{"id":5432,"date":"2017-02-20T21:27:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T05:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:29:14","slug":"wendy-thomas-reports-on-placerville-city-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2017\/02\/20\/wendy-thomas-reports-on-placerville-city-council-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Thomas reports on Placerville City Council meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wendy Thomas]
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\nGreetings Placerville. Hope you are enjoying the calm before the storm. Here is this week’s CITY COUNCIL UPDATE:<\/p>\n

PRESENTATION<\/strong>: Worker’s Comp Trending Report. Good news…Our Worker’s Comp claims are very low in comparison to other comparable cities. We have averaged 11 claims per year at an average cost of $6,783. Comparable average costs: Yuba City: $20,466 Willows: $42,311 Marysville: $24,461 Auburn: $39,480. (Nevada City did well too with $6,675). Our success is attributed to Best Practices Management and clear communication with those who are injured. Well done to our fine staff.<\/p>\n

CONSENT AGENDA<\/strong>: Bike racks are coming to Main St, finally! 2 at Town Hall, 3 in Parking Garage and 3 in bulb-outs on Main.<\/p>\n

ORDINANCES:\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSIDEWALK DINING. The Planning Commission embarked on a public process for over a year, and this week Council introduced the Ordinance that will PERMIT SIDEWALK DINING within the public right-of-way. Staff changed the necessary permit to a Special Temporary Use Permit (which is cheaper than a Site Plan Review). Vaping and smoking not allowed. Looking forward to this added sense of vibrancy and community in the heart of our City!<\/p>\n

HOUSING OPPORTUNITY OVERLAY ZONE: We adopted this Ordinance on the Middletown\/Placerville Drive parcel.<\/p>\n

ACTION ITEMS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

VIETNAM VETERANS MONUMENT GARDEN: Thanks to the dedicated work of Commuity Pride, Steve Youel’s office and multiple Veteran’s Organizations, this monument will be installed by Memorial Day! Council approved $17,914 from our reserve balance to match donations by Community Pride and our Veteran’s Associations. Looking forward to properly honoring our local, young men that made the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n

MEASURE H\/L COMMITTEE …now 1 committee. This dedicated group (5 members + 1 alternate) are responsible for overseeing that your tax dollars for our roads and pipes are used ONLY for those purposes.<\/p>\n

PARDI \/ BIG CUT WATERLINE CHANGE ORDER: This project (purpose: to reroute and replace old and undersized water pipes) has been challenging, and this week we approved a $253,307.46 change order from the Water Enterprise Fund Operating Reserve. When we opened the street, major problems were found that needed to be addressed…like the bottom was disintegrated on a major pipe, amoung others.<\/p>\n

EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: We extended our Emergency Ordinance to include this weekend’s storm and our crews have been hard at work to open up waterways.<\/p>\n

Stay dry and safe this weekend Placerville,Wendy Thomas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wendy Thomas] Greetings Placerville. Hope you are enjoying the calm before the storm. Here is this week’s CITY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"Government<\/a>","tag_info":"Government","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5433,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions\/5433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}