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Weekly Newspaper Sanger (Fresno County) CA 93657 50¢ (tax included) Adela Jones: 'You are our future'
Dick Sheppard/Sanger Herald
Schools superintendent Adela Madrigal Jones told the 50 Sanger Unified teachers who were granted tenure at the Sept. 25 school board meeting, "You are our future." Jones praised the teach- ers for being proposed for tenure by their principals. "You make it possible to continue the high standards we have set for our school district," said Jones. After the board voted unanimously to grant tenure, the group filed by board members to shake hands and accept congratulations, posed for pictures and accepted more congratulations from family, friends and colleagues before going to a punch and cake reception in the back of the multipurpose room at Sanger Academy Charter School. The newly tenured teachers are Elizabeth A. Alfving, Jessica M. Avalos, Karla B. Bretado, Amanda L. Cardoza, Nkaoly Cha, Megan C. Clanton, Gabriela Z. Cole, Amanda L. Cuellar, Lindsay F. Doyle, Marissa L. Farnesi, Ana G. Flores Velazquez, Shanda R. Fulbright, Harmandeep K. Gill, Sydney S. Gunlund, Laura E. Hansen, Beatriz Herrera, Kristi A. Hoffman, Todd A. Jacobs, Justin W. Janzer, Micah J. Johnson, Leslie N. Lindsey, Alejandra Lomeli, Rachel T. Lopez, Jill N. Manfredo, Alexandra Martinez, Randi D. McCabe, Monica Melendrez Macias, Jenny Meyer, Alexandra H. Milla, Andrew J. Montemayor, Katelyn R. Musso, William S. Nelson, Jenna L. Nickell, Nicole K. Patteson, Milorad Pavlovic, Alexis A. Ramirez, Lisa A. Rehfeldt, Susana M. Reyna, Abiann Riddle, Cristina Salmeron, Justin A. Santos, Courtney E. Soule, Claire E. Tirapelle, Yanelly Torres, Marisol A. Tovar, Theresa A. Valdez, Brenda L. Vera, Kimberly D. Witt, Kara K. Worman and Taylor C. Yost.
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Council will hear appeal on Oct. 8
A planning commissioner is challenging a planning
commission decision - among several other things
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
Planning commissioner Vincent Wall has filed an appeal with the city challenging a planning commission decision.
Wall, an attorney, will get his day in court - or at least his time before the city council - on Oct. 8 to explain what may not be a totally unprecedented, but is certainly an unusual action, challenging a decision made by the commission on which he serves.
A 3-1 vote by the commission, with Wall casting the lone "no" vote, on Sept. 13 ap- proved a conditional use permit for Algon- quinPower. AlgonquinisaSangerbased company that uses gas to generate electricity which it provides to the power grid.
Commissioners Johnny Perez, Ken Garcia and Monica Yamada voted to approve the permit.
Wall's reason for dissenting at the com- mission meeting seemed to be that Algonquin would be increasing its number of hours
of operation if the permit was granted and therefore it would be putting more pollutants into the air. So, in exchange for approval of the permit it should be required to provide an offset, like trees for parks to help rid the air of the additional pollutants, said Wall.
However at the Sept. 20 city council meet- ing where Wall announced that he had filed the appeal, he seemed to indicate it was not as much about the power plant or the envi- ronment as it was about letting the council know the city staff, in his opinion, was not doing its job of providing timely, complete and unbiased information that could be used by the commission to make fair and equitable decisions.
A copy of the appeal was obtained by the Herald under the California Public Records and the Freedom of Information acts.
Clarifying ordinances sent back to oversight committee for clarification
Wall is one of six appellants listed on the ap- peal filed Sept. 20.
It contains environmental concerns mixed with obvious frustration over what Wall perceives to be misinformation - and a lack of timely, useful and relevant information - from the city staff.
Wall is one of six appellants listed on the appeal filed with the city on Sept. 20. The other appellants are Joseph Villalobos, Donna Bailey, Efren Rubio, Melissa Beasley and Henry Provost.
The council can "affirm, reverse or modify a decision of the commission," according to city code section 90-1000 (b), city attorney Hilda Cantu Montoy told the Herald.
The council has 40 days from the hearing date to render its decision and its decision "... shall be final and shall have immediate effect," according to the code.
It appears that at least one of the reasons Wall filed the appeal was to have an opportu- nity to speak to the city council about all his concerns.
It should be an interesting meeting to attend, 6 p.m. on Oct. 8 at city hall.
The reporter can be contacted by email at sangerherald@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
The city council told city attorney Hilda Cantu Montoy to go back to the Measure S Citizens Oversight Com- mittee to seek clarification of alternative ordinances intended to clarify how Mea- sure S tax money should be spent.
After discussing three proposed ordinances and hearing public comment at
its Sept. 20 meeting the coun- cil was still not comfortable with definitions of "supple- ment" and "supplant."
"In order to communicate we all have to have the same definition," said councilmem- ber Humberto Garza.
The "fine tuning" request- ed by the council will include work on definitions and a final recommendation about using a base general fund amount, a percentage or both to determine when oversight
money can be spent. "Show me the money" was the public and coun-
cil's reaction to a quarterly report by a representative of grant writing firm Townsend PublicAffairs. Averyshort list of present results over- shadowed a very long list of promised future results.
The reporter can be contacted by email at sang- erherald@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
• Sept. 27- Planning commission meeting, 6 p.m. at city hall, 1700 7th St.
• Sept. 28 - Apache Homecoming game with Madera Coyotes - Tom Flores is the home- coming parade grand marshal - 7:30 p.m. kickoff at Tom Flores Stadium. (The parade is before the game.)
• Sept. 29 - Street Faire and Farmers' Market, "CalifasFest and Car Show," 5-9 p.m. in downtown Sanger.
• Sept. 30 - Sanger Rotary annual barbecue, 4-8:30 p.m., Kings River Winery, 4276 Green- wood Ave.
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Tom Flores is the grand marshal!
Better get there early!
See page 8A for more details!
Sanger versus Madera gametime - 7:30 p.m.