Brother Derek RELIGION favored Saturday Faith community news at Derby ...................................Page 3 .............Page 6 May 6, 2006 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Sunny to partly cloudy 7 58551 69301 0 Monday: Sunny 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 148 Number 27 email: [email protected] Legislature approves record public works spending plan before voters in November, reviving called the votes in each house “a “This bond package represents the Chesbro looking a proposal that had broad public sup- landmark accomplishment that will opportunity of a lifetime to make sig- for parks money port but failed to pass the Legislature yield benefits for generations to nificant investments we can make in earlier this year. come.” California’s aging infrastructure,” By Associated Press and Daily Chesbro The $37.3 billion package would “For the first time in a generation, said North Coast Sen. Wes Chesbro Journal reports be the largest bond issue in we are making a real investment in (D-Arcata).. “The funds in these SACRAMENTO — State law- California history and now goes to our state’s future,” he said in a state- bonds will be critical in addressing makers early Friday approved a Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. ment issued shortly before 3:30 a.m. the problems our State is facing from series of bills that would place a The governor, who proposed an Friday, after the votes in the record public works spending plan even larger spending plan in January, Assembly sent the bills to his desk. See BOND, Page 14 UUSD AGENDA ON A MISSION Three principals ask for uniforms By LAURA CLARK of maintenance and trans- The Daily Journal portation. Tuesday night’s Ukiah Due to scheduling conflicts Unified School District board with the company producing meeting will include reports the modular buildings that will from three elementary school be used as temporary housing principals in favor of adopting for the students during the ren- mandatory uniform policies. ovation, the buildings won’t Nokomis School Principal, be ready until after schools Bryan Barrett, Oak Manor starts. Since the modulars principal, Joy Tucker, and won’t be available for student Hopland Elementary use until after school starts, it Principal, Jeanne Yttreness delays the work on all of the will present to the board the industrial arts buildings on the results of parent surveys as west side of the campus until well as the minutes from January, Turner said. school site council meetings This could impact the reflecting the sentiments of the industrial arts program school communities regarding because the students would the issue. occupy temporary housing Tucker, in a recent letter to during the second semester UUSD Superintendent Ray when they typically would be Chadwick, said a uniform sur- working on projects in the vey was sent home with her shops. students in April. The results Isaac Eckel/The Daily Journal of the survey were 104 to 89 in Dual Language From left, Lucy Burris (with Kaden Burris behind), Kayla Delbar, Raylene Beeson, Kris Matthews and favor of the uniforms, she Immersion Program Blair Beeson ride through the 23-acre vineyard which will be home to the future Potter Valley said. Community Parks and Recreation site where rodeo grounds, a Grange hall and a park will be built. A similar survey sent home Grace Hudson Elementary with Hopland Elementary School Principal Diana School students, showed 21 of Davidson will provide the 40 people who answered were board with an update regard- Potter Valley building a future ing kindergarten enrollment in favor of the uniforms, The Daily Journal locating permanent facilities to allow for community meetings, cultural Yttreness stated in a separate and an overview of the Dual Language Immersion Two years ago, a group of leaders for better structures and year-round events and other community-building letter to Chadwick. Since only from the Potter Valley community recreation for the community. activities. Program, including student 40 out of 155 people respond- performance and feedback met to revive interest in Potter Valley Meanwhile, about a year ago, That’s when the Potter Valley ed to the Hopland survey, a Grange No. 115, which held its first Mendocino County authorized devel- Community Parks and Recreation from parents. second survey was just sent Davidson has indicated meeting in 1873. In its heyday, the oping a Community Action Plan for organization was born. An “organiza- out. PV Grange had provided programs Potter Valley. After a series of seven tion of organizations,” its member- there is sufficient interest in Grace Hudson and Frank the Dual Language Immersion for youth and community leadership, meetings, the top priority identified ship includes the Grange, the Rodeo Zeek Elementary Schools spearheaded fundraising for commu- by the community was the develop- Committee and members of