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Wednesday, August 28, 2013 – Daily News Death Notices Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Spencer Wilder Spencer Wilder died Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 at his residence in Redding. He was 79. Blair's Direct Cremation & Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. COUNTY Continued from page 1A The budget includes around $48,000 for the new library site planning. The largest amount being set aside for capital projects in the budget is $1.8 million for a new agricultural center. That building is being displaced by a state courthouse project. It's a $574,300 increase from what the board approved in the Recommended Budget in June. At that time the board had directed city staff to include a larger meeting room in the plans. Goodwin said the extra room would cost around $300,000 of the increase. The General Fund appropriations include a $1.5 million contingency reserve for unanticipated expenses. Public protection spending accounts for 56.5 percent of the all of the General Fund's appropriations. The budget adds a 14.1 Full Time Equivalent job units from the previous budget. Eleven of those are for Social Services to handle the increased workloads of upcoming health care reform legislation. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. FIX Continued from page 1A we're going to find ourselves in the same situation over and over and over again.'' If the Legislature fails to act, federal judges have said they have the authority to override state law and order the early releases. Brown's plan is the latest development in a longrunning legal battle over how to improve the medical and mental health treatment of California prison inmates. The federal courts have ruled that previous care was so poor that it failed to meet the constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. Over the past decade, the state has gone on a spending spree to build new prison medical and mental health facilities, while boosting its medical staff and offering salaries to health care professionals that can range between $200,000 and $400,000 a year, with many of them making even more money. Brown said the state has spent billions of dollars to satisfy the judges' demands. ''This gives us some breathing room so that we can demonstrate to the courts that our health care and our mental health care meet constitutional muster,'' he said of the plan unveiled Tuesday. During his news conference, Brown was joined by some of the leading law enforcement groups in the state. Associations representing district attorneys, county sheriffs, probation officers, police chiefs, rank-and-file officers and crime victims spoke in favor of his proposal. Before Tuesday, Brown's most significant step to address the court order was his realignment of the state's criminal justice system. That landmark change, which took effect in October 2011, sentenced non-violent, non-serious and non-sexual criminal offenders to county jails instead of state prison. California's 58 counties have been under special pressure since realignment became law, with sheriffs managing growing jail populations with longerterm and more serious inmates than they are used to. At the same time, county probation officers have greatly increased caseloads as they handle ex-cons who used to be supervised by state parole agents. Realignment has helped the state reduce its prison population by more than 46,000 inmates since 2006, but the federal judges want more. They have said the inmate population in the state's 33 adult prisons must be lowered to 110,000 by the end of the year. Brown's proposal would avoid early parole for sick and elderly inmates along with early release of more dangerous offenders. It includes leasing excess jail cells from Alameda and Los Angeles counties, and renting an entire 2,300-bed private prison in Kern County from Corrections Corp. of America and staffing it with guards employed by the state. The law enforcement representatives who attended Tuesday's news conference said they support the governor's plan because they are worried about additional felons being given early release. Police in Calif. city warning of snake scam FREMONT (AP) — Police in a San Francisco Bay Area city are warning residents to be wary of burglary suspects who are posing as city animal control employees looking for a snake. Fremont police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques says the unknown suspects struck at least once on Saturday. They told the residents of a home that they were looking for a poisonous snake that had bitten a girl, and needed to come inside to set traps and take measurements. While the residents were distracted in the backyard, someone went into the home and stole jewelry and cash. Bosques did not know the value of what was taken. Police are investigating what appears to be a second burglary in Fremont on Saturday using the same scheme, and Bosques says the incidents sound similar to a recent burglary in neighboring Union City. 7A DEER Continued from page 1A access, started about 2:15 p.m. Friday and had threatened 500-kilovolt transmission lines in the area that serve 15 western states. Protecting those power lines was a priority, and that threat has been mitigated, said Lori Mathiesen, a spokeswoman for CalFire. "You don't want those to go down because we're also dealing with the power situation on the Rim Fire," Mathiesen said, referring to the 180,000acre wildfire burning in Tuolumne County near Yosemite National Park. "You don't want them both impacted, so it was crucial to make sure these weren't impacted in case those were." The fire is threatening 8 outbuildings but no homes. Any threat to hunting cabins in the area has also been mitigated, Mathiesen said. A cause has yet to be determined. Mathiesen said the fire has posed challenges to firefighting efforts because the area it's burning in is so rural. Officials must prioritize what equipment to take on the two-hour drive, and firefighting efforts have largely relied on flying scores of fire personnel to otherwise inaccessible parts of the blaze to cut containment lines. CalFire reports nine helicopters have been used Daily News photo by Andre Byik A crew from the California National Guard, from left to right, Spc. Jeramie Lewis Sgt. David Hagler, Sfc. Edward Moe and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jay Soukiassian prepare to transport fire personnel to a wildfire burning about 12 miles east of Los Molinos. Officials say the blaze, which started Friday, is 75 percent contained and expect full containment about 8 a.m. Thursday. in addition to DC-10 VLATs, or Very Large Air Tankers, which have the capacity to drop 12,000 gallons of fire retardant. Mathiesen said about 100,000 gallons of fire retardant was dropped on Sunday. The California National Guard has been assisting CalFire with two UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Sgt. Kurt Krause, a crew chief with the California National Guard who works as an extra set of eyes for pilots to clear them for landings, said a concern he deals with is BILLS Continued from page 1A pated the next round would start in 2015. Schori said he has recommended that the 2015 review include input from a county level. In Tehama County 52 percent of land falls into State Responsibility Areas and 30 percent was Federal Responsibility Area. