Community The SISTER JANE FUND-RAISER sports digest Commerce File Medical expenses a worry .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ......................................Page 1 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Clouds, then sunshine 7 58551 69301 0 WEDNESDAY Aug. 8, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 149 Number 121 email:
[email protected] DA’S DECISION: Raise rescinded, then adopted again Mendez By ZACK SAMPSEL voted Tuesday night to repeal its proved a new board compensation current salary, which brought the The Daily Journal previous personnel salary ordi- ordinance. board’s salaries to $68,640. It’s the boomerang-like pay raise nance, adopted July 1, and shortly The previous ordinance com- Under the new ordinance, pre- that went away, and came right thereafter, by a vote of 3-2, with pensated the supervisors at a rate of sented by Supervisor John Pinches, back. The Mendocino County Supervisors Jim Wattenburger and 40 percent of a Mendocino County shooting Board of Supervisors unanimously Michael Delbar dissenting, ap- Superior Court judge’s $171,600 See RAISE, Page 14 justified By BEN BROWN The Daily Journal Mendocino County District Medical pot: 25 plants Attorney Meredith Lintott announced Tuesday that the shooting death of 20- year-old Cesar Mendez at the hands of Supervisors vote four Ukiah Police Department officers was a justified act of self-defense. to uphold levels Mendez, a known gang member, was shot after he fired on police during set by Measure G a multi-agency gang and probation By BEN BROWN sweep of South Dora Street on April 2.