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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02.16.21 Board Correspondence - FW_ Letter to Butte County Board Members _ Important Information for the Board From:Snyder, Ashley To:Alpert, Bruce;Bennett, Robin;Clerk of the Board;Connelly, Bill;Cook, Holly;Cook, Robin;Kimmelshue, Tod; Lucero, Debra;Paulsen, Shaina;Pickett, Andy;Ring, Brian;Ritter, Tami;Rodas, Amalia;Sweeney, Kathleen; Teeter, Doug Subject:Board Correspondence - FW: Letter to Butte County Board Members | Important Information for the Board Date:Tuesday, February 16, 2021 9:28:57 AM Attachments:Articles in YEAR IN REVIEW 12-28-2021.pdf Please see the below correspondence and attached document. Take care, Ashley N. Snyder Assistant Clerk of the Board Butte County Administration 25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965 T: 530.552.3307 | F: 530.538.7120 Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Pinterest From: ruth sarnoff <ruth.sarnoff958@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2021 6:14 PM To: Snyder, Ashley <ansnyder@buttecounty.net> Subject: Letter to Butte County Board Members | Important Information for the Board ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening .. attachments, clicking on links, or replying. Dear Clerk of the Board – Please forward the attached PDF to Butte County Board members. Please also put a copy of this email and PDF attachment into the public record. Thank you for your kind assistance! Ruth Sarnoff Articles in YEAR IN REVIEW 12-31-20 Enterprise-Record + Mercury Record covers the Justin Couchot. 530-896-7774 Freelancer Search for story, News, Pg. 5 ** Photos by Dorghalli, in color, see on-line at News A7. ** AP article, 4-24- WASHINGTON Articles in the New Year, 2021, various sources & dates ** TEHAMA WEATHER 1-5-2 outage affects about 4,800 electric customers, by Jake Hutchinson and Natalie Hanson, jhutchison@chicoer.com and nhanson@chicoer.com RED BLUFF>> ** ENVIRONMENT NEWS A3 Enterprise-Record + Mercury Register, 1-5-21, an ** CORONAVIRUS: In the Paradise Post from Magalia by Natalie Hanson at nhanson@chicoer.com ** Other views, in E-R+M-R, 1-26- rubin@rubinnavarette.com , on history of immigrant betrayal by politicians. ** COUNTY GOVERNMENT: In E-R + M-R, 1-5- Will Denner, wdenner@chicoer.com from OROVILLE nhanson@chicoer.com in E-R + M-R ** COMMUNITY in E-R + M-R, 1-4- editor Tim Crews earns To smartin@chicoer.com. ** YOUNGSTERS BURDEN E-R + M-R, 12-6- in ** E-R + M-R, 1-15- Natalie Hanson, nhanson@chicoer.com , 530- 896-7763 ** GARDENING, E-R +M-R, 1-22- (Rock Salt) AP story Brown. ** GOVERNMENT, E-R + M- smartin@chicoer.com , 530-896-7778- County As close session beginning at 4:00 p.m. and open session starting at 4:30. ** 1-29-21, E-R + M-R the following Articles and Letters-to-the Editor (LED) n seeks a major turn on the environment, Trump rules - OMAHA WORLD HERALD provided photos Caption: Pipes to be used for the XL-pipeline are stored in a field near Dorchester, Neb. Migratory Birds, power plants emissions, oil waste pits, protection of gray wolves, ban on crop pesticides, back on the table as Prime Pak Foods until January, when it became part of -area The plant takes raw chickens and partially cooks them. Then they freeze them for later -year d by Cal Fire Butte County presentation, holds off on jcouchot@chicoer.com , 530-896-7720. Councilor Eric Smith wanted to hear from his own Oroville Police Department. RS and residents! CORNING CHEVROLET * BUICK is Open 7 Days a Week, been open for years. ** WEATHER 6A News from Los Angeles in E-R + M-R, 1-29 - river storm drenches California, snow piles high, by John Antczak, AP. Areas affected by the atmospheric river: San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties; Los Angeles and counties to the east and south issued warnings to get residents ready to leave areas near wildfire scars. ** A9 E-R + M-R OPINION 2 especially heartwarming Letters- to African Americans Amy Gaffney, Chico. To those who are old enough to remember the days of struggle and the role played by John Lewis, please share about his life. ** February 2021 is Black History Month, a time to celebrate and weep. The st District of Columbia has become our 51 State. Celebrations will be taking place all over the world when the formalities fo protest. The conditions of our first people on this continent, the Tribal Nations from coast to coast, and in Mexico and North and South America. th ** RS addition: April 15 and Tax time is also almost here. This is good time to reflect on where your taxes go. Too much of it goes for past, present and future weapons production. WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE www.warresisters.org U.S. FEDERAL BUDGET 2021 FISCAL YEAR TOTAL OUTLAYS (FY 2021 FEDERAL FUNDS) $3,48WHERE YOUR INCOME TAX MONEY REALLY GOESHOW THESE FIGURE WERE DETERMINED 2021. during the Vietnam War, thus making the human needs portion of the budget are in small, but readable print. Large pie chart is leagues analysis; the pie chart (right) boxed it is currently figured. **Every Saturday, 12:30 -1:30 p.m., since 1962, (when U.S. military advisors first rain or shine the CHICO PEACE VIGIL has taken place. If you support them, thank them with $$s and stand in solidarity, even 10 minutes. /a hot drink! If , would hit the spot. st ** TEACH PEACE: The 1 Gulf War in Egypt and its Aftermath, by Ruth Sarnoff (revised and updated 2/13/21), Thousands of U.S. Gulf War veterans came home with a sickness, a sickness passed on in birth defects to their children. Many vets suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), became homeless. The war came home. Nothing about war i degradation of the natural environment Gulf War Syndrome. of the war, piercing enemy tanks like they were made of butter. They were not a great success story for our irradiated tanks. -wsuffered the effects of an irradiated landscape. The smart bombs, were shown over and over, on TV screens across America and the world showing our bombs hitting only bulls-eye military targets. Only after the ward did we learn only 6 percent of the bombs dropped were smart bombs. Others unfortunately were not. Babies supposedly thrown out of incubators by Iraqi soldiers and then bayoneted, that story was exposed on 60 MINUTES to have been a totally false invented story. The 15 year old girl weeping before the camera was, in fact, the daughter of the Ambassador to the U.S. from Kuwait. On 60 Minutes she recanted publicly to the world it was a hoax. Like the oft repeated footage of the smart bombs, it is not hard to believe the unbelievable when the drums of war become strong. War is not cheap for even the victors. Part of the City of Chicos budget pays for past, present and future wars, and is not