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However Goodwin and Cit y Ma na ger R icha rd Crabtree would not rule out some form of a Joint Powers Agreement or adding the new library project into the existing agreement the enti - ties have with the Commu- nity Center. "It might make sense to expand that to include the li- brary or we might do some- thing different," Crabtree said. "We just haven't had a chance as a staff yet to talk in that level of detail." Councilman Clay Parker said his only concern was in regards to what the land's appraisal value turned out to be. Mayor Daneile Jackson had major concerns over parking. She said some events at the Community Center al - ready take up all the avail- able spots and more. Goodwin said the county is still exploring options, but that its goal would be the project would not re - sult in a net loss of parking spaces. "Obviously the details have yet to be formulated," Crabtree said. Library From Page 1 labor force was jobless. Marin County has the least unemployment at 4.8 percent. Across the state Califor - nia's unemployment rate dropped to 8 percent in February, as a net gain of 58,000 positions prolonged steady improvement in the job market. The jobless figure was down slightly from January but remains well above the national average of 6.7 per - cent. California's 7.9 percent unemployment rate in Sep- tember 2008 was the last time it fell below 8 percent. The unemployment rate in California was 9.4 percent in February 2013. Since then, the fastest growing sectors have in - cluded professional and busi- ness services, with 92,800 new jobs, and construction, adding 38,800 jobs. Other sectors that added jobs included trade, trans- portation and utilities, in- formation, pleasure and hos- pitality, government, and other services. Manufacturing posted the largest decrease last month, losing 2,600 jobs in a month. The sector's year-over-year net job loss is 1,900. California now has 1.5 mil - lion unemployed residents, or 245,000 less than a year ago. The labor force, which does not include people who have stopped looking for work, has stayed about 18.6 million in that period. The employment depart - ment reported that 1.2 mil- lion new jobs have been cre- ated in California since the economic recovery began in February 2010. The unem- ployment rate was then 12.4 percent. The Associated Press contrib - uted to this report. Jobless From Page 1 Each of the school sites at the event, which also in- cluded Antelope, Bidwell, Jackson Heights, Manton, Plum Valley, Metteer, Vista and Berrendos schools, ad - opted a university. Jack- son Heights, for instance, displayed information on California State Univer- sity, Northridge. And Ber- rendos handed out stickers, some of which read "I'm go- ing to USC," or "I'm going to UCSB." "We're college and ca- reer oriented in terms of the culture that we rep- resent at the school site," SERRF Program Adminis- trator Karla Stroman said. Thursday's event fol- lowed a highlights show for schools in the Corning area on Tuesday, and also allowed for another oppor - tunity for kids to play with their friends. "We want the kids to be- come a part of their com- munity," Stroman said. "That's part of our goal. We're building responsible students that care about their community and that want to give back to their community, too." Stroman said that is part of the small-town cul - ture, but the students are also be enabled to do big things. She adde d t h at t he safety of students is a pri - ority for the after-school program, and gave a nod to the school sites, super- intendents, the community and the Tehama County Department of Education for their support. Teha ma Count y Dis - trict Attorney Gregg Co- hen, who was taking in the event, said he's been a supporter of SERRF and ref lected on how the pro - gram can affect communi- ties by "keeping (students) safe, drug free, and crime free." "I think that's great," he said. Kids From Page 1 Hackett: Frank Wheeler Hackett, 79, died Thursday March 20 at his Corning residence. Arrangements are under the direction of Cre- mation Simplicity of Shasta County. Published Friday, March 21, 2014 by the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. McClain: Billy W. Mc- Clain, 78, of Red Bluff, died Tuesday March 18 at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Allen & Dahl Funeral Chapel, Redding. Published Friday, March 21, 2014 by the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Death notices must be pro- vided by mortuaries to the news department, are pub- lished at no charge, and fea- ture only specific basic infor- mation about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified adver- tising department. Paid obit- uaries may be placed by mor- tuaries or by families of the deceased and include on- line publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of con - tent, including photos. Death Notices By Sam eifling The Associated Press HoNoLULU » Honolulu po- lice are urging lawmakers to preserve an exemption in Hawaii law that lets un- dercover officers have sex w ith prostitutes during investigations. But they won't say how often — or even if — they use the pro - vision. The notion has shocked advocates and law enforce- ment experts on the sex trade. "I don't know of any state or federal law that al - lows any law enforcement officer undercover to ... do what this law is allowing," said Roger Young, a retired FBI agent who worked sex crimes out of Las Vegas for more than 20 years and has trained vice squads around the country. "Once we agree on the price and the sex act, that's all that you need. That breaks the law." Honolulu police say they need the legal protection to catch lawbreakers in the act. Otherwise, they ar - gue, prostitutes will insist on sex to identify under- cover officers. This year, state legis- lators moved to revamp H a w a i i 's d e c a d e s - o l d law against prostitution. They toughened penalties against pimps and those who use prostitutes. They also proposed scrapping the sex exemption for offi - cers on duty. But the legislation was amended to restore that protection after police ob - jected. The revised pro- posal passed the House and is now before the Sen- ate. Selling sex would re- main a petty misdemeanor, punishable