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New Yr’s Eve once more? It looks like we simply did this. Time retains on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the long run – thanks, Steve Miller. Yearly appears to go by extra shortly. After we had been children, summer season appeared infinite. Now a 12 months looks like a month, a month like per week, and per week like a day. I believe I’ve written that earlier than however we’re all getting previous, so…

Mr. Standish and I don’t keep up till midnight on NYE anymore. We watch the ball drop in Occasions Sq. at 9 p.m. PT and name it good. One among my favourite issues about dwelling on this time zone is being three hours behind New York. It’s particularly handy throughout baseball season when most Mets video games begin at 4 p.m. and are over round 7 when it’s time to move out to do the night chores. I don’t know the way you Large, A’s, and Dodger followers do it, truthfully.

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2022 was a fairly good 12 months, don’t ya assume? Not almost as horrific as 2020 and 2021, it began off on a excessive notice domestically when the rigorously deliberate however poorly executed try and take away Supervisor Sweet Carlson from the board fell flat on its face. Completely fabricated fees had been levied towards her by former members of the board to the Grand Jury. The irony was that one of many aforementioned schemers self-sabotaged the entire thing by allegedly blabbing about Closed Session stuff to members of the family. I gained’t undergo that complete story once more, however be at liberty to look the archives for my columns from a 12 months in the past for those who’d like a refresher.

2022 was the 12 months you Tehamans took your county again from the individuals who had been working it into the bottom and you have to be rattling proud. These of us didn’t begin out making an attempt to bankrupt us.

I’m certain all of them started of their positions with the most effective of intentions. However, over time, dipping into the reserves grew to become a behavior, similar to something you do on the reg. The reserves dwindled, inventive bookkeeping grew to become the norm, and we started to depend on fund stability carryover to save lots of the day each fiscal 12 months, like this 12 months, for instance. With out the $6 million CARES Act funding that was used to bridge the price range hole in 2021, who is aware of the place we’d be immediately? Thanks, Covid.

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Former CAO Invoice Goodwin, former County Counsel Richard Stout, former supervisors Burt Bundy and Steve Chamblin had been already gone when 2022 started. Now the ultimate two of that cabal, former supes Bob Williams and Dennis Garton, have been pressured into retirement by you, the voters. The Good Ol’ Boys community on the county degree has been disbanded fully and that could be a freaking miracle.

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And it’s all since you took an curiosity. Eagle Eye Jenny Alexander has spent numerous unpaid hours pouring over spreadsheets, budgets, and test warrants and has single-handedly uncovered many inaccuracies and downright misappropriations of funds. Bear in mind Pizzagate? Unlawful stipends paid to division heads for refreshments? That’s how she received the Eagle Eye moniker.

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The bee at the moment in Jenny’s bonnet is the continued closure of the Social Providers workplace in Corning. It has been over a 12 months that Tehama County has been paying 1000’s of {dollars} a month to the Corning Healthcare District for workplace area that isn’t being utilized. There merely isn’t sufficient employees to supply these providers in particular person within the satellite tv for pc workplace.

I had a pleasant chat with CHD director Tina Hale within the girls’ room within the Admin constructing – the place all the massive offers go down – and she or he kindly gave me her card and requested Jenny or me to telephone her with any questions. After all, the query isn’t for Ms. Hale. We ought to be asking ourselves how lengthy we’re going to proceed paying lease for an workplace that isn’t getting used.

The across-the-board worker raises that had been simply applied on account of the Comp Examine ought to enhance the staffing ranges. Having the ability to supply greater salaries will end in candidates, however they may should be skilled. Social Providers are extremely regulated and the job expertise are complicated. So how lengthy ought to it take to get the doorways open in Corning? A 12 months looks as if method too lengthy and definitely a month wouldn’t be sufficient time.

The brand new board must determine and possibly SS Director Laura Hawkins will replace them on how recruitment goes with higher salaries on the desk. No person needs South County to be with out no matter providers can moderately be supplied there. However we will’t go on paying for empty area ceaselessly, both.

And talking of the brand new board, the ceremonial swearing-in of Matt Hansen and Pati Nolen will happen this Tuesday, Jan. 3, at 8:30 a.m. within the previous courthouse rotunda. It will likely be a time for celebration, however then the exhausting work begins. Each of them ran campaigns with transparency and water as their priorities and it will likely be refreshing to witness the brand new instructions this board will take.

The fantastic rain we’re experiencing now is not going to resolve our water woes, however the brand new board members deliver data and concepts to exchange the head-in-the-sand attitudes of their predecessors. They will’t change the local weather, however they seem keen to implement insurance policies to cease the acceleration of the overdraft of our aquifers.

So, goodbye 2022. You had been a tremendous little 12 months, however you had your one year and 2023 is chomping on the bit. As longtime Mets announcer, Howie Rose would say, “Put it within the books!”