The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors unanimously authorized two proclamations for the month on the Jan. 24 assembly. The primary declared this month as Human Trafficking and Baby Sexual Exploitation Prevention Month and the second as Mentoring Month.
The Calaveras Workplace of Training (COE) in a launch acknowledged, “This proclamation [mentoring month] acknowledges the truth that each day, high quality mentoring packages in our rural Calaveras County connects mentors to younger folks and cultivates relationships that present essential assist and steerage as they develop and become the following technology of leaders.”
They continued, “Analysis confirms that high quality mentoring relationships have highly effective, constructive results on younger folks in quite a lot of private, educational, {and professional} conditions. Finally, mentoring connects a youngster to non-public development and growth and social and financial alternative. But one in three younger folks will develop up with out this important 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 Heart
The board unanimously authorized the board chair to log out on a letter of assist for the Mark Twain Well being Care District (MTHCD) and deliberate Disaster and Wellness Heart (CWC).
The beforehand mentioned CWC is ready to be constructed on land that’s at the moment owned by the MTHCD. “The CWC venture proposed for grant funding is in line with the venture and CEQA paperwork already authorized by way of the Planning Division,” mentioned the county.
The funding for the venture 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 strategy to retain extra psychiatric professionals.
Dr. Randy Good, one of many presenters, assured Garamendi that it’s a subject that may 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 realm; an instance can be the wine business in Murphys or the numerous tenting areas across the county.
“With the decline in hashish cultivation county-wide, hashish cultivators are exploring further, authorized methods to generate income. One resolution is hashish ecotourism, which mixes the rules of agritourism, already in our code, with hashish,” mentioned the County.
District 3 Supervisor Martin Huberty mentioned, “I don’t suppose it deserves the quantity of angst that it [cannabis ecotourism] places out into the group. Within the 4 years that I’ve been on the customer’s bureau, I’ve not had one name concerning 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 problem he will get calls about on a regular basis and one thing the county does want to handle. Nevertheless, he did specific his assist for the county exploring the opportunity of making hashish an agricultural product that may make it eligible to fall beneath the ecotourism class.
District 4 Supervisor Amanda Folendorf expressed her considerations about including hashish to this business when there are already issues with the wine-tasting business. She emphasised that some issues have to be addressed earlier than serious about including hashish to the checklist.
The following Calaveras County Board of Supervisors assembly will likely be held at 8 a.m. on Feb. 14 with restricted seating at 891 Mountain Ranch Street, San Andreas, or on-line viewing by way of the county web site.