presented that way when looking at budgets. This robs people in communities seeking peaceful solutions without wars a place on the Budget Pie (as described in WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE analysis. *BEFORE the 2nd IRAQ WAR: During the days nd before the 2 Iraq War began, people all over the world leafleted, and made NO WAR on UMBRELLAS, while it was raining and snowing in major big cities all over the world. For the first time in human history people marched, protested, demonstrated, and held sit-ins in New York, London, Paris, Rome, Washington, D.C. and in Los Angeles. Crowds on sidewalks held signs while others watched from Tall Buildings. We walked up Broadway in pouring rain and gusty winds down Broadway to the Federal Building. The Pope, Nelson Mandela, the national AFL-CIO, the national federations of British unions, and European trade unions provided support not only with strong statements, but rallied people to protest in their countries. The war began even in the midst of global protests. National and International Media were all over this story, even as the bombs dropped. It was a global story in almost every newspaper, magazine and on almost every news channel. We urged the White House at that time to send a clear peace message that U.S. bombing of Iraqi cities and first strike use of nuclear weapons are not acceptable. NOW IT IS 2021. What should our message/s be today? How can we learn from the past? How can we change hearts and minds, our own and those of others peacefully? Peace is more than just an absence of war. ** A quote: Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. - Julius Caesar RS: NOW, in 2021, By reflecting on the words of both Julius Caesar, and General and U.S. President, Dwight Eisenhower, who warned against the power of the Military Industrial Complex, but only AFTER he left office, I hope new ideas, new conversations will emerge. My dream is for peace with justice and social equality and rights for the natural world, and to support people in Chico already doing it! ** Quantity of Water & Level of Pollution from Paving may be tracked through: Department of Water Resources * State of California * Multicolored Ads printed in E-R + M- -West Zone Fire is now 98 percent contained with over 84,595 use of fossil-fueled boats in the reservoir should be halted ASAP. This is a runaway Project started in 2018. This particular AD had many website links. Update needed In an April 17, 2020, Lake Oroville Community Update AD, a number of Environmental issues such as 56 piezometers installed in dam 50 years ago and lack of rebar in spillway. Evacuation of 158,000 people living below the dam twice is pretty unsettling to begin with. With Extreme Weather and Flooding, this issue is one that needs attention by California counties in burn areas. Water runoff has contaminated by deadly chemicals large areas. Fire retardant used created red soil after Paradise Fire. Reviving and healing life should not be by-passed. I have 7 or 8 more of these Ads and they are helpful in following this. Help tracking this faltering process from erupting again in new disasters is really important NOW. GOVERNMENT 12-2- by Carin Dorghalli, cdorghalli@chicoer.com The $1.5 million grant for construction of the Southside Oroville Community Center 20 years ago, agreement expires in May. An update assuring this agreement is renewed is needed soon. We need every helpful, positive community resource to stay where they are and be supported in every way possible. Petitions showing support, phone calls, and financial help. Photo by Carin Dorghalli caption reads Bill Bynum, a community activist, takes to the bullhorn to support the Southside Oroville Community Center. He stands Tuesday outside of an Oroville City Council meeting in Oroville toting a sign that reads, . May is not far away. Now is the time to organize! ,12-9-20, E-R + M-R, nhanson@chiccoer.com 530-896- 7763. Photos: by Carin Dorghalli Enterprise Record. -30-21 by Natalie Hanson,nhanson@chicoer.com MARK FRANCIS, GOLDEN VALLEY BANK c snapshot Friday from Golden Valley Bank reflects that building permits are overall -30-21, by Natalie Hanson, nhanson@chicoer.com City Manager Mark Orme, saying he was being pressed to make this allowance, wrote in an warming tent raised other issues. No special meeting was requested by the council as of Friday, therefore proposals from city staff to consider multiple sheltering alternatives will nd be discussed Tuesday. RS: That was Feb. 2. Homelessness not on agenda! Why? -30- said. See East Bay Times story reported on Thursday, 1-28-21 for more on this. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 1-30- -R + M-R. RS: A sad story of failure of the justice system to follow up on. Also see earlier story in Sacramento Bee revealing more details. Being found falsely guilty and put in jail for decades, most of his life, and ALDRICH PATTERSON, 1-30-21, jcouchot@chicoer.com - FIRE DISTRICT jcouchot@chicoer.com , Photo by STEVE SCHOONOVER - ENTERPRISE RECORD, Caption reads: El Medio firefighters Otutoa Afu, left and Brenden Perez throw a football around on Christmas morning outside of the South Oroville fire station. The station closed at the end of their shift, and all the firefighters were laid off. Contact reporter Justin Couchot at 530-896-7720. EGG WATCH, an essay by Rex Burress in the SPRING 2018 Edition of the SIERRA CLUB - Yahi Group in Butte, Glenn, Lassen, Plumas & Tehama Counties is inspiring! www.sierraclub.org/mother-lode/yahi - -1900s). Wild birds began laying thin- Fortunately legislation , by Wendy Le Master follows the early history of Chapman Town. The Health & Safety of Chapman Town has been compromised for too long. I ask you, something to give lip- those with no health care for decades! I will do everything I can to keep this article and others that expose cruelty and lack of humanity in your face, for it is a classic example of failure of every level of government. And to those who have lived, struggled, and suffered, in under-represented and under-served communities such as Chapman they warm. Those who refuse to change course quickly, RIGHT NOW, will simply have a much harder time and much more to retract and explain to off-springs. PROP 65 WARNING, 12-29- present within the circled areas shown on the map below: Published in the Enterprise Record 12-28-20. WARNING: Crude oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, and other petroleum products can expose you to chemicals including benzene, which are known to State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. These exposures can occur in and around oil fields, refineries, chemical plants, transport and storage operations, such as pipelines, marine terminals, tank trucks, and other facilities and equipment. For more information go to: www.P65Warnings.ca.gov/petroleum The foregoing warning is provided pursuant to Proposition 65. This law requires the Governor of California to publish This list is compiled in accordance with a procedure established by the Proposition, and can be obtained from the California Environmental Protection Agency. Proposition 65 requires that clear and reasonable warnings be given to persons exposed to the listed chemicals in certain situations. