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A homeless encampment is erected near Cordelia Street, Tuesday, Oct. 19. The Solano County Board of
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FAIRFIELD — The California Biomanufacturing Center is building a workforce training program for its emerging industries and asked the Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to support it with pandemic relief funds. Matt Gardner, chief executive of the center, said the organization will be back with a formal request when the time is right, but laid out the foundation for the training program. He said half the entry level positions would require nothing
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Gardner said. He said in California alone, 900,000 to 1 million workers in the restaurant industry lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 shutdown, while nationally, there are 7 million retail workers out of jobs as well. James “Jim” DeKloe, one of the creators of the biotech program at Solano Community College, told the supervisors the American Rescue Plan Act also would benefit the academic goals of the college. He said the college program would work hand-in-hand with See Relief, Page A9
Supervisors add pandemic relief funds to infrastructure, premium pay ‘buckets’ Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors did not want to send a message that they would not support using federal Covid relief funds for infrastructure projects or premium pay options. So the board on Tuesday added a little more than $2 million to each of those categories, leaving about $2 million of unallocated dollars from the first $43 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds the county has received. Supervisor Jim Spering said he was “disappointed” that the staff left unfunded completely the infrastructure category, feeling that at least three board members had
supported putting some level of support in that “bucket.” In fact, he said he believed a board majority supported his position that all seven categories adopted by the board should get some level of funding. “I think we sent out a wrong message,” said Spering, who added it put the supervisors in a “tough position.” Supervisor Mitch Mashburn reiterated his support for premium pay to those frontline workers who risked so much when Covid-19 first hit and there were no vaccines to protect them. His comments seemed to focus on law enforcement, but the board also heard
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A pedestrian wears a Covid-19 mask See Supes, Page A9 in Fairfield, Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON — The White House reiterated Tuesday its guidance to Americans not to visit Haiti, noting that a State Department warning against travel to the Caribbean nation is at its highest level as U.S. law enforcement grapples with a hostage crisis there involving 16 Americans. Gang members who abducted the American missionaries and one Canadian national over the weekend outside Port-au-Prince are demanding $1 million for the release of each hostage, three sources, including a high-ranking Haitian police official, told the Miami Herald. The request by the gang 400 Mawozo isn’t unusual. Kidnapping gangs in Haiti usually start by requesting high
ransom amounts and negotiate down, often demanding payments in U.S. currency. The abducted group worked for Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries. In a statement released Tuesday, the group said the ages of the adults being held captive range from 18 to 48, while the youngest victim is an 8-month-old baby. The remaining children are ages 3, 6, 13 and 15. The group continued to request prayers, saying many people, including the charity’s management, and Haitian and U.S. authorities, “are working diligently to bring our loved ones home safely.” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Tuesday that the Biden administration would decline to discuss
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