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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Police Department is investigating two late-night burglaries and seeking leads in identifying who is responsible.
The agency said that just before 7:30 a.m. Friday officers responded to a possible burglary at Plaza Paints on South Main Street.
Two hours later, officers were dispatched to the Lakeport Christian Center Preschool on South Forbes St. for a report of another burglary, police said.
Authorities said they believe the incidents are connected.
There also was a sign that was left behind on scene and police believe it was believed to have been left there by the person involved. The small cardboard sign has a message, written in black marker, that says, “2B honest, I need a beer. Or 6.”
Police want to hear from anyone who knows of this sign or has seen a subject in possession of it and can identify them.
If anyone does have any information regarding the burglaries or the person – or persons – involved, please contact the investigating Officer Joe Medici at 707-263-5491, Extension 120, or by email at
Police remind community members to report any suspicious activity and individuals during the late night hours.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Hot weekend temperatures across interior Northern California have led the National Weather Service to issue a heat advisory for areas including Lake County this weekend.
The advisory is in effect from 11 a.m. Saturday to 11 p.m. Sunday.
The National Weather Service said a heat advisory means a prolonged period of hot temperatures is expected and will create a situation in which heat illnesses are possible.
Temperatures are forecast to hit or surpass the century mark during the daytime on Saturday and Sunday as the result of building high pressure.
Nighttime temperatures will range into the high 60s, based on the forecast.
Area residents are urged to take extra precautions to guard against heat exhaustion and heat stroke, including drinking plenty of fluids, avoiding direct sunlight if possible, staying in an air-conditioned room, and checking on outdoor pets and those more sensitive to heat such as the elderly and young children. Officials also urge against strenuous activities during the middle of the day.
Early next week, daytime temperatures are forecast to drop into the low 90s, with nighttime temperatures into the mid 50s, according to the forecast.
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The advisory is in effect from 11 a.m. Saturday to 11 p.m. Sunday.
The National Weather Service said a heat advisory means a prolonged period of hot temperatures is expected and will create a situation in which heat illnesses are possible.
Temperatures are forecast to hit or surpass the century mark during the daytime on Saturday and Sunday as the result of building high pressure.
Nighttime temperatures will range into the high 60s, based on the forecast.
Area residents are urged to take extra precautions to guard against heat exhaustion and heat stroke, including drinking plenty of fluids, avoiding direct sunlight if possible, staying in an air-conditioned room, and checking on outdoor pets and those more sensitive to heat such as the elderly and young children. Officials also urge against strenuous activities during the middle of the day.
Early next week, daytime temperatures are forecast to drop into the low 90s, with nighttime temperatures into the mid 50s, according to the forecast.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
Recently I was asked if I could help an elderly married couple who had run into an obstacle preventing them from selling their home.
The notary public had refused to notarize the wife’s signature because the wife apparently did not understand the documents she was to sign.
The wife did not have a durable power of attorney authorizing her spouse to act as her agent in selling the property and now apparently lacked the capacity to sign one. That left two options.
The preferred option was to petition for an order authorizing a particular transaction (section 3100 et. seq. of the California Probate Code).
When community property is involved and one spouse is competent and the other spouse is incompetent, the competent spouse can petition the court. Here the transaction involved was the sale of the couple’s residence, a community property asset.
The 3100 petition has numerous requirements, including the following:
First, the incapacitated spouse must be examined by a physician and a capacity evaluation form filed with the court, the same as in a conservatorship proceeding.
Second, a court must appoint a “guardian ad litem” to represent the incapacitated spouse’s interests. Persons whom I have seen appointed as the guardian ad litem include an adult child of the incapacitated spouse or an attorney. After investigating the proposed transaction, the guardian ad litem files a written report with a recommendation to the court.
Third, the transaction must involve the couple’s community property. There must be some community property interest in the transaction. The order can also affect additional separate property interests involved in the same transaction. In the absence of community property, the well spouse may “transmutes” (changes) some of the well spouse’s own separate property interests into community property in order to meet the requirement that community property be involved.
Fourth, the transaction must be for one of four allowed purposes, such as for the, “advantage, benefit or best interests of the spouses or their estates,” or for, “the care and support of either spouse or of such persons as either spouse may be legally obligated to support.”
