May 18, 1966 (20 pages)

the communities of Nevada City, Grass Ve ley, Red Seay oe Fad pg Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, North “THIS IS A HECK of a time io inspect the pavement, ” claimedCounty Public Works Director Jack Meade Saturday during a road tour of the eastern end of the county. Looking on at the washed out section of subdivision of road are (left to right) Joe Day, Jr., Dale’ Miller, Wes Moore and Ross McBurney. Road Tour Of Eastern End Of County Turns Up Sorry Sights By Don Hoagland If you think you have trouble getting out of your driveway or driving around the chuck holes in the roads of your neighborhood subdivision, you should see what they have at the eastern end of the county. This is just what a group of about 20 officials and interested residents didSaturday on the second of two county road inspection and information tours sponsored by the County Department of Public Works. County Employees Will Start Punching A Time Clock The Nevada County Board of Supervisors, with time on their minds, voted yesterday to hold a meeting every week. Atthe same time, the board directed Auditor-Controller John T. Trauner to make a cost study installing time clocks in county offices and of switching from compensatory timeto straight overtime pay for overtime work, The board decided to meet © every Tuesday. The new schedule will start in 30 days on a regular basis and the meetings will be adjourned from Tuesday (continued on page 19) At Donner Lake, which a ‘few years ago had little development, the group saw a hodge podge of houses and commercial development stuck on the lake shore and climbing up the surrounding mountains, (continued on page 14) : NID Asks Both Cities To Make Prompt Decision On Water Treatment Plant Nevada City and Grass Valley city officials were given a “fish or cut bait” proposition by the Board Of Directors Vote To Use Project Bonds For New Treatment Plant The Nevada Irrigation District directors last Thursday approved the spending of unsold YubaBear River project revenue bonds Bond Voted New Contract The Grass Valley Elementary School Board Monday gave Superintendent Vernon Bond a resounding v ote of confidence by giving him a four year contract. The board by unanimous vote approved the new contract and a salary of approximately $14,080 which is up $1,880 from thelast contract. Bond came to the district on a one year contract and was then given a two year contract. The new contract approved Monday does away with the last year of the two year agreement. The trustees alsoadopted a preliminary 1966-67 budget of $654,799. This is an increase of $77,799 over last year. According to Bond, the major increase in the budget can be attributed to the district taking over responsibility for the seventh and eighth grade students and an increase of $17,000 in teacher salaries. Bond noted that much of this salary increase will be reimbursable to the district for programs under the Title Isection of the federal Education Act. (continued on page 19) THE HONEYETTES will be one of the showboat acts to be staged during the River Queen show to be staged in the Nevada City Elks Club Saturday night to raise funds for the theater. Other pictures are-on page 7. to finance construction of facilities to treat and transport domestic water. The board had earlier expressed the desire to put the question of the spending of approximately $7 million in unsold Yuba -Bear bonds before. the voters since the original $65 million authorization given by the voters)in 1961 was only to finance the project construction. But the directors were told by the State Health Board in Berkeley April 1 that while the NID directors might feel some moral obligation to put the question of the bond use before the people, the state had an obligation to see that safe water was supplied with the district. With this took'the . " would be no time to put the matter before the voters, In addition to approving use of project bond funds, the board also approved using approximately $50,000 in Davis-Grunsky funds to pay for the feasibility report being prepared on a master water treatment system for the Twin Cities area, The district received a DavisGrunsky grant of more than $3 million including a $600,000 reimbursement tothe district for original engineering paid out of district funds. This $600, 000 is not tied to eecreation, or operation of or maintenance of project facilities so itcan be put to any district use. At the same time, the district moved ahead to comply with state orders to chlorinate untreated district systems now serving domestic water, Of 14 domestic systems ordered treated by the state, district manager Edwin Koster said work on five of thes¢ is planned or now underway. These include the Cedar Ridge line, the Grandview Terrace and Union Hill System, the Loma Sum Gold and the line to the county hospital, These serve the greatest areas of population, Koster said, and the district is trying to treat these first. The other systems required treated by state order are more remote and Koster said these will be handled as rapidly as funds become available, The district is looking hopefully toward getting out of adding individual chlorination to several of these systems by incorporating them into the proposed master treatment facility. tion that there: Nevada Irrigation District last. Friday in regard to their participation in the district's proposed master water treatment system for the area. The mayors of both cities and meanbefs of the city councils attended the session last Friday in the NID office to obtain information on the proposed project. The session calledby NID manager Edwin Koster was the first at which all three agencies wererepresented at the same meeting. Koster told the city officials thatthe district washaving a feasibility report of the proposed plant and transmission facilities prepared by the San Francisco engineering firm of Leeds, Hill and Jewett and it was the hope of the district that the report would be ready by July 1 and construction of the plant-and-could start by December of next year, Koster said to meet this time schedule the district would have tostart making design plans and before this could be done it would have to know if the cities wished to participate in having treated water sold and delivered to them trough the new system. As K~ put it, if the cities parte in on the system, it would be designed to include them. If they did not-want to participate, the system would be designed to exclude the cities, but the district had to know now. Actually the cities have little choice since the district is the only supplier of water to the area. Although both cities hold minor water rights, neither could develop sufficient water to supply the growing city population. While officials from both cities indicated interest in the project, council representatives (continued on page 19) TOM REYNOLDS, oldest member of the William Bull MeekWilliam Morris Stewart Chapter of EClampus Vitus, joined about 300 other red-shirted revelers Saturday at a plaque dedication in Nevada City. More Clamper pictures are on page 4,.

