Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors finally laid to rest Tuesday a festering dispute with Dominion Voting Systems by unanimously approving a payment of $171,618.05 to terminate its contract. Early termination of the county’s seven-year contract with Dominion for ballot preparation… Continue Reading
Following 10 hours of sometimes raucous public hearings spread across two days, Shasta County officials added another $5 million earmarked for planning and construction of a jail annex to their nearly $659 million budget for Fiscal Year 2023-24. The proposed… Continue Reading
A standing-room only crowd — many wearing T-shirts emblazoned with “No Room for Racism” or “Recall Kevin Crye” — filled to overflowing the Shasta County Board of Supervisors chambers in downtown Redding Tuesday even before Chair Patrick Jones gaveled the… Continue Reading
In a move likely to impact Shasta County voters and election procedures directly, California’s Secretary of State Shirley Weber is seeking to clarify and adopt regulations governing manual tallies of election ballots. Such regulations, Weber explains, will “provide clear and… Continue Reading
A circus atmosphere, complete with sideshow barkers collecting recall petitions, angry Millville Plains residents airing grievances, and honking motorists on Court Street showing support for striking county workers greeted attendees gathering Tuesday for the third evening meeting of the Shasta… Continue Reading
Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors will consider approval Tuesday evening of a three-year employment contract with David J. Rickert, 56, recently of Elgin, Ill, where he served as Winnebago County’s Chief Financial Officer. Rickert, who is not related to Shasta… Continue Reading
Shasta County Elections Department administrators and staff are scrambling to pack up and return leased Dominion Voting Systems Inc. machines, precinct voting kiosks, printers, sorters, optical readers, computers, memory cards and other assorted paraphernalia following the March 28 decision —… Continue Reading
On behalf of the state’s Gambling Control Commission, California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a new, 25-year tribal gaming compacts with the Redding Rancheria and the Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians. Redding Rancheria’s previous gaming compact was most recently amended… Continue Reading
For the third time in as many months, Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors upheld a 3-2 vote Tuesday to scrap the county’s Democracy Suite 2.2 ballot counting system leased by Dominion Voting Systems of Denver, Colo., in favor of a… Continue Reading
Pending the background check results, Shasta County Supervisors may announce Chriss Street is the county’s new Chief Executive Officer following an 8 a.m. closed session, and prior to the start of their 9 a.m. regular open session meeting. Both meetings… Continue Reading
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