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., SFPP, L.P., Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals LLC, Calnev Pipe Line LLC ENVIRONMENT - - Native plants y Natalie Hanson, nhanson@chicoer.com 2-1-21, in the Chico Enterprise Record. PHOTOS BY NATALIE HANSON ENTERPRISE-RECORD Picture captions reads: Ali- Meders-Knight demonstrates contracted artwork for Butte Fire Safe Council on post-Camp-Fire land restoration as well as her own work with basketry Thursday at her Chico home. She was recently appointed by the Federal Forest Tribal Relations Office to the Tribal Programs Implementation team for the U.S. Southwest region and Environmental Conservation and Education Committee for the Northwest Forest. On the Committee for the southwest region, including Southern California, Utah, Nevada and Arizona she has an opportunity to influence education around traditional ecologic everyone in the room with tribal consultation and we finally have something to ENVIRONMENT An Associated Press (AP) article by Bill Lambrecht and Gracie Todd Coastal Harm fro COLLEGE United Nations assistance this year to force action by the U.S. government on invading salt. Their - -Dardar, chief of the Grand Camou/Durac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, said in an interview. -known but fast growing impact in the climate crisis: saltwater intrusion. The threat is wide-spread; roughly 40% of Americans live in coastal counties, according to the National Oceanic and biochemistry at North Carolina State University who is documenting changes in -General Antonio Guterres said in a speech. Dec. 2, 2020, AP record-breaking weather and growing fossil fuel extractions that trigger global warming, the Secretary-General Antonio delivered another urgent appeal to curb climate change. https:www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2020/11/25/300650.htm HOMELESSNESS, Sunday January 24, 2021 GROUP PROTESTS CAMP EVICTIONS: by st Carin Dorghalli, cdorghalli@chicoer.com 1 Picture caption reads: A group of 20 on Saturday in Chico. The group was protesting a 72-hour eviction notice given by the city to unhoused people. The triangle has about 50 tents with at least one move, the city may physically move the th*Legal Notices SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO.2561 ADOPTED BY THE CHICO CITY COUNCIL Pursuant to Government Code section 36933©, the following summary shall serve as the publication requirement for adoption of an ordinance. The ordinance, as summarized below, was adopted by the Chico City Council at its meeting of February 2, 2020. ***AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICO, AMENDING TITLE 9 PUBLIC PEACE, SAFETY AND MORALS BY ADDING MUNICIPAL Programsty from creating, establishing, operating, conducting or participating in a needle exchange program, as defined in Health and Safety Code section 121349. Such ordinance allows a violation to be issued an administrative citation, filed as a criminal violation (citation or misdemeanor) by the city attorney in Superior Court, or other civil penalties and actions be taken. Such ordinance also does not prevent additional criminal actions to be filed. The ordinance was by the following vote of the City Council: For: Denlay, Morgan, Tandon, Reynolds, and Coolidge; Against: Brown and Huber. Copies and on the Citywebsite at https://www.chico.ca.us/. Publish: February 10, 2021 RS Comment: Making a bunch of code changes without a public hearing is unwise and perhaps illegal, even according to your own rules. Some person(s) collaborated to make these changes which: 1.) Provides additional power to Chico PD - 2.) Person(s) as corporation(s), use Government Code section 36933(c), which reads 0 details. an all in the family when it comes to hiring and politics Chico and Butte County as candidates rotate between cities, commissions, it may be , but it does nothing for the majority of residents who come up empty handed except for utility bills and taxes. * Notices: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is (are) doing business as CHICOSTART 411 Main Street 101 Chico CA 95928 County of Butte Registrant: CHICO ECONOMIC PLANNING CORPORATION 411 Main Street101 Chico, CA 95928 Began Transacting Business: 1/16/2016 Statement Expires On: 2/01/2026 Business is Conducted By: Corporation This statement was filed in the office of CANDACE J. GRUBBS, County Clerk of Butte County, on February 01 2021, By: C. PETERSON, Deputy. RS COMMENT. In 2-12-21 e-r +m-Evicted campers pushed fronhanson@chicoer.com CHICO .>>City Planning Commissioner Bryce Goldstein, a member of a coalition of advocates called Butte County Shelter for All, wrotein a press release wrote . . . three dozen unhoused Chico residents were evicted, and began using the vacant residenti walking from the triangle. Goldstein wrote that the city is violating its own rules and a Supreme court ruling by The eviction notices cite irrelevant sections of the city of Chico municipal code, as 12.18.430 and 9.50.030 of the city code. Nor is the site closed to the public, although the eviction notices cite state Penal relevant as it pertains to unlawful camping in public. However, the city of Chico has claimed not to be enforcing a city- Martin v. City of Boise, of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise the had a choice in the The Chico city Council voted in December to not allow sleeping outdoors in parks or greenways by adopting an ordinance allowing for enforcement of the existing Rules and Regulations of Bidwell Park and Other Parks and Playgrounds as either misdemeanors or infractions. At that time, City Attorney Andrew Jared stated the ordinance only covers parks, and therefore city-wide and does not violate the Supreme Court ruling. However, Goldstein said the Boucher site is not a park by any definition provided in the ordinance or the municipal code as the 1.3 acre site is zoned RI: Low-Loion cannot even sleep on city-owned land, where can they go? Goldstein wrote. She added while Chico police have stated unhoused people can sleep in public right-of-way as long as they are not blocking sidewalks, no specific legal location have been identified. Additionally, many city side-walks are covered by the Sit-Lie ordinance, which prohibits sitting or lying on sidewalks in