HomeMy WebLinkAboutTC Digest 2016-06-10TOWN COUNCIL WEEKLY DIGEST
June 6-10, 2016
TIBURON
Correspondence, Notices and other Information
1. Letter - May 2- HDL Summary - Town of Tiburon cumulative sales and tax recoveries
2. Letter - June 2 - Greenwood Beach Road Bicycle Plan
3. Memo - June 6 - ABAG and MTC Plan Bay Area 2040 Update
Agenda, Minutes
1. Agenda - June 16 - Tiburon Design Review Board regular meeting
REGIONAL, NOTICES AND AGENDA
Correspondence, Notices and other Information
1. Newsletter - Bay Area Monitor - June/July
2. Call for Public Comment - Cove Stormwater Pump Station
Agenda, Minutes
1. Agenda - June 9 - Richardson's Bay Regional Agency
2. Agenda - June 9 - Sanitary District 5
3. Public Meeting - June 22 - Redwood Landfill permit
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ABAG: Association of Bay Area Governments
MTC: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
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May 2, 2016
Greg Chanis
Town Manager
Town of Tiburon
1505 Tiburon Blvd
Tiburon, California 94920
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Enclosures
HdE y CITY OF TIBURON
COMPANIES ANNUAL SALES TAX RECOVERY
45,000
40,000
35,000
30,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0
-5,000
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
2006 2007 2008
$(739) $0 $24,010
2011 2012 2013
$10,865 $14,074
$13,731
2009 2010
$8,464 $10,646
2014 2015*
$41,371
Cumulative Recovery Since 2004: $162,403*
2015 dollars are estimated
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TO: Mayor and Members of the Town Council
FROM: Scott Anderson, Director of Community Development
SUBJECT: Plan Bay Area 2040 Update Alternative Scenarios
DATE: June 6, 2016
BACKGROUND
The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission (MTC) are busily updating their Plan Bay Area 2040 document, which sets forth a
long-term growth strategy for the Bay Area, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and responds
to other mandates of Senate Bill 375 and Assembly Bill 32 passed by the State Legislature
several years ago. The initial Plan Bay Area process circa 2012-2013 was highly controversial
for a number of reasons, not least of which were the exaggerated employment and population
projections built into the model as well as its combination with the Regional Housing Needs
Assessment (RHNA) update process conducted periodically by ABAG as part of the housing
element update cycle. The update process for this round appears much less controversial and
problem -plagued, with more realistic growth projections and no housing element updates.
CURRENT UPDATE
The current update sets forth three alternative scenarios: Main Streets, Connected
Neighborhoods, and Big Cities. These are described in more detail in the attached materials,
but can be briefly summarized as follows:
Scenario #1: Main Streets ---Targets future population and employment growth to the downtowns of
every city in the Bay Area to foster a region of moderately-sized, integrated town centers.
Scenario #2: Connected Neighborhoods ---Targets future population and employment growth to
locally -identified PDAs along major corridors, with an emphasis on growth in medium-sized cities with
access to the region's major rail services.
Scenario #3: Big Cities ---Concentrates future population and employment growth in the locally -
identified PDAs and TPAs within the Bay Area's three largest cities (San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland).
For the Town of Tiburon, job growth projections are zero through 2040 for all the scenarios
except for Main Streets, where a 100 -job increase is projected. Household growth (not
equivalent to housing units) is projected to increase by 200 in the Connected Neighborhoods
and Big Cities Scenarios, and by 300 in the Main Streets scenario. These household
projections would roughly equate to between 144 and 216 new housing units being created in
Tiburon by 2040. These housing unit numbers are similar to projections used by the Town
based on its current General Plan and Zoning, assuming that many vacant lots, potential
subdivisions, and some affordable housing projects are constructed. Staff finds the projections
for the various scenarios to be reasonable and within acceptable ranges.
Town staff will keep the Council apprised of the Plan Bay Area 2040 update process.
Plan
BayArea
2040
Mr. Dan Watrous
Planning Manager
Town of Tiburon
1505 Tiburon Boulevard
Tiburon, CA 94920-2530
RE: Plan Bay Area 2040 Alternative Scenarios
May 18, 2016
Dear Colleague,
MTC and ABAG have developed and evaluated three alternative land use and transportation
scenarios to inform the update of Plan Bay Area, known as Plan Bay Area 2040 (PBA2040).
Three distinct scenarios: Main Streets (Scenario #1), Connected Neighborhoods (Scenario #2)
and Big Cities (Scenario #3) describe different alternatives for how expected growth in
population, jobs and housing units might be distributed, and the types of policies and
transportation investments needed to support these growth patterns.
ABAG forecasts an additional 1.3 million jobs, 2.4 million people and therefore the need for
approximately 820,000 housing units for the Bay Area between 2010 and 2040. Scenario 1
emphasizes a relatively dispersed distribution of households and jobs and less growth in San
Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and adjacent cities. Scenario 2 directs future housing and job
growth to locally -identified Priority Development Areas along major transit corridors. Scenario 3
concentrates future population growth in the region's three "big cities" and neighboring cities
with a particular emphasis on the job -rich South Bay and San Francisco. The scenarios are
described in more detail in Attachment 1.
The scenarios vary in terms of the different combinations of strategies that could be used to
accommodate this future growth. The strategies can affect land use patterns by changing a
community's capacity for new development or incentivizing a particular type or location of
growth. Each scenario builds on the Bay Area's existing land use pattern and transportation
network, while also taking into account local plans for growth, historical trends, and the results
of the most recent PDA assessment. Attachment 1 also includes the specific Land Use and
Transportation strategies included under each scenario.
Jurisdictional Input
It is important to note that while local input informs the distribution of the three scenarios'
growth patterns, these scenarios test land use distributions that differ from the current Plan Bay
Area adopted in 2013 and in some cases may differ from current local plans as well. Moving
forward, local input will be vitally important to the creation of a Preferred Scenario, slated for
adoption in September 2016. Local input will also inform refinements to the Preferred Scenario
leading to the Draft Plan (Winter 2017) and then the final Plan Bay Area 2040 to be adopted in
July 2017. The distribution of forecasted Household and Job Growth by Jurisdiction and PDA is
outlined in Attachment 2.
