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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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County Notes: A Colossal Waste Of Dollars

Last Tuesday, Supervisor Dan Gjerde complained about the allocation of $2.6 million of PG&E settlement money to an “elusive” Joint Powers Authority (JPA) for ambulance…

Supervisors Agenda Notes

Employees Union Accepts One-Time Payment According to a “side letter agreement” proposed for Supervisors approval on Tuesday, Dec. 6, the remaining bargaining units with open…

County Notes: Great Moments in Public Expression

Chamise Cubbison, Dec. 8, 2021 “According to recent information being circulated by email, the following has been attributed to Supervisor Gjerde ‘…this is an opportunity…

County Notes: Use Permits For Vacation Rentals?

The Mendocino Planning Commission is made up of five earnest, deliberative people, any one of whom would probably be an improvement over any of the…

County Notes: ‘Get Cubbison’ Backfires

The highlight of Tuesday morning's discussion of the Board's attempt to blame Auditor-Controller-Tax Collector Chamise Cubbison for financial reporting delays was when Chief Deputy Auditor…

County Notes: Get Cubbison II?

Last Tuesday, the Supervisors briefly discussed two seemingly minor consent agenda items that should be captured for posterity because they are filled with potential problems…

County Notes & Other Stuff

From an unbylined water agency meeting summary in last week’s Fort Bragg Advocate: “County officials ended the update by noting that all of the water…

County/Agenda Notes (Oct. 20, 2022)

Supervisor Mulheren: “September 19: At the Great Redwood Trail Agency Meeting in Healdsburg we received a presentation by the consultant about the Master Plan Process…

The Old Lady In The Trailer

For about three years in the late 1970s my brother Hugh was an administrative law judge for the state’s Social Services Department, a “Welfare Hearing…

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