A8 Wednesday, June 30, 2021 — DAILY REPUBLIC
Crime logs Fairfield Friday, June 25 12:13 a.m. — Prowler, 500 block of BELL AVENUE 3:21 a.m. — Indecent exposure, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 5:29 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 800 block of CHADBOURNE ROAD 8:04 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 9:26 a.m. — Vandalism, 1300 block of WOOLNER AVENUE 10:22 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, PACIFIC AVENUE 11:05 a.m. — Trespassing, 1300 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 11:14 a.m. — Reckless driver, BECK AVENUE 11:26 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, DOVER AVENUE 12:08 p.m. — Residential burglary, 200 block of EAST ALASKA AVENUE 1:23 p.m. — Grand theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 1:59 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1600 block of SUNSET AVENUE 2:25 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 3000 block of GERMAN STREET 2:27 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2200 block of PEACH TREE DRIVE 2:40 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 3000 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 2:56 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 300 block of MADISON STREET 3:37 p.m. — Reckless driver, 900 block of MARIETTA COURT 4:28 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, WEST TEXAS STREET 4:37 p.m. — Reckless driver, DERONDE DRIVE 4:55 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2100 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 5:09 p.m. — Residential burglary, 5000 block of ELLIS GODFREY DRIVE 5:50 p.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of CHADBOURNE ROAD 5:54 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1600 block of TRAVION COURT 6:51 p.m. — Drunken driver, 1400 block of KENTUCKY STREET 7:42 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1900 block of WALTERS COURT 8 p.m. — Battery, 1200 block of B. GALE WILSON BOULEVARD 8:04 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1700 block of CATLIN DRIVE 8:30 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 1000 block of FOURTH STREET 8:32 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 2000 block of EAGLE WAY 8:34 p.m. — Battery, 1700 block of IDAHO STREET 8:43 p.m. — Indecent exposure, 500 block of TAYLOR STREET 9:02 p.m. — Shots fired, 5000 block of ROWE DRIVE 9:12 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1400 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 9:27 p.m. — Battery, 1600 block of TRAVION COURT 9:52 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 700 block of JACKSON STREET 11:15 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 500 block of ALASKA AVENUE 11:41 p.m. — Shots fired, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE
Saturday, June 26 2:45 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2100 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 12:19 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1100 block of WILLOW LANE 1:24 p.m. — Battery, 700 block of DELAWARE STREET 1:35 p.m. — Robbery, 2300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 2:32 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3100 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 3:48 p.m. — Vandalism, 1600 block of TRAVION COURT 4:10 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1800 block of DOVER AVENUE 4:53 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 5 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, CADENASSO DRIVE 5:01 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2400 block of BEAUFORT DRIVE 6:03 p.m. — Vandalism, 1400 block of WOOLNER AVENUE 9:54 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, EAST TABOR AVENUE 11:03 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1300 block of MONROE STREET
Sunday, June 27 12:52 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 1 a.m. — Shots fired, 2300 block of SHELDON DRIVE 4:07 a.m. — Drunken driver, 1700
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block of WEST TEXAS STREET 5:04 a.m. — Drunken driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 9:04 a.m. — Vandalism, 500 block of ACACIA STREET 10:23 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 100 block of SERRANO DRIVE 12:39 p.m. — Trespassing, 300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 1:21 p.m. — Reckless driver, EAST TABOR AVENUE 1:28 p.m. — Residential burglary, 4800 block of HERITAGE COURT 1:33 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 2:10 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 1900 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 2:25 p.m. — Reckless driver, BECK AVENUE 2:45 p.m. — Shots fired, 100 block of SERRANO DRIVE 2:45 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2300 block of HUNTINGTON DRIVE 3 p.m. — Drunken driver, 2400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 3:49 p.m. — Trespassing, 100 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 4:13 p.m. — Reckless driver, PEABODY ROAD 4:23 p.m. — Reckless driver, DOVER AVENUE 4:46 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1700 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 7:09 p.m. — Vandalism, 2900 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 8:38 p.m. — Reckless driver, 5300 block of GATHER WAY 8:51 p.m. — Reckless driver, EAST WYOMING STREET 10:05 p.m. — Reckless driver, 2900 block of CORDELIA ROAD
