Daily Republic: Sunday, March 26, 2023 by mcnaughtonmedia

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Legislative Committee on Monday will consider making a recommendation on the California State Association of Counties’ “comprehensive plan to address homelessness.” The “At Home” plan is an acronym for a six-point document that addresses Accountability, Transparency, Housing, Outreach, Mitigation and Economic Opportunity. “Despite significant investments and partnerships between the state and local governments, our response to helping those who are unhoused is fragmented and lacks clear lines of responsibility, accountability and sustainability,” CSAC stated on its webpage on the plan. The committee meets at 1:30 p.m. in Conference Room 6003 on the sixth floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. Under accountability, for example, the plan calls for development of “a

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VACAVILLE — The City Council will be asked Tuesday to approve the Vacaville Housing Authority Annual Public Housing Agency and Moving to Work Supplemental Plan. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at 650 Merchant St. The U.S. Housing and Urban Development Housing Choice Voucher Program is the federal government’s major program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly and the disabled to afford housing in the private market. Vouchers are administered locally by the Vacaville Housing

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comprehensive and coordinated plan that includes all levels of government. The undertow of massive economic and systemic inequities, as well as a tangled web of decisions made by well-intentioned policies and programs built over decades, continues to stymie efforts to support those who are unhoused or at risk of becoming unhoused.” It calls for clearly defining the roles of cities and counties, committing to ongoing instead of one-time funding and to “work with the state and cities from start to finish, require the submission of countywide or regional plans with established, clear goals and responsibilities.” Under economic opportunity, it further calls for development of “specialized education and career programs and services . . . needed to support the economic opportunity and longterm self-sufficiency of those who are formerly homeless or at risk of experiencing homelessness, See CSAC, Page A9

Vaca council to discuss housing vouchers, moveto-work program Daily Republic Staff

Supes to consider tourist home, wind energy policies

Authority, which receives federal grant funds from HUD to administer the program. The program contributes almost $12.6 million into the local economy each year. HUD allocates 1,392 vouchers to the Housing Authority each month, including special programs: 50 Family Unification Vouchers, 61 Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Vouchers, 31 Emergency Housing Vouchers; and 101 Mainstream Vouchers. To continue to receive federal funding, one requirement of HUD regulations is a five-year and then Annual Public Housing Agency Plan be See Council, Page A9

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A wind turbine at the Anheuser-Busch Budweiser brewery operates with smoky skies in the background in Fairfield, Aug. 18, 2020.

FAIRFIELD — Policies on short-term vacation rentals and wind energy will be considered by the Solano County supervisors when they meet Tuesday. Solano Resource Conservation District Education Director Marianne Butler also will talk about the agency’s ongoing educational programs. The board meets at 9 a.m. in the first-floor chamber of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. However, the public hearing on the proposed General Plan amendment regarding “development of wind energy facilities and their potential impact on Travis Air Force Base” is part of an afternoon session that begins at 2 p.m. The Solano County Planning Commission on March 2 voted to recommend the Board of Supervisors approve the restrictions on future wind power projects. “It’s a life safety issue,” Commissioner Mike Reagan, who retired from the Air Force and had been stationed at Travis for part of his career, said at the time. The amendment would, in part: n Prohibit the development of new commercial wind energy generation facilities north of Highway 12. n Explicitly require that any proposals for new or modified commercial wind energy generation facilities provide line-of-sight analyses See Supes, Page A9

Newsom rolls back California drought restrictions after unusually wet winter Tribune Content Agency DUNNIGAN — On the heels of one of California’s wettest winters on record, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced that he will roll back some of the state’s most severe drought restrictions and dramatically increase water supplies for agencies serving 27 million people. Among the rescinded items is Newsom’s call for a voluntary 15% reduction in water use, issued amid drying conditions in July 2021. He declared a statewide drought emergency that October. The governor also rescinded a March 2022

order requiring urban water suppliers to activate Level 2 of their water shortage contingency plans, which indicates a shortage of 20% and prompts increased conservation actions. Newsom made the announcement at a ranch in the green Dunnigan Hills in Yolo County, north of Sacramento, where rice and almond farmers were celebrating the wet winter and have been able to recharge some groundwater supplies this season for crops. But Newsom stopped short of declaring that the drought is over, saying some parts

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of his drought emergency order remain important as California adapts to volatile weather patterns and the looming possibility of another long dry spell.

“It’s incumbent upon us to continue to maintain our vigilance and maintain some provisions of the executive order to allow for fast tracking of See Drought, Page A9

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