Letter: Hypocrisy on frugality by county board
The San Benito County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution at the March 17 meeting reducing the stipend to grand jury members to the lowest amount of any county in California, effective with the 2015-16 term. The board had previously restored the 20 percent “administrative fee” to the grand jury 2014-2015 budget. For the last several meetings, board members had admonished the grand jury for not being frugal.
Letter to the editor: Landfill expansion would serve other counties
Supervisor Bob Tiffany snarled, “It disgusts me that this will go before the voters” then growled “I certainly am going to be working very diligently to try to ensure that this initiative does not pass in November.”
You would hope an elected supervisor would...
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