The Trustee is the banker for Anderson County. The County Trustee has three major functions: (1) collecting the county’s property taxes as well as funds from the state and federal government; (2) accounting for and disbursing county funds to the county school systems and the county general...
Although it’s true that some schools are badly underfunded due to the state’s practice of basing their funding on local property taxes, rewarding bad schools no matter how poorly they perform, assumes that poor performance is never the fault of the people running the schools or teaching in ...
Marin County’s high rates of drug abuse (and especially alcohol abuse) are routinely surfaced in yearly reports that otherwise give the very wealthy county some of the best health grades in California. For additional context, the overdose rate amongst white teens in Marin County is higher than...
FORMER MTA BOSS, Bruce Richard, now enjoying a flush retirement after nearly three decades of running a heavily subsidized County bus service to and from a few locations in vast Mendocino County, now serves as a trustee on the Ukiah Senior Center board of directors. So, why even mention the...
(•) by MCERA (vetted as a public trustee and bonded fiduciary of our county's $600 million pension system; a "sacred trust" is placed in every member of the Retirement Board; and, by law, we take an oath to act as "prudent men and women"), and ...
ANYWAY, as a clinic customer all the way back to the barefoot doc days in the Ricard slum, and my wife a former trustee (female, Asian, and another box checked for the H.C's non-profit status), why do I have to answer a lot of purely trendy and, I must say, intrusive questions...
TWO YEARS AGO, in a sudden fit of acquisition, I bought a piece of bare ground in central Boonville. No sooner had I signed the deed when I got a bill for about three thousand in property taxes. It was for the full year although I'd been the owner of record for only a part of ...
For decades, ever since Reagan began cutting taxes for the wealthy, I have often wondered at what point would they be happy; as every election cycle provides more deductions and loopholes and while the IRS has been steadily starved of the resources it needs to enforce tax laws on the wealthi...
The state board of equalization has announced property exemptions in Mendocino county, showing that of the total property assessed for taxes, $983,585 is exempt. Bulk of the exemptions, the board said, are for veterans, 1193 of whom own $983,585 worth of tax free property. ...