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Innovation is a cornerstone of successful farming, and no one knows that more than grower Glenn Noma.After a long, successful career with the large California vegetable farm, Tanimura & Antle, he has a creative new endeavor in the Salinas Valley – hydroponic strawberries.Growing them in this unusual way provides many benefits, including providing berries to consumers during times when conventional operations are unable to fulfill.Noma said Redox Bio-Nutrients has long been a key to his success, with diKaP™, Mainstay™ Calcium 2.0 and Mainstay™ Si among his proven winners.“In my overall fertilizer budget, I was actually spending less per acre per year and getting better and higher quality yields,” he said. “Now I'm using it for hydroponic strawberries, and  it has worked extraordinarily well.”Glenn is a third-generation produce grower, and his past innovation includes designing a solar powered harvester.

Former Weekend AM host and producer Angela Antle tells us about her upcoming work as the Rachel Carson Writer in Residence at the University of Munich, in Germany 

Mondays can have the tendency to suck. Here's a little surprise to brighten yours up!Previously Ash and Cam had the pleasure of speaking with ex-employee of cult leader Doc Antle, Barbara Fisher. Barbara worked for Antle at his Mytle Beach "safari" for eight years and was prominently featured in Tiger King and Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story. Breast augmentations and name changes under duress, the breaking of the spirits of both humans and animals, and so much more!✨Check out our Patreon. There is a FREE version!   https://www.patreon.com/TSFUYou get access to over 200 episodes that aren't on the regular feed (ad-free for $5 and up members), AND you'll getTSFU episodes Tuesdays instead of Fridays! We have awesome welcome packages for new members at the $5 tier and above. 

If you watched Tiger King on Netflix in 2020, you probably remember the a**hole with a long ponytail who constantly dresses like he's on safari and surrounds himself with skinny women who like like Jane from Tarzan, constantly toting tigers on leashes. That man was Doc Antle, owner of Myrtle Beach Safari, the "zoo" that inspired Joe Exotic to open The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. Antle started off as a magician who got real tight with famous Guru Swami Satchidananda Saraswati, and became somewhat of a celebrity at Swami's Yogaville compound in Virginia. He began claiming to be a doctor and enlightened being, amassing followers and abusing teenage girls, and things only got crazier from there. Antle is a notorious abuser of big cats, but today's story more focuses on Antle himself and the cult that he runs, but calls a "wildlife preserve".TW: Animal abuse and severe maimingSPOILERS:Ash and Fallon also discuss Max's new docuseries Chimp Crazy and one of the most insane stories Ash has ever heard. "Former nurse-turned-exotic-animal-broker Tonia Haddix spends her days caring for animals in captivity, referring to herself as the "Dolly Parton of chimps." However, her limitless love for one chimpanzee spins into a wild cat-and-mouse game with authorities and an animal rights group. Through the experiences of Tonia and other "chimp moms," "Chimp Crazy" is a series that reveals the bonds between owners and their highly intelligent great ape pets, as well as the risks to the welfare of the animals themselves."- WikipediaPlay Bingo with us! Download your Murder Bingo sheet HERE and play along with today's episode!✨Check out our Patreon. There is a FREE version!   https://www.patreon.com/TSFUYou get access to over 200 episodes that aren't on the regular feed (ad-free for $5 and up members), AND you'll getTSFU episodes Tuesdays instead of Fridays! We have awesome welcome packages for new members at the $5 tier and above. 

We all have unconscious biases and stereotypes. With the day for Truth and Reconciliation coming up, we'll hear from the CBC's Amanda Gear and Sarah Antle about some of the harmful impacts of Indigenous stereotypes.

We asked listeners to reimagine the St. John's Harbourfront, without the prison cell bars in the way. The Morning Show's Sarah Antle was in studio, and she asked for your opinions of what the harbourfront could look like. Now, she's back to tell us about some of your responses.

I asked Trent Antle to join me on this episode of the UnSunday Show because I wanted to hear more his story and I wanted others to have that same opportunity. After 20 years as a pastor in the institutional church setting, Trent began to see through the facade of propped-up religion as his eyes were being opened more and more to the New Covenant gospel of grace. He eventually walked away, not from Jesus, but from the system of organized church. This is his story and I hope you'll be encouraged by it.This episode is also available on video at https://youtu.be/jpfAKZ8PwPoOther Places You'll Find MeThe Grace Cafe Podcast: https://www.gracecafepodcast.com TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@unsunday.mikeInstagram https://www.instagram.com/grace.podcasts/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/TheUnSundayShowMusic: Podcast Corporate, JD-SoundLicensed for use via Audio Jungle andEnvato Pty, Ltd.Leave Me a Rating/Review

Tiger King star Bhagavan "Doc" Antle avoided going to prison in connection to convictions for animal trafficking and conspiracy to commit animal trafficking in Virginia on Tuesday, October 3. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to the show! Today I've got a great guest with me, Sean Antle is here to talk about how he uses his voice to make people's lives simpler in HR.  Sean and I had the opportunity to work together several months back and he's understanding of the value of communication is stellar. In today's episode Sean and I talk about his work, why it matters to him and the value of being able to use your voice in all situations with all types of people and the how and why around communication as an asset.   Sean's Bio Sean is from Tulsa, Okla., where he is raising three boys with his wife Ashley. He is a life-long Oklahoma Sooners football and St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan. He has been an HR consultant for 25 years, with the last six years serving HR customers an an employee experience evangelist in the ServiceNow ecosystem.

Ginger Wilson, Antle, who is the new owner of snaps which is located in the former tanners restaurant building on the Square in Jamestown.   Also, former Jamestown mayor, Brooks Bates, will join the discussion to talk about Tanners restaurant in the early and what it was like growing up around the Square in Jamestown.

Bhagavan "Doc" Antle, featured in the Netflix series "Tiger King," was convicted for wildlife trafficking and conspiracy to commit wildlife trafficking this month (6/2023) in a Viriginia state court. Sentencing is set for later this year, but now the focus is on the federal indictment against Antle.  PETA's Brittany Peet tells Emil Guillermo the fight continues at the level to bring Antle to justice.   Go to PETA.org The PETA Podcast PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization with all its global entities, is 9 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way. Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism. Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe.  Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.  Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!  (Originally released June 21, 2023). ©copyright 2023 

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We're joined by BlueClaws RHP Chase Antle on our latest episode. The right-hander from Ohio signed with the Phillies out of Coastal Carolina in 2020 but missed 2021 and 2022 with injuries. He made his pro debut with the BlueClaws on April 8th. We talk about the winding road of his career from Bowling Green to Coastal Carolina to the Covid year, to a pair of missed seasons after surgeries, and now to the mound. Hook Line & Splitter is presented by Judd Shaw Injury Law.

Cost overruns and delays at the new jail county continue, with exasperation on all sides at inaccurate estimates, delays at the state level, a continuing lack of financial information, and fears that the county will be unable to meet its obligations. The new estimated date to complete construction, which has not yet begun, is May 2025, rather than March 2024, which was the originally anticipated milestone. The new cost estimate is more than ten million dollars higher than the original, with an estimated funding shortfall of $1.4 million. Supervisor Dan Gjerde expressed frustration over the estimates provided by contractor Nacht and Lewis, the architecture firm that's been working on the design phase of the project. “We may be about one year behind schedule at this point, but now the costs are estimated by Nacht and Lewis as being 42% higher than originally estimated,” he calculated. “I don't know if Nacht and Lewis has any insurance policy or anything. To what extent do they validate, when they're hired by customers, that they are providing agencies with a good estimate when agencies submit a grant application, because for example, had we known when we applied that the costs were going to be substantially higher, we could have asked for a grant form the state for more than $25 million. We asked for $25 million because Nacht and Lewis said the project would cost $26 million, and it required a minimal county match. At this point, the county match has ballooned from one million to I think it's about $12 million at this point or more. So I really wonder about the ethical practices of Nacht and Lewis, if they are that far off the mark…and just finally, ultimately, I feel like the county needs to make a full court press to go back to the state and say, hey, this is your program. You're realigning people from state prisons into county jails. It's in the best interests of the public that we do that, but it's not bearable for a small rural poor county like Mendocino to pay so much of the share of this project that was originally a state project.” With the books not yet closed for the last fiscal year, Supervisor Glenn McGourty, who is the new chair this year, tried to get an idea of how the county will pay for its share of the project. That information is still not available, according to CEO Darcie Antle. “Any thoughts about how we're going to afford this?” he asked. Antle told him she hopes the fiscal year 22/23 books will be closed soon, at which point the executive office will have an estimate of the carry-forward. There will be a budget workshop for the upcoming fiscal year at the next regular Board of Supervisors meeting on January 24. “This is a real horror show of signing up for something that you don't really know the price for, and it keeps escalating, making it very, very difficult for us to meet all of the other things that we want to do for the county,” McGourty noted. Eric Fadness, of Nacht and Lewis, said the delays and overruns are due to factors that are beyond his control. He also told the board that the limit on the amount the county could have applied for to build the jail was $25 million. “Any additional costs to the project would have to come out of county cash match,” he said. “We do not control the construction market. We do our best to estimate the ongoing escalation in costs, but we don't have a crystal ball to predict the escalation that's occurring now, with inflation, supply chain delays…I'd also like to point out that we don't control the state's process. And the delays to the project have largely been due to state delays in approving the ground lease for the project. That took well over a year of processing for that to occur. And we were held up in our time frames to complete the construction documents while those processes were occurring. And then recently, with the state fire marshal's office. Many other counties are experiencing delays with state fire marshall review and approval. You're not alone. But we can't control that process.That is a process that only the state fire marshall has control of…Unfortunately, where we're at today, the costs have increased significantly, mainly because of the delays, and because of the current market.” Sheriff Matt Kendall was blunt about his assessment of the state's responsibility for the jail, emphasizing that many inmates who used to be housed in state prisons are now in county facilities. “The state of California is beginning to, for lack of better terms, beginning to step away from many of the responsibilities that they had in the past,” he opined. “I think they are working on some unrealistic numbers. We are seeing a reduction in the state prison population that is probably, based on what I can see, very reliant on some of the covid precautions that were taken, and those numbers are going to jump back up. And when that occurs, I think that we've all got to be ready…The state has stepped away from some of their standard responsibilities. And if they're going to step away from them, then they need to make whole the people who are going to be doing some of these things.”