If you believe the information provided to date by your jurisdiction to ABAG's Regional
Planners is appropriate, that information will be used to inform Plan Bay Area 2040's preferred
scenario going forward. Additional feedback related to the Alternative Scenarios, may be
provided to me (kkirkey@mtc.ca.gov) and Miriam Chion, ABAG (MiriamC@abag.ca.gov).
Scenario Workshops
MTC and ABAG are holding a series of open houses in each of the nine counties in late May and
early June. Each open house will feature multiple stations at which participants will be able to
view displays and offer comments on ways to accommodate projected growth while retaining the
distinct qualities of our communities; maintain and enhance the Bay Area's transportation
network; preserve open space; reduce greenhouse gas emissions; improve public health; and
achieve other Plan Bay Area 2040 goals. Information on the Plan Bay Area Scenario Workshops
as well as the PBA2040 Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Scoping Meetings is provided in
Attachment 3 and here: http://mtc.ca.gov/whats-happening/news/bay-area-residents-invited-
shape-regions-long-range-plan.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or comments. Please note our new
contact information: (415) 778-6790, Bay Area Metro Center, 375 Beale Street, Suite 800, San
Francisco, CA 94105. We greatly appreciate your involvement and input in the development of
Plan Bay Area 2040.
Best Regards,
Ken Kirkey
MTC, Planning Diror
cc: Miriam Chion, ABAG
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TOWN OF TIBURON
Tiburon Town Hall
1505 Tiburon Boulevard
Tiburon, CA 94920
ADpc,i
Regular Meeting
Design Review Board
June 16, 2016
7:00 P.M.
AGENDA
TIBURON DESIGN REVIEW BOARD
CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
Chair Tollini, Vice Chair Kricensky, Boardmembers Chong, Cousins and Emberson
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
Persons wishing to address the Design Review Board on any subject not on the agenda may do so under
this portion of the agenda. Please note that the Design Review Board is not able to undertake extended
discussion, or take action on, items that do not appear on this agenda. Matters requiring action will be
referred to Town Staff for consideration and/or placed on a future Design Review Board agenda. Please
limit your comments to no more than three (3) minutes. Any communications regarding an item not on
the agenda will not be considered part of the administrative record for that item.
STAFF BRIEFING (if any)
NEW BUSINESS
1. 95 SEAFIRTH ROAD: File Nos. DR2016041, VAR2016013, & VAR2016014; Thomas
Duley and Christina Kan-Duley, Owners; Site Plan and Architectural Review for
construction of additions and fencing to an existing single-family dwelling, with Variances
for excess lot coverage and excess fence height. The project would cover 37.45% of the
site, which is more than the 15.0% maximum lot coverage permitted in the RO-2 zone. The
fencing would have a maximum height of 8 feet, which would be taller than the 6 foot
maximum fence height in the RO-2 zone. Assessor's Parcel No. 039-101-33. [KO]
2. 168 ANTONETTE DRIVE: File No. DR2016057; Julie and Englebert Bangayan,
Owners; Site Plan and Architectural Review for installation of two (2) exterior HVAC units
and one (1) generator for an existing single-family dwelling. Assessor's Parcel No. 038-
111-35. [KO]
MINUTES
3. Regular Meeting of June 2, 2016
ADJOURNMENT
Design Review Board Agenda
June l6, 2016 Page l
" League of Women Voters of the Bay Area Education Fund
BAY AREA MONITOR
June/July 2016
Volume 41, Number 6
On the Path to Balanced Watershed Use
By Robin Meadows
Ever since he was a little boy
growing up in San Francisco,
Andy Howse has wanted to hike
in the hills that beckon just west
of I-280 between San Bruno and
Woodside. "I asked my dad why we
couldn't go there and he said it was
to protect our water;' he recalled.
Called the Peninsula Watershed,
the 23,000 acres are owned by
the San Francisco Public Utilities
Commission (SFPUC) and provide
part of the city's drinking water.
Nationwide, most water agency -
owned watersheds — areas that dram
into a creek, lake, or reservoir — are
offlimits to the public. But "in the Bay
Area, some water agency watersheds
are open to the public, and New
York City does this too," said Tim
Ramirez, who manages natural resources at the SFPUC. "The
rest think we're crazy." The biggest risk is that people will spread
pathogens, including intestinal parasites such as giardia and
cryptosporidium. Another downside is that trails can erode,
muddying water and filling reservoirs with sediment.
Today, the Peninsula Watershed hills are more accessible
than when Howse was a child — but only a bit. Ridge hikes
require a docent and are limited to 60 people a day, three
days a week. Now a father himself, Howse hopes his infant
daughter will someday be able to hike there freely. "There
should be public access to nature;' he said. "We need to teach
our kids to be stewards of the land." So he founded Open
the SF Watershed to advocate for opening the Peninsula
Bay Area Ridge Trail Board Member Joel Gartland takes a docent -led bicycle ride in the
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Peninsula Watershed, where tight restrictions on
public access are in place to protect wildlife and drinking water. photo courtesy of Charlie FsenelOpen the SF watershed
Contents
Clean Air Plan Update
Commuter Benefits Program
Archaeology and Land Management
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Watershed to hikers and bicyclists, envisioning a trail system
that connects it with the rnany parks along its edges. And he's
about to get part of his wish.
Open Access
Allowing more people on watersheds that supply drinking
water can work. The Marin Municipal Water District
(MMWD) gets most of its water from Mount Tamalpais,
which is a state park. "We get 1.8 million visitors a year;'
said Mike Swezy, who rnanages MMWD's 22,000 acres of
watersheds. {`Hordes of people are eager to enjoy nature."
But all those people come at a cost. Take the Cataract
Trail, one of the most popular on Mt. Tam for its series of
waterfalls. "It's stunningly beautiful in the winter and there
can be 400 people per hour;' Swezy said. "It's getting loved
to death." People trample plants at waterfall overlooks and
may have driven the endangered yellow -legged frog from
Cataract Creek. "They're no longer there, probably because
continued on page 2
2 - Bay Area Monitor June/July 2016
On the Path to Balanced Watershed Use (from page 1)
their egg masses were disturbed;' he explained.
