“As a general law county we are just a subdivision of the state. Whatever the county does is provided by state law and that is all we can do. But once the charter is approved by the voters and ratified by the Secretary of State, then whatever is in the charter becomes equivalent to state law, but only applicable to this county,”

Zoe Yudice of the Mendocino Beacon interviews 3 members of the Charter Project of Mendocino County