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Minutes | July 21, 2022

COBB AREA COUNCIL

Hybrid  PUBLIC MEETING

Thursday July 21, 2022 at 6:30pm

In person and online via Zoom and Facebook

Draft Minutes

 

6:31 CALL TO ORDER

By chair  Cathy McCarthy

Roll Call

Present – Cathy McCarthy: Chairperson, , Chris Nettles: Secretary, Joe Schneider: Alternate- Frank Lincoln: Treasurer

Not present, Jake Strickler: Member-at-large, Cindy Leonard: Vice-Chairperson

Approval of Agenda and Minutes

Agenda approval motion:

Chris to approve the agenda

Frank seconded

Passed unanimously

 

Motion to approve June Minutes

Eliot moved to approve June 2022 minutes

Chris seconded

Passed unanimously

 

6:35 Short Announcements

Blackberry festival coming up on Aug 27 – CAC expresses our full appreciation to the sponsors od our 2022, 2nd Annual Blackberry Cobbler Festival

 

6:40 Public and Board Comment on Non-Agenda Items (3 mins./individual)

 

Tom Slaight requested clarification on the conduct of participants when addressing issues in front of the Cobb Area Council. Cathy acknowledged her role in maintaining order and setting the appropriate tone in CAC meetings.

 

Mel announced a post-op meeting of the Cobb Alert Net exercise on Saturday at Mountain High

 

6:50 Treasurer’s Report- Frank

 

In the black!

General Fund: $3359.44

Blackberry Cobbler Festival: $5715.86

Cobb Resource Hub: $1723.33

Emergency Preparedness: $2417.62

T‐shirt sales: $2603.89

Total assets: $15, 820.14

 

6:55 Supervisor’s Comments- Supv. Jessica Pyska

Updated CAC on fuel reduction projects with CLERC (Clear Lake Environment Research Center) – contractor back on the Fox Drive neighborhood.

North Shore Fire Protection District built out a fuels crew this season in partnership with the tribal community. Supvs Pyska & Simon allocated some discretionary funds to equipment to that crew. They will also be working in the Fox Dr. neighborbood.

 

PG&E is taking down many trees in the Wildcat and Salmina Meadows area. PG&E is having difficulty obtaining the cooperation of some landowners. Please work with them, because fuel reduction helps the entire community.

 

Bookmobile coming soon to Cobb. Will have books has well a Chromebooks, WiFi, hotspots, etc.

 

$640K will fund a Climate Resilience Officer for the county. The job add will be going out early in the next couple of week.

 

$1m allocation from geothermal resources to fund a Cobb parks project – Forest Lake and a trail to peak of Cobb Mountain identified.

 

7:10 Fire Season Update – Paul Duncan

2nd Fire crew added at Konocti Camp.

Air Curtin Incinerator will be back up & running when weather permits

There were two recent fire incidents along Bottlerock road, Crews all did an excellent job keeping those fires contained.

Fire Sirens purchased new helipods for portable water tanks on the helicopers

A masticator is coming soon for clearing important escape routes

One final signup for Operation Force Multiplier (last round in 2022)

No open outdoor burning right now.

 

7:15 CalTrans HWY 175 Bridge Project Information- Presented by Cal-Trans

 

May watch the presentation on Facebook live video from 34 to 38 mins,

 

There was a discussion about a signaling system for managing 1 lane traffic both ways. The community was concerned about the one-way traffic control not being managed by live people at the actual site. CalTrans agreed to reconsider this arrangement. If there are complaints about the construction please contactor Granite Construction or Danielle Ruiz at CalTrans. There will be no impacts to water quality as the clean water from the creek will be diverted around the project.

 

7:45 Cobb Mountain Water Update – Ben Murphy, General Manager Cobb Water District

 

Water levels are two weeks ahead of normal, seeing what we normally would in August. – Please conserve! (Expect to be ok for the full season)

 

Working with Lake County Broadband Service for an agreement to put antennas on one of the water tanks that will support a broadband services trial in a few Cobb neighborhoods.

