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It was a high-powered affair on Woodley Island yesterday afternoon, as people gathered to hear Rep. Jared Huffman officially announce a $426 million Department of Transportation grant to build a port terminal for the coming offshore wind industry. A section of the island’s parking lot was roped off for the event, so that the VIP guests would have a convenient place to park for the ceremony, which took place beneath the Fisherman statue.

And come they did. Supervisors Steve Madrone and Natalie Arroyo were in attendance, as were Eureka Mayor Kim Bergel, Hoopa tribal chair Joe Davis, Jason Ramos of the Blue Lake Rancheria, county administrative officer Elishia Hayes, Cal Poly Humboldt president Tom Jackson, various emissaries from the local business community, harbor district personnel and representatives from the major international firms investing in offshore wind.

Why? As Huffman said when he took the mic, the $426 million grant – all of it originating from President Biden’s 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – is kind of a big deal.

“The federal department of transportation INFRA Grant that we are celebrating today, to my knowledge, may be the biggest federal investment in this region in 50 years,” Huffman said. “It’s a big, big deal. It’s a game-changer. And for those of you that share in the excitement and the vision and all the possibilities that this offshore wind project has brought to this community, this is a huge step forward in making all of that real.”

What will the $426 million pay for? Not only for the dock and warehouse facilities themselves, but for various improvements that, together, are designed to make the new offshore wind facility a true “green port,” which Huffman hoped would “show the way” to other ports around the world.

An emotional Greg Dale, the chair of the Harbor District’s board of commissioners – the body that will administer this massive cash injection — had a partial list of these green amenities when he followed Huffman at the podium.

“In this $426 million dollar grant, there’s $51 million dollars for environmental restoration,” he said. “$51 million dollars – [the federal government] probably hasn’t spent $51 million dollars on environmental restoration on Humboldt Bay in the entirety of the district’s time as a district.”

Dale also mentioned $10 million for a large solar array, and just over $1 million apiece for a trail and a public access pier. The grant also includes a $6 million community benefits program for “tribe, fishermen and local residents,” Dale said.

The federal grant comes with some sort of matching commitment from private industry, which in theory should add up to a billion dollars on-hand to build the huge facility, which is planned for the Samoa terminal currently owned by the Harbor District. The vision is that this new terminal will serve a nascent offshore wind industry along a large swath of the Pacific coastline, with absolutely massive floating windmills manufactured and assembled in Humboldt Bay, then towed out to the open sea by tug.

Chris Mikkelsen, Harbor District executive director

Not much was said about this matching commitment, or who exactly would be anteing up funds, and how that match affects the ultimate ownership of the new facilities. Crowley Wind Services, the would-be operator of the port, has not yet signed a deal with the Harbor District – the two sides are still in the “exclusive right to negotiate” phase of their relationship. Chris Mikkelsen, the Harbor District’s executive director, told the Outpost that the private match could come from many quarters: Crowley, a different operator, perhaps from the wind energy firms – the operators of the windmills – themselves.

Mikkelsen said that the district is trying to put together ways to communicate directly with the public on these sorts of sticky questions, perhaps in the form of quarterly updates. “No news is not good news,” Mikkelsen said.

This morning the Harbor District put out its own press release about the grant, and Crowley announced that it has purchased the country’s first all-electric tugboat.

More photos from yesterday’s event follow.

Turn your volume up, if you can, and behold the spectacle of a tunnel getting blasted at the base of the 101-year-old Copco 1 dam on the Klamath River.

The detonation happened yesterday, sending water and sediment down the river canyon to the sea at an estimated rate of 4,000 cubic feet per second.

Here’s footage of the blast, via Swiftwater Films, which is producing a feature-length documentary on the dam-removal project and the 20-year campaign to get there.

And below is footage of the newly freed river flowing through Wards Canyon. The clip was shot by Frankie Myers, vice chairman of the Yurok Tribe and candidate for California Assembly’s District 2 seat. 

“Our community is overwhelmed with joy and hope for the future generations,” Myers said when reached by the Outpost this morning. “Truly thankful for for all those who put in a day or a lifetime to make this possible.”

