{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"Redwood Valley Grange gets $250k in settlement funds","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":389,"description":"August 19, 2021 — The consent calendar and CEO report from this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting were full of big news.\r\nEarlier this month, the Board drew up an allocation plan on how to spend the one-time $22 million PG&E settlement fund for the 2017 wildfires, which started in Potter Valley and devastated neighboring Redwood Valley. Much of the money went to items the supervisors thought would ease the burden of the next disaster, but many Redwood Valley community members felt that they had been overlooked.\r\nAfter an outcry, the Board agreed to allocate a quarter million dollars from the fund to the grange in Redwood Valley. They also resolved to ask the FIre District Association for advice on how best to spend another one million dollars from the same fund, leaving about $2.7 million for the next emergency.\r\nSupervisor Glenn McGourty pulled the PG&E allocation item from the consent calendar to make an eleventh hour pitch for funding the grange, whose members have long yearned for a commercial kitchen and major repairs. About two dozen letters pleaded for consideration, reminding the board that the grange became a focal point of the community during the fires. A member of the Municipal Advisory Council called in to say that just over 16% of the money had been doled out to Redwood Valley, and to ask that the board redo the entire process.\r\nMcGourty demurred on the general, but acquiesced in the particular.\r\nThe board agreed unanimously with his suggestion to fund the grange but not revisit the allocation process, and also agreed to allocate half a million dollars to solarizing the libraries, rather than providing them with generators as was originally requested, so they could serve as gathering places during evacuations or power outages. \r\nThey also provided $1.5 million to carbon reduction plans, with a view toward using funds from ARPA, or the American Relief Plan Act, to fund other requests on the list of priorities for the PG&E money.\r\nThe Redwood...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xZpAumwbhFUpJUYcwaQ1-q6snzOyqAm13l7cW6AWPCM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMzkz/NjAwNjc2OWMyZmFk/YWY2YTdmYjI5M2Mz/YWMxNy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}