Category: Board of Supervisors
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Why is Government Withholding Information?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 10, 2021 It doesn’t seem all that long ago that the citizens in this Country wereviewed as the employers and the government was considered theemployees. At least that is what the founders of this once great nationassumed would be the dynamic if this new form of government…
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New Watch Dog Group: Eye on Del Norte
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 9, 2021 It has recently been established that we now have a new watch dog group in Del Norte County. As 2020 has passed into 2021, and 2020 was aparticularly harsh year for many of Del Norte County’s citizens andtaxpayers, perhaps this new group will unearth how…
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Part 2: Eye On Del Norte Has Their Eyes On The County’s Bidding Process
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – December 30, 2020 The following is the second part in the on going series of articles surrounding the County’s bidding process. In a previous article introducing Eye On Del Norte, a local advocacy group, they expressed interest in standardizing the process in which Del Norte County awards its…
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Eye on Del Norte has their Eyes on the County’s Bidding Process
By Samuel Strait – November 23, 2020 – Picture Credit: Getty Images It is not often that the way our local government awards contracts is the scintillating topic of conversation around the evening dinner table. For the most part we rely on our local representatives and their employees to construct a process that insures that…
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Palm Beach, Florida County Board Served With TREASON Charges! NO to Mandatory Mask Mandates
By Donna Westfall – November 30, 2020- Credit to The Marshall Report Dated September 3, 2020 https://youtu.be/h4N8ylNGYcQ On September 1, 2020, the entire County Board, Mayor, Vice Mayor, County Commission and City Council members were all served with a non negotiable notice of complaint to the Board mandating everyone having to wear masks until a…
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Errors, inaccuracies, clarifications and moot statements
By Jeff McCaddon – October 28, 2020 At the conclusion of this letter is a public comment made during the October 27th Meeting of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors. In all fairness, I must state from the onset that I was in error over two statements, and used confusing language in another. My…
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$40,000 tax dollars spent to influence your vote to increase sales tax
By Donna Westfall – October 26, 2020 – Part 1 How do you like having our Del Norte County County Administrative Officer (CAO), Jay Sarina, with the power to spend up to $40,000 tax dollars to a Political Strategist firm in Oakland working on seeing that the sales tax is increased? And he can do…
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There’s Big Money in Poverty
By Roger Gitlin – October 12, 2020 Tuesday, October 13, 2020, our Del Norte County Board of Supervisors is taking up two items: Item 31…Authorizing $600,000 for emergency interim housing during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Coastal Inn and Suites, AND Item 32… Approve the purchase the Coastal Inn and Suites on the 101…
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No more taxes! Government – CUT YOUR BUDGET!
By Samuel Strait – October 9, 2020 It seems that there isn’t much question that we are being ill served by most of the local and state representatives that are supposed to be looking after our interests. Furthermore, it seems that both parties, Democrat and Republican, are both on the same page when it…
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The City’s Response to Permanent Housing the Homeless at Coastal Inn & Suites
Submitted by Linda Sutter – October 6, 2020 Upon much questioning about the proposed purchase, Mayor Blake Inscore sent the following response . October 6, 2020 Ms. Sutter, I wanted to provide some clarification regarding the County’s purchase of the Coastal Inn and Suites. The City had no authority to act in any manner regarding…