the communities of Nevada City, Grass Ve ley, Red Seay oe Fad pg Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, North “THIS IS A HECK of a time io inspect the pavement, ” claimedCounty Public Works Director Jack Meade Saturday during a road tour of the eastern end of the county. Looking on at the washed out section of subdivision of road are (left to right) Joe Day, Jr., Dale’ Miller, Wes Moore and Ross McBurney. Road Tour Of Eastern End Of County Turns Up Sorry Sights By Don Hoagland If you think you have trouble getting out of your driveway or driving around the chuck holes in the roads of your neighborhood subdivision, you should see what they have at the eastern end of the county. This is just what a group of about 20 officials and interested residents didSaturday on the second of two county road inspection and information tours sponsored by the County Department of Public Works. County Employees Will Start Punching A Time Clock The Nevada County Board of Supervisors, with time on their minds, voted yesterday to hold a meeting every week. Atthe same time, the board directed Auditor-Controller John T. Trauner to make a cost study installing time clocks in county offices and of switching from compensatory timeto straight overtime pay for overtime work, The board decided to meet © every Tuesday. The new schedule will start in 30 days on a regular basis and the meetings will be adjourned from Tuesday (continued on page 19) At Donner Lake, which a ‘few years ago had little development, the group saw a hodge podge of houses and commercial development stuck on the lake shore and climbing up the surrounding mountains, (continued on page 14) : NID Asks Both Cities To Make Prompt Decision On Water Treatment Plant Nevada City and Grass Valley city officials were given a “fish or cut bait” proposition by the Board Of Directors Vote To Use Project Bonds For New Treatment Plant The Nevada Irrigation District directors last Thursday approved the spending of unsold YubaBear River project revenue bonds Bond Voted New Contract The Grass Valley Elementary School Board Monday gave Superintendent Vernon Bond a resounding v ote of confidence by giving him a four year contract. The board by unanimous vote approved the new contract and a salary of approximately $14,080 which is up $1,880 from thelast contract. Bond came to the district on a one year contract and was then given a two year contract. The new contract approved Monday does away with the last year of the two year agreement. The trustees alsoadopted a preliminary 1966-67 budget of $654,799. This is an increase of $77,799 over last year. According to Bond, the major increase in the budget can be attributed to the district taking over responsibility for the seventh and eighth grade students and an increase of $17,000 in teacher salaries. Bond noted that much of this salary increase will be reimbursable to the district for programs under the Title Isection of the federal Education Act. (continued on page 19) THE HONEYETTES will be one of the showboat acts to be staged during the River Queen show to be staged in the Nevada City Elks Club Saturday night to raise funds for the theater. Other pictures are-on page 7. to finance construction of facilities to treat and transport domestic water. The board had earlier expressed the desire to put the question of the spending of approximately $7 million in unsold Yuba -Bear bonds before. the

voters since the original $65 million authorization given by the voters)in 1961 was only to finance the project construction. But the directors were told by the State Health Board in Berkeley April 1 that while the NID directors might feel some moral obligation to put the question of the bond use before the people, the state had an obligation to see that safe water was supplied with the district. With this took'the . " would be no time to put the matter before the voters, In addition to approving use of project bond funds, the board also approved using approximately $50,000 in Davis-Grunsky funds to pay for the feasibility report being prepared on a master water treatment system for the Twin Cities area, The district received a DavisGrunsky grant of more than $3 million including a $600,000 reimbursement tothe district for original engineering paid out of district funds. This $600, 000 is not tied to eecreation, or operation of or maintenance of project facilities so itcan be put to any district use. At the same time, the district moved ahead to comply with state orders to chlorinate untreated district systems now serving domestic water, Of 14 domestic systems ordered treated by the state, district manager Edwin Koster said work on five of thes¢ is planned or now underway. These include the Cedar Ridge line, the Grandview Terrace and Union Hill System, the Loma Sum Gold and the line to the county hospital, These serve the greatest areas of population, Koster said, and the district is trying to treat these first. The other systems required treated by state order are more remote and Koster said these will be handled as rapidly as funds become available, The district is looking hopefully toward getting out of adding individual chlorination to several of these systems by incorporating them into the proposed master treatment facility. tion that there: Nevada Irrigation District last. Friday in regard to their participation in the district's proposed master water treatment system for the area. The mayors of both cities and meanbefs of the city councils attended the session last Friday in the NID office to obtain information on the proposed project. The session calledby NID manager Edwin Koster was the first at which all three agencies wererepresented at the same meeting. Koster told the city officials thatthe district washaving a feasibility report of the proposed plant and transmission facilities prepared by the San Francisco engineering firm of Leeds, Hill and Jewett and it was the hope of the district that the report would be ready by July 1 and construction of the plant-and-could start by December of next year, Koster said to meet this time schedule the district would have tostart making design plans and before this could be done it would have to know if the cities wished to participate in having treated water sold and delivered to them trough the new system. As K~ put it, if the cities parte in on the system, it would be designed to include them. If they did not-want to participate, the system would be designed to exclude the cities, but the district had to know now. Actually the cities have little choice since the district is the only supplier of water to the area. Although both cities hold minor water rights, neither could develop sufficient water to supply the growing city population. While officials from both cities indicated interest in the project, council representatives (continued on page 19) TOM REYNOLDS, oldest member of the William Bull MeekWilliam Morris Stewart Chapter of EClampus Vitus, joined about 300 other red-shirted revelers Saturday at a plaque dedication in Nevada City. More Clamper pictures are on page 4,.