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Veterans Parade in Sanger
Looking for a home
Football season ends at Arroyo
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Lifestyles 2B Sports 1B
WeeklyNewspaper Sanger(FresnoCounty)CA93657 50¢ (taxincluded) Election winners
Council District 2
Votes Percentage Humbert Garza 245 54.47 Melissa Beasley 202 44.99
Council District 4
Votes Percentage Eli Ontiveros 453 47.73
School District 6
State Senate District 14
Michael Montelongo 281
David Sulenta 213 22.44
Jesse Solorio Gina Cuevas
Votes Percentage 439 59.01
304 40.86
Melissa Hurtado Andy Vidak
Votes Percentage 42,247 52.1 38,873 47.9
29.61
Editor's note: Even though all city council and school board precincts have reported there are still provisional and late absentee ballots to be counted. If there is a whisker thin margin between candidates, as there is in the state senate race between Hurtado and Vidak, those ballots could change the outcome. It doesn't often happen, but it's possible. It will be several days before all the votes have been counted and the election has been certified. However, the winners you see above are still likely to be the winners when the election has been certified. But, until then, you can keep hoping.
Measure B was approved The Sanger Unified School District bond
issue was appoved 64.77% to 35.23%.
It needed a 55% majority to be approved.
More election results on page 6A.
City will look for a new firm to help get grants
Parade winners
Mike Nemeth/Sanger Herald
Sanger Veterans Parade winners: Best Overall, American Indian Warrior Flag Group; Best Military Theme, VFW Edward Kuhlman Post 7168 (See photo on today's Lifestyle page); Best School, Sanger High NJROTC; Best Band, Sounds of Sanger Marching Band; Honorable Mention, American Legion Squaw Valley Post 621. (See the parade story on page 2B and more photos on page 7A.)
Another possible public health hazard created by city's aged infrastructure
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
The city council on a 3-2 vote at its Nov. 1 meeting decided to end its relation- ship with Townsend Public Affairs and look for another firm to help secure grant money for the city.
Mayor Frank Gonzalez, mayor pro tem Eli Ontiveros and councilmember Humber- to Garza voted in favor of not renewing the agreement with Townsend which expired on Nov. 1.
Councilmembers Melissa Hurtado and Daniel Martinez opposed the move.
The council expressed
a willingness to extend the contract to Dec. 3 to give Townsend an opportunity
to wrap up any grants it's currently working on for the city.
Townsend's quarterly reports to the council have
repeatedly focused on what it plans to do and the results it hopes to produce. Few positive results have been reported.
City manager Tim Chapa characterized the firm as un- responsive and said the only grants the city has received since hiring Townsend a year ago, "Are ones we would have gotten anyway."
Townsend has been paid $5,000 a month for its ser- vices, according to a report from administrative services director Gary Watahira to the council.
Martinez said he was not satisfied the staff report about Townsend contained enough information to justify not extending the contract.
The reporter can be contacted by email at sang- erherald@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
It wasn't long ago an old, leaking sewer pipe on North Avenue was threatening to create a public health hazard and required emergency repairs.
This time it's an old, leak- ing water pipe on Jensen Avenue that, according to public works director John Mulligan, is threatening to create a public health hazard and requires emergency repairs.
The city council gave Mul- ligan its unanimous approval at its Nov. 1 meeting to move forward with the emergency repair work.
Mulligan told the council a rough estimate of the cost for the repairs is $60,000.
But, Mulligan said, "The actual costs will not be exact- ly determined until the utility infrastructure is exposed and assessed."
That's what's been taking place over the past few days. That's why Jensen is partial- ly closed off in the eastbound direction.
If it's determined the dam- age is severe enough, Jensen may have to be shut down for awhile so repairs can be made, said Mulligan.
The pipe that's causing the problem started leaking "over a decade ago," said Mulligan. Another pipe
was installed to serve the businesses and homes along the alley between West and Tait avenues. But the older pipe couldn't be completely shut off, so steel plates were placed under the Jensen Av- enue pavement and over the still leaking pipe.
The reporter can be contacted by email at sang- erherald@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
• Nov. 13 - Rescheduled Measure S Citizens Oversight Committee meeting, 6 p.m., city hall, 1700 7th St.
• Nov. 14 - Ribbon cutting for new SUSD trans- portation yard, 10:30 a.m., 1249 Commerce Ave.
• Nov. 15 - City council meeting, 6 p.m., city hall, 1700 7th St.
Dick Sheppard/Sanger Herald
The lane closure on Jensen Avenue between Tait and West avenues is to give ex- perts an opportunity to check the status of an old water pipe that has been leaking. If it's determined the damage is severe enough, Jensen may have to be shut down for awhile so repairs can be made, said public works di- rector John Mulligan.
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NOVEMBER 8, 2018
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