I do believe Josie should be reassigned to Guantanamo.  She would be far more effective than waterboarding.  She made my brain hurt today.  I know I would confess to anything to shut her up.

Hopefully, I will get caught up on stories over the next few days but I will make some miscellaneous comments now.

I was at the meeting mainly for the new animal commission; however, our part-time board of supervisors initiative was also being heard.  On top of that, the Park Moabi matter was before the board along with David Zook’s departure and a board item to require minimum standards for members of the retirement board.

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From the Sun:

The proposed initiative would amend the county charter to establish a part-time Board of Supervisors. It would reduce the five supervisors’ staff budgets from $1.5 million per district to $250,000 per office.

“Even if a supervisor worked for free, that amount of money could not sustain just the running of the office,” Gonzales said.

She said if SEBA is successful, she likely will not run for a third term.

“I will give very serious consideration not to run. I have financial obligations that I incurred before I came into office,” Gonzales said, adding that such a drastic cut to her pay and benefits on the Board of Supervisors would prevent her from meeting those financial obligations.

“If I am not able to meet my obligations,” she said, “my responsibiity is to back out and go and work and earn the money so I can pay my bills.”