First District California Rep. Doug LaMalfa refuses to hold in-person town hall meetings with his constituents, who have very real questions about potential cuts to Social Security, Medicare, SNAP and other safety net programs within reach of Elon Musk’s DOGE chainsaw.
But LaMalfa had plenty of time to attend an “emergency wolf meeting” last Saturday in McArthur, according to Shasta County District 3 Supervisor Corkey Harmon, who mentioned attending the event at Tuesday’s meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors.
Harmon, who was standing in for Shasta County Sheriff Mike Johnson, said sheriffs from Lassen and Modoc counties as well as AD-1 Assemblywoman Heather Harwick attended the emergency wolf meeting. The population of gray wolves in California grew from 44 in 2023 to 70 last year; most of them are located in the northeast region of the state.
District 3 Supervisor Corkey Harmon.
Clashes between humans and wolves, which were eradicated in the state before making a comeback during the past 2o years, have become increasingly more common. Harmon said a rancher friend in the Hat Creek area recently had three heifers killed by a wolf.
“This is going to keep popping up because it’s hard for us down here in the valley and everything’s getting regulated south of here but it’s affecting Modoc County, Lassen County, and Shasta County in our outer areas,” Harmon said during his board report. “I listened to several moms get up and speak about how they can’t let their kids outside because there are wolf tracks coming in around their around their homes, within 50 to 100 yards and they’re scared. So it’s turning into a safety issue.”
Harmon attended the Cattlemen’s dinner in McArthur after the wolf meeting. Originally he planned to attend the Shasta County Farm Bureau, where former District 3 Supervisor Mary Rickert was awarded the 2025 Albaugh Women in Ag Award last Saturday.
District 4 Supervisor Matt Plummer
Meanwhile, District 4 Supervisor Matt Plummer remains a man on a mission to eradicate tobacco and substance use among area youth. Last week Plummer met with a representative from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, which had just investigated six Redding smoke shops and found numerous violations.
“Just to give you a sense, and this was shared at the city of Redding, this person spoke there, but they went to six different stores, retail stores within the city of Redding and all were in possession of illegal products,” Plummer reported. “They confiscated products including illegal flavored tobacco, illegal flavored tobacco enhancers, cannabis and untaxed tobacco products. They apparently estimated that there was $170,000 to $180,000 worth of illegal products that were confiscated from those stores.”
Plummer also worked with the public health team on developing policies to fight smoking and vaping which remains persistent despite regulatory efforts.
District 5 Supervisor Chris Kelstrom’s big event of the week was last Friday’s court appearance in which Judge Benjamin Hanna denied the county’s request to relieve County Counsel Joe Larmour from writing a title and summary for a local voter integrity group’s initiative.
“I went to court with Counsel Larmour, and Judge Hanna did not grant us the stay. So that kind of removed the ethical burden off of Counsel Larmour,” Kelstrom said. “So we wrote the — or he wrote the — summary.”
District 2 Supervisor Allen Long, the career RPD officer, was eager to build on the momentum from the previous evening’s public safety special meeting.
“I have not discussed this with any other supervisor, but it came out of last night’s session, so I would like to make a motion that staff bring back discussion on the public safety topic we talked about last night,” Long said. He proposed that staff work with Community Corrections Program for Adults and Juveniles and the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council on the topic and report back to the board at a later date.
Long’s motion was seconded by Crye and passed 5-0.
District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye.
District 1 Supervisor and Chairman of the Board Kevin Crye pitched grand jury service to the Shasta County Chamber of Commerce and presented an abbreviated version of that pitch at Tuesday’s board meeting. If you’re interested in serving on the Shasta County Grand Jury call 530-225 5098.
Crye mentioned his radio program and his Coffee with Kevin events several times, including the time and location of the latter, lobbied for the proposed bridge over Buenaventura Blvd. as a secondary wildfire escape route and bragged about the basketball team he’s coaching going 4-0 to start the season.
