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Storm impacts, nuisance ordinance top board agenda $1.88M in ARPA funding to nonprofits up for review Todd R. Hansen THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET
FAIRFIELD — Solano County Administrator Bill Emlen on Tuesday will give the Board of Supervisors a review of the impacts left by the series of winter storms. The board has scheduled morning and afternoon sessions. The storm update leads off the meeting at 9 a.m. in the board chamber on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. Also during the morning session is intro-
duction of a nuisance ordinance that is intended “to add administrative penalties and other remedies for the abatement of public nuisances.” If approved, the existing nuisance provisions stay the same except for the following changes or additions: n A process to notice and issue administrative penalties for four broad categories of violations: building code violations, event permit violations, short term rental (vacation home rental) See Storm, Page A9
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A vineyard is flooded along Abernathy Road in between Rockville and Mankas Corner roads in Fairfield, Jan. 9.
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FAIRFIELD — The county is seeking help from the public to identify people and businesses that suffered losses during the recent series of storms that caused localized flooding and related damage. The Solano County Office if Emergency Services asks those who suffered storm-related damage to fill out a
brief survey at https:// arcg.is/Hiu00. Solano OES is collecting information to support a request for federal financial assistance. Personal data will not be collected or stored, Solano OES reports. The survey is not a report for insurance and does not guarantee financial assistance. Residents and businesses should still report damages to their insurance providers.
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An induction charging plate is installed at the SolTrans Park and Ride in Vallejo, Friday. $71 million at today’s prices, bringing the total new spending to $93 million. And that all depends on service needs – local and commuter routes – and ridership demand over the next 18 years.
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“And funding,” Carr quickly added. SolTrans recently took over some of the Fairfield and Suisun Transit routes, and with that, came nine diesel buses, taking the total See Station, Page A9
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VALLEJO — Solano County Transit, like other transportation agencies in California, must reach a zero-emission target by 2040. To do that, SolTrans must convert what Pat Carr, the General Services manager for the agency, said will likely be a fleet of 70 to 80 local and commuter buses into zero-emission coaches, likely electric-battery vehicles. She calls the buses the “cool, sexy” part of the changeover that gets a lot of attention. “But if you don’t have the infrastructure, you are looking at cool, sexy bricks,” Carr said. SolTrans hopes to break ground in March on an $11 million infrastructure project, but will likely have to spend triple that to have the infrastructure needed to support vehicles that will meet the 2040 emission target. The cost of 80 buses, minus the five in the fleet now and four more that have been funded, is another
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