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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – For many of the nearly one-quarter of Lake County residents aged 65 and above, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant simple things like acquiring food have required greater thought and planning.
Four Lake County Senior Centers have stepped up to meet unprecedented needs.
On Monday, Nov. 30, the county of Lake delivered checks totaling $96,582.28 to these four senior centers, located throughout the county:
· Lakeport Senior Center (provider of senior meal program services in the Lakeport, Kelseyville, Nice and Lucerne areas) was granted $28,687.59;
· Middletown Senior Center received $20,000;
· Live Oak Seniors Inc. (Clearlake Oaks), $17,287.31; and
· Highland Senior Services Center (Clearlake area) was awarded $30,607.38.
“We are very grateful to the Lake County Board of Supervisors for their decision to share [the County’s] CARES Act funds with senior centers,” said Lake Family Resource Center and Lakeport Senior Center Executive Director, Lisa Morrow. “These funds will facilitate much-needed meal support for our most vulnerable community members during the COVID-19 health emergency.”
The need for Meals on Wheels Drivers has never been greater. If you can be available to help our Senior Centers deliver meals, please contact them today:
· Highlands Senior Center, 707-994-3051.
· Lakeport Senior Center, 707-279-0563.
· Live Oak Seniors Inc., 707-998-1950.
· Middletown Senior Center, 707-987-3113.
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The new order is effective Dec. 1, 2020, until Nov. 1, 2021.
The road system and trails in the August Complex/Ranch fire areas have been evaluated, many hazards have been removed and a considerable amount of fire suppression damage has been repaired.
While many hazards have been removed, there is no way to make the fire area entirely safe from all hazards.
Some hazards that visitors may encounter when traveling in the fire area are fire weakened trees falling, limbs dropping, burned-out “stump holes” giving way under you, during wet weather, water or mud building up quickly and large rocks dislodging and rolling without warning.
“It is important to reopen access to public lands where we can,” Johnson said. “However, we need to keep some trails and campgrounds closed as they sustained damage that will take some time to repair. We want visitors to be careful and aware of their surroundings while traveling in the burned area.”
Forest Order 08-20-15, including the order, map and list of closed trails and facilities is posted on the forest website, https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd859571.pdf.
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Former Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent called the innovation program, led by the U.S. Census Bureau, “one of the most important accelerators in federal government.”
TOP is a key component of the Federal Data Strategy and the President’s Management Agenda, championed by Deputy Secretary of Commerce Karen Dunn Kelley.
Through 12-week technology development sprints – a method to rapidly prototype digital products – government, technology and community collaborators team up to create digital products that use federal open data. The goal is to serve the public and solve some of our nation’s greatest challenges.
These sprints focus on far-ranging topics such as the natural environment, the built environment, a first-ever cohort of university student participants, and the inaugural implementation of The Opportunity Project’s TOPx Toolkit, piloted by the Department of State.
Challenges TOP tackled this year:
– Reducing plastic pollution in oceans.
– Helping the public understand the effects of transportation emissions on local air quality.
– Enabling aerial and geospatial data to aid agricultural decision-making.
– Developing effective and efficient markets for recycled materials.
– Tracking the impact of emergency and disaster funding.
– Assisting recently resettled refugees.
– Paving a path to economic self-sufficiency for low-income families.
– Facilitating sustainable rural economic development.
– Reimagining civics education for a new generation.
This year’s efforts were co-led by the U.S. departments of State, Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency, the White House Office of Management and Budget, the Wilson Center, and USA for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
More than 35 tech teams are set to launch their products/digital solutions at our upcoming first-ever virtual Demo Week celebrating TOP’s five-year anniversary, including companies, universities, civic tech brigades and more.
What are some of the products being developed?
Esri, a pioneer in the world of GIS since 1969, has used data from the EPA, INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization), the Citizen Science portal and multiple national and international specialists to build an Esri Story Map
This interactive online narrative compiles tangible and novel data sets to energize public consciousness and provide new insights into the problem of ocean plastic pollution. It offers actions citizens and policymakers worldwide can take to solve the crisis.
Rutgers University’s Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA). A participant in the first-ever university sprint, IDEA has built “Better Air, Better Schools” – a website that uses EPA School Bus Rebate Program data to help teach students ages 7 to 10 about air pollution. The site demonstrates what students can do to reduce the harmful effects of idling and diesel emissions.
OPS1, a technology company dedicated to evolving organizational software, used federal open data, user advocate knowledge, and subject matter expertise to build the cloud-based EnVision application to help low-income families assess their strengths and weaknesses.
The app helps them identify support resources (service providers, mentors and coaches), set goals, create roadmaps, set up prompts to stay on track, and gain tangible rewards for increasing their economic self-sufficiency.
Center on Rural Innovation, or CORI, is a nonprofit dedicated to achieving economic success in rural America through partnership and strategy development. It used data from several sources including the Department of Education College Scorecard, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and Census Bureau to build the Tech Talent tool.
The tool allows local development leaders and ecosystem builders to easily identify tech talent and employment in small communities.
These products created by technology teams are a small sample of the more than 35 tools that have been created through this innovative collaboration of federal agencies, tech leaders, nonprofits and advocacy groups from communities most affected by these challenges.
To date, more than 1,500 individuals, more than 30 federal agencies and hundreds of organizations have participated in The Opportunity Project, leading to more than 140 new open data digital tools, including apps, websites, mapping tools, data visualizations, games and more.
Want to see more?
Join in celebrating The Opportunity Project’s five-year anniversary at its first-ever virtual Demo Week, which takes place Dec. 9 to 11.
See the event schedule and build your own agenda here.
Want to get involved?
