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WATER, from page 1A
"We thought that might
not work so another solution
we had was to pump water
around the project area so
that people downstream
could get water during
construction.
"That wasn't really work-
ing very well we offered to
send water trucks down for
stock water.
"That wasn't really going
to meet the need so that was
when we were lucky to have
a person who didn't use all
their water.
"As these projects evolve
and as the process evolves we
can improve the way that we
communicate with people
and we're really happy to
find out how we can do that,"
she concluded.
Sierra Valley rancher Rick
Roberti explained that he re-
ally did believe the CRM staff
"tried their hardest" to solve
the Perazzo problem but got
in over their head.
He added that the problem
hadn't happened again. "once
the water filled up, but that
doesn't mean come a dry year
it's going to."
Roberti commented that
many ranchers conducted
similar work to what the
CRM did. "I really want to
say that we're not against
these projects we just want to
make sure we don't get hurt
downstream later," he said.
"I knew about the project
but nobody ever contacted
me," Sierra Valley property
owner Jeff Carmichael com-
mented.
"I'm a low-priority down-
stream user but I do still
have some water rights there,
so I think that private proper-
ty water rights are being,,
shall we say, not considered
to the extent that they
should be in the planning for
these projects, and I'd like
a resolution, like Terry
(Swofford) is suggesting, that
would ensure that they are in
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CRM Program Manager
Jim Wilcox responded that
water rights were addressed
in a less formal and trans-
parent fashion in the past
but that beginning in 2011 "a
water rights, water effects
analysis" became part of
every project.
Addressing Carmichael's
complaint he admitted, "We
try to reach out to everybody
we can and we don't get
everybody.
"Sometimes we don't know
everybody. We don't get a
mailing list or a water rights
user five, six, eight miles
downstream in Sierra Valley,
and we should try to do that
more."
He also recognized that
"for the ag community, at-
tending meetings in the sum-
mer is darn near impossible."
Feather River Watershed
Group Chairman Russell
Reid explained he represent-
ed more than 100 irrigators
in American, Sierra and
Indian valleys who were
"very much in support" of a
resolution that would "try to
establish water rights as a
concern for projects and that
there would be a process that
those water rights would be
looked at, protected and
made sure that they are with-
in the legal balance of what
everybody's doing."
With that said he added, "I
would like to recognize that
quite a few of our members
have had very good success
with these water restoration
projects.
"They're all different and
we recognize that, and we
don't want to stop those
projects, we need a better
watershed.
"I think it can be done and
I don't think it's necessarily
that we have to go after each
and every one project that
has been good or bad."
The resolution
Indian Valley Supervisor
Robert Meacher told Reid he
was in favor of a resolution
but thought the Plumas
board could do better than
Sierra County's resolution,
which he characterized as
"soft" and more of a show of
support than anything else.
"I think we could easily
adopt the exact same lan-
guage as Sierra County and
be done with it, but I don't
think it's doing your mem-
bers and the ag community
and producers the service
that we could provide in a
more comprehensive resolu-
tion."
Graeagle Supervisor Jon
Kennedy agreed with Morris
and Meacher that the board
should draft its own resolu-
tion, as Sierra County's was
"kinda weak."
With a majority of board
members voicing their support
for some form of resolution,
Swofford moved for one to be
created and voted on at a later
meeting. Meacher seconded
the motion.
A&D, from page 1A
against a department."
Kennedy: "I'm against run-
ning a department deficiently
like it was before."
Meacher commented that,
in any case, the supervisors
needed to move quickly.
"Our issue, the way our
calendar works, is we've got
a little over 90 days, maybe 90
days and a week assuming
we meet three times a month
to knock this thing out, and
as you all know that goes by
very quickly.
"That's why we brought it
to you today to give staff
direction to move forward in
working through the issues
and bringing us back a
proposal sooner than later."
