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Does Anyone Read The Board Agenda?

Every two weeks we try to review the Board’s agenda packet for interesting upcoming items. It’s not a particularly enjoyable task. But the entire point of the Brown Act’s requirement that agendas be posted in…

County Budget Notes

Among the Third Quarter Budget Adjustments reported by the CEO’s financial staff for this fiscal year is this one from Human Resources: “862189, Contracts, Adjust Request: $72,902.00, Adopted Budget: $253,515.00, New Total: $326,417.00. Increase due…

‘Lots Of People Don’t Know’

Tax Collection Still Stalled Auditor Controller-Treasurer Tax Collector Chamise Cubbison told the Supervisors on Tuesday that the County has not conducted a tax lien sale since 2017 (eight years ago). Close readers may recall that…

Budget Questions Outrun Answers

On Tuesday, Auditor-Controller-Treasurer Tax Collector Chamise Cubbison told the Board that she needed access and assistance from former Acting Auditor-Controller/Treasurer-Tax Collector Sara Pierce to review changes and activities that occurred during the 17 months she…

Deficit Reduction By ‘Creative’ Accounting

“The budget team continues to work with the departments to fine-tune the budget,” said CEO Darcie Antle on Tuesday. “It is requiring all departments to be creative, look at all funding streams to ensure all…

Budget Bungling 3.0

The Supervisors have scheduled another budget discussion for next Tuesday. From the looks of the “presentation” the CEO and her staff have prepared, the dismal (both financially and managerially) picture hasn’t changed much. CEO Antle…

The Supervisors’ Latest Betrayal: The Cline Contortion

When the Board discussed the marijuana tax revenue distribution process at their meeting in Willits on April 8th, there was some half-hearted interest in finally, nine years after the fact, allocating those revenues as the…

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