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County social workers, child-welfare staff petition supervisors over proposed staffing changes
Summary
Employees in Mendocino County Family and Children Services told supervisors during public comment that proposed staffing reassignments risk client safety and would destabilize services; staff brought a signed petition asking the Board to pause implementation and collaborate with line staff.
County social-services employees and foster-care staff used the Board of Supervisors' public-comment period Sept. 9 to press elected officials to pause proposed staffing changes in Family and Children Services, presenting a petition they said was signed by a majority of the unit.
Jeff Weston, who identified himself as an executive-board member of SEIU County Local 51 and a foster-care supervisor, told the board he had brought copies of a petition signed by "the vast majority" of Family and Children Services staff in Fort Bragg, Willits and Ukiah. The petition "respectfully request[ed] that social services…
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