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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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Who Needs ASOs?

Last Tuesday the Board of Supervisors spent most of the day trying to deal with the highly anticipated Kemper report regarding Mendo’s disastrous privatization of mental health services. The most frequently heard platitudes centered on…

Kemper Mental Health Report Delayed Again

According to County CEO Carmel Angelo’s January 12, 2016 report: “In August the Executive Office contracted with Kemper Consulting to perform a review of Mendocino County’s mental health services. At the time the intention was…

State Health Inspectors Cite Ortner, et al.

On September 22, 2015, two state Nurse-Evaluators from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) came to Mendocino to conduct a review of Mendocino County Mental Health. On September 28, they issued their “Summary Statement…

Supes Muddle On

At the December 15 Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Dan Hamburg raised a question during the review of the first quarter budget presentation: Hamburg: “When I was looking over these what really stands out in…

Pay Raises, Tax Breaks & Firefighter Funding

Comments from last Tuesday’s discussion of proposed big pay raises for the Sheriff and DA. Supervisor Tom Woodhouse, explaining why he supported and sponsored a big raise for the Sheriff and District Attorney: “We are…

Water & Sewer For Boonville? Take 2

Mendocino County's Chief Planner Andy Gustavson opened last Thursday night's meeting. It was the second called to discuss a possible water and sewer system for downtown Boonville and some of the surrounding area. Gustavson came…

Mental Health Merry-Go-Round

Last Tuesday the Board of Supervisors heard a short presentation from consultant Lee Kemper about the mental health system audit CEO Carmel Angeo has hired him to do. Angelo: “There has been interest and obvious…

Why The Cops Won’t Share

Every few years, there’s a flurry of interest in Mendo’s obvious misallocation of Proposition 172 funds. Then everything returns to the status quo. It goes back to 1994 when California voters approved a half-cent sales…

Mendo’s Mental Health Blues

At the Board Of Supervisors meeting on September 8th, Mental Health Board member Nancy Sutherland asked for clarification of the County's plans to put the current mental health contracts out for bid again although the…

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