The Amador Board of Supervisors approved its response to the Grand Jury report, and discussed, but took no action on the issue of homelessness in the county. In two separate hearings on Tuesday, the Board voted to approve its official response to the civil grand jury report released in June, which offered criticism of the county’s child protective services or CPS and maintenance of roads and other infrastructure. With regard to the CPS findings, the county does acknowledge some communication problems between foster families, but disputes the Grand Jury finding that not enough home visits were conducted by the county, and rejected some specific changes in CPS policy regarding communication with foster families. On the issue of roads and infrastructure, the board agreed that the lack of sufficient funding existed, but rejected the Grand Jury’s suggestions to either raise or save more money, such as selling county-owned property, consolidating county offices such as the district attorney’s office, and charging usage fees for agencies such as ACRA and the UC Cooperative extension. The Board also received a report from the county’s homeless task force, which consists of both government officials and various nonprofits and private citizens, on the extent of the homeless population in the county, current efforts addressing the population and possible future action. However, when supervisor Frank Axe made a motion to declare a homeless shelter emergency in the county as suggested by the report, the motion died from lack of a second from the other board members, and the board took no further action on the issue.
September 26, 2018
KVGC Radio – Voice of the Gold Country
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