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Monthei:RyanMonthei, 32, of Red Bluff, died Tues- day, June 10in Red Bluff. Arrangements are pend- ing at Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Wednes- day, June 18, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Reed: Estella Maxine Reed, 91, of Burney died Monday, June 16at Emeritus at Lassen House. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Wednesday, June 18, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Roggensees: Louis An- drew Roggensees, 82, of Lexington, Neb. died Friday, June 13at Hilltop Estates in Gothenburg, Neb. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Blase Strauser Memorial Chapel in Goth- enburg, Neb. Published Wednesday, June 18, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Deathnoticesmustbe provided by mortuar- ies to the news depart- ment, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic informa- tion about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Clas- sified advertising depart- ment. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortu- aries or by families of the deceased and include on- line publication linked to the newspaper's web- site. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Deathnotices fice. Chamblin wanted the addition of a planner po- sition, recommended by county administration to be reconsidered at the midyear budget, to be included in the recom- mended budget. The board also dis- cussed potentially increas- ing the hours of a position at the AB 109 inmate ve- hicle shop to make it full- time. In approving the list, which has a net addition of 4.5 county jobs, the board directed Goodwin not to fill the disputed positions, until September when the more accurate budget fig- ures would be ready for study. The addition of a re- cycling coordinator, dep- uty probation officer and drafting technician were allowed to proceed. In responding to Gar- ton's concerns Goodwin said the two new admin- istration analysts were needed to cope with the county's numerous upcom- ing building projects, he said those projects would be difficult to do without the additional bodies. Garton responded by saying all departments are struggling and sug- gested the county explore other types of employment such as hiring temporary project managers. He said there was an assumption being made that upcom- ing retirements would ne- gate the new hires in the future. Supervisor Sandy Bruce said if the county needed to hire the positions for the upcoming years it should, but keep the deci- sion of laying off the posi- tions if work slows down on the table. Chamblin said he had been led to the believe the planning department was overworked, which was slowing down projects and therefore needed another employee. He also questioned why some fixed asset requests, namely a new vehicle for the planning department or security cameras for the agriculture extension building, were being de- nied or held over until the final budget for approval. Goodwin said often times he preferred to wait until the final budget num- bers were in so the county wasn't making promises it couldn't keep. Chamblin said with con- tract negotiations looming he first wanted to make sure the county's employ- ees had adequate tools and were safe at their jobs as long as the county could accommodate. The board's decisions Tuesday put all of those items back up for debate in September. Goodwin described the approved budget as lean, but still covering essential services. It also maintained a healthy reserve for the county. The budget includes a capital outlay of around $4 million for the new library. The public works road construction projects in- cluded in the budget are Reeds Creek Road at Pine Creek Bridge, State Route 99 at Thomas Creek Bridge, the portion of South Main Street that was previously Flores Av- enue, Jellys Ferry Road at the Sacramento River Bridge and Bowman Road from Sebastian Court to Evergreen. The general fund bud- get includes a $10,000 in- crease to the Senior Nutri- tion Program to offset a lack of donations, $25,000 for a new vehicle for me- dicinal marijuana code en- forcement and $120,500 for the district attorney's office to upgrade to paper- less databases. Approved fixed asset re- quests include $520,000 to Health Services for a safety remodel and re- cords transition, another $100,000 for the depart- ment in vehicles, $130,000 for the fire department to cover half the costs of a fire truck and $8,000 for a mortuary fridge to accom- modate a 300-pound body. Countywide, fixed asset requests totaled nearly $1.2 million. Budget FROM PAGE 1 continued because he had not yet received police re- ports of the incident. Robison is charged with murder with the spe- cial allegation of use of a deadly weapon. About 10:40 p.m. June 9 Red Bluff police offi- cers responded to a re- ported stabbing at a 65 Mina Ave. apartment, where officers found Verry had been stabbed several times in the chest and back. Verry was taken by ambulance to St. Eliza- beth Community Hos- pital, where he was pro- nounced dead. Police said they learned Verry and an unknown person were involved in a "physical altercation," and they later identified Robison as a person of in- terest in the case. According to on- line county court re- cords, Robison was con- victed on a 2006 charge of assault with a deadly weapon after pleading guilty. In 2010, Robison pleaded guilty to resist- ing, obstructing or de- laying a police officer or emergency medical tech- nician. Robison is next sched- uled to appear in court at 8 a.m. July 8 for entry of plea and