Aloha, everyone. It’s Friday, June 27, with a Santa Cruz County forecast you’d expect this time of year: morning clouds to afternoon sun, warming to around 90 in the mountains and to perhaps 70 at our beaches.
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The Capitola Wharf would get a restaurant back under a master plan that moved forward during Thursday night’s meeting of the Capitola City Council, William S. Woodhams reports. The plan – which is slated to return for a final vote in the fall – also includes a permanent bathroom, lifeguard station and flexible market space.
Max Chun relays the latest report from the county’s civil grand jury, which warned that the county’s Health Services Agency lacks effective ways to identify and manage the treatment of the unusually high number of costly patients with behavioral health and substance use conditions the agency serves.
A new report puts agriculture’s contribution to the county economy at $1.6 billion – a figure that, as Lily Belli writes, includes not just crops themselves but processing, jobs and ripple effects like local spending.
The Friday headlines also include a rebrand for the Beach Boardwalk’s iconic Cocoanut Grove, plus Wallace Baine’s roadmap to the weekend ahead in Santa Cruz County arts & entertainment. Full speed ahead.
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Capitola Wharf Master Plan with restaurant moves forward
A new restaurant, lifeguard station and market space are expected at the Capitola Wharf after the plan got an initial green light Thursday from the city council. Councilmembers will hold a final vote on the wharf’s master plan in the fall. William S. Woodhams has the story.
County struggling to track its highest-cost patients amid tight health care budgets, grand jury finds
Santa Cruz County’s health agency is managing a large number of high-cost patients and has weak systems for tracking them, a government watchdog warned Thursday. Details here from Max Chun.
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Cheers to a pleasant Friday, and may your weekend be a safe, relaxing one. Thanks for reading.
Will McCahill