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The commission will meet beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.
On the agenda is a public hearing to consider the planning application from Erin McCarrick, owner of Clearlake Ventures LLC, for commercial cannabis operations in an existing building at La Rosa Plaza, located at 2395 Ogulin Road.
In addition to discussing the use permit to allow a distribution operation using approximately 1,470 square feet within an existing building, the hearing will include consideration of a development agreement for the operation.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Habitat for Humanity Lake County is the recipient of a donation of $20,176.61 from Rebuild Wine Country to be used to build, repair and rebuild homes for families impacted by the 2017 Lake County wildfires.
Rebuild Wine Country was founded by Senses Wines and is managed by volunteers from Napa and Sonoma’s wine industry.
Rebuild Wine Country was developed to provide long-term fundraising to support Habitat for Humanity’s efforts in rebuilding Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.
Habitat’s efforts to aid our community is ongoing. Applications are still being accepted from low income homeowners and renters who were affected by the Lake County fires.
If your residence was lost or damaged in any of the wildfires, please contact Habitat for Humanity Lake County at 707-994-1100, Extension 106, or come by the office at 15312 Lakeshore Dr. Clearlake, for information or to receive a pre-application.
The following cats at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption.
‘Angel’
“Angel” is a female tuxedo cat with a long coat and gold eyes.
She has already been spayed.
“Angel” is in kennel No. 6, ID No. 11643.
Male domestic short hair
This male domestic short hair cat has a short white and gray coat with blue eyes.
He already has been neutered.
He’s in kennel No. 70, ID No. 11592.
Male gray tabby
This male gray tabby has a short coat and gold eyes.
He already has been neutered.
He’s in kennel No. 79, ID No. 11601.
Lake County Animal Care and Control is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport, next to the Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The shelter is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Visit the shelter online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm.
For more information call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278.
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With the U.S. federal government shutdown now the longest in history, it’s important to understand what a shutdown means for the health and safety of Americans.
The good news is that in the short run, the consequences are relatively few. But, as a researcher who studies natural disaster planning, I believe that Americans should be worried about the federal government’s long-term ability to ensure good public health and protect the public from disasters.
As the shutdown draws on, it increasingly weakens the government’s ability to protect Americans down the road, long after federal workers are allowed to go back to work. Many of these effects are largely invisible and may feel intangible because they don’t currently affect specific individuals.
However, the shutdown poses a very real threat to preparedness for future emergencies, such as natural disasters and disease outbreaks. It also damages the government’s ability to recruit and retain the experts needed to work at the cutting edge of public health.
Disaster preparedness and response
Much funding for disaster recovery that is already underway is funded in appropriations separate from those that fund the shuttered parts of government.
On Dec. 26, however, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which contracts private contractors for a large share of their work, ordered its contractors to cease working on several projects. Even for programs with funding, progress is made difficult by a shortage of several thousand staff members.
When President Trump signaled to the Senate that he would not sign into law the appropriations bills that had passed the House, leading to the shutdown, funding with bipartisan support for disaster recovery died too. This impedes disaster relief efforts in the states that experienced disaster in the past two years. Among others, it leaves victims of the forest fires in California and victims of Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas waiting for crucial help needed to recover.
The shutdown also weakens the government’s ability to foresee, prevent and respond to upcoming natural disasters. For example, hurricane modelers with NOAA, the agency chiefly responsible for storm forecasts, are furloughed.
In California, dozens of people recently died in the worst forest fire in the state’s history, while more than 10,000 homes were destroyed. These forest fires were so severe in part due to how forests have been managed. However, more than half of all of California’s forests are managed by the federal government. During the shutdown, those forests are not being managed at all.
In general, first responders and emergency experts use the off season to prepare for the next disaster season, but reports show that the prolonged shutdown is preventing some of this preparation, such as training for essential staff and forecasters.
More scary still is the possibility of a widespread disease. The lapse in funding also means that Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act did not renew as expected. This act lets the federal government fund the development of emergency medicine, as well as new medications in advance of future outbreaks, among many other disaster preparedness functions it funds. Even with a fully functioning federal government, several critical supply chains broke down during last year’s flu season, preventing delivery of basic medical goods like saline.
