It’s hard to make sense of Mendocino County’s annual attempts to balance its precarious books, especially this year. On the one hand they talk about a structural deficit based on continually increasing costs (mostly personnel…
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Here’s a wonderful expenditure by Mendocino County in a time of tight budgets and unknown bank balances. (We apologize for somehow missing this item back in December when it was buried on the consent calendar…
A few weeks ago we reported on the County’s Tax Collection Mess, highlighted by the December 2025 State audit report which concluded that “The county estimated that as of December 2025 it had $30.6 million…
We were disappointed by Mendocino Voice reporter Sydney Fishman’s coverage of the Supervisors’ discussion of whether First District Supervisor Madeline Cline should be removed as the Board’s appointee to the Inland Water and Power Commission.…
Also on Tuesday, the Board tried to deal with the State Auditor’s recommendation that the Board adopt policies regarding the District Attorney’s asset forfeiture spending. Before the discussion even began, newly hired former County Counsel…
Short answer: Yes. In Mendocino County, we’ve come to expect empty rhetoric from political candidates, from school boards to Congress. The would-be leadership talks about goals and visions and we-shoulds and we-musts and we-need-tos —…
It was disappointing to read that recently declared Third District Supervisor Candidate Buffey Bourasa of Willits has no agenda or plan behind her candidacy. She told the Mendocino Voice: “Change has to come from the…
Property taxes collected by the County are the primary funding source for schools, special districts and the County. The majority of the County’s share of property taxes goes to law enforcement. When a core function…
In Elise Cox’s Mendolocal.news report about a Board of Supervisors discussion of Mendocino County’s CORE (Community Outreach Response & Engagement) program last Wednesday, District Attorney David Eyster is quoted telling the Supervisors that Proposition 36…