Then he spotted Shasta County Superintendent of Schools Mike Freeman in the chambers.
As A News Café reported, Crye picked a fight with the Shasta County Board of Education at the March 18 BOS meeting, making evidence-free allegations that SCOE is siphoning off money from the state’s Community Schools grant, which funds the Community Connect program, to pad administrative budgets at the expense of helping students directly.
In the above linked article, A News Café invited Superintendent Freeman, who heads SCOE, to respond to Crye’s allegations. Here’s what we learned.
The Community Schools grant was necessitated after Crye led the MAGA board majority to reject county funding for Community Connect, which connects low income families with public services in Shasta County, last August. Contrary to Crye’s claim, 88 percent of Community Connect’s budget is spent on direct services to students and families.
That’s a high mark for a social services program in anyone’s universe save Crye’s, where anything less than 100 percent is perceived as theft from we the people.
The district-level student data Crye claims he was denied is by law not public information in order to protect student privacy rights, as Crye is well aware.
One need not ponder long why the owner of Ninja Coalition/California Adventure Camps, which lives off state funding designed to boost daily average attendance in public schools, desires this information so badly that SCOE is fed up with his efforts to obtain it.
“I see Mr. Freeman from SCOE is here,” Cyre proclaimed at the end of his board report. “I’m assuming he’s talking in public comment because there’s nothing agendized, but I want to give a little bit of a background to one thing that I brought up before …”
We’ll interrupt Crye at this point because he can’t seem to grasp that Shasta County’s contract is through the Community Connect program, not the state Community Schools grant that’s being used to pay for Community Connect since the board funding ran out at the end of December.
Crye continues.
“The public health director does not work on this SCOE grant, and this is a misrepresentation of time for the public health director, and what we’ve seen federally is there’s a lot of programs that have a lot of dollars thrown in there, but zero accountability. So I just want accountability.”
Thus Crye completed the DOGE connection. He noted that acting Health and Human Services Agency Director Christy Coleman was in the chambers.
“So Ms. Coleman and Mr. Freeman, if you guys get a chance at some point, maybe go outside and let’s get to the bottom of that for everybody that’s asking those questions.”
Shasta County Superintendent of Schools Mike Freeman.
After two more members of Shasta County’s DA office took advantage of the new early start time for open comment at board meetings to lobby for higher wages, Shasta County Superintendent of Schools Mike Freeman stepped up to the podium.
“I appreciate Chairman Crye your comments in your report, and I am here to try to take the opportunity to clarify some of the questions that are out there about a couple of things,” Freeman said.
Freeman said his office has been fielding a lot of questions about Community Schools; no doubt many were parents from the Anderson Union High School District, where the Moms for Liberty school board majority voted to reject accepting Community Schools grant funding because of its alleged wokeness.
Reminder: The Community School grant currently funds the Community Connect program, which primarily focuses on providing mental health services to low income families.
“Regarding the Community Schools, there is some conversation and questions about the in-kind community support that’s in the grant application,” Freeman said.
Many of the people calling in have mistakenly claimed that the Directors of Public Health and Hill Country respectively receive 20 percent and 40 percent of their pay and benefits from the grant. That’s off by an order of magnitude; the real numbers are 2 percent and 4 percent, as spelled out in the Community Connect contract.
“There was some question about the data requests related to Community Connect,” Freeman continued. “Twice, we had ongoing conversations, and there were requests for district-level data, and that level of data was in violation of the data sharing agreement that we had with districts, and actually compromised the privacy, the confidentiality with which the Community Connect program operates.”
“So when we received the second request from county staff, we took that to the superintendents, and on December 12th, the superintendents are the ones that denied that data request, so that’s where we’re at there,” Freeman concluded.
Crye apparently can’t understand why students and families enjoy privacy rights. As if Freeman hadn’t said a word, Crye claimed he’d reached out to a couple of school superintendents and lo and behold, they had been denied access to the data too.
