If appointed to the position next week, Dr. James Mu will serve as the county’s leading public health authority. Board members secured their ability to appoint a public health officer without public health education or experience by voting to change credentialing requirements for the position in June.
Jones also feels the board was misled into approving the new Hart voting technology, making the machines invalid. The Hart contract discussed in the board’s April 6 meeting contradicts his claims.
The county has not announced changes to staffing to the public. After the initial version of this article was published, the county reached out with answers to some of our pending questions. which are now reported here.
Residents of the unincorporated towns of Igo and Ono continue to live with the damage from the 2020 Zogg Fire.
The County’s decision to end its role as “lead agency” of the NorCal Continuum of Care leaves housing leaders and nonprofit service providers across seven North State counties struggling for next steps to maintain millions in funding for those at risk.
This week the County and all three incorporated cities will each consider appointing two elected officials to serve on an ad hoc committee to plan responses to homelessness. The County already participates in collaborative planning to address homelessness as part of the NorCal Continuum of Care, but changes to how the CoC is organized and functions may also be on the way.
Supervisors voted unanimously to close the County’s Opportunity Center which provides regular stipends to more than 85 disabled adults. Board members made no documented plans to address the transitional financial or emotional needs of the many high-risk disabled clients who will be affected by the closure.
Behind the scenes last week, a struggle played out over the Shasta County Board of Supervisor's agenda. That struggle led Jones to create a new agenda item that could give him, and future Board chairs, more power over what Supervisors are able to vote on.
On February 28, Supervisor Jones hopes to persuade others on the Board to initiate hand counting as a way to tabulate election results in Shasta County. Both the County's Election Official and an attorney with California Disability Rights say that's not legal.
All five County supervisors supported passing a 2nd Amendment resolution. Three of the five supported revising the draft resolution to clarify that public officials cannot decide what laws are Constitutional. Sheriff Johnson also weighed in on the debate, stating in no uncertain terms that the Constitutionality of gun laws must be decided by the courts, not public officials.
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