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ByRickSilva ParadisePost PARADISE ParadisePoliceChief Gabriela Tazzari-Dineen expects the internal affairs process after the Nov. 25 shooting of an alleged drunken driver by officer Patrick Feaster to be completed by mid- January. Tazzari-Dineen noted on Thursday that she can't release the results even then under state law, but she did lay out a potential timeline for the investigation, led by former Paradise Police Chief Chris Buzzard. Feaster is on paid administra- tive leave and the driver, Andrew Thomas, is reportedly paralyzed from the chest down. Tazzari-Dineen was asked her reaction after the release of body camera video, provided to this newspaper after a request POLICE SHOOTING Paradisechief: Internal affairs process to take another month By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter RED BLUFF The City Council de- nied a request Tuesday from the Public Works Department to reas- sign a staff member and receive a supplemental appropriation from the General Fund for an addition staff member. Public Works Director Bruce Henz and the city staff recom- mended to the council the re- assignment of one of the more skilled, proficient and handy em- ployees within the Streets Depart- ment to the Parks Maintenance Department, according to the agenda report. The supplemen- tal appropriation funding, in the amount of $36,550, was set to go to a half-year salary for an addi- tional employee to be hired by the Parks Department. After the request was rejected a new plan was set in place to ad- dress the issue. The city plans to work on time card keeping, a sug- RED BLUFF Ci ty d en ie s extra Parks De pa rt me nt personnel By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF The Tehama County Planning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to send a phase two rezone — to bring zon- ing into agreement with the 2009 adopted Tehama County General Plan — back to the Board of Su- pervisors for direction, continu- ing the matter for up to 90 days. There was discussion both by commissioners and audi- ence members that direction on whether phase two should be passed as is and have an inter- mediate phase before phase three. Whether phase two ought to be passed all at once with interme- diate phase properties included should come before the full board of supervisors and not just on rec- ommendation of the ad-hoc com- mittee or staff. Part of the objection brought forth by former Tehama County Planning Comissioner George Robson and former Corning Planning Director John Stoufer, who also worked for the Tehama County Planning Department, was that phase 2.2, the interme- diate phase, included a list of par- cels excluded from the current re- zone in order to have further en- vironmental studies done on the county's dime. The criteria for who was in- cluded in phase 2.2, whether de- veloped by staff or at the direction of an ad-hoc member as it was suggested by Robson, excluded properties, Robson said. Some of the owners he represented wanted to know why they were excluded and neighbors weren't. Stoufer too had property own- ers who were concerned about cri- teria, but he also objected to the idea that the county would be pay- ing for additional environmental impact reports so that projects were shovel ready if a developer were interested, he said. "Why as a taxpayer should we pay $500,000," Stoufer said. "The cost could be well over a million. Why doesn't the developer pay?" Stoufer did not object to the rezones, just the county paying for the environmental studies, he said. If the rezone, which primarily looks at valley land along Inter- state 5, were passed as is, it would affect 66,956 acres and 4,075 parcels, Planning Director Sean Moore said. It was the ag land converted to residential that was pulled out and put into phase 2.2. That group includes about 200 parcels and about 5,000 acres. TEHAMA COUNTY Rezonesentbacktosupervisors By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF Local teacher Nancy Veatch has been given a unique opportunity in being one of six chosen nationwide to serve as long-distance 2015- 16 Teaching Ambassador Fel- lows, along with three selected to serve in Washington D.C. "I was honored to have been selected and humbled to repre- sent so many fabulous colleagues who get up every morning with the same passion and drive I have," Veatch said. "Their work is what keeps our nation strong. The most important thing about this fellowship is that it exists and teachers know they have the voice of a colleague at the table helping to share their concerns, passions and support for the pro- grams. That the US Department of Education cares that teachers have a voice at the table." Veatch is a teacher at Bend Elementary, which is part of the Evergreen Union School District. She has been a part of the district since 1995 although she is fairly new to Bend School. She started her 25-year career in Vacaville for four years prior to coming to Evergreen, where she worked until May 2013. Af- ter two years on special assign- ment with the Tehama County Department of Education as the English Language Arts Coordi- nator, she returned to the class- room this year. "I knew I wanted to pursue this fellowship and to be able to come back to fifth and sixth grade is a natural fit because I love the history," Veatch said. "There is no better job." Every year the US Depart- ment of Education selects a group of teachers to advise and serve as a voice on what is hap- pening in the schools and what the teachers would like to see happen, Veatch said. "Three will spend a year-long sabbatical and live in Washing- ton D.C.," Veatch said. "We meet bi-weekly virtually and spend several hours talking about policy, the needs of the depart- ment and how best to support the work in schools." Veatch made two trips back for quarterly meetings by mid- November and has traveled sev- eral places including Illinois, In- diana and in California meeting with teachers as well as holding virtual meetings with schools, she said. She is fortunate to be able to share some of the places she has traveled with her stu- dents through PowerPoint pre- sentations and other virtual experiences. She also brought them pencils from the Library of Congress to go with her talk on it and spent some time dis- cussing what is at the Smithso- nian Museum and how it con- nects to history. "I get to put common core into action on two levels," Ve- atch said. "I get to have impact on the federal level and be a voice for the teachers and stu- dents. I also have the interest- ing dichotomy of working with TEHAMA COUNTY LOCAL EDUCATOR CHOSEN AS US TEACHING AMBASSADOR FELLOW JULIEZEEB —DAILYNEWS Bend Elementary School teacher Nancy Veatch, shown in her classroom, was selected as a 2015-16United States Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellow. Community.....A3 Lifestyles........A4 Opinion............A6 Weather ..........A8 Sports.............. B1 Comics ............B6 Index............... ## INDEX Have a great day, James Miller. GOOD MORNING D DowJonesIndustrial 17,495.84 (-253.25) D Standard & Poor's 2041.89 (-31.18) D Nasdaq 5002.55 (-68.58) BUSINESS A one of a kind raku ceramics sculpture was won by Norman Banwarth of Red Bluff in a free raffle drawing. PAGE A3 ARTS TOUR RedBluffmanwins sculpture in free raffle The man who bought the rifles used in the California massa- cre is charged with terrorism- related counts. PAGE B4 SAN BERNARDINO Buyer of rifles used in massacre faces charges Check out what's going on in your neighborhood and the community. PAGE A2 WHAT'S HAPPENING More online News and opinion. redbluffdailynews.com COURTESY PHOTO Veatch and her students work on computers at Bend School. 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