And after a good rain, trails are wet and fragile, crumbling
easily along the edges and eroding. Worse; some hikers and
mountain bikers go off trail. "Most are law-abiding, but a
small group wants their own wilderness experience and will
actually construct their own trails,"
Swezy said. "Where people have
access, you have unauthorized use."
Trails that are not built properly
are more likely to erode, and
cutting new trails harms nature by
letting weeds take root and spread,
degrading habitat for wildlife. "We
don't have the resources to restore
it all," Swezy said, adding that Mt.
Tam is home to at -risk species like
the northern spotted owl and is a
"hotbed" of rare plants.
Biodiversity Hotspot
The Bay Area is rich in native
plants and animals, making it one of
25 biodiversity hotspots worldwide.
Water agencies own about a fifth of
Bay Area open space and "nearly 90
percent is essential to biodiversity;'
the SFPUC's Ramirez said.
The Peninsula Watershed that
Howse wants to open up is particularly rich in native species,
from wildflowers and bunch grasses to eagles and mountain
lions. "It's relatively untouched," said Arthur Feinstein of the
Sierra Club's San Francisco Bay Chapter. "It has the highest
density of listed species of any watershed around" These at -
risk species include the San Mateo woolly sunflower and the
chocolate lily, which grows only in the Peninsula Watershed,
as well as several butterflies, the San Francisco garter snake,
and marbled murrelets — black -and -white seabirds that nest
in the watershed's old-growth Douglas fir trees.
Rather than allowing
"uncontrolled" access to the Peninsula
Watershed, the local Sierra Club and
other environmental groups favor
expanding the docent program.
"When there are more people,
wildlife diminishes;' Feinstein said.
Cataract Falls, in the Marin Municipal Water
District's watershed, is a popular hiking spot.
rho,. comtecy of the Matin Municipal Water Uiutiu
Balancing Act
SFPUC is heading towards
something in between what Howse
and Feinstein want. "We have 11 to
12 miles of trails in the works that
make connections with neighbors
around us;' Ramirez said, adding
that the new trails will be on the
perimeter of the watershed. "There's
less risk when they're farther from
the reservoirs" The planned trails,
which he expects will open to
the public by 2018, will bring the
Peninsula Watershed's total to more
than 30 miles and will fill a six -mile
gap in the Bay Area Ridge Trail.
But access to the watershed will still be restricted. For
example, SFPUC may adopt an annual permit system like
the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which has 80 miles
of trails near its Lafayette and San Pablo reservoirs. "You can
About the Bay Area Monitor
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track use and it's an educational opportunity — people have
to learn about hiking on a watershed," Ramirez noted.
Keeping people from going off trail will be among the
biggest challenges. Options include volunteer patrols and
fencing in key areas. As MMWD's Swezy said, "People are
hungry for nature and you want to satisfy that — but we do
need wild places where human impact is minimal, even in
urban areas."
Robin Meadows covers water for the Monitor.
Air Quality Arsenal: Stockpiling Strategies across Sectors
By Leslie Stewart
This summer, Bay Area residents will have the chance
to weigh in on policies that could shape the battle against
climate change. How? The Bay Area Air Quality Management
District is updating its Clean Air Plan, and will soon release a
draft for public comment.
These state -mandated plans have historically targeted
ozone, but the last version, adopted m 2010, also took aim
at particulate matter, local air toxics, and greenhouse gases.
Abby Young, a climate protection manager with the agency,
called it a "groundbreaker;' remarking, "at the time we did it, a
multipollutant plan was a very new concept." So new, in fact,
that "I don't believe any other plan — even nationally— looked
at the suite of pollutants our plan looked at;' she recounted.
However, of the plan's 55 measures, only four were
greenhouse gas -specific. Although many other measures
reduced greenhouse gases as an added effect, observers both
in and around the Air District saw room to strengthen the
climate protection component of the plan. For years, the
agency had been offering grant funding and technical advice
to municipalities attempting to address climate change in
their own planning efforts. Ramping up that aspect of its own
plan made sense, so in November of 2013 the Air District's
board of directors adopted a resolution to do just that.
When the time came to begin updating the 2010 plan,
Air District staff reached out to local government officials
and staff, explaining the new approach and soliciting input.
They also convened outside experts, sharing emissions data
and other climate change information, while continuing to
discuss how to accomplish goals regarding ozone, particulate
matter, and local air toxics.
The external and internal brainstorming and winnowing
created an extensive list. Although Young called it "our short
list; the resulting table includes 83 draft control measures
grouped into nine sectors (stationary sources; transportation;
buildings; energy; agriculture; natural and working lands;
waste; water; and short-lived climate pollutants). These were
distilled into fact sheets for each sector, with relevant graphs
Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector
The 2016 Clean Air Plan focuses on nine sectors of the
economy. The pie graph below shows what percentage of
greenhouse gas emissions eight of those sectors contribute to the
Bay Area's total. The ninth, natural and working lands, is unique
in its capacity to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Short-lived Climate Pollutants 3.5%
Stationary
Sources.
24.9%
Agriculture 1.5%
Water 0.5%
Waste 2.6%
source: Day Area Air Quality Management District fact sheets
of emissions, a proposed overall approach, and specific action
items. The fact sheets were distributed online and at a series of
public open houses held this past February, while the agency's
new online Open Air Forum also gathered comments.
At first glance, the draft control measures may seem very
ambitious. "We're using all feasible measures" to create the
new strategy, Young said. These range from very short-term
rulemaking to actions looking out to 2050 or beyond, and
they cover refinery emissions reductions, increased electric
vehicle use, Plan Bay Area transportation measures, and
carbon sequestration on rangelands, to name just a few.
"The initial list looks amazing," said Jed Holtzman, a
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Air Quality Arsenal (from page 3)
coordinator with the environmental organization 350 Bay
Area. "We will fight for all of this;' he declared, describing
the plan as "taking a look at the economy through a sectorial
Tens, getting down to a greater level of granularity — not just
command and control legislation."
Holtzman's enthusiasm for the updated plan shows
stark contrast with his opinion of the 2010 version. "We
thought the Air District was massively asleep on the job;' he
lamented, pointing out that "this is a regional agency which
has the primary authority to regulate sources of air pollution,
including greenhouse gases." He credited community
activism for compelling the Air District to more fully exert
that authority in the new plan.
