Property taxes collected by the County are the primary funding source for schools, special districts and the County. The majority of the County’s share of property taxes goes to law enforcement. When a core function…
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A week before Christmas, interim City Manager Robert Richardson called an all-hands meeting of city employees. “I don’t want to sugarcoat this,” Richardson told them. “There are those of us who will not be here…
Cost of handling homelessness, drug-addiction and street-level crime is rising faster than revenues. Addressing the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, a panel of county public safety leaders said the challenges they face are increasingly driven…
In Elise Cox’s Mendolocal.news report about a Board of Supervisors discussion of Mendocino County’s CORE (Community Outreach Response & Engagement) program last Wednesday, District Attorney David Eyster is quoted telling the Supervisors that Proposition 36…
On January 13 the media focused on the President giving the finger to a worker in Detroit who called him "a pedophile protector." Trump's response became the story, not the fact that Jeffrey Epstein's ghost…
Report from 1st District Supervisor Madeline Cline Supervisor Cline reported on the findings of the state audit of Mendocino County, released on December 18. There were three main items to focus on: 1) the budget…
On January 13, Program Coordinator Katherine Flink presented an online overview of the School of Adaptive Agriculture’s 2026 Farm School Program. The Farm School Program is located on the 5,000 acre historic Ridgewood Ranch in…
Near the end of Wednesday’s Board workshop Fifth District Supervisor Ted Williams asked his colleagues what they were going to do about the District Attorney‘s broiler dinners which the state auditor declared were “prohibited“ because…
Mendo has a long, well-documented history of what we loosely refer to as “The Whereas,” those empty claims of “accomplishments” that are auto-generated when senior officials depart county employment. Usually, The Whereases are simply a…