For example, in the aforementioned instance, the purpose was to authorize the sale of the couple’s residence so that they could move out of state to live with children. Another example, transferring one spouse’s property to another spouse so that the incapacitated spouse becomes eligible for long term Medi-Cal at a skilled nursing home.
Fifth, the notice of hearing and a copy of the 3100 petition must be served on all of the incapacitated spouse’s siblings, children and grandchildren. This can involve numerous relatives. Any of these relatives potentially could object to oppose the transaction.
Whenever, the 3100 petition is an available option it is usually preferable to initiating a conservatorship (unless a conservatorship already exists). Initiating a conservatorship involves more legal papers to be prepared and filed, and more legal expenses to pay.
Once the conservatorship is established the conservator may also still need to prepare and file a petition for substituted judgement or a 3100 petition to obtain a court order authorizing the conservator to complete the transaction on behalf of the incapacitated spouse.
The costs involved with a court petition would have been avoided had the couple either owned their residence inside of a living trust or if the wife had a durable power of attorney authorizing her husband to sell her interest their residence. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, neither type of estate planning was in place.
Dennis A. Fordham, attorney, is a State Bar-Certified Specialist in estate planning, probate and trust law. His office is at 870 S. Main St., Lakeport, Calif. He can be reached at
Looking up at the silvery orb of the Moon, you might recognize familiar shadows and shapes on its face from one night to the next. You see the same view of the Moon our early ancestors did as it lighted their way after sundown.
Only one side of the spherical Moon is ever visible from Earth – it wasn’t until 1959 when the Soviet Spacecraft Luna 3 orbited the Moon and sent pictures home that human beings were able to see the “far side” of the Moon for the first time.
A phenomenon called tidal locking is responsible for the consistent view. The Earth and its Moon are in close proximity and thus exert significant gravitational forces on each other. These tidal forces slow the rotations of both bodies. They locked the Moon’s rotation in sync with its orbital period relatively soon after it formed – as a product of a collision between a Mars-sized object and the proto-Earth, 100 million years after the solar system coalesced.
Now the Moon takes one trip around the Earth in the same amount of time it takes to make one rotation around its own axis: about 28 days. From Earth, we always see the same face of the Moon; from the Moon, the Earth stands still in the sky.
The near side of the Moon is well studied because we can see it. The astronauts landed on the near side of the Moon so they could communicate with NASA here on Earth. All of the samples from the Apollo missions are from the near side.
Although the far side of the Moon isn’t visible from our vantage point, and with all due respect to Pink Floyd, it is not accurate to call it the dark side of the Moon. All sides of the moon experience night and day just like we do here on Earth. All sides have equal amounts of day and night over the course of a single month. A lunar day lasts about two Earth weeks.
With modern satellites, astronomers have completely mapped the lunar surface. A Chinese mission, Chang'e 4, is currently exploring the Aitken Basin on the far side of the Moon — the first such mission ever landed there. Researchers hope Chang'e 4 will help answer questions about the crater’s surface features and test whether things can grow in lunar soil. A privately funded Israeli mission, Beresheet, started as a mission to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize. Despite crashing during an attempted landing earlier this month, the Beresheet team still won the Moon Shot Award.
Being shielded from civilization means the far side of the moon is “radio dark.” There, researchers can measure weak signals from the universe that would otherwise be drowned out. Chang'e 4, for instance, will be able to observe low-frequency radio light coming from the Sun or beyond that’s impossible to detect here on the Earth due to human activity, such as TV and radio broadcasts and other forms of communication signals. Low-frequency radio peers back in time to the very first stars and the very first black holes, giving astronomers a greater understanding of how the structures of the universe began forming.
Rover missions also investigate all sides of the Moon as space scientists prepare for future human missions, looking to the Moon’s resources to help humanity get to Mars. For instance, water – discovered by NASA’s LCROSS satellite beneath the Moon’s north and south poles in 2009 – can be broken up into hydrogen and oxygen and used for fuel and breathing.
Researchers are getting closer to exploring the Moon’s polar craters, some of which have never seen the light of day – literally. They are deep and in just the right place to never have the Sun shine onto the crater floor. There are certainly dark parts of the Moon, but the whole far side isn’t one of them.
