This week, while Fletcher seeks treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol abuse at an undisclosed out-of-state facility, his four board colleagues agreed he should resign immediately, instead of his plan to wait until May 15.
After 24 years on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, Bill Horn, 75, is retiring having been forced to leave by term limits enacted earlier this decade.
The San Diego County government has entered a new era with the departure of termed-out Republican Supervisors Dianne Jacob, who served 28 years, and Greg Cox, who served 26 years. A county board long dominated by the GOP now has three first-term Democrats in charge new board Chair Nathan Fletcher and new members Nora Vargas and Terra Lawson-Remer. In a recent Zoom interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board, Fletcher vowed an “aggressive” challenge to a county bureaucracy with a history of complacency. He wants improvements in “public health, mental health, substance abuse and behavioral health.” He said the county would see its role going forward as being how “to do the greatest good for the greatest number in a financially responsible way.”