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March 16, 2021 The Board of Supervisors is facing the question of how to spend the $22.6 million of settlement money from PG&E for damage caused by the fires of 2017. Last week’s list of proposed projects, copied and pasted from the list of capital improvement projects in the mid-year budget review, did not include any projects that were specific to Redwood Valley or Potter Valley, where the wind-driven fires raged for days. Don Dale, who’s been the Redwood Valley/Calpella fire chief for about seven years, was expecting a grant for a siren, but the fire district ended up raising $64,000 to buy a solar powered siren that can be set up in different areas and activated from a distance. He’s expecting to receive the siren in about 60 days, and is considering setting it up in four different zones. If he got money from the settlement, he’d like to buy more equipment for that siren. He’d also like ongoing funding to keep the roadsides clear, and pay for fire breaks. And ....