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After Six Years of Watching, I’m Sitting This One Out; Supervisors Workshop
Nevada County’s annual Board of Supervisors workshop remains a repetitive, executive-controlled exercise that perpetuates vague, unending objectives instead of delivering focused, measurable results, and until the Board adopts a few clear, countywide priorities with real accountability and shared responsibility, this process will stay disconnected from the community’s pressing needs.
Let Them Eat Cake! - A Review of Nevada County Executive Staff Pay
A 42% payroll expense in one year with big percentage raises each year is unsustainable, especially in light of the downturn in state funding. Given the outrageously high salaries of senior executive staff and elected officials, the tax-paying public is questioning the rationale of the Nevada County CEO Alison Lehman.
Open Letter to Grass Valley City Council - Measure B
Given the manner in which the City presented Measure B to the voters, you created a hybrid between a general fund tax initiative and a special tax initiative. Please consider the goodwill of your constituents and start this process anew.