Sep 25, 2025
Barbed Wire RCRC Affiliate Updates - September 2025A monthly update regarding the important work of RCRC’s affiliate entities, providing innovative services for the benefit of rural communities.
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Sep 25, 2025
Barbed Wire | Keeping Up Keeping Up - The Barbed Wire - September 26, 2025Announcements regarding key staffing changes of importance to California’s rural counties.
Sep 25, 2025
Barbed Wire | Weekly News Clips Weekly News Clips - The Barbed Wire - September 26, 2025RCRC press releases and related news clips about RCRC and our member counties. Please note that a subscription may be required to read some external publications.
Sep 12, 2025
Barbed Wire Like the Energizer Bunny, the Legislature Keeps Going and Going and Going…The end of session is always chaotic in California’s Legislature: every year seems to bring a slightly different flavor of chaos
Sep 12, 2025
Barbed Wire | Bill of the Week | Call to Action Call to Action: Urge Governor Newsom to Veto Assembly Bill 339Assembly Bill 339, which would undermine local agencies’ efforts to provide programs and services to the public by requiring new, time-consuming, and costly administrative requirements, has advanced to the Governor’s Desk. RCRC requests that counties submit a letter to Governor Newsom urging him to veto this bill.
Sep 12, 2025
Barbed Wire State Legislature Unveils Plans for Cap-and-Trade Extension, AllocationsOn Wednesday, the California State Legislature released language outlining a proposed deal with the Administration to extend, rename, and allocate funds derived from the state’s Cap-and-Trade program. The proposal is a result of negotiations
Sep 12, 2025
Barbed Wire Legislature Makes Significant Changes to Ease Implementation of Last Year’s AB 98 Warehouse Permitting LegislationThe Legislature is poised to make significant changes to last year’s Assembly Bill 98 warehouse permitting legislation. Last year, the Legislature enacted AB 98 (Carrillo) that imposed design standards, permitting requirements, and location restrictions on an extremely broad universe
Sep 12, 2025
Barbed Wire Wildfire Fund Bill Includes Disturbing Provision Increasing California Energy Commission Authority to Bypass Local LawsSenate Bill 254 (Becker) is billed as a measure to save ratepayers money and expedite clean energy permitting; however, a few provisions buried in the 231-page bill will invest even greater power in the California Energy Commission
Sep 12, 2025
Barbed Wire RCRC’s Rural CUPA Reimbursement Bill Heads to Governor NewsomAssembly Bill 993 (Hadwick), co-sponsored by RCRC and the California Association of Environmental Health Administrators, has passed the Legislature and awaits consideration by Governor Newsom. AB 993 expands eligibility for CalEPA’s Rural Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA) Reimbursement program
Sep 12, 2025
Barbed Wire CPUC Adopts Decision Implementing CA LifeLine Pilot Program for BroadbandOn August 28, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) adopted a decision implementing a California LifeLine pilot program for home broadband. The three-year