Monday, June 28 7:55 a.m. — Reckless driver, HILBORN ROAD 8:14 a.m. — Residential burglary, 2300 block of JOSIAH WING DRIVE 8:40 a.m. — Grand theft, 1300 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 8:45 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 2200 block of HUNTINGTON DRIVE 9:42 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD 9:52 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 5000 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 10:09 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 500 block of DAHLIA COURT 2:17 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 2:25 p.m. — Trespassing, 2200 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 3:16 p.m. — Vandalism, 600 block of KENNEDY COURT 3:47 p.m. — Trespassing, 3000 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 3:50 p.m. — Trespassing, 2400 block of WATERMAN BOULEVARD 3:56 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 3200 block of HARTFORD AVENUE 3:56 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 4600 block of CENTRAL WAY 4:14 p.m. — Trespassing, 400 block of TABOR AVENUE 4:52 p.m. — Vandalism, 1600 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 5:14 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 1400 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 5:29 p.m. — Indecent exposures, 1300 block of HOLIDAY LANE 10:32 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE 10:46 p.m. — Reckless driver, MARTIN ROAD 11:45 p.m. — Rape, 100 block of HAWTHORN DRIVE
Suisun City Friday, June 25 9:14 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1100 block of KELLOGG STREET 3:42 p.m. — Vandalism, 500 block of EL MAR COURT 8:04 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 600 block of VILLAGE DRIVE
Saturday, June 26 6:36 a.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of REDHEAD WAY 5:49 p.m. — Vandalism, 1000 block of LONGSPUR DRIVE
Sunday, June 27 7:35 a.m. — Vandalism, 1000 block of LONGSPUR DRIVE 6:18 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 200 block of MAIN STREET 9:32 p.m. — Reckless driver, LAWLER RANCH PARKWAY / MAYFIELD CIRCLE
Monday, June 28 2:02 a.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 100 block of SUNSET AVENUE 5:43 p.m. — Assault, 800 block of GAZEBO COURT
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get $50,000 in TOT and $2.65 million in sales tax during the 2021-22 fiscal year that starts Thursday. Napa County, in anticicomparison, pates $2.19 million in TOT, and $11.8 million in sales tax during next fiscal year, according to Napa officials. Spering and Supervisor John Vasquez sit on the Land Use and T ranspor tat ion Committee looking into economic improvement opportunities. A r e c ent meeting included an agenda that noted the regulatory update on the Williamson Act, and possible zoning amendments updating uses in the exclusive agriculture and highway commercial districts. It also included potential general plan amendments updating the Municipal Service Area boundaries, an area in the county that could receive water and sewer services from cities without annexations. It also included an update on policy review regarding development near cities. “There are a lot of places where we don’t need city services,” said Spering, adding, however, that if the county can work with cities on mutually beneficial projects than those should be explored. Ter r y S ch m idtbauer, the director of the Department of Resource Management, said much of the work is really updating regulations and standards to meet the new demands and, in the case
of agriculture, the new technologies. The exclusive agriculture z on i n g, for example, needs to be updated to allow some of these new-technology operations as uses vasquez within the zone. One of the biggest aspects of this shift is that Solano County wants to make the new farming a use by right, which would shave away regulatory requirements. Allan Calder, the county planning manager, also noted research and academics is part of the bigger picture and that needs to be addressed in the zoning districts, too. “The topic of education is something that we are seeing coming out of this (technology shift), and that is UC Davis,” Calder said. King said having a world-class agriculture research university close by certainly helps to recruit and grow these new farming operations. He said not only will these companies be able to partner with the university on research and other aspects of their operations, but they also will have access to the next generation of farmers. Reworking the uses allowed in the commercial highway districts also is a reaction to the changes it needs for the “motoring public” and the business sectors using those transportation lanes in and out of the county. “This also gives us an opportunity to meet our (regional housing) needs,” Calder added, noting the state requirement
for developing a certain amount of various housing types, from lowto higher-income stock based on population and the existing and future markets. The idea here, Calder added, is to create affordable housing for the workforce in the same vicinity as the new commercial and other developments. The Board of Supervisors in early April raised the possibility of the county getting into housing development – typically a city task – to create more affordable housing in the county, and even housing for the homeless population. “I think it’s time the county looks at a strategic plan for affordable housing, even if we have to amend the General Plan to identify places to put in affordable housing,” Spering said at that meeting. The first Planning Commission hearings on general plan amendments could come as early as September, with the Board of Supervisors holding hearings in November. Spering said part of the task is to determine what the county can amend on its own authority, and would require voter approval. A second phase would include study of the area between Vacaville and Dixon for possible general plan changes. The formal hearings that would follow the study would not be expected to take place until March.