Of course, as any government regulator can attest, agencies
like the Air District constantly receive just as much pressure
to pull back their authority. Debates over this issue are sure
to continue playing out among diverse stakeholders as the
plan heads toward adoption in the fall.
As part of that public conversation, this past April the Air
District held four working groups, each covering one or more
sectors of the plan. Participants included experts involved in the
original sector discussions, local government staff members,
public health professionals, community organizations,
business interests, and environmental advocates.
Draft control measures were the starting point, but
participants also made suggestions on prioritizing
implementation and addressing other policy issues. For
example, Michael Kent, Hazardous Materials Ombudsman
for Contra Costa County, expressed concern over health
equity. "As they decide which measures to implement, they
should be looking at it from the health equity perspective;' he
said. "When do the CARE [Community Air Risk Evaluation]
areas come into play? Do you support BART or buses? Those
have different demographics."
Young is aware that prioritization and efficiency will be key to
managing the wide variety of actions. "Some areas may seem like
they're on the periphery;' she said, but there will be partnerships
and other collaborative ways to approach those. She suggested
that the Air District role will be "using our strengths" — for
example, providing data — to add to efforts by others.
The shift in plan structure reflects a shift in the agency
itself. Staff from different disciplines will work together in a
newly organized climate protection team, collaborating on
research, air -monitoring, and rulemaking. The new structure
will allow an integrated approach to evaluating control
measures, looking at regulations and incentives through
different lenses, and focusing on co -benefits.
Kent supports this approach. "A lot of measures have
benefits both for criteria pollutants and for greenhouse gases,
but not equally for both;' he said. "An economic analysis
may show that a measure which is not cost-effective for one
aspect is actually quite reasonable when both are considered
together. It's the overlap that makes it worth considering."
The new cross-pollination within the Air District will
extend outside as well. For example, a new monitoring station
and a new mobile van will contribute valuable greenhouse gas
emissions data not only for the agency, but also for research
entities like UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs,
and the Climate Readiness Institute.
Some stakeholders hope the Air District will create model
plans that can be adopted by other jurisdictions, perhaps even
other air districts still struggling to achieve attainment with state
and federal regulations. As Holtzman put it, "We are doing work
not just for the Bay Area, but for a lot of urban areas:'
Leslie Stewart covers air quality and energy for the Monitor.
General Proposals to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, by Sector, for the 2016 Clean Air Plan
Transportation
Support Transit, Biking, and Walking
Make Cars, Trucks, and Highways Efficient
Move Goods Efficiently and Cleanly
Water
Reduce Water Use
Reduce Water Treatment Plant Emissions
Natural and Working Lands
Increase Carbon Sequestration; Plant Trees
Agriculture
Reduce Agriculture Waste Emissions
Improve Soil Management
Stationary Sources
Reduce Emissions from Oil Refineries
Energy
Decrease Electricity Demand
Decarbonize Electricity Production
Waste
Decrease Composting Emissions; Divert Waste and Recycle
Short-lived Climate Pollutants
Reduce Methane, BIack Carbon, and Fluorinated Gases
Buildings
Increase Building Energy Efficiency
Decarbonize Building Energy Use
source Bar Area Air Quality Management Distrkt fact sheets
photo of Shell refinery In Martinez by Alec hfacDonald
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Benefits Package: Program Eases Commute Expenses and Emissions
By Cecil.y O'Connor
Anyone who's slogged through Marin County to the Golden
Gate Bridge or battled gridlock on the Peninsula's Highway
101 knows the discomfort of traffic pain and pressure.
But the Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program is showing
promise in treating some regional congestion symptoms.
That's because a growing number of employers are registering
to offer commuter benefits, which not
only ease workers' monthly transit
expenses, but nudge those inclined
to drive solo to consider vanpools,
biking, or public transit. The program
also has potential to save employers
money by lowering payroll taxes.
Green -lighted by Senate Bill
1339 (Yee) in 2012, the program
has been operating as a pilot under
the direction of the Bay Area Air
Quality Management District and
the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission (MTC) from April 2014 to the present.
A total of 3,999 employers had registered with the
program through the end of this past April, up 25 percent
from September 30, 2014, the deadline by which employers
with 50 or more full-time employees working in the nine -
county region were required to comply. Collectively, the
participating companies employ well over a million people
across the region.
Approximately 2,329 employers, or nearly 60 percent, said
they had begun offering commuter benefits for the first time.
The remainder were offering benefits before the program took
effect. Employers must update their registration annually.
"There is room for more growth in the program. But overall,
we are happy with where we are right now," said David Burch,
principal environmental planner at the Air District.
Like the Clipper Card and 511.org, commuter benefits
represent another investment aimed at improving Bay
Area transportation. San Francisco introduced a commuter
benefits ordinance in 2009, later followed by Berkeley and
Richmond. Success in those cities was a driving force in
establishing a regional effort.
Now, newly introduced Senate Bill 1128 (Glazer) seeks to
remove the program's December 31, 2016 sunset date, based
on improvements in mobility, air quality, and greenhouse gas
emissions realized so far.
"There is no opposition on record and we're feeling
optimistic it will pass the legislature and be signed by the
governor," said Rebecca Long, legislative analyst at MTC.
Carbon dioxide emissions were cut by 35,778 tons during
the program's first year, equal to a reduction of 149 tons
per day, according to a February legislative report by MTC
and the Air District. About 44,000 workers switched to an
"alternative
mode" like transit, shuttle, vanpool, or bike,
instead of driving alone over the
same period. About 28 percent of
employees at registered worksites
take advantage of commuter benefits
provided by their employers on a
full- or part-time basis.
"With the level of congestion
getting worse in the Bay Area,
[commuter benefits have] been
beneficial in terms of providing
employees options;' said Krute Singa,
senior clean transportation program
coordinator at the San Francisco
Department of the Environment.
Still, there's work to be done to realize the program's full
impact. It may apply to as many as 6,000 to 7,000 additional
employers, according to estimates in the MTC/Air District
report. The list is drawn from information compiled by
the data analysis firm Dun & Bradstreet and the California
Employment Development Department, offering a base to
target employers through outreach and education.
Some cities and counties also maintain their own employer
lists, so given the variety of sources, businesses can fall
through the cracks; several transit officials noted. It's also likely
companies are providing benefits, but haven't registered.