December 12, 2022, Sarah Reith — The Board of Supervisors is looking for $6.1 million to balance its books for Fiscal Year 2021/22, as costs and interest rates soar and sales tax decreases. The county reached a tentative agreement with its largest employee union for a 2% Cost of Living Adjustment, which it might be able to fund with a pension reserve account. The self-funded healthcare plan that was in place when the county racked up a $3.6 million deficit has now been swapped out for a pool plan that will require an increase in employee contributions. That's supposed to save the county $685,000 a year, but unknown future obligations are likely to be sizable. At last week's budget workshop, the Board reviewed an analysis of the costs for building the new jail for mentally ill inmates, which includes millions in staffing. The Board also heard a reminder that the county is still waiting on more than $9 million of covid relief money promised by FEMA. That money has been borrowed from the treasury, and the interest is not recoverable. And there's been no paper trail documenting the direction that former auditor Lloyd Weer allegedly received from the State Controller's office in 2016, telling him the county should spend down the healthcare reserves by not paying into the health plan for three months out of the year or requiring employees to pay into it. Supervisor Ted Williams described the situation to Assembly member Jim Wood last week, and asked him for help from the state. “I don't know, when I've voted on balanced budgets in the past, whether they were actually balanced,” Williams said. “That's coming to light. We have a health plan that was millions over, and part of that was due to a holiday. I understand that's because we got a call from the state. The state said we had accumulated too much money. We needed to spend it down. I don't know what department of the state or why they would have done that by phone instead of writing…our finances are in such disarray, if I were in the state's position, I would be looking at this rural county, thinking, we need to conserve them, clean up this mess and then give control back. Do you have any thoughts on how we move forward? We don't have the local labor pool, we don't have the funds to hire the staffing. It sounds like we have an office that was based on paper and spreadsheets, not automated systems. I think the Board and staff want to move forward and get our books in order, but we don't know how.” Wood was noncommittal, saying, “We're happy to work with you on that. Those are issues that we're becoming aware of. I don't know where there is potential for state resources there, but one of the things I'm always pushing for in my role is more technical assistance and support for rural counties.” Acting Deputy CEO Sara Pierce told the Board the county has received $9.1 million in covid money from FEMA and is still waiting for another $9.4 million. Supervisor John Haschak questioned her and CEO Darcie Antle. Pierce said when the county receives the amount FEMA has promised, it will go into the county's disaster recovery budget unit, since that unit “is currently sitting in a $10 million deficit.” “How does that deficit show up?” Haschak asked. “Are we using reserves to cover that deficit at this point?” Antle told him that she believes the county is paying interest to the treasury, as it is for the money it borrowed to cover the health plan deficit. “And so that interest won't be recoverable,” Haschak deduced. “When FEMA finally pays us, it will just be the base pay.” “Correct,” Antle confirmed. The Board also learned that the new jail will cost the county $2.5 million a year in employee wages and benefits. General Services Agency Director Janelle Rau explained why expectations for ongoing facilities costs at the new jail have risen. “We're moving towards a cost of ownership model, versus the historical practice of what is contained in the Board's Policy 33 regarding facility maintenance,” she said. That policy, last amended in 2007, states that seventy cents per square foot is to be funded for future capital costs. The standards for the cost of ownership model, which includes a capital reserve that budgets for ongoing facilities upkeep, is closer to $3 a square foot. Projections under the new model are sobering, and possibly more realistic. Rau told the Board that, “What we've estimated now, based on that expanded footprint, would be an additional $175,000. Again, currently the Board is not funding capital maintenance reserves. Funding is occurring on a project by project basis.” Supervisor Dan Gjerde argued for several belt-tightening initiatives, including consolidating dispatch services, offering employees the option of a less comprehensive healthcare plan, and unloading county parks. “How can we maintain the pretense that we're going to keep these five or six county parks that are basically neighborhood parks?” he asked, before proposing an aggressive policy for park divestiture. “I think we need to set a schedule, where in the next two to three years, at a certain date and point in time, they will be offloaded. We will put them on the open market, if no non-profit steps forward, if no community services district steps forward, because we do not have the money to maintain our county roads.” The budget ad hoc committee, which consists of Supervisors Williams and Glenn McGourty, made several suggestions, including maintaining the current vacancy rate for non-mandated General Fund positions, except for those currently in recruitment; decommissioning services, including animal control on the coast; and increasing remote work to cut down on county-maintained office space. The budget workshop is on the agenda again for tomorrow's meeting. The Board will also decide on whether or not to accept agreements with two employee unions.

December 7, 2022--How are County services funded? Mendocino CEO Darcie Antle joins Supervisor Gjerde to provide the big picture. Darcie and Dan also outline several budget challenges and opportunities facing Mendocino County over the next few years.

November 9, 2022 — The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors attempted Tuesday to close in on who and what is responsible for the multi-million shortfall in the health plan, which has caused as-yet unknown damage to the county's fiscal health. The county has set aside $4.6 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA funds, to patch the hole in the health plan deficit, which accumulated over two and half years but didn't come to light until April of this year. In addition to the $4 million projected deficit, this week's CEO report stated that there was an incurred but not reported loss of $2.6 million in Fiscal Year 20/21. CEO Darcie Antle reported previously that in fiscal year 16/17, then-Auditor Controller Lloyd Weer said the State Controller recommended spending down an overly robust reserve in the health plan. The county and its employees responded with a health holiday, which means neither party made health insurance payments for three months out of the year for fiscal years 17/18 and 18/19. Supervisor Dan Gjerde identified a key flaw in that approach at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting. “It was represented to the Board by the elected auditor, Lloyd Weer, that the State of California was telling him that the reserves were too large,” he recalled. “And that they needed to be drawn down. At the time, their proposal was to only extend the holiday to the employees. Well, the county, the plan sponsor, is paying 75% of the plan. So the Board said, well, we'll have the holiday, but both parties benefit equally. When employees have a pay holiday, so will the county. What the managers should have said was well, we weren't proposing that. We'll need to scale that back to maybe one month, because both parties are having a holiday. They never said that. They just went ahead and implemented a three-month pay holiday for both the employees and the employers and they did not speak up, as they should have, and said, well the math doesn't work with that.” Deputy CEO Cherie Johnson told the Board that Weer was the only one who knew exactly what the communication from the state had been. “I have not ever seen any documentations from the State, stating that the health plan reserves or savings needed to be drawn down,” she told the Board. “That was information that I had received from the auditor's office. We did talk with our broker. He had never seen that either, and he said other counties had not received that information.” Now, in the wake of the pandemic, the deficit is one of many heavy blows to the local economy. Cannabis taxes are lagging in a lackluster market, and the county has yet to see millions in disaster reimbursements from FEMA. County workers, feeling the pinch of inflation and frustrated by the lack of a cost of living adjustment, or COLA, packed the chambers to overflowing during public comment, with social workers citing staggering caseloads and union leadership warning of an impending worker exodus. SEIU 1021, the county's largest union, is asking for a 2% COLA, but county negotiators won't budge. Antle reported that the county is offering each employee a one-time payment of $3,000 from the ARPA fund, but is asking for a year-long pause in the COLA until last year's fiscal books are closed. In early October, the county switched over from its self-funded health plan to a fully funded plan called PRISM health, an insurance pool for counties and other public entities that allowed employees to stay with their current healthcare providers. Health plan premium increases have been frozen until fiscal year 23/24. But even with a new health plan, supervisors wanted to talk about how the old plan's deficit spiraled out of control. Gjerde said the Board got bad information about the health holiday. “At no time was the Board advised that it would result in depleting all of the reserves and actually creating a deficit,” he emphasized. “That's been new information since we've had a changeover in auditor and new people managing the healthcare fund and new eyes on the healthcare fund. I believe there should have been better advice given to the Board.” County Counsel Christian Curtis conceded that the Board had gotten bad information. “In some cases, the information that was put into the sheets as to what balances you were drawing out, and what one-time funds you were using, may have been incorrectly entered into the spreadsheets before they went to the Board, and that you may have had that erroneous information in front of you at the time that those decisions were made,” he said. When Supervisor Glenn McGourty asked him who would have entered the information, Curtis replied that the CEO may “be able to speak to that a little bit better. My understanding is they were generated by the auditor's office.” Supervisor John Haschak pointed out that more than one party was supposed to be keeping track of the health plan. “We've been paying an actuarial to manage the health plan,” he said. “And we have the auditor looking at the health plan, and we have the Executive Office looking at the health plan too, right? So how do we figure out where this deficit happened, and how do we get to the bottom of it to see, why wasn't the Board informed about it, and how this all happened?” Curtis said there is more material to review, but that with key personnel now retired, he expects the information “may be imperfect.” Still, he said the information, while not highlighted, had been available. “If I can be a little blunt,” he warned. “The deficit itself is reflected in the budget documents. I think this may have just been something that was buried; that while the Board may have had the information, it may not have been particularly called out, or addressed very explicitly.” Supervisor Ted Williams wondered if the Board could expect more revelations along the lines of the health plan deficit. “Do we think there is any other data entry that may have provided inaccurate reporting?” he asked. Curtis demurred, saying, “I can't speak to that at this time.” Williams pressed him: “Can you and the CEO assure us that that's not the case? Can we trust the data that we have received?” “We can't make such assurance,” Curtis told him. “No.” The Board agreed to ask Weer to provide an explanation, in writing if he prefers.