Former County District
Attorney Jeff Cunan, who has
been one of the most vocal
public advocates for restart-
ing services, asked if the com-
mittee meeting identified the
factors that "account for the
other 57 counties having such
services and ours not."
"Is there something special
about Plumas County that we
just, for two-plus years, can't
provide these services or
accept these monies to pro-
vide these services?"
"We haven't lost a lot of the
funding; they've been holding
it for us," Meacher clarified.
The Feather River College
Students in Free Enterprise
team (SIFE) was selected as
a co-regional champion after
competing at the SIFE re-
gional competition in San
Francisco on March 14. The
FRC SIFE team presented the
team's 2010-11 projects, which
were judged on project quality,
community impact, team
sustainability and the multi-
media presentation given by
the team.
The following SIFE mem-
bers were on the presentation
team: Gina Rangel, Travis
Bagley, McKinly Goodman,
Anthony Woller. Shelbie
Mathis. Tavi Flores and Mat
Brown. The FRC SIFE team
shared the League 1 win with
the University of Alaska,
Fairbanks.
According to Amy Schultz,
SIFE adviser, "FRC SIFE up-
set UC Merced. City Univer-
sity of Seattle -- whose team
was cemprised of MBA candi:
dates and Folsom Lake
College in the competition.
We now qualify to compete at
the SIFE National Exposition
in Minneapolis in May."
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"But we do have that June 30
drop-dead date that ff we don't
(act) we will lose a lot of it."
"We did not have a direct
discussion as to why we're
such an anomaly," he re-
sponded, adding the meeting
did reveal that many coun-
ties teamed up or contracted
out to provide the services.
Speaking about the con-
tracting idea Cunan com-
mented, "Plumas Rural
Services (PRS) is across the
street and they have very
good people over there, very
good services they can't
provide because the people
coming to them don't have
any money and there's no
other money to run it."
"On that point, Lori and
I both want to encourage
the board to be as local as
possible," Meacher agreed.
"We were given the example
of Alpine County who con-
tracts out for services, but the
contractor is someplace down
m San Bernardino or River-
side County and that's not a
real efficient way to work for
your clients."
PRS A&D Services Pro-
gram Manager Dean Tedford
told the board his group
worked with the Plumas
Superior Court to provide
services for the Proposition
36 and Drug Court programs
for the last two years.
"As far as I know, PRS
is the only certified Alcohol
and Drug Program in the
county."
Addressing the court's
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inability to continue those
programs into the next year
he said, "We've had really
good success over the last
two years, and my fear right
now is come July if some-
thing isn't done there's a
whole group of clients that
we have re-engaged back into
services that all of a sudden
July 1 they aren't going to
have anymore."
"I think Judge Kaufman de-
serves a whole lot of credit
for keeping some services
going in this county when
there were no services.
"He went really out of
his way to ensure that that
money came at least for the
criminal justice system,
those people got services."
Plumas County District
Attorney's Fiscal Officer
Barbara Palmerton agreed,
adding that state funding for
juvenile offender treatment
was likely going away next
year as well.
She said the program just
got $14,000 for the next few
months and "it's not really
possible to move forward
with starting up something
unless we know there's going
to be some kind of juvenile
services available on July 1."
As the discussion wound
down, Kennedy moved for a
minute order directing staff
to "restart A&D services in
Plumas County as soon as
possible and to continue it
as long as there is funding
available."
The board approlred the
motion and Meacher vowed a
proposal would come before
the board as soon as possible.
HCD. from page 1A
Goss said.
Some residents have more
than one membership, just in
case the Mountain Lifeflight
helicopter is busy and there
is a medical need for air
evacuation.
"They're our primary link
to emergency care," McNett
said of Mountain Lifeflight,
the company that is con-
tracted to keep a local
base for ground ambulance
service in Indian Valley. It
also provides air ambulance
service via helicopter and a
fixed-wing aircraft.
For more information
about the Mountain Lifeflight
membership program, call i
257-0249.
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