commercial areas during the daytime sidewalks is cruel, and forcing our unhoused population to sleep in front of homes in south Chico neighborhoods providing for unhoused persons to relocate to, the city is violating the Martin v. Boise ruling and could be subject to future legal action. Notwithstanding such future action, a wide coalition of housing advocates insist that the city desist with any future evictions unless and until suitable alternative camping/sleeping/resting location, particularly during a housing emergency declaration and during the current COVID- notices expire 9:30 a.m. Friday Jared was not be available to conjunction with the Chico Police Department, has evaluated this specific location and the circumstances surrounding it and are in agreement as to the enforcement being leg Hanson at 530-896-7763. DOCUMENTARY FILMS RS: These are films I have seen which are available as DVDs and/or on NETFLIX. Pageant Theater in downtown Chico also shows many documentaries and older classics. Underwater footage of the Ocean, Coral Reefs, Rainforests, and Deserts, are beautiful. Some are older, others are very recent. o the Moorpark Nuclear Lab area, 50 miles north of Los Angeles. A second film, by the same name and same content, includes the farm since its early days and shows innovation made so most everyone, even those with varying abilities can grow food and raise animals and live with wildlife; snakes, wolves and all. . This film records for the first time, a father & teenage son, in Ocean discovery, with fins, bare legs and camera, explore the Ocean s Antarctic water. In daylight hours, for 1yr. they recorded the mating, birth & hiding of millions of eggs till her life-span ends. HOMELESSNESS Hanson nhanson@chicoer.com 2-5-21 PHOTOS by Natalie Hanson Enterprise Record and Rick Silva rsilva@paradisepost.com This long article is full of quotes. place to go continued a sign-bearing protest which began more than 10 days ago. Police Lt. Mike Williams confirmed unsheltered people are being told they can rest in the public right of way, without blocking sidewalks, businesses or private voluntarily comply wi Chicoans protest -Record 12-12- th at old Diamond Match Factory site off of 16 Street brought commentary from several speakers infuriated with the proposal, demanding to see the environment documents on the project. The site would host a debris sorting area, with metal shredding process, packaging and then rail shipment out to another Operational for about a year, M-Sat., 8am - 6pm. Trucks from 250 to 500 a day would enter the property from Meyer Ave. to nd Westfield Drive extending to West 22 St. and exit along the same roads. West th 16 would only be used for vehicle traffic such as SUVs, according to Army Corps of Engineers Col. Eric McFadden. About 100 trucks would line up inside the site, and arrivals and departures would be controlled for lessened impact. Asked why a said Corps tries not to interfere with commercial business. That spur was built by Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Officials said the air and soil quality would be monitored at the site as well as other places in the neighborhood and schools. Public comments were still being taken at deadline. In both projects the Cal OES (Office of Environmental Safety) and FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) officials said public meetings were planned so neighbors were informed. RS: Now, in real time, some of the issues brought forth at that hearing seem to me to be relevant, particularly as regards the Chico Airport/Industrial Park and Budget Reserves to compensate Airlines from potential loses. In an unsettled world, folks may not want to fly. Water in coastal communities everywhere on the planet should at least give pause. Things on agendas change. I can think of nothing that has brought more public outrage than the arrogance of power as while ignoring community ideas and pushing agendas to ratify with a bunch of letters and numbers . RS: I am the messenger. I am not the message. You, if you are as an elected official or as elected or appointed by powerful people, you provide the message with documents produced and doctored-up by government entities, and it is you who place Classified Ads published in California papers. Your ADs in Classified Sections of papers are a road map for me. Thank you. asted- together numbers and lettersyou will not make the root problems go away, not even in the short run. I put a square peg into a round hole. High-paid executives & managers may also have trouble following it pretty soon. 6 million parts needed to construct or repair a 747, and 172,000 wells pumping in poor neighborhoods like in Bunker nd Hills on top of the 2 Street tunnel at Broadway above downtown Los Angeles, is documented because . GLOBAL CORPORATE IMPLOSION may begin to happen soon. BIG AG, BIG PHARMA, BIG OIL, BIG TOURISM, GROWTH BUSINESS PLANNING and MAXIMIZING of PROFIT is on the decline. Suggestion: Start a list of everything you can think of that needs water to survive. Watch some of the film document to survive RS ** RS Comment *New topic: I have not seen the mile-long Railroad Freight Cars that stream through Chico blowing their whistles loudly, making multiple trips. Where do these mile-long trains go while speeding very fast past the Chico Depot? What are they carrying? I witnessed a long train resting on a track in Phoenix flammable crude oil cylinder-shaped black tanks, and then 2 empty box cars in between. Crude tar-sands oil & liquefied natural gas are extremely flammable. I have seen posters and banners of the Bomb Trains at Environmental protests against Fracking and Exxon-Mobil at San Francisco and Oakland ports. So why is there no attention to this? Where is a 2021 report on the trains, which are a source of pollution? I have a great picture of one of these trains carrying coal in open cars. Heavy diesel smoke can be clearly seen. Abcarian, 10/23/15, in the Los Angeles Times is a human interest story about a retirement-age couple the Reynolds, that attended an Obispo County Planning Commission meeting . . . Phillips 66 had a plan for a crude oil terminal . . it would accommodate 260 trains of crude oil a year . . .each train1 mile long carryin crude derailed and exploded in San Jose?... there was the Santa Barbara oil spill in crude, crossed into French Quebec after a brake failure on the eastern coast of Canada, wiping out a whole town and killing all 47 of the residents. Robin met with Linda Reynolds and five neighbors in the common room at their subdivision. They founded the Mesa Refinery Watch Group. . . Motto: I f the rail transit station The final 8 paragraphs of this of this article are about older retirees tracking every move made by Phillips 66. The county is the