For years Dolores Lucero has watched local government on her own time and her own dime: researching, filing complaints, requesting records and showing up at the podium. Some of those complaints became state cases. On Nov. 3 she asks Shasta Lake voters to send her back to the Shasta Lake City Council, where voters recalled her from her seat in 2012.

A $300,000 clinic loan the county never collected is up for forgiveness in three steps, and a County Fire plan up for adoption calls funding a critical issue but recommends no source. Also on Tuesday: a no-bid emergency after Jones Valley's water ran dry, contracts up for approval after the work began, a change in who approves new supervisors' training, and a rundown of all 28 agenda items.

The county's top lawyer is up for a new four-year contract for the second time since last August. Sworn testimony he gave in an unrelated criminal trial describes texting the then-board chair during meetings and calling it privileged legal advice. A staff report recommends moving a $1.5 million opioid-settlement grant program's review panel from the board to staff. Health and social-service contracts worth more than $6.6 million are up for approval months after the services began.

The man who spent August filming Clint Curtis's elections office is now suing him, and the county, to keep the 2024 ballots from being destroyed. The same week, a federal grand jury subpoenaed Curtis over the June primary. In open session, the board votes on a lease-termination letter for an address that was never in the lease, and on removing a planning commissioner for reasons that appear in the press but not in the packet.

Video and photographs obtained by North State Breakdown show federal agents in vests marked "POLICE ICE" and "ERO" walking a man to an unmarked pickup truck. The encounter comes amid a sharp rise in detentions at a Redding ICE facility that city officials have said they knew little about.

Tuesday's consent calendar carries the county's own written admission that Public Works broke the Clean Water Act, a Planning Commissioner removed with no explanation on the record at all, and a legal contract with no spending ceiling left on it. Four property owners owe the county $560,940 they haven't paid — and outside the meeting, both unions representing elections staff are lining up to tell the board they want Clint Curtis gone.