Because it’s illegal to access the data, knucklehead!
“So that’s where I just kind of threw my hands up and said, well, if they can’t get the data, I want to help kids,” Crye proclaimed. “I want to make sure 100 percent, I want to make sure what I’m doing is helping kids and not growing bureaucracy.”
It’s all bravado, said with a straight face as some low income families of the AUHSD can no longer access vital public services, all because state grants are considered inherently woke in the eyes of our friendly local rightwing extremists.
District 2 Supervisor Allen Long.
Speaking of friendly local rightwing extremists, Rich Gallardo took advantage of the new early open comment time to resurrect the Brady Bunch myth, which alleges Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett’s office has an unusually high number of Brady Rule violations.
The Brady Rule requires police and prosecutors to share all evidence with the defense, including evidence that might exonerate the defendant.
“That is one of the most egregious things a prosecutor should do,” Gallardo said. “They should be disbarred, they should be fired on the first offense, and she has done multiples of those, documented and not refuted.”
In fact, Bridgett easily refuted the Brady Bunch claims when they were first brought up in the 2022 election, which she won handily. This time Supervisor Long, in an unusual move, took on the myth directly from the dais.
“I’m very familiar with Brady violations,” Long said. “They affect police, they affect prosecutors, and there are intentional Brady violations and there are unintentional Brady violations. The policy of our district attorney is to not throw the police under the bus when they make an accidental violation.”
“The vast majority of things are accidental and that can come back to workloads, it can come back to all kinds of shortages of personnel, it can come back to a lot of things,” Long concluded. “So I am standing up for our district attorney right now and she has a policy within her department that she’s not going to throw law enforcement under the bus if law enforcement makes the mistake and it’s unintentional.”
Ex-cop sides with law enforcement. Shocker! Still, it’s been a long minute since any supervisor directly confronted Gallardo and his ilk in such a calm, cool, collected yet totally eviscerating manner.
Several speakers expressed appreciation for public events coming up in April, including Child Abuse Prevention month, Fair Housing month and “Week of the Young Child,” (which occurs April 4-12).
All three items were on the consent calendar, which immediately follows public comment in the new scheme of things. Supervisor Plummer pulled item C20, the Shasta County 2024 Housing Element Annual Progress Report, in order to highlight one of its key findings: Shasta County is not keeping up with its affordable housing quotient in the unincorporated areas of the county.
Assistant Director of Resource Management Adam Fieseler appeared at the podium to answer Plummer’s questions.
Assistant Director of Resource Management Adam Fieseler.
“I wanted to bring this up for discussion because looking at the regional housing needs allocation, and my understanding that’s from 2020 to 2028, and that if we look at those charts that you provided in the staff report, that we do not appear to be on track to hit our targets with the state. Is that a fair assessment of where we stand?” Plummer asked.
“That is a fair assessment, yes,” Fieseler answered. “The housing element is the plan to meet the RHNA numbers, or Regional Housing Needs Assessment, and the plan we are implementing, along with Housing and Community Action Agency. We’ve checked all the boxes, but, you know, people just aren’t building outside of single-family residential units, which are always above moderate income.”
New projects such as the Burney Commons Apartments, a 30-unit complex that broke ground last year, are few and far in between, according to Fieseler. If Shasta County doesn’t meet the 2028 deadline, it may be forced to rezone areas in the unincorporated county for affordable housing.
“If you’re unfamiliar with the rezone process, it can get very contentious,” Fieseler said. “So we need political will to help us get there. And when projects come before you, we need some political will to allow housing for all income levels.”
When Plummer asked why building permits have been halved since 2022, Fieseler attributed it to the slowdown in building replacement homes in the wake of the 2018 Carr Fire. Out of 817 dwelling units that were lost in the unincorporated area just 386 have been rebuilt, less than 50 percent.
“We need to be serious, you know, about being builder friendly for all types of housing projects, especially all income levels, that come before the decision makers,” Fieseler concluded.
