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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2023
Legislative analyst: Mental-health plan could cost counties $750M
Flames hit Woodland homes
By Kristen Hwang CalMatters
Saturday’s response included all available units from the Davis Fire Department, leaving resources stretched so thin that off-duty personnel and a crew from Vacaville provided local station coverage during the incident, Battalion Chief Paul
A major proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom to overhaul the state’s behavioral and mental health system is likely to take nearly $720 million away from services provided by county governments annually, according to a new analysis from the Legislative Analyst’s Office. Although that money would be reallocated within the system, in part to house homeless individuals with severe mental illness and addiction disorders, the report authors note that Newsom and key legislators supporting the proposal have neither provided a complete justification for the changes nor have they published an analysis on how the changes may “negatively impact current services.” “Consequently, as the Legislature considers the proposal, we recommend asking the administration certain questions to assess whether the proposal is warranted,” the report states. Newsom wants the Legislature to put his proposal before voters next
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Flames shoot from a home in Woodland on Saturday, part of a four-alarm fire scene. Courtesy photo
Fire crews battle four-alarm blaze By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer Firefighters from multiple jurisdictions battled a fouralarm fire Saturday in Woodland. Several firefighters experienced heat-related injuries
an outbuilding.
during the incident, which occurred amid a triple-digit heat wave.
Crews from all of Yolo County’s fire agencies, along with mutual aid from as far away as Vacaville and Sacramento, joined in the attack.
In a Facebook post, the Woodland Fire Department reported that the blaze broke out at about 2 p.m. in the 400 block of Lincoln Avenue, ultimately involving five homes and
“Firefighters successfully held the fire to the buildings of origin and prevented spread to adjacent homes,” the Facebook post said. At one residence, five kittens were rescued from the fire.
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
County files lawsuit alleging state CEQA violations in salmon habitat restoration Enterprise staff Yolo County officials announced Tuesday its filing of a lawsuit against the California Department of Water Resources in connection with certain undisclosed aspects of the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project. Filed in Yolo Superior Court, the action asserts that DWR violated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by failing to disclose the conveyance capacity of operable gates at the Fremont Weir. County officials called the lawsuit “necessary to safeguard the interests of
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Yolo County residents, protect agriculture and maintain transparency throughout important projects,” according to a news release. c, according to the project website. “The Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration Project works to reconnect the floodplain for fish during the winter season and improve connectivity within the bypass and to the Sacramento River,” the site says. “The project provides seasonal inundation that mimics the natural process of the Yolo Bypass floodplain and improves connectivity within the bypass and to
WEATHER Thursday: Sunny and hot. High 105. Low 63.
the Sacramento River.” Currently being built seven miles northeast of Woodland, the operable gates are slated to convey twice as much water from the Sacramento River into Yolo Bypass farm fields than the DWR previously disclosed to the public, the county said. According to the news release, the county discovered that the project is being built to release 12,000 cubic feet per second, rather than the 6,000 cfs rate DWR disclosed in public documents. That, officials say, equates roughly to the entire Sacramento River
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The Fremont Weir is a 1.8-mile-long concrete structure designed to allow flow into the Yolo Bypass during high-flow events when the Sacramento River is higher than the weir’s 32-foot elevation. flow at the Fremont Weir on a typical summer day. The petition also asserts that DWR violated CEQA by making changes to the project after its initial
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