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Audit Committee Meeting - Sept. 23 at 10:30 am

Purpose The purpose was for the Board to provide leadership on audit and other important fiscal matters to ensure good stewardship of public resources. The primary function of the Audit Committee (the Committee) is to assist the Board of Supervisors in its oversight of: The integrity of the county’s financial statements The systems of internal controls, policies and procedures The qualifications and independence of the county’s external auditor (the Independent Auditors”), and The performance of the county’s corrective action plans.

Behavioral Health Board Meeting

Arcata Library's YA Book Club postponed (Zoom)

This anthology is a rare, sweet, and imaginative team effort by women from India and Australia to create culture-bending stories that expand their perception of their own cultures. According to the editors, the collection is for 14 year-olds and up, and "embraces the idea of not just eating pie but of taking big, hungry mouthfuls of life and embracing the world." (Kirkus Reviews, March 7, 2017)

6:00 PM, Arcata Library's 'A Novel Idea' Book Group, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Zoom).

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but she was identified by scientists as HeLa. When scientists used her cells without permission, the first 'immortal' cells grown in culture were bought and sold by the billions to develop the polio vaccine; gain knowledge about cancer and viruses, and map genes. They are still alive, more than sixty years after her death. Despite her contribution to world health, Henrietta Lacks was buried in an unmarked grave. This is a story that demands readers to examine the United States' immoral history of experimentation on African Americans, feel it deeply, and question - who controls what we are made of? It reads like a novel but it is the true story of Henrietta Lacks and the birth of bioethics.