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Lake County Board of Supervisors proclaims May 2025 Community Action Month, honors North Coast Opportunities
Summary
At its May 2025 meeting the Lake County Board of Supervisors adopted a proclamation designating May 2025 as Community Action Month and recognized North Coast Opportunities for poverty‑reduction programs serving Lake and Mendocino counties.
At its May 2025 meeting the Lake County Board of Supervisors adopted a proclamation designating May 2025 as Community Action Month and recognized North Coast Opportunities (NCO) for providing poverty‑reduction services across Lake and Mendocino counties.
The proclamation cites community action agencies’ role in “creating pathways to prosperity” by supporting job training, child care and other locally tailored programs. The board read and adopted the proclamation during the meeting; a formal roll‑call vote was not specified in the public transcript.
Dan, identified at the meeting as the new chief executive officer of North Coast Opportunities, described the agencies’ origins and the programs NCO runs. He told the board that community action agencies were created during President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty and that NCO was established in the 1960s to serve both Lake and Mendocino counties because each county was too small for its own separate agency. Dan said the agency operates programs such as Head Start and child care, supports job creation and environmental work, and that “there’s over a thousand community action agencies in the United States.” He also said NCO faced funding cuts earlier in the year.
Board members praised NCO’s local programs and volunteers. Supervisors and other speakers noted specific initiatives—including home hardening, community gardens that teach residents to grow food, and a disaster- and housing-navigation program called New Digs—and referenced local partners such as the Meadow Lake Food Hub. One supervisor referenced the county’s earlier use of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to support related housing efforts.
The board took a group photo after the proclamation. The transcript does not record additional formal motions tied to the proclamation or further board direction; no follow-up tasks, reporting requirements or implementation dates for the proclamation were specified in the record.