 

Grant updates – 3 new applications for drinking water improvements to Pine Grove, Alpine Meadows, Starview & Adams Springs. These projects are behind the Mount Hannah & Pineview Heights.

 

Weight capacity and speeding questions presented. Speed bumps were placed on the bridge, but doesn’t seem to deter people from speeding. Bridge had 80k capacity, it is well beyond the specs for this capacity. Bolts are regular checked.

 

7:50 Committee Reports (3 minutes/individual)

Firewise Communities:

Magdelena

Had an evacuation fire evacuation safety training for a small

summer camp along North Siegler Road and it involved

four adults and six kids – kids inspected cars for evacuation supplies

 

2 new volunteers for the home assessment program – 9 homes assessed, 5 scheduled, 17 waiting to be conducted. Need additional volunteers.

 

Conducted Fire Safe Council workshop Firewires Communities have grown to 17 from 4 in 2018 and two more in the works.

 

No chipping in August. Too dangerous in the high heat.

 

Cindy – Not available

 

Glenneth – Not available

 

Gene – Not available

 

David T. – CLERC starting on smaller parcels in Fox Drive area

 

Laurie – starting new Firewise Community in Gordon Springs area

 

 

Communications Committee- Mel

 

Cobb Alert Net has 240 – 265 members, 25 total GMRS radios

Cobb Resource Hub has $10 Retivis rt22 radios for sale

 

Budget Committee- Chris

Starting 2023 Budget planning in August, Chris N, Frank L. & John Carlisi are on the committee. If you want to contribute to this committee, contact Chris Nettles: cdnettles@gmail.com

 

Request from chair to add Communications Committee to 2023 Budget

 

Forest Health Committee- Eliot

 

ACI will start burning material from the contractors working on local projects

 

Announced Watershed Education Program, stay tuned for more details soon. (kicking off in Feb

 

Economic Development Committee- Joe

 

Glenneth proposed a Sculpture Jam weekend in Oct.

 

Econ Development committee taking a month off because of the activities associated with planning for the Blackberry Cobbler Festival.

 

Need liaisons between CAC and Middletown Area Merchants Association or Kelseyville Business Owner’s Association.

 

Need volunteers for the Blackberry Cobbler Festival, please contact Cobb Area Council if interested. Cobbmccarthys@gmail.com for vendor applications. ($35 for goods, $50 for food vendors

 

8:15 Motion for Special Saturday Meeting

Tabled until further notice.

 

8:20 Date of Next Regular Meetings: August 18, 2022

 

8:15 Adjournment

 

 

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Agenda | August 18, 2022

Thursday August 18, 2022 at 6:30pm

In person and online via Zoom and Facebook

Draft Agenda

  6:30p CALL TO ORDER

 Roll Call

 Approval of Agenda and Minutes

AB 361 Brown Act and Virtual Meetings-  

  1. Consideration of the Findings Required by AB 361 to Allow Teleconferenced

Meetings by this Body to Continue

 6:35 Short Announcements

 6:40 Public and Board Comment on Non-Agenda Items (3 mins./individual)

 6:45 Treasurer’s Report- Frank

 6:50 Supervisor’s Comments- Jessica Pyska

 7:05 Fire Season Update – Paul Duncan

 7:10 Committee Reports (3 minutes/individual)

Firewise Communities: Magdelena, Cindy, Glenneth, Gene, David, Laurie

Communications Committee- Mel 

Budget Committee- Chris

Forest Health Committee- Eliot

Economic Development Committee- Joe

KBA and MAMA- 

Cobbler Festival 2022- Cindy/Cathy

 7:40 Date of Next Regular Meetings: September 15, 2022

 7:41 Adjournment

 

How to Participate in Cobb Area Council Online Public Meeting 08/18/2022

 

Join us in person at the Little Red Schoolhouse 15780 Bottle Rock Road

By Computer Join our Zoom Meeting

 Go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84982968469 and enter passcode: 737694

 To make a comment or ask a question, use the “Q&A” icon.

