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Board splits on language for county legislative platform; supervisors to reconcile climate wording after public outcry
Summary
Supervisors debated edits to the county’s legislative platform that would change or expand climate‑related wording. Public commenters largely urged stronger climate language. The Board directed senior supervisors and staff to merge the Williams proposal with existing platform language and return with a redline for early January.
Mendocino County supervisors spent a prolonged portion of their Dec. 16 meeting debating proposed revisions to the county legislative platform that would add or restore explicit climate and equity language.
Supervisor Ted Williams presented amendments drafted after public input, urging the platform explicitly address climate mitigation, healthy forest management and investments in local job training. “The people are asking for this,” Williams said; he urged the Board to represent constituents’ values in the platform’s wording.
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