Public commenter alleges county mismanagement, lost cannabis tax revenue linked to employee conduct

An unidentified speaker who addressed the board during general public comment accused county officials and a county employee identified in the transcript as "Dennis Pzanich" of conduct that, the speaker said, had cost the county "millions of dollars" in lost tax revenue tied to a commercial cannabis industry that the commenter said never developed locally. "The personal conduct of a county employee by the name of Dennis Pzanich has cost our county millions of dollars in lost tax revenue from a robust and healthy commercial cannabis industry," the commenter said.

The speaker referenced a 2019 decision in which, the commenter said, the board supported Joyce Dudley in suing the speaker and the speaker’s parents in civil court and said that a cannabis producer was left off the complaint. The commenter urged the board to consider the fiscal consequences of its decisions, warned about the county's self-insured settlement exposure, and implored supervisors to apply the rule of law and moral obligations when making decisions.

Those comments were delivered as part of general public comment; no formal staff response or board action on the allegations appears in the meeting record.