Back in January 2025 the Board of Supervisors voted in an unannounced closed session to pay former Sheriff's Captain Pat Kropholler nearly $2.8 million to end his retaliation lawsuit — five months after the county's own investigator found most of his allegations not sustained.

Two charter measures voters rejected in 2024 get their final vote Tuesday — at the meeting certifying the election that unseated their sponsor, under brand-new public-comment time caps, with a $565,000 Axon contract riding consent.

Supervisors weigh a letter backing a contested state public-records bill and a new policy to auto-delete non-record county emails after a year, alongside a $7.5 million mental-health contract, an expanded CEO spending limit and the certification of James Gallagher's congressional win.

Supervisors take the first votes to send two rejected 2024 charter measures — on eminent domain and elected-office vacancies — back to the November ballot, adopt a $658 million budget and backfill $235,057 in victim services.

Tuesday's Shasta County agenda asks supervisors to revive two charter amendments voters rejected in 2024, advance an 18% nonprofit cost cap the county's own auditor and counsel won't endorse, and decide in closed session whether to defend Measure B against the state's lawsuit. A guide to what's on the table — and what's worth watching.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors meets Monday with one of its most consequential agendas of the year: the formal opening of FY 2026-27 budget hearings that will run into next week, a vote on a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence use policy, and a public hearing to rewrite the county's accessory dwelling unit code. The board will also consider a five-year, $6.2 million renewal with GEO Reentry Services — a subsidiary of one of the largest private prison and detention operators in t...