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The Lake County Board of Supervisors is making its feelings on ATT’s plans to end landline service clear. The board has written a letter to the California PUC opposing the idea. The board letter says the proposal is dangerous because it leaves the county vulnerable, especially during wildfires and other natural disasters, when cell service may be unreliable. The board is also worried that some people, especially older people or people with disabilities might have trouble using any alternative to a landline. The board approved the letter 5 to 0 at a meeting this week. Now, the PUC will weigh comments–including from members of the public–before deciding on phasing out its landline services.
The Clearlake City Council has a special meeting this week to discuss applying for two state grants. One would fund 1.5 million dollars for code enforcement services, while the other would spend $400,000 for water infrastructure planning. The meeting is at 3:30 tomorrow in the council chambers in Clearlake. You can access it online–and see the agenda–on the city website.
It’s hard to imagine 12 feet of snow. You could DROP a basketball two feet into a regulation-height hoop. Six feet OVER your head if you’re six feet tall. That’s what they’re talking about for some high Sierra mountain elevations between now and the weekend. Oh, and winds of 100 miles an hour too. Needless to say, travel will be impossible then to places like Lake Tahoe, and north to Truckee. Forecasters say this could add up to the biggest storm in the Sierra Nevada region since they began keeping records 1880s
The state has hit a recycling company for fraud. Cal Recycles says it has fined a company called Recycling Services Alliance more than 140 million dollars for illegally filing claims for CRV on bottles and cans with thousands of faked weight tickets. Officials say that a hefty penalty sends a message that anybody who tries to defraud the recycling program is taking a big risk. The CRV was expanded at the first of the year to include Large fruit and vegetable bottles and cans, and on boxes of wine. Cal Recycles says there has been a recent drop in the number of people returning their containers to get their deposits back. The money you paid but don’t redeem goes back to the state to administer the CRV program