setting. The defendant remains in custody with bail set at $1,000,000. Robison FROM PAGE 1 Association wants the fee to be declared unconsti- tutional, arguing it is ac- tually a tax. Gov. Jerry Brown sought the one-time $10 million appropriation from the State Responsi- bility Area Fire Prevention Fund and is expected to sign the budget in com- ing days. The timing of the grants couldn't be bet- ter, said Department of Forestry and Fire Pro- tection spokeswoman Janet Upton, noting that California is struggling with an ongoing drought that is creating danger- ous fire conditions state- wide. "It will be the highest priority," she said. "We need to get those projects on the ground because conditions are only get- ting worse." The department must solicit bids from counties, local Fire Safe Councils and other organizations for fire prevention proj- ects, she said, adding it is too soon to say when the grants might be awarded and what programs will be funded. Here's how money is be- ing spent from the fee lev- ied on more than 700,000 state residents: — About $50 million each year is substituting for money that was taken from the Department of Forestry and Fire Protec- tion's budget at the height of the recession to help bridge the state's multi- billion dollar deficit. — Another $12 million annually is going to the department for programs including inspecting properties and informing homeowners about the need to clear trees, brush and other flammables from around structures, and to map fire hazards. — About $10 million each year goes to collect- ing and administering the fee. — $4.5 million over three years went to the California Conservation Corps for fire-prevention projects. The money is collected from owners of private property within the 31 million rural acres cov- ered by the department, or about one-third of the state. Protests over paying the fee have subsided from about 108,000 lodged the first year it was collected, to 26,000 last year, and 10,800 so far this year af- ter the final bills went out last week. The department is backing pending legisla- tion that would give prop- erty owners a few breaks as the state retains the fee. AB2048 by Assem- blyman Brian Dahle, R- Bieber, would eliminate a requirement that the board annually increase the fee based on inflation. For instance, the maxi- mum $150 fee originally set by the board for each habitable structure rose to $152.33 this year. The bill would also lower the 20 percent late payment penalty to 10 percent, and permit the board to exempt a prop- erty owner from paying if homes on the property were destroyed by a nat- ural disaster during the year in which the fee is due. The bill was approved by the state Assembly, 77-0, in May and is now awaiting consideration in the Senate. Wildfire FROM PAGE 1 By John Rogers The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Mayor Eric Garcetti used the F-bomb in declaring it a big day for LA, bringing 19,000 hockey fans to their feet, lighting up the Twitterverse in de- light and, oh yeah, leaving some folks scratching their heads, wondering just what the heck the normally soft- spoken elected official was thinking. Having shed his pin- striped suit of choice for a hockey jersey Monday, Garcetti stepped in front of the TV cameras and a full house at Staples Cen- ter, where the Los Ange- les Kings had won hockey's Stanley Cup championship just three days before. "There are two rules in politics," Garcetti told those celebrating the vic- tory. "They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand. And never ever swear. Then he added dramati- cally: "But this is a big f—- -ing day. Way to go, guys." Within minutes, Garcet- ti's remarks were trending on Twitter and appearing uncensored on YouTube, just as Fox Sports West was apologizing for letting them get on the air. "He said that?" Thomas Hollihan, an expert on po- litical discourse, civil so- ciety and contemporary rhetorical criticism at the University of Southern Cali- fornia, asked incredulously. This was, after all, not some drunken musician accepting an award some- where. Nor was it a celebrity caught up in a silly dispute captured by the cameras for TMZ. This was the mayor of the nation's second-largest city, gleefully shouting it to the masses. "When you're an elected official, people have a higher expectation for your speech, your conduct and context than they would if you're an entertainer," said Hollihan. He added he hoped Garcetti, whose public per- sona is normally about as mild as his city's weather, wasn't trying to boost his hipness cred. Although the F-word's shock value is declining, Hollihan said, it is never smart for a politician to toss it around in public, even in front of a crowd of scream- ing hockey fans. "The little old ladies in the valley are going to hear this too," he said, referring to the city's more conserva- tive San Fernando Valley, where Garcetti grew up be- fore moving to the hipper Silver Lake area. "As are the church people in neighbor- hoods where they are not hockey fans, but they care a lot about conduct and char- acter." But where putting the word out over the airwaves once would have prompted a federal investigation, that's not so much the case anymore. When David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox let it slip last year during a tele- vised event honoring first- responders to the Boston Marathon bombings, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commis- sion himself tweeted that it was no big deal. "David Ortiz spoke from the heart at today's Red Sox game. I stand with Big Papi and the people of Boston," said