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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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County Notes (January 13, 2021)

NEWLY SEATED SUPERVISOR MAUREEN MULHEREN boldly pulled Item 4k from the consent calendar on Tuesday, saying that she wanted to see some alternatives to extending…

Supes Agenda Highlights

[Board of Supervisors Agenda, January 5, 2021] Ten More Deputies Item 5j: Discussion and Possible Action Regarding the Operation, Staffing, and Fiscal Plan for Additional…

Supervisor McCowen Exits without a Single Whereas

We would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge Supervisor John McCowen’s final board meeting on December 15, 2020. Appearing via zoom at the Tuesday Board…

Supes Blame Their Utter Failure To Act On Covid

Last week we wrote about the Board’s agenda item last Tuesday concerning the seemingly endless number of ad hoc committees the Supervisors seem to be…

Mendo’s Looming Mass Casualty Disaster

According to the National Institutes of Health, “A mass casualty incident (MCI) is defined as ‘an event that overwhelms the local healthcare system, where the…

Disaster Prep & Wastewater Planning

Learning that the County expects to receive over $22 million in PG&E settlement money, and that the County intends to use the windfall cash primarily…

Pot Permits Grind To a Halt

(Not that they were moving much in the first place…) Last Tuesday, the Supervisors discussed a misleading agenda item having to do with declaring marijuana…

County Notes (December 9, 2020)

Kathy Wylie recently posted the following summary of this Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Agenda:  BOS 12/8/20 meeting agenda is packed…  Another packed BOS agenda for…

My Brush with the Postal Service

Remember that conspiracy story in the run-up to the 2020 election? Trump was going to cripple the Postal Service by somehow defunding it while his…

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