The only executive director the Sutter-Butte Flood Control Agency has had in its four-year existence is moving on, after Bill Edgar was named Friday to the Central Valley Flood Protection Board by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Edgar, who served in the role part time since the agency formed in December 2007, was credited with organizing the joint-powers authority and leading the effort to implement at $317 million project to repair 44 miles of levees on the Feather River and Sutter Bypass.

“The organization is running effectively under highly qualified staff and consultants,” Edgar said in a press release from SBFCA. “We have a project that will provide a high level of flood protection within a few short years.”

Construction for improved levees under the agency is set to begin next year, and received a boost in 2010 when property owners approved a benefit assessment for levee work by 72.2 percent.

The interim director of Sutter County’s library services has gotten the permanent assignment, as James Ochsner will stay in a role he’s been in since 2010.

Ochsner, who’s been with Sutter County Library for 12 years, previously served for 15 years as a principal and teacher at Covenant Christian School in Yuba City. His annual salary is $80,142 in the permanent role.

While with Sutter County, Ochsner helped implement the California Council of Humanities’ “How I See It” teen services grants program and worked to get grants for library services and technology. He also participated in a grant that involved working with Japanese-Americans to collect oral histories of their internment during World War Ii.

He also oversaw conversion of the county library’s collection to radio frequency identification and self-check to minimize theft and allow library users to check out directly.

Ochsner, who is married with four children, has a bachelor’s degree in art with an emphasis in history from Dordt College in Iowa, and a degree in library information science from San Jose State University.

Roxanna Parker’s retirement in December 2010 led to Ochsner being named to the role in an interim capacity. County supervisors formally approved him for the permanent position on Jan. 10.

If any other Republicans are considering a jump into the Third Assembly District race, state GOP chair Tom Del Beccaro is backing the incumbent of sorts.

In a press release, Assemblyman Dan Logue, who represents the district before redistricting takes effect, said he had the backing of Del Bccardo.

“Few have done more to fight for the principles of freedom and individual liberty than Assemblyman Dan Logue,” Del Beccaro said in the release. “He has been an unwavering advocate for fixing California’s broken economy.”

Logue, R-Lake Wildwood, was also recently tabbed to be the party’s platform committee chairman. He’s running for a final two-year term in the Assembly, after winning the first two terms in a district with different boundaries.

If you’re interested in hearing U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s press conference on the Department of Defense’s proposed budget – and possibly, what the fate is of the Global Hawk program – it can be seen at www.pentagonchannel.mil/, beginning at 11 a.m. local time.

Though there’s no guarantee he’ll discuss the Global Hawks, word is another reporter who’s attending the press conference (sorry, the Insider can’t make a Washington, D.C. flight on such short notice) is interested in the topic and may ask.

We’ll try to follow up as well and have something if Panetta offers some insight.

First 5 Yuba has named the director of a not-for-profit small business and economic development group as its new executive director.

Coreena Conley, a current board member for the Sacramento Workforce Investment Board and the Southwest Veterans Business Resource Center, will begin in her new role on Thursday.

Conley has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in business administration with a minor in economic development. Before joining First 5, she spent 20 years in management in fields including economic and community development, banking, real estate, academia and not-for-profit groups.

As First 5 executive director, Conley has oversight and answers to the governing board for a local agency using tobacco taxes to improve health and safety for children 5 years old or younger.

A meeting wrapped up in just under three hours today, but the bulk of the time was spent first on deer hunts, then on budget projections for 2012-13. “Moving targets,” someone may have quipped to the county administrator. AHEM:

On the consent agenda, approved 5-0, the Yuba County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday confirmed supervisor committee assignments for 2012.

The list of assignments includes both internal board committees and outside ones, such as the Area 4 Agency on Aging governing board, Feather River Air Quality Management District and the North Central Counties Consortium.

All told, the entire list includes 36 boards and commissions on which various supervisors sit, though not all meet regularly. Board members receive stipends for some but not all such assignments.

Also on the consent agenda Tuesday, Yuba County supervisors approved advertising for bids to replace the Smartsville Road Bridge, also known as the Chuck Yeager Bridge.

The bridge and bridge approaches, crossing Vineyard Creek, will be replaced under the project, which has an estimated $1.3 million price tag.

Yuba County will open the bid period on Feb. 15, with a contract to be awarded this year and work expected to be completed by November. The county’s share of the project costs is $168,000 from its road fund.

Genetically modified foods, and a proposed state ballot measure to require labeling all such foods, will be the discussion topic of a meeting Thursday evening in Oregon House.

Proponents of the ballot measure will speak on such foods and discuss the controversy involved with them, such as how they’ve been approved for use in the United States but not in other countries.

The ballot measure would require labels on any genetically modified food sold, under the theory many consumers wouldn’t buy them if they knew. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Alcouffe Community Center,  9185 Marysville Road, Oregon House.

Olivehurst resident and former U.S. Senate candidate Edward Noonan is still agitating over President Barack Obama’s ability to run for a second term.

Noonan, himself a presidential candidate this year with the American Independent Party, filed a legal complaint with six others earlier this month in Sacramento against California Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Obama for America’s California branch. The issue, which Noonan also raised during his 2010 run, is whether Obama is eligible to run because his father, Barack Obama, Sr., wasn’t a natural-born U.S. citizen.

The complaint cites an 1875 Supreme Court ruling, Minor v. Happersett, based on the 14th Amendment. Other decisions have upheld a person’s citizenship to vote if their parents weren’t natural-born citizens, though it’s not clear if the ability to run for public office has been tested.

Noonan’s suit asks for no ballots to be printed bearing Obama’s name, and also for his campaign arm in California to stop raising funds on his behalf.

Yuba County Supervisor Mary Jane Griego will serve as vice chair for the regional transportation planning group  Sacramento Council of Governments, after the chair’s board of directors chose her for the role Thursday.

Griego, in her third term on the board of supervisors, is one of 31 board members representing six counties and 22 cities in the greater Sacramento region, including both Yuba and Sutter counties.

Rocklin Vice Mayor Peter Hill will serve as SACOG’s chair for 2012. Griego has previously served as chair of the Yuba County Board of Supervisors twice, in 2005 and again in 2010.

Assemblyman Dan Logue’s bid to represent both Yuba and Sutter counties in Sacramento has received a boost from GOP party members across the redrawn Third Assembly District.

Logue, R-Lake Wildwood, announced endorsements Wednesday from former Sutter County GOP Chair Karna Boyer and former Yuba County GOP chair Paul Myers, as well current Sutter GOP Chair Clay Maynard and current Yuba GOP Chair Jerome Crippen.

The two-term assemblyman and former Yuba County supervisor also had endorsements from past and current Republican party chairs and members from Butte, Glenn, Lassen, Nevada, Placer and Siskiyou counties.

Logue is running for a final two-year term this year in different boundaries for the Third than the ones he had when he was first elected in 2008.