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Environmental Health highlights staffing crunch, UST removal deadline and microenterprise kitchens
Summary
Director Marlena Dooley told the board environmental-health programs are state-mandated, staff are licensed and certified, and the department faces staffing shortages while implementing multiple programs including single-wall underground storage tank removal (SB 445), ocean/beach monitoring and a proposed microenterprise home-kitchen program.
Mendocino County Environmental Health Director Marlena Dooley briefed supervisors on department programs, licensing requirements and near-term priorities.
Dooley said environmental health enforces state-mandated programs for food protection, recycling and organics rules (including AB 341/AB 1826 and SB 1383 implementation), hazardous-materials oversight, solid-waste and water-agency work and septic/land-use permit review. She emphasized field staff require special licensure: becoming a Registered…
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