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A crowd gathered at the Amador County Transportation
Commission building to honor long time Transportation minded citizen Bill
Breiner. Breiner was appointed as ACTC in
1992 by the Board of Supervisors. He served in that capacity for 14 years was
elected as the Chairman of the commission for 12 consecutive years of his
tenure. . Last night, ACTC Executive Director Charles Field commended Breiner
on making Amador County’s Transportation System what it
is today. Supervisor Louis Boitano presented Breiner with a resolution honoring
him for his dedicated service. ACTC General Manager Pat Ireland, then revealed
a sign dedicating the current ACTC building to Bill Breiner for his years of
dedicated service.
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Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:54
Controversy Over Proposed Saturday Bus Service To Kirkwood
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Controversy in the
community continues to swirl around a specific recommendation that the Social
Services Transportation Council made to the Amador County Transportation Commission
for an “Unmet” transportation need in the community. Once a year ACTC holds a hearing to discuss
transportation needs of the community and then prioritizes for the expenditures
under the states “Unmet Transportation” needs program which is funded by a ¼ of
a percent sales tax returned to the county from the state. This year ACTC
is looking to allocate dollars and discussions have centered around 5 basic recommendations that center
around providing night time and weekend transportation services through a taxi
voucher system, increasing awareness in the community about the Amador Regional
Transit System, or ARTS, and its services, adding new routes and perhaps the
most controversial- a snow bus to Kirkwood for skiers and snow boarders on
Saturdays.
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 23:44
Local Girl Pick A State Finalist In National Miss Pre-Teen America Contest
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Local Amador County resident Mikayla Hirschel of Jackson was one of 4000
applications for the National American Miss Pre-Teen Pageant held this last
weekend in Santa Clara. Of the 4,000 girls, only 85 were picked as State
finalist for the competition. The girls competed in formal wear, verbal
interviews, modeling, acting, photogenic, public speaking and community
service. Mikayla and seven other contestants were chosen as State Ambassadors
to represent California. The State Ambassadors all received invitations to the National
pageant to compete for the National title in November. Mikayla is an honor
student at Jackson Middle school and hopes to become a Super Model someday.
Congratulations and good luck Mikayla.
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Last week the city of Plymouth
adopted their new capital facilities fees for the city. Consultants from the
Goodwin Consulting Group gave the council their final presentation of the
studies last Thursday. The council was wary of adopting the new fees as the
Plymouth Pipeline is still unfinished. Councilman Jon Colburn asked, “How can we adopt accurate
water fees when, in a few months, we will have a new pipeline?” Goodwin
consultants told the council that the fees are amendable once they are adopted;
however, a new Nexus study would be then required. The previous study was conducted and presented to
the City Council in December of 2006. The study identified the capital
facilities that will be needed over the next 20 years in the city, and the fees
that will be needed to construct them. These fees will then be charged to new
development on a per home or commercial development basis.
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Marilyn Lewis, a candidate for Jackson City Council, has withdrawn her request for a recount of the ballots of the November 7th Jackson City Council race.
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Friday, 26 January 2007 00:39
Regional Transportation Plan Fees Discussed In Workshop- How Much Is Too Much?
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A workshop was held this
week to discuss the Regional Transportation Plan and the policies and fees that
are being charged for transportation issues to new developments in the county. Who pays for what and why? How
much should developers pay?- that was the hot topic in the workshop that
was deemed needed because of controversy over a proposed development in the
Pine Grove area. In that case the developers have requested a new zoning that
would allow multiple commercial buildings, specifically 12 condo type
businesses. The development would
include mixed commercial and light industrial businesses. The issue centers around what the Regional
Traffic Plan formulas dictate for fees and the traffic mitigation fees for this
project; nearly 6 million dollars.
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:20
Jackson Votes To Join Fire Community Services District For New Development
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Monday night the Jackson
City Council reviewed the
possibility of annexing the City of Jackson into the Amador County Community
Facilities District for Fire Services Funding. According to City Manager
Mike Daly in September of 2006
the City Council reviewed a report regarding the formation of a Community
Facilities District (CFD) for funding fire services within the City of Jackson.
Amador Co. recently adopted the ordinance creating this type of CFD for new
construction projects, and offered to allow cities within the County to annex
into the district. This would simplify the process for cities to establish a CFD
that will create funding for additional fire services within City boundaries.
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BloodSource and Sutter
Amador Hospital
have announced a MotherLode Community Blood drive to be held on April 5th
11am to 6 pm at the Jackson Civic center. This important event to meet
the community’s need for blood and blood products is being sponsored by the
ACUSD ROP Medical Arts Program. BloodSource supplies blood and blood products
to Sutter Amador
Hospital and many other Sacramento area hospitals
as well. To give blood you must be in generally good health, free from cold
symptoms for at least 48 hours, 17 years
of age and older and at least 100 pounds. There is no upper age limit for blood
donations.
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The California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation has been held responsible by another arm of state government for
waste water spills at Mule Creek State Prison.
The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board has fined the CDCR 50,000 dollars
for eight spills into streams
including Mule Creek. The board cited “operation, maintenance and
overflow problems” at the prison as the reason for the spills. Notices of
violation were issued to the peison in September and October, followed by a
cease and desist order in December. Officials also came up with a schedule for
prison officials to fix the problem. The issue may be heard at the water board
meeting May 3 or 4.
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Amador County’s second major construction project, the new county courthouse, is being completed on time and on budget. GSA Director John Hopkins said, “We are well below what we would consider industry standards for change orders or contingencies with all of the information we have right now. We are about 2.3% in contingencies and typically contingencies for remodel projects are any where from 7-10%.” The project to move the courthouse to its new location at 500 Argonaut Lane was a natural transition for the county that had out grown its administration center and was being required to find an American with Disability Act compliant facility for the Amador County Superior Court.
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