"It will require continual outreach at the local level to
make sure all employers subject to the ordinance are making
efforts to be compliant," said John Ford, executive director
at Commute.org, a public agency that provides commute
assistance service in San Mateo County. He estimated half of
eligible employers there are registered.
The Air District has contacted 9,800 employers so far
via phone, e-mail, and multiple direct mailers, said Tom
Flannigan, a public information officer with the agency. It
has spent $115,000 on radio and television ads, and turned to
social media plugs, webinars, tutorials, FAQs, and registration
how-to videos as part of a broad-based outreach approach.
If an employer refuses to comply, the Air District can
impose a financial penalty as authorized by the California
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The Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program helps
workers save on transit costs.
photo by Alec MacDonald
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Health and Safety Code. However, most transit officials said
they view that tactic as a last resort.
"Our intent is really [employer] compliance assistance,"
added the Air District's Eric Pop. "The first step is to register."
Then comes explanation of the four options from which
employers must choose. The majority, or 82 percent, have
picked "Option 1," which allows workers to deduct transit
fares from taxable income. This tends to be easier to
administer and saves money, since employers aren't subject
to payroll tax on amounts employees set aside.
Option 2, in which the employer provides a subsidy to
offset transit and vanpool fares, has been the second most
popular, at 10 percent. About 7 percent offer Option 4, in
which employers propose their own alternative commuter
benefit program, and 2 percent extend Option 3, which is
employer-provided transportation, such as bus service to the
worksite or shuttles from a nearby transit station.
The program has been successful in expanding the number
of smaller employers who are located outside of central
business districts to offer commuter benefits, according to
Burch. The Air District hopes this will increase the use of
alternative commute modes and reduce emissions on a
region -wide basis. For example, 75 percent of participating
employers in Napa are offering commuter benefits for the
first time, according to the MTC/Air District report.
"A lot of employers are encouraging carpooling in different
ways, some with preferential parking;" said Judy Leaks, project
manager for the Solano/Napa Commuter Rideshare Program.
Cities, too, are thinking about ways to support workers
while planning for possible long-term growth of the
Commuter Benefits Program.
San Francisco instituted services like the "Emergency Ride
Home" for commuters who take transit or carpools to jobs in
the city. When an emergency requires them to leave early or
work late, then they can take a taxi, and will be reimbursed up
to $150 per trip, for as many as four trips a year.
"This is targeted around drivers to give them a safety net
to try a different transit mode;' Singa said. i
Cecil)) O'Connor covers transportation for the Monitor.
Archaeologists Unearth Useful Clues about Land Management
By Elizabeth Devitt
Decades ago, after a hit movie featured an adventure -prone
archaeologist, the profession suddenly acquired an aura of
derring-do. But there's more to archaeology than treasure
hunting in faraway places. The Bay Area
has a wealth of history hidden underfoot,
from Gold Rush ships buried beneath the
streets of San Francisco to Ohlone Indian
shellmounds at Coyote Hills Regional Park
in Fremont. A cadre of archaeologists — on
staff at state parks, national parks, public
utilities, and universities — work to preserve
these traces of earlier lives and cultures.
But it's not all about the past. Mark
Hylkema, a state park cultural resources
manager and tribal liaison, is one local
archaeologist who works with Native
American tribes, university colleagues,
and land -holding organizations to improve
management in the future.
"There's a shift in archaeology — it's not just about
objects anymore. Now it's about context and landscapes;"
said Hylkema, whose district of operation covers 32 parks
from San Francisco to south of Santa Cruz. "Collecting more
shelves full of boxes isn't the goal," he added.
After almost three decades of working for the state parks,
Hylkema has filled his fair share of boxes.
Tucked away in archives are artifacts you'd
expect from an area that was once home
to more than 50 Native American tribes:
grinding stones, arrowheads, and Olivella
shells edged with cryptic notches that served
as tribal currency. But other things were left
behind as well, such as microscopic pieces
of plants, pollen, and bits of bones. Upon
closer inspection, these historical remnants
offer clues about how the landscape once
appeared, and how it was managed.
"The context of our work has changed,"
said Hylkema. "We're looking at botanical
residues because if you want to look at how to manage
landscapes, as we do, we need to know: What are we
managing?"
A main "laboratory" for collecting such information sits
along the San Mateo County coast, in a 225 -acre site called
Archaeologist Mark Hylkema
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the Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve. Located inside Ano
Nuevo State Park, this is where Spanish explorers from
the 1769 Portola. expedition encountered local tribes. At
the time, the explorers described an area of grasslands and
a variety of plant -based foods. But centuries later, when
Hylkema returned to survey the site in the early 2000s, it
was overgrown with poison oak. In the intervening years, a
succession of landowners grazed cattle or grew crops on the
land.
Quiroste Valley provided a test case for landscape changes
in the absence ofhuman disturbance because the property was
untouched from 1982 to 2012, said Rob Cuthrell, director of
archaeological resource management for the Amah Mutsun
Land Trust. During that time the grasslands shrank from
about 40 percent of the landscape down to about 15 percent.
At the same time, Douglas fir trees increased more than 300
percent. This untended landscape model is at odds with the
landscape described by the early Spaniards.
To reconstruct that former landscape, archaeologists used
a combination of modern technology and classic methods.
They hunted for centuries-old hearths using ground -
penetrating radar, which helped them avoid digging into
places that might be ancient burial sites. Once a hearth was
located, they dug a square pit, unearthed in 10 -centimeter
increments. They used flotation — pouring dirt in a bucket of
water — to search for macroflora such as seeds from grasses,
tarweed, and clover, as well as nut remains from oak and
hazelnut trees. Then they sieved out tiny fish bones and other
remnants from the soil. Among this microflora are phytoliths,
the minuscule rock -hard remnants from plant cells that have
long since degraded. Some phytoliths are unique to certain
plants so they can be used to estimate the spectrum of plants
that once grew on the landscape. Additional information was
coaxed from bones or shells through the use of carbon dating
and the analysis of oxygen isotopes.
By taking such inventories, the archaeologists get an idea
of what once grew there, under what conditions, and when.
By further considering what would grow there without
any type of human land management, and comparing that
scenario with the plant and animal remains found when
Native Americans lived on the land, they formulate models
of land management practices that could be useful today.
