May weather did not cooperate with our maintenance schedule with most days seeing rain or snow.  Still the crews were able to fill potholes, cut brush, grade some dirt roads and clean up the debris left behind as the snow berms melted.

The Greenville crew continued with preparations for a chip seal project that is planned for mid-June as weather permitted.  This work includes crack filling as well as ditch and shoulder maintenance.

All areas began spring opening of the roads that fall under the winter road closure category (Winter Road Closures).

During this past Winter,  there was above normal snowfall in most areas. La Porte crew was lucky to make it pass the cabins on the Little Grass Valley Reservoir Road for the Memorial weekend. Gold Lake Forest Highway was opened by the Graeagle crew to near the County line by the Memorial weekend

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Chester completed their road opening prior to the Memorial weekend with the exception of Humbug and Humboldt Summits; these roads normally melt out for the most part. 

With the completion of their work, the Chester snow blower was brought to Bucks Lake to replace one of the Bucks Lake snow blowers that broke down.

The Quincy crew completed the opening of Bucks Lake, Big Creek and Bucklin roads and now has started towards the Butte County line on the Bucks-Oro.  As usual they also plowed the Bucks Highlands Road with a tracked dozer leaving a minimal amount of snow on the road so as to protect it from damage, now Mother Nature will take over and melt the remainder (hopefully). 

On May 18^th Public Works placed an order with Snoquip Inc. for the purchase of two new rotary plows (snow blowers).  The large one will be assigned to La Porte and the small one will be kept in Quincy for clearing alleyways and clean up in the down town area.  It will also be made available as needed for other areas of the county.

Also on the 18^th Public Works participated in a statewide exercise on emergency preparedness called The Golden Guardian, OES Director Jerry Sipe coordinated Plumas County’s multilevel involvement receiving many positive feedback's.

On the 18^th and 19^th the CHP performed a BIT (Biannual Inspection of Terminal) gaining Public Works a satisfactory rating.  CHP inspectors are responsible for inspecting a representative example of commercial rated trucks as well as all driver and equipment records.

Public Works gained approval from the Board of Supervisors to allow promotional filling of the vacant Leadworker position in the Greenville area.  Chuck Pierson, a 31-year veteran of this department was the successful applicant and will begin work in his new position on June 13^th.