Wayne Schlingman, Director of the Arne Slettebak Planetarium, The Ohio State University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Pacific Gas and Electric is reporting on updates to its efforts to minimize fire risk and increase the safety of its system as it continues to urge community members to be prepared should power shutoffs be necessary in the coming months.
Herman Hernandez, PG&E’s public affairs representative for Lake and Sonoma counties, made his latest meeting appearance at the Clearlake City Council on Thursday night.
Hernandez has previously spoken to the Lakeport City Council as well as to community groups, as Lake County News has reported.
His presentation, which begins at the 16:04 mark in the video shown here, covered the company’s Community Wildfire Safety Program, which includes the Public Safety Power Shutoff program, which it began to use last year.
He told the council on Thursday that he was there to encourage the city, community members, businesses and nonprofits to have plans in the case of power shutoffs.
“People are not taking this seriously,” he said.
He said that climate change, mismanagement of infrastructure and historically large wildfires are the reasons for taking these latest measures, which were arrived at after PG&E leadership visited San Diego, Australia and New Zealand to look at their approaches to wildland fire.
By 2022, PG&E intends to install 1,300 new weather stations across its service area to help them better monitor conditions, Hernandez said.
Hernandez said there are 12 new weather stations installed in Lake County. A listing of all of the company’s weather stations can be found here. The stations are shown in the map above.
At the same time, the company intends to install 600 high definition cameras by 2022. There is one camera in Lake County that he said has been found to not work and is being repaired.
He said PG&E is conducting enhanced vegetation management in high risk fire areas, on top of the work the company does year-round.
The company also has adopted new practices, like disabling automatic reclosers – a type of power switchgear – during fire season because Hernandez said they can cause sparking, which in turn can result in wildfire.
Hernandez explained that red flag warnings trigger review by PG&E’s emergency operations center, but they don’t automatically trigger a public safety power shutoff.
The shutoffs result from several factors working together – including red flag warnings, forecasted humidity at 20 percent or lower, constant winds of 25 miles per hour or higher, with wind gusts of up to 45 miles per hour or more, and dry vegetation, he said.
Lake County wasn’t on a list for a potential shutoff in June because the late rains in May meant that the vegetation hadn’t yet dried out, he said.
Hernandez said that, this year, the thresholds for potential shutoffs have increased, with every area and facility type now on the table.
“Everyone who lives in our service area can be subject to a public safety power shutoff,” he said.
Inspecting and repairing the system
From December through June, PG&E crews completed the Wildfire Safety Inspection Program in what Hernandez called a “blitz.”
PG&E spokeswoman Deanna Contreras offered additional details on the company’s efforts to improve conditions across its system, particularly in Lake County, as part of the Wildfire Safety Inspection Program.
She said PG&E has completed visual inspections of approximately 99 percent of its electric distribution poles and visual or aerial inspections of approximately 98 percent of its electric transmission poles and towers in high-fire threat areas throughout its service territory.
Contreras said that includes approximately 50,000 electric transmission structures, 700,000 distribution poles and 222 substations, covering more than 5,500 miles of transmission line and 25,200 miles of distribution line statewide.
“Throughout the inspection process, PG&E has been addressing and repairing conditions that pose an immediate safety risk, while completing other high-priority repairs on an accelerated basis. Repairs for all other conditions are scheduled to be completed as part of PG&E’s work execution plan,” Contreras said.
She said PG&E teams with experience in system maintenance, engineering and maintenance planning are reviewing millions of high-definition photographs and inspection findings in order to identify needed repair issues.
Information on the repairs is posted on PG&E’s Web site, and can be viewed by city and county. The information is updated through May 31.
The repairs are broken down into category A, immediate, and category B, which Contreras said are conditions that generally need to be addressed within three months from the date a condition is identified.
Contreras said the kinds of repairs that crews are making range from installing new signs or electric components to replacing poles or towers.
Based on PG&E’s latest data, in Lake County PG&E identified 13 immediate repair conditions in distribution facilities, one in transmission and eight involving substations. All have been repaired.
In the less-immediate B category, the following conditions have been identified, repaired or remain open, or pending:
– Distribution: 102 total, 36 repaired, 66 open;
– Transmission: 93 total, 59 repaired, 34 open;
– Substation: 22 total, 22 repaired.
