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The appointment of planning commissioner Wayne Garibaldi to replace Drew Stidger on the Jackson City Council has left a vacancy on the Jackson Planning Commission. The City of Jackson is now taking applications for this position. Planning Commission duties include recommending plans for the regulation of future growth, development and beautification of the City; reviewing and making recommended updates to the City’s General Plan and conducting public hearings. If you are interested, you must reside within the City of Jackson and be able to dedicate time to attend the commission’s monthly meetings held the 3rd Monday of each month, and some special meetings. Knowledge of planning and development-related matters is desirable, but not mandatory. The City Council will appoint the position. If you are selected, you would serve out the remainder of a two-year term which expires June 30, 2009. The deadline to apply is 5:00 p.m., February 6, 2008. Applications and additional information are available at Jackson City Hall, 33 Broadway, Jackson, CA 95642.
Plymouth
City Council will be
interviewing candidates for the job of Interim City Administrator in closed
session on Saturday. Outgoing Interim City Administrator Gene Albaugh
says he’s retiring for the 7th, 8th, or 9th
time – he’s lost track. Albaugh’s been filling the interim position for 33
months – for the last two years, that’s been on a month-to-month basis. Albaugh
says at first he had trouble getting anyone to apply for the job, but after
working with the League of California Cities recruitment program was able to
encourage qualified applicants to apply for the job. Assuming the City Council
hires one of Saturday’s interviewees, the City of Plymouth could have a new Interim City Administrator in
place as soon as February 1st. Albaugh, who lives in Auburn,
will then give up his commute to Plymouth and spend his time as a Rotary
District leader, writing books, and playing senior softball.
Is Sutter Creek Bridge falling down? A local store owner says she’s been watching a gap in the bridge pavement grow -- after being out of town for two months, she called Sutter Creek City manager Rob Duke and told him that the gap in the pavement had widened three inches in that time. The city called an engineering firm out to perform an inspection the same day – engineers reported that there was no imminent danger posed by the widening of the gap. Duke made a presentation to Sutter Creek City Council Monday night on the repairs needed on the Main Street Bridge. Duke recommended some immediate improvements that the city could make in order to lessen the wear and tear on the bridge -- he said that step one was to fill in the potholes that have formed on the surface of the bridge, and step two was to install “traffic calming crosswalks,” or a crosswalks that function like a speed bumps, in order to minimize vibrations caused by traffic. He also said that the city needed to issue emergency contracts with the Federal Government, in order to have the bridge fixed by this summer.
First Time Home Buyer Loans Go Before Supervisors Admin Committee
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You can help clean up our great outdoors at two locations on Saturday, November 3. Spend a
fun and productive day picking up trash along the banks of Lake
Camanche Reservoir or the Mokelumne River, while enjoying the fall morning and resident wildlife. For
the Camanche Reservoir clean up, meet at Camanche
South Shore
Marina at 8:00
am for sign-in. For the Mokelumne River
clean-up, meet at the Jackson Senior Center,
Jackson at 8:30
am for sign-in.
Jackson City Council To Discuss Proposed Water/Sewer Rate: Citizen Alleges Concealed Information
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Water and Sewer rates have dominated discussions
throughout the local government meetings and tonight’s Jackson City Council
meeting is not exception. On the agenda, at the request of Citizen Marilyn
Lewis, is an item on the proposed water and sewer rate increase. The request is
in response to the City’s notification, dated September 25, 2007 that a public
hearing has been scheduled on November 13th to consider rate
increases for the City of Jackson’s
water and sewer system. The notification cites the proposed increase as being 8.5% for all water
customers and 17.5% for residential and commercial customers.
