county's community development agency speaking before the board of supervisors on tuesday said his agency is trying to assign costs to recommendations in the plan to see how expensive it might be supervisors could implement recommendations as funds become available to camp addie the cost estimates will be included in the final draft of the fire plan which is slated to be discussed at the april eighth board meeting language in the plan could be approved or rejected at the meeting here's a list of recommendations to camp said would cost the county if implemented as part of the fire plan to develop evacuation road standards and have supervisors find ways to fund improvements for roads that don't measure up again a fire hazard areas that could produce large wildfires you could grant funds to deal with them increase the county roadside vegetation treatment program to ten percent of the road system every year instead of six percent to reduce the sunni's cycle of every ten years instead of every seventeen years curry create a countrywide system of strategically placed water tanks for fire protection create an automatic system for emergency public notifications find permanent funding for the county fire safe councils chipping program and services establish a biomass center for the  safe council to turn the chips into monetary gain the council tried before but had to give a grant back when it could not find a location hold workshops on the benefits of fire resistant building materials the nevada county contractors association already has said the county should not worry more clearly feels around houses than what the houses are built of his devilish inofficial far marshall office the county has an interim farm marshall on loan from the state and some fire departments in the area have their own get financial aid for landowners who can't afford to clear their property of excess brush chambers tuesday night to decide the fate of walgreens at the corner of seven way in brunswick road which would be the third major drugstore in the area two appeals were filed against the city planning commissions earlier approval of the project one based on traffic concerns and the other based on design by a three to two both the city council turned down on an appeal from citizens concerned about traffic the group had questions questioned whether the measure to control traffic such as widening turned lanes were sufficient the reality is we're never going to have to perfect fit for the location said councilman dan miller who voted against the appeal i believe the traffic solution is what we're looking for council members lisa sort out and jan arbuckle also voted to reject the appeal while major merit mark johnson and councilman chauncey posting voted to support it i've used that intersection for thirty years and i know enough at the urging of johnson the council agreed to form a subcommittee to review the design in consider options such as making it more pedestrian friendly johnson arbuckle will sit on the subcommittee and are expected to report back to the council on april eighth i know walgreens thinks they're doing the right thing but they can do better said johnson we need to make sure it's pedestrian friendly in the future added resident  concerned about traffic land use planners steve and about a dozen citizens who came forward to speak most who spoke were opposed to the project terror development partners planned it constructing they planned on constructing the fourteen thousand five hundred fifty square foot building in two eight hundred square foot buildings for the commercial businesses on the site where the that where the shattered jim keel chevrolet dealership six to do this ship will be torn down to make way for the project it will design for the building said architecture mark more valley to east traffic concerns to additional turn mind right turn lane from the southbound certain way on to brunswick road and a left turn lane from brunswick road onto  way were added to the proposal approved by the city planning commission in december at tuesday's night's meeting the council asked that the extra lane to be built before the construction of the walgreens begins the front of walgreens building is separated from the sidewalk long brunswick road by some parking spaces but its location in the latest plans moves the building closer to the sidewalk the any in previous plans and a nod to making it more pedestrian friendly citizens about traffic co founder also discuss the safety concerns such as drivers who would we've between lanes for a quicker route to the freeway and his presentation in us expressed concerns about the design of the project he showed photos of walkmans in small communities in ohio where w that were more pedestrian friendly doesn't grass valley deserve the type of quality projects that were built and upper arlington and poland ohio grass valleys new development code approved last year draws heavily on new urbanism concepts to extend the feel  historic downtown to other commercial areas book brazen falls under community design guidelines that prefer bringing businesses closer to the street that don't require that standard city officials said the meeting began at seven p vatican will be the first in california to fully implement laura's law the state statute that forced care upon those who refuse medical treatment and are endangered are a danger to the community only about five people in nevada county each year would qualify for such involuntary treatment according to behavioral health director michael haggerty because of the strict eligibility ability requirements bill energy used in the state legislature last week could relax requirements for the treatment but they remain strict for now haggerty said at a board of supervisors meeting on tuesday under current rules a petition first would have to be filled filed with the county superior court to get an evaluation for a patient for possible placement into the program if the court approved of evaluation a judge would make the decision whether it amounts to involuntary treatment the person would have to be eighteen years or older and have a history of multiple incarcerations and hospitalization and refuse treatment he added about six other counties will watch how nevada county will in amend the law it was named after laura well cox nineteen years old one of the three county residents slain by mental health patient scott dork he january tenth to