Shasta County Registrar of Voters Thomas Toller is stepping down for health reasons.
R3 continued the board’s legislative letter-writing spree this year with no less than 8 new letters, including four in support of Dist. 37 State Senator Steven Choi’s four election reform measures, SB 405, SB 406, SB 407 and SB 408.
Coincidently, around the same time Chief Deputy Clerk of the Board Stefany Blankenship was explaining what those letters were about, news that Shasta County ROV Thomas Toller was stepping down due to health reasons popped up on people’s cell phones. The board scheduled a special meeting Thursday at 4 p.m. to decide who Toller’s replacement will be.
Choi’s district contains a large chunk of Orange County, including the seaside charter city of Huntington Beach, which has an election integrity movement rivaling Shasta County’s. Voters there passed a local ordinance requiring voter ID that was later struck down by SB 1147. SB 405 would undo SB 1147 and permit counties to establish their own individual voter ID requirements.
SB 406 proposes to limit the counting of mail-in ballots after Election Day to members of the military serving overseas. SB 407 would change the state deadline for certification of the vote from 30 days to 10 days. SB 408 would clean up local voter rolls through enhanced address confirmation measures, including sending postcards to registered voters every four years.
Supervisor Long, the only supervisor to push back against Shasta County’s vocal election denier contingent, did homework on Sen. Choi’s bills, asking Assistant ROV Joanna Francescut what the possible financial ramifications would be if they passed.
“If SB 406 passes and SB 407 requirements go into effect, they would be required, because now they’ve shortened their time frame from 30 days down to 10, they’d be required to hire 50 more personnel,” Long said. “According to the most recent election, they would have to work double shifts and they don’t currently have sufficient space to house all these 50 extra personnel.”
“SB 408 basically has to do with the post office participating in sending out postcards,” Long continued. “The cost to mail these out, and I was shocked actually, would be about $100,000 to mail these postcards out, for the postcards themselves and all the postage.”
The board also wrote a letter opposing AB 470, which would permit Carrier of Last Resort telecommunication companies from abandoning a region if they can prove it has no customers in the region. Cell phone coverage remains spotty in many parts of rural Shasta County and land lines are the only means of communication many residents have, making such service vital in case of wildfires and other emergencies.
The board also opposes SB 16, which requires counties with a population of 200,000 or more to pay 50 percent of homeless shelter costs but provides no additional state funding to meet this mandate.
The board wrote a letter supporting SB 496 which provides counties which are having trouble meeting the state’s zero emission vehicle fleet regulations.
Finally, the board wrote letters to Rep. LaMalfa, Assemblywoman Hadwick and SD-1 State Senator Megan Dahle promoting Shasta County’s proposed Corrections and Rehabilitation Campus and Alternative Custody Program.
The board voted 5-0 to send all eight letters.
District 4 Supervisor Matt Plummer.
In the three months since they’ve taken office, Supervisors Plummer and Long have demonstrated that they’re serious public officials far more interested in serving the common good than promoting any ideology or themselves. As co-chairs of the Strategic Plan Ad Hoc Committee, the supervisors got to strut their stuff on R3, the first report on the new committee’s activities.
The committee has met three times so far, according to Deputy Executive Officer Erin Bertain. They’ve examined strategic plans from San Bernardino, San Mateo, Contra Costa and Alpine counties. They’re establishing goals, priorities and direction.
“Both supervisors agreed that department heads are the people who should be driving the direction of their departments and determining the priorities within their departments,” Bertain said.
Both supervisors also agreed that an outside consultant was necessary to provide objectivity in the decision making process.
“Having a consultant would bring the benefit of objectivity via a neutral third party,” Bertain said. “It would increase the capacity, which would in turn conserve staff time. And finally, a consultant will bring expertise and a specialized skill set, particularly in the area of community engagement.”
