News Index
Community Development Commission Accepting Comments on Proposed Changes to the Sonoma County Housing Authority Administrative Plan
The Sonoma County Housing Authority is proposing making a number of changes to its Administrative Plan, in response to the federally declared disaster in Sonoma County, and seeks comments from the public through December 12, 2017. Read full story
EFS SCLabor Training starting December, 2017
SCLabor is the new tool departments can use to estimate specific costs for salaries and benefits. Read full story
Cannabis Tax Deadline Extension
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved the waiving of delinquency penalties for all commercial cannabis cultivation until November 17, 2017, or November 30, 2017 for commercial cannabis cultivation located within a mandatory evacuation zone. Read full story
Fire Damage Property Tax Relief for 2017-18
The County of Sonoma announced today that they are working to identify and adjust property values and tax bills on properties damaged by the recent fires in Sonoma County. Read full story
October SoCo Correspondent
The Board of Supervisors approved funding and a plan for resurfacing 82 miles of roads in 2018 and 2019 at its September 26, 2017 meeting. From 2013-2019 the Board has committed $91 million of local funding to resurfacing roads that, when added to $21 million of state and federal funding, will bring the total to 384 miles of improved roads over a seven year period.Please share the Correspondent with your family and friends, and if you have any ideas of how we can improve the newsletter or other outreach efforts please send us your thoughts to publicaffairs@sonoma-county.org. Read our Newsletter Read full story
Guerneville Permanent Supportive Housing Financing
In an effort to address the homeless crisis, the Sonoma County Community Development Commission (CDC) recently proposed to lend up to $950,000 to West County Community Services for the purchase of a five-bedroom home in Guerneville to be used as permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless individuals Read full story
Free Advance Care Planning Workshop October 17, 2017
My Care My Plan: Speak Up, Sonoma County will host a free advance care planning workshop, WhoWill Speak for You When You Can't Speak for Yourself?, on Tuesday, October 17 Read full story
EFS OnBase version upgrade
The Enterprise Financial System (EFS) Support Organization will be upgrading the document retention system, OnBase, from version 14 to version 16. Read full story
DACA: What to Do Now?
An informational article about what the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program means for DACA recipients. Read full story
Cavity Free Sonoma Program Launches
Cavity Free Sonoma is a new countywide program helping children age 0 through 6 years of age, who are eligible for Medi-Cal insurance, get dental care before they have pain and infection. This new program is operating in every community health center dental clinic and is accepting new patients. Read full story