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is leading a class action lawsuit filed the BOE, CalFire and the Department of Justice over the Fire Prevention Fees. Schori and Tehama County Counsel Arthur Wylene said they believed where to safely insert fire personnel without designated landing zones. "I know the firefighters are going in there and having to cut trees down so we'll have a spot to land to offload crews," Krause said. "I'm hanging out the window making sure that there's nothing to land on that's going to punch a hole in the bottom of the aircraft. A lot of it, they'll get up there to about a 10-foot hover and I'll be hanging out one side ... I'll have to basically say, 'OK, come right five feet, come forward six feet, OK you're clear down right.'" the lawsuit would be drawn out over a lengthy amount of time through the court system. Around $77 million has already been collected through the program, which is billing a year behind. The October bills being sent out in Tehama County are for property owners as of July 1, 2012. The bills are for parcels within Tehama County. Those who own property elsewhere may have already received bills. The BOE did change its format from last year's bill in an effort to better communicate what the Fire Protection Fee is for. The fees will be used to pay for such prevention methods as vegetation management programs, fire hazard and fire severity mapping and Job cuts expected at state unemployment agency SACRAMENTO (AP) — The state Employment Development Department plans to begin cutting staff to address declining funding from the federal unemployment insurance program, state officials told employees. A memo sent to employees said the department expects a $150 million shortfall through June 15, The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday. Ongoing underfunding in the federal unemployment insurance program and congressional budget cuts were listed as the main reasons for the move. That includes about $30 million in sequestration cuts so far, but the figure could grow, spokeswoman Loree Levy said. ''We strongly encourage staff to explore other employment opportunities within EDD that don't rely on (unemployment insurance) funding,'' or in other state agencies, Chief Deputy Director Sharon Hilliard said in the memo. The department cannot maintain staffing to keep up with the demand and is urging clients to use the Internet for as many services as possible to help save money. It already has reduced telephone service hours, moved staff to other programs and restricted overtime. Federal funding also has fallen as California's unemployment rate, now at 8.7 percent, has steadily declined for the past two years after hovering in double digits for most of the recession. Demand has not fallen by an equivalent amount, Levy said. ''The recession was so severe that we still have a demand for unemployment insurance benefits that is twice what it was before the recession,'' she said. The state also owes the federal government nearly $10 billion that it borrowed to continue paying the unemployed when California's own unemployment insurance fund ran out of money. The staff at Red Bluff Simple Cremations would like to thank all of the families who trust us with their loved ones needs. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 Krause said he expected to assist flying about 125 fire personnel, who can work in 24-hour shifts, in and out of the fire area on Tuesday. Three people have suffered minor injuries, such as ankle injuries, from working in the rough terrain, Mathiesen said. Fire personnel stands at a total of 1,308. Assisting agencies also include the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Tehama County Sheriff's Office and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. California Conservation Corp fuel hazard reduction projects. Schori said in Tehama County the fees will pay for a number of fire prevention personnel, including defensible space inspectors. Schori said while he was not necessarily a fan of the fee, he was excited that some of the money could go for maintenance of already completed fire prevention projects within the county. He said grants are often focused on only newer projects instead of maintaining the fire prevention projects that have already been completed. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. THE PASSING PARADE (From Dave Minch's I Say column of August 1942) A real test of our desire to help win the war is put to use this current drive for old rubber which goes through this month. Turn in what you have around your place. The fact that you are trying to help is just as important as the amount you bring in. If there is going to be a loosening up of tire restrictions it depends a lot on how much rubber is recovered. At present even eligible truck owners are having trouble getting enough tries to keep their trucks rolling because the local tire boards are not allocating enough tires to go around. Let's take another look around to see if we have overlooked something in the rubber line. *** I have been laying off criticizing England hoping they were going to really do something to truly help win the war, but I am beginning to wonder. When you consider what they have done so far…Dunkirk, Greece, Singapore, Burma, East Indian oil fields and now North Africa, it has been one steady retreat after another. I know they have been raiding France and Germany with their bombers, but if this could have won the war, the Germans would have won long ago as they practically demolished London. Let us hope when the second front is established in Europe, our soldiers will be under the command of our own officers. Our soldiers have not been trained in the art of retreating and I'm afraid they would not be very good at it. *** If our law makers in Washington pass the income tax bill so that we will have to pay up to 50 % of our earnings…and then arrange it so that we will have to pay this year's and next year's in 1943, it will greatly simply the rationing of autos, tires and in fact everything else. *** My son Bobby is very much worried about our family tree since his friend Dave Sale found out that for the sum of one dollar, that some of Dave's ancestors were friends of George Washington and many other famous names were connected with their family. After Bobby got through telling me this he asked if any of the Minch's ever were anybody. *** After the bombing of our island at Dutch Harbor, it ought to be easier to convince some of the head men in Washington that although Germany may be our number one enemy, we are still engaged in a disastrous war with Japan. Than chances of a bombing attack on our main land is no longer hard to imagine. *** Bill Cain returned from a trip to Canada and says the farmers up there have no trouble putting in a long day's work if they work from sun up to sun down. It gets light up there at half past two and does not get dark until ten thirty in the evening. Dave Minch 1900-1964 (erroneously printed last week as 1864!) The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514