Taking these ethnographic accounts together with
findings at excavation sites, researchers surmise there were
many ways the land had been managed by pruning, weeding,
seeding, and other techniques. "But the primary tool
appears to be fire, and it appears to be important all across
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the state," said Kent Lightfoot, professor of archaeology at
UC Berkeley.
Through modeling, the researchers found human -induced
fires (as opposed to those caused by lightning strikes) tended
"to create and maintain grassland vegetation communities,"
according to journal articles coauthored by Lightfoot, along
with his former doctoral student Cuthrell, and Hylkema.
During those periods of increased burning, there's evidence
of more diversity in the plants and animals that were
economically important to the native people.
"There was this idea that tribes were living off the land —
eating berries and hunting game — with no impact on it. But
that's not so," added Lightfoot.
Tribal members, such as those representing the Amah
Mutsun, are eager to have this information. "At first we were
kind of down on science," said Valentin Lopez, tribal chair
of the Amah Mutsun. "But — with great care for the land —
science can help restore our indigenous knowledge;' he said.
Land agencies, such as the federal Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), are also interested in these studies
because many public lands have heavy fuel loads from
plant overgrowth. "Although fire is typically considered
a destructive force, the small scale, low -burn indigenous
practices can be quite healthy and at least minimize the risk
of huge catastrophic fires, like the one that hit Clear Lake last
summer;' Lightfoot said.
But it's not just about fire management, either. Working
with California State Parks, the Amah Mutsun Land Trust's
Native Stewardship Corps program gives tribal members the
opportunity to get in the field and relearn traditional land
lore. For example, finding tarweed seeds dating back 1,000
years at the Quiroste Valley site is one piece of archaeological
evidence which is changing their land use plans. The native
tarweed plant, considered a "pest" plant and removed by
some range managers, still grows well in the valley — along
with tens of thousands of poisonous hemlock plants. So
tribe members are removing the hemlock plants before they
can drop their seeds. With time, they hope to progressively
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deplete the toxic plants so they can safely harvest the tarweed
seeds as their predecessors once did, explained Cuthrell.
"VTe don't necessarily have to bring things back to the way
they were," he said of this landscape work. "We're dealing with
climate change and invasive plant issues, but archaeological
evidence offers information the tribe can use to decide how
they want to restore their relationship with the landscape."
On May 26, the BLM and the Amah Mutsun Land Trust
signed a "memorandum of understanding" that will provide
the tribe with access to the nearby Coast Dairies property
acquired two years ago by the federal agency (photo below).
The organizations will work together on the 5,700 plus
acres of land "to incorporate tribal traditional resource and
environmental management practices to restore, enhance,
and promote ecosystem health for present and future
generations," according to the BLM press release.
Another land management collaboration is taking
place north of San Francisco. In Petaluma, Kent Lightfoot
supervises Peter Nelson, a UC Berkeley doctoral candidate in
anthropology. Nelson is a member of the Federated Indians of
Graton Rancheria in Sonoma County, and he's working with
his tribe and the Sonoma County Regional Parks Department
to restore and manage Tolay Lake Regional Park.
"We are still generating baseline data with these studies,
said Hylkema, of the work in Quiroste Valley and two
upcoming investigations at other sites along the Central
Coast. "But we're changing our way of looking at managing
lands. Our ecologists are now thinking about managing
for successions of plants and the biodiversity they support,
instead of just fire reduction:' `Ii'
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finalized report will be posted by July 8w, and following this posting a
Marin County Flood Control & Water Conservation District Flood Control
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RICHARDSON'S BAY REGIONAL AGENCY rI
Thursday, June 9, 2016
5:30 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
Sausalito City Council Chambers 420 Litho Street Sausalito, CA
PUBLIC COMMENT IS INVITED CONCERNING EACH AGENDIZED ITEM PURSUANT TO THE
BROWN ACT. PLEASE LIMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO THREE (3) MINUTES.
AGENDA
5:30 P.M. CALL TO ORDER - ROLL CALL
1. Closed session :
Conference with legal counsel — litigation.
litigation pursuant to CA Government Code § 54956.9 (d)(2)
(Public meeting should reconvene at approximately 6 pm)
2. Minutes of April 14, 2016 RBRA Meeting
3. Review report of Harbor Administrator
4. Approval of prior expenditures for April — June, 2016
5. Amend FY 2016 budget revenues and expenditures to accept $59,000 in SAVE Grant
funding
6. Adoption of Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Budget
7. Public comments invited concerning items NOT on this Agenda (3 -minute limit)
8. Staff comments
9. Board member matters
NEXT MEETING: Tentatively planned for August 11, 2016. Board members please
review your calendars and advise Staff as to your availability.
A COMPLETE AGENDA PACKET IS AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ON THE RBRA WEBSITE
lrttn://rhra. ca.Qov , AND AT THE SA USALITO CITY LIBRARY. TO RECEIVE AN ELECTRONIC MEETING
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Marin County Community Development Agency, 3501 Civic Center Dr. Room 308, San Rafael, CA 94903
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RICHARDSON'S BAY REGIONAL AGENCY
MEMORANDUM
June 3, 2016
TO: RBRA Board
FROM: Ben Berto, RBRA Clerk
SUBJECT: June Budget meeting
Board members:
The June is focused on adopting a FY 2016-2017 budget. Normally, (and per RBRA
bylaws) the budget is adopted in April. However, circumstances at the April meeting
militated against budget adoption. Discussions continue on Agency anchorage
management options. In the meantime, it is critical to adopt a budget so RBRA can
continue to operate in FY 2016-2017.
The County Administrator Matthew Hymel and Assistant Administrator Dan Eilerman
will be on hand to help answer budget questions and the status of discussions.
The RBRA has been the fortunate recipient of $59,000 in Surrendered and Abandoned
Vessel Abatement (SAVE) funds to continue to perform vessel abatements this fiscal
year. Your Board is requested to vote to accept those funds and commensurately increase
revenues and expenditures in the current fiscal year's budget.
A Closed Session to discuss litigation will open the meeting.
Note: The Harbor Administrator's modem was acting up and he was unable to provide
the Harbor Administrator's report with this packet. It will be sent separately
See you next Thursday.