the pub- Program to fill four kinder- already have mandatory uni- garten classes. nity events and scholarships and pro- ment of a central town area in which lic. form programs in place. vided a central meeting hall for the community organizations and pro- As timing would have it, the per- Last year the board community’s use. grams could be located together. fect property in size, and in a central High school project approved the addition of a Another local organization, the The vision was bringing the Potter location in Potter Valley came on the third kindergarten class to the Potter Valley Expo and Rodeo, has Valley Grange Hall, the Potter Valley market in late 2005. The new parks Setbacks with the high Dual Language Immersion organized and sponsored the annual Rodeo Grounds and the Potter Valley and rec group bought the 23-acre school modernization project Program at Grace Hudson. rodeo, parade and community events Youth Community Center all to one parcel - now a vineyard - and is will also be addressed at The UUSD board meeting will on various leased properties since the location and adding a community looking forward to renovating it for Tuesday night’s meeting. be held Tuesday at the district early 1970s. The organization had park. The idea is to have a safe The board will be asked to office, 925 North State Street. recently begun discussions about recreation place for youth, and place consider a schedule change in Open session begins at 6:30 See RODEO, Page 14 Phase I of the renovation of p.m. the high school, according to Laura Clark can be Steve Turner, UUSD director reached at [email protected]. Grand jury: Work program needed at J.Hall Wine vote lagging By BEN BROWN inmates according to the grand towards the cost of their child’s as well as recovery programs The Daily Journal jury’s findings. The program incarceration, to a maximum for alcohol and drugs. The The Daily Journal A limited work program would cost $70,000 in the amount of $750 per stay. Only West Hills School, operated The California Department of Food and Agriculture instituted through the Ukiah Valley and $280,000 in 30 percent of this money is through the Mendocino announced that only 27 percent of the ballots sent to Mendocino County Juvenile the county and could be opera- ever actually collected accord- County Office of Education, Mendocino grape growers to vote on the Mendocino Wine Hall would be beneficial to tional within three weeks of ing to the report. provides the opportunity for Grape and Wine Commission have been returned. juvenile inmates and would being funded. Generally, juveniles were inmates to earn a high school In order for the votes to be counted, CDFA needs a min- reduce the cost of operations The juvenile hall had 681 sentenced to one year in juve- diploma or GED and earn col- imum 40 percent turnout from grape growers and winemak- for juvenile hall which already bookings in 2005, the majority nile hall. Those sentenced to lege credit. ers. CDFA has already received 41.8 percent of the ballots functions on a limited budget, were booked for alcohol and more than one year usually The grand jury commended sent to winemakers. according to findings from the drug related offenses or prop- serve their time at a California juvenile hall staff and adminis- If 40 percent of ballots from both groups are not returned Mendocino County Grand erty crimes. Many inmates, Youth Authority facility. tration for their commendable to CDFA by May 12 the vote will not be considered valid Jury. roughly 75 percent, were Approximately three inmates work in the face of budget con- and the vote will have to be extended for an additional 30 The grand jury also found booked for probation viola- per year are transferred to that straints. days. that parent repayments for the tions, mostly related to drug facility. The report now goes to the If approved, the commission will have the authority to cost of juvenile hall stays are and alcohol offenses. Turnover was found to be Mendocino County Board of assess the wine industry in the county and preform the nec- not always collected and that Juvenile hall has capacity low among the staff at juvenile Supervisors, the Mendocino essary research and development to improve it, said John funding for mandatory bilin- for 43 inmates, and the average hall and two members of the County Juvenile Hall facility Enquist, executive director of the Mendocino County gual training for staff isn’t daily count was 41. The cost to staff are bilingual in Spanish manager, the Mendocino Winegrowers Alliance. there. the county, per inmate, to keep and English. However, funds County chief probation officer The commission will also have the authority to collect At present there is no work someone in juvenile hall is for the mandated training of and the Mendocino County the necessary funds from winemakers and grape growers to program available for the court about $160 per day.