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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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Problem Solving, School Board Style

The Anderson Valley School Board seems to have satisfied itself that the complaints of Ernie Pardini, football coach John Toohey and other local football advocates, presented at the stormy October Board meeting, have been resolved.…

Squeezing the Sheriff’s Dry Turnip

Can marijuana money save the Sheriff’s budget? Can it re-juice his turnip? This Only-In-Mendo question was discussed at length at last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting as the Board and Sheriff Tom Allman took yet…

Peter Mugs Paul For Loose Change

How much local property tax money should be allocated to the administration of the Community Services District’s Recreation Committee, Teen Center, and Boonville International Airport?? For the last few years the Board of the only…

A Brief History of the Sheriff’s Budget

Back in 1994, the Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Sheriff Jim Tuso had spent $900,000 more on over­time than he had in his budget.…

Sheriff’s Budget Remains Fuzzy

During the discussion of the County’s annual budget all the way back in 1994 the then-Board of Supervisors unanimously declared that the Sheriff’s “overtime budget appears to be out of kilter.” Then-Sheriff Jim Tuso had…

The Sisterhood Circles The Wagons

When last we visited the $3,087 in untraveled travel reimbursements that Supervisor Kendall Smith lifted from the taxpayers of Mendocino County, The Sisterhood had already gone deep to confuse, delay, defend, and perpetually punt Smith's…

Why Measure C Failed Big Time

Supervisor John Pinches said Tuesday that the reason Measure C went down to a surprisingly large defeat — more than 70% NO — was that “people are maxed out on taxes.” Others have said that…

Martin Mileck, Neo Enviro

Last Tuesday, with the winter rains early and strong, the Board of Supervisors discussed water. They've laid off Roland Sanford, County water guy. You might say this meeting was Sanford's Swan Song, wrapping up where…

‘The Way We’ve Always Done It’

In the Anderson Valley, there's futbol and there's football.
The football people think their football isn't get ting a fair shake.

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