PAUL TICHININ is paid well over a hundred thousand a year — $120,000 as of 2008 — to perform a few nebulous tasks as Superintendent of Mendocino County’s schools. The other day I was told that Tichinin also gets the free use of a tax-funded car complete with tax-funded fuel to commute from his home in Fort Bragg to his “job” at Talmage. I was also informed that Tichinin, who can well afford his own transportation, recently drove his tax-funded vehicle to Oregon where, he claimed, he would attend an educational conference. But the true reason Tichinin headed north was to drive his daughter to her college. The conference was cover, if there was a conference, for Tichinin’s trip, which was personal. While in Ore gon, Tichinin managed to total the tax-paid vehicle in an accident whose details remain unknown. But when Tichinin returned to Mendocino County he was handed the keys to another car. No one has been available to confirm or deny the superintendent’s predatory behavior, but one would think an agency with as shady a history as the Mendocino County Office of Education there would at least be some “concern” from one or another of the agency’s seven trustees.
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