Community Pet of the week FORUM sports digest ..........Page A-3 Our readers write .......Page A-6 ........................Page A-4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Sunshine 7 58551 69301 0 MONDAY Jan. 22, 2007 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 20 pages, Volume 148 Number 288 email: [email protected] BOS has plans for future of inclusionary housing The Daily Journal adopted by the Board of Supervisors Currently, more than 100 jurisdic- mately 1:30 p.m. in Board Chambers 15 percent of the gap between a unit On Tuesday, the Mendocino in 2004, calls for the board to adopt tions statewide have adopted inclu- at the County Administration Center, affordable to a low-income house- County Board of Supervisors will an inclusionary housing program sionary programs using a variety of 501 Low Gap Rd., Ukiah. hold and a market rate unit for resi- provide direction for future action on requiring housing developers to con- strategies to increase the number of According to Planning Team dential projects of less than 30 units. inclusionary housing requirements struct affordable housing, donate affordable housing units. Three pro- Chief Planner Pamela Townsend, the Under the same recommendation, and commercial linkage fees to fund land, pay fees or make other contri- gram alternatives for Mendocino Planning Team is recommending an projects with more than 30 units affordable housing in the county. butions to affordable housing County will be presented at the pub- alternative that would require a pro- The County Housing Element, according to program guidelines. lic hearing set to begin at approxi- gressively increasing fee of about 2- See BOS, Page A-10 Campaign statements Miss Mendocino 2007 are now online By KATIE MINTZ “For the early deadlines The Daily Journal (near the beginning of the Campaign statements for race), when the office is not as candidates in the last county- busy, they’ll probably go on wide election can now be right away, and in the middle viewed online. of the election, it might take a “Campaign statements few days,” Wharff said. filed for the June 6, 2006 and Prior to the posting of cam- the Nov. 7, 2006 elections are paign statements online, they now available for viewing on could only be viewed at the the Internet,” Mendocino Assessor-County Clerk- County Assessor-Clerk- Recorder’s office in the Recorder Marsha Wharff County Administration announced Friday. Center, 501 Low Gap Rd., The statements, which list Ukiah. contributions received and “We hope that they give the expenditures made by the public more information to office hopefuls, can be viewed look at in regard to candidates or downloaded in PDF and it helps in making an (portable document format) at informed decision,” Wharff the Assessor-County Clerk said of the statements. Recorder’s Web site, The idea of posting the http://www.co.mendocino.ca. statements online was first us/acr. brought to her attention while They are searchable by the Board of Supervisors was name of candidate or commit- considering a campaign tee, election date and by con- finance reform ordinance in test. 2006. In addition to the candidate While the ordinance, which statements, annual statements would have required that the for current office holders are statements be put online, did- also posted on the Web site. n’t pass, Wharff said her “All office holders are office pursued the plan any- required to file annual state- way in an attempt to improve ments. That’s why you’ll see access to the information. Supervisors Wattenburger, “It’s public information, Smith and Delbar filed state- and we try to put as much ments last year even though it information on our Web site wasn’t an election year for as we can,” Wharff said. them,” Wharff said. While there are no specific According to Wharff, plans yet, Wharff said the future campaign statements Web site will continue to will be posted as soon as pos- grow. Posting of the campaign sible after the filing deadline, statements was one of the top however, the time it takes will priorities. vary depending on how busy Katie Mintz can be reached the staff in the office is. at [email protected]. Law enforcement class offers insight and college credit By BEN BROWN Program Coordinator Marcus The Daily Journal Young. Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal Students at Ukiah High The class will be open for Above is Liberty Egloff, a resident of Yorkville, who was School and Willits High sophomores, juniors and crowned 2007 Miss Mendocino by former title holder School will have an opportu- seniors in high school and Kaleena Quarles on Saturday night at Ukiah High. nity later this month to learn each class has 25 open slots. about a career in law enforce- Young said students don’t Liberty Egloff named Also on Saturday, in the first ment and earn high school and have to pay tuition to take this open competition hosted by the college credit from a course class through the college but a Miss Mendocino and Mendocino County pageant, offered through the $17 fee will apply to sign up. will wear 2007 crown two new titles were awarded Mendocino College. The UHS classes will be during the night. Melissa Chaty, The class, ADJ 200 - taught by Ukiah Police Capt. By K.C. MEADOWS the 2002 Miss Mendocino Introduction to the Trent Taylor and Special The Daily Journal County was named Miss North Administration of Justice, will Agent Supervisor for the Coast, and Nicole Honaker of be be held at UHS every Mendocino Major Crimes Liberty Egloff, 17, a Oakley, Calif., was named Miss Wednesday between Jan. 24 Task Force Robert Yorkville native and Anderson Northern Counties. These titles and May 23 and at Willits Nishiyama. Valley volunteer firefighter was allow the young women to com- Center in Room 8003 on Willits classes will be named Miss Mendocino County pete in the Miss California Tuesdays 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 taught by Willits Police Chief 2007 at the pageant in Ukiah statewide pageant this year. p.m. between Jan. 23 and May Gerry Gonzalez and Court Saturday night. Egloff, who was home- 22. Security Officer Michael Egloff was one among nine Melissa Chaty, who performed an schooled, attends Liberty excerpt from the opera “Il “It’s going to help develop Tobin. pageant contestants and took University where she is pursu- an interest in law enforcement The class focuses on an home $6,500 in scholarship Trovatore,” took home the Miss North Coast title. among students,” said overview of law enforcement money. See MENDOCINO, Page A-10 Mendocino College Administration of Justice See CLASS, Page A-10 Come and Check Out Our Auction to Be Held UKIAH And... 01/25/07 At 9:00 a.m. ® STORAGE TRUCK RENTAL 468-0800 A-2 – MONDAY, JAN. 22, 2007 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] Ind. gunman holds ex-girl- instinctive. And she used it to good advantage “If we lose it, the president will use the at the Met, particularly during the first half of defeat of a resolution as support of his public friend and their 4 kids the evening. policy,” Levin said. The world briefly hostage before police say For Chenoweth fans, the entertainment The new Democratic-led Congress heads Bomb explodes on bus in before intermission consisted mostly of mater- this week toward its first vote on the war, with ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Police searched ial she has done before — comic numbers such the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Baghdad, killing 6 passengers for four children and their mother after a gun- as “Popular,” “The Girl in 14G” and “Taylor, beginning debate Wednesday on a resolution and wounding 10 man shot a man and held the woman and chil- the Latte Boy.” They are songs she has sung condemning Bush’s proposal to send 21,500 dren hostage for about nine hours before forc- either in musicals, previous concert appear- more troops to Baghdad and Anbar province. A BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A bomb struck a ing them into a car and fleeing, police said. ances (at smaller venues) or on CD. vote could come as early as that same day. Police on Saturday issued an Amber Alert small bus in Baghdad as it headed to a pre- The proposed nonbinding resolution, which dominantly Shiite area on Sunday, killing six and said the children and their mother, 31-year- old Kimberly N. Walker, were in extreme dan- Artest returns to Palace for is largely symbolic and would have no affect passengers and wounding 10, police said. on money for troops, states that “it is not in the The bus was en route from the Bab al-Sharqi ger. The children range in age from 16 months 1st time since ’The Brawl’ as area to the central commercial district of to 9 years old, authorities said. Kings suffer loss to Pistons national interest of the United States to deepen Karradah when the explosion happened at 8:15 Police were looking for Jerry D. White, 30, its military involvement in Iraq, particularly by a.m., shattering the windows of nearby stores. and believed he might be headed to Chicago AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Ron escalating the United States military force The bomb was left in a bag by somebody after the shooting in the northern Indiana city. Artest played imaginary catch with “friends” in presence in Iraq.” who got off the bus, police said. Detective Sgt. Bill Wargo said an arrest war- the stands, making gestures like he was tossing Sirens wailed as police and ambulances rant with charges of attempted murder and sev- a ball underhanded in different directions Modern pagans honor Zeus rushed to the area, and rescue workers pulled eral counts of confinement had been issued for before his first game at The Palace since the the badly burned bodies from the charred bus.