Bertain said if the county chose to retain a consultant, a request for proposal, RFP, has to come back to the board. The cost would be approximately $150,000.
Perhaps anticipating resistance from Chair Crye, who notoriously opposes anything that’s not his own idea, Plummer addressed the consultant issue up-front.
“ I would have liked to be able to say, oh I think we can do this internally,” Plummer said. “But I think that we do need to outsource it and I do think it will be also in terms of engaging the community because … if the community all says we want to prioritize this then that’s going to mean saying no to a lot of other things that are good things but we can’t do at the same time.”
Plummer said an outside third party will help facilitate community buy-in to the strategic plan. One selling point: Updating the county’s general plan, which hasn’t happened for forty years, could be set as one of the goals of the strategic plan.
“So when we get to the point where we’re saying no to things because they don’t align with the strategic plan, the community would already say, oh, well that’s what we all signed up for, in a sense,” Plummer said.
Board Chair Kevin Crye.
Like the frustrated sports ball coach he is Crye couldn’t wait to express his disappointment in Plummer and Long for not rolling up their sleeves and taking on the job themselves.
“I felt the marriage of you two leading that was why I wanted to put you guys in there,” Crye said. “Had I known we were just gonna say let’s grab a consultant then I mean, I won’t say I’m disappointed, well I am disappointed.”
Crye’s sidekick Kelstrom grumbled that he’d rather pay $100,000 to clean up voter rolls than spend $150,000 on a consultant. Crye added that some members of the public complained about granting $40,000 to Orange County transplant Chriss Street to find out why physicians won’t come to Shasta County.
“So that’s a few different things,” replied Plummer, a consultant by profession. “I mean the one that’s focused on a very specific item versus strategic planning for a $710 million 2000-person organization.”
Plummer said he could do the job, but it would take up to 50 percent of his time. It would also bend the strategic plan to his will, not the will of the board and ultimately the citizens. He predicted a professional consultant would easily save Shasta County the $150,000 many times over.
Harmon chimed in to support Plummer and consultants in general. Harmon once paid a consultant $80,000 to reorganize his several businesses.
“I had experience in my own business that I brought a consultant in to restructure everything because we had different entities in there,” Harmon said. “They guaranteed the company that they would save us the money. It was pretty expensive, it was hard to swallow for a small business, but they guaranteed me that they would save us the money that we spent in the first year.”
The savings continued for years after the consultant was paid, Harmon said.
“I very, very much appreciate consultants like you,” Harmon said to Plummer. “I’m saying that I feel like, do hire the consultant because then we know it’ll get done, it’ll be their job they’ll be beholden to us to make sure that it gets accomplished.”
“If I’m left in charge 100 percent with this we’re gonna have a jail at the top of our priority list, just saying,” Long quipped. “But is that what the community needs and wants? … I want to have an objective third party process that we can all live with the outcome and in a working document.”
The momentum on the board definitely shifted in Plummer’s direction.
“I think if we limit the scope of the outside consultant to the community engagement process it will be less than the $150,000,” Plummer offered. “That was based on them doing the whole process which would be longer, so it will be less than that.”
The board voted 5-0 to have staff draw up an RFP for an outside consultant focusing on community engagement for the strategic plan and bring it back to the board at a later date.
Millville resident Ed Wilkes.
The Anderson/Millville Residents v. County of Shasta, et al., Patrick Jones lawsuit was settled in the plaintiff’s favor earlier this month. Now former District 4 Supervisor Patrick Jones has to conduct a full environmental impact report before he builds the High Plains Shooting Sports Center on the Millville Plains east of Redding.
The lawsuit was one of three items on the closed session agenda. Millville resident Ed Wilkes spoke before the board went into closed session. During the two years Wilkes and the Anderson/Millville residents have been fighting the project, he’s learning the one topic Shasta County residents pay attention to is anything that increases wildfire danger.
