June 17, 1965 (24 pages)

BUD NEVADA COUNTY Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Ve Red Omega, French Corral, ye and Ready, Granitev: Cans Ne rg og Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, P G Eye, Guhe Ma's Grizzl yo hte Gold Flat, a ip 8 Oy 0% Bw, Lowell fill "eB Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, N Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Bircheille Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony illew Vallay, Newtown: Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbi Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, ark, We NUGOET fou Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flet, Seeetland, Alpha, , Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Blue Tent, ‘olf, Christmas Hill, Libe Hill, Sailor Flat, lake Cay, City, rt ; Columbia, Columbia Hill, B Flat, Sebasto Bronty Tea, 5 a Volume 39 Number 24 10 Cents a Copy Published Thursdays, Nevada City June 17, 1965 @ NUGGET SPECIAL REPORT Malakoff Park Prospects look Bright As Land Acquisition Program Moves Ahead (EDITOR'S NOTE--T his is the first of two reports on the current status and future prospects for Nevada County's second and largest state park--Malakoff State Park). By. Don Hoagland Land acquisition at the Malakoff State Park site is underway and prospects are good that the state will soon be acquiring major portions of the proposed 7000 acre park area. This was disclosed last week when the Nugget contacted Senator PaulJ. Lunardi andBob Hatch, chief of advanced planning for the state Division of Beaches and Parks, Several things came out ofthis discussion in Sacramento and all of them indicate that the state is moving ahead with Malakoff asrapidly as possible and Nevada ~ County will have its second park just as soon as there was enough land acquired onswhich to erect park facilities. The Malakoff story started in the spring of 1961 when a group of officials from Beaches and Parks, at the urging of local citizens, toured the Malakoff hydraulic diggings with an eye toward creating a state park there, The officials, including Clyde Newlin, superintendent of District III ofBeaches and Parks, and assistant district superintendent, Mel Whitaker, returned toNevada City and urged the local citizens to drum up county-wide support for the park. W hat followed was one of the greatest landslides of resolutions in support of a proposed park ever to descend on Sacramento, The people in Nevada County were in favor of a state park at Malakoff Diggings andthe people in Sacra~mento sat up and took notice, In the fall of that same year, Beaches and Parks Chief Charles DeTurk, Newlin, the then Senator Ron Cameron and the then As-~ semblyman Lunardi, toured the great colored hillsides of the hydraulic diggings and also re~ turned to Nevada City with high praise for the proposal, In the fall of 1961 the State Park Commission ordered a feasibility study tosee if the Malakoff plan could be incorporated into the state's five year land acquisition program, A report to the commission delivered by Hatch upheld the feasibility and desirability of a Malakoff State Park. The Malakoff Park proposal then went into an up and down history . of being included in the $150 million bond issue for beaches and park ac quisition in 1962 which went downtodefeat, being included in the governor's $19 million land acquisition program in 1963 and eal bers scratched from the plan, and then in June of 1963 being put back on the track again by having $550,000 budgeted by a joint legislative committee for land acquisition. In January of 1964 land acquisition officially started in the proposed park area and in Septenr ber of that year the Department (Continued on Page 2) Pe nic ET AXE IS POISED Sharp Cuts Will Be Needed To Balance Nevada City Budget Nevada City Council Monday night went. over a budget of $366 ,840 and found the city would have to come up with more than $154,000 in additional revenue to. make the tentative budget work, Tentative is. the word for the budget presented, for without extensive cuts and or a sizable tax increase, use of state and federal funds or all of these to pull the city out of the current financial depths, it will be impossible for the city to be on an even financial basis. The regular financial picture of the city as presented in the preliminary budget is not too bad. The budget calls for anticipated revenue of $212,600. This does not include year end fund balMALAKOFF HYDRAULIC. rdtgolaae where miners . aibed away the hills in iearch of gold, will “8 in the heart of the new state park in Nevada County, Land acquisition for the 7,000 acre park is underway, Howard Gets Title Of Fiscal Watchdog And Is Employed On A Permanent Basis Stan Howard, Nevada City's part-time accountant, bookkeeper and bearer of concise, ' but distressing financial news, became the city's full-time fiscal “watchdog” Monday night. City Manager Henry Roese asked that Howard, who was employed on a temporary basis several months ago to help with freeway utility relocation billing, have hisemployment extended, Roese saidthere was still much work to be done including preparing the budget, bookkeeping and working with the city auditor. Mayor Arch McPherson said that considering the city was preparing to hire anew city manager to fill the vacancy created by Roese’s resignation, he would move that Howard be retained until July 1, 1966. Councilman BerylRobinson said he did not see the need for setting a date for termination of employment. He suggested Howard just be hired on a permanent basis like the rest of the city employees, Howard said lie would be happy to take the post and that determination of his title and exact duties should be deferred until the new city manager takes office. He said he likes to consider himself the “watchdog of the city finances” and would be happy to continue to help, Mayor McPherson told Howard that if it was all right with him, he would