LAKEPORT — The Lake County Board of Supervisors Tuesday adopted a proclamation recognizing Chuck March, the former executive director of the Lake County Farm Bureau.
“This to me is what proclamations should be about: true honor of somebody that we have a great deal of respect and affection for,” District 5 Supervisor Rob Brown said.
Brown read the decree aloud as more than 50 people watched from the board chambers at the Lake County Courthouse Tuesday morning.
The proclamation honored March “for his long-standing service and commitment to agriculture in Lake County,” including 14 years as Farm Bureau executive director.
March contracted a serious blood infection in February 2011, spent about four and a half months in a coma and had part of his left leg amputated as a result, according to his son, John March.
The 58-year-old is currently recovering at a rehabilitation facility in Ukiah.
“My dad really wishes he could be here today. He”s making great progress,” John March said after accepting the proclamation on his father”s behalf.
Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) sent March a certificate of special congressional recognition, which Brown presented Tuesday.
March also received a certificate of recognition on behalf Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro (D-Arcata) and State Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa).
Later in Tuesday”s meeting, District 1 Supervisor Jim Comstock presented a proclamation to representatives of the Anderson Marsh Interpretive Association.
The decree expressed support for the group”s preservation and maintenance work at the Anderson Marsh State Historic Park in Lower Lake.
The supervisors also thanked the Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians before approving a memorandum of understanding between the tribe and the county related to improvements to the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff.
The tribe receives funding through the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the Indian Reservation Road program and approached the county last year about partnering to enhance to cutoff, according to Public Works Director Scott De Leon.
“Robinson has been trying to contribute for many years and just finally now got around to doing that,” tribal chair Tracey Avila told the supervisors Tuesday.
The initial project estimate is $675,000 and the tribe plans to contribute up to $390,288 toward its completion.
The work, which has a targeted construction date of September, will occur from near Highway 29 to about a quarter-mile east of the Rodman Slough Bridge.
