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Home My WebLink About07.31.25 Board Correspondence_ FW_ How My County Is Setting Up a Land Grab.ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Jessee, Meegan Cc:Krater, Sharleen Subject:Board Correspondence: FW: How My County Is Setting Up a Land Grab—Yours Probably Is Too by Reinette Senum Date:Thursday, July 31, 2025 11:33:46 AM Please see Board Correspondence From: lance dreiss <lancedreiss@att.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 6:01 PM To: Senator.Dahle@senate.ca.gov; Assemblymember.Gallagher@assembly.ca.gov; pcbs@countyofplumas.com; sheriff@pcso.net; District Attorney <DA@buttecounty.net>; Kimmelshue, Tod <TKimmelshue@buttecounty.net>; Pickett, Andy <APickett@buttecounty.net>; Connelly, Bill <BConnelly@buttecounty.net>; Ring, Brian <bring@buttecounty.net>; Durfee, Peter <pdurfee@buttecounty.net>; Ritter, Tami <TRitter@buttecounty.net>; Teri DuBose <Teri.DuBose@mail.house.gov>; Teeter, Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.net>; Waugh, Melanie <mwaugh@buttecounty.net>; Kitts, Melissa <mkitts@buttecounty.net>; Clerk of the Board <ClerkoftheBoard@buttecounty.net>; Congressman Doug LaMalfa <CA01DL.Outreach@mail.house.gov>; Stephens, Brad J. <BStephens@buttecounty.net>; Julie Threet <julie4butte5@gmail.com> Subject: Re: How My County Is Setting Up a Land Grab—Yours Probably Is Too by Reinette Senum Public Record & Special Attention Mr Kimmelshue: Oops, I spoke too soon. I watched your Butte County Board of Supervisors’ meeting video for July 29, 2025. I listened to Mr. Erin Weinberg speak (after me) on his property problems. Mr. Kimmelshue was rude, obnoxious, and a pompous ass to this gentleman who spent time & money to talk to all of you face-to-face. What did you do for $79,000? Did you gold- plate his blades of grass? Code enforcement is illegal! Show the curtesy of writing to this man and apologize for your actions and tell that him he owes NOTHING! Check out the book The Problem With Socialism by Thomas J. DiLorenzo. What you are doing is a communist technique. Don’t you see what is going on in the world? I told you Karma is a bitch. The Constitution overrides your silly Rules of Decorum. Jena schooled all of you a long time ago. You should also apologize to The Cameraman, too. With great sadness, diana dreiss On Jul 22, 2025, at 7:20 PM, lance dreiss <lancedreiss@att.net> wrote: Public Record and Special attention Mr. Connelly Mr. Connelly remember when your family friend had to get up and speak at the Board of Supervisors’ meeting about his property which was listed on the agenda? I warned him COVID code enforcement was ALL illegal and told him he should look into what you people were doing. I also wrote Mr. Kidd, Congressman LaMalfa, and asked all of you to supply me with the law that requires anyone to pay taxes. All I got were a few clearing of the throat sounds after I pointed out Representative Bacerra clearly stated on the internet for all to see and hear payment of taxes are voluntary. Then…Board of Superiors no longer posted that nonsense on the agenda. What is that saying? I remember now, karma is a bitch. You people are building your own demise. This will be turned around on you, too. Everything from the 2030 Agenda, which is a global plan, will be put into place locally through Boards of Supervisors and City Councils. Do you want to live in a “smart city” in a 200 square foot apartment and have your money cut off if you do not do what “they” want you to do? Where geo-fencing is used so you don’t go more that 15 minutes away from home? diana dreiss Begin forwarded message: From: Reinette Senum's Foghorn Express <reinettesenumsfoghornexpress+beyond-the- edge@substack.com> Date: July 20, 2025 at 4:11:55 PM PDT To: lancedreiss@att.net Subject: How My County Is Setting Up a Land Grab—Yours Probably Is Too Reply-To: Reinette Senum's Foghorn Express <reply+2shvz9&kcryl&&611e283de3b23a8264177adbe9dee26d00 e5e59395247ab55e8a757970bdfdd3@mg1.substack.com> If they can seize our properties over fines & administrative fees, here, no county is safe.͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more How My County Is Setting Up a LandGrab—Yours Probably Is Too If they can seize our properties over fines & administrative fees, here, no county is safe. REINETTE SENUM JUL 20 READ IN APP My home county’s Board of Supervisors (BOS) is at it again, and the stakes couldn’t be higher for property owners. No matter what county you live in, you need to be aware that if this isn’t happening in your county, it is probably on its way. It’s truly criminal The new push? An attempt to sneak county code enforcement and administrative penalties onto the “secured property tax roll,” creating a direct pipeline from a “messy yard” ticket straight to the threat of losing your property and home. FAST-TRACKED, IGNORING PUBLIC OUTCRY It was last month, June 24th….. NevadaCountyRevealed ATTENTION! Stealth Seizure: Nevada County’s Quiet Move to Take Your Land ATTENTION NEVADA COUNTY RESIDENTS! THIS IS A TIMELY ISSUE… Read more a month ago · 7 likes · Reinette Senum … that our BOS attempted to rush Resolution SR 25-1750 through the consent calendar, the “nothing to see here” section, until public outrage compelled Supervisor Hardy Bullock to table it for 60 days, joined by Rob Tucker and, begrudgingly, by Sue Hoek. Yet here we are, barely a month later, and the staff is rushing it back onto the agenda before the public has even had time to blink. Why? Because the county wants to put this on the books as a revenue stream, turning code violations into money generation for the 2025/26 tax year. This tells me they already have properties lined up for seizure. Like most California counties, while the county may appear financially stable on paper, that’s nothing more than a Saharan mirage. Their CalPERS Unfunded Accrued Liability alone (aka known as the shortfall between funds set aside and the amount needed to pay future public employee pensions) is astronomical, and