In a meeting that ran Tuesday and Wednesday, the Board of Supervisors directed Kelsey Scanlon, the director of the county’s Department of Emergency Management, to begin filling in the details of what’s being called the 2023 Winter Storms Flood Relief Program.
When the California state budget allocated $20 million to the County of Monterey to use for recovery efforts in Pajaro following massive flooding in March, no strings attached, it was
All the repairs to the Pajaro River Levee were forecasted to be finished by the end of the year. The Army Corps of Engineers now projects completion by July 2024.
Currently, fines are low, several county supervisors agreed. For the first offense for illegal dumping the fine is $100, $200 for the second and $500 for the third. But supervisors threw out some numbers in the neighborhood of $500 for the first offense, $2,500 for the second and $10,000 for third.
The rancor over the Hamas-Israeli war spilled over into the Monterey Board of Supervisors’ chambers Tuesday with impassioned and sometimes angry opposition to a proposed resolution condemning the Hamas attack on Israel.