The shutdown severely weakens the ability of the federal government to respond to new threats, even after the shutdown has ended.
Losing dedicated public servants in public health
After the shutdown is over, it will probably also prove difficult for the U.S. to retain some of the staff who are crucial to the success of public health – even more so than in most other sectors of the federal government which will also struggle to retain its public servants.
Roughly half of the staff at the Department of Health and Human Services are deemed essential and continue to work despite the shutdown. The other half has been sent home. But neither group is getting paid.
During brief shutdowns, many of which have historically lasted only one to three days, such a lapse in pay is frustrating, but typically a surmountable challenge for most federal workers. During a shutdown lasting weeks, with no end in sight, it means hundreds of thousands of families struggle to pay for rent, school fees, medical care and other expenses essential for their own safety and well-being.
For many personal contractors, who make up hundreds of thousands of the federal government workforce, the loss of pay may be permanent.
This will all make it substantially less attractive to be a federal worker in the future. That is especially true for workers in public health. Although federal jobs often pay as well or even better than the private sector, that is not true for the field of public health, where workers often take pay cuts to become public servants.
To make matters worse, the president has signaled that federal salaries will be cut for 2019. Together, the pay cut and the shutdown may push government employees to join the private sector, leaving the federal government less capable of taking on public health challenges and disasters in the future.
Morten Wendelbo, Research Fellow, American University School of Public Affairs
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clearlake Police Department is investigating a motorized bicycle crash on Saturday that resulted in a man being seriously injured.
Sgt. Rodd Joseph said that just after 2:30 p.m. Saturday officers responded to the area of the 14400 block of Lakeshore Drive on a report of a traffic collision with injuries.
Joseph said officers found an adult male adult lying in the road, suffering from major head trauma.
Witnesses on scene told officers that the man was riding a gas-powered bicycle eastbound on the south shoulder of Lakeshore Drive when he suddenly lost control and crashed, Joseph said.
No other vehicles were involved in the collision, according to Joseph’s report.
Joseph said the bicycle rider – whose name so far has not been released – was transported via ambulance to Adventist Health Hospital Clear Lake, at which point medical personnel were planning to transfer him to an out-of-county trauma center when he was stable.
Upon inspection of the gas-powered bicycle, it appears that the bicycle suffered a mechanical failure which led to the wreck, Joseph said.
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or has any other information is urged to contact Officer Mauricio Barreto at 707-994-8251, Extension 324, or via email at
LOWER LAKE, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is attempting to locate a man who on Saturday stole a vehicle from bail bond agents who were attempting to apprehend him, which resulted in the agents shooting at him as he fled.
Gregory Crumpler, 40, is wanted in Mendocino County for charges related to drug sales. Crumpler had also absconded after bail had previously been posted related to those charges, according to Lt. Corey Paulich.
On Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Lake County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the 17000 block of Morgan Valley Road in Lower Lake, Paulich said.
Paulich said bail bond agents with Greg Padilla Bail Bonds, based out of Sacramento, reported they had fired shots at a fugitive who they were trying to apprehend.
When deputies arrived they contacted the bail agents, who told the deputies they were trying to take Crumpler into custody, Paulich said.
The bail agents told deputies Crumpler fled when they attempted to apprehend him. Paulich said Crumpler was able to gain access to one of the bail agent’s vehicles and began to flee the area in that vehicle.
Bail agents fired several shots at Crumpler as he was fleeing in the vehicle, Paulich said.
Paulich said deputies were able to locate the vehicle in the area of Oak Haven Road, approximately three miles from the location of the shooting incident.
An extensive search was conducted with the assistance of State Parks and the Napa County Sheriff’s Office, but Crumpler was not located, Paulich reported.
Paulich said Major Crimes detectives responded to the scene and took over the investigation.
Anyone with information regarding Crumpler’s whereabouts is asked to contact Sheriff’s Central Dispatch at 707-263-2690.
Once the investigation is completed the case will be forwarded to the Lake County District Attorney’s Office for review, Paulich said.