The Redding City Council approved extending the city’s flood emergency to get grant money for damaged parks and trails, and tabled subletting land leased to Shasta County, when it met Tuesday night.
City staff asked council members to allow cattle farmers to sublet grazing land slated for the county’s alternative custody campus but pulled the request from the agenda before the meeting started.
“We need to further discuss it (subletting) internally and it will be going back to council,” said Management Assistant Jason Gibilisco at the City Manager’s office Wednesday morning.
Council members also approved extending a flood emergency in place since last February, when heavy winter rainstorms, and high Sacramento River waters due to increased water released from Shasta Dam, damaged public and private land near waterways.
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The council’s decision allows the city to apply for additional state and federal emergency grant money to help fund roughly $4.8 million in repairs to Redding parks, trails and storm drains and wastewater facilities still needed in October, according to Gibilisco.
Parks in need of repair include the popular Nur Pon Open Space off Cypress Avenue. The city restored Nur Pon on Aug. 18 after the river washed out parts of the trail in February. However, the park still needs approximately $40,000 to repair a bridge on the trail. That bridge remains closed.
Other parks and trails in need of repair include Caldwell Park, Turtle Bay East, Clover Creek Preserve, Angler’s Trail, the South Bonnyview Boat Launch area and the Sacramento River Trail, according to the city.
The most expensive repairs needed are to the South Bonnyview Storm Drain ($3,750,000) and the Parkview Sewer Siphon ($1 million), the city reported.
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