local body that determines can help determine the outcome. Robin Abcarian can be reached at robin.abcarian@latimes.com -water ** National Geographic 10-18 INCREASE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THREATENED OCEAN CREATURES, BRIAN SKELLY TAKES PHOTOS FOR AS LONG AS HIS LUNGS ALLOW. BY DANIEL STONE photo of social gathering of 6 sperm whales in eastern Caribbean. RS Comments: Another form of tracking what is happening and establishing its time in a process (as in PROP 65 ADS): DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES STATE OF CALIFORNIA multicolor (orange & turquoise) Ads with Lake Oroville Community Update headline. This is followed by date of publication in Enterprise- th Record + Mercury-Register. JANUARY 15, 2021. Each AD has a topic. The Jan.15 topic is - California Conservation Corps Construct Fish Habitat from Recycled Christmas Trees. December 23, 2020 is published in 12-27, E-R + M-R. Nov. 13, 2020 Headline is DWR Completes Oroville Dam Safety Comprehensive Needs Assessment, RS: (3 years in the making). The CNA was initiated in 2018 to identify dam safety and operational needs following reconstruction of the spillways damaged in February 2017. RS: Evacuation orders for approx. 158,000 people living in communities below the spillway took place not once, but 2 times. The alternate spillway was also not working properly. Environmental groups told was RS: (No rebar corporate cutting costs?) November 20, 2020, The Lake Oroville Community update will not be published on Nov. 27 Happy Thanksgiving to all. RS: Near the bottom of the same-size, multicolored AD, and following: Bidwell Canyon Boat Ramp Construct There is important detailed, general information about the construction project, information for both th- varying sizes, but hours when boating can take place etc. More details are under Bidwell Canyon Boat Ramp Construction (about 2/3rds into doc), is the most on boat ramp project has experienced date to December. The contractor was able to obtain a concrete shipment this week, continuing the construction started in 2018 to expand the parking area and provide two additional boat ramp lanes to Elevation 700 (feet above sea level). The ramp is open weekends only from 5 a.m. Saturdays to midnight Sundays. Kelly Ridge and Arroyo Drive residents should anticipate construction activities in the area weekdays. Loading docks are available at both Lime Saddle and Oroville Dam Spillway boat ramps. The Bidwell Canyon Marina and shuttle services remain open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Loafer Creek Recreation Area remains closed for fire recovery and its boat ramps are out of the water. Oroville Recreation Advisory Committee (ORAC) held its fall meeting Nov. 6. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was not open to the public to protect public health. ORAC was established by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to review and provide recommendations regarding the DWR Recreation Plan for the Lake Oroville State Recreation Area. To obtain a summary of the meeting, send a request to oroville@water.ca.gov RS: Members of the public and anyone wanting to know what is really in the summary, it would be a good idea to ask for the full report. If refused, make a Public Records request for the full document with all attachments. If that does not work, go national and make a Freedom of Information request. Also ask of all for related documents and legal rulings. You just might luck out! Legal Notices Classified AD, 1-9-21 in E-R + M-R appears to provide a small window of opportunity for Public Participation. If final action has read, it appeared there were 2 changes. Zoning Code Change ZC20-01 Sign Regulations and Zoning Code Change ZC20-03 Clarifications: - The City Council may consider adopting an ordinance to the following zoning code changes: 1) Modify Table 17.32.010-l) to correct a mini-storage reference; 2) Clarify the lo makeup artists and certified massage therapists; 3) update OMC 17.16.090 relating to car washes to align with current state law. 12/15 continued until Second Meeting in January. Last part of last paragraph reads: Anyone desiring to submit information, opinions or objections is requested to submit them in writing to publiccomments@cityoforoville.org to the physical address above or attend the meeting virtually. ** RS comment: Now it is 2021. That does not nullify everything learned and changed. Watching past meetings on-line will reveal a lot about how various levels of management/government do business. Efforts to avoid creating a Chico City Plan and Land Use Plansuseless. A city plan looks at everything effecting residents: tourism, housing, homeless dying in our streets, policing, traffic, quality of air and water, education, child care, health and safety, protection of the natural environment. **RS: A Chico City Plan would require that those shut almost completely out of decision-making in the past, have new opportunities. A City Plan will take time and its deadline should be open and flexible. However the -finished PROJECTS out of circulation forever. More PROJECTS on every level are facing approval in the state and national will need water. Dumps handling hazardous waste, garbage and recycling in Butte County and other places have been CLOSED for a few years. At least follow the water levels every day in the E-R + M-R. One snow storm or burst of rain does not end a drought. Every plant, ant, spider, fruit tree and every human being needs WATER. Weber The Associated Press PHOTO BY MARIE D. DE JESUS HOUSTON CHRONICLE Caption Smoke from an explosion at the TPC Group plant on Wednesday in Port Neches, Texas. E-R + M-R - 11-30-19 AUSTIN, TEXAS >> Officials lifted evacuation orders Friday for around 50,000 people on the Texas Gulf Coast, determining a massive fire was finally under control at a chemical plant rocked by two major explosions two days earlierson County Judge Jeff Branick, county official, residents. ** RS: The explosion was the latest in a series of high-profile accidents this year up and down the Texas Gulf Coast and home to the highest concentration of oil refineries in the nation. In July, after an explosion at an Exxon-Mobil refinery in Baytown, Toby Baker, head of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality c industry must be accountable. But environmental groups for years have accused that hly profitable corporations with meager penalties. BOMB-TRAINS and REFINERIES and WATER FOR CONCRETE are SYSTEMIC. Follow-up is badly -to-the-, insist on e priceless. Keep rd binoculars handy and look for signs of the tiny bats (1/3 of an ounce that eat mosquitoes). They live, or used to live, in Chico and North Counties. Some who appreciate the bats have put tiny bat boxes in trees