This Week with the Supervisors: Interim Aviation Director, Cannabis Grant, and Renaming Cesar Chavez Day
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is set to take up a proposal to rename Cesar Chavez Day “Farmworkers Day”, appoint an interim Aviation Director, and review housing authority programs at its Tuesday, March 24 meeting.
Supervisors will consider appointing current Aviation Director Justin Hopman as a part-time interim director following his resignation. Hopman is stepping down and returning to his previous position in Florida. If he is appointed interim director. He’ll continuing to work remotely for 15 to 20 hours per week to help maintain continuity in the department until a permanent replacement is hired.
Alongside those items, the board is expected to move forward on several significant funding and infrastructure decisions, including accepting $850,000 in state cannabis equity funding for Project Trellis with a proposed county match, and a $50,000 state-funded feasibility study exploring the potential incorporation of McKinleyville.
Supervisors will also consider plans to seek bids for rehabilitation of the Rohnerville Airport runway, approve a new election information management system and related budget adjustment, and take action on multiple Measure O-funded road maintenance and surfacing projects. Additional items include funding tied to a county suicide prevention program, expansion of mental health services in the county jail, and approval of Phase 4 of the Town of Scotia subdivision.
A proposal to restructure Public Works job classifications—including new positions, reclassifications, and salary adjustments—also appears on the agenda.
Consent Calendar
Much of the agenda will be handled through the consent calendar—a group of items approved in a single vote unless a supervisor asks to pull one for separate discussion.
Items currently listed on the consent calendar include:
- Authorization to seek bids for rehabilitation of the Rohnerville Airport runway
- Acceptance of $850,000 in state cannabis equity funding for Project Trellis, along with a proposed $100,000 county match
- An update on the Southern Humboldt Business Improvement District, along with a recommendation to end county support
- Acceptance of $50,000 in state funding for a McKinleyville incorporation feasibility study
- Approval of a new election management system and related budget adjustment
- A grant amendment supporting a suicide prevention program
- A contract amendment to expand mental health services in the county jail
- Multiple road maintenance and surfacing projects funded through Measure O
- Approval of Phase 4 of the Town of Scotia subdivision
- A wide-ranging set of Public Works job classification and salary updates
- Routine items such as board appointments, vacancy reports, expense reports, and prior meeting minutes
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I hope CalFire is paying for the majority of the runway repair to Rohnerville Airport as they are the ones who use it the most.
It turns out that Cesar Chavez had “Feet of Clay”, a common failing of powerful men.
It’s to bad that he had such a disgusting failing. He did so much good for his people!
I see that they are considering a “$50,000 state-funded feasibility study exploring the potential incorporation of McKinleyville.”
Maybe they should also fund a study to put Southern Humboldt up for adoption. The county doesn’t seem to want us.
Maybe its time for the return of the Sequoia County initiative! 😉
The thought that Sequoia County might happen was the beginning of Humboldt County becoming reluctant to invest in any ifrastucture in SoHum. They didn’t want to make any improvements that they might have to sacrifice to a new county.
They even let the old courthouse and Jail rot. They have been talking about repaving the streets and fixing the sidewalks for so long that it has become a standing joke in Garberville. They said that it was sure to happen, and it had already been funded. Total bullshit. The county will never do anything for Garberville.
Like I said before:
Before copulation can occur, everyone involved should sign a “Copulation Contract” stating that Copulation was consented to and intentional.
Never copulate without a contract…
Cesar Chavez probably had sex with some groupies, when he was younger…
Keep good records, and nobody will attack you 40 years from now, for engaging in contractually consensual copulation…
Protect yourself men!
Get a signed contract first…
As far as Chavez is concerned, a contract signed by a 15 year old is worthless.
Absolutely anyone can claim anything they like about a deceased person…
Or living one for that matter. Proof is pretty much irrelevant when passion is involved. No one is more despised than a person of temperance in the middle of passionate partisans. He is hated by both sides.
“The Times investigation featured on-the-record interviews with those who were assaulted, who are speaking publicly of those experiences for the first time. Their accounts were corroborated, in part, by interviews with more than 60 top aides, union members and relatives, as well as a review of hundreds of pages of union records, confidential emails, photographs and contemporaneous audio recordings.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html
And always use a condom…
All men are not rapists…
We can agree not all men are rapists—and still take multiple women accusing the same man seriously. Especially when their accounts stand up to journalists checking their stories with contemporaneous sources.
Unless, of course, your position is that no men are rapists or even that no man ever sexually assaults a woman and gets away with it.