According to Swiftwater Films’ description of the blast, 800 pounds of dynamite was used to blow a concrete plug out of a 90-foot tunnel that crews blasted into the base of the dam last summer.

“[A] surge of water barreled several miles past the former Copco 2 dam and the majestic Wards Canyon that had been mainly dewatered for a century and into newly formed river channels in the former Iron Gate Reservoir,” the company said.

Drawdown of the reservoir at J.C. Boyle is now under way. In total, four dams are slated to be destroyed by fall of this year.

Here’s another view of yesterday’s footage of the January 16 blast of J.C. Boyle Dam:

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• (VIDEO/PHOTOS) Iron Gate Reservoir Drawdown Has Begun as Dam Removal on the Klamath Continues

Press release from Humboldt Bay Fire:

On January 24, 2024 at approximately 03:00 Humboldt Bay Fire responded to a reported two-story house on fire in the 1300 Block of Henderson Street in Eureka. HBF responded with 1 Chief Officer, 3 Fire Engines and 1 Fire Truck for a total of 13 professional fire service personnel, and 1 Fire Support volunteer who assisted with traffic control.

The first unit arrived on scene and reported a fire burning in the attic. Other arriving units quickly started work to simultaneously ensure everyone was safely out of the home, cover and protect the belongings in the home, and extinguish the fire. The fire was contained to the attic and extinguished in about 15 minutes. Units remained on scene for approximately 2 hours to stabilize the entire incident.

After the fire was extinguished HBF investigators investigated the cause of the fire, which is still to be determined at this time. PG&E responded and mitigated the utility hazards, while the Red Cross provided accommodation assistance to the displaced family. Total estimated property value saved is $300,000. Damage is estimated at $75,000, and there was no civilian or firefighter injuries.

Humboldt Bay Fire would like to remind everyone that smoke detectors save lives! A working smoke detector should be in every bedroom, in the hallway and on each floor of a residence.

Two California lawmakers publicly blew up at each other earlier this month, hitting a nerve on an issue that has long-divided the state’s elected leaders: Whether and how much to offer government-subsidized health benefits to undocumented residents.

In one corner, Corona Assemblymember Bill Essayli declared that he wanted to unravel a new law that offers subsidized health coverage to undocumented immigrants.

In the other, Visalia Assemblymember Devon Mathis stood up for the health care expansion, arguing this helps the state reduce health costs in the long-term and helps working families who are critical to the state’s economy.

That both are Republicans — members of the party that in 1994 pushed to deny any non-emergency health care services to undocumented immigrants through Proposition 187 — underscores how far the state’s political debate has moved to the left over the course of five gubernatorial administrations.

Just 20 years ago, “in the early 2000s, the idea of offering this benefit was considered political suicide for both Democrats and Republicans,” said Arturo Vargas Bustamante, faculty research director at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute.

The shift unfolded gradually, as a generation of Latino leaders motivated by Prop. 187 rose in power in the Capitol. Former Gov. Jerry Brown in 2015 signed the law that made undocumented children eligible for Medi-Cal.

Then, state budget surpluses and Democratic dominance in the Capitol opened a lane for Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign the law that provided Medi-Cal to income-eligible undocumented residents of any age. That law took effect Jan. 1, making California the largest state to offer government-subsidized health insurance to low-income undocumented residents of all ages.

Citing public health data, Republican Mathis now is making the case that providing Medi-Cal to undocumented residents is the “fiscally conservative” move for the state.

The new law is practically the opposite policy of Prop. 187, the so-called “Save Our State” ballot initiative that denied public services to Californians without legal status. It passed with support from then-Gov. Pete Wilson, a Republican, but did not take effect because of legal challenges.

The topic still carries some political risk for lawmakers of both parties. California is facing a projected $38 billion deficit that could worsen and compel lawmakers to look for budget cuts. Former President Donald Trump has been critical of left-leaning states offering services to immigrants without legal status, and he could return to office.

Polls also show some concern among California voters in how they view immigrants. Four in 10 California voters think that unauthorized immigrants are a “major burden” to the country, according to a poll published by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies published earlier this month. Another 30% considered them a “minor burden.”

