Mendocino County Clerk-Recorder-Assessor-Registrar of Voters Katrina Bartolomie told the Supervisors on Tuesday that she had finished the certification of the November 5 election and overall, the turnout was down by a few percentage points from…
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In the fall of 2008, the Supervisors shoved their long-time Planning and Building Director Ray Hall out the door, wishing the portly bumbler well in the insincere fashion characteristic of Mendo farewells. In a deposition…
We’ve known for years that Mendocino County department heads do their own budget tracking and reporting and that those reports have been requested by Supervisor Williams periodically, with no support from his colleagues. We recently…
Ray Charles distrusted people, naturally. But it was, well, eye-opening to realize how his blindness lead to his distrust. We recently had a chance to re-review the movie-biography of Ray Charles, simply called “Ray.” It…
When District Attorney David Eyster filed trumped up felony misappropriation charges against former County Auditor Chamise Cubbison more than a year ago, Eyster thought he had a good case. Most outside observers thought the case…
Like most Mendolanders, if you didn’t know the history, after the self-congratulatory November 5 financial presentation you might believe the Supervisors’ underhanded and ill-considered financial office consolidation and abrupt ouster of former Auditor Chamise Cubbison…
Acting Auditor-Controller/Treasurer-Tax Collector Sara Pierce told the Supervisors on Tuesday that what had been thought to be a major but unquantified budget deficit was incorrect. After recalculating the finances and taking into account about 30…
A presentation for next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting is entitled “Department Accomplishments.” The presentation gets off to a stumbling start as the first department listed is Assessor – Clerk/Recorder – Registrar Of Voters whose…
Acting Auditor-Controller-Treasurer-Tax Collector Sara Pierce presented her proposed “Corrective Action Plan” response to a state Controller report that had criticized the County’s financial procedures to the Supervisors on Tuesday. As previously noted, the State Controller’s…