Altogether, 54 percent of the B category conditions have been repaired, PG&E reported.
In city-specific information, PG&E said crews identified immediate A category repairs needed in Clearlake that included one each in distribution and substation, but none in transmission. All have been repaired.
B category repairs in Clearlake total five in distribution, all of which remain open; 14 in transmission, all of which have been repaired; and six in substation, which also have been repaired. Altogether, 80 percent of B category repairs have been finished in Clearlake, PG&E reported.
In Lakeport, PG&E said no immediate category A conditions were identified.
PG&E identified category B conditions totaling three in distribution, two of which have been repaired. No category B issues were found in transmission or substation facilities.
System hardening under way
Contreras said that one of the main pillars of the Community Wildfire Safety Plan is “system hardening.”
Along with the new and enhanced safety measuring and real-time monitoring, the system hardening is meant to further reduce wildland fire risks, and includes installing stronger and more resilient poles and covered power lines across approximately 7,100 line miles of highest fire risk areas in its overall service area, the company said.
PG&E has so far completed nearly four miles of hardening work in Lake County, with another 12.6 more miles planned, Contreras said.
“The hardening consists of the installation of 130 new stronger and more resilient poles and lines that are covered and stronger. It’s also known as covered conductor or tree wire, to reduce the likelihood of outages when trees, branches, animals or birds contact lines,” Contreras said.
Hernandez said PG&E also has done targeted undergrounding work, and is testing resiliency zones, such as a beta project under way in Angwin where they are looking at whether or not they a section off parts of cities and keep them operating, even when other areas need to be shut down.
Resources and information
PG&E has offered the following resources for customers needing more information.
Wildland fire inspections:
www.pge.com/wildfireinspections
Power outage preparation:
www.pge.com/beprepared
To receive alerts:
Update your contact information at www.pge.com/mywildfirealerts
Weather stations list:
https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/stn_mnet.cgi?mnet=227
To learn more about the Community Wildfire Safety Program:
– Call 1-866-743-6589
– EmailThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
– Visit www.wildfiresafety.com
To see if you are in a high risk fire area, visit the California Public Utilities Commission fire threat map:
https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/firemap/
Additional details also are in the presentation published below.
Email Elizabeth Larson atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Follow her on Twitter, @ERLarson, or Lake County News, @LakeCoNews.
Herman Hernandez, PG&E’s public affairs representative for Lake and Sonoma counties, made his latest meeting appearance at the Clearlake City Council on Thursday night.
Hernandez has previously spoken to the Lakeport City Council as well as to community groups, as Lake County News has reported.
His presentation, which begins at the 16:04 mark in the video shown here, covered the company’s Community Wildfire Safety Program, which includes the Public Safety Power Shutoff program, which it began to use last year.
He told the council on Thursday that he was there to encourage the city, community members, businesses and nonprofits to have plans in the case of power shutoffs.
“People are not taking this seriously,” he said.
He said that climate change, mismanagement of infrastructure and historically large wildfires are the reasons for taking these latest measures, which were arrived at after PG&E leadership visited San Diego, Australia and New Zealand to look at their approaches to wildland fire.
By 2022, PG&E intends to install 1,300 new weather stations across its service area to help them better monitor conditions, Hernandez said.
Hernandez said there are 12 new weather stations installed in Lake County. A listing of all of the company’s weather stations can be found here. The stations are shown in the map above.
At the same time, the company intends to install 600 high definition cameras by 2022. There is one camera in Lake County that he said has been found to not work and is being repaired.
He said PG&E is conducting enhanced vegetation management in high risk fire areas, on top of the work the company does year-round.
The company also has adopted new practices, like disabling automatic reclosers – a type of power switchgear – during fire season because Hernandez said they can cause sparking, which in turn can result in wildfire.
Hernandez explained that red flag warnings trigger review by PG&E’s emergency operations center, but they don’t automatically trigger a public safety power shutoff.
The shutoffs result from several factors working together – including red flag warnings, forecasted humidity at 20 percent or lower, constant winds of 25 miles per hour or higher, with wind gusts of up to 45 miles per hour or more, and dry vegetation, he said.