But for now, Newsom and the lawmakers who advocated for the Medi-Cal expansion insist they won’t go back.

“I’m committed to it,” Newsom said at a press conference earlier this month.

Trump, COVID-19 and money

A potential second Trump administration would seem to jeopardize California’s expansion of health benefits to undocumented groups, but the former president may have actually influenced some of the benefits currently available, Bustamante of UCLA said.

Trump’s rhetoric disparaging immigrants and his unsuccessful attempt to undo Obamacare fired up California Democrats, Bustamante said. For example, when the Trump administration sought to repeal the Affordable Care Act and eliminate the federal subsidies that help millions afford coverage, California filed a lawsuit.

And when the federal administration proposed to punish immigrants for using public benefits, California filed another. In fact the state sued the Trump administration more than 100 times.

The COVID-19 pandemic also played a role in persuading California Democrats to continue expanding health coverage to undocumented immigrants, Bustamante said. It reinforced the importance of medical coverage and highlighted health inequities, especially among Latinos, Blacks and low-income people.

The rollout of these benefits came slowly. During the Brown administration, memories of the Great Recession tempered expectations for pricey government programs. Brown, nonetheless, signed a law by former state Sen. Ricardo Lara that opened Medi-Cal to undocumented children.

By contrast, money wasn’t a problem for Newsom until recently. During the pandemic, the state received increased federal funding for its Medi-Cal program and it took in historic budget surpluses. Newsom backed Medi-Cal expansions for adults that Democratic Sen. María Elena Durazo of Los Angeles and others championed.

Garry South’s career as a Democratic consultant dates to the time when liberals faced serious political risks if they supported services for undocumented immigrants. He managed former Gov. Gray Davis’ campaigns.

“Not too long ago, California was pretty politically competitive, but it isn’t now,” South said. “Yes there are some districts in which Republicans win Congressional seats, Senate seats, Assembly seats, but they’re marginalized to the point of being irrelevant, and so most Democrats running in most places in California don’t have to worry about being beat by a Republican. They’re more concerned about being in a run-off with another Democrat.”

He likened expanding Medi-Cal to undocumented immigrants to when the state allowed them to obtain driver’s licenses. It took years and various failed attempts, but legislators and most Californians ultimately determined that it was safer for everyone to get these drivers licensed and insured, he said.

Central Valley Republicans supported Medi-Cal expansion

Aside from Essayli, most elected California Republicans have been fairly quiet on the state’s new benefits for undocumented residents. Tim Rosales, a Republican political consultant, said supporting the expansion would not necessarily damage a GOP candidate’s chances in a future election, but the lawmaker would have to defend their reasoning to right-leaning voters.

He said many Californians have come to accept the role that undocumented people play in the state’s workforce and economy.

“In the Central Valley and other parts of the state that are heavily agricultural, people who live, work and exist in that economy…have understood that the undocumented population is such a huge part of the California fabric,” Rosales said. “People feel like they can talk about it more, and politically, reality is setting in, and that goes for both Democrats and Republicans.”

Mathis, who will be leaving office after this legislative year to do consulting work in the southern San Joaquin Valley, said his community was part of why he wrote in The Sacramento Bee explaining his support for the Medi-Cal expansion.

“I grew up in one of the poorest areas of the state, in a highly Latino area; these are common things that we see and that we know,” he said.

“I did the Op-Ed because I’m sick and tired of one, people on the hard right trying to make everyone sound like them,” Mathis said, “And two, to just say stop the rhetoric for five minutes and look at the actual issue.”

Mathis’ declaration echoes votes by two former San Joaquin Valley Republicans who supported the law Brown signed providing Medi-Cal to undocumented children. They were former Sens. Anthony Cannella of Ceres and Andy Vidak of Hanford.

What’s next for undocumented health care?

Earlier this month, Essayli introduced Assembly Bill 1783, which proposes to pull funding from health coverage expansions for undocumented residents. Although that may be a long shot given the Legislature’s Democratic majority.