November 2, 2022 — The Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance establishing an appeals process for cannabis cultivators whose permits have been denied, over the objections of advocates who found it inadequate. Much of yesterday's morning session was spent in a discussion with Treasurer Tax Collector Auditor Controller Chamisse Cubbison, about financial reports and how to speed up recruiting staff for her office. The appeals process was on the consent calendar, but Supervisor John Haschak pulled it for discussion. Mendocino Cannabis Alliance Director Michael Katz called in to cite the reasons he thought it should be abandoned: “We strongly object to the passing of it, as it does not provide an equitable appeals process for local licensees; it does not allow continued cultivation or operation during an appeal; it does not address the outstanding vegetation modification issues; it does not include previously directed Board amendments; and it does not reduce the likelihood of lawsuits against the county,” he said. County Counsel Christian Curtis said the ordinance only applies to people who never got their permits, and that there is a different appeals process in place for those whose permits are being revoked. “That's a process that does allow continued operation during the revocation process,” he said. “There's a hearing at the end. You know, once they have the permit, essentially it's a different footing, in terms of what has to happen, in terms of investigation, penalties that are assessed or any rights that are taken away. What we're talking about here is a situation in which someone never had a permit…were ultimately determined by the Department not to be in compliance and not able to obtain a permit. As it stands in the ordinance right now, that determination is final. And once that determination is made, they have to stop.” The Board passed the consent calendar, including the appeals process, unanimously. In other cannabis news, the cannabis department is moving from the Ukiah campus on Low Gap to the Willits Justice Center this month. The desk will be closed from November 14 through the holiday weekend, to resume on November 28 at the new location. Some tension came up in the discussion involving the board, CEO Darcie Antle, and Cubbison, who relayed in great detail how much work she has to do with limited staff as supervisors press for year-end closing numbers, carryover, and answers to questions about uncollected cannabis tax. Cubbison complained that the reports she gets from the CEO's office do not appear to have been reviewed carefully, and the board directed Antle to make sure they have been scrutinized more closely before they get to Cubbison's office. Wendy DeLong, an employee under Cubbison, told the Board she thought the planning was a little late, coming months after supervisors voted to place one person at the head of both departments. “If you had come up with a plan for this, and there was a transition plan in place,” she opined; “things would have been a lot smoother if you had gotten the employees' buy-in, if you would have got some cooperation. If you had timed it correctly, we would not be in this situation we are in right now, of just having this desperate lack of people in these two departments.” Supervisor Dan Gjerde said he was especially interested in filling positions that would result in more local tax collection. Cubbison said when she gets the high-level analyst she needs, she expects the new hire to spend a certain amount of time on that task “So it does have to do with that,” she said. “It also has the desire to work with some of the reporting needs for cannabis and the property tax. So being able to have an analyst to be able to help assist with the data reporting and analysis in terms of the collections side. I can't say exactly to what percent, but I would say it would probably be about 50% related to the revenue side of the house, in making sure that we are either collecting what we should be, or are able to report on it.” Supervisors Glenn McGourty and Ted Williams expressed their wish for a speedy hire. “It just makes it sound like this is a really critical position,” McGourty said. “It should be the number one position, probably, that we are trying to recruit as a county right now, in terms of upper-level management. So I personally urge the Board to support moving this forward as fast as possible.” “Well, I think we probably all support that,” Williams said. “It's a matter of, what can we do to expedite it. Supervisor McGourty, do you feel like you have an answer to your question, or do you want us to light a bigger fire?” “Light a bigger fire,” McGourty replied. Human Resources Director William Schurtz said the analyst's classification was changed in September. Now it needs to be changed again, which means that at the earliest, the county could have a list of qualified applicants ready for review by the middle of the month. An auditor appraiser position is “still flying,” or out for applications, until November 8. Cubbison said she recently hired an assistant from the private sector, but the new person doesn't have the skills yet to contribute to closing out the books on the fiscal year. She said that in addition to a shortage of staff with government accounting qualifications, which is endemic throughout the state, the complexity of the situation means that she has no estimate of the carryforward from last year. “I'm not prepared to issue an opinion one way or the other at this point,” she said. “There's still a significant number of entries that need to be made, and transfers. The Board directed that money be moved to the designated reserve for certain purposes. There's still designated reserve adjustments that need to take place for the use of the PG&E funds. So there's not just a couple of things left to happen. There's still several entries that could swing something in a different direction, and I'm not comfortable providing a guesstimate as to what we may or may not have.” Cubbison said she expects that number will become available when she closes out the books, which she hopes to do by the end of this month. But she was less optimistic about the usefulness of spending staff time on collecting another unknown amount. “If you want the Treasurer Tax Collector's office to step up collections on cannabis, that's long past due, or has extremely large interest and penalties associated with it,” she told Williams. “I'm not sure that's going to be an entirely fruitful process.”

Howie's Letter to Barbara Fisher (an Antle escapee)    Barbara I have been thinking about what you said about a writer/reporter you could trust and who was skilled enough to get the story published in a way that would hopefully discourage other young women from being lured into this.  One came to mind this week.   Sharon Guynup is the writer who exposed the horrible Tiger Temple in Thailand. She is familiar with tiger issues and not afraid to take on something controversial. She has worked with National Geographic and has the reputation to get published.   She is not associated with us in any way, but we have met her a few times and she is speaking about the Tiger Temple work at a conference we are heading to tomorrow, so we will see her.  If you still think that is a direction you might want to pursue and would like to have an initial informal conversation with her I can run that by her.  Her interest and the timing might depend on how consumed she is with whatever she is working on now, but I think she would be very up front about that.   Separately there is one thing I forgot to ask you about when we talked on the phone but was reminded when I peeked at your Facebook page.  (I'm not much of a Facebook user.

Sending a student off to university or college for the first time is an emotional and stressful experience. Students will find themselves needing to budget, deal with student loans and personal credit. Al Antle is the executive director of Credit Counselling Services NL. He joins us now to offer some financial advice to students and families on how to wade into the financial uncertainties of post-secondary life.

Barbara Fisher Describes Antle as a Cult Leader   Today Howie and I spoke on the phone with Barbara Fisher because she reached out to me, after the news of Joe's hired assassin heading to S.C. first because she wanted to let me know that Antle has 10-12 illegal assault weapons.  She said Antle told her he knew the machine guns were illegal and he kept them in a display case in her bedroom during the 8 years she lived at his home.   She gave us a lot more insight as to what causes decent women to get sucked into cults like Antle's.  What she described was exactly what I've been watching on a Netflix show called Inside the Criminal Minds, Episode on Cults.  She knows nearly half a dozen women who have since escaped his grasp and will be trying to get them to come forward with their stories so that he can no longer lure innocent children into his sick web.     Below is her article from 3/28/17 http://iowainformer.com/commentary/2017/03/bhagavan-doc-antle-rolling-stone-tigers/ Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk

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Many kids are putting away their bikes and taking out their backpacks. It's time to head back to school, and parents and kids alike are getting prepared. The CBC's Sarah Antle spoke with some parents about the cost of sending their kids off to school these days... as well as some of the kids about the thought of going back to school.

