Next Tuesday’s Supervisors meeting mostly concerns inconsequential housekeeping items: meeting schedules, committee assignments, board rules, etc. There are some seemingly innocuous but significant changes buried in Item 4c, the adoption of some new provisions for…
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Nothing but routine business and pointless bureuacratic navel-gazing at the Supervisors meeting on Tuesday. Supervisor Dan Gjerde had resigned last month and wasn’t even there to get his whereases. Most decisions were conveniently put off…
Nobody is happy with the Mendocino County Air Quality Management District’s (AQMD) proposal to raise residential burn permit fees from $19 to a ridiculous $135. Even the Air Quality Management District representatives — Interim Air…
Periodically, it’s necessary to look back at the original text of Measure B because, after more than seven years, there’s still no indication that Mendo will comply with it, much less even cares. And this,…
Mendocino County Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters Katrina Bartolomie told the Supervisors on Tuesday that she had finished the certification of the November 5 election and overall, the turnout was down by a few percentage points from…
In the fall of 2008, the Supervisors shoved their long-time Planning and Building Director Ray Hall out the door, wishing the portly bumbler well in the insincere fashion characteristic of Mendo farewells. In a deposition…
We’ve known for years that Mendocino County department heads do their own budget tracking and reporting and that those reports have been requested by Supervisor Williams periodically, with no support from his colleagues. We recently…