Near the end of Wednesday’s Board workshop Fifth District Supervisor Ted Williams asked his colleagues what they were going to do about the District Attorney‘s broiler dinners which the state auditor declared were “prohibited“ because…
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Mendo has a long, well-documented history of what we loosely refer to as “The Whereas,” those empty claims of “accomplishments” that are auto-generated when senior officials depart county employment. Usually, The Whereases are simply a…
State Auditor no fan of hiring freeze and resignation incentives for budget balancing… Instead of aggressively pursuing over $30.5 million in delinquent taxes, Mendo has chosen to address its “structural deficit” by not filling random…
For the first time since the CEO started generating a “Year-To-Date Budget Report-General Fund” a few months ago, the report is listed as a Board agenda topic. Previously it has been buried several layers deep…
But it’s too late to fix it now. According to the final March 24 election results, incumbent Supervisor Maureen Mulheren won over challenger Jacob Brown by just 116 votes out of a total of 3282…
In our last report we highlighted the State Auditor’s finding that Mendo had failed to collect taxes due in the amount of at least $30.5 million. We think the number is substantially higher than that…
Supervisor Ted Williams’ innocuous sounding legislative platform proposal — “Proposed Amendments to the 2026 Mendocino County Legislative Platform” — sparked an odd mini-controversy on Tuesday when his colleagues worried that his use of the phrase…
Did we really need an $800,000 audit team of made up of Mr. Grant Parks, California State Auditor, and his overlarge team of green-eyeshaders: Bob Harris, Audit Principal, Grayson Hough, Senior Auditor, Brandy Roberts, Dominik…
Went out during Tuesday night storm. We are working on a basic text post which, if lucky, should be posted soon.