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TOWN OF PARADISE
FLAG DESIGN CONTEST

December 27, 2007

The Town of Paradise is announcing an official flag contest in the hopes of attracting a designer to create a new and original flag design to represent the Town and commemorate the opening of the Paradise Community Park in 2007.

 This is an opportunity to produce the Town's very first official flag. The winning entry will be awarded a $200 cash prize.

The date of the Paradise Community Park grand opening and flag flying, along with any details and activities, will be announced after the first of the year.

Official Guidelines

1. The flag design contest will run until Monday, February 12th; submissions will be accepted up until 5:OOPM.

2. Entries will be judged on the following criteria:

* The flag should represent Paradise

* A brief explanation of the significance of the design, submitted on a separate sheet of paper   

3. Design entries should be submitted on an 8'/z in. x 11 in. sheet of plain paper and colored appropriately - the entrant's name should not appear anywhere on the design. The flag width is 2/3 of the length: for a 10 in. length, the width is 6.66 in.

4. All entries from the contest become the property of the Town of Paradise and will not be returned. The Town of Paradise reserves the right to reject any or all entries.

The winning entry will be awarded a $200 cash prize by the Town of Paradise.
For more information, please contact:
Sherry Bruno (530) 872-6987
SEND ENTRIES TO:
OFFICIAL FLAG CONTEST, TOWN OF PARADISE
5555 SKYWAY
PARADISE, CA 95969

VEGETATIVE WASTE COLLECTION/TRANSFER STATION
BEGINS WINTER OPERATION SCHEDULE

December 6, 2006

Effective Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 the Town of Paradise Vegetative Waste Collection and Transfer Station located at the corner of Clark Road and American Way in Paradise starts its Winter Operation Schedule. According to Al McGreehan, Paradise Community Development Director, the new schedule of operations will be four days per week as follows:

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday - 9:00AM to 4:00PM

The Town of Paradise Vegetative Waste Collection Program offers an alternative to burning for Ridge residents. Instead of burning, you can dispose of leaves, small prunings, pine needles and other yard waste at the Green Waste Collection Facility. This program helps our community maintain good air quality. It also aids us in achieving our community's goal of reducing the amount of material being taken to the Neal Road Landfill, an action which has been mandated by the State of California by the passage of Assembly Bill 939.

For more information regarding this program, call the Vegetative Waste Collection Station at 877-0824. For information regarding this news release, please call the Town's Vegetative Waste Collection Station contractor representative, Tim Velikonia, at Paradise Waste Management, 877-2777.

2006 Snow Day Rodeo
Wed, Dec. 6, 2006 - 7:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Paradise Senior Center
877 Nunneley Rd.
Click here for Flyer

Well, it’s that time of the year again – time to pull the snow plows out of the barn, and get your crews ready for another active snow season.  The Town is once again putting on our inter-agency training program, to help train new drivers, improve communication between agencies, and train outside agencies that may assist us during major events. 

 This year should be even bigger and better than past events, as we will be reviewing the APWA’s READY, SET, PLOW!  Click, Listen and Learn Presentation.  We also hope to have a presentation from a weather professional or two, as well as a brief presentation on the Town’s Snow and Ice Control Plan.  In the afternoon, we will “Fire Up” the plows, for a test of the driver’s skill in low speed maneuvering of the equipment.  The top scoring drivers will be rewarded with one of the coveted “Paradise Snow Fighter” vests.

If you have employee(s) that are interested, please let me know as soon as possible so we can make sure we have enough food and training materials for everyone.

Thanks,
Dennis Schmidt
Public Works Director/Town Engineer
872-6291

 

Town of Paradise Redevelopment Agency
Foster/Skyway Streetscape Project

Click here for a PDF file that shows the current design status of the Foster/Skyway Streetscape Project. Currently, these plans are at an early stage. This is an excellent opportunity for interested property owners and the public to offer comments, that may be incorporated into the ongoing design process. Persons interested in viewing these plans online will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free download at adobe.com. A set of these plans can be mailed to you if requested.

Please call Ron Tollison at the Town Hall at 872-6291 or write to us at the address below with your comments.

TRAIN DEPOT RESTORATION UNDERWAY

September 6, 2006

A very important part of our new Paradise Community Park project is the restoration of the old Train Depot, which the Town of Paradise and the Gold Nugget Museum views as paying proper homage to the vital role that the railroad played in the history of the Paradise and the Upper Ridge. The depot project was originally approved as part of the preliminary and final master plan design for the park.

In fact, the exterior of a caboose is being simultaneously restored by the Paradise Rotary Club and will be relocated adjacent to the new Depot and platform.

The Gold Nugget Museum plans to operate the restored Depot as a railroad museum. The Museum has raised over $ 40,000 to help fund their interior improvements and displays in the Depot. The estimated cost of the Depot restoration is $ 250,000 ($ 233,000 for the actual bid, plus estimated costs of extending septic, electrical, plumbing and water). The funding sources for the project are comprised of $ 114,000 from a State grant and $136,000 in redevelopment funds. The state grant identified the use of redevelopment funds as a matching funding source for the project.

The benign neglect and exposure to the weather elements that the Depot has experienced over its many years resulted in our need to design and plan for a more extensive restoration.

Consequently, the current restoration taking place includes the following improvements which were included in the original designs and plans.

• New foundation
• New exterior siding
• New roof
• New platform
• Insulation
• Interior improvements (by the Museum)
• Electrical & plumbing to the structure
• Interior restroom (for the Museum docents)
• HVAC system

It is anticipated that when the Depot restoration is completed that there will be a total of $ 44,000 in change orders, which will come out of the 15% contingency that has been factored into the total cost of the Paradise Community Park project.

The majority of the change orders ($ 33,000) are attributable to an extensive dry rot problem that was discovered after the foundation was raised and construction began.  An alteration to the finished floor elevation and required additional grading around the Depot account for the balance of the remaining change orders.

PARADISE COMMUNITY PARK NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION

September 5, 2006

During Paradise Community Park’s groundbreaking ceremony held on June 9, 2006, and attended by a large cross-section of the Paradise community, Mayor Sam Dresser and members of the Town Council characterized this primarily redevelopment funded Downtown park project as the single, largest capital improvement project in the Town’s history, and the first major revitalization project for our Downtown.

As the Council members commented during the ceremony, “To get to this historic point of celebration today has involved a massive planning effort involving several years of securing grants for various aspects of this project, purchasing the properties necessary for the park, creating with citizen input a master design for the park, establishing a redevelopment agency that would serve as the primary funding source for the construction, the completion of grant-funded improvements to the Memorial Trailway, the establishment of a grant-funded overflow public parking facility, and the development of final construction plans and documents. A huge undertaking that is finally paying off for our community today.”

This $ 2.5 million project (which has a 15% built-in contingency), will establish an important anchor that serves as a magnet to attract people, families and events to our Downtown.

Paradise Community Park has been under construction since the groundbreaking ceremony. REM Construction, a Paradise construction company, is the project’s contractor. Stantec, Inc., is the park design firm from Sacramento that worked from the outset with the former Downtown Revitalization and Redevelopment Steering Committees to develop the preliminary and master final design, as well as to work with the Museum and staff on the final plans and specifications for the project.

Funding sources for the Paradise Community Park project includes state grants monies to purchase the property and for the design of the park, state grant monies for part of the Depot Restoration, and redevelopment funds. None of the funding for the park project comes from general fund monies.

For more information concerning this exciting project for our community you may contact either Town Manager Chuck Rough or Asst. Town Manager Dennis Ivey at 530/872-6291.