HomeMy WebLinkAbout07.06.21 FW_ Ruth Sarnoff ideas on 7_6 Meeting
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Subject:FW: Ruth Sarnoff ideas on 7/6 Meeting
Date:Tuesday, July 6, 2021 3:59:12 PM
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Kayla Reaster, MBA, MAED
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Subject: Ruth Sarnoff ideas on 7/6 Meeting
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7-4-2021 / 7-5-2021
To: Chico City Council Members, Butte County BOS
Good Evening,
I intend to watch tonight’s meeting of the Council and tomorrow’s Meeting of
the BOS though I probably can’t attend. I watched Council’s ‘unannounced
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meeting’ of June 8 and watched it to the very end. I also watched the BOS
meeting and Council members won’t probably have time to watch it before
tonight’s meeting, but it was even stranger than strange.
My message to you tonight is not new. It is a repeat of my Water Assessment
(Audit) which was based on your own documents. Council members were
presented a printed copy by the City Clerk at a previous meeting.
If you have not read the front page headline story “Dealing with drought:
Farmers challenged as water supply dwindles ‘We’ve never been in a place like
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this before’ by Steve Schooner at ssshoonovernews@gmail.com The 1 part:
The drought is here, and agriculture is scrambling.
Water regulators have cut the amount that can be taken from lakes, rivers,
and streams. Farmers who ordinarily get that water either have to forego
planting some of their fields, or pump water from the ground, or a combination
of the two.
Farmers dependent on wells are also affected. The soil gets drier, and more
and more water has to be pumped to keep crops alive.
RS: At no point in the article, which consisted of interviews with water agencies
and farmers did anyone interviewed raise questions about the sustainability of
large, high water-use, same crop fields such as rice. Almonds, walnuts and
pecans, high profit items, but also very high water use items. It is the
assumption that everything is carved in stone. It truly isn’t. The idea that there
are no solutions that bothers me most. If you can’t talk about or place on an
agenda opportunities to talk about Climate Change hope you will think hard
about what you ask for and what you approve.
On page 2, Associated Press (AP) Redding, CA. >> “Fight persists against home-
destroying wildfires” is a comprehensive review of some of the most recent
fires which are still burning. A photo with caption that reads: An air tanker
drops retardant while trying to stop the Salt Fire from spreading near Lakehead
in unincorporated Shasta County on Friday
There is also an opportunity for the public to weigh in a 6-22-21 issue of E-R +
M-R on pg. 7 of CLASSIFIEDS NOTICE IS HERERBY GIVEN THAT Oroville City
Elementary School District of the County of Butte, State of California will
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receive up to and no later than 1:30 P.M. July 16, 2021 sealed bids for the
award and contract for the furnishing of all, materials transportation and
services required for the Construction and installation of a new generator at
Ophir Elementary School….
RS: I raise this because it is an opportunity to see plans in downtown Chico. I
hope some people in the community would check out schools and ‘any
convertible from the inside’ buildings that could house people like those made
of brick, marble or concrete. Small businesses, men and women with skills and
people already volunteering could quickly, in days, be figured in. The AC/DC
grid was out for 40 million people during the ‘never before winter snow storm’
that hit south and east coastal region. It was extreme and is only one of a
multitude. A nuclear power plant was taken off line to keep Big Corporate Grid
from failing.
RS: Other issues:
** What to do about the replacement of missing council seats: My first
thought, keeping it simple would be to have Councilor Alex Brown pick
someone and other remaining councilors pick someone and move on. It could
also help to connect those with housing, policing and extreme weather being
faced in north counties, the state and the nation.
**How do we protect and save lives during this summer. It may be hotter than
the 33 days over 100 F days in 2020. Massive numbers of people must
informed and shown (each one, teach ten or as many as you can. Make it your
#1 priority. Knock on your neighbors door, talk to homeless people on the
street. My advice: Put your shirt on wet, place a wet bandana (scarf) on your
head and wet your socks before putting on sturdy shoes. Cover your body
when outside to protect skin and protect eyes with sunglasses. Wear a wide
brimmed hot!
**Everybody (from every perspective), share what you each know and feel
about the future. It won’t get better just because we don’t talk about it. I will
share at this time from last issues of various publications and AP articles.
+San Francisco Chronicle – RISING REALITY PART 3 JULY 5, 2021 “$900 million
plan for climate change includes previously unthinkable option” – Photo of
Hayward Shoreline Regional Park
“Hayward may give up some land to the sea”, By John King ONLINE – To view
interactive graphics and video about the effect of a rising San Francisco Bay on
Hayward, go to: sfchronicle.com/slr-hayward Hayward’s future shoreline Map
in color shades of blue show depths of flooding RS: It appears to be along about
6 miles of coastline + the distance below graphic portrayal.
