Month: June 2018

Meeting Minutes- May 17, 2018
COBB AREA COUNCIL
PUBLIC MEETING
Thursday May 17, 2018,
Little Red Schoolhouse/Cobb Mountain Lions Club
15780 Bottle Rock Rd., Cobb, CA 95426
PRESENT: Gary Prather, Eliot Hurwitz, Jessica Pyska, Cindy Leonard, Ron
Haskett
Absent: Cathy McCarthy
17 community members present
• CALL TO ORDER (shut down cell phones; sign in please) 6:12p.m.
• Approval of Minutes from April 19, 2018
• motion Magdalena, Ron second, all approve
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• SHORT ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Chili cook off in Middletown happens this Saturday
• Cobb Mountain Art and Ecology Center has their open house and pottery
sale this weekend.
• Glenneth announced that the MAC photography resilience program show
is kicking off this month. It will be around the lake.
• Loch Lomond Memorial Day annual meeting will be Sunday May 27th.
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• Agenda change, Discussion of Grading on Bottle Rock will not be
discussed tonight.
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• TREASURER’S REPORT, Gary reports bank balance is $3,176.82
• Cindy turned in a receipt of $171.53 for printing as follow up for Cobb
Safe lamination of all the group maps, including the complete “Cobb Area
Council Boundries” map.
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• PUBLIC and BOARD COMMENT ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS (3 mins./
individual)
Lara from the Time Bank and lives in the Riviera presented using the Time
Bank for FireWise. She is having a meet-up for the Time Bank to help clear
homes for Elderly and Handicapped folks. They are ready to go! (More
information given in notes below)
• Short reports from CAC Committees as needed
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Glenneth shared Karl’s report from Hobergs~
We have not received a detailed report on progress at the Hobergs site over the past
month. Dan Nelson has told us that work has been slow while he has been pulling
together the funds needed to complete the final phase. He thinks it will take an
additional $100,000 to rent equipment (including large grinders) and pay workers, etc.
He assures us that they remain committed to completing the project by the end of July.
Jasjit Kang, Director of Environmental Health, reports that he has not visited the site or
spoken to the Hobergs management in the past month. However, he will be meeting
tomorrow with Michalyn DelValle, Interim Director of Lake County Community
Development Department to discuss the status of the project and establish a timeline
and benchmarks for completion of the Abatement Order issued in 2016.
As we have reported previously, we maintain frequent, persistent contact with the key
people involved, and remain deeply committed to achieving successful resolution of this
difficult and trying situation.
Respectfully submitted,
Karl E. Parker
Free Firewood from Huber’s:
In the month of June Hobergs will be offering FREE firewood delivered to folks in Cobb
and within 5 miles of Hobergs for FREE.
We will be making deliveries on Tuesdays and Thursdays every week. We can only do
about 5 deliveries a day so please
send your requests to freewood@lakecountylumber.com and provide your name,
address, phone number and email address.
We can only make 1 delivery to your address and we can only do free deliveries to the
first 40 people that sign up.
PLEASE be aware the wood will be sometimes larger pieces or odd size pieces. If you
don’t want that please do not order since we cannot take it back once we drop it off. We
will be dropping off approx. a cord for all orders.
• Supervisor’s Comments-not present
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PRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSIONS
• FireWise Community Organizing and preparation for 2018 Fire Season:
Update and discussion
Eliot attended a two day Fire Education symposium at Sonoma State about
400 people split between academics, NGO, government organizations,
local homeowners. He noticed a big change that control burns are now
confidently embraced as a big part of living with fire.
Cindy gave update on all groups:
As a refresher, here are the groups:
Group 1, coordinator Cathy McCarthy:
Gifford Springs
Star View
Alpine Meadows
Cobb View Heights (golf course neighborhood)
Cobb (downtown)
Group 2, coordinator Rich Curtola:
Whispering Pines
Cobb School
Estates
Pine Grove
Gordon Springs
Group 3 Robert Stark:
Bottle Rock Corridor (Little Red to Harrington Flat)
Harrington Flat (Kahm’s Lane, Sulphur Creek Road, Glenbrook, High Valley Road)
Group 4 Greg Clouse:
Adam Springs
Fox – Venturi
Pine Ridge
Pine Summit
Group 5 Eliot & Magdalena, Gary Prather:
Loch Lomond
Salmina Meadows
Seigler Springs
Mt. Hannah
Wildcat
Group 6 Ben Murphy:
Hill 9 and 10
Branding Iron
Group 1, Cathy McCarthy leader. Met at Little Red Schoolhouse on May 2 and
will meet again on June 6th. They are collecting the in-kind homeowner clean up
data and Michelle Basso is tabulating data. They are also creating the Firewise
boundary for their application.
Group 2, Cindy Leonard and Kathy Blair is doing a neighborhood walk to gather
information on what homes need help doing clearing and which homes still need
reflective signs. They have begun collecting the forms to tabulate the hours that
neighbors have worked clearing brush and limbing trees.
Group 3 has not yet met
Group 4 Greg Clouse and Wendy Collins leaders. This group has met several
times and the next meeting will be at Wendy’s home on June 23rd. They have
made great strides in creating a letter to inform absentee owners of hazardous
conditions that need attention. At the upcoming meeting they will finalize the
Firewise boundary and they continue to collect sheets that document yard
clearing activities. Contact them at:
firewisecobbmt4@gmail.com
Group 5 Magdalena reports that Group 5 is nearing completion of their Firewise
application. This has been very helpful for the other groups that are not as far
along in the process. You can email them at: firewise@sscra.org
Group 6 has not yet met
Cindy created an example binder to help show the other groups how to get the
Firewise data organized.
The goal is to post all the information for all groups at the Cobb Post Office,
including an email to contact each of the group leaders.
Magdalena says that there is excitement from the Time Bank for our Neighbors
helping Neighbors program.
June 13 6-8 will be a Time Bank Meet-up at the Little Red Schoolhouse. Anyone
can come and take part in this group. The Time Bank asks for our permission to
go ahead with her event. They have a lot of P.R. ready to go to get community
input on what lots need to be cleared.
Cobb Area Neighbors (CAN) will be a member name at the Time Bank and
anyone can add hours to that member. Work parties could be created to make
the lot clearing more fun.
We especially want to make sure we can work on getting the absentee owners to
clear their lots.
Jessica motioned to proceed, Ron seconded, all agreed
Rich Curtola reminded us that we should keep the lot clearing and Firewise work
in a positive way so that we don’t end up threatening our neighbors and creating
a negative environment.
Next meeting of the CAC will be the 4th Thursday of June, which is June 28. (not
the usual 3rd Thursday)
Note: Elections for the Cobb Area Council will be at the July 19 meeting.
Positions up for election are Ron, Cindy and Jessica
Adjourn: 7:40 motion Magdalena, second Gary all approve