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• At Special Meeting This Morning, Humboldt Supervisors Will Consider Disciplinary Action, Dismissal of a High-Ranking County Employee

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After a closed-session special meeting that lasted nearly three hours, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors has voted to “accept the resignation” of its director of aviation, Cody Roggatz, effective immediately.

The vote was 3-2, with supervisors Mike Wilson, Steve Madrone and Natalie Arroyo voting in favor and supervisors Michelle Bushnell and Rex Bohn opposed.

No reasons were given for this parting of ways with Roggatz, who was hired by the county August 2018 to head a new, standalone Aviation Department, which had previously been a division of Public Works.

As the Outpost’s Izzy Vanderheiden noted this morning, the usually easy-to-reach Roggatz has been out of the public eye since the big air show at the California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport in McKinleyville last month. Last week the county issued a somewhat frosty statement in response to a question about his whereabouts.