When many make a claim, I have to ask, who verified?
Journalists need copy, and, get paid for it…
I don’t know who or how, but if many claim the same thing, is it valid, decades later?
If a woman wants to have sex with a man, she’s gonna let him know, but it becomes increasingly dangerous to assume anything at all…
Sex is usually a matter of opportunity, proximity and inclination, while character assassination is another matter…
Chavez has been deceased 32 years, so why are we studying this at all?
Times, cultures, mores and sensitivities, are all fluid…
Dead is dead…
Sometimes, a woman can get mad at a man who won’t have sex, or can make unwanted advances or suggest improper things…
Just because it gets written up, does not make it proven in a court of law, and a pattern of behaviour does not indicate proof of anything…
I got no dog in this fight, except to say that men appear to be treated unfairly in the age of #metoo, and I for one am sick of hearing about stuff that may have occurred in the now distant past…
I don’t read the New York Times…
“I got no dog in this fight, except…” That’s not true. Clearly you take it very personally when you said “am sick of hearing about stuff” and “men appear to be treated unfairly.” Whether you are right or wrong, you are not dispassionate.
When a girl child can be assaulted in a public by a total stranger yet have police and the public ask whether she encouraged the attacker, maybe you should think a bit before announcing how unfairly men are treated.
How many taxpayers dollars will be consumed to create, remove, and forget the Cesar Chavez holiday?
Just enough.
There was a holiday?
I was a farm worker, but I never narked on nobody…
How many studies does it take to determine weather or not it is feasible or not for Mckinleyville to incorporate? The Past studies have all said “No it is not feasible.” There is not enough business tax base in Mckinleyville to support incorporating. If Mckinleyville were to incorporate. Property owners would see their property taxes go through the roof. Madrone has been pushing this incorporating Mckinleyville crap for years and he doesn’t even live in McKinleyville. Every time the answer to these the same. NO it’s not feasible. So why does the county continue to spend thousands of dollars it really doesn’t have to waste on studies to get the same answer every time?
Correction: There’s never been a full study that’s required to make a feasibility determination. The business community started the discussion back in the 1960s. Madrone has supported getting the actual study done so people can make informed decisions. Nobody has any idea the potential cost, and you’d get a vote if you live there.
I can’t say I’ve followed the saga closely, but when was the last study done.
Mckinleyville has absolutely exploded in population in the last decade so I would expect that the feasibility has changed.
I wouldn’t personally want McKinleyville to incorporate if I were a property owner there, but maybe most do. I have no idea. It’s certainly an unusually large population center to be unincorporated in our county.
I am pretty disappointed that they moved away from the public square model town center and are pushing forward with a private development model instead. Calling a business park a town center isn’t the same as having a genuine public square to anchor the town.
Below is part of of a search I did for “Cesar Chavez allegations”. California has a state holiday to celebrate a man who was allegedly a rapist of children. Will the party that controls everything in the state change that or condone it through inaction?
Key Allegations:
Maybe people should just stop idealizing or demonizing individuals in order to display proper popular political partisanship. Maybe they should stick to abstractions, like National Cooperation Day or American Honesty Day or something similar and use individuals only as examples of it. Politicians sucking up to useful demographics by choosing a particular favored son is never going end well. Think Presidents Day and not Lincoln’s Birthday.
We can celebrate the contributions of a historical figure like Chavez without deifying him as well.
People are people, MLK was a philanderer, Ghandi was misogynistic and a bit rapey, our founding fathers owned slaves. Those human failings don’t magically erase their contributions to the general well being.
You’re suggestion of sticking to idealized abstractions as focuses of holidays is a great one. I suggest doing the same in our own minds.
Social movements that make change are always bigger than one person, and any person will always have short comings.
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he supports a proposal to rename César Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day following stunning allegations of abuse against the revered labor leader.” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/california-moves-to-rename-cesar-chavez-day-over-sexual-abuse-allegations
Wow! The next thing you know he’s going to call it “Labor Day!”
I’m a left leaning person, but I find the constant renaming thing to be very tiresome, and it’s part of this ‘gotcha’ politics where if they catch you doing anything wrong, you have no value anymore. Also, names aren’t that important. It’s so fussy to be constantly renaming things. What happens if we find out Amerigo Vespucci did something despicable? Should we just stop this before we lose more elections for being such fusspots? And bring back the McKinley statue while we’re at it.
I hope they do a good exit interview with the outgoing Aviation Director. It’s baffling how someone could get hired for an important job and quit in 3 months! What’s going on??!!