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By Rich Greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreene on Twitter Lake CaLifoRnia » A Verizon Wireless proposal to construct a 120-foot monopole communica- tions tower within the Lake Cali- fornia subdivision will be heard by the Tehama County Planning Com- mission Thursday. The public hearing for the com- pany's application for a use per- mit will be heard at 9 a.m. at the Board Chambers, 727 Oak St. in Red Bluff. The proposed tower is 1.5 miles away from the nearest residential dwelling. The site is next to a Rio Alto Wa - ter District water storage facility, about 1.5 miles east of Interstate 5 and 1-mile west of Riverview Drive. The tower would include a gen - erator pad and equipment shelter. County staff is recommending PLanninG PaneL Cell tower proposed in subdivision Daily News A Beef Ambassador team of four youths will represent the Tehama County beef industry this year. In a break with tradition, the Te - hama County CattleWomen have selected a team of four Junior Am- bassadors, instead of the usual se- nior and junior beef ambassadors. Lead Junior Beef Ambassador is Danielle Mueller, who was the Junior Ambassador for 2013. Also on the beef ambassador team are Kayla McGiffin, Emyli Palmer and Kegan Richards. The Cattle - Women selected their Beef Am- bassador team for 2014 on March 16 at a contest held at the Tehama County Farm Bureau office. CattleWomen president Dani - elle Zane, who was beef ambassa- dor in 2001, announced the forma- tion of the Beef Ambassador team. She said that the contestants in- teracted very well with each other during the contest and they will be able to help each other with am- bassador duties during the com- Beef amBassadoRs 4 youth chosen for team Trustees, who previously represented individual high school areas, to be elected by district By Rich Greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter Red BLuff » The Tehama County Board of Supervisors adopted a change Tuesday in the way trust- ees will be elected to the County Board of Education. Trustees, starting with the No- vember election, will be elected by district. P rev iously tr ust ees were elected to represent a high school area. Red Bluff Union High School had three trustees and the Corn - ing Union High School and Los Mo- linos High School areas each had one trustee. The districts will mirror the dis- tricts already used for supervisor elections with two minor altera- tions to account for slight differ- ences in the Board of Education's jurisdiction. The area of Shasta County served by the Antelope School District will be included in the new boundaries and an area of Tehama County that sends students to the Orland Unified School District will be excluded. The changes had already been approved by the Tehama County Board of Education and the Te - hama County Committee on School District Organization. The change resulted from an interpretation of the Voters Right Act, which required the Board of Education to either switch to a completely at-large system, draw their own boundaries or adopt the districts already drawn by the Board of Supervisors. At the Feb. 12 Board of Educa - tion meeting President Tim More- house said he supported the super- visorial district system because he VotinG RiGhts aCt Choosing Ed Board changes By Rich Greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter Cottonwood » Since 1993, the Evergreen Union School District has operated and maintained No- land Park, which borders the dis- trict's elementary and middle schools. The district has developed the park through upgrades of fenc - ing, sprinklers, a track and soc- cer field, spending more than $189,000 in improvements dur- ing the past 20 years and an additional $152,000 in mainte- nance. Now district officials want full ownership. On Tuesday, Tehama County Supervisors said they had no ob - jection to that request. E v e r g r e e n S u p e r i n t e n - dent Brad Mendenhall told the board the district had no plans to change the availability of the park to the public, outside of be - ing able to close the park during school hours, including short pe- riods before and after. County and school officials be- lieve the transfer of ownership may require some state legisla- tive language. "Included in that legislative language, we also request that it be noted that the transfer of own - ership shall not change the pur- pose and primary use of the land and that it will remain a park in perpetuity subject to limited re- strictions," Mendenhall said in a letter addressed to the county. Mendenhall said the park is well used by the Bowman Com - munity, with upward of 100 peo- ple at a time, but the transfer would allow the district to pro- tect its investment. It would also allow the district to pursue grant funding for fu- ture park improvements. The school district has identi- fied about $342,000 in improve- ments it would like to undertake at the park in the next 20 years. Those improvements include remodeling the bathroom, re - placing baseball backstops, ex- tending fencing, expanding irri- gation, improving a picnic area, adding bleachers and ADA up- grades. Under the terms of the park lease, which was originally ap- proved in 1993 and last reap- proved in February, the school district is responsible for the care and maintenance of the park as well as the payment of all utilities. The supervisors offered full vocal support for the transfer plan. Supervisor Burt Bundy only requested that it be done with the wishes of the those who originally built the park in mind. Bowman Community DISTRICT'S WORK ON PARK REWARDED Rich GReene – Daily news since 1993, the evergreen Union school District has maintained and operated noland Park in cottonwood. 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