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Manners played a significant role in Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. While things have sometimes gotten testy between the board and Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez, most everyone seemed to be on their best behavior Tuesday as the board agreed to the structure of a county audit committee, which will serve an advisory role on financial matters.
Earlier in the meeting, an applicant for a controversial 10,000-square-foot cannabis grow just outside Blue Lake accused her neighbors of bad manners, saying their mean-spirited and dishonest testimony slandered her family and convinced the county Planning Commission to deny the project.
Let’s start there, shall we? Rocci and Laura Costa had applied for a zoning clearance certificate under the county’s Commercial Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance, (aka Ordinance 1.0). They planned an open-air cannabis farm on Warren Creek Road, outside Blue Lake city limits but within its Community Planning Area. However, because o
Supervisors Add Conditions But Narrowly Deny Appeal of Rolling Meadow Ranch Cannabis Project in Remote SoHum
Senior Planner Meghan Ryan presents an overview of the Rolling Meadow Ranch project. | Screenshot from Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.
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At the end of a lengthy public hearing on Tuesday, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2, narrowly denying an appeal of the Planning Commission’s Jan. 21 approval of a controversial cannabis cultivation and processing project near the remote Southern Humboldt community of McCann.
The project, developed by Rolling Meadow Ranch, LLC, calls for 5.73 acres of mixed-light cultivation and processing facilities located in four distinct cultivation areas in up to 16 greenhouses, with a total project footprint of 8.5 acres.
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The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday once again addressed financial reporting matters at the center of a conflict between the County Administrative Office and the office of Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez.
Today’s discussion was a sequel of sorts to a special board meeting back in November when supervisors Virginia Bass and Rex Bohn sounded the alarm over “operational gaps” in the county’s fiscal reporting. These gaps, according to staff, had placed the county at risk of losing more than $14 million in state and federal reimbursement.
A staff report from today’s meeting says there are still “outstanding financial transactions” that could wind up costing the county millions, and it asks the board to “authorize” Paz Dominguez to post the transactions in question.
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Screenshots from Tuesday’s meeting (clockwise from top left): Supervisor Rex Bohn, Supervisor Michelle Bushnell, Supervisor Mike Wilson, Supervisor Virginia Bass, Health Officer Ian Hoffman and Supervisor Steve Madrone.
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Another big day for the Humboldt County Board of supervisors. Let’s get right to it, shall we?
COVID-19 Update
In his latest COVID-19 update, Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Ian Hoffman said that while he expects the county to remain in the state’s purple tier, denoting widespread virus, for the coming weeks, he’s hopeful that we’re moving “over the top of that plateau” and can look forward to declining case counts. That’s what’s happening at the state level, and we tend to follow a bit behind statewide trends, he said. (Tuesday’s new-case count was just five.)