or structures in north counties. Classified Ads for bids on mosquito abatement were in the classified recently so this is a practical request. Mosquito abatement uses insecticides that kill not only mosquitos but make humans sick and kills them. ** GEOENGINEERING POISON SKIES, www.ChicoSky.com RS of very large Corporate Project, you may still be unaware of rve, a private corporation, provides funding through Congress for Pentagon and DOD. The latest Lake Oroville Community Dated February 5, 2021 was published in Sunday, 2-7-21, E-R + M-R, Oroville Dam Citizens Advisory Commission Public Meeting, The California Natural Resources Agency is hosting its sixth Oroville Dam th Advisory Meeting on Feb. 19 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The public meeting will be held online and will include presentations and public comment. The Commission will receive an update on fire modernization at the Hyatt Power Plant, winter operations and a presentation from the Yuba Water Agency on downstream flood management. The Citizens Advisory Commission is a forum for the community to provide feedback and ask questions. For information on how to join the virtual meeting, please visit http://bit.ly/OrovilleCAC Oroville Recreation Advisory Committee (ORAC) met on Feb 5. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was not open to the public to protect public health. ORAC was established by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to review and provide recommendations regarding the Department of Water Resources (DWR) Recreation Plan for the Lake Oroville State Recreation Area. To obtain a summary of the meeting, send a request to oroville@water.ca.gov Wildfire Impact on Water Quality : several members of the multi-agency Watershed Working Group, CalOES), conducted targeted monitoring of rivers, lakes, and other surface waters in the North Complex burn area and downstream. The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Water Board, DWR, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) collected and tested samples of surface waters throughout the some contaminant levels are elevated, but are lower than anticipated. The Water th Board issued a news release Jan. 29 stating these elevated results are not impacting drinking water treatment facilities for the quality of drinking water. The news release is available at https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/central vally/ under Announcements states while major wildfires often lead to subsequent water quality challenges in lakes, streams, and other waterways, the lower than expected levels of contaminants could be linked to the relatively dry winter months in 2020. Water testing will continue and the Watershed Working Group will report results in the weeks ahead. The Water Board will alert the public if results show quality may be further impacted. Lake Oroville Boat Ramps Winter precipitation inflows into Lake Oroville paved Oroville Dam Spillway boat launch ramps are now in the water and two lanes are open for use. The alternate, single lane, gravel boat ramp near the spillway gates will remain closed. The Spillway Boat area is open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Additionally, visitors and users of the Bidwell Canyon boat ramp area can also enjoy full access to the expanded, Stage II paved parking area and new boat ramp lanes when the lake drops as low as 705 feet elevation. Currently, boaters are using the Stage III boat ramp at Bidwell Canyon which is open 24 hours per day and provides access to elevation 665 feet. The Lime Saddle boat ramp is still out of water. Oroville Recreation California Department of Parks and Recreation (CA Parks), in compliance with the modification for the Greater -19 public safety restrictions, has opened Lake Oroville State Recreation Area (LOSRA) campgrounds at Bidwell Canyon, Loafer Creek, including the Equestrian Campground, and the Lime Saddle Campground. En route camping at the North Forebay and Spillway facilities is permitted. Group camping remains closed. Reservation capability dies not open until April and -firsThe Potters Ravine and North Fork trails are open for use. CA Parks encourages users to remain on the trails. Assessments by CA Parks staff of trail safety will continue through the winter. Additionally, day use facilities at Foreman Creek, String town, and Enterprise, damaged by the September North Complex Fire, are now open to the public. The Lake Oroville Visitors Center remains closed. Visit the California Parks Lake Oroville State Recreation Area (LOSRA) webpage at: https://www.parks.ca//page_id=462 for current information on facility status as well as current requirements to protect public health during the COVID-19 https://water.ca.gov/Programs/State-Water-Project/SWP-Facilities/Oroville/Lake- Oroville-Recreation. For information about the Oroville Wildlife Area, including the Thermalito Afterbay , visit the California Department of Fish and Wildlife webpage at http://wildlife.ca.gov/Lands/Places-to-Visit/Oroville-WA . Current Lake Operations 701 feet elevation and storage is about 1.26 million acre-feet, 54 percent of historical average. Currently in the Northern Sierra Basin, rainfall is below average, at 53 percent of normal at this time of year and snowpack is also below average at 69 percent of normal. Dry conditions will continue this weekend and are expected to remain into the week of Feb. 8. The total releases to the Feather River flows consist of 800 cfs down the Low Flow Channel through the City of Oroville, and 450 cfs from the Thermalito Afterbay (Outlet) for a total of high flow channel downstream of the Outlet. The public can track precipitation, snow, reservoir levels and more at the California Data Exchange Center at www.cdec.water.ca.gov midnight 2/4/21 ### Know someone who would like to receive Community Updates? They can email their request to Oroville@water.ca.gov RS Comment: If you are wondering why I am sending a verbatim record of the DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES STATE OF CALIFORNIA Lake Oroville Community Update February 5, 2021, it is because the original size of the type in the print edition (6 or7) is almost unreadable. It is even smaller than the Legal Notices AD size, slightly bigger, in the 1-9-21, E-R + M-R Notice of Public Hearing. I will include verbatim that notice because, who really reads small classified Ads which can be anywhere in a paper, even the Obituaries or Home Section. This is Code changes are involved in the Notice of Public Hearing, 1-9-21, and a- ** NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Oroville CITY COUNCIL will hold a public hearing on the items described below. Said hearing will be held on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 5:15pm or as soon thereafter as may be heard, 1. Zoning Code Change ZC20-01 Sign Regulations The City Council may consider adopting an ordinance approving a complete revision of Chapter 17.20 SIGN REGULATIONS, upon the recommendation of the Planning Commission. 