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The Month in Numbers: January 2025

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Sonoma County

Kicking the tires

$20k

  • Average price of a used car in the Bay Area in 2019.

$30k

  • Average price of a used car in the Bay Area in 2024
    • Source: Bay Area News Group

Go Broncos!

10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

  • Hours former DEMA CEO Michelle Patino allegedly billed the County of Sonoma for work on behalf of her homeless-services business on Nov. 20, 2022, the same date she attended a Denver Broncos game at Mile High Stadium

$11 million

  • Amount allegedly unaccounted for in DEMA’s billing to the County of Sonoma, over the course of its DEMA contracts. Patino denies any billing improprieties.
    • Source: Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Napa County

Labor violations

$45k

  • Fine the U.S. Department of Labor slapped C Case restaurant for violating child-labor laws

14

  • Age of children working at the Oxbow Public Market-located eatery outside of permitted hours during school days, at times operating hazardous equipment
    • Source: Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Marin County

The cost of commuting

2

  • Decades of work on the Highway 101-widening project between Novato and Petaluma. Construction on the 16-mile Novato Narrows portion is expected to wrap this summer.

$767 million

  • Amount spent on the Novato Narrows work alone

The cost of living

$17.27

  • New minimum hourly wage for “very large” businesses in Novato, raising the minimum by 40 cents. New minimums at large and small businesses are $17 and $16.42 per hour, respectively

$32.19

  • Hourly “living wage” an adult with no kids needs to earn to make ends meet in Marin County, according to MIT
    • Source: Marin Independent Journal

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