Humboldt County
What your local boards and councils decided, from their own agendas and minutes.
The four-year EPIC project will coordinate batteries, EV chargers and solar to test distribution-grid services in disadvantaged communities.
A BoxPower project at the Colusa Indian Community reservation would pair a flexible-interconnection controller with a 400-kilowatt/1.3-megawatt-hour battery and measure whether grid controls can support housing expansion without conventional upgrades.
The 5-0 vote allows qualifying cultivation in newer nonresidential buildings in four resource-zoning districts while retaining existing performance standards.
The 4-0 action will fund 10 DC fast-charging ports and 22 Level 2 ports at LA Metro’s Division 10 and Division 18 facilities.
The Oct. 12 board minutes record projected enrollment decreases, a request for more advertising and a plan under development, while monthly enrollment remained unchanged.
County officials and federal advocates cited millions in local funding priorities and a potential California SNAP cost shift, while warning that key appropriations bills remained unsettled ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline.
The board voted 5-0 to authorize the county’s purchase of three Eureka parcels and award a tenant-improvement contract for 2420 Sixth Street.
The council approved the consent calendar 5-0, including funding for the emergency-repair closeout, but the city’s final spending and Notice of Completion filing remain unverified.
The 4-0 action replaces a 2005 agreement and its 2010 update, creating a formal channel for compliance information, complaint investigations and enforcement support without committing new funds.
The grant will support Level 2 charging ports on existing city light posts and public streets, but the state packet does not identify installation sites or a schedule.
Staff and council discussed conservation rebates, leak alerts, outreach, bill rounding and commercial impact-fee installments as part of continued rate-study work.
The Landscape Structures purchase and installation contract is backed by Kiwanis fundraising, with the council agenda listing a not-to-exceed amount of $139,128.83.
At a legislative hearing, auditors said the county documented reviews of fewer than half of landfill air-quality reports and took 657 days to direct relocation assistance, compared with 22 days after the Aliso Canyon gas leak.
A board-initiated agenda item would direct staff to develop an agreement with a qualified nonprofit, but no provider or final funding decision has been identified.
At the creative-economy committee’s first hearing, Mary Alabanza said AB 2319 created California’s first standalone post-production incentive but received a tenth of the funding sought by advocates.
PG&E, Southern California Edison and SDG&E must form a working group and file a joint application within 12 months under a decision approved in Rulemaking 21-06-017.
At an Assembly hearing, testimony put competing estimates on how eliminating or capping insurer recovery from utilities could shift wildfire costs between homeowners, utilities and ratepayers.
At an Oct. 27 Assembly hearing, the company urged changes to SB 53 that would address emergency controls, cyber-incident disclosures and independent testing. No committee vote was documented.
At a California legislative hearing, a PG&E executive said wildfire-related borrowing premiums are also projected to add $4.1 billion in interest over the life of bonds issued since 2017.
The commission voted 5-0 to grant roughly two-thirds of SoCalGas’ $173.8 million request for 2019-23 Transmission Integrity Management Program expenses.
The company said three incidents were reported in July and a fourth was found later, but the hearing record does not identify affected systems or any resulting harm.
Ivan Jimenez’s proposed permit modification would add distribution, offsite retail sales and expanded processing to an existing cultivation operation if approved.
The proposed shift away from the coastal alignment reflects concerns about permit costs and landslide risk, but the Oct. 27 agenda does not set a project cost, route or construction schedule.
The plan will cover sand, sandbags and other emergency resources for flood-prone and low-lying areas, with locations and purchases still to be determined.
