Items on the agenda for next Monday’s Fort Bragg City Council meeting include adopting the updated fire hazard severity zone maps for the city’s Local Responsibility Area and the council resolution approving Contract Change Order 3 with Akeff Construction Services, Inc. for the Fort Bragg’s EV fleet charging station project. Council members will also adopt a resolution accepting the Mill Site Development Strategy Report. Monday night’s meeting is at 6 p.m. at Town Hall.
Cal Fire has awarded 12 grants, which amounts to nearly $72 million, to support landscape-scale, regionally based land management projects that will restore forest health and resilience throughout the state. The grants were sent through its Forest Health Program to partners whose projects are located on state, local, tribal, federal, and private lands. The funds are aimed at critical forest health needs, that reduce wildfire risk, improve ecosystem resilience, and enhance carbon sequestration across the state’s varied landscapes. Specifically, Forest Health grant projects must focus on large, landscape-scale forestlands that are composed of one or more landowners and may cover several jurisdictions. And, you should know that 75% of the awarded projects will benefit disadvantaged or low-income communities.
Since most of the work on the utilities have been wrapped up in downtown Ukiah, crews will begin paving the streets. Public Works Director and City Engineer Tim Eriksen gave the city council the latest update at the meeting Wednesday. The Ukiah Daily Journal says they’ll be taking out all of the road and base section on West Gobbi from Dora all the way to State Street and then paving that section. There is a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel and Eriksen says crews hope to have everything wrapped up by the end of July.
