LAKEPORT, Calif. — The Lakeport Fire Protection District Board was set to consider a no confidence letter against Lake County’s Health Services director, however the item was pulled from the agenda at the start of the Tuesday evening meeting.

At its last regular meeting in April, the board had directed the letter of no confidence regarding Health Services Director Jonathan Portney be brought back for this week’s meeting.

In his report to the board at the start of the meeting at headquarters Station 50, Lakeport Fire Chief Patrick Reitz noted having meetings with other local officials, but no communication at all from Portney.

At that point, he said he wanted to pull the no confidence letter from consideration, as he was not yet ready to bring it forward.

Reitz told Lake County News after the meeting that the completed letter may come back at a future meeting.

He has become one of the most outspoken critics of Portney, who he clashed with over performance issues and public statements Portney has made about the Lakeport Fire Protection District, statements which Reitz has faulted for inaccuracy.

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