In what is hopefully the last chapter in the Inyo Board of Supervisors’ 26-percent salary increase, County Counsel Marshall Rudolph presented a resolution mapping out the protocol for Supervisors to waive their salaries altogether. That waiver was requested by Supervisor Jennifer Roeser at the Board’s June 15 meeting after a 4-1 vote to increase their […]
One of the questions put to each of the four applicants for Inyo County Clerk-Recorder-Registrar of Voters was unique to these strange times. “What would you do if asked to alter the results of an election?” The candidate chosen for the position at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting, Danielle Sexton, was the most tactful. “People […]
UPDATE: On June 11, in the Original Post, reporter Deb Murphy wrote– “…the Inyo Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to bump their salaries by 26-percent, up from $57,180 to $72,060 annually.” June 15, 2021–Procedurally, the Inyo Board of Supervisors approves ordinances twice. So, Tuesday, they verified their 4-1 vote to give themselves a $14,880 annual […]
The Inyo Board of Supervisors got an update from CalTrans staff on future road projects at its Tuesday meeting starting with the four-lane expansion of U.S. Hwy. 395 at Olancha later this year and extending through 2026. But, any conversation centered on the highway always leads to issues of high speeds and truck traffic and […]
By Deb Murphy Inyo residents and the Board of Supervisors will get a chance to weigh in on the county’s draft cannabis ordinances at the November 7 meeting. The staff report, ordinance and commercial licensing procedures are all available on the Planning Department website, under current projects. The 1:30 timed item kicks off an abbreviated […]
By Deb Murphy There seems to be a trend here: when the big guns from Los Angeles Department of Water and Power attend Inyo County Supervisors’ meetings, the end result is “cautious optimism.” At least that was the case yesterday when the Board of Supervisors discussed condemnation proceedings on the three county landfills, all operating […]
Museum’s 2014 Historic Calendar Features Women of Inyo County The interesting and intriguing women who have endured and thrived in Inyo County are featured in the Eastern California Museum’s 2014 calendar. The calendar shines a spotlight on a wide variety of women who have called Inyo County home from the pioneer days to the 1960s. […]
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wants to build a 200 megawatt solar project south of Independence. LA will get all the taxes from the project and the power. What does Inyo get? Not much, according to a proposed Term Sheet negotiated by Inyo and DWP staff. The Board of Supervisors approved the […]
The big question now in the solar future of Inyo County is whether or not the State Energy Commission will let BrightSource Energy build its major Hidden Hills Solar project near Death Valley. Hearings on the proposed 500-megawatt project were scheduled to start Tuesday in Shoshone. Hearings will then take place next Monday and Tuesday […]
Public interest has waned hugely, and the Inyo Supervisors still scold those people who do criticize the water issue that drags on with the key question still unresolved – when and how do officials turn off Los Angles pumps to protect the environment. This issue was slated to come up again at an Inyo-LA Standing […]
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