SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments:
Ida Antoniolli Clair, 56, of Elk Grove, has been appointed State Architect at the Department of General Services, Division of the State Architect, where she has served as Acting State Architect since 2019 and Principal Architect since 2016. Clair was Senior Architect at the Department of General Services from 2013 to 2016. She was Project Manager at Cynthia Easton Architects from 1999 to 2013. Clair was Project Architect at Itaya-Espalin and Associates Inc from 1990 to 1997. She is a member of the Association of Women in Water, Energy and Environment, the 2021 vice president/president-elect of the American Institute of Architects Central Valley and co-founder of the Certified Access Specialist Institute. This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $182,964. Clair is a Democrat.
California designates $536 million for wildfire prevention
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and members of the state legislature announced plans Thursday to designate $536 million to bolster the state s efforts to combat wildfires. File Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI | License Photo
April 8 (UPI) California on Thursday announced plans to designate $536 million to bolster the state s efforts to combat wildfires.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and members of the state legislature agreed on the Wildfire Prevention and Resiliency Package, which includes $125 million from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction funds and $411 million from the state s General Fund.
Advertisement Key parts of the Administration s initial proposal have been supplemented by legislative ideas that will pay dividends over the years, such as greater investments in forest health projects, improvements on defensible space, home hardening against fires, fire prevention grants and prevention workforce training, Newsom, and fell
With the end of the ski season around the corner, the California Department of Water Resources noted that the 2021 winter season may lead to the state’s third driest year on record.
Public Information Officer Chris Orrock said the department’s April snow survey at Phillips Station, near the intersection of U.S. Highway 50 and Sierra-at-Tahoe Road, revealed 49.5 inches of snow depth and 21 inches of snow water equivalent.
Orrock qualified the survey’s findings by calling them “a snapshot of a location at a specific time frame” and added, “statewide, on that same day, we only average 16.5 inches of snow water equivalent.“
I decided to check several Sacramento River Basin snowpack locations on the California Department of Water Resources website and found that the Mt. Shasta spot was very low at 51 percent of average with 68 inches at the 7,900 ft. elevation. But there was a nice above average in the Gray Rocks Lakes of the Castle Crags area of the basin with 73 inches recorded at the 6,200 ft. level giving that location 109 of the historical average.
On April 1, I noticed ranchers were turning their legal water right allotments out on fields and pastures. I do believe the warm spring temps have dried-out the soil more than expected. Right now, it looks like I will need to hand-irrigate every two to three days. Because it could still freeze my plastic pipes, I will not turn on the garden water for a while yet. The 25 garlic are six-inches high, rhubarb is really starting to grow and the volunteer lettuce is about an inch tall.