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County Notes: Employees Union Authorizes A Strike

According to a notice on Saturday from the Union’s negotiating committee, a surprising 92.4% of all members (not just of voting members) of the County employees union SEIU 1021 have voted to authorize a strike…

County Notes: Supes To Compound Their Errors

Item 4b) on next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Agenda is described as “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff to Develop a Contingency Plan for Creation of Department of Finance Based on Best Practice…

County Notes: Bright Spots

It might come as a surprise to some readers of this space that there were a couple of genuine, if minor, bright spots in Tuesday’s Board of Supervisor meeting. First, with the appraiser staff now…

Is Mendo Imploding?

Watching the Board of Supervisors’ blasé attitude toward the County’s core function of property tax collection it’s hard to escape the sense that Mendo is on the verge of imploding and nobody has any idea…

County Notes: Behind The Curve

A large and uncharacteristically loud contingent of County employees showed up at the Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, June 20 to demand some kind of pay raise or at least a partial cost of living increase.…

Mendo Management In Turmoil; Supes Do Nothing

Back in the Carmel Angelo Era, management staffers who presented a problem for the peevish CEO were summarily given the heave-ho on the spot and nobody dared comment about it in open session. The target…

County Notes: The Mockel Debacle

(Mockel who? Mockel being shoved down our throats by the Democrat's Northcoast machine.) Last month, at the time I filed my Brown Act complaint to ferret out the Supervisors’ unanimous, simultaneous endorsement of recently declared…

County Notes: The Answer Is No

Dozens of county employees and their union rep Patrick Hickey showed up at the Supervisors’ Tuesday morning budget hearing to ask that the County at least include a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) in next…

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