Sign up for emails to stay in the loop and learn more about upcoming sprints in 2021.
Lorena Molina-Irizarry is director of operations of Census Open Innovation Labs. Article courtesy of the US Census Bureau.
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The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1.
The supervisors will meet in the board chambers on the first floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St., Lakeport, for a hybrid meeting format which also will include the opportunity for community members to continue to participate virtually.
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 at 9 a.m. The meeting ID is 923 0801 0857, password 456759.
To submit a written comment on any agenda item please 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.
At 9:10 a.m., the board will present a proclamation commending Jan Coppinger for her 12 years of service to the county of Lake.
Coppinger has served as Special Districts administrator since 2016. Earlier this month, the board selected her deputy administrator, Scott Harter, to succeed her, as Lake County News has reported.
At 9:15 a.m., the board will present a proclamation honoring Calpine Corp. the Geysers for 60 years of power.
That will be followed at 9:20 a.m. by an update on COVID-19 from Public Health Officer Dr. Gary Pace.
The full agenda follows.
CONSENT AGENDA
5.1: Second reading of ordinance allowing microenterprise home kitchen operations with a pilot program.
5.2: Adopt proclamation for Calpine Corp. the Geysers for 60 years of power.
5.3: Adopt proclamation commending Jan Coppinger for her 12 years of service to the county of Lake.
5.4: Approve Amendment No. 1 to agreement for Sulphur, Pawnee and Mendocino Complex wildfires structural burn debris removal insurance cost recovery and invoicing in Lake County.
5.5: Approve amendment to the county of Lake Covid-19 Public Health Emergency Return to Work – Worksite Protection Protocol.
5.6: Approve amended agreement with California Department of Food and Agricultural Industrial Hemp Cultivation Agreement No. 20-0328-000-SA for a revision in terms and conditions.
5.7: Approve MOU between county of Lake and Lake County Resource Conservation District for management of goat’s rue in Lake County for FY 2020-2021 in the amount of $60,000.
5.8: Approve Agreement No. 20-0153 with the state of California, Department of Food and Agriculture and authorize the execution of post-consumer certification contract and contractor certification clause and signatures for insect trapping in the amount of $131,716.00 for activities in FY 20-22.
5.9: Sitting as the Lake County Air Quality Management District Board of Directors, reappointment Cameron Reeves to the LCAQMD Hearing Board.
5.10: Approve Amendment No. 1 to the agreement between county of Lake and Redwood Community Services Inc. for the Lake County WRAP Program, Foster Care Program and Intensive Services Foster Care Program for specialty mental health services for Fiscal Year 2020-21 and authorize the board chair to sign the amendment.
5.11: Approve minutes of the Board of Supervisors meetings for Aug. 11, Oct. 27, Nov. 3, Nov. 12 and Nov. 19.
5.12: Approve contract between the county of Lake Health Services Department and Sarah Katz for epidemiologist services in support of the Public Health COVID-19 crisis response for a term starting Nov. 1, 2020, through Nov. 17, 2022, not to exceed a maximum amount of $165,000, and authorize the board chair to sign.
5.13: Adopt resolution to amend the budget for FY 2020-2021 by appropriating unanticipated revenue for Public Health Services and authorize the Health Services Director to sign necessary documents to secure these funds.
5.14: (a) Approve the purchase of three livescan fingerprinting machines with DataWorks Plus and year two maintenance agreements in the amount of $52,111 and (b) authorize the sheriff or his designee to sign the purchase order.
5.15: Approve the Department of Boating and Waterways 2021/22 application for financial aid in the amount of $350,458.20; and authorize the sheriff to sign.
5.16: Approve designation of subrecipient’s agent resolution, authorizing County Administrative Officer Carol Huchingson and Auditor-Controller Cathy Saderlund to provide to the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services the assurances and agreements required.
5.17: Approve Amendment No. 1 to the agreement between county of Lake on Behalf of CSA #20 Soda Bay Water System and Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District extending the agreement for an additional two-year term.
5.18: Approve Amendment No. 1 to the agreement between county of Lake on Behalf of CSA #21 North Lakeport Water System and Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District extending the agreement for an additional two-year term.
5.19: Sitting as the Board of Directors for the Lake County Watershed Protection District, (a) waive the formal bidding process, pursuant to Lake County Code Section 38.2, as it is not in the public interest due to the unique nature of the goods or services, and (b) approve the agreement between the county of Lake and Monument Inc. for appraisal and acquisition services for the Middle Creek Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Project and authorize the chair of the board of directors to sign the agreement.
5.20: Adopt resolution authorizing the Lake County Watershed Protection District to file a grant application for a Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Pre-Disaster and Flood Mitigation Assistance Grant Program for FY 2020/2021 Titled Middle Creek Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Project: Parcel Acquisition.
TIMED ITEMS
6.1, 9:01 a.m.: Public input.
6.2, 9:10 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation commending Jan Coppinger for her 12 years of service to the county of Lake.
6.3, 9:15 a.m.: Presentation of proclamation for Calpine Corp. the Geysers for 60 years of power.
6.4, 9:20 a.m.: Consideration of update on COVID-19.
UNTIMED ITEMS
7.2: Consideration of advisory board appointment: Callayomi County Water District, Board of Directors.
CLOSED SESSION
8.1: Public employee evaluations: County Administrative Officer Carol Huchingson, Director of Child Support Services Gail Woodworth.
8.2: Conference with legal counsel: Significant exposure to Litigation pursuant to Government Code section 54956.9(d)(2), (e)(3) – Claim of McQueen.
8.3: Conference with legal counsel: Decision whether to initiate litigation pursuant to Government Code section 54956.9 (d)(4) – One potential case.
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