Local Government

September 2024

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

TODAY IN SUPES: Board Approves Long-Awaited 2021-22 Audit Report, Reviews Changes to Draft Regional Climate Action Plan

How Are We Feeling About the City of Eureka’s Recreation Programs?

Eureka City Council Narrowly Passes Vacant Building Ordinance that Aims to Reduce Blight Across Town

A New 42-Space Parking Lot is Being Built Along the Eureka Boardwalk

Measure F Could Wreak Legal and Financial Havoc on Eureka, California Housing Defense Fund Warns

August 2024

Cal OES Kicks In $$$ for Last Year’s Emergency Repairs to Ferndale Fairgrounds’ Grandstands

You, Humboldt County Human, Are Invited to a Public Meeting on the Regional Climate Action Plan

Harbor District Board Orders Environmental Study of Billboard Rebuild Project

Harbor District to Consider Issuing Permit to Allow Repair (Rebuild?) of a Fallen Billboard in Humboldt Bay Tidelands

TODAY in SUPES: Board Approves Grant and Two Full-Time Positions for Sheriff’s Office; State Claws Back Millions in Cannabis Funds

What’s Next for the Jacobs Campus? The Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees Will Consider Five Options at Thursday’s Meeting

Is That Building a Blight Risk? Eureka Council Introduces Vacant Building Ordinance Aimed at Addressing Property Disrepair and Alleviating the City’s Housing Shortage

The City of Fortuna is Rarin’ to Go With Plans for the Old PALCO Mill Site, and the Site’s New, Santa Rosa-Based Owner is Game

Eureka City Council Unanimously Approves Controversial West Side Five-Plex

TODAY in SUPES: Board Approves Tiny House Village Ordinance, Sends Concerned Letter to SF Mayor; Latest Homelessness Count Revealed

Is Humboldt County Really a ‘Top Destination’ For San Francisco’s Homeless?

TODAY in SUPES: Sheriff Honsal Chafes Against Call for Civilian Oversight; Board Considers Responses to Civil Grand Jury, Denies Blocksburg Glamping Project

THIS WEEK IN SUPES: Grand Jury Recommendations for Aging County Facilities, Leased Properties, Civilian Oversight of Sheriff’s Office

How Will the Collapse of the Jacobs Campus Deal Impact Measure F? It Won’t, Backers Insist.

Anonymous AMG Communities Confirms Death of Jacobs Campus Deal, Vows to Try Again After Election Results

Eureka City Schools’ Deal With a Mystery Developer for the Jacobs Campus is Dead

Eureka City Council Reviews New Rules for Vacant Buildings, Tables Vote

July 2024

Murl Harpham, Grand Old Man of the Eureka Police Department, Has Died at Age 91; City Flags to be Flown at Half Mast This Week

County Supes Have Differing Views on the Merits of Civilian Oversight of Sheriff’s Office But Postpone Decision on Grand Jury Recommendations

Humboldt County Supervisors Vote to Put a One Percent Sales Tax Measure on November Ballots

Humboldt Planning Commission Approves Tiny House and Emergency Housing Village Ordinances

HELLO, GATEWAY: Arcata City Council Passes Gateway Area Plan and Welcomes New City Manager Merritt Perry

The Tribe Formerly Known as the Resighini Rancheria Has a New Name

Rob Arkley Pursued Purchase of Jacobs Middle School Property Before Eureka City Schools Entered Land-Swap Deal With Secretive Corporation

June 2024

Humboldt Bay Fire Says a Sad Koebaai to Outgoing Chief Sean Robertson; Issues a Hearty Howzit? to Incoming Chief Tim Citro

In Its Final Report of the Year, Grand Jury Concludes That the Child Welfare Services Ombudsperson is Falling Short of the Role Defined For it When the County Settled a Big State Lawsuit

Eureka Planning Commission Approves Contentious Five-Plex Development on Buhne Despite Neighbor’s Concerns

Grand Jury Analysis Shows That County Government Has a Hell of a Time Trying to Hire Qualified Employees and Offers Some Simple Suggestions

YESTERDAY IN SUPES: Board OKs Another $3.5 Million for New Garberville Vets Hall Despite Ongoing Financial Woes; HCSO Settles Contract Dispute with Blue Lake

Grand Jury Takes Deep Dive on Humboldt County’s Mental Health Crisis Street Teams

TODAY IN SUPES: Board Approves Contract with Reality TV Show ‘On Patrol: Live,’ on the Theory That It Could Boost Recruitment for Local Law Enforcement

Eureka City Council Approves Ballot Language for ‘Housing for All’ Initiative, After a Couple of More Edits From Ballot Proponents

GRAND JURY SAYS: With Limited Funds and Skyrocketing Buildings, the Arcata Fire District is in Serious Trouble

The Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury is in Desperate Need of More Jurors! Investigate Your Government on Behalf of the Citizenry!

Eureka Council Rebels Against City Attorney’s Summary of the ‘Housing for All’ Initiative, Special Meeting Called Monday to Resolve the Question

Looking Toward Budget Deficits in Coming Years, Arcata City Council Opts to Place Sales Tax Measure on November’s Ballot

Coming Soon: A New Crisis Residential Treatment Facility in Eureka Offering Mental Health Services, Case Management and More

YESTERDAY IN EUREKA COUNCIL: Staff Credit Measure H Sales Tax Reveues for Ongoing Financial Stability, Despite $1.1 Million Budget Shortfall

Arcata’s New City Manager Is … Fortuna’s Soon-To-Be EX-City Manager! Merritt Perry to Step in For Karen Diemer

Grand Jury Slams Eureka City Schools For ‘Secretive’ Jacobs Campus Deal

TODAY IN SUPES: Code Enforcement Unit Touts Successful Year of Nuisance Property, Illegal Cannabis Abatements

Citing Budget Woes, County Supes Vote to Sever Ties with Visitors Bureau in Six Months and Move Some Tourism Marketing In-House

Citing Critical Need for Housing in Eureka, City Council Choose Danco to Develop the EaRTH Center, a Long-Awaited Housing and Transit Hub in Downtown Eureka

Construction on Eureka’s Da’ Yas Park Improvement Project Has Begun; Expect it to Be Closed for Five Months

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