The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors unanimously accepted two proclamations for the month on the Jan. 24 assembly. The primary declared this month as Human Trafficking and Little one Sexual Exploitation Prevention Month and the second as Mentoring Month.
The Calaveras Workplace of Training (COE) in a launch said, “This proclamation [mentoring month] acknowledges the truth that every single day, high quality mentoring packages in our rural Calaveras County connects mentors to younger individuals and cultivates relationships that present essential help and steering as they develop and grow to be the following technology of leaders.”
They continued, “Analysis confirms that high quality mentoring relationships have highly effective, constructive results on younger individuals in quite a lot of private, tutorial, {and professional} conditions. In the end, mentoring connects a teenager to private progress and growth and social and financial alternative. But one in three younger individuals will develop up with out this crucial asset.”
The COE gives many mentoring packages for youth together with, Court docket Appointed Particular Advocate (CASA), Calaveras Youth Mentoring Program, Adventures in Mentoring, and FNL Mentoring.
Calaveras Well being and Wellness Middle
The board unanimously accepted the board chair to log out on a letter of help for the Mark Twain Well being Care District (MTHCD) and deliberate Disaster and Wellness Middle (CWC).
The beforehand mentioned CWC is ready to be constructed on land that’s presently owned by the MTHCD. “The CWC challenge proposed for grant funding is in keeping with the challenge and CEQA paperwork already accepted via the Planning Division,” stated the county.
The funding for the challenge comes from the Behavioral Well being Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP).
District 2 Supervisor Jack Garamendi requested if there was something the board might do to get a psychiatric residency program began within the county as a method to retain extra psychiatric professionals.
Dr. Randy Sensible, one of many presenters, assured Garamendi that it’s a subject that will be mentioned because the county continues its partnership with MTHCD.
Director of Planning Gabriel Elliott gave a presentation to the board on hashish ecotourism. Ecotourism is a type of tourism that revolves across the pure options of the world; an instance could be the wine trade in Murphys or the various tenting areas across the county.
“With the decline in hashish cultivation county-wide, hashish cultivators are exploring further, authorized methods to generate income. One answer is hashish ecotourism, which mixes the rules of agritourism, already in our code, with hashish,” stated the County.
District 3 Supervisor Martin Huberty stated, “I don’t suppose it deserves the quantity of angst that it [cannabis ecotourism] places out into the neighborhood. Within the 4 years that I’ve been on the customer’s bureau, I’ve not had one name relating to hashish tourism. I simply don’t suppose that it’s one thing we have to take care of proper now.”
Garamendi disagreed with Huberty, stating that it was a difficulty he will get calls about on a regular basis and one thing the county does want to handle. Nevertheless, he did categorical his help for the county exploring the potential for making hashish an agricultural product that will make it eligible to fall underneath the ecotourism class.
District 4 Supervisor Amanda Folendorf expressed her considerations about including hashish to this trade when there are already issues with the wine-tasting trade. She emphasised that some issues should be addressed earlier than fascinated about including hashish to the listing.
The subsequent Calaveras County Board of Supervisors assembly will likely be held at 8 a.m. on Feb. 14 with restricted seating at 891 Mountain Ranch Highway, San Andreas, or on-line viewing by way of the county web site.