$50,000 is the price on my head   I guess I should be honored that it wasn't just a six pack and baggie full of blow.   Matt, the USFWS guy talks way too much and told Howie that Jeff Lowe had offered up a witness who said Joe Schreibvogle offered him $50,000 to kill me.  Matt said the guy refused to testify when he found out that USFWS was leading the charge.  That tells me he's some exotic owner / dealer or he wouldn't care.   In 2016 we had Joe against the wall and Howie went to an all day and nearly all night mediation where Joe agreed to stop breeding exotic cats and we would give him a long time to pay us back at a rate he could afford.  In the days that followed, Jeff Lowe jumped in and convinced Joe he'd pay all the legal fees if Joe would make him a partner in the zoo.  The deal fell apart and I'm surprised it took two years for those two men to come to hate each other.  I think they are both such liars that it is impossible to know what caused the split, but what we do know is:   Joe was running the zoo in April 2018 when he claimed to have thrown Jeff out.  Jeff had gone to Las Vegas to start up a casino hopping bus, called the Safari Bus, where he'd pick up people on the strip, take them to his rented house, and charge them to fondle cubs.  We turned him in.  PeTA turned him in and I didn't hear anything more about it until I found out that Jeff had been in jail for not having permits to do that and his cubs had been seized because they were in such poor health.  Next thing you know, Jeff has gone back and thrown Joe out of the zoo.   Jeff said Joe was stealing from him and they finally got caught by Wal-Mart for feeding the expired meats to customers at their zooTiki Bar.  Losing their free meat source, I knew things were going to go south pretty quickly.  Lots of cat places depend on that free meat, despite the fact that it is of questionable quality and isn't a balanced diet for big cats.  Most of them wouldn't exist at all, if not for the throw away food, so it's long bothered me that it enables the worst of the worst, who don't care if their adult cats die young, because all they need are cubs to pimp out.   Jeff's judge in NV let him out on a one year probation, that requires him to stay out of trouble.  I don't think he can't stay out of trouble for a year.  In fact, he just had a final judgment handed down in another matter where he allegedly stole a food truck from a man who was renting it to them to set up their drive in movie next door...on property they didn't own.  You can't make this stuff up.   The judge in our lawsuit against the zoo ordered us to pay 30k and Jeff to pay 80-90k to the receiver.  We paid our part.  Jeff & Joe didn't pay theirs, so the receiver and our attorney went to the zoo to try and reinstall the cameras over the registers again, and set up systems to monitor the cash, but Jeff wouldn't let them in.  The receiver has filed for a contempt  judgment.   Meanwhile Jeff and Joe continue to throw each other under the bus.  Joe is in hiding and Jeff claims that he's gotten calls from the taxidermist saying the 6 tigers Joe shot for their pelts are ready for pick up and he owes them over $5k.  The jeweler also reportedly called saying the gold plated tiger teeth are ready too.  Jeff claims to know, and says he's told authorities, that Joe shot and killed all of the tigers he couldn't sell or use for breeding any more.  In 2016 Joe had over 200 tigers and other lions, ligers, etc. but NatGeo reporters, Sharon Guynup & Steve Winter went there last week and said there are only 68 big cats and almost no other animals.   According to Matt, between Jeff and Joe ratting each other's bad deeds out, they have pretty good evidence against “doc” Antle and others, so this could be a huge bust by the time it's done.  He tells Howie that he has enough on Joe to indict him for murder for hire, violations of the endangered species act, bankruptcy fraud and more.  His plan is to pick him up on some small charge, so they can convene a grand jury, while Joe's in prison, to indict him on the bigger charges.  He doesn't want Joe to flee the country, if he learns that they are trying to seat a grand jury.   When the lid is blown off this mess, and the public learns about all of the abuse that has happened under the current regulation scheme, our bill will be poised for immediate passage.   I hate that so many cats have suffered but it's going to end ON MY WATCH!   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk

August 17 — A consent calendar item on the agenda for this week's Board of Supervisors meeting revived concerns about mismanagement and delays at the equity cannabis grant program, which was the topic of a recent Grand Jury report. And cannabis issues will now be directed to the General Government committee, a standing committee that meets every other month under Brown Act requirements and will bring proposals to the full board. Cannabis advocates have long requested a standing committee, but will now work with two supervisors who have not been serving on the more limited ad hoc. The equity grant is a state-funded direct grant program that is supposed to provide some assistance to people in the cannabis industry who can prove they were harmed by the war on drugs. In 2020, the county received $2.2 million in round one funding. It has also received roughly $800,000 in round two funding. Ten percent of those funds can be used for administrative costs. On Tuesday, the Board was asked to approve an amendment to the contract with the company hired to administer the grant, Elevate Impact, by over $83,000 in back pay, for work performed between February and August of this year. The expectation was that the contractor would do 95% of the work administering the funds, but that number has been closer to 50%. Five checks have found their way into the hands of applicants, and 47 approved grant applications are under review at County Counsel's office, to make sure the funds won't be misused . Supervisor John Haschak pulled the item for a more fulsome discussion, saying, “dealing with this amount of people and almost $300,000 of administration and untold amounts of administration from our cannabis department, because we're taking on half of the workload…I would just like to see the county compensated, rather than these outside entities.” Monique Ramirez, a grant recipient, reeled off a list of difficulties she's encountered with the program. “I have a really hard time seeing us potentially give more money to the LEEP program when they have not effectively done their job to this point,” she said. “Back in February, I submitted a very lengthy memo about the equity program, detailing, I believe there were 123 emails with the correspondence in the back and forth that I had to go through just to get to the point of finally getting my check…even my check wasn't issued correctly.” Haschak had a number of complaints about the contract with Elevate Impact. “The county is expending time and resources on these equity grants,” he declared. “But we do need to get the equity grants out. It's been way too long, and it's been way too micromanaged.” When Supervisor Ted Williams asked him if he would be willing to bring back an agenda item with a proposal, Haschak said he thought the cannabis department should bring back a proposal to the Board, “because I don't understand the contract. None of us understand the contract with Elevate. We haven't seen any information for it.” The Grand Jury report, called “Building the Airplane While It's Flying,” found that Elevate Impact, the contractor hired by the county, lacks experience in rural capital improvements projects. Cannabis Department Director Kristin Nevedal said the contractor does not have a team of planners on staff, and that the county didn't have enough information about the applications in advance to realize that planners would be necessary. She also said the program had been on hold for months, starting in April. “It was on hold for three months,” she said, “during which time we could not proceed with county reviews. We proceeded with department approval, but we couldn't proceed with moving those proposals through Cobblestone,” the county's multi-department contract management system. The information about the pause was news to Michael Katz, the Executive Director of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, who also said that growers have long been trying to bring their parcels into compliance with CEQA. The earliest iterations of the program, he said, required the involvement of Planning and Building Services. In an interview, he lamented that from the beginning, “expert stakeholder input was not integrated to create a more successful program.” To the question about whether or not the county will be able to pay itself for administering the grant, Nevedal said that, with the payments to Elevate Impact, the county was close to the $300,000 administrative cap that's allowed for the $3 million in grant funds. “WIthout the contract administrators, we would have to drastically staff up,” she said. “We do not have allocations for staff for grant purposes. Nor have we budgeted for staff for grant purposes…if the Board were to not proceed with the Elevate contract, we would have to cease processing equity applications until such time as we had allocations from the Board for staffing specific to this program.' County Counsel Christian Curtis told the Board they had the option of shutting down the program. “If you're looking to re-evaluate, you could just decide not to proceed with this program,” he said. “You could look at wrapping it up, rather than re-staffing or moving forward.” Attorney and cannabis advocate Hannah Nelson said she thinks the answer is taking a hard look at the program and making it work. “The answer is to not stop a program, but rather, when millions and millions and millions of dollars are coming into the county, and being re-invested locally, it's imperative that we look and see, how can we improve the system so it functions,” she urged the Board. There was still some miscommunication near the end of the discussion, when CEO Darcie Antle and Nevedal each thought the other had been tasked to ask the Auditor-Controller to approve a special run of checks for the applicants who have been stuck in the system. If the money is not spent by the end of the month, the county could either be required to return it to the state or be ineligible for future grants. Moments before the board voted to send the matter to the General Government committee, Antle broke into a supervisor's request with a piece of news. “The special run for August 31st has been approved,” she announced. The next General Government committee meeting is scheduled for October 17 at 1:30 pm.

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August 10, 2022 — The new fiscal year is off to a rocky start, with miscommunication about the health plan deficit, uncertainty about federal disaster reimbursements, and the county's main labor union filing a complaint with the state in the midst of contract negotiations. Last week, the Board of Supervisors agreed to ask the state controller for help with its books after Supervisor Ted Williams declared that the county was in a financial crisis. Chamise Cubbison, the newly elected Treasurer-Tax Collector/Auditor-Controller, wrote a letter to the board saying the discussion was full of misinformation, while retired Treasurer-Tax Collector Shari Schapmire said the county is “absolutely not” in a financial crisis. CEO Darcie Antle said crisis is a strong word to describe the county's financial situation, but there are areas of concern, including close to $70 million in long term debt service and rising interest rates as the county contemplates refinancing bonds to fund the new jail. Eleven million dollars in disaster reimbursements from FEMA is still outstanding. And Antle described the confluence of events that led up to the sudden news about last year's $3.6 million shortfall in the county health plan. She recalled that just before COVID, and the high-dollar claims that followed, the county had a robust reserve in the health plan. “The prior Auditor-Controller came forward in 16/17 and stated that our reserve for the health plan, the fund balance, was too high,” she recalled; “and that the State Controller was concerned about that, and recommended that we spend down that amount of money. I think we spent down roughly $6 million through a health holiday. That occurred in 17/18 and 18/19. In the quarter of October through December of each respective year, employees and the county did not pay the premium for those months. So those were health holidays, which equated to about a $6 million spend-down. In December of 2019, who would imagine we would be going into COVID…claims increased, acuities increased, over the last three years.” In August of last year, Antle met with former Auditor-Controller Lloyd Weer to discuss a $1.1 million deficit in the health plan. She stated that in 2021, “that information was reported to the Board, a couple of times…At that time, the team, the HR team, and the Executive Office, did ask for an increase in the health plan, and that increase went into effect January 1 of 2022 at a 12% increase,” which Antle says was well within the amount allowed by the county's contracts with its labor unions. There was a delay in reporting the additional $2.5 million deficit to the board, and Antle said her team did report the inaccurate number. She said the $1.1 million deficit was on a cash basis, “which can be seen by any department running a month to actual report. That is what was obtained by the Executive Office, the HR office, and what was clearly understood by our outside actuary. The $2.5 million, which is the number that was missing from the original $3.6 million, that was on an accrual basis on the balance sheet, and the balance sheet is balanced once per year by the outside auditors. The balance sheet for 2021, because of the delay in the outside audit, was not completed and submitted to the auditor (because they complete and submit to the auditor), until the end of June, early July, of 2022. So we can clearly see that from the financial statement now. But that wasn't what was reported. And again, the team reported twice, publicly, a $1.1 (million deficit). Nothing was brought forward to clarify those statements. So is this misdoing on anyone's part, or is this part of a transition? We had our Auditor-Controller retire. Our Treasurer-Tax Collector retired. We have a new person stepping into a dual role that had never been filled here before. I'm stepping into my new role as well. So I think everybody needs to continue to work together, and come together as a tem, and make sure that there is transparency and communication to the Board, and to the public.” The county is currently in negotiations with its labor unions, which also want more budget information. Last month, SEIU Local 1021 filed a complaint with the Public Employees Relations Board (PERB) about lengthy delays in fulfilling requests for detailed information, which Deputy CEO Cherie Johnson said she's working to supply. The county has until August 18 to respond to PERB about the complaint, and is likely to face a number of deadlines to produce the rest of the information to the union negotiators. The union is asking for a 5% Cost Of Living Adjustment, or COLA, and Antle said she is asking for a one-year pause on that part of the negotiation. “We really want to assess the financial stability of the county at this time,” she said. “Coming out of COVID, not receiving all our reimbursement from FEMA, going into a possible economic downturn. We really just want to understand the fiscal position. We are just asking for a one-year pause on the COLA…over the last three years, all bargaining units have received a 3% COLA each year…in that three-year period, they were also receiving classification study surveys to bring most if not all positions into market. So there were additional increases during that time.” She hopes next year's budget process will involve more collaboration, and more regular reports. “I would like to see the Auditor-Controller's office, the Executive Office fiscal team, come together with the budget ad hoc on a regular basis,” she reflected. “Again, communication is both ways, so we need everybody to come to the table.”