there’s no way the current county tax income could ever hope to cover it. They need to make their money now. So they are setting up the trap; if you don’t pay your “administrative fees,” whether it’s because you protested that tall grass citation, or just didn’t get the notice, those costs become part of your tax bill. Fall far enough behind and, boom: tax default. House up for auction. Read the agenda item here: Resolution Sr 25 1750 Updated 216KB ∙ PDF file Download OUR COUNTY COUNSEL’S SPIN & THE TAX COLLECTOR’S TRUTH BOMB During our Nevada County (CA), June 24th BOS meeting, we witnessed the outgoing County Counsel, Kit Elliott, unabashedly lie to the public and the Board, claiming that SR 25-1750 “would not result in a tax sale of private property:” Attorney Elliot, “These go on the roll, they don’t lose their house over these, they lose their house over non-payment of property taxes. These often are only collected after the house is sold or if they fail to pay any of their taxes, then we have that lien, umm, this is not a way of taking people’s property, and again we usually don’t get the money in the moment, we get them sometimes ten years, twenty years umm we don’t confiscate people’s property over these kinds of taxes. Confiscation of a property is for failure to pay their property taxes, solely, so. And that’s a whole process, 4 year process?.I don’t want a misunderstanding that we are confiscating people’s property over a code compliance liens.” But Michelle Bodley, County Treasurer-Tax Collector, set the record straight following Elliott’s capricious statement: “If the fees get slapped onto your property tax bill andyou don’t pay, your home IS at risk of tax auction fornon-payment.” BOOM! Somebody disbar and fire that attorney, Kit Elliott!Elliot lied directly to the BOS and residents! Share County Treasurer-Tax Collector Bodley did indeed confirm that if you accrue any amount in administrative fees (20 bucks?) because some county staff member pushed some paper, the county believes they would have the so-called “authority,” at least in their delusional minds, to take your property away and auction it off to the highest bidder. What could possibly go wrong? LEGAL BACKGROUND: ARTICLE XIII D & GOVERNMENT CODE 25845(d) The BOS is citing California Government Code 25845(d), which lets them special-assess abatement costs onto properties. BUT: The California Constitution’s Article XIII D says local governments cannot just stick “special assessments” for abatement public benefit or nuisance. There must be a due process. Most property owners hit by these penalties never had a formal abatement order or a fair hearing as required. WHY THIS IS DANGEROUS Slippery slope: Once anything can be tacked onto your tax bill, any fee,administrative, “cost recovery,” or otherwise, could be next. Lack of due process: Many affected property owners are “fined” without a finding of an actual nuisance or threat to safety, as is Corporate overreach: Remember, this is a registered corporation coming for your property, not a neighborly government. Their “bottom line” means everything. WHAT YOU CAN DO — IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED The Board votes this Tuesday, July 22 at 9:00 am. If you reside in Nevada County, CA, please visit our NevadaCountyRevealed Substack post, HERE, where you will find this information along with additional instructions on what to do. Upgrade to paid NEVADA COUNTY CORPORATION Now, a critical sidenote: it’s bad enough that we think our government is doing this, but did you know that, like every state, our counties and cities throughout the US…. they are all incorporated? Yes, your government is a corporation masquerading as a government (thank you to the late Paul James for coining this). Where I reside, the “County of Nevada,” is listed in Dun & Bradstreet's database with a D-U-N-S number and is registered as a corporation, alongside other commercial enterprises. For a total of seven D-U-N-S numbers, one for the headquarters and six for their government branches. I’m sure your state/county/city is as well. Go on, look ‘em up for yourself. And as any good civics teacher (or fed-up taxpayer) can tell you, a corporation does not have the authority to tax your property or pile on abatement fees as if they had a royal decree. The power to tax rests with the people and the Constitution, not a boardroom. There are, admittedly, some pragmatic reasons a government is technically registered as a corporation. Under the law, municipalities are considered “municipal corporations.” This legal status enables them to perform fundamental tasks, including entering into contracts, owning and managing property, issuing bonds, and receiving grants. But let’s be real: there’s a difference between necessary paperwork and the slow creep of corporate culture into public governance. When county governments start treating theirresidents more like customers, or worse, debtors, thanconstituents, it absolutely muddies the waters ofrepresentation. The administrative opacity,bureaucratic complexity, and focus on “revenuestreams” that mark corporate operations work against The risk is that, under the guise of efficiency or “cost recovery,” the public interest gets sidelined in favor of bottom-line thinking. That’s why it’s so crucial to scrutinize where the technical necessity of “corporate personhood” ends, and where genuine governmental controls should reassert themselves. After all, government is supposed to be of, by, and for the people, not simply a well-disguised collection agency. TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW…. Our County is moving with corporate boldness to turn simple code violations into tools of property seizure. Your county is more than likely going to do the same and are hoping you’re asleep at the wheel. Let’s prove them wrong, demand accountability, and remind everyone: We live under a Constitution, not corporate decree. Share Tip Jar! 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