two thousand and one to our pit stop taking medication that had east symptoms of a late blooming mental illness hager he has been in contact with orange county and he expects more telephone calls and visits from the populace southern california areas representatives after the local program starts april first he said several other counties are watching closely but haggerty said he was wary of naming them without their approval and  they show more interest yvette a county having to implement laura's law as part of its settlement of a lawsuit filed by the wilcox family after the shootings other counties fear implementing it could trigger lawsuits because it's involuntary nature is highly controversial across the country in november nevada county hired sacramento from turning point treatment center to handle the county's fifteen most challenging mental health patients as part of the program there almost fully staffed and treat twenty to twenty five people right now are good he said though none of the clients are in the largest law program yet steph hopes to get them enough treatment to keep them from repeatedly going to jail or hospital emergency rooms when they able to get the program rolling supervisors had to pass a resolution promising the new treatment would not diminish funding for any existing mental health programs they did so unanimously good for them and that's it for our today's local news democratic presidential contenders hillary clinton and barack obama sparred last night in their final debate before next week's key primaries in texas ohio vermont and rhode island obama received a boost tuesday when democrat senator and former presidential hopeful christopher dodd endorsed his campaign dodd said and i am here to express my strong support for the candidacy of barack obama this is a moment of unity in our count country and a time when we need to come together as a democratic party and get beyond candidacy that expresses aspirations the hopes the ambitions of millions and millions of americans and i believe that barack obama has shown that has demonstrated that not only in the campaign but also in his service in the state and his country the senate has voted to begin debate on a measure that would withdraw all troops from iraq within four months and cut funding for battlefield deployment bills sponsored by democrat senator respond gold of wisconsin point gold do more republican support than democratic with forty three senators joining them across the aisle in favor of the debate public and say they want to use the debate to highlight what they call the achievements of the so called troop surge in iraq in israel and the occupied territories at least seven palestinians have been killed in israeli attacks on the gaza strip several others were wounded israel has killed more than two hundred palestinians in gaza since peace negotiations resume to november meanwhile the israeli military has announced that there will be no prosecution over the november two thousand and six attack that killed twenty one palestinian civilians in the gaza residential building sixteen of the dead were members of the same family seven of them were children including an eighteen month old girl six other victims were women another nine hundred family members were wounded including four children who lost  libyan official is planning a visit to washington to present the evidence that u s aid programs have tried to destabilize the government of bolivian president evo morales presidential minister want to remark on when don would visit next just weeks after it was revealed the top u s embassy official told a group of peace corps volunteers to spy on the cuban then venezuelans they came across in bolivia donna says he will meet with congress members in u s efforts to support both of us while the opposition no relation to iran it's on a front row records north korea has treated to a rare concert to see from the new york philharmonic orchestra played for ninety minutes in front of top north korean officials and national television audience that concert opening a door we certainly hope that is true that in the long run it will be seen as a watershed a moment in history when then others will follow and there will be normalization over two decades the things never happen at once there might be three years before is some kind of positive result you never know but the groundwork has been laid there is no question about it and former u n secretary general kofi annan has shut down mediation talks in kenya ongoing internal also said i believe it is important that i suspend the negotiations not as an act of desperation or giving up but suspend the negotiation and take the matters up with president why it could not be an honorable rally or dinka the leaders have to assume the responsibility and we come directly engaged talks more than one thousand people have been killed in nearly two months of post election violence thousands more have been wounded and three hundred thousand displaced the supreme court is expected to hear opening statements today in a near twenty year battle over the exxon valdez oil spill exxon is appealing the ruling ordering it to pay two point five billion dollars in damages to alaskan residents affected by the spill two years ago the company want to rule in having the initial five billion dollar claim having it can happen in washington tuesday alaska governor sarah palin accused exxon of corporate negligence the governor also said that more than thirty two thousand eleven million gallons of crude over thirteen hundred miles of alaska's majestic resource rich coastline supreme court justice samuel alito has it excused himself from here is because he owns exxon mobil's stock in texas a government run hughes detention jail is facing new allegations of sexual abuse and physical beatings of immigrant children the lawsuit says nine children remote lasted out to texas sheltered care center in this town of nixon the suit says the jail administrators ignored complaints from the children and worked to cover up their allegations the detention center was closed down last year after sexual abuse allegations first s the czech republic delegation in washington this week is in washington this week to finalize plans for a u s missile system in eastern europe prime minister member pollen neck said his government would ignore russian objections he also said but we do not want to belong again to there is fear of russian