Siskiyou County supervisors authorize counsel to seek nuisance-abatement order

The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors reported that it met in closed session and unanimously authorized County Counsel to pursue a public-nuisance abatement action, according to the clerk's report to the open meeting.

The clerk told the board that "Board of supervisors entered closed session at 10:29AM, exited at 11:37AM." The clerk then reported that, "during closed session, upon motion of Supervisor Comteff and seconded by Supervisor Harris, board voted unanimously to authorize County Council to bring an action to declare property as a public nuisance and obtain orders to abate the nuisance." The transcript used the phrase "County Council"; this article uses the corrected term "County Counsel" to reflect the county's legal office responsible for filing such actions.

The transcript does not identify the property targeted for the action, the location of the property, the legal basis cited beyond "public nuisance," nor the number of supervisors who participated in the closed-session vote. The clerk also reported that the board convened as the IHSHS public authority from 10:35AM to 10:55AM and that there was "nothing to report from the IHSHS public authority."

No other business was raised after the report and the meeting was adjourned, according to the clerk's closing remarks. The board did not announce any follow-up timeline or next steps for public disclosure of the nuisance action in the available transcript.