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If you’ve been thinking of taking college classes or completing your high school diploma or equivalency this is your opportunity.
They will provide application assistance, financial aid support and drop-in counseling during this event. All participants will receive Lake County Campus swag.
In conjunction with Super Saturday, the culinary department is hosting their open house enrollment event, Culinary Round-Up, for anyone interested in pursuing a career in the culinary industry.
Participants in Culinary Round-Up will be offered in-person tours of the college’s state-of-the-art teaching kitchen lab. Chef instructors will be available to answer questions and food samplings will be available.
This is a historical time for the hospitality, culinary and tourism industries. There has never been such a great demand for the staff in this field. Great opportunities abound in this industry sector, ranging from hospitality to kitchen management.
The Lake County Campus offers more than 50 degrees and certificate programs.
Woodland Community College is ranked among the top 40 community colleges in the U.S., according to WalletHub.
The college offers a variety of instructional and student support services that help students to succeed.
Graduates can find employment in a variety of regional industries or transfer to bachelor’s programs.
The Lake County Campus also provides adult basic education classes to improve your skills and confidence necessary to be successful in college.
The college’s adult education program can assist you in completing your high school diploma or getting ready to take the HiSET or GED high school equivalency tests.
Anyone interested in this event is encouraged to attend.
For more information call the campus at 707-995-7900.
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- Written by: Mathew Barlow, UMass Lowell
Powerful storm systems triggered flash flooding across the U.S. in late July, inundating St. Louis neighborhoods with record rainfall and setting off mudslides in eastern Kentucky, where at least 16 people died in flooding. Another deluge in Nevada flooded the Las Vegas strip.
The impact of climate change on extreme water-related events like this is becoming increasingly evident. The storms in the U.S. followed extreme flooding this summer in India and Australia and last year in Western Europe.
Studies by scientists around the world show that the water cycle has been intensifying and will continue to intensify as the planet warms. An international climate assessment I coauthored in 2021 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lays out the details.
It documented an increase in both wet extremes, including more intense rainfall over most regions, and dry extremes, including drying in the Mediterranean, southwestern Australia, southwestern South America, South Africa and western North America. It also shows that both wet and dry extremes will continue to increase with future warming.
Why is the water cycle intensifying?
Water cycles through the environment, moving between the atmosphere, ocean, land and reservoirs of frozen water. It might fall as rain or snow, seep into the ground, run into a waterway, join the ocean, freeze or evaporate back into the atmosphere. Plants also take up water from the ground and release it through transpiration from their leaves. In recent decades, there has been an overall increase in the rates of precipitation and evaporation.
A number of factors are intensifying the water cycle, but one of the most important is that warming temperatures raise the upper limit on the amount of moisture in the air. That increases the potential for more rain.
This aspect of climate change is confirmed across all of our lines of evidence discussed in the IPCC report. It is expected from basic physics, projected by computer models, and it already shows up in the observational data as a general increase of rainfall intensity with warming temperatures.
Understanding this and other changes in the water cycle is important for more than preparing for disasters. Water is an essential resource for all ecosystems and human societies, and particularly agriculture.
What does this mean for the future?
An intensifying water cycle means that both wet and dry extremes and the general variability of the water cycle will increase, although not uniformly around the globe.
Rainfall intensity is expected to increase for most land areas, but the largest increases in dryness are expected in the Mediterranean, southwestern South America and western North America.
Globally, daily extreme precipitation events will likely intensify by about 7% for every 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) that global temperatures rise.
Many other important aspects of the water cycle will also change in addition to extremes as global temperatures increase, the report shows, including reductions in mountain glaciers, decreasing duration of seasonal snow cover, earlier snowmelt and contrasting changes in monsoon rains across different regions, which will impact the water resources of billions of people.
What can be done?
One common theme across these aspects of the water cycle is that higher greenhouse gas emissions lead to bigger impacts.
The IPCC does not make policy recommendations. Instead, it provides the scientific information needed to carefully evaluate policy choices. The results show what the implications of different choices are likely to be.
One thing the scientific evidence in the report clearly tells world leaders is that limiting global warming to the Paris Agreement target of 1.5 C (2.7 F) will require immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Regardless of any specific target, it is clear that the severity of climate change impacts are closely linked to greenhouse gas emissions: Reducing emissions will reduce impacts. Every fraction of a degree matters.
This is an updated version of an article originally published on Aug 9, 2021.
Mathew Barlow, Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Larson
The board will meet beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
The meeting can be watched live on Channel 8, online at https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx and on the county’s Facebook page. Accompanying board documents, the agenda and archived board meeting videos also are available at that link.
To participate in real-time, join the Zoom meeting by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 991 0651 9632, pass code 109541. The meeting also can be accessed via one tap mobile at +16694449171,,99106519632#,,,,*109541#.
All interested members of the public that do not have internet access or a Mediacom cable subscription are encouraged to call 669-900-6833, and enter the Zoom meeting ID and pass code information above.
To submit a written comment on any agenda item visit https://countyoflake.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx and click on the eComment feature linked to the meeting date. If a comment is submitted after the meeting begins, it may not be read during the meeting but will become a part of the record.
In an untimed item, the board will consider a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom asking him to fill the vacancy resulting from Tina Scott’s resignation.
Scott’s last meeting was July 26 and her departure became official on July 31.
The board previously had considered also holding a special election in November but the letter does not reference that option, instead asking Newsom’s “timely action to fill this vacancy by appointment for the period of Supervisor Scott’s remaining term, which will expire in January 2025.”
Also on Tuesday, Supervisor Bruno Sabatier will ask the board to consider appealing a July 28 decision by the Lake County Planning Commission to approve the Bottle Rock Farm FJA Trust Cannabis Project. That item also is untimed.
