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CPCSD keeps on truckin’ toward new engine Isaac Streeter Staff writer The Cameron Park Community Services District Board of Directors voted Sept. 20 to continue with the planned purchase of a nearly $400,000 fire engine despite a lack of clear funding. Two votes were had on the matter. One motion was made to cancel the purchase agreement and turn it
over to El Dorado Hills Fire, which had agreed to pay the cancellation fee of $8,000 to be able to take over CPCSD’s spot in the delivery timeline of 2025. That motion failed 3-2. The second motion, approved 3-2, continues with the purchase agreement with the source of funding to be determined. CPCSD Board President Sidney Bazett and Director Tim Israel made up the “aye” votes to cancel as well the
“nay” votes to continue. Board Vice President Monique Scobey and board members Dawn Wolfson and Eric Aiston rejected the first motion and supported the second. The agreement between CPCSD and Golden State Fire Apparatus Incorporated was struck in December 2022 to purchase a new Type 3 fire engine for roughly $394,000. This is about $70,000 cheaper than the current going rate of $465,000 for
that particular engine, according to EDH Fire Chief Maurice Johnson. CPCSD would not have to make payments on the engine until it is received in 2025. And at that time it, should funding not be identified, the district does have another option — sell the engine before it’s entered into service. Supporters argue this could help lift n See CPCSD, page A7
Supes chew on charter changes Noel Stack Managing editor After discussing Charter Review Committee recommendations the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors opted out of placing anything on the 2024 ballot but did ask staff to begin a specific compensation analysis next fiscal year. At the heart of the request is El Dorado County Charter Section 504, which determines the county sheriff ’s salary each year using comparator agencies (Amador County, city of South Lake Tahoe and California Highway Patrol). The only way that formula is changed is via a charter amendment that must be supported by a majority of county voters. Earlier this year the board tied more salaries to that formula, ensuring the chief administrative officer is the highest-paid executive in the county, followed by county counsel, who receives a salary of 1% more than what the county sheriff earns. At that time community members warned the board the formula
would eventually become financially unsustainable. Direction given Tuesday asks CAO and Human Resources staff to engage with an outside agency to determine if the
“Are we willing to put up with worse roads, worse services, being fined and fee’d to death to keep the void closed because all this money is going out to salaries and pensions?” — Carol Lewis, El Dorado County Taxpayers Association president comparator agencies listed in the charter should be changed. The process is set to begin in the 2024-25 fiscal year as the supervisors didn’t want it to taint ongoing and upcoming union negotiations. “We love our sheriff ’s department; we love the people who serve,” El Dorado County Taxpayers Association President Carol Lewis said during public comment. “But at what cost is what the
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More than 200 cubic yards of trash and debris and more than 101 propane tanks were removed from the illegal campsite.
Tahoe meadow homeless camp mess gets cleaned up Mountain Democrat staff Trash reportedly left behind by illegal campers that has over the years piled up in the Johnson Meadow area of South Lake Tahoe has been hauled out in recent weeks. The El Dorado County Sheriff ’s Office Homeless Outreach Team assisted South Lake Tahoe police with trespass advisements and active patrols of Johnson Meadow in an effort to eliminate illegal camping on private property, officials note, but the area was “negatively impacted by the illegal
n See charter, page A3
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A member of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office Homeless Outreach Team makes their way through Johnson Meadow in South Lake Tahoe to clean up sites where illegal campers left an accumulation of trash.
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