 

 Call into the Zoom meeting on any phone:

Call (669) 900- 6833

Enter the Webinar ID:  849 8296 8469 Passcode: 737694

 

 Follow along via CAC Facebook Livestream:

Go to: https://www.facebook.com/CobbAreaCouncil

To make a comment or ask a question, use the Facebook comments section. 

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Minutes | June 16, 2022

 COBB AREA COUNCIL

PUBLIC MEETING

Thursday June 16, 2022 at 6:30pm

In person only due to technical issues

Draft Minutes

  1.  6:32 CALL TO ORDER by chair Cathy McCarthy
  2. Roll Call (3 required for quorum)

Present – Cathy McCarthy: Chairperson, Cindy Leonard: Vice-Chairperson, Chris Nettles: Secretary, Joe Schneider: Alternate

Not present – Frank Lincoln: Treasurer, Jake Strickler: Member-at-large

  1.  Approval of Agenda and Minutes

Agenda approval motion:

Rich moved to approve the agenda

Chris seconded

Passed unanimously

 

Motion to approve May Minutes

Paul moved to approve May 2022 minutes

Frank Lincoln seconded

Passed unanimously

  1. Short Announcements

Guests present:

  1. Descendants of the Anderson family
  2. Alex Hall, Master’s student from George Washington University, working on thesis related to fire recovery, using photovoice method

Cakes & More opening July 1 (Elvin & Mona are the owners)

Pine Grove Pool Open 9a-6p, also Farmer’s Market on Tuesdays from 3p-6:45p.

Pancake Breakfast at Lion’s Club on July 3

Public and Board Comment on Non-Agenda Items (3 mins./individual)

Boggs Mountain – 3 new trails open. 10 miles of new trails. Bike Monkey race a success, about 400 riders.

Rich requested that we consider changing the format of the meetings to have more written reports or presentations online so that we make more space for community discussions. Also asked that we consider opening up the CAC meetings to vacation home owners.

May have a community meet & greet for vacation homeowners on Saturday, August 6th – need to add to July CAC agenda

  1. Treasurer’s Report- Cindy for Frank

In the black!

General Fund: $3359.44

Blackberry Cobbler Festival: $6004.50

Cobb Resource Hub: $2273.36

Emergency Preparedness: $2417.62

T‐shirt sales: $2603.89

Total assets: $16, 734.75

  1.  Supervisor’s Comments- Jessica Pyska

 

Community Wildfire Protection Plan (last updated in 2009) new draft is posted on the county website. Administrative office is working on a comment process Seeking comments from Municipal Advisory Councils (Cobb Area Council, Middletown Area Town Hall, etc.).

Tree mortality update – Continues to be an issue. Tree Mortality Taskforce is meeting. Jessica is working with our state congressional reps to pull together some state funding to address this issue.

Geothermal funds were allocated to new parks and trails around the Cobb Area: Forest Lake Community Park, Regional Park will include trails to the top of Cobb County.

There are also plans for phase 2 of trail development on Mount Konocti.

  1.  Fire Season Update – Paul Duncan

`       Air tankers doing practice runs in the Geysers

Fully staffed now for the fire season.

No burning allowing now (unless you ger an exception permit)

Please do not post fires to Facebook without calling 911

Use string trimmers for weed eating now instead of a mowing blade – blade can

throw sparks

320 now on the list for Mcleods and pressurized water fire extinguishers

  1.  Hwy 175 Project – Caltrans moved to July

Rich C. expressed concerns about people detouring via Rainbow Bridge

  1.  Committee Reports (3 minutes/individual)
    1. Firewise Communities:

Magdelena – Loch Lomond moving ahead with community risk assessment. Personalized home risk assessment program is ready for homeowner referrals.

