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Thursday, April 28, 2011 – Daily News – 5A Obituaries OLENE "JANE" CUMMINS Olene "JANE" Cummins, 85, left us to be with her Lord on April 24, 2011. Jane made Red Bluff her home for 49 years. She loved to garden and enjoyed being with her family and close friends. She loved going shopping and visiting all the people especially the babies. Going for car rides and eat- ing at local restaurants was always a treat. Born November 13, 1925 in Morgan, TX. to Lon and Mary Stubblefield. Jane is survived by one sister Arlene Hobbs of Fresno, daughter Barbara Lee of Proberta, son, Doyle Jennings and wife Jody of Redding, grandchildren, Stevana Hill-Sedita and husband Rick of Gerber, Lisa Jane Jennings of Eureka, Cindy Hill of Corning, great grand- children Nathan & Kayla Hill of Corning, Garet & Shylie Sedita of Gerber. Jane is preceded in death by her husband Harold S. Cummins in 1982 and her grandson Corbin D. Hill in 2009. Graveside services are being held at Oak Hill Cemetery Friday April 29, 2011 at 1pm. Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Death Notices Mercedes Bretzke Mercedes Bretzke of Chico died Sunday, April 24, 2011 in Orland. She was 91. Affordable Mortuary in Chico is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, April 28, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Patricia Ann Nordman Patricia Ann Nordman died Monday, April 25, 2011, at her residence in Red Bluff. She was 59. Red Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, April 28, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CORNING Continued from page 1A ment Plan, which documents the agency’s program to properly oper- ate and maintain the sewer sanitary system, said Public Works Director John Brewer. “It’s for when we encounter issues or have new people,” Brewer said. “Here’s the Bible, for lack of a better term, for operating the plant.” A complete copy of the 300-page plan, which was mostly compiled by Southwest Water Co., is available at City Hall. Studebaker club to tour RB next four days Members of the Antique Stude- baker Club will be coming from all over the West Coast starting today to enjoy four days of touring in their vintage cars throughout the Red Bluff area. The club is a non-profit organi- zation whose purpose is to pre- serve and enjoy Studebaker auto- mobiles built from the early 1900s to 1942. During the group’s visit to Red Bluff, activities will include tour- ing back roads, visiting museums, FEE Continued from page 1A Brian Ramsey and Charlie Wright. The committee’s find- ings differed from those pre- sented in a general plan fee study prepared by Pacific Mutual Consultants in mid- 2010, Moule said. In a letter submitted to the board April 21, Moule’s committee recommends a flat fee of 15 cents per square foot for retail, office or industrial projects, which would be collected in an “as-needed” fund for future improvements. “Additionally, as a policy consideration, the board “This is a public-private partner- ship,” said City Manager Steve Kimbrough. “It is probably our most successful one and it saves us money. We did a study in 1995 and came to the conclusion that we couldn’t do it ourselves cheaper.” The public hearing for the 2011- 2012 Community Development Block Grant application was held, but there were no comments. “It’s an annual, generic hearing and it gives anyone who has a par- ticular project in mind the chance to speak,” Kimbrough said. “This is the time for them to voice there ideas.” Victorian homes, the Kelly-Griggs House, the Antique Firehouse, Ide Adobe State Park and a tour to the Sun Dial Bridge in Redding. The concluding activity will be an awards dinner at the Palomino Room Saturday evening, April 30. “The Antique Studebaker Club does not hold a formal Car Show; we believe in enjoying our antique cars by driving them on tours,” said Ken Porteous, club member. “Anyone interested is welcome to view our cars while they are should recognize the value of job creation that Retail/Commercial/Indus- trial building brings to Tehama County and do everything in its power to assist in the Retail/Commer- cial/Industrial creation,” the letter concludes. Ramsey proposed an alternative. “Development Impact Fees are a complex and far- reaching subject,” Ramsey said. Proposing a forward thinking initiative, Ramsey suggested a flexible fee that reflects social components and growth trends. Using population data would keep the fee from a static flat rate, and that Anyone with ideas is welcome to come into City Hall and see him, said Planning Director John Stoufer. The federal grant can be used for low-income housing projects, toward the elimination of slums and blight or emergency urgent need, according to the staff report. The 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. Cute as a Button parked at either the hotel, or any- one of the various locations we will be visiting.” The official meet hotel is the Comfort Inn on Sale Lane. The club is offering a hospitality room on the third floor for both members and visitors. “The members of the Antique Studebaker Club look forward to the opportunity to tour in our vin- tage cars and enjoy Red Bluffs early history and culture,” Porte- ous said. would encourage develop- ment and draw people to the county, he said. Wright, who alluded to his longtime family partner- ship in industrial construc- tion, referred to a disconnect between the standards being set and the expectations of the people that pay the bills. “It’s all about jobs now,” he said. Tehama County has to compete for business and provide good jobs, he said. The proposal of 15 cents per square foot is not a disincen- tive. Last to speak during the informational presentation was Larry Lalaguna of Round-Up Realty. “I remember the days HIKES Continued from page 1A to get the necessary Republican votes in the state Legislature to place such a measure on the bal- lot. He has signed bills that cut the $26.6 billion budget deficit by $11.2 billion by reducing spend- ing and transferring money between various government funds. Californians have con- sistently said they support spending more on schools but do not favor paying higher taxes for them, an ongoing source of frustra- tion for policymakers. “We have two choices: We can either complain about it, the inconsistency out there in the populace, or we can say that’s the way it is, and get the job done,” said Senate Presi- dent Pro Tem Darrel Steinberg, D-Sacramento. On Wednesday, Stein- berg released a package of four bills aimed at making California’s curriculum more relevant, having a broader evaluation system for schools than just stan- dardized tests, and increasing teacher effec- tiveness. Courtesy photo Kyle Button of the Deputy Sheriff’s Association’s Tehema County Bulls questions a call on opening night of the Red Bluff city men’s softball league. at gay marriage ruling SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A June 13 hearing has been scheduled on whether a ruling that struck down California’s gay marriage ban should be thrown out because the judge is in a same-sex relationship. Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware said Wednesday he was fast-tracking the motion involving his retired predeces- sor, former Chief Judge Vaughn Walker. Lawyers for the sponsors of the voter-approved ban asked Ware to vacate Walker’s August 2010 decision overturning the ban as a violation of gay Californians’ civil rights. Backers of Proposition 8 said Walker should have recused himself or disclosed his relationship status before trial to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. The judge, who left the bench at the end of February, recently revealed that he has been in a relationship with the same man for 10 years, but said he never considered remov- ing himself from the case. Sponsors of the ban also have contested Walker’s use of a recorded segment from the Proposition 8 trial in talks he’s been giving on the history of cameras in courtrooms. They contend that by airing the trial videos publicly, the former judge is violating his order sealing the recordings. They are seeking an order requiring Walker to return his copy and barring future airings. On Wednesday, an appeals court reviewing the larger constitutional issues involved in denying gays and lesbians the right to wed in California transferred that request to Ware. Schools already receive more than 40 percent of the state’s annual general fund and were largely spared from deep cuts in the bills lawmakers approved last month. Even so, thousands of teachers have been laid off, class sizes increased and pro- grams such as art and music eliminated in recent years as California strug- gled through a steep drop in tax revenue brought on by the recession. Public schools are not likely to fare as well as they did under the gover- SACRAMENTO (AP) — California’s use of race as a basis for locking pris- oners in their cells after fights amounts to illegal dis- crimination and should be banned, attorneys represent- ing inmates said in a class- action lawsuit filed Wednes- day. The policy unfairly pun- ishes innocent inmates sim- ply because they have the same color skin as those involved in the violence, the nonprofit Prison Law Office said in its suit, filed in feder- al court in Sacramento. Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said lockdowns are sometimes necessary to protect safety and security. It is not the department’s policy to base lockdowns and other restrictions solely on race or ethnicity, she said. revision to the department’s lockdown policy says inmates often organize themselves based on race or geographical area. The poli- cy acknowledges that some uninvolved inmates may be affected, but it is the depart- ment’s goal to get them back to a normal routine as soon as possible. Rebekah Evenson, an attorney with the Berkeley- based Prison Law Office, said the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a similar argument in 2005 when it told the state to end its poli- cy of housing inmates based on their race. The high court and other states have found that such race-based poli- cies encourage violence by splitting inmates along racial lines, Evenson said. There were about 350 complete or partial race- based lockdowns annually in the California’s 30 male prisons in recent years, according to the lawsuit. when Tehama County was prosperous,” he said. The county is wasting its time trying to adopt the fees, and all the meetings and reviews are useless, Lalagu- na said. Increasing fees doesn’t increase government rev- enue, he said. “I recommend tabling any more adoption of fees until the economy gets bet- ter,” Lalaguna said. Since the presentation was merely informational, the board took no action on the matter. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynew s.com. nor’s original proposal when Brown releases his revised budget plan in mid-May. Among the options Brown has said he is con- sidering is one that would close the state’s deficit entirely through spending cuts, a proposal that would have severe consequences for kindergarten through 12th grade education. Ever since the Public Policy Institute began ask- ing respondents to evalu- ate the major areas of state spending — public schools, health and human services, higher education, and prisons — a majority has continually favored public school funding above other areas, institute president Mark Baldassare said. “Californians’ support for maintaining K-12 spending remains strong. It is a significant factor for the state’s leaders to take into account in any pro- posals that they put before voters this year,” Baldas- sare said. “Residents are worried about the toll that reduced spending is hav- ing on the quality of K-12 public education, and pub- lic school parents are noticing the impact of state budget cuts on their children’s schools.” The poll also found Brown’s approval rating among likely voters has climbed to 46 percent, from 34 percent in March. The Legislature’s approval rating continues to be poor, at just 14 percent among likely voters. The poll surveyed 1,634 registered voters by phone from April 5 to April 19. It has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points for likely voters. Hearing set on motion aimed Group sues over race-based prison lockdowns However, a proposed The lockdowns averaged two months in which inmates were generally denied visitors, exercise and educational programs. Four prisons imposed lockdowns lasting longer than a year, and eight had lockdowns exceeding 200 days. Located in Chico, CA Combining Quality and Low Cost is what we do. 529-3655 www.affordablemortuary.net