County withdraws from public safety center

The Plumas County Board of Supervisors withdrew the $1.5 million in funding it had promised for a public safety center in Greenville, designed to hold a fire hall, sheriff’s substation and emergency medical quarters. The board’s unanimous action Nov. 10 ends the county’s partnership with the Indian Valley Community Services District over the center, a commitment officials previously called “a win-win … for everyone involved.” Supervisor Kevin Goss, whose district includes Greenville, originally championed the public safety center partnership as a project that “just made sense.” But, he said in a Nov. 9 telephone conversation with The Plumas Sun, he did not foresee some of the hoops the county would have to jump through as an occupant of a building on land not owned by the county. “At the end of the day, we didn’t really want to be renters,” Goss said. The supervisors’ decision to withdraw from the project took less than seven minutes.

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