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Board directs staff to pursue state parks grant and feasibility planning for Greenville recovery projects
Summary
Plumas County staff received direction to apply for California State Parks Round 5 funding for the Wolf Creek Green project and to pursue feasibility and facility planning for consolidating Greenville Town Hall and the Greenville Library to support recovery and community services.
County planning staff asked the Board of Supervisors on June 2 for direction to pursue competitive funding from the California State Parks Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Program (Round 5) to advance the conceptual Wolf Creek Green downtown park and to evaluate co-locating Greenville Town Hall and the Greenville Library.
Staff described the Wolf Creek Green as a 3.67-acre conceptual downtown park on four parcels along Wolf Creek and noted National Park Service technical assistance completed a planning-and-design report. Staff said no property-sale, lease or donation agreements are in place yet but asked permission to pursue grant funding and begin site-feasibility work, including hiring architecture and engineering services. Supervisors discussed potential benefits such as indoor recreation and emergency-preparation uses, commercial-kitchen support for community meals, and the chance to combine library and town-hall services to lower operating costs and create a community hub.
Supervisors generally supported pursuing the grant and directed staff to begin coordination with property owners, Indian Valley Recreation and Parks and other partners and to start RFQ/RFP processes for architects and engineers. One supervisor noted available Dixie Fire settlement funds and urged moving forward with acquisition and planning to accelerate rebuilding even if the grant application is not fully successful. The board approved moving forward with the grant pursuit and initial planning work and approved a not-to-exceed $50,000 unbudgeted item to begin feasibility studies and related work.
Staff said they will return with cost estimates, property coordination updates and any future requests for formal grant-authorizing actions or property acquisition approvals.
