Sierra Wave: Eastern Sierra News
Eastern Sierra News for Bishop, Mammoth, Lone Pine, June Lake, Mammoth Lakes
While taxes paid by Coso Geothermal operations may sit near the top of the list for Inyo County government, it doesn’t come cheap. Coso has contested several of the County’s assessments. On Tuesday’s board agenda, Assessor Tom Lanshaw will ask that the County approve a contract with Harold W. Bertholf Inc. for mineral appraisal services [...]
- Press release from Caltrans Bishop – Bike to Work Week was a successful challenge due to five local agencies joining forces and encouraging their employees to participate. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Inyo County and Northern Inyo Hospital struck up a friendly competition challenging each [...]
- Press release from Mono County Mono County, Calif. – On Tuesday, May 21, the Mono County Board of Supervistors announced its selection of Jim Leddy as the new Mono County Administrator. The selection follows an extensive recruitment process begun in January and guided by the Board’s efforts to strengthen strategic planning for the county. [...]
- Following is a press release from Inyo County On April 27, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Department, Inyo Narcotics Enforcement Team (INET) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) gave Inyo County residents their first ever opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. [...]
How did someone manage to steal more than $1.5 million in welfare funds in Inyo County, undetected for eight years? The District Attorney alleges Inyo’s Social Services Supervisor Dawndee Rossy conspired with her husband Ken to commit that crime. Director of Health and Human Services, Jean Turner, maintains that there were many safeguards in place. [...]
After months of untold staff time, trips to Sacramento and a formal agreement, Inyo County learned Wednesday that BrightSource Energy suspended its permit application for the Hidden Hills Solar Energy project in Death Valley. Inyo officials had haggled repeatedly with BrightSource over how much the project would cost Inyo County. The County Administrator, Planning Director [...]
(PRESS RELEASE) OFFICIALS ARE ‘TAKING BACK’ UNWANTED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS IN INYO COUNTY April 4, 2013 – On April 27, from 10 am to 2 pm, the Inyo County Sheriff Department, Inyo Narcotics Enforcement Team (INET) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the Inyo County residents their first ever opportunity [...]
More than twenty-two years ago, Inyo County and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power signed a long term agreement that was supposed to end disputes over groundwater pumping. Those disputes continue, and there is still no agreed upon method to control pumps. The section of that long term agreement that was supposed to [...]
While Inyo County remains in sharp disagreement with BrightSource Energy over the cost to the County of their Hidden Hills Solar project near Death Valley, BrightSource has other business issues that have made news. And, both parties now await a decision from the California Energy Commission on the Hidden Hills project permit. The CEC staff [...]
Consultants hired by Inyo and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power say flows down the Lower Owens River need some changes to keep water quality good and fish alive. The County and LADWP issued their annual report on the Lower Owens River, and with that report the consultants, ESI, Inc. have made recommendations [...]
As Inyo County Administrator Kevin Carunchio put it, “We’re not in an expansion mode, and I don’t expect us to be any time soon.” That’s what Carunchil told the Board of Supervisors in a discussion on the County consolidated office building proposal. The Board extended another deadline on the project. About a year ago, Inyo [...]
Procrastination – that appears to have been the management style that Inyo County has used with the town water systems of Independence, Lone Pine and Laws. Inyo took on those systems from LADWP about 20 years ago. Only now has it come to light that at least two of the systems will need nearly $10 [...]
