For management, the county is divided into 5 districts. 

Each Districit has a  District Supervisor that is elected for management.  This 5 District managment system seems to be the norm for all counties in CA, and part of this reporting is to expose systemic concerns about this setup which may or may not have worked in the past, but seems to have really fallen beyind with needs as society has changed.  The influx of technology combined with consolidation of courts to areas non-prximate to many residents and loss of local newspaper coverage has potentally made these system ripe for fraud in ways that was not even fathomed prior to the 1980s due to local focus on everything.  

The supervisors are responsible for all aspects of management of the unincorproated areas of their district and they seem to provide varying levels of support to the leaders of the incorporated areas.  There are 5 supervisors for LA now each managing about 2 million people with a small office staff compared to the same managing 440,000 in Monterey County, as a point of disparate comparision. 

The supervisors serve 4 year terms and it seems about half of them are often assistants to prior supervisors prior to their own election. 

The 5 current supervisors are shown below with their current contact information. 

Monterey County has an operating budget of 1.8 Billion Dollars.  

As the new District 2 Supervisor as of the 2022 election cycle, Glenn Church, described things,  the Supervisors currently have Executive, Legislative, and some Judicial Duties for the entire county. This is  inclusive of some overlap for the incorporated areas, as well leadership for the non-incorporated areas and their pay rivals that of Supreme Court justices, in the $180.000 per year range.  That's a lot of money to budget, that's a big paycheck for areas that are not heavy on a lot of other economic activity these days due to corporitzation of agriculture and a lot of other industries.  That's a  lot of power in the hands of few when looked at properly -- and the way the Brown Act limits them in some ways creates n incredibly complex dynamic.    

Is there any requirement for each of them to be literate in bookkeeping, accounting or finance to be responsible at a top level for all that money?  

Is there any requirement for each of them to be literate in management of others to be responsible managers of the employees of the County?   Monterey County has 5000 employees for example. 

Is there any requirement for each of them to be legally literate enough to  be responsible for the creation of laws and ordinances for the County? Is there a Judicial Committee that ensures they don't create new laws that violate basic laws already in existence?

What about Communication? Do they have to be email literate, do they know about retention of emails and do they understand they are not to share passwords and do ghost writing for each other in ways they would not or could not claim if challenged?

Five people ultimately responsible for $1.8 Billion dollars who are being paid a hefty wage they could not easily earn any other way -- and are limited in communicating with each other in odd ways -- and who are not bound to each other or their constituents by a unifying  ethnic or religious connection seems like it could be a recipe for disaster, and one of the goals of this publishing series is to put those concerns to the test.