12/1- Continued to 12/15. 2. Zoning Code Change ZC20-03 Clarifications The City Council may adopt an ordinance approving to the following zoning code changes: 1) Modify Table 17-32.010-1 to correct a mini-storage reference; 20 Clarify the definition of Personal Services makeup artists and certified massage therapists; and 3) update OMC 17.16.090 relating to car washes to align with current state law. 12/15 Continued until Second Meeting in January. Additional information regarding the items described in this notice can be obtained from the City of Oroville at 1735 Montgomery Street, Oroville, CA. Anyone desiring to submit information, opinions or objections is requested to submit them in writing to publiccomments@cityoforoville.org , to the physical address above, or attend the meeting virtually. Wes Ervin, Planner Publication date: January 9, 2021 RS: What does GSA stand for in the ¼ pg. AD entitled s Sought for Public in December 2020? There is mention of the Stakeholder The SHAC is made up of representatives reflecting the beneficial users of groundwater as identified in SGMA. There is no history of GSA or SHAC in this and Stakeholder Advisory Committee are committed to keeping the public informed, providing the public with balanced and objective information to assist the public in understanding SGMA, available options and recommendations, and creating an open process for public input on the development and involved in discussions during the development and implementation of the Groundwater Sustainability Plan. https://www.vinagsa.org/stakeholder-advisory ENTERPRISE RECORD Monday, February 8, 2021 (front page) ** and concern to Orland with new facility-R. Stations, such as the 75,000-square-foot facility planned at Orland Airport fulfillment centers, where products are placed into boxes and prepared for shipment. After arriving at a Delivery Station, packages are sorted and loaded into delivery vehicles. The jobs planned in Orland are a small fraction of the nearly 1.3 million people who work for Amazon worldwide. But what in this community will into rural America. So far, the biggest sticking point is the secrecy. An Unwelcome -disclosure agreements are run-of-the- mill precaution, protecting its business interests when negotiating a contract, lest a competitor find out and jump in to steal the deal or at least drive up the cost. Announcing the Orland Delivery Station two weeks ago, Amazon made a point of pledging to work with the community now that s excited to make this investment in Glenn County that will support local economic development and help insure the company can reliably and efficiently deliver to its growing number of customers in the region, said Xavier Van Chau, a company a good partner and will engage with the city, county, and community members as ** RS But two states and 650 miles from Seattle in a town where transparency breeds trust, unannounced details of the Amazon project are still catching people by surprise. With more info about the Plan approximately 200 truck load/deliveries per The Industrial Park property on un-incorporated land in Glenn County deeper in the article, raises a host of Deeper Donald Barcelox, who owns property between the Amazon Delivery Station and Interstate 5. Said ng to hide, which would be the impact on the ** RS: Things to save. Why begin saving for future use now? Because the AC/DC Grid that services neighborhoods will be facing more shut offs and may become a thing of the past. The prolonged lock-down has already taught us a lot about life off the grid Many here in northern California have lived off-the-grid for much of their lives. We have learned that: Recharging of electric cars can be a problem as people everywhere needing a re-charge found out the hard way. Energy for a re- charge requires fossil-fuel to work the pumps. All that gas, so near. ** 1/9/20 List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia,org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_California See also: List of Superfund sites in the United States THE BIBLIO FILE - Enterprise-Record A4 COMMUNITY, Tuesday, February 9, 2021 of a buffalo grazing. Karen Bradshaw is a graduate of Chico State in 2006. Parts of revue: Verbatim At first glance the notion seems absurd. Do animals actually think of themselves as property owners? Bradshaw rightly leaves that question to scientists and philosophers: instead, she asks the more practical question: Should people consider animals as potential property owners? Her book makes the case that not only is this not absurd, property law already has resources that can get us to w, non-human entities, like corporations, can own things. Trustees oversee the property claims of domestic animals who have inherited an estate as well as others who are unable to act on their own. Bradshaw sees many parallels in the animal kingdom to huma diminish the need to wake up each morning and fight to the death over where to The time saved can be invested in other activities, such as humans especially when resources are scarce, when no one individual can control the If purpose is to convince a skeptic, she has succeeded. Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send Review requests to dbarnett99@me.com Columns archived at https://dielbee.blogspot.com *RS: Provisions in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of , a new law, said in effect that corporations are people. Hundreds protested to oppose , filling hallways at L.A. City Council. After that ruling, LLCs (low liability corporations) multiplied quickly. In Chico2021, Person/s doing business appear in the E-R + M- ** RS: For solar panels already producing electricity on your roof, I thank you for your thoughtfulness and initiative installing one. It was/will be helpful in the short run they will soon be another item thatout-lived its usefulness. Solar panels more wast. Batteries have been being collected separately and kept out of trashfor almost a century. They are extremely toxic and contain methane, led, and mercury. *Computers are also only useful for the moment. They require 18 rare ores. They are everywhere. locked in rocks, in deadly, when mined, processed and transported. People working, living in, or going to school by where the processing is occurring are being poisoned. FLOODING Biswajeet Banerjee and Rishabh R. Jain The Associated Press in E-R +M-R, 2-8-21 RISHIKESH, INDIA >> Indian rescue crews struggled to reach trapped victims Sunday after part of a glacier in the Himalayas broke off