+Chico News & Review (CN&R) July 1, 2021 Page 20 feature article “THIS
WON’T FLY: As Chico’s airport shelter draws criticism, other California Cities
show a better way” by Ken Smith kens@newsreview.com PHOTO of outside of
gate John Howlett caption reads John Howlett visited the Chico Municipal
Airport the day before the city’s sanctioned campground there opened. The
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site remained off limits to the public and press until June 25 Page 21 top
photo by Jason Cassidy of the city’s largest encampment at Comanche Creek
bottom photo caption is: The city of Santa Rosa successful sanctioned
campground at the Finley Community Center for months in 2020. PHOTO
COURTESY OF JENNIELYNNHOLMES
+AP PHOTO BY Steve Schoonover – 7-2-21 Edition ER AGRICULTURE Wild and
Free Photo caption: Bald Eagle rests Thursday on a rice break off Road 48 in
Butte County. RS: It is also a picture of a mono-crop (1 crop) field with high
water requirements.
+ “Chico plaintiffs head back to court “, 7-2-21 by Riley Blake
rblake@chicoer.com RS: Still unresolved and HEALTH (same page)
+RS: Needless to say, there are numerous safety issues as regards rail, car,
ships, boat travel, with special offers being targeted toward university students.
Also articles, mostly AP ones, are indicative of a lack of control over production,
shipping and what is being eaten.
+SAFETY MEASURES Las Vegas, Nevada >> 5-22-21 US enacts ‘Real Water’
recall amid reports of death and illness by Ken Ritter Federal authorities have
ordered complete recall of a Las Vegas-based bottled water brand Real Water
U.S. District Court order stopped the production and distribution of the product
marketed primarily in Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California. The last paragraph
reads: The Las Vegas-based Southern Nevada District on Thursday reported five
more cases of liver illness believed to be linked to Real Water, including the
death of a Clark County woman in her 60s who had under-lying medical
conditions. The report brought to 16 the number of acute non-viral hepatitis
cases tied by the district to the product. The federal civil complaint calls the
product brand “Re2al Water Drinking Water,” and says it is treated with
chemicals including caustic lye and a mineral salt.
+AP Gainesville, Georgia >> 1-29-21 by Jeff Amy “Liquid nitrogen leak at poultry
plant kills at least 6” PHOTO WGCL-TV A Hall County sheriff’s deputy guards the
entrance to the campus of Free Chapel, a church where about 130 workers
were taken by bus to be examined for injuries following a liquid nitrogen leak at
a nearby Prime Pak Foods in Gainesville, Georgia. When leaked into the air,
liquid nitrogen vaporizes into an odorless gas that’s capable of displacing
oxygen. That means leaks in enclosed spaces can become deadly by pushing
away breathable air, according to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.RS: This is
definitely a must read. Gainesville is the hub of Georgia’s poultry industry,
which is the largest in the country. Thousands of employees work across
multiple processing plants around the city and much of the workforce, like in
many meat processing plants is Latino.
+ FIREFIGHTING “El Medio staff concerned doors may be closed again”
OROVILLE >> by Justin Couchot, jcouchot@chicoer.com
7-3-21 (front page)
Paragraph 3 A third alternative to fire protection is scheduled to be heard by
councilors Tuesday at the Oroville City Council meeting.
+RS: Too complicated to relate but meetings will be taking place on Wednesday
as well. attend one of the public meetings Oroville will hold at 9am and 6pm at
the Oroville Convention Center located at 1200 Myers St in Oroville on
Wednesday, 7-3-21. There is more but…
+RS: Last one for today. I just started to scan the paper and this one struck me
as the most important one on my favorite topic WATER AP Flagstaff, Arizona >>
by Felicia Fonseca “Tribes become key water players with drought aid to
Arizona. The story is priceless….it is about how tribes work to save Lake Mead. I
haven’t time to read it but…
+HAZARDOUS WEATHER 7/5/21 “Containment of wildfires grows but wind a
concern” Redding, CA >> Photo Tumbleweed brush fire along interstate 5 (I-5)
in Gorman Sunday remained at 1.5 square miles with 10% containment.
+US-MEXICO BORDER “Migrant youth describe desperation to leave large
shelters By AP writers Amy Taxin, Adriana Gomez Licon and Julie Watson.
PHOTO Young unaccompanied migrants from ages 3 to 9 watch television
inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main
detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in
Donna, Texas. On Monday more than a dozen immigrant children described
difficult conditions, feelings of isolation and desperation to get out of
emergency facilities set up by the Biden administration to cope with a rise in
the arrival of minors on the southwest border.
I hope this gets read – scanned before tonight’s 6:00 PM meeting. It touches on
many topics, not just WATER. In the next weeks, many people will be
vulnerable and in different ways.
Ruth Sarnoff, Chico