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RICHARDSON'S BAY REGIONAL AGENCY
MINUTES OF APRIL 14, 2016
HELD AT SAUSALITO CITY HALL CHAMBERS
MEMBERS PRESENT: Marty Winter (Belvedere); Kathrin Sears (Marin County); Herb
Weiner (Sausalito); Jim Wickham (Mill Valley)
ABSENT: Erin Tollini (Tiburon);
STAFF: Bill Price (Harbor Administrator); Ben Berto (RBRA Clerk)
ADDITIONAL: Leslie Alden (Aide to Supervisor Sears)
Meeting called to order at 5:35 PM. Adjourn to closed session for conference with legal counsel
concerning anticipated litigation. Re -convened at 6:00 PM. Acting Chair Winter advised the
public that there was nothing to report.
Minutes of February 11, 2016 Meeting
Minutes were approved unanimously
Harbor Administrator's Report
Mr. Price discussed the new Marine Debris regulations that had been signed into law. He also
went over the grant funding issues for the pump -out vessel program.
David Lay stated that it would be a huge PR issue for the federal government if the program
failed. Jeff Jacob felt that junked boats could be sold or bartered to reduce agency costs.
Prior expenditures: February — April 2016
During public comment, Orlie Lindgren stated that he had owned a lot of boats and he
questioned the RBRA's accounting for the disposal of large vessels. He felt that everything
should be sold for scrap value to recover expenses. Louis Tenwinkle suggested that a scrap bin
from a metal salvager be placed at the yard. Both Kevin Kiffer and Richard Weaver asked for
more clarity in expenses relating to vessel disposal and Doug Storms said that RBRA should
look at each new vessel as it comes into the bay, assess and record the potential costs related to
managing the vessel in a chronological report.
The expenditure report was accepted unanimously.
Approval of Resolution Authorizing Reserves Expenditure for Abatement and Legal
Staff gave a brief report outlining the need to shift $40k in reserve funds into the budget lines for
vessel disposal and legal, since expenditures in these categories are exceeding revenues.
The Resolution was passed unanimously.
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Adoption of Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Budget
Member Weiner started the discussion by pointing out that Sausalito pays 35% of the RBRA
dues but shoulders all of the responsibility for shoreside services, and the vessels anchored in
Sausalito waters represent a small portion of the overall anchorage. Members besides the
County and Sausalito pay a lot less. He believed that the Sausalito Council was leaning toward
the idea that Sausalito anchored boats don't get abated, and he wanted Sausalito PD and Marin
Sheriff to take the lead on enforcement. He proposed that every member City should split the
budget evenly at 20%, saying that Sausalito would still have more shoreside costs, but Belvedere
and Tiburon had shoreside property issues, and Mill Valley had recurring wastewater issues that
all would warrant an increase in dues.
Mr. Berto said that the direction Staff had received from the anchorage working group
committee was Sausalito would only support an enforcement oriented budget. A flat line budget
would not support enforcement goals. These require an increase in legal, abatement and
personnel budget. He was unable to continue working at the current level funded as only a .12
full time equivalent (FTE) employee and said the Marin County Community Development
Agency would have to start billing the RBRA for the greater FTE hours required for the job.
Mr. Berto reported that the $30k increase in vessel abatement for FY 2017 was due to the lag
time in grant funding from the State DBW, and the $60k increase in legal reflected the
challenges posed by increased enforcement. He also said that if member dues percentage were
part of the discussion, it would have to be brought back to the Board by Sausalito, and it would
need to be formally ratified as part of the RBRA charter.
Member Sears asked if the increases were in legal, FTE and abatement and Berto responded that
those were the big ticket items, and there were other modest increases such as website
development and COLA. Member Weiner said that in the last 4 years the RBRA had spent over
$600k in grants abating boats but there were still 250 boats, and they just keep coming.
Member Sears asked if we needed to approve the budget tonight and Mr. Berto said that it could
be pushed to a May meeting to be ready for July 1 deadline. He suggested that the Board vote to
continue the discussion and Sausalito could request a review of the funding formula in writing
and make a presentation to the Board in the May meeting. Member Sears thought that if one
agency wouldn't approve the new split, Sausalito wouldn't appreciate it. Member Wickham said
that the split discussion was a Pandora's Box, and without Tiburon in attendance, it would be
especially difficult to make a decision tonight on the budget.
Kevin Kiffer stated that the dues split were appropriate since Sausalito draws actual income from
leases and rental on public trust lands on the waters/shoreline. Lewis Tenwinkle stated that Mill
Valley dumps sewage regularly, and to get rid of boats under docks, get rid of junk boats.
Chad Carvey said that it looked as though the RBRA was moving toward an enforcement posture
and he explained that 30 anchor -outs had committed to a four point plan of current registration,
solid moorings, no trash on decks and sewage pump -out that would alleviate the current situation
and give them standing in the community rather than pushing them into a corner. Anchor -out's
right to exist should be recognized. Alden Bevington referenced the prior meeting's presentation
and said that the anchor -outs were saving the RBRA a lot of money with their boat saver
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program and that they should be given a chance to prove themselves instead of raising the RBRA
budget.
Barbara Saltzman said a stronger enforcement option was good and necessary in order to for the
RBRA to fulfill their responsibility to clean up the bay. It was naive to think 11/2 people would
be enough to do the job. You can't okay the anchor -outs living there. She recommended getting
more law enforcement involvement.
Doug Storms thanked Staff for acknowledging the efforts of the boat saver program and said it
was a cost effective way to manage the bay. He wanted more resources for tracking boats and
felt that the mariners of Richardson Bay was the best tool for management, and that registration
was the most important facet of the program, and that everyone's goal was a well-managed
anchorage. Louis Tenwinkle said that there should be an anchor -out on the RBRA Board.
Richard Weaver said he would never register his boat and he wouldn't allow the RBRA to steal
it.
Jill Hoffman, mayor of Sausalito, said that she supported member Wiener' s call for a 20%
agency split on the budget. She said that the SPD would handle their own enforcement, and
since the burden of the anchor -outs falls on Sausalito, since it is their main landing area, it would
be helpful to include the costs of the police actions as part of the budget.