and released a torrent of water and debris that slammed into two hydroelectric plants. At least 9 people were killed and 140 missing in a disaster experts said appeared to point to global cuation of many villages along the banks of the Alaknanda and Dhauliganga rivers was damaged. The Himalayan area has a chain of hydropower plant projects on Dinesh Negi, a resident of Raini village, told The Associated Press by phone. He said they watched from high above one of the rivers as the water turned muddy evacuations from removal of massive numbers of villages for space to build dams dam failures from faulty constructioning in evacuations. RS: Sound familiar? It would be interesting to know if other countries allow polluting recreational boating and do extensive paving to make it possible, for those who can afford to play in their reservoirs. *Buying of plug-in recliners, dish washers, washers/dryers, using fossil fuels/nuclear energy all slow transitioning. transition into a life where The use of water and gas to wash and dry clothes rather than cloths lines we still can, slows transitioning. With so many dying in Chico and the world for lack of basics to survive, food, water, and shelter it is no time to relax. Residents may not tolerate the Chico City Budget Reserve Fund of $1,000,000.00 to make sure air if people decide not to fly. At airports expansion projects concreteis water lost basically forever. It is not popular, espe where $$s are put aside (reserved in case most people stop flying) to subsidize something few Chico residents use. An EIR and CEQA inquiry, audits and timely updates (every 3 month) are reasonable requests for a resident to make, so do it! ** RS: BACK TO TRANSITIONING - Back- the problem. They are now being used across every part of society in flashlights, cars, fake candles and . Industries and institutions like Amazon use the very large (three-stories-high) battery-operated robots. There are so many processes that create global warmingspeeding up. Manufacturing, over-grazing, the building high- end real estate in National Forests are the worst. Battery operated robots (some 3 stories high) are used to lift shipping containers at Amazon warehouses in California. Backup batteries, also used in private hospitals and institutions contain mercury, methane, and lead, so deadly they were kept separate from garbage and trash for special handling (return days places. BANNING of mercury, lead, and methane, a must! In E-R + M-R, Opinion, 2-9-21, In Chico and globally, I hope people will see and read this letter. It is Verbatim it reads: My seven years of homeless human rights activism began when a little church group was forced off City Plaza after 10 years of feeding the poor. They were allowed to continue if they agreed to become invisible out of sight, out of mind. I found this appalling then and I find it appalling now. In recent days, other on the Triangle bounded by the thoroughfares Cypress, Pine and Humboldt. On the Triangle, the sweep was even more brutal and more sudden motel stays offered to a fraction of the Bidwell evictees. A few of us stood on the Triangle for 12 days. a big, busy world. We felt our hearts break, day-after-day. Of course, those on the lack the moral intelligence to stand for any reasonable definition of justice for this class of people a class with no trendy identity pedigrees. And so, they are effectively abandoned, time and again. I treasure those who stood. I know who Patrick Newman, Chico. st ** Highlander.org >>from Chattanooga, Tenn. Where I was born and spent the 1 part of my life. An interview with Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson brought back memories. On DemocracyNow.org for an interview, the importance of seeing things from different perspectives and gaining more insight from doing so, can really strike home. People are finding ways to communicate without settling for a comfortable middle-ground. Comfort zones are not SAFE ZONES. The interview went into Highlander history. Ash-Lee spoke pass work in communities NOW to resist avowedly racist groups. Shown 1-27-21 ** OPINION Enterprise-Record + Mercury Record 2 letters on 2-6-21 that deserve a promo. which st hopefully keep issues raised alive and readers engaged. *The 1: stnd buts article dominated the overall construction for lower- cleanliness of our premier spacesTwo paragraphs verbatim: Finding an unsheltered person dead in downtown doorways was very imagine how traumatizing it must have been for the person who died! The headline says: nd find an affordable place to live. Scott Huber, Chico * 2: Chicoans can . It was truly appalling for anyone who cares about Chico to read your front page report on February 2, in which representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and local builders association make it explicitly clear that they have not the slightest interest in building housing that the people who live here now can afford but are excited about building expensive new single-family homes and recruiting wealthier people from somewhere else to buy them. The letter poses questions and the building community investing so much money to elect a compliant council eel for poor Katy Thoma, suffering through the experience of having people die in her doorways. Finally, let me thank your reporter Natalie Hanson for doing a superb job of adding important context to the article. Well done. David Welch, Chico ** A few last transitioning hints to prepare for Summer/202I: Last summer had 33 days over 100 F. My best guess is that this summer will be at least that hot. ve tried ideas to save money that worked wonders for me keeping cool. 1. Dip your clothes in water (tee shirt cotton headscarf), 2. Wear them. 3. A squirt bottle handy 4. Buy/Find a shower turban (keep wet) as U move about, 4. If outdoors, bicycling, hiking, growing food or bird-watching soak shoes/socks 5. Sun usually is low in winter and higher-up- in-sky in summer, a tree/s that gets summer leaves & produces fruit will keep you cool. 6. Cold soups, salads & extra water, because being dehydrated is not safe. 7) Use blinds and curtains to modulate indoor heat 7.) Use left-over white house paint to paint more outdoor surfaces white to reflect heat 8.) Wear white or almost-white clothing and invest in umbrellas white for summer/black for winter & rain. 9. Save hammocks and /tarps/tents/rope, and twine, string & wire for your use, and to SHARE. 10.) Stainless steel/ cast iron ceramic fire-proof pots and pans. Already cut lumber/wood pieces, & hand tools to make tiny houses for bats & birds and tree houses to cool off in. Gardening tools to grow food a must, while sharing know- how about food. Dig in! Please place this document in the Public Record. 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