Lake County wasn’t on a list for a potential shutoff in June because the late rains in May meant that the vegetation hadn’t yet dried out, he said.
Hernandez said that, this year, the thresholds for potential shutoffs have increased, with every area and facility type now on the table.
“Everyone who lives in our service area can be subject to a public safety power shutoff,” he said.
Inspecting and repairing the system
From December through June, PG&E crews completed the Wildfire Safety Inspection Program in what Hernandez called a “blitz.”
PG&E spokeswoman Deanna Contreras offered additional details on the company’s efforts to improve conditions across its system, particularly in Lake County, as part of the Wildfire Safety Inspection Program.
She said PG&E has completed visual inspections of approximately 99 percent of its electric distribution poles and visual or aerial inspections of approximately 98 percent of its electric transmission poles and towers in high-fire threat areas throughout its service territory.
Contreras said that includes approximately 50,000 electric transmission structures, 700,000 distribution poles and 222 substations, covering more than 5,500 miles of transmission line and 25,200 miles of distribution line statewide.
“Throughout the inspection process, PG&E has been addressing and repairing conditions that pose an immediate safety risk, while completing other high-priority repairs on an accelerated basis. Repairs for all other conditions are scheduled to be completed as part of PG&E’s work execution plan,” Contreras said.
She said PG&E teams with experience in system maintenance, engineering and maintenance planning are reviewing millions of high-definition photographs and inspection findings in order to identify needed repair issues.
Information on the repairs is posted on PG&E’s Web site, and can be viewed by city and county. The information is updated through May 31.
The repairs are broken down into category A, immediate, and category B, which Contreras said are conditions that generally need to be addressed within three months from the date a condition is identified.
Contreras said the kinds of repairs that crews are making range from installing new signs or electric components to replacing poles or towers.
Based on PG&E’s latest data, in Lake County PG&E identified 13 immediate repair conditions in distribution facilities, one in transmission and eight involving substations. All have been repaired.
In the less-immediate B category, the following conditions have been identified, repaired or remain open, or pending:
– Distribution: 102 total, 36 repaired, 66 open;
– Transmission: 93 total, 59 repaired, 34 open;
– Substation: 22 total, 22 repaired.
Altogether, 54 percent of the B category conditions have been repaired, PG&E reported.
In city-specific information, PG&E said crews identified immediate A category repairs needed in Clearlake that included one each in distribution and substation, but none in transmission. All have been repaired.
B category repairs in Clearlake total five in distribution, all of which remain open; 14 in transmission, all of which have been repaired; and six in substation, which also have been repaired. Altogether, 80 percent of B category repairs have been finished in Clearlake, PG&E reported.
In Lakeport, PG&E said no immediate category A conditions were identified.
PG&E identified category B conditions totaling three in distribution, two of which have been repaired. No category B issues were found in transmission or substation facilities.
System hardening under way
Contreras said that one of the main pillars of the Community Wildfire Safety Plan is “system hardening.”
Along with the new and enhanced safety measuring and real-time monitoring, the system hardening is meant to further reduce wildland fire risks, and includes installing stronger and more resilient poles and covered power lines across approximately 7,100 line miles of highest fire risk areas in its overall service area, the company said.
PG&E has so far completed nearly four miles of hardening work in Lake County, with another 12.6 more miles planned, Contreras said.
“The hardening consists of the installation of 130 new stronger and more resilient poles and lines that are covered and stronger. It’s also known as covered conductor or tree wire, to reduce the likelihood of outages when trees, branches, animals or birds contact lines,” Contreras said.
Hernandez said PG&E also has done targeted undergrounding work, and is testing resiliency zones, such as a beta project under way in Angwin where they are looking at whether or not they a section off parts of cities and keep them operating, even when other areas need to be shut down.
Resources and information
PG&E has offered the following resources for customers needing more information.
