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Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. iff's deputies searched the area, but were unable to locate the suspects. The first man is described as being in his mid to late 20s, about 6 feet 2 inches and of average build. He was wearing dark clothing and had a long-haired wig on. The second man, also in his mid to late 20s, had short, curly hair and was also about 6 feet 2 inches and of average build. Investigators are following up on leads. Anyone with information is asked to call Red Bluff Police at 527- 3131. Red Bluff Police officers and Tehama County Sher- CLUB Continued from page 1A like public education, public libraries, beautification pro- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo's turn- around attempt is going to be messy. In his first three months on the job, CEO Scott Thompson has imposed the largest layoffs in the compa- ny's 17-year history, reshaped the board of direc- tors, picked a potentially disruptive fight with a major shareholder and sued Face- book for patent infringe- ment. jects, build hospitals and playgrounds." The luncheon program included presentations of proclamations and certifi- cates of recognition from various officials and clubs. ed by Google and Facebook in the race for online adver- tising. Although Yahoo's website remains a popular destination, people have been spending less time there and dwelling longer on Google services and on Facebook. He says there's even more upheaval to come. Thompson delivered a painful jolt Wednesday with a payroll purge of about 2,000 workers, or about 14 percent of Yahoo's 14,100 employees. The cuts will save about $375 million annually as Yahoo tries to boost its earnings and long- slumping stock price. More shakeups loom as Thompson reshuffles divi- sions and considers selling an online ad-placement ser- vice and other operations that don't fit into his strate- gy. Those potential changes will follow a tumultuous time for Thompson, an affa- ble and well-respected executive who held the top job at eBay Inc.'s thriving PayPal service before being lured away to help salvage Yahoo. Yahoo less attractive to advertisers, a problem that has been compounded by the company's inability to target marketing messages at the right audience as pre- cisely as Google and Face- book. That shift has made layoffs Wednesday, Thomp- son promised to share more details about his plans April 17, when Yahoo Inc. is scheduled to release its quarterly earnings. ''We are intensifying our After announcing the CITY Continued from page 1A PacLand development cor- poration. Citizens for Healthy Communities filed a writ of mandate with the courts in February 2008 chal- lenging the adequacy of the environmental impact report. Thursday, April 5, 2012 – Daily News 7A The litigation effective- ly stalled the city from going forward with the project. The city has been to trial court twice and to the third court of appeals, where the ruling filed Dec. 7, 2011 prompted the cre- ation of a new addendum to the environmental impact report, Crabtree said. The city believes the new addendum will answer the court's requests. "It's not about traffic or other issues that have been discussed in the past," he said. The noise addendum reconsiders issues with parking lot sweeper noise and a former study on a West El Camino truck stop's noise tests submit- ted in the report. Kopper asserted that the studies were off-task. "Parking lot sweepers had not been properly con- sidered," he said. There could be a signif- icant impact on the neigh- bors that is not being con- Attorney William Kopper of Davis addresses the City Council Tues- day, calling the city expert's analysis of noise for the proposed Red Bluff Walmart Supercenter incorrect. sidered, Kopper said. "The problem with this site is it's very close to res- idents on Reeds Avenue," he said. He suggested the city add a supplemental adden- dum with the proposed addendum and circulate it for 45 days to get public input. Although Kopper understands that the city wants the project for eco- nomic reasons, the city needs to consider the peo- ple the project will affect, he said. It seems the city wants to say there is no noise impact to the resi- dents near the project. "It's a very hard thing, just as a logical, practical thing, to accept," he said. The council also heard from resident James Collins who called for a "plain English" version of what was going on. It seems as if the objec- tions of citizens are being considered "not well- founded," he said. "The courts have not said the measurements were incorrect," he said. After going back and retesting the parking lot sweepers in a similar park- ing lot and revisiting the El Camino truck stop tests, his findings support- After the public hearing closed, the city heard from hired consultant Paul Bol- lard, president of Bollard Acoustical Consultants, Inc., of Loomis, who defended his company's work. Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner ed 100 percent what he had already submitted, Bollard said. "I don't think any amount of information we provide will ever be satis- factory to Mr. Kopper," he said. The council unani- mously approved the reso- lution that cancels out the previous addendums and adds the newly revised one. Items will be returned to the courts to decide if the new addendum is suf- ficient for the project to move forward. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. New Yahoo CEO sweeps out 2,000 employees in purge Watchdog finds solar energy loan was 'rushed' more efficiently than it has been in recent years. Last year, Yahoo pro- duced revenue of $353,000 per employee while its two biggest rivals, Internet search leader Google Inc. and social networking leader Facebook Inc., each generated $1.2 million per employee. efforts on our core business- es and redeploying resources to our most urgent priorities,'' Thompson said Wednesday in a statement. ''Our goal is to get back to our core purpose — putting our users and advertisers first. And we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal.'' Investors haven't been Thompson ''definitely seems to be taking a very broad and bold view of what needs to be done at Yahoo,'' said Standard & Poor's Capital IQ analyst Scott Kessler. ''He seems to know it isn't going to be easy and it isn't going to be pleasant.'' son's vision are still unclear. In comments to analysts and reporters, he has talked generally about doing a bet- ter job of analyzing the data that Yahoo collects about its 700 million monthly visi- tors. That would help the company sell ads and devel- op mobile services to con- nect with the growing num- ber of people surfing