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Born Yesterday: County Water Ad Hoc Visits the Valley

Summary: There’s no hope. Tuesday morning, Supervisors Ted Williams and Glenn McGourty brought the County’s newly hired Water Agency “program manager” Josh Metz to Anderson Valley to chat with locals about the drought. The frustrating…

County Notes: Privatized Misery Contract Renewed

On Tuesday, County Behavioral Health (Mental Health & Substance Abuse) Director Dr. Jenine Miller gave the Supervisors a “Specialty Mental Health Services Presentation,” which was essentially a sales pitch for Camille Schraeder’s Redwood Quality Management…

County Notes (June 30, 2021)

MOST of the dubious consent calendar items we complained about last week were approved by the Supes 5-0 without comment on Tuesday. Supervisor Haschack pulled his anti-hobby-horse, the “expanded” pot permit program item, Item 4ax,…

County Notes (June 23, 2021)

REMEMBER THAT SILLY DISCUSSION the Supervisors had on Tuesday, June 9th about holding department heads personally responsible for budget-overruns in their departments?  AT THE TIME, SUPERVISOR TED WILLIAMS wanted the Board to simply adopt the…

What If Sheriff Kendall Owed the County $1.6 Million?

Lack of budget reporting comes back to bite board… Tuesday afternoon, CEO Carmel Angelo posed this hypothetical to the Supervisors: “Say the Sheriff comes in $1.6 million over budget. Am I going to send him…

CEO Angelo’s Best Interest

At the December 2019 Measure B meeting, B's then-board chair Dr. Ace Barash, on staff at Adventist-owned Howard Hospital in Willits, read a letter the County had received from the Adventists’ Mendo honcho, Jason Wells,…

Drought Notes

Will Potter Valley grapes and pasture get all the remaining Russian River water? The Potter Valley Irrigation District was in the news last week when the Ukiah Daily Journal's Karen Rifkin wrote about the disappearance…

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