After a total expense of more than $287,000 from the Landfill-Solid Waste Fund and months of serious, but ultimately unnecessary, angst among the neighbors, San Benito County’s much ballyhooed Resource Recovery Park exists in name only.
County supervisors Wednesday held a special meeting to discuss medicinal marijuana in an attempt to provide public outreach on the controversial issue, but the local newspaper didn’t receive an agenda as usual before the gathering.
Despite no related agenda items listed on two issues—a possible closure of Nash Road near the high school and homeless residents living along the San Benito River bed—county supervisors Tuesday held extended talks on the topics.
A judge has ruled in favor of an attorney who sued former Supervisor Richard Scagliotti in October 2003—while ordering him to pay $237,500—and concluded the ex-official had a conflict of interest on a development decision and failed to properly report a series of financial conflicts.