Board of Supervisors

This week, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to consolidate the elected Yolo County Clerk-Recorder’s office with the Yolo County Assessor’s office.  The majority of three believed that the move would add efficiency, in that there is at least some overlap between a portion of the offices that deal with real property.

The assessor’s office, for example, sets the values of property while the recorder’s office mans the public documents that deal with land transactions, sales, liens, purchases and easements.

Board of Supervisors Also Votes to Combine Assessor with Clerk-Recorder – It has been 20 years that Mike McGowan has served on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, but he announced on Tuesday that he will be stepping down from his position, following Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s appointment of the Yolo County Supervisor to deputy director of strategic planning and policy at the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

According to a release from Governor Brown, “Mike McGowan, 65, of West Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of strategic planning and policy at the California Department of Motor Vehicles, effective December 4, 2013.”

Supervisor Don Saylor introduced a resolution on Tuesday that called for the Yolo County Board of Supervisors to support water fluoridation in Davis and Woodland.  The resolution would pass by a 4-1 vote with only Supervisor Duane Chamberlain dissenting.

Supervisor Saylor told his colleagues, that a number of bodies within Yolo County, along with the Centers for Disease Control, the American Dental Association, the California Dental Association and numerous scientists and public health specialists, support fluoridation in the water.