Tracking the Mass Evacuations from the danger area. Traffic is gridlocked. Low lying areas near the dam have been evacuated. That includes Oroville Gridley Yuba city and live oak. In total more than 130 thousand people ordered to leave. We have a crew in chico where an Evacuation Center has been set up. First kron4s Ella Sogomonian is tracking the attempt to avoid a disaster in oroville. Ella, what are those officials saying tonight . Thats what we are about to find out a press conference should be underway in butte county that was pushed from 9 to now 10 o clock for any updates. For now this is what we know so far the map here shows the oroville dam thats reached more than capacity pushing water into the auxilary spillway and now the emergency spillway thats never been used in the nearly 50 years of its existence. Fortunately at last check the amount of water rushing through dropped by half. Butte county sheriff calling this a dynamic situation so better safe than sorry an evacation w
Supervisor avalos. Thank you, just want to thank all the members of the public for being here and want to urge that we can move this Charter Amendment forward to the full board with or without recommendation i would be okay with. I think its important that we actually provide an opportunity for the voters to decide how we want to participate in filling vacancies on the board of supervisors and in the mayors office. I think this is a reasonable thing that really lives up to our democratic ideals as a city. And just want to reiterate this is not about any particular supervisor or to question the qufrtions of any one appointment thats been made recently, its really about having a process that lives up to our democratic ideals and values. We were making this on the pathway of doing this Charter Amendment back a couple years ago when lafco had done the study on vacancies and it was really about having a stable way we can move forward on filling these vacancies. My experience on the board, e
Possible one system into another system. At this point i havent completely made up my mind whether one system is better than the other. However, im open to moving this legislation to the full board with no recommendation so that we can consider it. By that time hopefully i will have ample time to think about it more and have discussions with other people that arent in this room. So id like to make a motion that we move this item to the full board with no recommendation. So moved. With no objection, motion passes. Thank you. So, madam clerk, can you please call items 2 through 5 . Item no. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are Charter Amendments for the november 4, 2014 election to renew the Childrens Fund and extend Expiration Date for 25 years, increase the property tax set aside from 3 cents to 4 cents, provide services for disconnected transitional age youth, 18224 years old, revise the planning process for expenditures inaudible working group, create a renew and extend the Public Education Enrichment
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