By Michael Hernandez
VENTURA—The Ventura County Board of Supervisors announced a COVID-19 press conference at 1 p.m. Aug. 19 after meeting almost two hours in a closed session concerning Pastor Rob McCoy and Godspeak Calvary. No announcement was made on Agenda Item 4 when the Board of Supervisors returned to open session.
Citizens Journal is investigating if there was a Brown Act violation due to non sufficient public notice for the closed session special meeting. Meeting Notification was received by the Citizens Journal after the deadline for public comments. However, before going to closed session, it was announced that six public comments had been received.
Upon return from the closed session, Ventura County residents were referred to announcements on its website about the Holser Fire near Lake Piru that has burned over 2,500 acres and was only 20 percent contained. Two firefighters who had been injured have been released from the Santa Paula hospital.
The Holser fire broke out after 2 p.m. Monday in the area of Holser Canyon and Piru Canyon roads which is believed to have been caused by a vehicle fire which spread to a nearby patch of brush. About 400 personnel from Ventura County Fire Department, the Los Angeles County Fire Department and other surrounding agencies were taking part in the firefight.
(Editor’s Note: To view CBS coverage on the Holser Fire go to this link:
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/08/18/holser-fire-burning-near-lake-piru-doubles-in-size/.)
Before concluding their special meeting, Supervisor Kelly Long said, “Be safe and be conscious of our surroundings,” in regards to the heat wave that Ventura County and all of California is experiencing.
Michael Hernandez, Co-Founder of the Citizens Journal—Ventura County’s online news service; editor of the History Makers Report and founder of History Makers International—a community nonprofit serving youth and families in Ventura County, is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor. He worked 25 years as a middle school teacher in Monrovia and Los Angeles Unified School Districts. Mr. Hernandez can be contacted by email at [email protected].
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The Clerk of the Board accepted at least some comments received after the deadline, but other people may not have even attempted to submit them when they missed the deadline
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