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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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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 for  disaster recovery and preparation, the Anderson Valley Community Services…

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 cultivation an agricultural activity. Growing grapes to produce an intoxicating…

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 12/8/20:  • County hazard mitigation plan  • August and Oak…

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 henchman, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, dismantled operations of the vote…

When Murphy Meets the Covid Vaccine

What could possibly go wrong with the massive covid vaccination rollout, and buncha What Ifs? Let’s be optimistic and assume that the vaccinations — how many are there now, five? — are effective and relatively…

Windfalls, Waste & Capitulation

Outgoing Supervisor John McCowen has been effectively neutered by CEO Carmel Angelo. She continues to keep the Board, especially McCowen, at arm’s length since Supervisors Haschak, Brown and Gjerde are firmly in her corner, deferring…

County Notes (November 18, 2020)

SHERIFF MATT KENDALL STOPPED BY the other day. He said progress is being made on the Crisis Van, aka Mobile Crisis Unit. He expects three units to be deployed eventually, one of which will be…

Documenting Waste, Inaction & Impossibility

Deja Vu: After expressing the now common frustration at the lack of significant progress on the Measure B Mental Health facilities and services initiative of 2017, the Supervisors voted to keep doing what they have…

False Advertising

Measure B Project Manager Alyson Bailey took the Measure B stage last Wednesday to present her long-awaited “Draft Strategic Plan” for Measure B mental health services. (Linguists will note that mere “plans” are now “strategic…

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