Look what Yuba County found in Camptonville

It was time for spring cleaning in Yuba County, and look what they found: surplus property in Camptonville!

Yes, you go through all that stuff that piled up, and up comes something in Camptonville that nobody seemed to remember the county had. Really. In a memo last month to the Board of Supervisors, Administrative Services Director Doug McCoy asked the board to declare the Camptonville land surplus.

According to McCoy, the small property in Camptonville was once privately owned and was used to house one of the county’s snow plows. It snows up in Camptonville, you know.

In the early 1950s, McCoy wrote, the property on Cleveland Avenue was transferred to the county following a property survey performed to create parcel maps.

“No record exists as to why this was done,” McCoy wrote. “The county has not used this property for storage of anything for over 20 years.”

So the county owned a property and the shed on it in beautiful Camptonville and had not used it for two decades.

“The building is in poor HaroldKrugeris aveteran reporterand copyeditorfor theAppealDemocrat. Call749-4774.

condition,” McCoy wrote. “It has asbestos in the shingles and would cost more to remove than the property is worth. Current estimate to demo (demolish) the facility was $15,000. Estimated land value of the property is $1,200.”

So McCoy recommended that the county dispose of the property through a private sale, selling it to the adjacent landowner for as little as a $1.

Spring cleaning accomplished.

There’s good news for Walter Munchheimer, Marysville’s city administrator.

He’s getting some of his salary back.

The City Council last month agreed to restore some of the money they cut from his salary a few years ago, plus give him a 1 percent per year cost of living increase, putting his salary at $132,180.

In addition, he now has a fixed term of the contract so it runs through the end of 2019. Munchheimer signed on with the city in September 2012. Even more congrats! Your Yuba County administrator, Robert Bendorf, received an appointment from Gov. Jerry Brown last month.

Bendorf was named to the No Place Like Home Program Advisory Committee.

The governor’s press release about the appointment had two interesting facts: Bendorf doesn’t live in Yuba County, and he’s a Republican. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

And what is the No Place Like Home Program Advisory Committee? It appears to be part of the No Place Like Home Program, part of the state Department of Housing and Community Development.

The program was in legislation Brown signed last year that dedicates $2 billion in bond money to invest in the development of permanent supportive housing for people who need mental health services and who are homeless or might soon become homeless.