Bhagavan "Doc" Antle, featured in the Netflix series "Tiger King," was arrested earlier this month with four others on ten counts of trafficking wild animals. He also faces additional charges of laundering more than $500,000 in connection with illegal human smuggling from Mexico. Brittany Peet, general counsel of PETA's Captive Animal Law Enforcement is the "Tiger King" expert. She says Antle is out on bond and back at his Myrtle Beach facility that continues to exploit animals. She explains how a difference in approach between Fish and Wildlife and the USDA has allowed Antle to keep profiting from animal cruelty for decades. Peet talks with Emil Guillermo. For more on Antle go to PETA.org The PETA Podcast PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, is 6.5 million strong and growing. This is the place to find out why. Hear from insiders, thought leaders, activists, investigators, politicians, and others why animals need more than kindness—they have the right not to be abused or exploited in any way. Hosted by Emil Guillermo. Powered by PETA activism. Contact us at PETA.org Listen to the very first PETA podcast with Ingrid Newkirk Music provided by CarbonWorks. Go to Apple podcasts and subscribe. Contact and follow host Emil Guillermo on Twitter @emilamok Or at www.amok.com Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening to THE PETA PODCAST!  Copyright ©2022

Letter to Mike Webber re Terry Thompson Still looking for Terry Thompson notes but found cub age / size chart Jamie did that may be helpful.   https://bigcatrescue.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Tigers2-12weeks_Blackbox.jpg   What I remember from the call was that it was approaching dusk here and I was walking across the field out by the Party House when a call came in as UNKNOWN.  The man on the other end was screaming, "I hate you but I hate them more!"   I get a lot of rabid calls from crazy cat people so I rarely take note of their ramblings unless they will give me something concrete that I can use.  He was screaming, and just about every other word was foul and abusive cursing, but he was saying that everything I had suspected about how these cubs are bred, trucked across country with no permits or record keeping, used as pay to play props and then how they would just disappear was all true.   He said he knew it was true because he had been the one trucking them around the country between doc Antle, Joe Exotic, Kathy Stearns, Mario Tabraue, Gregg Woody, (another name that I recognized at the time but have forgotten now that he's long gone out of business) and a whole bunch of names that I either didn't know, or couldn't remember because he was firing them off so fast in between curses.   He said that he trucked baby tigers and other baby wild animals from coast to coast for all of the big guys on a regular basis because they were all a network of cub pimps who kept each other stocked so that they all always had cubs to offer.  He said many of them died in transit and that the conditions on both ends were often horrific.   He said cubs that outgrew the pay to play stage were often sold or given away to anyone who would take them but that a lot of them just disappeared.  He said they often died or were killed.  He said all of the players knew that there was no enforcement of the laws and they all knew how to circumvent the authorities.   This was at a time when it was still legal to be moving cubs of any age across state lines, as long as there was a USDA license at each end of the transfer to act as the middle man for anyone who wasn't.   I remember asking him to put it in writing because I wasn't where I could write it down.  He just kept screaming that he was sick of these people and that he wanted me to shut them down.  I told him (because I tell everyone) that I can't do anything based on what he tells me; I have to have it in writing, with names, dates, particulars that I can go on to make a case.   He said I could quote him because he didn't care what any of them thought now, but I remember telling him that wasn't enough.  I couldn't just say, "this guy told me..." and have it do any good.  He may have felt his name would make a difference, but I don't remember him telling me his name, and even if he had, I probably wouldn't have known who he was, since he would not have been on my radar given the fact he'd been in jail.   I could hardly understand him because he was so angry and was going on a mile a minute.  I figured he'd email me if he was serious.  I didn't think much of it.  Even the next day, when I awoke to the news of the Zanesville Massacre, I didn't immediately connect the two events, because it was weeks, if not months, before the story was fully known.   Once I had a better understanding of what had happened in Zanesville, it left me wondering if that call had been from Terry Thompson.  I remember trying to go back through my cell phone's past calls to see if I could tell if the call was from OH but I couldn't as no information appeared on a lot of calls marked UNKNOWN CALLER.   I didn't have much reason to try and document the call at the time because all I had was hearsay and if the police had found my number on Terry's phone, I figured they would call me.  I didn't know we'd be doing a movie about it 6 years later where it would have been pertinent for me to ask if Jack Hanna was one of his clients.  I wish I had more, but sans hypnosis, this is about it.   For the cats,  Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk

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I rode my bike to work today; assassins be damned. Howie and I are going to be in NY for a special, invitation only, Facebook event on Wednesday, so we are flying up on Tuesday and coming back on Thursday.  That means I only have today and tomorrow to ride and get some exercise before then.   I'm not being totally nonchalant about it though, as I rode in much later than usual, and plan to return earlier than usual tonight.  Just in case.   When I got home last night Howie commented that the email thread with Pat Craig was interesting.  I retorted that it was the most Pat's ever spoken to me, and by far the nicest he's ever been to me.  I think he's always seen me as a media whore that overshadows his glory.   During our nightly jacuzzi time I told Howie what I'd like to do is offer to pay Joe's rent and a reasonable allowance if he will hand over the GW Zoo and the animals to the rescue community and move to some foreign country where he's unlikely to get his hands on cats again.  Maybe Argentina or Columbia, where wild animals are recognized by the courts as “persons” who have the right to be free.   I'd be willing to pay that rent and stipend until his natural death.  This will be a bitter pill for Howie to swallow, but in time I think he'd see that it was the fastest way to end the prolific breeding and pimping of cubs there.  It also shuts down one more of Antle's places to dump his “used cubs” at the end of the season.   I'd even go one better and laud Joe for doing the right thing…for once in his miserable life.   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk

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June 14, 2022 — The Board of Supervisors has closed its budget hearings and will formally ratify the final county budget on June 21. The total county budget is over $355.8 million, with an operating budget of over $29.6 million per month, according to documents attached to the June 7 agenda. Talk of closing the county museum was notably absent from the list of recommendations. Several organizations asked the board to consider funding them from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), including Meghan Barber-Allende, the Executive Director of the Community Foundation, who asked for $300,000 for hunger relief and another $200,000 for non-profits that were unable to hold fundraisers during covid. “We can make a difference, and we can feed our communities, especially those that are extremely vulnerable,” she told the Board. “I think it's just very, very hard to think about how families and individuals and seniors are going to survive this, if we don't figure out how to provide some support.” Supervisor Ted Williams asked acting deputy CEO Sarah Pierce if it would be possible to fulfill the request. “As we go through these presentations, what would the funding source be?” he asked. “What is the pot of money we have to divide up? Because I can already tell you, I support all of these projects. How do we pay for it?” Pierce told him county staff was keeping track of requests for ARPA funding, but that they were following earlier Board direction to use the funds for county core services first. The health plan deficit, even with an infusion of $4.6 million from the ARPA funds, is projected to be over $3 million by the end of the calendar year. And cannabis tax projections are $1.5 million, down from $6.1 million last year. Supervisor Ted Williams was chagrined. “I see that we had $6.8 million that we didn't collect on cannabis,” he noted. “We're not going to collect that, aren't we?” Interim CEO Darcie Antle confirmed his assessment that, “that's just written off for this year.” Still, some petitioners were given some hope. Stephanie Garrabrant-Sierra, Mendocino County Resource Conservation District's new Executive Director, told the Board that, as a special district, her agency is “a government partner,” which is working to alleviate climate change. With the rising costs of gas and steel, she requested double the $45,000 the RCD typically receives. The Board directed her to Department of Transportation Director Howard Dashiell, to see if it's possible to provide more funding for the district under his allocation. Projected secure property tax for the next fiscal year is up to $41.8 million from $36.8 in May of this year, and projections for the transient occupancy tax are up to $8 million from $6.2 million actuals in May. Patrick Hickey, the field representative for SEIU Local 1021, insists that the budget is not as dire as presented. The county is currently in negotiations with all its labor unions. “Sales taxes are projected to be up by $700,000, transient occupancy taxes are projected to be up by $2 million, property taxes are projected to be up by $2 million as well,” he recited. “This doesn't sound like a county in trouble to me. But how well has the county done at projecting its revenues? Actually, they've underestimated Budget Unit 1000 every year.” This unit is for non-departmental revenue, derived primarily from property tax, sales tax, and ToT, or transient occupancy tax, also known as bed tax. The funds are usually used to make up the difference in expenditures and revenues by county departments that operate at a loss. Hickey went on to say that the county had underestimated Budget Unit 1000 by nearly $8 million in FY 2018/2019, $1.3 million in FY 2019/2020, and $9.4 million in FY 2020/2021. “I think you can see the pattern here,” he concluded. “The county is in the habit of overestimating expenses and underestimating revenues.” Antle provided some more information about the revenue projection, saying, “In the past, the revenue projection has come from the auditor-controller's office, and as you know, we had a change in that position this year. Those numbers weren't provided to us by the auditor-controller, so the fiscal team made the projection for this coming year of 2022/2023.” She added that the team had eventually received the report from the auditor-controller, but not until May 20, which wasn't timely enough for them to use it when the budget process started at the beginning of March. She told the Board that the only difference between revenue projections by the fiscal team and the auditor-controller is that “ours is $700,000 higher.” Hickey also suggested that the county stop budgeting for the nearly 400 positions that it can't fill, which he believes would free up money to pay more to existing staff. The Board agreed to a discussion with department heads to find out if they are still actively recruiting for positions that are funded, but which have been vacant for years. The Board also directed the auditor-controller to track where the cannabis tax that has been collected has gone. In 2016, county voters approved AI, a cannabis business tax of no more than ten percent of gross receipts for cultivation and distribution. The general tax measure was accompanied by AJ, an advisory measure that asked voters if they wanted a majority of the taxes generated by AI to be used for enforcement, mental health, county road repair, and fire and emergency medical services. The destination of the money has not been diligently tracked. AI was a general tax, which means it only needed a simple majority to pass, and the revenue it generated went into the general fund. Advisory measures are not legally binding. The budget also includes direction to the auditor-controller to encumber the unspent PG&E settlement money for its designated projects; and to create one new budget unit within the general fund with $320,000 in it for parks; and another to track grants for the Air Quality Management District. Acting auditor-controller Chamise Cubbison provided some analysis. She said she had given the CEO's fiscal team an updated projection using her own calculations, and had tried to have a conversation with them, but “I got the sense that they didn't want to change the projection, because that was what they had based the initial net county cost assignments on. So I understand that…I'm most frustrated by the fact that the auditor-controller budget is the budget unit that appears to be taking the largest hit, at least from the CEO adjustments. And there's been many references today to direct the auditor, direct the auditor, direct the auditor to do things. But I do need to point out the fact that the auditor-controller's budget unit cannot be underfunded to the tune of more than $340,000 and expect that I'm going to be successful and that my team is going to be successful. The auditor controller's office is a key part to the property tax and the ToT distribution and collections processes, along with the special districts…we do put on the tax roll and distribute over $160 million to the county, to the cities, to the special districts, and the schools. So under the new consolidated office, I really would hope that the Board would fully fund the auditor-controller's proposed budget, with the understanding that in order to be successful, we need to be fully staffed and we need to have the resources that I think are appropriate. So I would hope that the Board would consider possibly revising the ToT projection by enough to possibly cover the auditor-controller's budget, or direct the ARPA funds be allocated to bring positions up to pre-covid, or that that ARPA fund be used somewhere else in the county to free up additional general fund to help support the auditor's office budget.” Antle said part of the one-time $1.7 million of ARPA money that was set aside to bring up staffing to pre-covid levels could be used to fund Cubbison's office.

May 5, 2022 — During a third-quarter budget workshop this week, the Board of Supervisors hashed out where to make cuts in a county budget with significant projected shortfalls and very little information about the cannabis department. While county staff estimates that $6.8 million in cannabis tax revenue has been uncollected, the cannabis department was one of three that has not yet turned in its projections. Another installment of cannabis taxes is due at the end of May. The combined health plan deficit for this year and last year is $6.2 million. The Executive Office presented an operational budget that would have been balanced if not for that deficit, and asked supervisors to decide where to make adjustments. Interim CEO Darcie Antle summarized the basic cuts she was seeking. “We're looking for $3.3 million,” she said. “And if you close the museum, that reduces it, and then if you don't fund the parks at $1.6 (million), that would reduce the $3.3 (million) even further. So at that point, you're down to needing an additional $2 million, and so then we sort through these other items as you would like.” The museum, which costs over half a million dollars a year to run and brings in $20,000, appears to have been spared. Even if it were closed, preserving artifacts and maintaining the building would continue to incur costs. Supervisor Dan Gjerde offered some suggestions for adding more money to the museum's coffers, like tapping those who have donated artifacts for monetary donations, or offering the option of contributing to an endowment. He noted that he found it “a bit radical” to cut the museum, but that, “I think we do need to have, as a full Board, a better understanding of what the long-term strategy is for the museum.” Supervisors also considered cutting parks, which would entail laying off staff. Supervisor Maureen Mulheren laid out the quandary regarding the parks, saying, “It's my understanding, from having served on the ad hoc and then bringing that item back twice to this Board, that there were no parks that we wanted to close. So if we don't find a way to fund them, they have to be closed. We can't have it both ways.” General Services Agency Director Janelle Rau said her department is asking for $4.8 million for parks over the next three years, based on a needs assessment of the parks and what it would take to restore them to a safe condition. She said the county's more than sixty parks have been fiscally neglected since the 1980's. Bower Park in Gualala is currently closed due to a number of hazard trees. Supervisors discussed other funding mechanisms, like special districts and assessing which parks could bring in revenue by offering concessions. But parks are unlikely to generate revenue for the county. Half a dozen departments are projected to come in more than $100,000 over their net county cost assignments, with the sheriff in the lead at $1.4 million. Antle told the board that the county reserve, which includes designated funds, comes out to $20 million. She added that an ideal reserve would be three months' worth of county expenditures, which would be $48 million. The one-time American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA funds, are likely to be used for a variety of purposes, from parks to funding the sheriff's hiring bonuses and backfilling the District Attorney's budget. Deputy CEO Sarah Pierce told the board about plans for the $16.8 million award, which was intended to alleviate the long-term impacts of the pandemic for hard-hit communities. The county has already obligated $4.8 million, leaving about $12 million. “Of that $12 million, ten can be used on county core services, and then the remaining can be used on staffing to pre-covid levels, and parks is an eligible expense,” she said. Mulheren asked her colleagues if they would consider setting aside some of the ARPA money for grants to community organizations, and Gjerde said he would only support that if it were divided among the five supervisorial districts. Supervisor John Haschak suggested using some for community health workers, but the board did not give direction on either suggestion. Antle told Haschak that the only other possible source of revenue is the cannabis tax, some of which is not yet due. “At this point, we have met with all the departments, per your request on the 19th,” she said. “And the departments that I mentioned, which is a couple of handfuls, were able to come back with some money. At this time, there are no areas that we are aware of that could be reduced. The only other is if the cannabis revenue does come in,” by May 31st. Supervisor Ted Williams summarized his view of a few budget scenarios, saying that, after cutting $1.5 million from parks, the county would need to cut $2 million from its budget if it does use ARPA funds, and $7 million if it does not. And he said it's time to stop relying on cannabis tax. “This strikes me as a structural deficit,” he said. “I don't see this as a one-time. We were living on cannabis revenue, average about $5 million a year. That game is over. Cannabis is now in the legal market, where the price will just be set by marginal revenue intersecting with marginal cost, in a county ordinance that only allows 10,000 square feet, figure 28 grams per square foot, at declining market price. That revenue is not coming back. And so the past couple of years we've lived on revenue that we should have treated as one-time, but instead it's been used to augment the county for staffing. This coming year we don't have that revenue. We're probably not going to have it again.”

