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"Ithoughtofhavingthe meetings so that it would be easier for the public to express their views and concerns to me," Parker said in an email Friday. The City Council meets at 7 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of each month. And while the meetings include a period for public comments, they can be sparsely attended. "I figured if I had the meetings on the second Monday of the month at (10 a.m.), it would be one more chance for interac- tion," Parker said. Parker, who previously served as sheriff of Te- hama County, said he held similar monthly meetings throughout the county af- ter he was first elected to the law enforcement post in 1998. Parker was elected to the City Council in 2012 and was elected mayor by council members last De- cember. The upcoming Monday meetings were originally dubbed Monday Morning Meetings with the Mayor. Going forward, Parker said, they will be known as the 4M Forum. The council chambers is at 555 Washington St. Meetings FROMPAGE1 She assisted in the up- grading of 100-year-plus water lines and two new wells. She managed the paper work and coordination with the Tehama County Road Department and Caltrans to build a new bridge on Tehama Avenue leaving town to the west as well as the new bridge crossing the Sacramento River. She worked with the city engineer to repave streets as needed and dealt with HUD for low cost housing within the city. She spent years in charge of the water sys- tem, reading meters and billing, as well as filing necessary paper work to get all residents a price break on flood insurance. She also attended League of California Cities meetings on her own time. "I feel if you want a community to be the way you want it to be, you have to be willing to work for it," Steffan said. Steffan said her job has been made easier by the type of people that have served on the City Coun- cil over the years. She said people run for the unpaid positions in Tehama with- out an agenda and because they love the city. "Members have come and gone, but it's always been the same," Steffan said. "They're willing to work for the city of Te- hama and I think that's pretty unusual in a com- munity." Warner said people will never know how impor- tant Steffan's grant writ- ing ability was to the city of Tehama. "Truthfully speaking, for years there she was the city," he said. Steffan FROM PAGE 1 Hatch:DonaldD.Hatch, 83, Los Molinos died Thursday, April 9at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff. Arrangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Saturday, April 11, 2015in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Califor- nia. Wahl: Barbara Wahl, 82, of Red Bluff died Friday, April 10at her home. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. Published Saturday, April 11, 2015in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Califor- nia. Deathnoticesmustbe 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. DEATH NOTICES Days later, regulators released plans to enforce his order by assigning each city a water use re- duction target, some as much as 35 percent. The governor's moves are providing some cover to local officials who may have to implement fines for water waste and in- crease water rates, polit- ically unpalatable mea- sures. "Mayors can say 'We have to do this. Not only because it's right, but we really don't have a choice; it's a mandate from the governor,'" said Sherry Be- bitch-Jeffe, a senior polit- ical science fellow at the University of Southern California. Fau lc oner repe at- edly mentioned "man- dates" from the capi- tal on Wednesday as he laid out plans to let some city parks go brown and to fine residents. San Di- ego, which already has low per-capita water use, had little water savings to show over the past year after imposing restric- tions, including a three- day a week limit on water- ing lawns and a require- ment to immediately fix leaks, months after other cities took action. A draft state proposal demands a 20-percent cut in water use compared to 2013. "Drastic water reduc- tion at this level ordered by Governor Jerry Brown and the state is, of course, no easy task," Faulconer said. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday that the city was launching a broad water conservation cam- paign that would include television and radio ads, signs on garbage trucks and fliers passed out at libraries. The campaign is touting existing pro- grams, including rebates for adding water efficient appliances and drought- tolerant landscaping. Garcetti's spokesman Yusef Robb said the cam- paign was planned well before Brown's demand for mandatory water cuts and is a continuation of the mayor's own order for a 20-percent water cut. Los Angeles officials say the city is on track to meet that goal by 2017, although state regula- tors want cities to make big cuts before the end of the year. Smaller communities have also responded to the governor's order. The South Coast Water Dis- trict in Laguna Beach ad- opted a slew of new re- strictions, including a ban on filling swimming pools. The Desert Water Agency in Palm Springs publicized a public hear- ing to finally adopt basic limits on water, including no sprinklers running off into pavement. Water conscious com- munities didn't have the same need to announce sweeping plans. San Fran- cisco, California's third largest city, is among the state's biggest water mi- sers using an average of 44 gallons per person, per day since the state started tracking conversation. Mayors FROM PAGE 1 By Judy Lin The Associated Press SACRAMENTO A California bill that would sharply limit vaccination waivers after a Disneyland measles out- break has generated such an acidic debate that the proposal's author was under added security this week. Authorities said wouldn't specify the extra protec- tions around state Sen. Richard Pan on Friday, but the level of anger over the measure has been clear. Opponents have flooded the Capitol to stand up for parental rights, and images that compare Pan to Adolf Hitler have circulated on- line. "Unfortunately, there is a sub-segment of the group that seems to want to en- gage in vitriol and intimi- dation and bullying in or- der to get their way," said Pan, a Democratic pediatri- cian from Sacramento. Sen. Carol Liu, chair of the Education Commit- tee, which will hear the bill next week, said through a spokesman that the pro- posal has generated more calls to her office than any other this year, including measures on immigration, doctor-assisted suicide and police shootings. "It literally started the first day it was in the news, and it never stopped," Rob- ert Oaks, Liu's spokesman, said. Pan said he introduced the measure, Senate Bill 277, to limit inoculation waivers after a measles outbreak in December that started at Disneyland and sickened more than 100 