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Photo: Elias Funez By October, the Board of Directors of the Fire Safe Council of Nevada County is expected to have voted on a new contract for Jamie Jones, the council’s executive director and CEO. Her current interim contract, approved last month, grants Jones a base annual salary of $140,000, with an automatic 5% salary increase annually given acceptable performance. Additionally, Jones receives certain benefits, such as health care reimbursements, mobile phone reimbursements, and travel expenses. In assessing whether a salary for a nonprofit executive is appropriate, there are certain n...

Do you plan to do differently as this is a consistent problem facing you, unfortunately? >> well, we're putting, as we rebuild, every home will be rebuilt to the new standards, which is hardening of the homes against fire. defensible space is already implemented, at least 100 feet of defensible space. so we're trying to make it as fire safe as we can. we definitely need cooperation from our state and federal partners to keep their land clear, as well, so we don't have the fuel that we have that's creating these monstrous fires. >> well, we hope you get that cooperation. but before we go, i do ...

Since the CZU fires, Cal Fire's San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties division, Cal Fire CZU, as well as other county groups have been working on various projects to protect against wildfires. Woodside and Portola Valley have both stepped up their fuel reduction efforts, said Denise Enea, former Woodside Fire Protection District fire marshal and president of Fire Safe San Mateo County, the organization dedicated to protecting property and the environment for county residents in the wildland/urban interface. “It's not just going to be more engines, it’s not just going to be more hand crews, it...

A letter written by an attorney on behalf of a former accountant for the Fire Safe Council of Nevada County alleges that the nonprofit is losing money, suffers from poor budgetary management, and is at risk of being investigated for fraud by the IRS. In the letter the nonprofit is described as suffering from “diminishing financial viability,” as having “neglected proper non-profit accounting,” and being in an overall “fragile position” as an organization. The letter was sent June 14 by Grass Valley attorney Susan Kay McGuire to the Fire Safe Council’s Board of Directors on behal...

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