Cindy – Reviewed community work day priorities and plan. Would like to take load or two of brush to the Air Curtin Burner

Glenneth – Registered letters sent to high-risk properties. Many were returned undeliverable. Jessica to help with identifying property owners. A second exit from neighborhood has been identified.

Gene – Nothing to report

    1. Communications Committee- Mel

Continue weekly check-ins on Wednesdays at 6:30p for information go to https://cobbalertnet.wordpress.com/

FRS (short distance) radios are available of the Cobb Resource Hub

Eliot was asked about the Lake County Broadband Solution trial for high-speed internet services in Cobb. – Still waiting for antennas to delivered and installed on water tower.

    1. Budget Committee- Chris

Planning to begin meetings in August to create our 2023 budget

    1. Forest Health Committee- Chris/ Eliot

Announced that there is work being done (funded by Clear Lake Blue Ribbon Committee) to create a watershed education program for Cobb Area landowners and leaders.

Showed video of first chainsaw safety education program.

Discussion around the details for the Air Curtin Burner trial. Some concerns were raised about the fees. The committee will continue to assess this as we bring on potential commercial uses for the burner.

Motion to Approve/Disapprove  MOU#2 061322  re: Curtain Burner with Cobb Forest Stewards was presented by Eliot

 

Chris made motion to accept the MOU for signature

Gene seconded

Passed unanimously

  1. Economic Development Committee- Joe

Cobbler Festival 2022 will be Saturday, August 27 from 11a to 5pm at Mountain Meadow Gold Course location. Planning underway – meeting every two weeks. If you are interested in serving on the committee, contact Cindy Leonard.

If interested in being a vendor, contact Jennifer at bottlerockcandlestudio@gmail.com

Cobb Arts & Ecology open house on June 25th & 26th.

  1. Date of Next Meetings: July 19, 2022 at 6:30p – hybrid meeting planned
  2. 8:15  meeting adjourned

 

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DRAFT Agenda | July 21, 2021

 COBB AREA COUNCIL

Hybrid  PUBLIC MEETING

Thursday July 21, 2022 at 6:30pm

In person and online via Zoom and Facebook

Draft Agenda

  1.  6:30 CALL TO ORDER
  2.  Roll Call
  3.  Approval of Agenda and Minutes
  4.  6:35 Short Announcements
  5.  6:40 Public and Board Comment on Non-Agenda Items (3 mins./individual)
  6.  6:50 Treasurer’s Report- Frank
  7.  6:55 Supervisor’s Comments- Jessica Pyska
  8.  7:10 Fire Season Update – Paul Duncan
  9. 7:15 CalTrans HWY 175 Bridge Project Information- Presented by Cal-Trans
  10.  7:45 Cobb Mountain Water Update – Ben Murphy
  11.  7:50 Committee Reports (3 minutes/individual)
    1. Firewise Communities: Magdelena, Cindy, Glenneth, Gene, David, Laurie
    2. Communications Committee- Mel
    3. Budget Committee- Chris
    4. Forest Health Committee- Eliot
    5. Economic Development Committee- Joe

                            KBA and MAMA-

                           Cobbler Festival 2022- Cindy

  1.  8:15 Approve/Disapprove Special Saturday Meeting.
  2.  8:20 Date of Next Regular Meetings: August 18, 2022
  3.  8:15 Adjournment

 

How to Participate in Cobb Area Council Online Public Meeting 07/21/2022

 

Join us in person at the Little Red Schoolhouse 15780 Bottle Rock Road

By Computer Join our Zoom Meeting

    1.  Go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82014312630 and enter passcode: 662851
    2.  To make a comment or ask a question, use the “Q&A” icon.

Call into the Zoom meeting on any phone:

    1. Call (669) 900- 6833
    2. Enter the Webinar ID:  820 1431 2630 Passcode: 662851

Follow along via CAC Facebook Livestream:

    1. Go to: https://www.facebook.com/CobbAreaCouncil
    2. To make a comment or ask a question, use the Facebook comments section.