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Thursday, June 20, 2013 – Daily News Obituaries BETTY LOU HIBBS Born 10/30/25 passed away on 6/11/13. Preceded in death by her husband Otis, (2) sisters & (3) brothers. Survived by sister Donzella, her son Don, grandsons Brian, Kyle and Christopher. Also survived by four great grandchildren Trysten, Madison, Mackenzie, Aubrey and one on the way. She touched many lives and will be missed by all. Family and Friends are welcome to celebrate Betty's life on Saturday, June 29th at 2 p.m. Please contact a family member or friend for directions. ROSEMARIE EVA GEE SMITH Rosemarie Eva Gee Smith, Mother of 7 daughters, Grandmother of 11, and Granny to countless children whom she loved and helped shape over her 74 years, passed away in the early morning hours of Sunday, June 2, 2013. She was tenderly cared for and encircled by loved ones at her home in Red Bluff until the end. Rosemarie was born on her family farm in Dundee, Michigan on September 29, 1938. After moving with her family to Southern California in the 50's, she met the love of her life Larry Smith. They went on to have 7 daughters, and eventually relocated to Northern California in the late 70's. Rosemarie spent her life doing what she loved the most, being a mom. That meant years of involvement with the Girl Scouts, including leading groups of youngsters on camping trips and even bringing her troop on a tour of Europe. Camping in particular was one of her favorite activities, and many years were spent creating fun memories around the campfire with her siblings and their children, her nieces and nephews. After settling in Red Bluff, California in 1979, she embraced her new surroundings and quickly got her own small family farm established. She truly enjoyed raising animals, and was known widely for her outstanding green thumb-her gardens would cause passers-by to stop in awe. Over the years, she invested countless hours in teaching and inspiring children as a leader in the Bend Jelly 4-H club. She is warm-heartedly remembered for the lessons she dispensed in 4-H cooking groups, which to this day are paying dividends in the kitchens and dining rooms of her formers apprentices. Her dedication to the 4-H lamb program provided not only timeless life lessons about hard work, dedication, and follow-through, but also gave numerous children some of their fondest childhood memories of summers spent being a part of the County Fair. Eventually she came to lead the Little Miss Tehama County program at the fair, and it was something she looked forward to every year. As her own children grew up, she found equal joy from time spent with her grandchildren, as well as with her nieces, nephews, and cousins that all so fondly referred to her as Granny. Her most cherished parts of any day was when the children and their friends would come to her house to share their stories while snacking on her latest home-made baked goods; baking was something she prided herself on. When asking where the kids could be found, one could almost always expect to hear, "out at Granny's". She was also a master seamstress; one of her favorite times of the year was Halloween when she would create unforgettable contest-winning costumes for children and adults. She had a tradition of hand-making one-of-a-kind blankets, bonnets, beanies and outfits for babies of her loved ones as well. Sewing was one of her most special talents. Rosemarie was, is and forever will be deeply loved. She is survived by her daughters and their families: Susan Smith, Ted, Willow and Hank Teske; Kathryn, Chuck and Joe Fagan; Allison, Ed, Jennifer Smith, Quintin and Truman Marshall; Jennifer, Neal, Tony and Gino Gagliano; Larissa Smith and Spencer Brown; Rachel, David and Claire McFarlin; Jesse, Tyson and Ace Cleveland. As well as her siblings: Truman and Jan Gee, Deanna Gee, Sherie and Rick Utley, Judy and Richard Regel. A Celebration of Life Ceremony will take place at the Coffman Residence (280 Agua Verdi) on Saturday, July 20th at 5 p.m. and is open to all that knew and cared for this one-of-a-kind woman. Donations in her honor may be made to St. Elizabeth Hospice 530-528-4207. SUSPECT BUDGET Continued from page 1A $80,000 to the good change. He pressed the council and city manager to keep working on the concept and bring it back on the agenda again. "We can overcome this," he said. Community Promotion One of the few cuts the budget committee identified in the city's $7.2 million in proposed general fund spending was a $3,500 membership due to remain a part of 3Core, a local economic development service. The payment, which would have been 0.05 percent of the city's budget, drew ample discussion and another 2-2 vote. The split leaves the city out of 3Core for the time being as it would not authorize the city manager to sign a new agreement. Councilman Clay Parker, the city's representative on 3Core, said the organization was important as it assisted with finding funding for private and public sector projects within the region. 