TUESDAY 4-12-22 KAHI LOCAL NEWS
The Chamber of Commerce MEDDLERS meeting, a weekly session every Tuesday, this morning received the regular updates on City of Auburn business, and a update on the Placer County activity from the Mayor Sandy Amara and Chairperson supervisor Cindy Gustafson. The guest speaker was Placer County District Attorney Morgan Gire.
Mayor Amara reported the city is working with Auburn Unified School officials on complaints about drug use and smoking in the park behind City Hall, a review with Police Chief Ryan Kinnan, and mentioned that the council meetings start at 5 p.m. now at city hall.
The county update included a request from residents to update the county on status of internet signals throughout the county to help them try and get the status of the county to be rural which will help getting grant money from the state to get upgraded internet services; a renewal of a 5 year agreement with Gathering Inn for the management of the homeless shelter program at Dewitt Center; and brief of activity on wild fire fuel management in the county.
DA Morgan Gire updated the group on his background and career, mentioned the DA process of selecting cases, explained their approach at dealing with increases of illegal drug activity and DUI cases. He stated that fentanyl is dangerous and 4 out of ten pills on the street have enough poison to kill and human and the majority are coming from China. He also said they eliminated over 400 thousand of these illegal drugs from getting to street users. DA Gire also explained his office pursuing murder charges on anyone selling these drugs which results in death of the user.
MEDDLERS meets every Tuesday at 7:00 a.m. in room 12 on the third floor of Auburn City Hall, and also on zoom for internet users.
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Union Nurses and other health care workers at Sutter Health plan a one-day walkout at three Sacramento-area hospitals and 12 others statewide Monday after contract negotiations stalled. One complaint by the Union is Sutter refuses to include them in planning and implantation of policy during a pandemic.
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A female suspect has been taken into custody by Placer County sheriffs following a house fire in Alta that occurred Monday afternoon. Sheriffs received a call reporting a disturbance on highway loop in which surveillance captured a female setting a vehicle on fire which spread into a cabin which caused two people to escapes the flames and run into nearby woods. Placer county sheriffs are investigating the incident and will update information as the investigation continues.
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The City of Sacramento, under pressure from Sacramento County, proceeded yesterday to forcibly clear a highly visible homeless encampment which for the last few years has built a major homeless encampment at Howe Avenue and Fair Oaks Blvd.
Homeless activists are now moving to say this was an illegal move by the city. Some 30 people have been occupying a well-lighted field at Howe and Fair oaks blvd. which is owned by the city of Sacramento. The federal ruling has said that the owners of the property, if government entities, cannot disperse homeless residents unless they have housing for them. The city has stated they have an interested buyer for the property; however, this maybe not to be true at the moment, and interested developers have leased this property with investment and private purchasing yet to be completed. This appears to another raging fight between public owned property and squatters taking possession under the homeless act as the homeless issue gains attention at state, county, and city levels. It appears that Sacramento County, Sacramento City and other local political groups, and advocates that support homeless are still trying to sort out how the havea s and have nots will eventually get to an acceptable plan that will be acceptable to all concerned. This maneuver seems to be in a play book by some business, political and other factions to take control and get rid of the homeless issue in the five county area that surrounds Sacramento County.
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