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Posts published by “Mark Scaramella”

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How To Waste $200K In Just Five Years

Despite posting a $6 million deficit for this year and maybe triple that next year, and flailing away randomly to reduce the deficit by an official policy of: We Hope A Buncha People Will Quit,…

CEO Antle’s Other CEO Report

On Tuesday, we wrote that Supervisor John Haschak had said that he read something in CEO Darcie Antle’s CEO report about the County not meeting its attrition/cost savings targets that we had not found in…

Misplaced Priorities, Muddled Mismanagement

And a $3,000 Comfort Support Dog For The DA’s Victim Witness Office. Agenda item 4b for next Tuesday’s Supervisors meeting is entitled: “Discussion and Possible Action Including Approval or Denial of Requests from Department Heads…

Major Crisis In Family And Children’s Services

What started out during public expression at last Tuesday’s Board meeting as a seemingly innocuous staff request to delay a planned organizational restructuring, has turned out to be a major crisis in Mendocino County’s Family…

Going Nowhere Slowly

“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going because you might not get there.” — Yogi Berra Toward the end of Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Board Chair John Haschak…

Growing Pains

Probably sensing that Ukiah wasn’t exactly a hotbed of investment opportunities in 2017, the Bank of America closed their big downtown branch office. BofA then placed their form-does-definitely-not-follow function of an eyesore of a  building…

Let’s Have Agenda Reveal Party!

The Supervisors are coming back from their six-week hiatus (briefly interrupted by a brief meeting to rubberstamp some fund juggling). The Big Agenda Reveal was made Thursday. Everyone was giddy with anticipation for what the…

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