Calaveras leaders eye Saddle Creek

The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will vote on whether to extend Saddle Creek’s development agreement for another five years. The original 15-year agreement was approved in 1994 to last until 2009. In November 2008, the Board of Supervisors extended the agreement until June 2014, with the ability for an additional five-year extension. The project — originally called the Calaveras Country Club, and later renamed Saddle Creek... Read More

Hat Man: Democracy makes hiring a challenge

Dana Nichols Calaveras Enterprise Tuesday, October 14, 2014 CCWD board scheduled to hire soon, before a new board is seated When a job becomes unpleasant enough, it’s hard to get anyone to do it. That happened in the late Roman Empire, when members of the patrician class found it was no longer lucrative to be a city administrator. In fact, if such administrators failed to meet their tax collection goals, they had to make up the difference from... Read More

CAP/CPC presents: Let’s Talk About…WATER & THE DROUGHT

Monday, September 15, 2014 – 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. San Andreas Library Chesebrough Room Public welcome -Free admission Last year’s snowpack was only 17 percent of normal and 2013 turned out to be one of the state’s driest years on record.  California is now experiencing its third consecutive dry year. In Calaveras, residents are concerned about the capacity of their wells, public utilities are being challenged to meet their water needs... Read More

Calaveras Supervisors reaffirm support for Wild & Scenic Moke

Transcript of Comments; Call for River Artists; Water Politics in Calaveras; new Groundwater websites & proposed regulations; September Public Meeting on Water and Drought Calaveras BOS stands strong for a Wild and Scenic Moke!  On July 29, 2014, a 4-1 vote reaffirmed Calaveras supervisors’ support of state Wild and Scenic designation for 37 miles of the Mokelumne River.  Supervisor Cliff Edson, who requested Tuesday’s meeting,... Read More

This just in … Here’s the text for Governor Brown’s compromise bond proposal

“Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders floated a $7.195 billion water bond compromise Monday, as the deadline to get a replacement measure on the ballot looms.  Brown and Democratic leaders have sought to revise the bond currently set to go before voters in November, which was written in 2009 and costs $11.1 billion — a price tag Brown says is too high. … “Read Here or LA Times  Read More

Curtailments to junior water rights are just the beginning if California’s drought continues.

Calaveras Enterprise, July 8 State Water Resources Control Board hearing: The slide summarized water supply and demand this summer in the vast Sacramento and San Joaquin watersheds: Read Here  Read More

City eyes planning developments

By Alicia Castro | Posted: Friday, June 6, 2014 6:00 am /Calaveras Enterprise The Angels Camp Planning Department had the attention of the city council Tuesday night when it presented projects and ordinances related to the city’s growth. One such item was the Partnership Planning Grant, an award of $150,000 granted to the city from Caltrans through the Calaveras Council of Governments in 2013 to review the north Highway 4 and 49 intersection. The... Read More

District 5 and the General Plan update

By Muriel Zeller | Posted: Friday, May 30, 2014 6:00 am As a resident of District 5, I read with interest the Enterprise’s “District 5 Questionnaire” completed by the incumbent Supervisor Darren Spellman and his three challengers in the upcoming election – Roy Estakhri, Steve Kearney and Marti Crane. I was particularly interested in responses that related to the interminably ongoing update of the county’s General Plan and whether community... Read More

CCWD board votes to give GM the boot

Water agency fires GM Mitch Dion after only 18 months; agency has had eight general managers in 10 years. Calaveras Enterprise, June 3  Read More

Draft General Plan document should be late summer.

At the May 27th Board of Supervisors meeting the new Planning Director stated that the release of a draft General Plan document should be late summer.  In a vote at that meeting the Board of Supervisors extended the contract with Augustine Planning Associates (APA) thru to December 31, 2015.  This extension of time will allow APA to finish the GPU, participate in upcoming public meetings and hearings associated with the GPU process and eliminate... Read More