Among the items discussed at Monday’s Crescent City Council meeting:
Apartments on 3rd Street? Crescent City resident Gloria Carone went to the City Council with her concerns about a “stack and pack” apartment complex she said was slated for 3rd Street between E and F.
According to Carone, the apartment building is being spearheaded by LNL construction and will be right across the street from St. Joseph Catholic Church. She said she worries about impacts to the sewer system and people’s views. Carone said she also wonders where the residents are going to go for medical care.
“Doctors and dentists are so overbooked for the people who live here,” she said. “Stop with all these mega big construction companies coming in and building up these stack and packs all over the place.”
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Meeting regulars gave mixed reviews to a proposal from City Clerk Robin Altman to change the way she records the business of the Crescent City Council.
Altman asked councilors Monday to allow her to transition from the current practice of providing a detailed summary of the meetings, including what was said during the public comment period, to taking action minutes.
“Action minutes focus primarily on the business conducted and the formal actions taken by the City Council,” she said, providing examples from Eureka, Blue Lake, Fortuna and Arcata on how they approach meeting minutes. “Rather than summarizing discussions in detail, action minutes document the agenda items that are being considered, motions and seconds and voting results. In addition, the action minutes will include any direction given to staff and other formal action taken by the Council.”
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Doug Hecox was hard pressed to provide a concrete answer to what kind of federal funding Caltrans can expect when it comes to building the 1.1 mile-long tunnel around Last Chance Grade.
There isn’t an exact price for the tunnel’s construction yet, the Federal Highway Administration’s acting division administrator for California told Del Norters at an Oct. 27 open house. The project just entered its design and geotechnical engineering phase, he said.
And, though Hecox described two potential pots of federal funding, one depends on a highway reauthorization bill Congress was expected to approve but didn’t. The other source came from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Biden-era Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that ran out earlier this month. Still, there are ways to obtain federal funding for a project of this size, Hecox said.
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Del Norte County is declining to respond to a U.S. Department of Justice demand that its elections office segregate four ballots they say belong to noncitizens who are ineligible to vote, County Counsel Jacqueline Roberts said.
Del Norte is following the example of Humboldt, Fresno, Tulare, San Joaquin and other California counties who have received similar USDOJ demands, Roberts told Redwood Voice Community News via email Monday.
County officials are making this decision after thorough review of the letter Craig H. Missakian, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California delivered to County Clerk-Recorder Alissia Northrup last week. Roberts said her office is also taking into consideration the law and recent court decisions related to similar demands federal officials have made to county elections offices statewide.
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