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Dan McDonald The board had the option of boundaries must be in place therefore, would contain 3,719 residents.
Staff Writer selecting one or more of the by Sept. 30. 4,001 people. The other three districts
dmcdonald@plumasnews.com three ideas for consideration, Redistricting is done every Most of the . county's have at least 4,200 residents.
or coming up with new 10 years, one year after the population loss occurred in District 5-- which includes
The field has been nat- boundaries on their own. federalcensus. District 3, which includesthe population centers of
rowed to two choices for The board picked two of the The 2010 census counted Chester and most of the Lake East Quincy, Little Grass
a new map of the county'splanners' proposals for final 20,007 residents in PlumasAlmanor area. That district, Valley and Graeagle -- is
supervisorialdistricts, consideration. County, a drop from the which features many secondhome to 4,457.
The county's planners pre- The next step in the 20,824 people counted in2000. (or summer) homes, has There was plenty of
sented three redistricting process will be public hear- By law, the five districtsdwindled to 3,226people. discussion about the pro-
proposals during the Plumas ings during the board's regu- must each contain as close to District 2, which covers posed new districts. But the
County Board of Supervisors larly scheduled meetings 20 percent of the population a wide swath across the idea of tinkering with the
meeting Tuesday, April26.May 10 and May 17. New as possible. An ideal district, middle of the county, has planners' proposals (labeled
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A, B and C) didn't get much
consideration from the super-
visors.
District 5 Supervisor Jon
Kennedy said he briefly
observed the planners while
they were preparing the
three proposals.
"I got out of there because I
saw that you guys were work-
ing very hard," Kennedy
See Maps, page 6A
Dan McDonald are here today to listen to
OU "
Staff Writer y , AOC's Manager of
dmcdonald@plumasnews.com Des4gn and-Construction
Services Rob Uvalle told the
• Plumas County is almost audience, in what is likely to
certain to have a new court- be the first of many commu-
house in Quincy by 2015. nity feedback meetings.
Where in Quincy it will Where the courthouse will
be located and what it will be located dominated much
look like are still up for of the two-hour session.
discussion. Dame Shirley Plaza, which
That discussion began is county-owned property
Tuesday night, April 26, next to the existing court-
during a public feedback house, is the mostlikely site.
session in the Superior Court The Plumas County Board
of Plumas County, at the of Supervisors planned to
Quincy courthouse, discuss the potential sale of
About 80 residents heard the Dame Shirley property
a presentation from the during its closed session
Administrative Office of the May 3.
Courts and the architectural However, Uvalle empha-
team that has been picked to sized that no site has been
design the new courthouse, selected. He said the AOC is
"We want your input. We obligated to submit two sites
;'Almost iO-O'yearsago, this building defined
the community at that time. I think this is
an opportunity to develop a building that
defines how you see yourselves now and
for the next 90 years."
Mallory Cusenbery
Ross Drulis Cusenbery Architecture
to the state.
A second site, on privately
held property at 199 Crescent
St., attracted little attention
during the meeting. That
site may have wildlife and
wetland issues.
Uvalle said other sites
would be considered before
two are submitted.
Almost everyone agreed
the current courthouse,
which was completed in 1921,
is a significant Quincy land-
mark.
The architects said they
want the new courthouse totimeline presented by Uvalle.
have that same stature. After the public feedback
,'Almost t00 years ago, this is processed and a site is
building defined the commu- selected, it would take the
nity at that time," said archi- architects about a year to
tect Mallory Cusenbery.of the . design the structure.
firm Ross Drulis CusenberyThe construction would
Architecture. "I think this is take about 15 months.
an opportunity to develop a Uvalle said every effort
building that defines how would be made to hire local
you see yourselves now andcontractors to do the work.
for the next 90 years." He added the AOC did a
The architects emphasized comprehensive analysis of
they plan to design a state-of- the state's courthouses and
the-art building that looks Quincy's was identified
the• way the community as one that needed to be
wants it to look. replaced.