people across the U.S. and in Mexico. It would prevent par- ents from sending unvac- cinated kids to school us- ing waivers for religious or personal beliefs. Exemp- tions originally would have been available only for chil- dren with health problems but were recently expanded to include homeschoolers. The plan is early in the legislative process, but it has high-level support. Sen- ate Leader Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat, has signed on as a co-author. If it becomes law, California would join Mississippi and West Virginia as the only states with such strict vac- cine requirements. Critics, however, have turned out in force. Be- fore the bill's first legis- lative hearing this week, hundreds of opponents at- tended a rally that featured an appearance from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has said the number of children in- jured by vaccines amounts to "a holocaust." And dur- ing the hearing, an oppo- nent threated to ask God to curse legislative supporters. Vaccination foes have fo- cused on potential risk fac- tors, saying shots could be tainted or otherwise dan- gerous, and characterized the bill as an outrageous government overreach. They also worry about the drugs' links to autism and other developmental dis- eases, even as the medi- cal community says such claims have been scientifi- cally disproved. Similar plans have been proposed and have failed in other states, including Washington and Oregon, where lawmakers received similar pushback. "Some of it got pretty ugly," said Paige Spence, aide to Oregon Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hay- ward. "And I did my best to shield her from seeing any of it." Many opponents have taken a more civil tone. Brian Stenzler, pres- ident of the California Chiropractic Association, has testified against the bill and condemned the threats against lawmak- ers as unacceptable. But even though oppo- sition leaders are focused the merits of the legis- lation, there are some things they can't control, he said. "It's kind of like a mother bear," he said. "You come near a cub, that mother will do anything they have to do." "Right now," he added, "these parents are running on pure emotion and pure adrenaline." Associated Press writers Sheila V Kumar in Salem, Oregon, and Rachel La Corte in Olympia, Washington, contributed to this report. SACRAMENTO New vaccine bill sparks acidic debate, Nazi links RICH PEDRONCELLI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Protestors against a measure requiring California schoolchildren to get vaccinated rally at the Capitol in Sacramento on Wednesday. By Kristin J. Bender The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO The FBI is investigating allegations that San Francisco sher- iff's deputies arranged and gambled on fights between jail inmates and told them to lie if they needed medi- cal attention. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi announced the indepen- dent probe Friday, and a representative from the FBI confirmed the investi- gation in an email to The Associated Press. The de- partment's internal affairs unit and the U.S. Depart- ment of Justice are inves- tigating as well. The news of the forced fights came to light in late March, when Pub- lic Defender Jeff Adachi said four deputies at the County Jail threatened inmates with violence if they did not fight each other. "I am pleased the feds have granted my request. They can lead an impar- tial investigation with- out conflict of interests," Mirkarimi said. "Call it a pre-emptive strike or call it preventative medicine, but my request to the U.S. Department of Justice un- derscores my determina- tion to not allow any per- son or clique to deter or derail our reforms toward greater transparency and accountability in and out- side the jails." SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES FB I to p ro be a ll eg at io ns o f fo rc ed j ai l fig ht s "Because we'll need to clearly communicate the details of how the allot- ments are determined and the consequences of over- use to our customers, it's imperative that the Ordi- nance be clear-cut and un- derstandable," according to the report. City staff intend to revise the ordinance and bring it back to the City Council for action at a future meeting, according to the report. California has entered its fourth year of drought con- ditions. The city of Corning aver- agesabout20.6inchesofpre- cipitationperyearbuthasre- ceived less than that amount in each of the last four years, according to the city report. The city relies on eight wells that pump ground- water "as our sole source of water for the city," ac- cording to the report. The aquifer from which the city draws water is recharged by rainfall. "We track and chart the standing water levels in those wells and, despite seasonal fluctuations, have noted lowering groundwater levelsovertherecentdrought period," according to the re- port. "For that reason and to comply with the Governor's directive, we should imple- ment additional measures to conserve water." The City Council is sched- uled to meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at 794 Third St. Measures FROM PAGE 1 CLYDELEEORR January 18, 1926 ~ February 10, 2015 Clyde passed peacefully on February 10th surrounded by family. Born at home in Cool, CA on January 18th, 1926, he lived a long and prosperous life. Clyde was survived by his wife Arden B. Orr, sons Don Orr, Mark Orr, Greg Weaver and daughters Alison Weaver and Dorothy Lee Rutter. In addition to his wife and 5 chil- dren he leaves behind 14 grandchildren and 5 great- grandchildren and his brother, James Orr, of Dillon Mon- tana. Clyde traveled the world as a Merchant Marine where he earned an honorable discharge in 1946. He was previously married to Mary Catherine Martin of Liv- ingston, Montana and lived many years in Anderson Cali- fornia. A long time resident of Northern California, Clyde may be remembered by some as the owner of Volcano Country Campground and operator of the Mineral Garage, where he was also a volunteer fireman. He built Volcano Country, which consisted of 25 camper sites, an impres- sive home and a three unit commercial building. The lumber was all from standing trees that he purchased from the Forest Service. He felled them, cut them to size and bartered the pine and cedar for redwood shakes for exterior siding and to have the cedar tongue & grooved for interiors of the home. Volcano Country was one of about 4 homes that Clyde built from the ground up. A Celebration of Life memorial service will be held at the Red Bluff Community Center at 2:00 pm on Saturday 18th April. For more information please call Lee Rutter at 510/ 336-1985 Obituaries R ed Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service FD1931 527-1732 Burials - Monuments - Preneed 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 11 A