3Core Executive Director Marc Nemanic pitched his organization's ability to help local businesses and used the success of Girls With Guns as an example of a company that was helped and now providing tax revenue for the city. Ryan said the top priority in 3Core's agreement with the city was to develop and update a list of priority projects. She said the city makes that list annually and it hardly ever changes because the city CORNING Continued from page 1A Stoufer was $40 an hour up to 960 hours in a year. The new contract would expire June 2014 unless renewed. The council approved an agreement with MGT of America, a company Corning has worked with since BILL Continued from page 1A shelf. The clerk confronted Smith as he was walking out and retrieved the stolen items. Smith then refused to leave the premises when he was told to do so. Deputies located Smith near the business and arrested him for burglary. Smith resisted being taken into custody. After he was placed inside the patrol vehicle, he began kicking the rear door causing damage. Smith was charged with burglary, resisting arrest and felony vandalism. Bail was $68,000. has no money to do those projects to begin with. Brown said the decision was not a knock on 3Core, but at this point the budget committee was basically just looking for pennies. Chamber of Commerce Parker voiced support for another aspect of Community Promotion spending when he said the city should lift its $70,000 cap on funding for the Red Bluff-Tehama County Chamber of Commerce. Previously the chamber received a set 16 percent of the city's Transient Occupancy Tax. The chamber was represented by former President Bill Moule, who asked for the cap to be lifted. Moule said Red Bluff businesses deserved the increase because of all that they do in the community, citing their support of local events, charities and even monetary support of candidates' campaigns. Jackson said she could support lifting the cap in the future, but said the city's budget struggles were being shared by everyone and wondered why they would be lifted just for one group. "We earn it," Moule replied. Public Safety Police Chief Paul Nanfito and Fire Chief Jon Bennett each gave lastminute pleas for increased funding in the amounts of around $50,000 for their respective departments. Nanfito asked for funding to provide leases for three new patrol vehicles, which he said could be had at the cost of purchasing one. He said the aging fleet was becoming increasingly expensive to Continued from page 1A Democrat issued a statement Wednesday saying the new version would maintain California's open records law. ''To be clear, this means that the California Public Records Act will remain intact without any changes as part of the maintain and posing safety risks. Nanfito also asked for an increase of $5,000 to purchase additional ammunition, due to escalating prices. Parker said he supported a lease of one vehicle and suggested Nanfito utilize savings in his salary budget to find the additional revenue for ammunition. Crabtree recommended to the City Council that it purchase one vehicle outright and that it should avoid getting into a lease situation. Bennett asked for $50,500 he said was needed to maintain the fire department's normal staffing, emergency operations and training. He said while the city's latest union contracts got rid of the large lump payouts employees received when exiting employment from banking their vacation pay it had unexpected consequences. His employees were now being forced to take their vacation time, which resulted in increases in overtime pay. Bennett also pointed out his overtime budget hadn't been increased to take into account the pay raises included in the new contract. Bennett said the staffing levels were necessary to maintain the department's rating, which led to decreased insurance rates for home and business owners. Parker and Crabtree said they both supported an additional $6,500 in funding for the department, which could be utilized to hold a Fire Fighter Academy. The academy could 2005 that has resulted in $72,000 recovered in reimbursements from money taken by the state, Brewer said. "The filing process for these documents is quite complicated and time consuming for a small city," Brewer said. What made it even easier for Brewer to recommend approval of the contract is the company cut its fee in half, setting the annual rate at budget — consistent with the Assembly's original action,'' Perez said. The Senate also would have to approve it, meaning Brown would choose between two versions. Specifically, the Assembly will amend SB71, which was a companion to AB76, the bill that has been sent to the governor. The version to be acted upon Thursday in the Assembly will be 7A potentially produce an expanded roster of reserve firefighters, which would lessen the burden on salary costs. Decisions delayed In the end decisions over chamber funding, police vehicles, fire overtime and even a request to spend WasteWater enterprise funds for an extra public works employee were left for a later date. City Treasurer Donna Gordy told the council, while Ryan was conservative and good with the numbers in her role as finance director, the city had survived smaller budget reserves in the past. "Don't be afraid we're at such a narrow margin with this budget — it's manageable," she said. Ryan said the council shouldn't feel the budget was set in stone. She suggested if they wanted to pursue any of the additional funding requests, they bring them back for discussion as supplemental items in the future. That drew the support of the council, which directed city staff to do just that, as it proceeded to adopt the 2013-14 fiscal budget as was presented by a vote of 3-1. Parker was the lone dissenter. Jackson said she hoped to see the department heads and the chamber bring back their requests at a later date, preferably after a fifth councilmember had been seated. "Everyone's plea here is certainly justifiable," Schmid said. