Resident urges Del Norte supervisors to move more items from consent agenda to general business

During the consent-agenda period and again during the timed public-comment segment, a resident identified in the record as Sam criticized the board's use of the consent agenda and urged that more items be moved to general business for public review.

"You folks have really been slack ... your lack of transparency with the consent agenda creates issues," Sam said, and later pressed the board to explain large apparent increases in county spending. The speaker also urged caution on Health and Human Services contracts, saying sometimes services "do not exist" and taxpayers can lose large sums to fraud and waste.

The board completed its consent agenda votes with the noted corrections to item 4 and the pulled portion of item 10; supervisors did not take action in response to the public comment beyond proceeding with the agenda and later reviewing budget items in general business.