Wildland fire inspections:
www.pge.com/wildfireinspections
Power outage preparation:
www.pge.com/beprepared
To receive alerts:
Update your contact information at www.pge.com/mywildfirealerts
Weather stations list:
https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/stn_mnet.cgi?mnet=227
To learn more about the Community Wildfire Safety Program:
– Call 1-866-743-6589
– Visit www.wildfiresafety.com
To see if you are in a high risk fire area, visit the California Public Utilities Commission fire threat map:
https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/firemap/
Additional details also are in the presentation published below.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
072519 Community Wildfire Safety Program Overview - city of Clearlake by LakeCoNews on Scribd
NORTH COAST, Calif. – In a special board meeting on Wednesday evening, the Mendocino-Lake Community College Board of Trustees unanimously voted to appoint Eileen Cichocki as interim superintendent/president.
Cichocki’s new role will officially begin Aug. 3.
“I am honored to be selected to serve in this interim capacity to provide leadership while the college selects its next superintendent/president,” Cichocki said. “There are many important initiatives under way at the college such as the accreditation reaffirmation process and implementation of the Chancellor’s Vision for Success, which includes a new student centered funding formula and guided pathways for students. I am excited to partner with the students, faculty, staff, managers, the board of trustees and community members to ensure Mendocino College continues to excel and move forward during this time of transition.”
She was selected after a formal internal application process and her appointment comes as a result of the recent resignation of President Dr. Arturo Reyes who will be moving on to assume the role of superintendent/president for Rio Hondo College in Southern California beginning Aug. 5.
“Ms. Cichocki has the institutional knowledge to shepherd Mendocino College through the upcoming accreditation process and so much more,” said Board of Trustees President Robert Jason Pinoli. “Given that Ms. Cichocki has been a part of the Mendocino College family for the past decade and a half, she is a natural fit to bridge this institution during a critical time of transition. Ms. Cichocki is someone that is well respected by her peers, staff, and the greater college community. As a product of the community college system, Ms. Cichocki is always mindful of the single reason we exist, our students.”
Cichocki has more than 25 years of experience working in the California Community College system.
She has been an employee of Mendocino College for 15 years. Since 2014, she has served as the college’s assistant superintendent/vice president of administrative services and previously as the director of fiscal services. Prior to coming to Mendocino College, Cichocki worked for 11 years at Santa Rosa Junior College.
She holds a master’s degree in business administration, a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies with an emphasis in city planning, and an associate’s degree in general education.
Both her master’s and bachelor’s degrees were awarded by Sonoma State University, while her associate’s degree was conferred by Santa Rosa Junior College.
She is a longtime member of both the Association of Chief Business Officials and the Association of California Community College Administrators.
Cichocki’s new role will officially begin Aug. 3.
“I am honored to be selected to serve in this interim capacity to provide leadership while the college selects its next superintendent/president,” Cichocki said. “There are many important initiatives under way at the college such as the accreditation reaffirmation process and implementation of the Chancellor’s Vision for Success, which includes a new student centered funding formula and guided pathways for students. I am excited to partner with the students, faculty, staff, managers, the board of trustees and community members to ensure Mendocino College continues to excel and move forward during this time of transition.”
She was selected after a formal internal application process and her appointment comes as a result of the recent resignation of President Dr. Arturo Reyes who will be moving on to assume the role of superintendent/president for Rio Hondo College in Southern California beginning Aug. 5.
“Ms. Cichocki has the institutional knowledge to shepherd Mendocino College through the upcoming accreditation process and so much more,” said Board of Trustees President Robert Jason Pinoli. “Given that Ms. Cichocki has been a part of the Mendocino College family for the past decade and a half, she is a natural fit to bridge this institution during a critical time of transition. Ms. Cichocki is someone that is well respected by her peers, staff, and the greater college community. As a product of the community college system, Ms. Cichocki is always mindful of the single reason we exist, our students.”
Cichocki has more than 25 years of experience working in the California Community College system.
She has been an employee of Mendocino College for 15 years. Since 2014, she has served as the college’s assistant superintendent/vice president of administrative services and previously as the director of fiscal services. Prior to coming to Mendocino College, Cichocki worked for 11 years at Santa Rosa Junior College.
She holds a master’s degree in business administration, a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies with an emphasis in city planning, and an associate’s degree in general education.
Both her master’s and bachelor’s degrees were awarded by Sonoma State University, while her associate’s degree was conferred by Santa Rosa Junior College.
She is a longtime member of both the Association of Chief Business Officials and the Association of California Community College Administrators.