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. $1,500, he said. The Corning City Council meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at City Hall, 794 Third St. Meeting minutes and agendas are available at www.corning.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. identical except that it strips two sections making it optional for local governments to comply with deadlines and other rules when they receive requests for public records. By making it optional rather than mandatory, the state would not have to reimburse local governments, saving the general fund millions of dollars. Perez's spokesman, John Vigna, said the Assembly is ''essentially passing the same bill without those two provisions, so local governments will still have to comply with the PRA as it stands now.'' Current law requires government agencies to respond within 10 days and cite reasons if officials need more time or decide to reject a request for public documents. Panel restores some pay for lawmakers, governor SACRAMENTO (AP) — California lawmakers will get a pay raise of nearly $5,000 this year while the governor will see an increase of nearly $9,000 after a citizens' panel voted Wednesday to restore some of the cuts it made during the recession. Gov. Jerry Brown's salary will increase to $173,987, up from $165,288 but still below the high salary of $212,179 in 2008. The base pay of rankand-file lawmakers will rise to $95,291 a year from the current $90,526, although most lawmakers take home an additional $30,000 a year in per diem payments and many receive additional pay for being committee leaders. Last year's 5 percent pay cut by the California Citizens Compensation Commission ''was very heavily driven by the financial condition of the state,'' commissioner Scott Somers noted. He said he struggled over whether now is the right time to raise salaries in light of the recent discussions over the state budget. ''How do we now say, 'But by the way, we've got enough money to restore the 5 percent cut for you guys,'?'' said Somers, who was appointed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg- ger, a Republican. ''That feels a little funny to me. ... That's a little bit of a dilemma for me.'' Brown has urged lawmakers not to restore all the spending cuts for state programs made during the recession. The commission voted 5-1 in favor of restoring the wages to 2011 levels, amounting to a raise of slightly more than 5 percent of current pay. The panel also voted 4-2 to have the state contribute more to the cost of the elected officials' health care but stopped short of restoring all the cuts it previously made to health benefits. The new compensation will take effect Dec. 1. Chairman Thomas Dalzell, a labor attorney appointed by Brown, opted not to vote on both motions because a tie-breaker was not necessary. Brown, a Democrat, has appointed four of the commissioners, while the other three are holdovers from the Schwarzenegger administration. Brown's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the commission's vote. Commission members cited the state's improving finances and the lack of a deficit in the budget that lawmakers approved last Pay rates for lawmakers, statewide officials Here are the current base salaries and the salaries after the raises take effect Dec. 1: Governor: from $165,288 to $173,987. Lieutenant governor: from $123,965 to $130,490. Attorney general: from $143,571 to $151,127. Secretary of state: from $123,965 to $130,490. Controller: from $132,230 to $139,189. Treasurer: from $132,230 to $139,189. Superintendent of public instruction: from $143,571 to $151,127. Insurance commissioner: from $132,230 to $139,189. Board of Equalization members: from $123,965 to $130,490. Speaker of the Assembly: from $104,105 to $109,584. President pro tem of the Senate: from $104,105 to $109,584. Minority floor leader: from $104,105 to $109,584. Majority floor leader: from $97,315 to $102,437. Second ranking minority leader: from $97,315 to $102,437. All other lawmakers: from $90,526 to $95,291. week. Commissioner John Stites, a Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department sergeant who was appointed by Schwarzenegger, was the lone member of the panel to vote against the pay increase. He objected to the use of the word ''restoration'' in referring to raises. ''Restoration to me suggests entitlement,'' he said. ''I don't believe that any reductions we have taken are entitlements and that we are obligated in any way to restore them.'' Voters created the commission in 1990 as part of Proposition 112 to set salaries, insurance and other benefits for state lawmakers and the eight constitutional officers elected statewide, including the governor and attorney general. The commission also sets the pay for members of the Board of Equalization, which deals with a wide range of tax issues. The commission previously cut lawmakers' pay by 18 percent, eliminated the state-owned vehicles given to legislators as a perk and rolled back the rate of per diem payments, but did not take up either of the secondary issues Wednesday. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, DSacramento, did not comment on the pay raise. In a written statement released by his office, he said only that ''since the commission was created more than two decades ago, we have consistently abided by its decisions and will continue to do so.'' California lawmakers are the highest paid state legislators in the country, and many of them receive a supplemental salary for committee chairmanships or legislative duties. Nearly all lawmakers also receive tax-free per diem payments.