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…
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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…
Next Tuesday’s Supervisors meeting agenda includes a mid-year budget presentation (i.e., more than two months ago.) In that presentation prepared by the CEO’s office, not the Auditor, there’s a section called “Summary of General Fund…
Last week, we pointed out that the Supervisors planned to review their long list of long-ignored “directives,” a number of which were issued five months ago in a budget discussion last August, at their Tuesday,…
Item 4h on next Tuesday’s Supervisors agenda has the seemingly routine and innocuous title: “Discussion and Possible Action Including Review of Board of Supervisor's Directives Requiring Follow Through from County Staff and/or Other Agencies…” We’ve…