Mendocino County bought the abandoned nursing home on Whitmore Lane south of Ukiah in 2020 using federal covid money in the early stages of the pandemic to use as a quarantine building for people who…
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At the end of a record-setting three-year drought from 2020 to 2022, the Mendocino Wine industry managed to produce a comparative record amount of grapes in 2022, almost 62,000 tons, 30% more than the previous…
(Annotating Supervisor Glenn McGourty’s Supervisor’s Report for next week’s board meeting…) “Budget Ad Hoc Committee: Supervisor Williams and I serve on the Budget Ad Hoc committee and attended all the department meetings to discuss proposed…
Late one afternoon I got a call from a fellow squadron commander over on the training side of Keesler Air Force Base when I was stationed there in 1970. This was unusual. Our aircraft maintenance…
Last Tuesday’s semi-formal Budget Update devolved into another testy Get Cubbison exercise. It got so bad that Supervisor Ted Williams tossed out a motion for a Vote of No Confidence in the Auditor-Controller-Tax Collector. Williams…
County Counsel Christian Curtis, the highest paid public attorney in Mendocino County, was scheduled for a performance review during closed session on Tuesday, March 14. The Supes gave him a big raise a couple years…
Tuesday morning’s meeting a closed session item during which the Board was to do a performance evaluation of their Cannabis Program Director, Kristin Nevedal. After about an hour of closed session, Board Chair Glenn McGourty…
On August 4, 2021, several months after then-CEO Carmel Angelo threatened to send a bill to Sheriff Kendall for $1.6 million for ordinary law enforcement overtime, as she simultaneously undertook steps to fold the Sheriff’s…
Supervisor Williams posted the following allegation on line last week: “Tuesday, March 14 BOS agenda item 4D is a ‘Presentation of Mid-Year Budget Report.’ Of particular concern to me is a projected reduction of $311k…