victims whose lives have been lost and those still missing are “invariably incredibly special people” who have touched others “all across the world.” Family members of those unaccounted for remained hopeful, despite the strong undercurrent of despair and futility. A couple of hundred people gathered Monday night at a beach vigil to remember the victims of the building collapse, with both relatives and strangers joining in the silence and the pain. “I have not lost any hope or faith,” said Martin Lagesfeld, whose 26-yearold sister Nicole lived in unit 804 of Champlain Towers South with her husband, Louis. “I know she’s still there, I know it,”
Lagesfeld told WPLG-TV. Cranes at the scene on Collins Avenue and 88th Street continue to move slowly but steadily to remove buckets of rubble. Apartments still standing next to the collapsed sections of the tower were numbered 2 through 11 in green spray paint to identify the levels. Rescue crews continued digging a large trench through the rubble of the collapsed 136-unit Surfside condo tower. They used heavy equipment to create the trench, which is described to be 125 feet long, 20 feet wide and 40 feet deep. It was created for two purposes. One of the reasons is to let rescuers search for survivors in other parts of the pile with their dogs,
cameras, sonar and infrared technology. It was also part of an effort to combat a “deep” fire that the county’s mayor, Levine Cava, described over the weekend as “hampering” search efforts. On Tuesday, MiamiDade Fire Chief Alan Cominsky said 3 million pounds of concrete have been removed from the site of the condo collapse but there are still barriers to progress in the search efforts. He said rescue workers are not going back into the west section of the building facing Collins Avenue that is still standing because it is too dangerous, and he also said that they cannot enter a large area under the rubble on the eastern side because of the same risk.
them – particularly California, which he said failed to “clean your forests” of combustible vegetation – for failing to prevent and stop wildfires. The threat comes amid staffing shortages at the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, problems exacerbated by low pay, competition from state and local fire departments and exhaustion from last year’s fire season. More than a month after seasonal hiring would typically have ended, the federal government is still trying to fill vacant positions on hot shot crews, the most elite and experienced firefighting teams. Although these crews are venerated for leading the attack against the most difficult fires, some have had so
many veteran firefighters quit that they’ve been downgraded to a lowerranking status. Nationally, fire management teams are having to compete with each other for crews and equipment much earlier in the season than in years past. On June 22, the National Interagency Fire Center, which coordinates fire response from Boise, Idaho, raised the national preparedness to level 4 on a 1 to 5 scale, saying it was the second earliest it had reached that point. The shortages have filled crews on the fire lines with anxiety and led to louder calls for change. “We’re at a point where we’re simply going to be overwhelmed year after year going forward given the current systems we have in place,” said Jim
Whittington, an expert in wildland fire response. “We really need to look at the way we staff and work wildland fires, the way we fund them, and the way we take care of our people. We need a full reset.” Along with calls for higher pay – a firstyear Forest Service firefighter currently earns a base wage of $13.45 an hour – there are those like Whittington who believe firefighting needs to become a fulltime job. Currently, the federal government fills its ranks each summer with thousands of seasonal firefighters who don’t get health insurance and are laid off after about six months. Some of these workers struggle at the end of the season as months of stress take their toll.
resolve policy issues and establish a framework to share toll revenues for project funding. “We know what it takes to get it done. We have certain milestones to meet, and now we have this document that memorializes our commitment to the project,” said California Secretary of Transportation David S. Kim after the signing ceremony Monday at the construction site in Otay Mesa. On the California side, the $1 billion project has already secured $565 million in local, state
and federal funding. The remainder is expected to be financed mostly through toll revenue. On the Mexican side, a first phase investment of more than $186 million is contemplated for construction work and access roads, according to Roberto Velasco, director of North America with the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Initially, Otay Mesa East will have five lanes for vehicles and five more for commercial trucks, with the option for these to be interchangeable
depending on the time and demand, explained María Rodríguez-Molina, project manager with SANDAG. Toll fees will not be collected at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection point, but “either through electronic pay” or in toll booths that will be placed within the U.S. on the State Route 11. Toll collection will be for both northbound and southbound traffic. The revenue will be divided between the U.S. and Mexico, added Mario Orso, project director with Caltrans.
