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File #: 25-1164    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Informational Report Status: Consent Agenda
File created: 9/19/2025 In control: County Administrative Office
On agenda: 10/21/2025 Final action:
Title: Fiscal Year 2024-25 Grand Jury Responses: "Wings Over Humboldt County: Charting a New Course for the Department of Aviation," "Scales of Justice Out of Balance: Humboldt County Public Defender's Office," and "Built to Burn? Emergency Access Challenges on Humboldt Hill"
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. Aviation Report, 3. Aviation Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 4. Public Defender’s Office Report, 5. Public Defender Report - Board of Supervisors Response, 6. Humboldt Hill Emergency Access Report, 7. Humboldt Hill Emergency Access Report - Board of Supervisors Response

To: Board of Supervisors

From: County Administrative Office

Agenda Section: Consent

Vote Requirement: Majority

SUBJECT:
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Fiscal Year 2024-25 Grand Jury Responses: "Wings Over Humboldt County: Charting a New Course for the Department of Aviation," "Scales of Justice Out of Balance: Humboldt County Public Defender's Office," and "Built to Burn? Emergency Access Challenges on Humboldt Hill"
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Review and modify as necessary the proposed Grand Jury responses from the Board of Supervisors (Attachments 2, 4 and 6); and
2. Approve the documents, as may be modified, as the response; and
3. Direct the Clerk of the Board, within five working days, to submit two copies of all attached responses to the County Clerk/Recorder, together with a copy of the original reports; and
4. Direct the Clerk of the Board, within five working days, to submit two copies of attached responses to the Clerk of the Court, one of which will be forward to the State Archivist, together with a copy of the original reports.

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STRATEGIC PLAN:
This action supports the following areas of your Board's Strategic Plan.

Area of Focus: Core Services/Other
Strategic Plan Category: 9999 - Core Services/Other

DISCUSSION:
The Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury investigates and reports on the operations, accounts, and records of the officers, departments or functions of the County of Humboldt and other local government agencies. The county sincerely thanks the Grand Jury for its hard work and efforts they have put forth in their 2024-25 Grand Jury reports.

The Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury has submitted nine Fiscal Year 2024-25 reports to the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, of which eight pertained to the County of Humboldt and were received. Your Board approved responses to five of these reports at a previous meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. The remaining three reports that require responses from your ...

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