Julius Genachowski And when, thanks to a bank of TV microphones, the world heard Vice Presi- dent Joe Biden's whisper to President Barack Obama, "This is a big f------ deal," as Obama was about to sign the Affordable Health Care Act, the slip was quickly for- gotten. Of course Biden didn't mean for anyone but Obama to hear him. And Ortiz said afterward he got caught up in the moment and never meant to say what he said. LOS ANGELES Mayor drops F-bomb THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti talks to the crowd during the Los Angeles King's Stanley Cup hockey championship rally. PLEASERECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thankyou! JESSEROSAS 1918 ~2014 Jesse Rosas, age 95, passed away peacefully on Thurs- day, June 5, 2014. Born in the year 1918, Jesse was the oldest child of nine children raised during the Depression. Growing up in Westwood, CA, Jesse was a boy scout, an accomplished football player, a Westwood High School graduate and an employee of the Red River Lumber Com- pany. Jesse liked to claim that as a boy he saw working stage coaches and that as a young man he swam across Lake Almanor. He married young to Marion Volner and had five children: Jesse Jr, Charlotte, Robert, Ronald, and John. Later in life he remarried to Esther Serrano, a mar- riage that lasted 47 years and with whom he had two ad- ditional children Sylvia and Sandra. Jesse Rosas was a World War II veteran who served in the Merchant Marines. He was a carpenter for over 50 years and worked for Red Bluff Union High School from 1969-1981. He was an outdoorsman, an avid hunter and fisherman who greatly enjoyed taking his children and grandchildren camping, fishing and hunting. Additionally, he was an exceptional swing dancer and loved Big Band music. Jesse's friendly nature resulted in many long-lived friendships in Red Bluff, CA. His signature red truck, which he called "Red Dog", was a familiar sight to his many friends around town. He loved to chew the fat with the other old codgers over a cup of coffee and a break- fast plate. Although he has passed from this world, Jes- se's funny sayings and jokes will continue to live on and bring us joyful memories. In addition to his numerous grandchildren, three chil- dren survive Jesse Rosas: Robert Rosas of Gerber, CA; Sylvia Parker of Corning, CA; and Sandra Rosas of McKinleyville, CA. Services will be at the Sacred Heart Church in Red Bluff, CA at 10am on Friday June 20, 2014. Jesse Rosas will be laid to rest with Esther Rosas, in Corning, CA, immediate- ly following the services. Obituaries R ed Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service NowOffering Eco-Friendly urns at economy friendly prices. 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 527-1732 ThePassingParadeisbroughttoyoubybyMinchPropertyManagement, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514 THE PASSING PARADE (FromDaveMinch'sISaycolumnofApril1959) A man came into Judge Ford's court a couple of weeks ago charged with driving while intoxicated. He had quite an interesting story to tell from which you can draw your own conclusions. He said that many years ago, while welding, he burned his eyes badly, then, in the World War, he was exposed to mustard gas. When he came out of the war, his eyes were so poor he could not drive a car. He continued by saying that only twice since then did he feel his eyes were good enough for him to see to drive…and both times he was arrested for drunk driving. …. Ex-President Truman proves again that time heals all wounds. The newspapers now speak kindly of him and people turn out in huge crowds to see him. But remember how unpopular he was only a few years ago? … There has been much speculation about the very large corporation that is considering coming to Tehama County. I believe that if the Russians and U.S. scene should suddenly worsen, you would see thousands of new people in the county overnight. If the situation remains unchanged, Red Bluff will probably grow peacefully year after year. The Geneva meeting this week could influence the growth of Red Bluff more than you would think. … The large number of school children in Corning that have been picked up for stealing poses some serious questions. The articles that were stolen, were taken, not just to own them, but for the thrill of the theft. Red Bluff had the same problem on a more serious scale a couple of years ago. As in Corning, the children's parents were among the most prominent people in town. The local papers hushed it up as much as possible and the juvenile courts did likewise. Whether it is better for the children to be exposed to publicity or protected in such cases only time will tell. Some believe that children who break the law are influenced by the way their parents try to evade unpopular laws. My opinion is that too many TV programs glamorize lawbreakers and make fun of the law enforcing police. The fact that justice usually triumphs has very little connection with the crimes committed in the early part of the show. … Although this has not been a good year for grain and pasture, it has been favorable for fruits and nuts. We counted peaches on one of our 8 year old trees and there were over 7,000, which was over three times as much as last year* Prunes look like they will have a good demand with prices nearly as high as last year…and there appears to be too many peaches and almonds for the demand and prices will probably fall accordingly. Dave Minch 1900-1964 *However the trees developed split pits and so he yanked them out. RM WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A