“As the son of immigrant parents who came to this country by legal means, I was outraged our state government would earmark billions in funding for the healthcare of foreign nationals when our own citizens cannot afford their healthcare,” Essayli wrote in the Orange County Register.

The Medi-Cal expansions allow Newsom to get closer to his goal of providing universal health coverage, where everyone in the state would have access to medical insurance. Because California is home to the nation’s largest population of unauthorized immigrants — about 2 million people — it would be impossible to achieve universal coverage without covering this population, experts say.

The Affordable Care Act provided health coverage to millions of Americans and expanded the public’s understanding on the need for coverage, but barred anyone without legal status from accessing federally subsidized insurance. That means immigrants who don’t qualify for Medi-Cal have no option but to buy insurance on the private market at full-price.

Researchers at the UC Berkeley’s Labor Center have estimated that more than 1 million undocumented people will gain coverage because of the sweeping Medi-Cal expansion, but another half million will still be without because they earn too much to qualify for Medi-Cal but can’t afford coverage on their own.

Democratic Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula of Fresno is carrying Assembly Bill 4 that aims to allow undocumented people who don’t qualify for the Medi-Cal program to buy subsidized coverage. Arambula said the goal is to establish a program specifically for undocumented immigrants that mirrors the insurance options offered on Covered California, the state’s insurance marketplace. Setting up the program will take some time. Asking the state for funding to provide subsidies will come later, he said.

Arambula pointed to Colorado, which is experimenting with OmniSalud, a program that offers undocumented people the similar insurance options offered in its marketplace and at a subsidized price.

Originally, Arambula wanted to ask the federal government for permission to allow undocumented people into the existing marketplace, but Arambula said this alternative model means California’s program won’t hinge on the feds’ approval.

“We want to insulate ourselves from whomever will be in the federal government at the end of the year,” Arambula said.

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The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors held a relatively brief meeting today, wrapping up their open session items before hitting the lunch break shortly after 12:30 p.m.

Partly that was due to a clerical error that forced the board to postpone an appeal hearing for a contentious McKinleyville subdivision and housing development project. (More on that below.) But the board still found time to take on some big-ticket issues.

Our summary of the day’s proceedings can be found below.

Mental health programs

Early in the day, Humboldt County Behavioral Health Director Emi Botzler-Rodgers discussed some major potential changes to the ways in which both the state and the county respond to people suffering from homelessness, mental illness and/or substance use disorder.

In particular, she talked about some potential impacts from two major pieces of state legislation:

• California’s Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) reform, which will appear on primary ballots in March as Prop. 1, and
• Senate Bill 43, which broadens the definition of “gravely disabled,” a change that will make a lot more people eligible for involuntary conservatorship.

The MHSA bill, which is a cornerstone of Governor Gavin Newsom’s agenda for behavioral health and homelessness, would dedicate billions of dollars to new behavioral health housing while expanding services to people with substance use disorders, among other provisions. On the local level, however, it “has the potential to substantially impact the work that we do and the funding that we have available,” Botzler-Rodgers said.

If passed, the measure would result in reduced funding for counties and less control over those funds, she explained. 

As for SB 43, Botzler-Rodgers said it will significantly change the definition of who’s eligible for what’s called LPS conservatorship, a legal process that allows a court to appoint a conservator to make legal decisions for a seriously mentally ill person.

The bill would expand eligibility to include any person who has a severe substance use disorder, which would dramatically increase the percentage of the population that’s potentially subject to detention and conservatorship — from roughly one percent to about 10 percent.

“That’s a huge, huge increase,” Botzler-Rodgers said. “Not only is it a huge number of individuals who would then qualify to be conserved and treated, [but] there is a substantial lack of facilities to provide the services and virtually none for the [substance use disorder] population.” That’s a problem throughout the state, she added.

With no state funding set aside to support these expanded obligations, almost all counties in the state have requested a delay in implementing SB 43 until January 1, 2026, at the latest. At staff’s request, the Board of Supervisors today agreed to make that same request.

