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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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Circling The Drain

State Auditor no fan of hiring freeze and resignation incentives for budget balancing… Instead of aggressively pursuing over $30.5 million in delinquent taxes, Mendo has chosen to address its “structural deficit” by not filling random…

County Notes 1/15/2026

For the first time since the CEO started generating a “Year-To-Date Budget Report-General Fund” a few months ago, the report is listed as a Board agenda topic. Previously it has been buried several layers deep…

Whistling Past The State Audit

In our last report we highlighted the State Auditor’s finding that Mendo had failed to collect taxes due in the amount of at least $30.5 million. We think the number is substantially higher than that…

$800,000 For This? State Auditor Tells Mendo What It Already Knows.

Did we really need an $800,000 audit team of made up of Mr. Grant Parks, California State Auditor, and his overlarge team of green-eyeshaders: Bob Harris, Audit Principal, Grayson Hough, Senior Auditor, Brandy Roberts, Dominik…

Power is out in Anderson Valley

Went out during Tuesday night storm. We are working on a basic text post which, if lucky, should be posted soon.

Road Tax Accountability Provisions

Back in 2018 when he was running for Fifth District Supervisor Hopland contractor David Roderick made road conditions a campaign priority, saying: “People say that it's $1 million a mile to pave a road. But…

‘Accountability Provisions’?

Last week Mendolocal.news reporter Elise Cox broke the unsurprising news that “Mendocino County Supervisors' Approval Rating Stinks.” According to the results of a Mendocino Council of Governments (MCOG) survey to gauge the level of support…

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