Here's
another installment of occasional columns summarizing several matters
of interest to Yorba Linda residents:
--Mixed
news regarding the cost of benefits for employees of Placentia-Yorba
Linda public schools for the fiscal year starting July 1 has been
viewed by the district's elected trustees.
Premiums
for six medical plans provided by Anthem Blue Cross jump 8.8 percent
for a total $24 million expenditure, while premium for a Kaiser
Permanente plan dips 0.7 percent to a $6.1 million expense. Delta
Dental's premium edges up 0.13 percent for a $2.8 million cost.
Meanwhile,
elementary and high school lunches will cost 25 cents more, since
federal law requires schools to gradually increase costs to the
subsidy level for free and reduced price meals, so federal monies
aren't subsidizing a district's paid meals.
New
costs: $1.50 breakfast and $2.75 elementary, $3 middle school, $3.25
high school lunch.
And
$750 honorariums were awarded nine employees-of-the-year: classified
workers Maria Alvarado, Alfred Fonseca, Martha Mann and Martha Suarez
and certificated staffers Richard Castro, Michelle De Haven, Dave
Flynn, Rey Lejano and Jennifer Luchesi.
--Among
recent actions by the city Planning Commission is a denial for a
10-bed care facility for elderly residents on Arbor Gate Lane, east
of Lakeview Avenue and south of Bastanchury Road.
Approved
were two new businesses at the refurbished Valley View Shopping
Center just north of Yorba Linda Boulevard: Pawradise pet grooming
and day care facility and Kim's Taekwondo martial arts studio.
And
cell phone reception should be improved by an antennae array added to
an existing Southern California Edison tower on vacant land west of
Eastside Park and addition of a back-up generator in a screened
enclosure at Valley View Sports Park.
--A
portion of the cash local shoppers pay for the CRV fee – known
formally as the California Refund Value – paid on the purchase of
plastic and glass beverage containers is returned to the city by the
state's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
Some
$17,381 will be distributed starting in July through November,
according to Assistant City Manager Dave Christian, who reported at a
recent City Council meeting that the dollar amount from this and past
years is used for container recycling and litter clean-up activities.
Cities
receive a minimum $5,000 or a higher per-capita amount under the
program, which aims for a statewide 80 percent recycle rate tor CRV
containers.
--Arrests
for suspicion of driving under the influence on this city's roadways
totaled 30 in the first four months of this year: 11 in January,
6 in February, 3 in March and 10 in April.
During
the same four-month period, 411 citations were issued for hazardous
or moving violations and 331 for non-hazardous offenses, mostly
involving equipment, registration and seat belts, noted a
Sheriff's report to the Traffic Commission.