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County supervisors to seek feds' money for Highway 12, Mokelumne River

Improvements to the Highway 12 corridor west of Lodi will be one of the key items that four San Joaquin County supervisors and two administrators will address when they lobby for federal funding during the annual One Voice trip to Washington, D.C., April 6-10.

The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday authorized supervisors Ken Vogel, Leroy Ornellas, Larry Ruhstaller and Victor Mow, County Administrator Manuel Lopez and County Counsel David Wooten to participate in the One Voice trip.

The county representatives will also lobby for federal funding for the Mokelumne River Regional Water Storage and Conjunctive Use Project, urban flood protection and an instrument landing system upgrade for Stockton Metropolitan Airport.

The county's cost for the trip is $11,617.

In other action, the Board of Supervisors:

• Accepted a $25,000 contribution from Marian and George Malloy of Stockton for educational programs at Micke Grove Zoo. Marian Malloy was a zoo docent in the 1980s and president of the county Zoological Society from 1988 to 1990.

The money, about half of what the zoo needs for the educational program, is intended to restore the educational program, which was cut by the zoological society board to focus more on exhibit improvements, zoo director Ken Nieland said.

Nieland said he hopes to resume the program in the summer. He is looking for someone to administer the programs on an interim basis until the zoo can offer a secure and long-term position, Nieland said.

• Allocated $328,894 for detoxification services, residential treatment, methadone treatment, transitional housing and outpatient treatment for the county's drug court funding. The board previously reduced its drug court funding due to reductions by the state.

• Continued agreements with the Northern California Transplant Bank and the University of San Francisco Transplant Tissue Bank, now known as the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation. The county expects to be reimbursed $1,000 for the current fiscal year to offset expenses by the coroner's office. In deaths that the coroner's office handles, the coroner incurs expenses when an organ or tissue donation is made.

Contact reporter Ross Farrow at rossf@lodinews.com.