“As of February 16th, 2025 all of Patrick Jones’ property was upgraded from a high to very high fire hazard severity zone by the state fire marshal,” Wilkes told the board. “Why is this important? Bullets and resulting ricochets have significant potential to start wildfires. There were 257 shooting-caused wildfires in California from 2012 to 2022, with over 25,000 acres burned. 753 wildfires in 11 western states were caused by shooting at inert targets from 1992 to 2018.”
Translation: The Anderson/Millville residents aren’t going away. Expect them.
This reporter was talking to a source when a commotion broke out as the board departed for closed session. Crye, when confronted by a scrum of journalists — including Mike Mangas, David Benda and occasional A News Café correspondent Benjamin Nowain — eeking a response to the news that ROV Thomas Toller is resigning, the Chairman of the Board totally lost the load.
As revealed later by Nowain’s video that went viral, Crye ignored Benda’s persistent questioning but agreed to do an individual interview with Mangas. When Nowain attempted to join the interview behind the dais, Crye accused him of trespassing and threatened to have him thrown out by deputies.
From the top of chambers, I didn’t see this more than I heard it, Crye and Nowain yelling at each other, Mangas lugging his camera around, confused staff milling about. Can’t we get through one meeting without some crazy shit happening?
I walked out smdh.
SCOREBOARD
R1 Receive an update from the County Executive Officer on County issues and consider action on specific legislation related to Shasta County’s legislative platform and receive Supervisors’ reports on countywide issues.
Score: No vote.
CONSENT CALENDAR
Score: C3 was pulled from the calendar; C20 was pulled by Supervisor Plummer for discussion then approved 5-0. The rest of the consent calendar was approved 5-0.
C1 Approve a lease agreement with Ronald G. Mygrant, and Margaret A. Mygrant, Trustees of the Mygrant Family 1990 Trust, for office space for the Grand Jury, at 2986 Bechelli Lane, Suite 201, Redding, and approve a budget amendment which increases appropriations and revenue by $24,608 in the Grand Jury Budget (BU 208) offset by use of Reserves for Contingencies (BU 900).
C2 Approve the minutes of the meetings held on February 25, 27, and March 11, 2025, as submitted.
C3 Appoint William Jostock to the Assessment Appeals Board as a member to serve the remainder of a three-year term to September 7, 2026.
C4 As introduced on March 11, 2025, enact “An Ordinance of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Shasta Amending Chapter 2.07, Elections Commission, of the Shasta County Code.”
C5 Adopt a proclamation which designates April 2025, as “Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month” in Shasta County.
C6 Approve an agreement with P.S. Technologies, Inc., dba LegalServer, for legal case management software.
C7 Approve an amendment to the agreement with California Mental Health Services
Authority for participation in the Workforce Education and Training program.
C8 Receive the 2022 Mental Health, Alcohol, and Drug Advisory Board (MHADAB) annual report and the grading responses from the Health and Human Services Mental Health Director.
C9 Adopt a proclamation which designates April 2025 as “Child Abuse Prevention
Month” in Shasta County (Sponsored by Supervisor Crye).
C10 Adopt a proclamation which designates April 4-12, 2025, as “Week of the Young Child” in Shasta County (Sponsored by Supervisor Plummer).
C11 Adopt a proclamation which designates April 2025 as “Fair Housing Month” in Shasta County.
C12 Adopt a resolution which authorizes the Health and Human Services Agency Director, or their designee, to submit an Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) application and any documents necessary to execute or accept the ESG.
C13 Adopt a resolution which authorizes the County Executive Officer, or their designee, to enter into and execute all Homeland Security Grant Program contracts and subcontracts for Fiscal Year 2024-25, including retroactive, to improve the delivery time of needed equipment and training (related to terrorism and emergency preparedness) to local law enforcement agencies, fire agencies, and HHSA.
C14 Approve an agreement with United Way of Northern California for 24/7/365 access to local, state and national resources via real time information and referral services through call, text message and web-based services for the Proposition 47 Grant.
