The talk at Schat's and other stuff
There was talk at Schat’s this morning about whether the county Clerk or county Assessor jobs can be made appointed rather than elected positions now that Marsha Wharff is retiring. One person said he thought the Assessor job is mandated to be elected by state law, but the Registrar of Voters position may be something that can be pulled out and made an appointed position by the supervisors. I’m not sure yet how I feel about that except that having one group of elected officials decide who will get the position that counts the votes makes me nervous. There was also an opinion that when Wharff retires, the supervisors will have to appoint someone for the completion of her term (2-3 years left, I think), not just until the next county election in June.
A really angry group of Robinson Creek Road residents were at the recent meeting of the criminal justice subcommittee of supervisors (Jim Wattenburger and Mike Delbar) discussing pot growing regulations. The residents are really angry that pot growing has taken over their neighborhood and they want something serious done about it. I think these folks are probably expressing fairly typical views of lots of property owners in this county who are getting more and more concerned that the pot growing industry is taking over the county and that the county is more interested now in making its own money off it rather than stamping it out. I think it’s time for someone to start a petition drive to put a repeal of Measure G on the ballot. That will eliminate the excuse for supervisors like David Colfax who contend that the county must allow anyone who wants to, to grow 25 pot plants. Once Measure G is repealed, the county can move to limit pot growing to six plants per medical marijuana patient, limit the number of patients one caregiver can grow for (I’d suggest two as the limit) and prohibit any marijuana growing for medpot patients outside the county.
I am told that the five other sex offenders kicked out of the Ramada Inn several weeks back have found places to live and are no longer wandering the streets. The one man who got rearrested because he revealed to me and this blog - and therefore to his parole agent - that he had been hanging out in a park - has also now been released again.
A woman who regularly goes to Plowshares to eat tells me that she thinks Plowshares is indeed suffering from the lack of groceries it used to get from the Food Maxx and Albertson’s (now Lucky’s) stores and the menu at Plowshares reflects it. She says she’s concerned that the menu is getting heavier on starches and has less protein in the form of meat.