Tuolumne County Supervisors
Sonora, CA County staff will present an update on the status of Tuolumne County’s 2021-2022 budget, and the board of supervisors will give direction regarding further development.
Tuesday’s meeting will be the first presentation the board receives about the proposed spending plan which will take effect on July 1st. No details regarding the proposal were released in the documents made public ahead of the meeting. We reported earlier that the State of California is projecting a $75-billion surplus.
Also tomorrow the board will hear an update on the local response to COVID-19, decide whether to add ATCAA to its list of voting members on the Tuolumne County Homeless Advisory Committee, and discuss whether to submit correspondence on the Envi
Tuolumne County Supervisors
Sonora, CA The board of supervisors in Tuolumne County heard an update about proposed changes that could notably impact local development projects.
We first reported in March that the State Board of Forestry has drafted new proposed regulations that would require landowners to improve all “substandard roads” before a development project can move forward in an area deemed “high fire hazard.” Most all of Tuolumne County falls under the category. The fear is that the move would price many people out of doing development projects. District Three Supervisor Anaiah Kirk also addressed the issue in his myMotherLode.com blog earlier this week.
Kirk has authored a new myMotherLode.com blog in which he details his opinions on various issues.
He also writes about the Measure V parcel tax, broadband, forest health, Waste Management and the juvenile hall.
Click here to view the blog. All of the Tuolumne County Supervisors are invited to submit myMotherLode.com blogs so that constituents can read their stances on local issues. Kirk’s District Three covers Tuolumne, Twain Harte and various communities up the Highway 108 corridor.
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The Board of Supervisors unanimously awarded the contract to build two Community Resilience Centers, one in Groveland and one in Tuolumne, to Sonora based Robert E. Boyer Construction Inc. Deputy County Administrator Maureen Frank reported to the board that the nine companies who qualified to bid all bid prices within about one million dollars of each other. Boyer Construction had the lowest bid at $16,731,476. Frank said, “It is exciting because Boyer has done projects for the county before, we have had a great relationship with them, and he is local.” The first project Frank worked with Boyer on was the Groveland Ambulance Station.
That is anticipated to change soon.
During the discussion about the COVID-19 response, Board Chair Ryan Campbell said it is a regular discussion topic between the CAO’s Office and the Public Health Department.
He said the county has been taking a “cautious approach” out of fear that they would have to eventually close meetings again if the infection levels increased. He said the “informal plan” is to reopen meetings by the first week of May. He says it could come sooner if the county enters the “yellow tier” prior to the first of May.
He added, “It is still subject to change if we did have an immediate spike,” but it is the plan that has been “discussed internally.”