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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. ### ### 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 ...

### 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 tod...

County Supes Approve Civil Penalties on ‘Yee Haw’ Communal Living Property Near Trinidad The property at 473 Quarry Road, just east of Trinidad, hosts multiple un-permitted residences, including makeshift structures and broken-down vehicles. | Photos via a Humboldt County inspection report. ### A couple of former residents called in to Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting to defend the property’s owner, Charles Garth.  “He has provided a service for people who couldn’t have found housing otherwise,” one woman said. Another said she lived there when her son was a toddler and i...

Humboldt County Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez. | Screenshot. Months after launching an investigation into delayed financial transactions, the county has abruptly called off the inquiry without a resolution, and without interviewing Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez, who has been at the center of public discussion on the matter. “I wish I had more information myself,” Paz Dominguez told the Outpost on Friday. The investigation, which was prompted by complaints of delays in payments, transfers and reconciliations of accounts, according to the County Administrative Office, fir...

State Suspends County’s Purchasing Account for Overdue Payment; Auditor-Controller Takes Responsibility Humboldt County staff received notice Tuesday morning that the California Department of General Services had suspended its CAL-Card purchasing account because the bill was more than 90 days overdue.  In a prepared statement, Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez took responsibility for the delay, which she attributed to a “breakdown” in her department, and she said the matter has since been dealt with. However, a county spokesperson said this incident is just the latest in a pattern...