May 3, 2022 — The Board of Supervisors is holding a budget workshop today in preparation for budget hearings on June 7th and 8th. At the hearings, community organizations will have an opportunity to make a case for why they should receive a portion of a $16.8 million award from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), intended to alleviate the long-term impacts of the pandemic. Though the United States Treasury Department urged local governments that received the funds to engage the public in deciding how to allocate them, public outreach has been minimal so far. And although the deadline for allocating the money is a year and a half away, organizations providing direct services to those who've been hardest hit may have only a few leftovers after the budget hearings, according to Interim CEO Darcie Antle, who spoke to KZYX on April 27. “Currently, we're under the Board's direction to look internally first,” she said. “And then when the Board considers the 22-23 budget, if there's funds available and left over, depending on how they want to spend this ARPA money, there could be opportunities. And I know obviously one of their priorities is public safety, which includes fire.” Close to five million dollars of the award has already been obligated, some of it to the Community Foundation and North Coast Opportunities, which used it to provide food and childcare during the pandemic.* A little over $60,000 went to upgrade the audio and telecom systems in the Board of Supervisors chambers to allow for more accessible hybrid meetings. But another $266,000 was spent on remodeling the chambers, plus $40,000 for an automatic door system,and $35,000 is slated for the purchase of seven metal detectors. Eduardo Garcia is the senior policy manager at the San Francisco-based Latino Community Foundation, a statewide organization that advocates for the civic and economic power of Latinos, many of whom continue to be disproportionately affected by the fallout of the pandemic. The Foundation awarded $1.4 million to smaller Latino organizations around the state advocating for transparency and a public process for the equitable distribution of the one-time funds. Garcia says Mendocino County is not alone. “A lot of these decision makers are using these funds in very questionable ways,” he said. “One troubling trend that we've observed across the state is that city and county leaders are spending these dollars, these flexible, unique dollars designed to help California speed up its health and economic recovery, they're spending this money on police. Which is very concerning, because we know that what our communities need is access to resources to help overcome the hardship that has been the last couple of years.” Antle said with inflation and the loss of cannabis tax revenue, the county budget is lean. “We're currently trying to work with all of our departments to see how we can keep them full,” she said. “Full meaning fully funded for the coming year, without having to take cuts in certain areas. And it is likely that the Board will have to make some difficult decisions.” Garcia wants the public to participate in those decisions, including organizations like UVA, Vecinos en Acción, an inland Mendocino County Latino advocacy group which is the recipient of one of the Foundation's grants. “This is not a simple civic engagement process,” he acknowledged. “And so Vecinos en Accion and non-profit organizations can work with city and county leaders to design a process in which they can collect community input. Obviously providing translation across outreach strategies is critical to reach the hardest to reach communities. There could even be workshops. We have partners in Calexico that helped design community workshops to engage members of the community about ARPA budgeting. So there are a myriad of different outreach strategies that city and county leaders can employ to collect community input. But these processes have to be designed with trusted community members.” Juan Orozco, co-chair of UVA and a Ukiah City Councilman, says UVA is poised to do just that. “We look into health equity, and what is it that the community needs, and we do surveys, and then provide the information to people,” he said. Garcia has seen organizations advocate successfully. “There are city and county leaders in certain parts of the state that have adopted, or that are trying to create more transparent processes,” he said. “And some of that has been the result of community organizing led by Latino non-profit organizations. For example, in Merced, in the city council, an organization called 99 Roots successfully advocated for a one million dollar youth jobs program, designed to essentially invest in the workforce development of young people. Knowing that Latino workers during the pandemic were overrepresented in industries that were considered essential; that maybe weren't paying the very best wages; that were putting workers in very vulnerable situations, right? Earning low wages, taking care of families…Latino women had to drop out of the workforce in really high numbers, because it's very expensive to send your children to childcare when schools are closed.” Garcia expects local governments can look forward to more awards soon, from the federal infrastructure plan and the Community Economic Resilience Fund, a covid recovery program that's still being developed. With a participatory process in place, he believes, “There's so many opportunities to engage the community so that every Californian has an equal opportunity to share in the state's prosperity.” *Molly Rosenthal of North Coast Opportunities provided more detail about the sources of the ARPA funding NCO received and what it was used for. While NCO did receive $1.7 million of American Rescue Plan Act funding, some of it came from state and federal sources to support Head Start and Rural Communities Child Care. The County of Mendocino provided $587,560 of ARPA funds that NCO used the funds to rally more than 250 volunteers for the vaccine clinics, quarantine food delivery, and other pandemic response activities; deliver fresh food boxes to households through the MendoLake Food Hub; and provide financial assistance to households economically-impacted by the pandemic. While applications are now closed for financial assistance, The City of Ukiah's Utility Bill Assistance Program is providing support for Ukiah residents with past-due utility bills of up to $1,000. Visit cityofukiah.com for more information. Photo of a walk-through metal detector courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walk-through_metal_detector.jpg

April 21, 2022 — The Board of Supervisors went over budget priorities in a preliminary fiscal review this week, where they learned details about the projected deficit and discussed belt-tightening measures. Interim CEO Darcie Antle summarized the most significant projected shortfalls, saying non-departmental revenue had had to be cut three percent, or $4.3 million, to meet the revenue projections for 2022-23. The health plan deficit is $5.7 million, not including the $2.5 million that have been incurred but not reported. “And as you know, there has been a decrease in cannabis tax revenue,” Antle remarked. The county got a significant cushion last year from ARPA, the American Rescue Plan Act, a nearly $17 million grant intended to aid those most hard-hit by the pandemic. Instead, the board agreed last year to consider using ten million dollars of the grant to provide county core services and infrastructure, with $1.7 million of it to hire new staff, in the hopes of increasing staff to pre-covid levels. Almost one and a half million has already been allocated to vaguely defined support for public health covid response, and another $1.1 million to address negative economic impacts. The fiscal team suggested using further ARPA funds to alleviate the health plan deficit. Supervisor John Haschak expressed some misgivings, saying, “The original intent of the ARPA money was to have real community input into the process. And it doesn't sit well with me that we haven't done any community outreach with the ARPA funds and how they're going to be spent. Obviously we're in a time when we need to fix our budget. But I think we should have been doing community outreach and seeing how the community wanted to use this. Because it was meant for covid relief.” Deputy CEO Tim Hallman painted an overall picture that was not encouraging. Actual year-over-year revenues are down, he said. “From last year to this year, just in the budgeting alone, we're looking at a $1.4 million decrease, which does not include cost of living increases… So even though our costs have gone up, our revenues have gone down,” he concluded. And Deputy CEO Cherie Johnson spoke about the projected $5.7 million deficit in the health plan. “We are researching plan changes and potential increases to premiums,” she told the board. The projected $5.7 shortfall is based on end-of-year claims that will be coming in, and it does include last year's $1.1 million deficit. Hallman elaborated on the projected shortfall in cannabis tax. “It is showing close to a $4.5 million dollar decrease over what was collected in the 20-21 fiscal year,” he reported. “This of course is going to have a huge impact to the net county cost and its allocations.” Michael Katz, the Executive Director of the Mendocino Cannabis Alliance, took the opportunity to highlight the contributions of the cannabis industry to the local economy. “I'm drawn to the information provided in the budget document that shows that in fact the cannabis tax for the year 2020-21 wound up coming in at about $6.4 million, which is about $800,000 more than was previously projected,” he said. “It just goes to show that if you look at the trajectory of the consistent increase in cannabis tax revenue up until this point, that despite the challenges that we've had, our community continues to contribute more and more to this county, in the tiniest footprint imaginable, only 290 acres of licensed cannabis cultivation. And so when you're talking about the budget and how can we identify items that are revenue generating, it's pretty clear that doing everything in our power to save the existing licensed operators in the cannabis program…is the best immediate chance that this county has to maintain the revenues that it has come to expect from this community.” Patrick Hickey spoke on behalf of SEIU 1021, which represents most of the unionized county workers, to request a big-picture view of the budget. “From the presentation, we can't determine if we have a structural deficit, or are just experiencing a routine shortfall,” he declared. “There is no mention of the county's general fund reserve. The reserve is specifically for these sorts of situations. How much is currently in the general fund reserve? These funds are supposed to smooth out the dips and bumps along the way. The ARPA monies are not the only funds the county can access. The Board has identified a number of promising sources of ongoing revenue for beefing up property tax and TOT (transient occupancy tax) enforcement. The county has a number of unfilled positions that are revenue generators. Filling these should be a top priority. We need to remember that a large part of the county's budget is not covered by the general fund, but comes from other sources.” Antle provided more detail on the county's reserve funds, informing the public that the general fund reserve is at $12 million, while monthly expenses are $18 million. “And then the overall reserve is close to $20 million,” she added, which includes the HHSA and other restricted uses. The budget workshop and the third quarter report will be on May third, with the budget hearings taking place over two days on June seventh and eighth.

A double Cole episode?! Cole Antle and Cole Nixon went to college together at Ohio Wesleyan University. He was a member of the Battling Bishops baseball team. Post college Cole went on to become a realtor. In this episode we discuss college, life after college, and learning on the fly. Cole Antle's Links: Instagram - @coleantle11 Twitter - @coleantle23 Roughnecks Links: Website - https://www.roughneckspodcast.com/ Instagram - @roughneckspodcast Twitter - @roughneckspodc1 Facebook - @roughneckspodcast Tik Tok - @roughneckspodcast Cole's Instagram - @colennixon7 Email - info@roughneckspodcast.com Discount code "roughnecks" at Leo Supplements --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roughneckspodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/roughneckspodcast/support

While mental health has come a long way in recent years, it still has a long way to go and our guest, Dr. Becky Antle, is working toward bringing preventative mental health strategies to the masses. Specifically, she's helping educate what it means to be in good mental health and how impactful prevention can be versus waiting to treat mental health problems. Big thanks to our sponsors, Sorinex and EliteForm who make these episodes possible!            

