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Our $225k Bargain Basement CEO

With Supervisor/Board Chair Dan Hamburg calling Mendocino County CEO Carmel Angelo “a bargain,” and Supervisor John McCowen saying she deserves a raise because she’s been underpaid for years and she’s got great contacts and she almost single-handedly got some money from the State for the post fire disaster over-excavation reimbursement of upwards of 100 burned out home-owners (which should have been caught a lot sooner if they’d listened to Lee Howard when he first pointed out what was happening, and was the absolute minimum she could do under the circumstances), the Board of Supervisors unanimously (Supervisor Carre Brown wasn’t in attendance but she certainly would have voted Yes too) approved CEO Carmel Angelo’s huge automatic pay raises over the next four years in four steps to $225,000 a year plus equivalently generous perks, followed by a comparably giant pension for the rest of her life.

County Notes (Oct. 3, 2018)

FOUR (COUNT ‘EM) AUTOMATIC PAY RAISES FOR CEO Carmel Angelo have been put on next Tuesday’s consent calendar by the beneficiary herself. Consent Calendar Item 4b) “Approval of Agreement Amendment for Carmel J. Angelo to…

County Notes (Sep. 26, 2018)

The Ghost of Tom Mitchell seems to be hovering anew over the Supervisors Chambers in Ukiah. Mitchell, long-time readers may recall, was Mendo’s CEO before they hired Carmel Angelo, a registered nurse by training. Mitchell…

Who Needs Supervisors?

Several “retroactive” Consent Calendar Items are on next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda. The Board of Supervisors (lead Supervisor John McCowen) have complained several times about retroactive contract add-ons — after all they basically send…

Disaster Preparedness

During my early days in the Air Force one of my duties was Base Mobility Plans officer. It was a dull job that nobody would volunteer for. I got stuck with it because Colonel Taylor…

MRC’s Quest For Revenge

Usually, when we see court cases listed under “Closed Session” agenda items for the Board of Supes we don’t have any idea what’s at issue, even though the court filings themselves are available to the…

Shall The Circle Be Unbroken!

John Arteaga, a regular columnist for the Ukiah Daily Journal, recently mentioned the expensive lawsuit filed by the Ukiah Valley Sanitation District against the City of Ukiah. The lawsuit has been in the works for…

County Notes (Aug. 8, 2018)

WHAT SEEMED to be a routine albeit ‘emergency’ Big Fires meeting of the Supervisors at their meeting of Tuesday July 31st turned rhetorically fiery when Sheriff Allman took the podium. After praising the stellar performances…

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