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ByHeatherHoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter RED BLUFF TheTehamaCountyBoardofEdu- cation held a special meeting Wednesday to dis- cuss the community's input regarding the Te- hama County Superintendent of Schools appoint- ment process. Following the resignation of former Superin- tendent Charles Allen on Feb. 29, the board is charged with appointing a replacement. The focus of the special meeting was to dis- cuss the results of the survey presented to the community, the Tehama County Department of Education employees and Tehama County school leaders. No actions were taken at the meeting. Board member Carolyn Steffan said the results of the surveys were positive. The surveys focused on asking Tehama County residents, including education employees, what qualifications and characteristics are desired in the next superintendent of schools. Some of the top chosen personal characteris- tics from the surveys included wanting a super- intendent who resolves problems and puts stu- dents first, has high standards of behavior and is accountable for their actions. In the area of professional skills and abilities the top answer was the ability to develop and implement a vision and direction for the depart- ment that maintains a focus on student achieve- ment. When looking for the kind of leadership the community wants, the top desired characteris- tic was someone who promotes the academic suc- cess and personal well-being of every student, said Amanda Harter, board member, who pre- sented the results of the surveys. Other desired characteristics included moti- vating teachers and staff and having the knowl- edge and experience of a superintendent or as- sociate superintendent. The next step in the process of appointing the EDUCATION Board discusses survey By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF Two Red Bluff men were arrested shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday at the Motel 6, 20 Williams Ave., in connection with a robbery in the area. Law enforcement was dispatched to a fight be- tween two men with one man possessing a gun behind the motel. The victim reported contacting two male sub- jects near his parked vehicle — Louis Buelna Jr., 26 of Red Bluff and Dianjelo Carvajales, 21 of Red Bluff, according to a press release issued Wednes- day afternoon by the Red Bluff Police Depart- ment. The victim learned the two subjects had en- tered his pickup and taken a firearm, the release said. The three men began fighting in the area and police were called. Carvajales was in posses- sion of the firearm when police arrived, the re- lease said. Both Carvajales and Buelna were sub- sequently arrested and booked at the Tehama County Jail for theft of a firearm and robbery. ROBBERY TwoRedBluff men arrested in Motel 6 robbery Community.....A3 Lifestyle..........A4 A&E..................A5 Opinion............A6 Sports..............B1 Weather..........B8 INDEX Son of famous singer, 72, who had own music career, goes into cardiac arrest. PAGEA8 OBIT FrankSinatraJr. dies while on tour United Nations finds Denmark is happiest place out of 156 countries. PAGE B8 REPORT Danes take top spot in world happiness again By Don Thompson The Associated Press SACRAMENTO The union representing most Califor- nia state prison guards said Wednesday it has agreed to a labor contract that in- cludes a 9 percent salary in- crease over three years. Gov. Jerry Brown's ad- ministration said the agree- ment includes concessions he sought last year to help reduce the state's long-term costs of providing retirees' health care benefits. Correctional officers would start paying toward their eventual benefits un- der the proposed contract. Officers hired after Jan. 1, 2017, would also have to wait longer for their ben- efits and would receive re- duced health care coverage for themselves and their de- pendents when they retire. The tentative agreement calls for a 3 percent increase once the agreement is rati- fied by the union's 29,000 members, California Correc- tional Peace Officers Associ- ation spokeswoman Nichol Gomez-Pryde said. Other 3 percent hikes would follow over the next two years. Correctional officers would also get more money if they work in remote pris- ons. An incentive for re- maining physically fit would be eliminated, with the $130 a month incentive automati- cally going into officers' base pay. The Department of Cor- rections and Rehabilitation said base salary for guards currently starts at $63,000 annually and can range to nearly $80,000. Officers can earn more than $100,000 a year with overtime at the state's 34 prisons. Michael Genest, a fiscal consultant who served four years as budget director for former Republican Gov. Ar- nold Schwarzenegger, said the changes in retiree bene- fits should result in substan- tial long-term savings to the state. He praised Brown, a Dem- ocrat, for trying to control spending but said the sal- ary increases mean taxpay- ers will continue to see little savings from a restructuring of the criminal justice sys- tem that sharply reduced the state prison population in recent years. "I'd say, why are we giv- ing raises at all, from a tax- payers' perspective," Genest said. "There's no evidence that our pay scales are such that we can't attract an ad- equate workforce, quite the contrary." Gomez-Pryde and the ad- ministration said the pro- posal is fair but could not immediately say how much it would cost taxpayers. The deal must be ap- proved by state lawmakers and union members before taking effect. UNION New prison guard pact includes 9 percent in raises By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF The Daily News has returned to the down- town area at 728 Main St., across from the Cone and Kimball Clock tower. Moving day for the pa- per was Wednesday, but the move had been in the works for months. While the newspaper's parent company hired a real estate firm on the East Coast to handle both the sale of the former property at 545 Diamond Ave. to Te- hama County for the future home of the library and se- lection of a new site, input was received from Daily News staff in selecting the new location, Publisher Greg Stevens said. The Diamond Avenue lo- cation was put up for sale about a year and a half ago and Stevens said he was pleased that it is going to be used for the library. "I was delighted when the county made its offer suc- cessfully and that the old building will be converted from the home of the news- paper, which it has been since September 1979, to an- other purpose that will also serve the mission of enhanc- ing and preserving literacy," Stevens said. The move to downtown is one that Stevens said he had hoped would happen when the search began in Sep- tember 2015. While a site on the same street was ini- tially considered as one of 12 initial possibilities, the decision came down to the amount of square footage per employee that had been set. Properties were looked at all over Red Bluff from Adobe Road to a few sites on South Main Street. "Personally, I hoped to be downtown where we had operated in previous lives at least four times in the past," Stevens said. "It's like returning home. We are big boosters of the downtown and its potential and I hope to be an active participant in the Downtown Red Bluff Business Association. I look forward to the future and we were fortunate to find the place we did with built in cubicles such as we needed." The Daily News also has leased a warehouse in the vi- cinity of Bank of America for storage of papers previously NEW OFFICES DAILY NEWS MOVES BACK TO DOWNTOWN Red Bluff Daily News employees Daleen Baker and Freda Weeks pack up items Wednesday at the former Daily News location for the move to 728Main St. PHOTOS BY JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS Movers unpack items Wednesday at the new Daily News location at 728Main St. Mayusetohelpdecide the next superintendent U Dow Jones Industrial 17,325.76 (+74.23) U Standard & Poor's 2027.22 (+11.29) U Nasdaq 4763.97 (+35.30) BUSINESS Have a great day, Peter Boice. GOOD MORNING Check out what's going on in your neighborhood and the community. 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