 2011 To: Mr. Marc [sic] Scaramella Re: Citizens Advisory Committee on Redistricting Dear Mr. Scaramella: On behalf of the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, please accept our sincere appreciation for your efforts serving on the Mendocino County Citizens Advisory Committee on redistricting. You traveled hundreds of miles and served countless hours in order [...]
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This Week: A murder in Rockport; SEIU vs. The County, Cont’d; See ya’, Congressman Corktop; and much more
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This Week: Operation Full Court Press; Labor talks on the rocks; Smith & Hamburg state the obvious; and much more