just remain as the fiscal "watchdog" for the time being. General Plan Reports Reviewed The Citizens Advisory Committee for the Nevada County General Plan met Tuesday night to go over tentative recommendations prepared by the various subcommittees, Eachchairman presented a five minute summary of the recommendations of his committee, The individual committees then discussed the recommendations and then each chairman presented the comments of his committee in regard to the recommendations under discussion, The entire program was reviewed and dis~cussed in this manner. The subcommittees will now take their preliminary reports (Continued on Page 2) ances which are unknown at this time, but to which city officials are hopefully looking for about $10,000. This would put the revenue figure at about $222, 600 and proposed expenditures at $245,940. This imbalance could be taken care of by cuts all along the line. The big problem comes in an item of $120,900 for special expenditures. These include items the city must handle at state direction and things which have been promised long ago, but never accomplished, Special expenditures of $10,000 for employee reitrement, $50,000 for sewer plant ponding and $20,000 for improvements to the Sugar Loaf Reservoir look like it will remain in the budget. The determination as to whether the rest of these special projects will be accomplished, will be up to thecounty council, Eachone cut out decreases the amount of additional revenue required. The proposed fire department ; budget came in for some careful j study when presented by assistant chief Leonard Valdez. The department is asking for a budget of $22,509 and Councilman Dan O'Neill suggested fire department officials take it back tothe board of delegates and start by cutting it by one third, Fire Chief Jim Sharp pointed out that, the department had already returned $6,000 to the city from its budget this year, O'Neill said this made little difference, The fact was that the city did not have the income to support such a budget. He went on tonote that over the past few years the fire department had consistently budgeted more than they expended, In the light of this, he said he did not think a requested budget cut of one third was unreasonable, City assessed valuation in the preliminary budget is set at $3, 212,940. ‘The city's basic rate is $1 and O'Neill noted that even if the city went for an override rate of an additional $1, it would only bring in about $30,000 which would hardly scratch the surface of the financialneeds of the city. The budget and the ways and means to make it work was put off for further discussion, In other action the council-Approved a resolution of acceptance for the completion of work on the Gold Run sewer line freeway crossing; Heard a report from engineer R, W. Ingram that negotiations were under way on property acquisition for the rebuilding of Park Avenue and Nimrod Streets and that agreements should be ready by the meeting Monday night.

BUD NEVADA COUNTY Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Ve Red Omega, French Corral, ye and Ready, Granitev: Cans Ne rg og Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, P G Eye, Guhe Ma's Grizzl yo hte Gold Flat, a ip 8 Oy 0% Bw, Lowell fill "eB Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, N Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Bircheille Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony illew Vallay, Newtown: Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbi Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, ark, We NUGOET fou Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flet, Seeetland, Alpha, , Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Blue Tent, ‘olf, Christmas Hill, Libe Hill, Sailor Flat, lake Cay, City, rt ; Columbia, Columbia Hill, B Flat, Sebasto Bronty Tea, 5 a Volume 39 Number 24 10 Cents a Copy Published Thursdays, Nevada City June 17, 1965 @ NUGGET SPECIAL REPORT Malakoff Park Prospects look Bright As Land Acquisition Program Moves Ahead (EDITOR'S NOTE--T his is the first of two reports on the current status and future prospects for Nevada County's second and largest state park--Malakoff State Park). By. Don Hoagland Land acquisition at the Malakoff State Park site is underway and prospects are good that the state will soon be acquiring major portions of the proposed 7000 acre park area. This was disclosed last week when the Nugget contacted Senator PaulJ. Lunardi andBob Hatch, chief of advanced planning for the state Division of Beaches and Parks, Several things came out ofthis discussion in Sacramento and all of them indicate that the state is moving ahead with Malakoff asrapidly as possible and Nevada ~ County will have its second park just as soon as there was enough land acquired onswhich to erect park facilities. The Malakoff story started in the spring of 1961 when a group of officials from Beaches and Parks, at the urging of local citizens, toured the Malakoff hydraulic diggings with an eye toward creating a state park there, The officials, including Clyde Newlin, superintendent of District III ofBeaches and Parks, and assistant district superintendent, Mel Whitaker, returned toNevada City and urged the local citizens to drum up county-wide support for the park. W hat followed was one of the greatest landslides of resolutions in support of a proposed park ever to descend on Sacramento, The people in Nevada County were in favor of a state park at Malakoff Diggings andthe people in Sacra~mento sat up and took notice, In the fall of that same year, Beaches and Parks Chief Charles DeTurk, Newlin, the then Senator Ron Cameron and the then As-~ semblyman Lunardi, toured the great colored hillsides of the hydraulic diggings and also re~ turned to Nevada City with high praise for the proposal, In the fall of 1961 the State Park Commission ordered a feasibility study tosee if the Malakoff plan could be incorporated into the state's