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$2b County budget approved — so what’s funded?

It feels like just yesterday that the Board of Supervisors adopted the budget for the 2020/2021 Fiscal Year. Budget hearings were one of many things delayed last year amid the challenges and uncertainty as Sonoma County grappled with the impacts of COVID-19.  This year was... Continue

Roads, roads, roads…

It will come as no surprise that one of the top issues for residents of the First District is – of course – roads! The last year of shelter-in-place may have meant that we traveled less around the county, but it also caused us to... Continue

A busy month for your Board of Supervisors

"Undoubtedly, cannabis is a divisive issue in our community." After more than a year of critical focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, I am happy to see county staff hard at work on other mission-critical areas of focus. We opened the window for vegetation management grant... Continue

Preparing for yet another dry year

As I write this column, it is an unusually warm spring day, and red flag alerts have been issued for Solano County and other east bay communities. There is a sense of optimism in the air as we emerge from our pandemic fog after more... Continue

Preparing for yet another dry year

There’s a sense of optimism in the air as we emerge from our pandemic fog after more than a year of a challenging, transformed existence of sacrifice and loss. But even as we let ourselves experience the joy and gratitude of lowering case numbers and... Continue

The urgency of climate change 

It feels like a lifetime ago, but as Chair of the Board of Supervisors in 2020, I focused my State of the County address on the urgency of climate change. Unfortunately, COVID-19 drove that issue to the back burner last year, but the urgency for... Continue

Life in the ‘Red Tier’

Sonoma County reached a long-awaited milestone, entering the Red Tier of the Governor’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy plan. On March 14 we saw hungry diners returning to indoor restaurants and fitness buffs hitting the gym indoors for the first time in months. I am... Continue

Happy New Year… so we hope

What a year it has been. Chairing the Board of Supervisors this year has been an honor, and an incredible challenge. For the past few months, I counted the days until the position of the Chair of the Board of Supervisors rotated to Vice Chair... Continue

Community outreach in times of crisis

I am not going to sugar coat it -- this year has been incredibly rough on all of us. At its core, the theme has been isolation – we cannot gather together as we have in years past, and at no time is that more... Continue