Category: Board of Supervisors
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Does Martha McClure need a time out?
By A Phillips – December 29, 2015 – It appears Supervisor Martha McClure has been a bad girl in her appointment to the Del Norte County Solid Waste Authority (DNSWMA). On December 28, 2015, the Crescent City/Del Norte County Taxpayers Association served a Formal Complaint on the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors against Supervisor…
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BlackHawk Pistol Story – Part 6: The Video Exists
By Donna Westfall – December 22, 2015 -[custom-facebook-feed] Recently a Pelican Bay inmate won a $25,000 lawsuit when officers violated his constitutional rights. They led an illegal search and seizure of his cell. Four officers were found culpable in trashing his cell and taking his property. How does that compare to the nightmare Del Norte…
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Nobody wants to be on Solid Waste Board
By Donna Westfall After the travesty of forcing Roger Gitlin to resign on trumped-up, blackmail-type tactics by the 2014-2015 Grand Jury engineered by Foreman Dr. Tod Roy, who many believe is the mouth piece for former Executive Director of Solid Waste Authority, Kevin Hendrick; no one from the Board of Supervisors wants to sit on…
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WHY ARE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS RUBBER STAMPING ?
By Linda Sutter August 11th, Board of Supervisors meeting; there were 25 items placed on the agenda. Out of the 25 items only six items made discussion and the rest were rubber stamped without discussion or public comment amounting to only a total of $791,065.00 spent. Chair Finigan stated at the beginning of the meeting anyone want to make a…
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SPECIAL MEETING BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AUG. 6TH
Thursday, August 6th, starting at 9 am, 981 H Street in Crescent City, Room 100 – the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors are meeting about one subject only: Review and discuss the Findings and Recommendations within the 2014/2015 Final Grand Jury Report applicable to Del Norte County and provide direction to staff for the…
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Finigan and McClure Unpersuasive to Oust Gitlin
Opinion Piece by Linda Sutter Today before the BOS was a decision to try to oust Roger Gitlin from Area 1 Agency on Aging in his advisory position, and from the Chamber ofr Commerce Board. McClure made attempts to persuade the audience with negative results. “Area 1 Agency on Aging Board people are afraid to…
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Town Hall Meeting Results
BY JAIME YARBROUGH Tuesday night, March 10th at 6 PM at the Del Norte County Fairgrounds, the Del Norte Tea Party Patriots hosted a town hall meeting with 4th district Supervisor, Gerry Hemmingsen, and 1st district Supervisor, Roger Gitlin. Each opened with brief individual introductions for the approximately 40 members attending. Afterwards several topics were to be explored although…
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Response to BlackHawk Pistol Story Parts 1 – 4
OPINION PIECE BY ED HANSON “God’s Not Here Today” For those were the words touted and declared in a demonic tone emanating from one of the Del Norte Sheriff’s deputies while Dave Egan was reciting, The Lord’s Prayer, (that infamous day back in August 2011 under the late regime of former sheriff Dean Wilson at my friends home), as Dave…
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The Fred Hansen Story – When and How to File A Complaint With The Sheriff’s Office: Part 2
By Donna Westfall At 11:30 am, Wednesday, February 19th, Fred Hansen was awoken from sleep by two Sheriff’s Deputies. They asked him if he could accompany them to the Sheriff’s Department to discuss his complaint filed on January 21st against Det. Richard Griffin. Fred complied, but first he contacted me by phone. I was in…
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BlackHawk Pistol Story – Part 4. The Unsung Hero
BY DONNA WESTFALL Where we left off on Part 1, 2 and 3 of this story: County resident, Dave Egan, had his door bashed in by a SWAT type operation of the Sheriffs Department, beaten unconscious, and the only item named on the warrant was never found in the raid (the BlackHawk Pistol). Yet these Sheriffs…