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Board forms ad hoc and directs staff to draft ordinance to restore separate auditor and treasurer offices
Summary
Following public testimony and presentations by the county auditor‑controller‑treasurer, supervisors directed staff to draft an ordinance to repeal the 2021 consolidation and to return to the board for two hearings so voters could decide whether the Auditor and Treasurer offices should be elected in 2026.
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors heard repeated public requests on Oct. 21 to reverse a 2021 consolidation that combined the auditor‑controller and treasurer‑tax collector offices. Several department leaders and members of the public urged the board to begin a process to restore the offices as separately elected positions.
Denise Parker (Department of Social Services) and Chamise Covington (Auditor‑Controller, Treasurer‑Tax Collector) appeared in the informational part of the agenda; Covington recommended the board take the procedural steps necessary to call an election to re‑establish separate elected offices. Covington said it remained her "professional opinion that the offices of the auditor…
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