[The Nevada County Board of Supervisors will again vote on Item 26 this coming Tuesday. Item 26 involves the passage of an "urgency ordinance" that will levy draconian fines on NC residents and businesses for violating any of the decrees and diktats regarding Covid-19 passed by higher up government jurisdictions, and piles on a passel of additional ones in the form of a county ordinance (here) to which we who live here will be subjected. None of this local government overreach and virtue signalling is necessary since we are all aware of the Covid-19 infection dangers and know how to mitigate the risk - our stats demonstrate. We don’t need our local pols to establish a legion of STASI-like plain clothes snitches who will cite innocent infractions with fines of thousands of dollars. We don’t have to do it to ourselves. Write to your supervisor about opposing Item 26 on the agenda. My sweetie-pie Jo Ann is doing her part, so I asked if I could publish some of the drafts of letters and emails she is sending to the Supes and senior county staff members. Hopefully, some of these will inspire you to drop them a line. gjr]
Jo Ann Rebane
BOS Agenda, Tues. 8/11/20, item 26 – live public meeting
Consideration of item 26, the urgency enforcement ordinance should be held during a live public meeting. As a board you previously sat through not hours, but DAYS of public comment on the Marijuana Urgency Ordinance. The public needs to personally express their comments and personally see and hear your reactions thereto on this version of the urgency enforcement ordinance. Surely you can figure out a way to let the public address your board in person while maintaining social distancing and other covid precautions.
BOS Agenda, Tues. 8/11/20, item 26 – OPPOSE
I oppose the revised and current version of item 26, urgency covid enforcement ordinance. This version is draconian. It encourages the public to “snitch” or “tattle-tale” on individuals, businesses and commercial enterprises to cause code enforcers to levy excessive and confiscatory fines. There is enough acrimony in this county already. Don’t stir up more divisiveness.
BOS Agenda, Tues. 8/11/20, item 26 – OPPOSE
I oppose agenda item 26 for the express OVERREACH which makes it unlawful for any individual, business or commercial enterprise to do anything contrary to orders of ANY governmental body, agency or individual at any level in California. It is impossible for the public to know all those rules, regulations, edicts, and orders. Send this draft to the waste can.
BOS Agenda, Tues. 8/11/20, item 26 – OPPOSE
I urge you to oppose agenda item 26. This county and its businesses, including restaurants did everything the governor required under the initial order in March. This county qualified for special opening status and re-opened carefully. Restaurants and others invested heavily in costly infrastructure and what did they get – another shut-down. This county continues to qualify for the special relaxed opening status but the governor’s recent order doesn’t recognize this. We comply and he punishes us. Does one size fit all counties?
BOS Agenda, Tues. 8/11/20, item 26 – OPPOSE
I urge you to oppose agenda item 26. The Nevada County Board of Supervisors should be fighting the governor not our local businesses. Scrap the urgency ordinance and fight for our county’s businesses and not against them.
BOS Agenda, Tues. 8/11/20, item 26 – OPPOSE
Please oppose agenda item 26. I urge the board of supervisors to petition/urge/lobby the governor to rescind the statewide “close all restaurants” order. Nevada County is one of the “open” counties (but how can we tell?). There is not one case of covid emanating from a restaurant here, our hospitals are not impacted, and this county has done everything it was required to do to move to the current phase of opening.
BOS Agenda, Tues. 8/11/20, item 26 – OPPOSE
That the governor threatens to withhold recovery funds feels like blackmail for an offense that wasn’t committed. Arbitrary, capricious, politically motivated, and wrong-headed.
I would rather see the BOS stand up for the community and its businesses than to enact a punitive urgency ordinance. You, Supervisors and the city councils should be doing all in your power to NOT lose another business (tax payer).
Address comments by email for this BOS item in this format:
To: bdofsupervisors@co.nevada.ca.us, bos.publiccomment@co.nevada.ca.us
Cc: Dan Miller <dan.miller@co.nevada.ca.us>, Heidi.Hall@co.nevada.ca.us, Sue.Hoek@co.nevada.ca.us, Scofield Ed <ed.scofield@co.nevada.ca.us>, Anderson Richard <richard.anderson@co.nevada.ca.us>
Subject: BOS Agenda, Tues. 8/11, Item 26
[11aug20 update gjr] Mercifully, the ‘urgency ordinance’ with its revised, yet still draconian, fines was defeated yesterday by the BOS, thanks to Supervisors Scofield and Hoek. Why Supervisor Dan Miller pulled a ‘John Roberts’ on us is still a mystery, or is it? His suggestion that the fines be “reduced by half” to (seatbelts please) $500, $1,000, $2,500 for the first three offenses defined by ordinance was jaw-dropping. And it begs an answer to ‘why are we doing this to ourselves?’
Well, the answer may have been in front of us all these years, and is still there – Nevada County remains anti-growth and anti-business. Under this policy the county has struggled for decades to collect enough tax revenues to barely make ends meet, and with the ongoing and insane ‘greening’ of government, it is clear that taxes from our remaining businesses and residents will not cut it. So, the answer to the shortfall now in progress is a quiet but still visible shift to increase punitive revenues with a marked step-up in collecting fines and fees from code violations. This tack is exactly the socialist counter to policies required for our county’s long overdue economic growth. In the 12aug20 Union Michael Taylor expands on all this in his ‘Nevada County is ramping up enforcement to generate revenue’, and it most certainly explains away Dan Miller’s vote.
‘Separation of church and state’
George Rebane
On this Thursday of Holy Week my bride Jo Ann, who is a member of the Union’s editorial board, had her ‘Hit’ published in the 14apr22 edition of the newspaper’s weekly Hits & Misses column. It read – “Hit to celebrations this week of Easter and Passover. These observances in our community help maintain our culture and remind us of our country’s Judeo-Christian roots.”
Well, this did not sit well with Laurent Clark, a local anti-American progressive, who definitely considers Jo Ann’s sentiment one root to far according to today’s secular humanist tradition police. Ms(?) Clark responded today with her letter titled ‘Separation of church and state’ (here) –
This week Ms. Rebane has used The Union’s “Hits and Misses” section to foist her brand of religion on everyone in the vicinity, doing so with a subtle comment that the Easter and Passover celebrations,“help maintain our culture and remind ‘us’ of our Judeo-Christian roots.” … “Us” may remind her that she overstates her opinion by inferring that all of “us” are encompassed within her religious ilk. She further suggests that “us” as a culture should be thankful for those alleged “roots” — an arguable stretch of an opinion. … She might better refer to her brand of religion as a group, sect, clan, etc. and recognize that the rest of “us” may have our own sect, clan, or group, to worship within, as we please … or not.
One is hard put to discover any ‘foisting’ or even anything about "her brand of religion" in Jo Ann’s hit. We also note that those who did well in American history are familiar with the role Judeo-Christian tradition played in our country’s birth and beyond. And the last time I looked, The Union was already a privately owned media outlet and not an inseparable mouthpiece of the state, allowed to still practice what passes for vestiges of free speech in today’s America. But it is revealing to note that progressive statists today consider all organs of the Fourth Estate as responsible for hewing to the Left's socialist narrative.
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