We agreed to take two pairs of tigers from their situation.  One from Antle and one from ZAA leader, Tanganyika.   With Jamie's approval, I told Bobbi Brink we would take the:   1 leopard 2 cougars 4 bobcats 1 Canada lynx   and amazingly the state of Florida issued an emergency permit, as Bobbi is loading them up as we speak in SD and it's snowing.  I told her we would cover the transport cost of 3.00 a mile, plus her hotels, etc. so that's probably about $7,000   FL & USDA require the cats arrive w/ health certificates, but it only has to be a visual by a vet saying they were breathing.  Bobbi is trying to get a vet out to Spirit of the Hills to issue one and I'm guessing will be on her way here first as we are probably most of her load.  She's taking a Serval and Jungle Cat back to CA with her from SD.   Let me know what kind of time table you are wanting on the four tigers and who I should list on the import permit as the person transferring them, ie: Turpentine or Serenity? address, phone, and the carrier.  FWC likes to have someone they can call to verify the origin.  Will that be Loving Friends or Bobbi?   In either event, FWC requires that I meet them at the FL / GA border and escort them in under my FWC permit.   For the cats,   Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk

Angela Antle has some great tips and tricks to help you make your own podcast. She's the former host of Atlantic Voice and Weekend AM on CBC Radio. She also taught a course at Memorial University called Creative Writing Through Podcasting, and she just gave a virtual workshop called "Podcasting: A Quick and Dirty." We talked to her before the event, to get an overview.

Mom's update about Dad: Vern had a very restless and painful night but the doctor has sent a strong pain medication and Vern is resting peacefully now.  Not eating anything for two days even with encouragement from the kids.   Howie's letter to Pat Craig of Wild Animal Sanctuary On Sunday after the conference is over they have organized a meeting from noon to 5 to brainstorm about the big cat issue.  I have no idea what will come of it.  Could be waste of time, or prove productive. But at the very least it should be interesting I think because the people currently on the list (below) that I do know are some very sharp folks and a pretty unique opportunity to be in a room with people from so many organizations.  The group is a rather unwieldy size so it will be interesting to see how they conduct it.   I have pasted the info below and the contact at PAWS is Catherine Doyle.  We went to the conference last year for the first time only because we were asked to speak. Agree hard to get away.  I think you could help us add a lot of on the ground experience to the group. Maybe you could arrange with Catherine just to come for Sunday?   Info on Sunday attached with Catherine contact info. Regarding the breeding I think you make interesting points.  Couple comments:   • The bill grandfathers in all current owners so they are not objecting based on their cats being taken away.  Ohio had a couple issues that I think drove what is happening.  One is they added caging requirements.  People not meeting those is what appears to be driving the confiscations, along with some idiots just refusing to do the simple paperwork to register was also an issue.  If they had just grandfathered in the existing owners like the federal bill does without adding requirements they would not have this issue. Second, they correctly did not exempt people with USDA licenses, which as you know is a huge loophole because anyone can get a license. So I think people with USDA licenses left the state for states where a USDA license exempts them from the state rules.  The bigger mistake Ohio made in my opinion was exempting ZAA, which I believe was driven by Kasich listening to Jack Hanna. • The meaningful opposition to the bill is not from owners.  Other than Antle and Tabraue, they don't have much a following or resources to oppose. Mario Tabraue and/or Antle have engaged a lobbyist to oppose the bill, and Ringling's Feld has lobbyists opposing even though we put in language to exempt Feld.  That is the main opposition.  A bigger issue really is ZAA.  While some states have refused to exempt them from state laws, once Ohio did, it set a precedent and some other states have followed, giving them undeserved credibility.  And, I have to give them credit, they have been smart.  They hired a very experienced lobbyist who is well known to state legislators around the country, Alan Smith, as E.D.  The guy is smooth.  I heard him speak to a committee hearing in TX and he makes this sow's ear sound like a silk purse.  Plays on the "small business" sympathy and presents ZAA as the little guy's AZA.  Meantime, some AZA zoos have joined ZAA as well.  I think they do this to keep AZA off their backs - i.e. if AZA gives them a hard time, they just promote they are ZAA, and the generic public does not know any better.  But meantime, these AZA zoos joining gives ZAA even more credibility. The issue with ZAA is not that they oppose the bill. It is that they want to be exempted like AZA, claiming it is unfair to exempt AZA and not them.  To deal with this we have crafted different exemption language I can tell you more about. • Just banning breeding is interesting and worth considering.  One issue that comes to mind is enforcement  -  finding out who is breeding.  If someone has a tiger born after the bill is passed (those born before are grandfathered) how do we prove who bred it? I suppose one could try to draft language to address that by requiring records if you have a tiger so it was a serious violation not to have records of where it came from. So I think a bill that just addresses breeding is worth thinking about.  I don't think it will in any way reduce the opposition though.  Someone who is only concerned about keeping the cats they have is addressed by grandfathering. Someone who, on the other hand, wants to protect their ability to acquire cats in the future, will oppose a ban on breeding. • Regarding your concern that USFWS somehow use the law to shut down places like yours and ours, no matter what Van Norman or anyone else says, there is no way I see that happening.  First, the bill exempts sanctuaries with a definition that does not require GFAS, just a simple test I assume you would easily pass.  I.e. no breeding, buying, selling, taking offsite for exhibition. Regarding the FWS view that there should not be captive tigers, frankly I think that is a plus.  I wish USDA felt that way, i.e. recognized they don't belong in cages.  But, there is no way the bill is going to result in FWS coming in and euthanizing the animals at good sanctuaries.  First the language protects sanctuaries, second it grandfathers, but most compelling is there would be a huge public outcry.  No way I see that happening.  But, I also have no illusions that any of these points is going to change what I suspect is a deep rooted fear you have that this actually could happen.   Well, enough for now.  In hindsight would have been more efficient to talk versus type. If we discuss further maybe Skype or Facetime would be good. I'd enjoy continuing to brainstorm with you. Incidentally, although Dr. Gibbens could not meet me in person due to his travel, we did Facetime and had a great hour long chat.  People I run into speak more highly of him than I have heard about any other USDA official and I enjoyed getting to know him in the chat.   All for now - maybe more than you wanted!  :)   Howard Baskin Advisory Board Chairman Big Cat Rescue "The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals."     I am thankful that Howie continues to try and bring on the voices of these recalcitrant sanctuarians.  The truth is that they have no other job options and don't want the problem to go away, but with increased transparency in this world (forced largely by us) they can't keep making up excuses to themselves and their donors.   I appreciate all the explore.org is doing for us to achieve a virtual reality experience that would end the desire to keep wild animals in cages.  I emailed again with Sumo Reality's Sean and James yesterday.  Explore.org gave us 50k to pay them to make an awesome experience.   I am using our cheap versions of their tools to try and make the most of our time filming with them, which has been set for Sept 6-8.   I'm glad there ARE cheap versions of their tools.   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk

All gas, no brakes! You've got to listen to Todd and Tonya Antle chat. Their shared stories will make you laugh and perhaps give some insight into ways to build both a personal and professional relationship that has spanned decades. To the benefit of the produce industry, Tonya's life took a turn that brought her back to the valley she grew up believing she would leave. Listen to the story of a woman whose tenacity, vision, and grace bloomed an industry. Get out of the center of the store and get into the produce department!

Mike and Marc give advice to a listener on disappointing someone. Yes, that person is a hitman/surgeon/gambling addict, but the advice is pretty universal. Marc shares his gift-giving wins to his wife. Mike takes another deep dive into gourmet cooking. Marc has a candy-bar recommendation: Tombumble Nutty. He also gives a recommend to the trashy but watchable "Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story." Mike doubles down on "Spiderman" and "Dexter." Instagram for advice: @onehourpp email: marcandmikechat@gmail.com

Wayne gives a great walk-through of how to use messages on the Mac explaining which key commands he is using and giving examples and scenarios as he goes through.

Wayne gives us a great Demonstration on how to use The numbers spread sheet application for the Mac.

In this episode of The Real ResQ, we have the privilege of speaking to Dan Antle and John Valentino from the Seminole County Florida Sheriff's Department.  These two bring a unique perspective to the table.  As law enforcement, they work on the ground as well as in the air through their aviation division.  They work alongside firefighters and provide search and rescue for a large portion of the Orlando Florida area.  Listen as Dan and John tell experiences that include lost hikers, accidents from jet skis and how covid has increased the number of calls, including the severity of some of the cases.  This episode would not be complete without a quick mention of the gators that make appearances in their missions. Enjoy!

The Tiger King - A Closer Look at Bhagavan 'Doc' Antle -**Warning: Explicit Language**Millions of people have streamed the extremely popular Netflix Original Documentary Series "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness". And while the protagonists of the show made for compelling twists and turns, many were introduced to the sinister operation running in Myrtle Beach. A potentially thriving sex cult, with Antle at the helm.Get In Touch:·       Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/cultvaultpod/·       Twitter:https://twitter.com/CultVaultPod·       Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/user/Cult-Vault·       Gmail:cultvaultpodcast@gmail.com·       Tumblr:https://www.tumblr.com/blog/cultvault·       Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/thecultvault Sources:https://myrtlebeachsafari.com/meet-doc-antle/https://www.c-ville.com/a-tiger-king-is-born-netflix-star-antle-started-at-a-rural-virginia-yoga-commune/www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mysticismwww.wikipedia.com/docantlehttps://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/tiger-king-6-surprising-facts-about-doc-antle-every-fan-should-know.html/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiger-king-doc-antle-zoo-myrtle-beach-70838/www.docantle.bloghttps://www.woorillacaught.com/tv-shows/put-a-tiger-in-your-tank/The Tiger King – Netflix Original Miniseries/Docuseries/Documentary by Eric Goode; Rebecca Chaiklinhttps://web.archive.org/web/20190921102022/http://www.tigerfriends.com/apprentice.htmlSteven Hassan - Combatting Cult Mind Control, 1988https://freedomofmind.com/ Sound Editing:Brad StokesCover ArtMeg HowlettSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/cultvaultpodcast/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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