by up to 30 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. The Honolulu police vice off icers who investigate prostitution haven't been accused of sexual wrong - doing in recent memory, spokeswoman Michelle Yu said in an email. In recent testimony, Ho - nolulu police assured law- makers that departmental policies are in place to pre- vent officers from taking advantage of the sex ex- emption. But they wouldn't detail those policies. "I f prostit ution sus - pects, pimps and other people are privy to that in- formation, they're going to know exactly how far the undercover officer can and cannot go," Maj. Jerry In - ouye testified. Advocates warn that the provision is an invitation for misconduct. Melissa Farley, exec - utive director of the San F ra ncisco -ba sed g roup Prostitution Research and Education, said prostitutes commonly complain of be - ing coerced into giving sex- ual favors to police to keep from getting arrested. Having sex with a prosti- tute during an undercover operation "doesn't help your case, and at worst you further traumatize some - one," said Derek Marsh, who trains California po- lice on human trafficking. Charlie Fuller, execu- tive director of the Inter- national Association of Un- dercover Officers, laughed when he heard about the Hawaii law. "A good undercover is going to get probable cause before they have to cross that line," he said. crime By andrew Taylor The Associated Press WaSHiNgToN » Hope is fad- ing for a Capitol Hill drive to permanently fix Medicare's outdated payment formula and spare doctors from au - tomatic cuts in their fees next month. Now the ques- tion is whether lawmakers can regroup and come up with a short-term solution when the current patch ex - pires. Even though there's wide- spread support for biparti- san legislation to repair, once and for all, the bro- ken Medicare formula — it threatens doctors with a 24 percent cut in their Medi- care payments — there's no agreement on how to bear the 10-year, $140 billion cost. A bill in the GOP-con - trolled House that combines the so-called doc fix with a delay in imposing penal- ties on individuals who fail to purchase health care un- der the health care law is dead in the Democratic- controlled Senate. With- out the individual mandate, fewer people would enroll in the program, generating $170 billion in savings over 10 years. In the Senate, meanwhile, a bill to address the problem is likely to be killed by Re - publicans because it won't be paid for. There has been discussion of claiming sav- ings from reduced war spending, but Republicans and most budget experts regard that as a phony re - duction. That leaves Congress with little choice but to, yet again, address the outdated formula with a temporary fix. The formula dates to a 1997 budget law but soon proved to be fundamen - tally flawed. Congress has stepped in, usually for a year at a time, to prevent doctors from absorbing fee cuts. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said in a memo to fellow GOP law - makers on Friday that the issue is one of the "must-do items" when Congress re- turns next week. A Cantor spokesman, Douglas Heye, said it is pos- sible the House would take up legislation to temporarily repair the payment formula. Senate action is unlikely be - fore the current fix expires on March 31. As a practical matter, the deadline to act is April 10, when Congress leaves for a two-week spring recess. W hen Cong ress ha s blown the deadline in the past, Medicare has dealt with the problem by simply delaying processing pay - ments until the formula had been raised. Lawmakers had hoped to do a permanent because lower health care inflation has shrunk the estimated cost of permanently fixing the payment formula. But coming up with offsetting spending cuts is proving too difficult. The three-month fix that passed in Decem - ber was designed to keep the pressure on Congress to find a permanent solution. meDicare Congress confronts cuts to doctors' fees OSkAR GARCiA — THe ASSOCiATeD PReSS Honolulu police say they need the legal protection to let undercover officers have sex with prostitutes to catch lawbreakers in the act. Hawaii law lets police ha ve s ex w it h pr os ti tu te s advocates warn that the provision is an invitation for misconduct. The Red Bluff Joint Union High School District Board of Trustees took the first step in the process of work - ing with the firm of McPher- son and Jacobson, LLC to recruit a new superinten- dent. Representatives from that firm interviewed the school board on Tuesday to obtain some basic infor - mation, establish a calen- dar for the recruitment, o name stakeholders who will participate in the pro- cess, list the desired and required qualifications for candidates and set the date of May 21 for hiring the per - son selected. As part of the process there will be a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27 for seeking input from members of the community. At that meeting those at - tending will have an oppor- tunity to volunteer for a com- munity representative inter- viewing committee, which will interview each of the fi- nalists applying for the po- sition. The meeting will take place in the Library and Me- dia Center on the Red Bluff Union High School cam- pus and be conducted by McPherson and Jacobson representatives from North- ern California. The community input meeting is one of a series of meetings with stakehold - ers, including meetings with certificated personnel, clas- sified staff, students and ad- ministrators. reD BLUFF UNioN HigH ScHooL Dis tr ic t se ek s input on new su pe ri nt en de nt SHERMAN ARTHUR HOOK May 8, 1959 ~ March 6, 2014 Sherman Arthur Hook, 54 passed away March 6, 2014, in Anchorage, AK. He was born to Clarence and Ginger Hook, May 8, 1959 in Sacramento, CA. Sherman was raised in Chico, CA and attended Chico high school, and earned a AA Degree at Butte College. Sherman worked as a Anesthology Tech at various hos- pitals. He enjoyed motorcycling. Sherman is survived by his wife Laurette, mother Ginger and brother Mark. Sherman is preceded in death by his father. A celebration of Sherman's life will be held May 10, 2014, 2:00 pm at 315 Brearcliffe Dr., Red Bluff, CA. Obituaries SATuRDAy, MARCH 22, 2014 ReDBLuFFDAiLyNeWS.COM | NEWS | 9 a