The Aug. 11 board meeting broadened a Lower Redway tree-protection fight into a countywide ordinance push, with staff also asked to return with a temporary moratorium proposal.
The City Council’s Sept. 1 agenda includes Bill No. 1061-C.S., an urgency ordinance moratorium on data centers, but the agenda does not show what happened at the meeting.
The board tied the Sept. 1 rate change to a $26 million cash-reserve minimum as it warned of PCIA pressure and market volatility.
The Planning Commission did not decide the McKinleyville tower proposal, instead asking for stronger side-by-side material on the Lily Road site and the Letts Avenue alternative.
The board unanimously approved a zone reclassification for about 750 acres in the Rio del Ferndale/Ferndale area, shifting the land to Timberland Production Zone and citing a modest drop in annual property-tax revenue.
The board unanimously approved amendments to coastal zoning rules and repealed a prior ordinance to align county regulations with Coastal Commission requirements.
The board approved changes to its code of conduct and ethics rules and repealed Resolution No. 22-44 after debating whether complaints should go first to county staff or outside counsel.
The board unanimously sustained the superintendent’s decision after a closed-session appeal tied to a challenge to student records.
The Aug. 27 meeting moved Redwood Coast Energy Authority’s public-power discussion into a formal board study session, with staff and commenters pressing questions about PCIA, load growth, resiliency and what a future local service structure could look like.
County Counsel reported the board’s closed-session action after the Sept. 1 meeting, while the agenda showed the litigation was formally before supervisors.
A special meeting agenda and minutes show the council negotiated with three counterparties over the River Lodge Conference Center before returning to open session with no reportable action.
The Humboldt Bay Harbor District is set to consider a contract with the Northern California Indian Development Council for tribal engagement tied to planning for the offshore wind heavy lift marine terminal.
The board’s Sept. 9 meeting agenda includes a public hearing on instructional materials, a related resolution and an action item to set the superintendent’s 2026-27 salary.
The Sept. 8 agenda includes Ordinance 2026-788, which would add a new chapter to the city code regulating massage establishments.
The Sept. 8 draft agenda includes proposed new reading and math curricula, handbook updates, an LCAP revision and an ELOP-linked classified pay schedule change.
A staff report asks council to approve a contract with R.A.O. Construction Co. for Arcata’s 2026 annual paving project, which includes work on several city streets.
Council members discussed a possible short-term moratorium while staff studies how the city should regulate data centers.
RCEA said the Sept. 1 increase would help keep reserves at a minimum $26 million and limit larger future rate hikes.
Supervisors approved the 10-month contract with SVT Gruppe, Inc. after a board discussion raised questions about why the selected bid was well above lower offers.
Council signed off on two more spending increases tied to the wastewater treatment facilities upgrade, one for construction and one for engineering.
The council opened the public hearing on the Waley House rehabilitation and lot split, then continued it to Sept. 16 after staff found missing exhibits in the packet.
The council took the first formal step on a rewrite that would broaden nuisance definitions, shift hearing authority to the city manager and allow the city to seek attorney fees in nuisance-abatement cases.
The board voted in closed session to bring in Stole Reeves for permitting and environmental review work tied to the heavy lift marine terminal project.
The Aug. 5 meeting also included a consent-calendar approval of the city’s artificial intelligence rules and the introduction of a nuisance-code overhaul that would change abatement hearings and legal-cost recovery.
