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Citizens Advisory Committee backs Measure Z Option 1, prioritizing fire and school resource officer funding
Summary
The Citizens Advisory Committee voted to adopt the ad hoc panels recommended three-year Measure Z spending plan (Option 1), reallocating $400,000 from public works and prioritizing funds for Fortunas school resource officer and incremental fire funding; the motion passed in a roll call vote and will be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors.
The Humboldt County Citizens Advisory Committee voted to adopt the ad hoc committees recommended Measure Z three-year spending plan (Option 1), a proposal that reassigns $400,000 in public-works funding and shifts more recurring support toward county public-safety departments while reducing the application pool available to community partners.
County staff presented three options for how to treat the $400,000 that had been part of a public-works allocation. Under Option 1, $200,000 would be allocated to Fortuna to fund a school resource officer (SRO) and related drug-task-force support, an additional $500,000 in one-time funding would be staged to bring automatic fire funding toward a…
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