{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"Supervisors discuss how to use PG&E settlement funds","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":389,"description":"March 10, 2021 — Public Health Officer Dr. Andy Coren reported to the Board of Supervisors yesterday that, if current covid case metrics hold for another week, the county can look forward to transitioning out of the purple tier and into the much less restrictive red tier next week.\r\nThe county received its first shipment of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine yesterday, and is considering using it for people who are transient and homebound. Vaccine coordinator Darcie Antle noted that the county is working with Redwood Community Services and other agencies to hold a Johnson & Johnson clinic for the transient population this week or early next week.\r\nFollowing yesterday’s mid-year budget review, the Board made its first foray into talking about what to do with the one time monies from a PG&E settlement for the 2017 Redwood Complex fires, a little more than twenty two and a half million dollars. \r\nNone of the money was committed yesterday, and that was not the intent of the item.\r\nBut ripples of alarm spread on local social media sites, and about two dozen letters came into the board. One set of letter writers supported Sheriff Matt Kendall’s request to fund efficiencies like creating a courtroom next to the jail and using satellite imaging to enforce cannabis \r\nordinances. These, he and his supporters argued, would free up deputies’ time. Kendall pointed out that the Redwood Complex fire was originally discovered by a patrol sergeant in Potter Valley, who initiated the response.\r\nAnother set of letters expressed dismay at some of the suggestions for using the money, which were lifted directly out of the list of mid-year capital improvement project recommendations in the mid-year budget report. While both lists of options included microwave facilities improvements and hardening the building where 911 equipment is located, a couple of items drew particular ire.\r\nCommunity members were aghast at the suggestion to use $55,000 to remove the amphitheater in Ukiah’s...","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}