{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"KZYX News","title":"BoS discusses water hauling, new plan to lease hybrid cars","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":389,"description":"March 21, 2022 — Today is the first day on the job for interim CEO Darcie Antle, whose one-year contract for salary and benefits totaling $338,000 was approved unanimously at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Former CEO Carmel Angelo’s last day on the job was Friday.\r\nThe board also discussed crafting an ordinance or revitalizing existing rules to regulate water hauling in a way that would ideally curtail diverting water to illegal pot grows while not preventing access to drinking water.\r\nAnd, in an effort to transition away from fossil fuels, the board agreed to start the process for a pilot program to enter a master equity lease plan with Enterprise Fleet Management to replace some of the 55 vehicles in the Social Services Department with hybrids by next year. Staff analysis projects a savings of about a million and a half dollars over the next ten years.\r\nTwenty-three of the department’s vehicles are currently eligible for the new lease program, which will consider hybrid options whenever possible. The final draft of the plan is expected by July of this year.\r\nThe board has directed staff to transition to an all-electric fleet, but more charging stations will be necessary to run all of the county’s nearly 400 vehicles on electricity instead of fuel.\r\nAt this time, the county government has installed three charging stations with four working chargers at two locations. According to the staff report accompanying the item, it cost $36,000 to install two stations at the jail, both of which are expected to be out of commission for most of next year as construction on the new jail gets underway. The third station, at the crisis residential treatment center in Ukiah, cost about $20,000. Yearly maintenance and data storage at each station is estimated at about $3000. \r\nCounty staff estimates that it would take three to five years to have charging stations at all county offices.\r\nWater was also top of mind. Tomorrow’s forecasts for inland Mendocino County are...","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}