Later in the presentation, Jack Breazeal, deputy director of behavioral health, gave an update on the county’s pilot program for implementation of Laura’s Law, aka Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT). During the 2022-23 fiscal year, the county’s Behavioral Health Branch received 33 referrals for that program, 22 of which met the criteria to receive services. One person met the criteria for involuntary for involuntary treatment, Breazeal said.

“Most of the other individuals we were able to engage at some level” with varying degrees of success, he explained, adding that housing is a major challenge for implementation since many of the people the program engages are unhoused.

Also seated at the presentation table was Paul Bugnacki, deputy director of mental health, who discussed the inpatient side of AOT implementation.

Sempervirens, the county’s acute psychiatric hospital, had 254 admissions during the last fiscal year at a cost of $10.8 million, with the county’s general fund covering a larger portion of that price tag than in recent years due to decreased revenues collected via Medicare and private insurance.

Bugnacki said there’s limited funding available to implement the AOT program.

“This is going to be a big lift for counties, especially our county, and it’s going to impact multiple departments throughout our system,” he said.

When these issues were being discussed by the board, Fourth District Supervisor Natalie Arroyo spoke with evident emotion.

“There’s just something very moving about how hard you all work,” she said. “I think it’s a very under-appreciated field of work in behavioral health.”

Changes to Measure Z

Later in the meeting, the board considered changing how it allocates funds from Measure Z, the county’s half-percent sales tax measure dedicated to public safety and essential services. 

The Measure Z Citizen Advisory Committee, which makes funding recommendations to the board, asked for a change to the revenue award process so that it would occur only once per year, concurrent with the budget adoption. This would eliminate the contentious mid-year allocations that have been standard up to now.

The committee also asked the board to reserve $5.4 million in savings from the last fiscal year to be allocated in the 2024-25 funding round. And, lastly, they asked the board to establish a reserve account, in which money could be set aside and used when there’s not enough to finance projects in the board’s previously approved three-year spending plan.

Deputy County Administrative Officer Sean Quincey explained that there’s currently some funding available for “high priority projects” thanks to a decision last year to de-allocate previously approved staff positions, and the board spent a good amount of time discussing whether and how that money should be spent.

Second District Supervisor Michelle Bushnell made a push to award more money to the fire prevention efforts of the county’s assorted fire departments while First District Supervisor and Board Chair Rex Bohn advocated giving at least $1 million to the Public Works Department for much-needed road repair work. 

Public Works Director Tom Mattson made the same appeal, urging the board to award Measure Z funds for roadwork and equipment replacement now before conditions get worse and costs go up. 

Fifth District Supervisor Steve Madrone said he’d planned to make a motion to adopt all of the advisory committee’s requests, which were also staff’s recommendations, “but given what’s happened the last couple of weeks [with storm damage] and given the deferred maintenance on our roads, I would very much like to see some funding go to roads sooner than later.”

Bushnell said that since both roads and fire prevention were shorted on their most Measure Z funding requests last year, she’d like to give them some funding now, at the mid-year point. She made a motion to award $1 million to each of those efforts, but none of the other supervisors offered a second.

Arroyo and Third District Supervisor Mike Wilson said they were inclined to go with staff recommendations, though Wilson said he’d consider allocating $500,000 to roads. 

Arroyo said that Measure Z fundamentally over-promised, with sweeping ballot language about funding emergency services when the reality has been declining discretionary revenues each year. And she argued that the board should go with the advisory committee’s recommendations as a show of support.

“If we want to have meaningful engagement in the Measure Z process in the future – and, really, meaningful engagement in all of our committees and commissions and boards … – I do think we need to strongly consider and adopt the recommendations whenever possible,” she said.

Bohn held firm in his advocacy for $1 million to roads, and after a good deal of discussion the board voted on a motion to do just that, while adopting the rest of staff recommendations, including the elimination of mid-year awards going forward.

The motion passed 3-2 with Arroyo and Bushnell voting no.

