Debra Moore
Staff Writer
11/14/2012
Though the Plumas County Board of Supervisors balked last month when the grand jury requested a $3,000 transfer for out-of-county travel, the board ultimately approved the expenditure during its Nov. 6 meeting.
About $1,600 will be used to send nine members to a report-writing workshop in Sacramento.
Dennis Doyle, the grand jury’s foreman, told the supervisors that last year only two grand jury members attended the workshop, and it put too much work on those individuals to write the report.
Doyle said the money would be used to pay for workshop costs and hotels, but that the jury members would pay for their own meals and travel costs.
Supervisor Lori Simpson asked Doyle if those conducting the workshops “talked about tone,” alluding to some of the comments included in the 2011-12 grand jury report, which chided the supervisors for being “oblivious” among other findings.
“Yes, absolutely,” Doyle said, adding that the jury likes “to look at it as a report card from the teacher.”
That analogy appeared to irk Supervisor Jon Kennedy who said that a report card “is usually based on facts.”
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