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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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County Notes (May 19, 2021)

WHY DOES MENDO need upwards of $150k to do an average of 10 highly secretive “personnel investigations” a year? THE COUNTY COUNSEL’S OFFICE has put…

County Notes (May 12, 2021)

MENDO IS AWASH IN MOOLAH, according to Tuesday’s “third quarter” budget presentation. Not only does the County have the $22.6 million in a PG&E settlement…

County Notes (May 5, 2021)

THERE’S NO WAY we could possibly cover the Board’s nine and a half hour pot marathon meeting on Tuesday. Our overall impression is that the…

Welcome to Mendo, Dr. Grewal

Mendocino County management is an ongoing disaster. The turnover in management positions has been alarmingly high for several years, beginning with the still unexplained firing…

County Notes (April 28, 2021)

After refusing to do it last week, the Board declared a drought emergency on Tuesday, mainly at the urging of CEO Carmel Angelo who is…

County Notes (April 21, 2021)

DROUGHT? WHAT DROUGHT? Acting like a senior member of County staff, Supervisor Glenn McGourty conducted his own “Workshop on Water Supply Conditions in Mendocino County”…

County Notes (April 15, 2021)

Last Tuesday, The Supervisors were generally supportive of several spending requests for the $22.7 million PG&E settlement windfall. Predictably requests included more fire safety funding,…

County Notes: Studies In Irrelevance

Measure B was passed onto law more than three years ago, November of 2017. The idea, a simple one since complicated beyond all reason by…

County Notes (March 24, 2021)

Supervisor Williams: “’In November 2017, Measure B passed with 85% in favor of taxing ourselves to generate tens of millions to support mental health services.…

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