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The standing committee is charged with organizing a multi-agency approach to preparing for all things water-related.

The Board of Supervisors agreed to ask the U.C. Davis Cooperative Extension for help creating a water agency to improve countywide access to water.

The Council decided the financial outlook is poor for a 3/8 cent sales tax for workforce housing to succeed in the next election, especially with two other taxes on the November ballot.

The Board of Supervisors is still looking for money to fund a water agency and drought preparedness programs. A proposed ordinance to regulate extracting water from private wells and selling it off the property is on its way to the Planning Commission.

County workers are outraged over the county's offer of a 0% COLA. Meanwhile, the Board heard from labor experts encouraging a living wage ordinance.

California Coastal beaches and public parks are experiencing rises in visitation year over year as important outlets for mental and physical health. Over 10 million people annually visit the California coastline and adjacent communities across Marin, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties. Even more staggering, over 55,000 pounds of trash were picked up from the sensitive coastal environment across the three counties last year alone. | The Goal: Teach leave no trace practices to growing number of coasta...

The giveaway was a testament of the Formerly Incarcerated Giving Back to the community in the best way they could. Participants received an array of gifts including clothing, work pants, jeans, socks, toiletries and gift cards. The event gave them a place to identify with other men who have overcome many hardships and now live independently of the direct supervision of the criminal justice system. By Richard Johnson The founders of The Formerly Incarcerated Giving Back organization sponsored a F...

The Board of Supervisors discarded a plan to propose a three-eighths of a cent tax for fire and water projects, voting instead to present a quarter-cent fire tax to voters in November.

The Board of Supervisors worked out most of the details — except the amount — of a sales tax to fund water and fire, which they plan to present to the voters in November.

The Board of Supervisors also heard that code enforcement is up, and covid cases are once again threatening to overwhelm the healthcare system.