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County Budget Notes (March 11, 2020)

THE SUPERVISORS will get a “mid-year budget presentation” (including a preview of next fiscal year, July 2020 to June 2021) on Tuesday, March 10. The CEO's razzle-dazzle Powerpoint slides start off with the dates for…

Hard Work

"Believe nothing until it has been officially denied." [Claud Cockburn]

For a recent local example of Mr. Cockburn’s adage, Ukiah City Councilwoman and Second District Supers candidate

County Notes (February 26, 2020)

Annotated Agenda Items from the Measure B Oversight Committee for their Wednesday, February 26 meeting... Discussion and Possible Action Regarding Update on Measure B Project Manager and Potential Need for Additional Measure B Project Staff…

Tony Linegar Retires

Tony Linegar was hired as Mendo’s Assistant Ag Commissioner in 2001. He became Mendo’s Ag Commissioner in 2009 when long time Mendo Ag Commissioner Dave Bengston retired, and stayed until 2012 when he took a…

Measure V Enforcement Delayed Again

(Serfs kneel in fear at feet of Mendo's largest landowner) Mendocino County’s chief code enforcement officer, Trent Taylor, told the Supervisors last Tuesday that he had investigated Comptche resident Terry d’Selkie’s nuisance complaint about Mendocino…

State Water Board Comes to Boonville

Joy Wildflower from Regional Water Quality Control Board offices in Santa Rosa came to Anderson Valley last Thursday to discuss the pending water and wastewater projects and, more specfically, the item I wrote last week…

Credibility Problems

Dear Board of Supervisors: You at least seem to realize that asking us for money for yourselves probably won’t go over too well. It’s politically more expedient to ask for money for local fire departments.…

Mendo’s Collapsing Ambulance Services

In October of 2017 after the Board of Supervisors decided to retain CalFire as the operator of the County’s fire and emergency services dispatch center, they voted 3-2 for the following agenda item: “Formation of…

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