influence we do not want to belong to a group of countries which have to ask russia for permission if they want to ensure their own defense have elements placed on our territory blustering terms our strategic significance and geopolitical position the u s wants to install at least ten missiles in poland along with a radar site in the czech republic public opinion polls continue to show majority opposition former general attorney general john ashcroft passed agreed to testify before congress on a lucrative no bid contract under the deal i struck consulting firm would receive as much as fifty two million dollars to monitor out of court settlements between prosecutors and corporations ask rove was awarded the contract by new jersey top federal prosecutor christopher christie ashcroft has christie so boss was christie's boss during his stint as attorney general can you say good old boy and a u s service member in california has admitted to deliberately getting himself shot to avoid service in iraq police say go on named twenty year old soldier from san bernardino county had friend shoot him in the leg in a fake robbery under question he finally admitted to the staging of this shooting so he could avoid returning to iraq for a second  and that's a wrap today for our world lead news business on a one hundred block i'm a street for violation of probation twelve forty nine a m officers arrested thirty one year old man an intersection of empire street and white history on suspicion of drunken driving and booked him into the van to county's jail two forty six a m a man called from five hundred block of why the streets and his wife was assaulting him officers arrested the twenty nine year old woman on suspicion of spousal abuse and battery on a spouse and booked her into than about a county jail yvetot county sheriff's office on monday at eight ten a m and woman called from lake shore north to report a physical altercation she said her husband hit her on her head and bruised her arm she said he was leaving in a gray chevy cavalier for a school in rancho cordova officers arrested a man of suspicion of spousal abuse on bill road each child in the vehicle was released to the family and the vehicle was secured had seen nine fifty six a woman from thirteen thousand block a lower court reported a violation of a restraining order and threats that she and her daughter had received on the phone for thirty one p m officers cited released a person on an intersection highway forty nine a bunch of road on driving on suspended license and it's six fifty nine a woman pm a woman came to the grass valley police department to report a fight earlier in the valley union high school quoting to her the parents of the other juvenile were calling her and threaten her report was for battery so all for school ten fifty four p m officers resident a man of pleasant valley road on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance transporting marijuana for sale possession unless an ounce of marijuana and possessing drug paraphernalia and booked him into the nevada county jail he also arrested and booked a woman on suspicion of transporting marijuana for sale possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and possessing drug paraphernalia now little special report years of trespassing illegal dumping erosion and damage to archaeology legal sites have pushed the u s bureau of land management to shut down areas in the steep hollow and green horn creek areas despite the area's popularity off road riding line closure is one of many across nine central california counties recently approved as part of the long overdue sierra resource management plan plan directs the future management of the publicly owned lands for environmental historical recreation water and agricultural purposes and wildfire and wildfires safety members of some local four will drive clubs are outraged by the recent closure of the public recreation line saying it will put more pressure on trails that remain open and could jeopardize back country use for hikers hunters anglers kayakers closing bell and land is closing public land if people don't have a place to recruit recreate they're not going to go away said kyra a local motorcyclist who goes to buy her first name  she said closing public lands could make them more dangerous encouraging illegal activities such as growing marijuana and out toward meth labs next week friends of green when a group of about eighty members will follow an appeal to the b l m plan said jacqueline tyson one of the group's organizers friends a green or informed last fall in response to proposed like closers since ten members have organized cleanup days in route map mapping trips to save the four wheel drive playground from becoming a de facto wilderness she said this is pretty hot button issue with a lot of oh h v users i really feel for the people we're not making any more public land said jeff warren recreation planner for b all lives falls and field office in recent patrol the district's two hundred thirty thousand acres of public land and defunct land exchange program the agency is left with its hands tied for caring for what is considered left over from the homestead act it complicated pattern of country roads private properties mining claims and lands managed by b l m talk of national forest makes a remote area around green on a heading to patrol force officials are expected to close down always feel used in the green horn areas sooner  but by numerous complaints of vandals loud parties illegal dumping shooting and trespassing you can see that just by listening to the police blotter the region is considered a nuisance by local law enforcement as well in one thousand year old man died  lower elevation also makes it a favorite place to ride during the winter months when i arouse remained covered with snow in january as many as twelve hundred people and six hundred vehicles turned out for the california association of four will drive club's winter fun green on is a little of everything green horn is a piece that serves a lot of people and community congress just how the federal land agency will enforce the closure remains to be seen when rangers are feeling far between agency wants to use education first as a tool for reinforcement through pamphlets and signs once said so i teach ins will be issued as a last resort and that's it for today thank the union associate president amy goodman and we will talk to you to