Auburn’s Historic Courthouse, shown in this Sentinel file photo taken last spring, will be getting a new roof. |
The Historic Placer County Courthouse, Auburn’s landmark for the past 113 years, will soon be receiving a $1,080,000 roof repair job. The board of supervisors authorized the project this week after County Facilities Director Jim Durfee described the severity of roof leaks, especially in the walkways at the colonnade and the stone gallery of the dome. Leaks are also prevalent on the exterior metal cladding on the walls, columns, parapets and other features. The county still owns the Courthouse despite the fact that state courts take up most of its space. On a proportional basis, Durfee said the county will pay up to $275,000 toward the roof work while the Administrative Office of the Courts pays the lion’s share.
The supervisors also held a second and final reading of a hazardous
vegetation abatement ordinance affecting unimproved properties in the
eastern part of the county, especially in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Owners of unimproved parcels adjacent to improved parcels will face
fines up to $1,000 — and up to six months in jail in severe cases — if
they don’t remove combustible vegetation to lessen the danger of
wildfire. The ordinance is Board Chairman Bruce Kranz’s “baby” and he firmly
opposed a request by Tahoe area real estate interests to delay its
enactment pending additional study and possible amendments to it. In another public safety matter, the board accepted a $647,000 homeland
security grant that will be used to finance the third phase of the
countywide interoperable radio network project. The county’s required
match for the grant is $129,400. The project will improve the ability of first-responders to communicate with voice, data, and/or video signals. Other business by the supervisors included: — Reappointment to the Older Adult Advisory Committee of Kitty Hollitz,
Annabell McCord, Trudi Riley-Quinn, Glora Plasencia, Nancy Vasquez and
Michael Alward. — Appointment of Michael Bryant to the Placer County Historical Advisory Board. — Approval of these general fund “revenue sharing” handouts: $1,000 to
the High Sierra Resource Conservation District for USDA Mandarin
Synephrine Study (requested by Supervisor Jim Holmes); $750 to the
Auburn Chamber of Commerce’s Festival of Lights Parade (requested by
Holmes); $300 to Senior Independent Services for its 12th annual Fall
Brewfest (requested by Holmes). The board was to meet Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Community
Development Resource Agency building at DeWitt Center to consider an
appeal of a county planning commission finding that Chevreaux
Aggregates can legally operate its asphalt plant in Meadow Vista. The
results of the meeting will be reported in the Sentinel’s next edition. The board’s final two meetings of the year are scheduled for November 27 and December 11 in Auburn. Subscribe to the Sentinel and receive this weekly newspaper (the only general circulation newspaper in the area that is locally owned and operated) delivered right to your mailbox. Call the Sentinel at 530-823-2463 for more information.
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