the Web on smartphones and tablet computers. The specifics of Thomp- buying into Thompson's vision so far, partly because his predecessors have made and broken similar promis- es. Thompson is Yahoo's fourth full-time CEO in less than five years — a period marked by steady declines in revenue, even though more advertising has been shifting to the Internet. Yahoo shares gained 9 Other major technology companies were also far more productive: Microsoft Corp. had about $800,000 in revenue per employee last year, while Intel Corp. posted $540,000 in revenue per employee, according to S&P's data. Yahoo's housecleaning marks the company's sixth mass layoff in four years. This one will inflict the deepest cuts yet, eclipsing a cost-cutting spree that laid off 1,500 workers in late 2008 as Yahoo tried to cope with the Great Recession. After some of its previ- ous reductions, Yahoo even- tually hired more workers to fill newly created positions. Thompson indicated Yahoo won't be restoring many jobs, saying he is striving to create a smaller and more nimble company to com- pete against Google and Facebook. It's a battle that Yahoo has been losing as its annual revenue has fallen from a peak of $7.2 billion in 2008 to $5 billion last year. setter, Yahoo has been out- maneuvered and outsmart- Once an Internet trend- As traumatic as the job cuts may be for laid-off workers, Kessler says Yahoo needed to prune its payroll to show Wall Street that the company can be run cents Wednesday to close at $15.27. The stock price has dropped by 6 percent since Yahoo announced Thomp- son's hiring in early Janu- ary. The downturn leaves Yahoo more vulnerable to takeover offers from poten- tial suitors who might prize Yahoo's brand and its popu- lar news, finance and enter- tainment services. Yahoo shares have not traded above $20 in more than 3 1/2 years. The financial decay, cou- pled with Thompson's changes, could make it increasingly difficult to retain the best workers. ''You have to wonder Menlo Park, Calif., in antic- ipation of tripling its current workforce of about 3,200 people within the next few years. Besides employee morale issues, Thompson also will have to deal with a disgruntled shareholder dur- ing the next few months. Activist investor manag- er Daniel Loeb, who con- trols a 5.8 percent stake in Yahoo through a hedge fund called Third Point LLC, thinks he can help the com- pany bounce back if he and three of his allies are allowed on the board of directors. Thompson told Loeb he wasn't the best- qualified candidate for the board, although he says Yahoo was willing to work with Third Point to find two mutually acceptable direc- tors. Loeb is now attacking Thompson and the rest of Yahoo's board in a cam- paign to persuade the com- pany's shareholders to elect him and three other alterna- tive candidates as directors. If a truce isn't reached, the dispute will be revolved in a shareholder vote at Yahoo's annual meeting, which probably won't be held until June, at the earliest. offs as ''unfortunately nec- essary'' but criticized Thompson for imposing them without explaining how he intends to revive Yahoo's revenue growth. ''Many of Yahoo's Loeb described the lay- why any employee that is any good would stay at this point,'' said BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis. ''Will Thompson have the horses he needs to reach his goals?'' Even before Thompson arrived, some of Yahoo's most talented employees were defecting to other jobs. Meanwhile, Google and Facebook are hiring even more engineers and sales representative to develop new products and sell more ads. Google added 8,000 employees last year, and Facebook recently moved to sprawling headquarters in senior-level employees and investors have apparently seen enough and heard too little,'' Loeb said in a state- ment. Thompson alienated much of Silicon Valley by suing Facebook as the social networking company is trying to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of stock expected to be com- pleted next month. The law- suit accuses Facebook of infringing on 10 of Yahoo's Internet patents. weren't consulted on a half-billion federal loan to a failed solar company until the last minute, and only then had ''about a day'' to complete their review, an internal watchdog concluded Wednesday. The report from the Treasury Department's inspector general found that the department's review was ''rushed'' and began only after the Energy Department was poised to sign off on the terms of a $528 million loan to Solyn- dra Inc. The review was completed a day before Energy issued a press release saying it was approving the loan with conditions. Treasury officials complained to the White House that WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal financial experts regulations governing federal loan guarantees say that the department should have been involved earlier in the process, but the inspector general said it was unclear whether the review's late start violated the law. Treasury officials also told investigators that the short- ened time frame was sufficient to review the loan. But investigators found no evidence that concerns raised by those officials, such as the debt-to-equity ratio in the pro- ject, were ever addressed by the Energy Department. The investigation is the latest to look closely at the Obama administration's decision to back Solyndra. Con- gress also is examining the deal, which was used to show- case the economic stimulus bill's support for renewable energy projects and so-called green jobs. Solyndra was the first renewable-energy company to receive backing from a loan program created by the stim- ulus bill. But last year it declared bankruptcy and laid off more than 1,000 people. The company's implosion and revelations that it received preferential treatment from federal officials have become an embarrassment for the Obama administration and a focal point for GOP criticism of the president's green-energy agenda. While the Energy Department approved the loan, and taxpayers were on the hook when it failed, the Treasury Department's Federal Financing Bank was the entity that actually disbursed the money. Internal emails obtained by the inspector general sug- gest that Treasury officials' concerns at the time the loan was granted were dismissed in order to get it out the door. Located in Chico, CA COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR recommened 30K, 60K, 90K SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES All makes and models. We perform dealer Smog Check starting at$ Pass or FREE retest 527-9841 • 195 S. Main St. (most cars and pick-ups) 2595 + cert. 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