From the Attachment to Consent Calendar Item 3m which was approved without discussion or comment along with the rest of the consent calendar on Tuesday, April 5, 2022: “Clerk of the Board has established an…
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It was a routine day at the office in the early 70s at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. I had been transferred to the job of Organizational Maintenance Squadron Commander a few months…
The last item on Tuesday’s Supervisors meeting consent calendar is a retroactive, five year, $4.2 million renewal of Mendo’s emergency dispatch services contract with CalFire. REPEAT: That’s $4.2 million over five years on the consent…
According to the Oxford English Dictionary: “Boondoggle, n. work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value,” and, “A public project of questionable merit that typically involves political patronage…
No, no. It’s not what you probably think. This is a story told by my father about an experience he had while he was in college at UC Davis in the first half of the…
LAST TUESDAY’S SUPERVISORS MEETING featuring the Board’s final farewell to retiring CEO Carmel Angelo signaled what sounds a lot like a return to a version of the old CAO Tom Mitchell era, Mitchell, long-time observers…
What Happened to the Public Safety Advisory Committee? Remember all the hullabaloo in 2020 and 2021 in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder and the Ukiah PD's awkward encounter with the naked tweaker in…