five year land acquisition program, A report to the commission delivered by Hatch upheld the feasibility and desirability of a Malakoff State Park. The Malakoff Park proposal then went into an up and down history . of being included in the $150 million bond issue for beaches and park ac quisition in 1962 which went downtodefeat, being included in the governor's $19 million land acquisition program in 1963 and eal bers scratched from the plan, and then in June of 1963 being put back on the track again by having $550,000 budgeted by a joint legislative committee for land acquisition. In January of 1964 land acquisition officially started in the proposed park area and in Septenr ber of that year the Department (Continued on Page 2) Pe nic ET AXE IS POISED Sharp Cuts Will Be Needed To Balance Nevada City Budget Nevada City Council Monday night went. over a budget of $366 ,840 and found the city would have to come up with more than $154,000 in additional revenue to. make the tentative budget work, Tentative is. the word for the budget presented, for without extensive cuts and or a sizable tax increase, use of state and federal funds or all of these to pull the city out of the current financial depths, it will be impossible for the city to be on an even financial basis. The regular financial picture of the city as presented in the preliminary budget is not too bad. The budget calls for anticipated revenue of $212,600. This does not include year end fund balMALAKOFF HYDRAULIC. rdtgolaae where miners . aibed away the hills in iearch of gold, will “8 in the heart of the new state park in Nevada County, Land acquisition for the 7,000 acre park is underway, Howard Gets Title Of Fiscal Watchdog And Is Employed On A Permanent Basis Stan Howard, Nevada City's part-time accountant, bookkeeper and bearer of concise,

' but distressing financial news, became the city's full-time fiscal “watchdog” Monday night. City Manager Henry Roese asked that Howard, who was employed on a temporary basis several months ago to help with freeway utility relocation billing, have hisemployment extended, Roese saidthere was still much work to be done including preparing the budget, bookkeeping and working with the city auditor. Mayor Arch McPherson said that considering the city was preparing to hire anew city manager to fill the vacancy created by Roese’s resignation, he would move that Howard be retained until July 1, 1966. Councilman BerylRobinson said he did not see the need for setting a date for termination of employment. He suggested Howard just be hired on a permanent basis like the rest of the city employees, Howard said lie would be happy to take the post and that determination of his title and exact duties should be deferred until the new city manager takes office. He said he likes to consider himself the “watchdog of the city finances” and would be happy to continue to help, Mayor McPherson told Howard that if it was all right with him, he would just remain as the fiscal "watchdog" for the time being. General Plan Reports Reviewed The Citizens Advisory Committee for the Nevada County General Plan met Tuesday night to go over tentative recommendations prepared by the various subcommittees, Eachchairman presented a five minute summary of the recommendations of his committee, The individual committees then discussed the recommendations and then each chairman presented the comments of his committee in regard to the recommendations under discussion, The entire program was reviewed and dis~cussed in this manner. The subcommittees will now take their preliminary reports (Continued on Page 2) ances which are unknown at this time, but to which city officials are hopefully looking for about $10,000. This would put the revenue figure at about $222, 600 and proposed expenditures at $245,940. This imbalance could be taken care of by cuts all along the line. The big problem comes in an item of $120,900 for special expenditures. These include items the city must handle at state direction and things which have been promised long ago, but never accomplished, Special expenditures of $10,000 for employee reitrement, $50,000 for sewer plant ponding and $20,000 for improvements to the Sugar Loaf Reservoir look like it will remain in the budget. The determination as to whether the rest of these special projects will be accomplished, will be up to thecounty council, Eachone cut out decreases the amount of additional revenue required. The proposed fire department ; budget came in for some careful j study when presented by assistant chief Leonard Valdez. The department is asking for a budget of $22,509 and Councilman Dan O'Neill suggested fire department officials take it back tothe board of delegates and start by cutting it by one third, Fire Chief Jim Sharp pointed out that, the department had already returned $6,000 to the city from its budget this year, O'Neill said this made little difference, The fact was that the city did not have the income to support such a budget. He went on tonote that over the past few years the fire department had consistently budgeted more than they expended, In the light of this, he said he did not think a requested budget cut of one third was unreasonable, City assessed valuation in the preliminary budget is set at $3, 212,940. ‘The city's basic rate is $1 and O'Neill noted that even if the city went for an override rate of an additional $1, it would only bring in about $30,000 which would hardly scratch the surface of the financialneeds of the city. The budget and the ways and means to make it work was put off for further discussion, In other action the council-Approved a resolution of acceptance for the completion of work on the Gold Run sewer line freeway crossing; Heard a report from engineer R, W. Ingram that negotiations were under way on property acquisition for the rebuilding of Park Avenue and Nimrod Streets and that agreements should be ready by the meeting Monday night.