The 38,283-square-foot He said the project won't
building would be home cost county taxpayers a dime.
to three courtrooms and The courthouse will be
would cost an estimated funded from statewide in-
$51.7 million, creases in court user fees,
It would open for business
by 2015 according to the See Meeting, page 6A
. '%
ponn
ool
Greenville attorney Bret Cook is the new Indian Valley repre,:
sentative on the Plumas Unified School District Board. He will
be sworn in during the Tuesday, May 10, meeting in Chester.
Photo by Alicia Knadler
Alicia Knadler
Indian Valley Editor
aknadler@plu masnews~com
Greenville attorney and
father Bret Cook, was ap-
pointed Wednesday, April
27, to the Plumas Unified
School District and Plumas
County Office of Education
boards of directors.
Cook's eldest daughter
graduated last year from
Greenville High School,
where she excelled in her
classes and in her musical
and speech performances at
annual Rotary contests.
During those four years
of high school, Cook was dis-
appointed time and again
that parent concerns about
the lack of advanced classes
for college prep classes were
unaddressed.
He was eloquent in his re-
marks about that disappoint-
ment in spring 2010, during a
spate of tumultuous public
meetings between district
administration and resi-
dents.
He was eloquent again in
his remarks to directors
during his interview last
week.
A product .of public
edu-cation himself, Cook is
concerned about education
and believes every child
deserves a good one.
"I feel responsible to give
back to the community and
I would like to serve," he
said, though he realizes it
can be a thankless job.
He would like to see
the board take more of a
leadership role and provide
better goal setting and
communication to parents.
He would also like to see a
return of flexibility in
schools and classes, such as
allowing students to take a
combination of classes from
public and charter schools at
the same time.
He would like to see the
district be true to its name --
to be truly unified.
Since there were two
people interested in serving
on the boards, the selection
process was different than
for the last two Indian Valley
appointments, Mary Shero
and Jonathan Kusel.
The other resident willing
to dedicate his time to serve
on the board was Rusty
Stokes, who was sequestered
while Cook was interviewed
in a public setting.
Then it was Cook who was
sequestered during the
Stokes interview.
In direct violation of the
Brown Act, California's open
meeting law, directors then
See Cook, page 6A
Man caught with body
Dan McDonald
Staff Writer
dmcd°nald@plurnasnews'c°m
A Yuba City man was
charged with murder Satur-
day after a dead body was
discovered in his motor
home Friday night in Plumas
County.
Ricky Ray Kingsley, 53,
was arrested Friday, April 29,
about 8:30 p.m. just off High-
way 70 in a heavily wooded
area at Murphy Creek near
Belden.
Kingsley drew the atten-
tion of a Forest Service
officer who was on routine
patrol for the start of the
fishing season.
According to Plumas County
Sheriff Greg Hagwood,
Kingsley was "behaving
bizarrely" before the officer
discovered a freshly dug
grave.
After confronting Kingsley,
the officer discovered a
body, which appeared to
be the victim of a homicide,
inside the Dodge motor
home.
Sgt. Brian Baker of the
Yuba City Police Department
told the Yuba City Appeal-
Democrat that the Forest
Service officer "was merely
checking the vehicle. He
discovered there was a dead
guy in there."
~According to the Appeal-
Democrat, police have reason
to believe the homicide
happened on the north side of
Yuba City,
Kingsley was taken into
custody and transported to
the Plumas County Jail.
He was later transported to
the Sutter County Jail, where
he was booked without
bail.
"It was an obvious
homicide, but we're not
ready to release the details,"
Baker told the Appeal-
Democrat.
According to the booking
report, Kingsley has been
living in his motor home
in the parking lot of the
Yuba City Walmart.
The paper reported
Kingsley was arrested in
June 2010 by :Yuba City
police on a felony charge of
possession of ammunition by
an ex-felon.
Kingsley's address at the
time of the 2010 arrest was in
Magalia, in Butte County.
The victim has not been
identified.
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