The Lake County Board of Supervisors will get an update this week about plans to turn the former armory building in Lakeport into the new HQ for the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. The project is expected to cost around 20 million dollars but so far the county hasn’t come up with the funds. Lake co news.com reports Public Services director Lars Ewing says that even though there’s no money yet, it’s a good idea to start with the design work because those plans can quickly become obsolete and need to be redrawn. Also on the board agenda, is an overview of the Lake County 2050 general plan and local plan updates. The meeting starts at 9 am tomorrow in the board chambers at the county courthouse. It’s available on Zoom. You can see instructions and look over the agenda on the county website.
A rare attack from a Mountain Lion in a remote part of El Dorado County has left one man dead. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says DNA tests have confirmed the animal was involved–it has been euthanized. The 21-year-old victim was hiking with his 18-year-old brother near the town of Georgetown Sunday afternoon when the 90-pound big cat moved in. The younger brother was able to call for help and was injured too underwent surgery but is expected to physically recover. It’s the first reported fatal mountain lion attack in California in 2o years
It’s been almost three weeks since the California primary and the count in a statewide ballot measure is still close. Proposition 1 would spend 6.4 billion dollars to provide more mental health services and programs to help the homeless. Governor Newsom supports it. As of now the “yes” votes have it by 20,000, but there are around 110,000 ballots in question because of missing or mismatched signatures. Both sides wanState’secrtarry of state’s office to reach out to voters with rejected ballots to let them fix– what’s called “cure”–the mistakes. The state has until April 12th to certify the vote total.