C15 Approve an agreement with Shasta Community Health Center for Proposition 47.
C16 Take the following actions regarding the “Fall River Mills Airport (O89) Taxiway A, South Aircraft Apron, and T-Hangar Taxilanes Rehabilitation Project,” Contract No. 610958 (Project): (1) Find the Project categorically exempt in conformance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 14 CCR Section 15301, Class 1-Existing Facilities; (2) designate the Public Works Director as the County’s agent to sign and approve plans and specifications, provided the plans and specifications are substantially similar to the draft Contract Book for the Project; (3) direct the Public Works Director to advertise for bids; (4) authorize the opening of bids on or after April 24, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.; and (5) approve the Fall River Mills Airport Fund to be in a negative cash position, while awaiting reimbursement, for the duration of the project.
C17 Approve lease agreements at the Fall River Mills (FRM) Airport for: (1) Fixed hangar space with: (a) George McArthur; (b) Daniel Klatt; (c) Leslie Horney; and (d) Robert King; and (2) portable hangar space with: (a) Daniel Smith; (b) Chris Lowery; and (c) Leslie Horney.
C18 Approve a contract with Design Time & Tile, Inc., for flooring and countertop services at County facilities.
C19 Adopt a resolution which designates authority to the Public Works Director, or their designee, to temporarily close various County roads in Cottonwood for use by the Cottonwood Chamber of Commerce for periodic special events.
C20 Consider oral testimony and written comments from members of the public and
accept the Shasta County 2024 Housing Element Annual Progress Report.
C21 Approve an agreement with Capitol Rivers, Inc., dba Capitol Rivers Commercial, for professional real estate services.
C22 Adopt a resolution which updates Administrative Policy 3-140, County Utilization of Volunteers, and recognizes Grand Jurors as employees solely for workers’ compensation purposes.
BOARD MATTERS CONTINUED
R2 Take the following actions: (1) Approve letters of opposition to: (a) Assembly Bill (AB) 470: Telecommunications; and (b) Senate Bill (SB) 16: Shelter Partnership Act; and (2) Approve letters of support for: (a) SB 405: Restoring local control for voter identification decisions; (b) SB 406: Ballots by election day; (c) SB 407: Shorter elections vote counting period and certification deadline; (d) SB 408: Improved county voter roll address confirmation; (e) SB 496: ZEV fleet regulation exemptions; and (f) the proposed Corrections and Rehabilitation Campus for expansion of the Alternative Custody Program
Score: 5-0 to send all letters.
R3 Receive a presentation on the activities of the Strategic Plan Ad Hoc Committee and consider providing direction to staff (Sponsored by Supervisor Long and Supervisor Plummer).
Score: 5-0 to have staff submit RFP for a strategic plan consultant.
CLOSED SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT
There were no announcements on the following three issues coming out of closed session.
R4 CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS
(Government Code Section 54957.6):
Agency Negotiators:
County Executive Officer David Rickert
Personnel Director Monica Fugitt
Chief Labor Negotiator Gage Dungy, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Employee Organizations:
United Public Employees of California, Local 792 – General Unit
United Public Employees of California, Local 792 – Professional Unit
Deputy Sheriffs Association – Correctional Officer – Deputy Sheriffs
R5 CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – EXISTING LITIGATION
(Government Code section 54956.9(d)(1)):
Case Name:
Anderson/Millville Residents v. County of Shasta, et al., Patrick Jones, Real Parties in Interest (Case #23CV-0203713)
R6 CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS
(Government Code Section 54956.8):
Property Description:
7251 Eastside Road, Redding, CA; APN 050-050-010
County Negotiators:
County Executive Officer David J. Rickert
Senior Administrative Analyst Bryce Ritchie
Senior Administrative Analyst Jenn Rossi
Negotiating Parties:
City of Redding
Under Negotiations: Price and terms of payment.
At the conclusion of the Closed Session, reportable action, if any, will be reported in Open Session.