Sabatier’s report to the board explained that he is suggesting the action because the commission approved the project despite the fact that there are several violations on the project property, which contradicts the county’s zoning ordinance.
He said there were cannabis plants in the ground prior to obtaining an appropriate county permit, along with unresolved issues about grading and unpermitted buildings.
The full agenda follows.
CONSENT AGENDA
5.1: Adopt proclamation recognizing Lake County AmeriCorps CivicSpark Fellows.
5.2: Approve use of geothermal funds for the purpose of loan repayment for the Anderson Springs Community Service District and authorize the county administrative officer to sign a purchase order in the amount of $218,399.45.
5.3: Approve Amendment No. 1 to Physician consultation services contract to provide public health services between the county of Lake and Dr. Gary Pace and authorize chairs to sign.
5.4: Adopt resolution approving Agreement No.22-0116-000-SA with the state of California, Department of Food and Agriculture and Authorize the execution of the Fuels, Lubricants, and Automotive Products Program agreement in the amount of $2,475 for period July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.
5.5: Adopt resolution approving Agreement # 21-0517-029-SF with California Department of Food Agriculture for Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Program in the amount of $56,515.76 for July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2024.
5.6: Adopt resolution approving Agreement No. 21-0595-011-SF with California Department of Food and Agriculture for compliance with the European Grapevine Moth Detection Program in the amount of $15,405 for period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
5.7: Sitting as Lake County Air Quality Management District Board of Directors: Authorize the air pollution control officer to sign and submit the grant agreement between the district and ARB for AB617 Implementation Funds for the Community Air Protection Program, and sign all other program documents.
5.8: Adopt resolution authorizing Lake County Behavioral Health Services to increase the rates for Driving-Under-the-Influence Program services effective fiscal year 2022-23.
5.9: Approve agreement between county of Lake and Ever Well Health Systems for adult residential support services and specialty mental health services for fiscal years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 in the amount of $360,000.00 and authorize the board chair to sign.
5.10: Approve Board of Supervisors minutes for July 19, 2022.
5.11: Approve Task Order No.3 for on-call construction management services for various HBP-Funded Bridge Projects in Lake County.
5.12: a) Approve first amendment to the commercial lease agreement between county of Lake and OMarshall Inc., formerly Penna Realty Property Management, for the property located at 16170 Main St. Units C, D, & G, Lower Lake, CA 95457, and authorize the chair to sign; b) approve first amendment to the commercial lease agreement between county of Lake and OMarshall, Inc., formerly Penna Realty Property Management, for the property located at 16170 Main St. Units E & F, Lower Lake, CA 95457, and authorize the chair to sign.
5.13: Adopt resolution authorizing entering into a funding agreement with the State Department of Water Resources and authorizing and designating Lake County Special Districts administrator to sign on the behalf of CSA-21, North Lakeport Water, all grant related documents for the North Lakeport CSA #21 Water Supply Improvement Project.
TIMED ITEMS
6.3, 9:10 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation recognizing Lake County AmeriCorps CivicSpark Fellows.
6.4, 9:20 a.m.: Presentation by RCRC and GSFA on “Assist-to-Own” program available to county employees.
UNTIMED ITEMS
7.2: Consideration of a letter requesting action by Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill Lake County’s District 4 supervisorial vacancy and authorize chair to sign.
7.3: Consideration of public review and approval of the county of Lake Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) Round 3 application for $569,940, including a local homelessness action plan. not available not available
7.4: Consideration of the following advisory board appointments: Resource Conservation District.
7.5: ADDENDUM, consideration of appealing Planning Commission decision Re: Bottle Rock Farm FJA Trust Cannabis Project.
CLOSED SESSION
8.1: Conference with legal counsel: Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to Gov. Code sec. 54956.9 (d)(2), (e)(5): One potential case.
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The council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
The agenda can be found here.
The council chambers will be open to the public for the meeting. Masks are highly encouraged where 6-foot distancing cannot be maintained.
If you cannot attend in person, and would like to speak on an agenda item, you can access the Zoom meeting remotely at this link or join by phone by calling toll-free 669-900-9128 or 346-248-7799.
The webinar ID is 973 6820 1787, access code is 477973; the audio pin will be shown after joining the webinar. Those phoning in without using the web link will be in “listen mode” only and will not be able to participate or comment.
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On the Tuesday agenda is a public hearing to adopt the resolution to confirm and approve the utility billing delinquency list and the associated resolution and direct staff to submit the list to the county auditor-controller for inclusion on the property tax roll.
Under council business, Police Chief Brad Rasmussen will ask for the council’s approval to execute an agreement with the city of Clearlake for supplemental law enforcement services.
At its meeting two weeks ago, the Clearlake City Council approved the agreement, which will allow the two agencies to assist each other. In the near term, Clearlake Police officers can volunteer to help Lakeport Police, which is down several officer positions.
Also on Tuesday, the council will consider approving the designated temporary disabled parking on C and D streets, between South Forbes Street and the respective fairgrounds entrance gates from 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1, to midnight on Sunday, Sept. 4; discuss a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement for apportionment of Retirement Obligations of California Intergovernmental Risk Authority; and approve and authorize the city manager to execute a professional services agreement with Quincy Engineering Inc. for the Lakeport Blvd Project Study Report Equivalent.
On the consent agenda — items usually accepted as a slate on one vote — are ordinances; minutes of the regular council meeting on July 19; confirm the continuing existence of a local emergency for the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency; receive and file the Community Development Department FY 2021-22 fourth quarter update; receive and file the minutes of the July 20, 2022 Measure Z Advisory Committee meeting.
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