Other stuff

• The board ratified Sheriff Billy Honsal’s declaration of a local emergency caused by widespread flooding from the record-breaking downpour of January 13. Ryan Derby, director of the county’s Office of Emergency Services, reported that the county suffered $4.7 million in damages, mostly to county roads and bridges. Supervisor Wilson  noted that climate change is making storms stronger and said future land use planning should focus on avoiding development in dangerous areas. Damage reports will be submitted to the state and federal governments for possible financial assistance.
• For the second week in a row, an appeal of the Planning Commission’s November 16 approval of a McKinleyville subdivision and housing development project was postponed. This time the delay was necessary due to an error in the agenda packet, with the appellants’ information mistakenly not included. Planning and Building Director John Ford apologized for the omission. The project would see a 2.47-acre property subdivided into 19 parcels for development of a multi-family housing project just east of the McKinleyville Town Center. The Planning Commission approved the subdivision over opposition from neighbors, quite a few of whom offered public comment today, criticizing the project’s density, design and parking accommodations. They’ll get “another bite at the apple” (a favorite Bohn phrase) when the rescheduled appeal hearing is heard on Friday starting at 11 a.m.

This morning, the nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced and, since Humboldt is currently the world capital of filmmaking, we thought LoCO readers should get the first say on this year’s winners. The results will be sent to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a nice-but-firm note explaining why the LoCO Pollz results should be binding and final.

We are the Academy now. Happy voting. 

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Press release from the Eureka Police Department:

On January 22, 2024 at approximately 05:46 a.m., the Eureka Police Department responded to a report of a male juvenile that had suffered a significant laceration to his neck needing immediate medical attention. The juvenile reported he had been assaulted by an adult male family member. Officers located the juvenile and he was transported to a local medical facility for treatment of severe but not life-threatening wounds. The juvenile told officers the assault occurred at a residence in the 1400 block of Union Street in Eureka, and that there were additional occupants and juveniles in the home who had been threatened and were in danger. Officers entered the residence and began checking for additional occupants and victims. While in the residence, officers learned the male suspect had moved the rest of the occupants into a second-story bedroom where he had barricaded himself and was holding them hostage. The officers on scene began requesting additional resources and attempted to negotiate with the suspect.

At approximately 7:41 a.m., the Eureka Police Department issued a shelter in place notification that was sent out to local residences and businesses immediately adjacent to the incident location.

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team as well as the Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT) were requested and responded to the scene. Throughout the day negotiations continued until all four hostages were safely released at approximately 1:00 p.m. There was one adult female and three male juveniles, ranging in ages from 4-12 years old, removed from the residence. One of the juveniles had a large laceration to the side of his neck caused by the male suspect. All the juveniles were transported to a local medical facility and evaluated. The male juvenile with the significant laceration to his neck received treatment for his injury which was non-life threatening. The juveniles were then released into the custody of Child Welfare Services.

CNT continued to negotiate with the male suspect, who was non-compliant and refused to surrender and exit the room, for four more hours. Detectives with EPD had obtained a Ramey Warrant for the suspect’s arrest for the felony assault on the first male juvenile. At approximately 4:58 p.m., contact with the suspect was made, and an officer involved shooting (OIS) occurred. The male suspect was struck by gunfire. City Ambulance and Humboldt Bay Fire, who had been staged on scene, responded directly to the residence. Immediate life-saving measures were employed by members of the SWAT team and medical personnel. The suspect was transported to a local medical facility where he succumbed to his injuries.

The suspect has been identified as Daniel Martinez, 43 years old of Eureka. Two members of the Humboldt County SWAT team have been identified as having fired their firearms during the OIS. Both are deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and have been placed on paid special leave, as is protocol for their agency.

The Humboldt County Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT), led by the Eureka Police Department and the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office, was activated to investigate this incident. This investigation is ongoing and additional information will be released as it becomes available.

The Eureka Police Department appreciates the partnerships with the agencies that assisted with this incident: Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, Fortuna Police Department, California Highway Patrol, City Ambulance, Humboldt Bay Fire, Yurok Tribal Police, Humboldt County Child Welfare Services, Yurok Social Services, Humboldt County Behavioral Health and Crisis Alternative Response of Eureka (CARE).

Anyone with information regarding the incident is encouraged to contact Detective Donald Bailey with the Eureka Police Department Criminal Investigations Unit at 707-441-4215.