Sounds like Supervisor Maureen Mulheren got some significant pushback on the question of holding Department heads personally responsible for budget overruns, especially the Sheriff. SUPERVISOR MULHEREN began: “I have an item for public expression. The…
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There are a number of County-inflicted financial annoyances the local Community Services District suffers every year. The County goes out of its way to charge “special districts” for lots of relatively small things, but over…
ON JULY 11 we wrote about a very fishy Consent Calendar Item which had its origins going back to March: Item 4ab). “Adoption of Resolution Authorizing a Title Change and Salary Revision of General Services…
Back in 2009, when the State Water Board told Russian River Grape Growers — of which 1st District Supervisor Glenn McGourty is one — that they would have to prepare their own frost protection water…
HERE WE GO! MENDO’S CLERK OF THE BOARD sent out a notice of an amended Board agenda late last Friday afternoon. There was nothing in the notice about what the “amendment” was. But comparing the…
THAT WAS A SHAMEFUL DISCUSSION the Board had with Sheriff Kendall on Tuesday. And whatever the beef was, it wasn't very apparent. On the one hand, Kendall outright refused to consider alternatives to hiring expensive…
Ukiah Police Chief Justin Wyatt told the Ukiah dudes who host the weekly “Like It or Not” podcast last week that police are not in the “property recovery” business. Referring to an apparent increase in…