Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – The City Council has approved a $48 million city budget deeply impacted by the global crisis. Sheltering in place and business closures have drastically reduced sales, use and bed tax revenue, forcing across-the-board cuts in city departments. The council assumed the worst about revenues in the year…
Police Chief Brian Ahearn on the city’s budget, reform and APD
Police Officers are noble people who perform life-saving work every day and restore hope in people’s lives when all hope was lost. So when some advocate for dismantling the police or march on their City Hall to abolish policing (how ludicrous is that?) be careful what you wish for.
Black Lives Matter seizing the moment, not letting go
Pereira said the message she heard “loud and clear” from the various rallies was that “it’s better to try than to be silent… it’s better to say something than say nothing at all.”
COVID crisis blows huge hole in Arcata’s budget
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – Among the range of radical changes the coronavirus pandemic has wrought is a massive plunge in the tax revenue the City of Arcata has to work with. The City Council grappled with the unprecedented financial catastrophe at a May 27 meeting. A staff report by Finance Director…
Emergency renewed in Arcata, Winkler lets misinformation stand
Mayor Michael Winkler, consistent with his tendency to dispense and fail to correct fearful misinformation, made no effort to address his alarming assertion at the April 13 council meeting that groceries pose a coronavirus infection hazard to consumers.
Arcata council renews emergency, lodges houseless, supports medical workers
“What’s going to happen is, if somebody coughs in one of those situations, the food could be contaminated,” Winkler said, without citing any evidence of groceries being a disease vector in the community. “And that could be a conduit for somebody getting infected.”
Arcata council to consider eviction moratorium, business assistance
PUBLIC ADVISORY: THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER IN CITY HALL WILL NOT BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC COVID-19 NOTICE Consistent with Executive Orders N-25-20 and N-29-20 from the Executive Department of the State of California and the Humboldt County Public Health Officer’s March 19, 2020, Shelter- in-Place Order, the City Council meeting location will not be…
Teleconferenced Arcata City Council meeting underway
The Arcata City Council is meeting online via YouTube and the city website this week in order to observe social distancing guidelines for avoiding Coronavirus infection.
Susan Ornelas resigns from Arcata City Council
City of Arcata ARCATA – City Councilmember Susan Ornelas has stepped down from her position on the Arcata City Council, effective Tuesday, March 10. Susan was first elected to the Arcata City Council in 2008 and served as a Council Member over 11 consecutive years, serving as Mayor in 2011 and 2017. She has represented…
Arcata City Council considering ballot measure to end community water fluoridation
Mad River Union ARCATA – Among the items on the Wednesday, Feb. 5 City Council agenda is community water fluoridation. Arcata has fluoridated its water since the early 1960s, and in 2006 defeated by 62 to 38 percent Measure W, which would have ceased fluoridation. According to a city staff report, Councilmember Paul Pitino has…