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FRIDAY Students Get Dictionaries JANUARY 18, 2013 Corning Sweeps Education Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 64/33 Weather forecast 10B TEHAMA COUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 City to tackle greenhouse gas emissions By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The city of Red Bluff will begin a process of tackling greenhouse gas emissions with a public workshop scheduled for Tuesday's Planning Commission meeting. The public workshop will be held to receive input and comments on the Draft City of Red Bluff 2010 Greenhouse Gas Inventory and CEQA Greenhouse Gas Performance Standards. The meeting is scheduled for 5:15 p.m. at the City Council Chambers, 555 Washington St. Tehama County Air Pollution Control Officer Alan Abbs said what the city is doing is creating an inventory of all the greenhouse gas emissions within the city. The city will then use that inven- tory as the basis of a climate action plan. "The first step is coming up with the date to drive future decision making," Abbs said. The inventory will identify carbon dioxide emissions and projected emissions within Campus safety the city limit from 2010 to 2020. Abbs said since it's the beginning of the process it's a good point for the public to get involved in. Red Bluff Planning Director Scot Timboe was not available for comment. Task force nabs $300K drug cash Tehama Interagency Drug Enforcement task force agents arrested a 41-year-old man from French Camp Monday after he was found with more than $300,000 in drug proceeds. The arrest began when a California Highway Patrol officer had stopped a red Jeep Cherokee on southbound Interstate 5 near Gay Creek for a traffic violation. The officer then deployed a K9, which alerted to the odor of contraband emitting from the vehicle. TIDE agents eventually were called to take over the investigation. During a detailed search of the vehicle, a concealed manufactured compartment used for smuggling was found. Officers opened the compartment and found 10 large See CASH, page 9A RB to study building fees By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Red Bluff Police Chief Paul Nanfito holds up a bulletproof vest Thursday and talks about school safety at the first Tehama County School Safety Summit. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Law enforcement, educators, mental health representatives and other members of the community gathered Thursday at the Tehama County Department of Education for the first Tehama County School Safety Summit. "We are here today with a common purpose," Superintendent of Schools Larry Champion said. "To assure the people of our county that we are doing everything possible to ensure the safety of our children and the schools they attend." The group was gathered to learn from each other about the different agencies present and how they can best learn together, he said. "This is only the beginning of a process," Champion said. "The real work goes from here to each of the 17 attendance areas of Tehama County where the conversation will continue and turn into action," Champion said. "Our schools must be the safest they can be. That is why we are here. To have that dialogue, to know the cast of players, to form relationships and to make commitments. Our morning together centers around working relationships between law enforcement, mental health and education." With the tragedy occurring at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, many have focused on school shootings, but the topic of safety is considerably broadSee CAMPUS, page 9A The Red Bluff City Council authorized a study Tuesday to examine the building department's fee schedule. Councilman Rob Schmid raised questions whether the study would lead to increased fees, but voted with the rest of the council to authorize city staff to advertise for proposals. The department's last study was done seven years ago. City Manager Richard Crabtree compared the formulas being used now to string and duct tape. "I need more confidence in what we're doing right now," he said. Building Director J.D. Ellison said the need for a new study became readily apparent when the department's new software wouldn't accept the outdated math of the formulas the department was using. While state law prohibits a building depart- ment from turning a profit with the fees it charges, the Red Bluff Building Department has had to be subsidized by the general fund in recent years. Ellison said in his experience some fees will have to be raised to get the department to start breaking even again. "I'm not looking for a method or path to raise fees," Crabtree said to alleviate Schimd's concerns. "That's not what's motivating this." Finance Director Sandy Ryan said the council will have the final decision over which fees, if any to raise. Elsewhere on the agenda • The council voted to waive a banner processing fee for Blues for the Pool. The city charges $43 per banner side for the processing of permit applications for banners that are to be hung at Pine and Main or Reeds Creek and Main. Councilwoman Daniele Jackson, also a member of See FEES, page 9A Pilot of small plane UC: No tuition hike under Brown's budget corner,'' but SAN lands on highway (AP) — TheFRANCISCO 'Let's not get imprisoned by clearly turned aexpect more UC should not University of money than the amount proCalifornia can avoid raising by the tuition this fall if the 10paradigms of the past that are posed warned governor. He near Oroville also the board campus system gets the OROVILLE (AP) — A 67-year-old pilot is OK after making an emergency landing on a Northern California highway. The Enterprise-Record of Chico reports that John Schneider was en route from Susanville to Oroville on Thursday morning when his small plane began experiencing engine trouble about halfway through the trip. Schneider told the newspaper the nearest airport was fogged in. He began to climb, but the engine soon died out completely. Schneider said he continued in the direction of Oroville, bringing the plane down on Highway 70 around 8:30 a.m. after seeing it was clear. The plane has since been cleared from the two-lane highway. He said he would have landed in an adjacent field if there had been any traffic on the highway. ——— Information from: Chico Enterprise-Record, http://www.chicoer.com News tip? Call 527-2151 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 funding increase proposed in Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan, school leaders said Thursday at a UC board meeting attended by the state's top elected officials. University leaders said they welcomed the governor's proposal to raise state funding for UC by $250 million to about $2.6 billion. The increase is less than UC had requested, but it's a reversal from years of budget cuts that led to hefty tuition hikes, reduced enrollment and cuts to academic programs. UC officials said they don't anticipate the need to increase tuition for undergraduates or graduate students in the coming fall. Instead, they said they would seek other ways to now obsolete' — Gov. Gerry Brown cut costs and raise money, such as private fundraising, debt restructuring and expanding online education. ''We are extraordinarily grateful for what the state has done,'' board Chair Sherry Lansing said at the regents meeting. ''The truth is we have to find alternate sources of revenue. ... We can't just only rely on the state.'' The regents held a wideranging discussion of the university's finances and future at a meeting attended by Brown, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker John Perez and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. The four elected officials are board members, but it's rare for all of them to attend the same meeting. The governor's 2013-14 budget plan gives more money to California's public colleges and universities, thanks in part to voter approval of Proposition 30, which temporarily raises income and sales taxes. But Brown also wants colleges to hold down costs and tuition, and move more courses online to save money. Perez said ''the state has against raising student fees and executive pay. ''We have an expectation in Legislature that you do no additional harm to access to the university,'' Perez said. ''The decisions that we make here will impact the way that this budget and future budgets are viewed by the Legislature.'' Brown, who also attended Wednesday's regents meeting, continued to urge university leaders to embrace technology and develop new ways to deliver higher education. ''We've got to think big,'' said Brown, who said he's been researching the history of higher education. ''Let's not get imprisoned by paradigms of the past that are now obsolete.''