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The Board of Supervisors is still looking for money to fund a water agency and drought preparedness programs. A proposed ordinance to regulate extracting water from private wells and selling it off the property is on its way to the Planning Commission.
Jan 29, 2021 A renewed interest in using the old Howard Hospital in Willits as a psychiatric health facility revived community outcry and intimations of NIMBYism.
The half-cent mental health sales tax enacted by Measure B has been in effect for about three of its five years. So far, a little over twenty one and a half million dollars have been collected. Some of the money has been used to purchase a training center in Redwood Valley and hire a contractor to remodel it. The architect Nacht and Lewis, which is also designing a new jail for the county, is almost finished with architectural plans for a Crisis Residential Treatment facility in Ukiah.