Month: November 2019

CAC Draft Meeting Minutes- October 17, 2019
COBB AREA COUNCIL
PUBLIC MEETING
Little Red Schoolhouse/Cobb Mountain Lions Club
15780 Bottle Rock Rd., Cobb, CA 95426
Draft Meeting minutes by Cindy Leonard
1. CALL TO ORDER (shut down cell phones; sign in please) 6:05
• Roll Call:  Present: Cindy Leonard Secretary, Cathy McCarthy, Jessica Pyska, Eliot Hurwitz Chair, Frank Lincoln Treasurer,
• not present: Jake Strickler
38 community members present
2. Approval of meeting minutes from September 19, 2019
Jessica moves to approve, Chris seconds.  Minutes approved
3. Treasurer report: $16,675.00  One outstanding CHP check for $750 and the P.O. Box renewal.
4. Short announcements- 
-bear has been reported East of the Golf course
-PG&E can be called to remove the vegetation management, if you get no response then file an online complaint. They will remove 4” or smaller.  Madeline said her neighbor called and they had a good response.
-Maggie at NCO is filling up the CERT class to be held on November 2nd. Find out more this Saturday at Cobb Resilient
-Cobb Mtn. Artists Open Studio Tour is Saturday October 26 and 27 from 10:00am to 5:00 pm.  You can pick up a map of the studios to visit at Mountain High Coffee and Books.
-My Shake app is available to put on your phone for earthquake notification
-Lion’s Club from 9-1:00 this Sunday is an outdoor clean up party for the Lion’s Club outdoor areas
-November 2nd Lion’s Club Harvest Party, 15 vendors, food, band, bar (noon-8:00)
Loch Lomond October 26 5-7:00 Trunk or Treat. There will be a map of all homes participating.
6. Public and Board Comment on non-agenda items 
-Jessica announced the new Lake County marketing campaign that has been rolled out.  It emphasizes the fun nature of Lake County residents “Clearly Different”. They recognize the elements that represent Lake County.  We will be seeing more ad campaigns using this new logo in the spring.
-Disaster Council meeting today it was announced that ATT was not at all prepared for the PSPS.  There are some cell areas that are still not back to correct service.   At the Board of Supervisor meeting on this coming Tuesday they will be taking public comment regarding the PSPS. We agreed to gather public comments this Saturday at the Cobb Resilient event.
-The Board of Supervisors has decided to move forward on the area plans.  It is still some question about who will go first (possibly Cobb, possibly Lower Lake), but regardless they have decided to move forward in some way.  Supervisor Brown said that he will help us to get the ball rolling.  
We will be nominating the committee soon. We would like representatives from all of these areas:
Citizens’ Committee Makeup – approx 12 members altogether covering the following:
• Business Commercial
• Residential Construction/Development
• Commercial construction and zoning
• Resort/Tourism
• Education
• Timber Management/ forest property owners
• Energy resources, Geothermal, local generation (solar, wind, microgrids) 
• Environment
• County Government
• Fire Safety/Management
• public safety (Fire District, Sheriff [substation?], Community Watch)
• Hazard mitigation and emergency planning
• Agriculture
• Tribal issues
• Micro Enterprise/Small Business
• Parks and Trails and recreation
• health/ healthcare/ senior care/ ATOD rehab/ behavioral health
• Infrastructure (water, roads, electrical, broadband)
• Historical perspective
• Arts
• Transportation 
Cross cut to make sure all geographic segments of the community are represented
Coordinate/ cross reference with other plans (Fire, County, Special Districts etc.)
Ben Murphy reports that the paperwork has finally been completed and approved for the Summit-Rainbow water projects.  Hill 9 and 10 will go out to bid the first week of November, the Summit and Rainbow Bridge project will go out to bid the second week of November. 
-re: Gifford Springs loop, he is waiting for the word on FEMA funding.
-Mt. Hannah and Alpine Meadow and Entrance Road projects will be the next projects.
-Pine Grove would be 2022
Ben asked if everyone still had water during the PSPS.  All said yes.  He said that they were very happy that the generators worked.  They were notified ahead of time by Mike Wink to get the generators set up before the power was cut. 
Eliot stated that he wanted to thank Jeff Lucas for all the time that he spent to help make the water company grants work.
Robert Stark now is working up in Paradise to assist with the rebuilding of their water company for at least the next 8 months.
Economic Development Planning Grant:
• We have just been notified that we are receiving a Disaster Recovery grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLB) of $200,000 to create a strategic plan for the Cobb Fire Recovery and Economic Development.
• Goals of this grant:
-implement a strategy
-build a bridge between disaster recovery and economic development
-navigate our challenges
-concrete results to regenerate the Cobb community, stronger than ever
Components of the grant:  
1. In-depth Community Assessment using “Asset-Based Community Development” tools 
2. Local Economic Development Analysis  
3. Small business revolving loan fund  
4. Establishment of Cobb Area Merchants Association 
5. A final report will be put together as a supplement to the Lake County Economic Development plan.
We will measure and evaluate success. We will get a baseline assessment and then a post-project measurement. 
Timeline:
Part 1 Sept 19-Feb 21 Meetings with community, survey, maps
Part 2 March 20-Sept 20 Economic development analysis and May ’20-Sep ’20 local site inventory and needs analysis
Part 3 Jan 20-March 21 Revolving small business loan fund
Part 4 Oct 20-March 21 Establish Cobb Area Merchants Association
Part 5 Nov ’20 – March ’21 Draft and print Cobb Mountain Economic Development Strategy document
Reports on this project will be given at each CAC meeting.  The funds will be at Community First Credit Union, which was the FHLB member that facilitated the grant application. Funds will be kept separate from the CAC funds that are at Bank of the West.
A committee will be established to oversee the parts of this grant.
Monday 21 6:30 will be the Economic Development Committee meeting at the Brick Oven to decide the procedures and procurement process. Request for Qualifications.  They submit the proposal.
~Cindy moved to have the events contribute $30 to the Lion’s Club Community Center. Jessica motioned, Magdalena seconded.  All approved
Tom Slait says he will attend the Risk Reduction Authority meeting on Monday
Paul Duncan with CalFire says that it is grant season and he would like to see Cobb acquire a chipper/masticater that will stay on Cobb 
Local Fire Season update/ Firewise Community organizing updates:
-Cobb Resilient this Saturday at 10:00a.m., Cobb Elementary School
-Presentations:
Battalion Chief Mike Wink CalFire
Gary Prather- local forest owner
Pat Lambert- Farmers Insurance
Rebecca Enberg and Maggie Willhite, NCO CERT trainings
Magdalena Valderrama SSCRA fuel reduction grants
Jessica Pyska What’s Up on Cobb? Economic Development
Cindy Leonard CAC- Firewise Communities on Cobb
Door Prizes
Booths and Exhibits
Eliot moves to adjourn, Jessica seconds, all agree. 8:03 p.m.