Keven Kiffer said the lease agreements Sausalito holds for their public trusts lands should be
analyzed to determine their revenues. Bob Lorenzi said that that Sausalito didn't see
improvements and failed to improve things like showers and access. Patricia Cornell said that if
the anchor -outs weren't there they'd become another homeless statistic. She recommended
working as a team and fixing up the boats and skiffs, and said it was a moral issue. Craig Wilson
stated that the crime rate was not happening on shore and that the Galilee community was
created to accommodate anchor outs and has now become a clique. Jesus Bright said that he
loves his neighbors and helps to save their boats. Bob Lorenzi said there was internal dissonance
and why increase the legal budget when the RBRA clams to be worried about welfare.
Member Winter asked if the budget discussion should be continued. Member Sears made a
motion which passed unanimously. She stated there needed to be time to talk about Sausalito's
issues. Mr. Berta said there would be a special budget meeting scheduled for May and Member
Winter asked that the Board bring the budget to their respective councils in order to achieve an
amicable solution.
Public Comments
Keven Kiffer said that the problem was coming to a head, and that Richardson's Bay was a
federal enclave and that the RBRA should turn it over to the US citizens who lived in the
enclave. He said it was a big quagmire of jurisdictional influences and the RBRA was a shell
agency.
Staff Comments
None
3
Board Member Matters
The meeting was adjourned at 7:35 PM.
NOTE: The next meeting of the RBRA is tentatively scheduled for August 11, 2016 at 5:30
PM at the Sausalito City Hall Chambers.
4
RBRA - BALANCE SHEET
April 1 - June 2, 2016
DATE
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
5/4/2016
5/11/2016
5/11/2016
5/11/2016
6/2/2016
6/2/2016
6/2/2016
6/2/2016
DESCRIPTION
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Lien sale repayment
SAVE Reimbursal
SAVE Reimbursal
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
Mooring rental
DATE COST CENTER
4/4/2016 Prof Svcs - Other
4/4/2016 Rent - Off Space
4/5/2016 Com Srvc - Broadband
4/5/2016 Com Srvc - Broadband
4/5/2016 Trav-Meals
4/5/2016 Trav-Meals
4/5/2016 Oth Maintenance
4/5/2016 Prof Svcs - Other
4/5/2016 HazMat Clean Up
4/5/2016 Trav-Meals
4/5/2016 Printing Supplies
4/5/2016 Postage
4/5/2016 Oth Maintenance
4/5/2016 Oil & Gas Outside
4/8/2016 Prof Svcs - Other
4/8/2016 Rent - Off Space
4/8/2016 Rent - Off Space
4/8/2016 Rent - Off Space
4/8/2016 HazMat Clean Up
4/11/2016 Prof Svcs - Other
4/11/2016 HazMat Clean Up
4/11/2016 Trav-Meals
4/11/2016 Maint & Rep Su - Oth
4/12/2016 Laboratory Services
4/12/2016 Prof Svcs - Other
4/14/2016 HazMat Clean Up
4/21/2016 Prof Svcs - Other
4/27/2016 Prof Svcs - Other
4/27/2016 HazMat Clean Up
4/28/2016 Rent - Equip Rental
REVENUES
-150.00
- 100.00
-100.00
-160.00
-150.00
-150.00
- 150.00
-3,952.00
-50,553.39
-3,500.00
-300.00
- 150.00
- 160.00
- 100.00
- 150.00
-150.00
-150.00
total revenues -60,125.39
DESCRIPTION
EMS - Pump -out services
ICB - office rental
AT&T Internet
AT&T - office phone line
Saylor's - volunteer lunch
Cibo - SPD meeting coffee
West Marine - boat parts
Diego Truck - tow boats to dump
CoCo County landfill
Mollie Stones - crew lunch / water
CVS - office supplies
FedEx Kinkos
Homme Deport - grinding wheels
Chevron - fuel for trash pump
San Rafael YH - Boat disposal
Schoonmaker Marina - slip rent
Schoonmaker Marina - slip rent
Libertyship dry storage
Bay Cities - Dumpster hauling
Diego Truck - tow boats to dump
CoCo County landfill
Mollie Stones - crew water
H & M Marine - engine service
Solano Co labs - water testing
Alexander - Web ser
A & S Environmental - Hazmat
Dave's Diving - salvage
TNT Martin - steel boat disposal
Bay Cities - Dumpster hauling
Hertz equipment - excavator rental
Expenditures
200.00
430.03
40.00
48.81
39.68
9.70
21.65
525.00
830.94
56.47
91.77
15.75
20.65
40.00
3,500.00
243.00
160.00
480.00
435.30
530.00
964.38
8.34
526.27
782.00
260.00
1,266.25
1,150.00
33,388.56
977.90
1,671.11
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/29/2016
4/30/2016
5/3/2016
5/3/2016
5/5/2016
5/5/2016
5/5/2016
5/5/2016
5/5/2016
5/5/2016
5/5/2016
5/5/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/13/2016
5/24/2016
5/31/2016
5/31/2016
5/31/2016
6/1/2016
5/31/2016
6/1/2016
6/1/2016
Prof Svcs - Other
HazMat Clean Up
Rent - Off Space
Printing Supplies
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Rent - Off Space
ProfSery-CntySalRe
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Com Srvc - Broadband
Prof Svcs - Other
Rent - Off Space
Rent - Off Space
Rent - Off Space
Prof Svcs - Legal
Prof Svcs - Other
Prof Svcs - Other
Prof Svcs - Other
Trav-Meals
Prof Svcs - Legal
Trav-Hotel Lodging
Trav-Meals
Trav - Mileage
Trav - Parking
Oth Maintenance
Postage
Oth Maintenance
Prof Svcs - Other
Rent - Equip Rental
Oth Maintenance
Postage
HazMat Clean Up
Com Srvc - Cell Phon
Prof Svcs - Other
Com Srvc - Broadband
Com Srvc - Broadband
Com Srvc - Cell Phon
ProfSery-CntySalRe
Prof Svcs - Other
Prof Svcs - Other
Day labor
American Textile - absorbents
Clipper YH - slip rentals
FedEx Kinkos
FedEx Kinkos
ICB - office rental
Salary
AT&T Internet
AT&T - office phone line
MT Head - pump -out services
Libertyship dry storage
Schoonmaker Marina - slip rent
Schoonmaker Marina - slip rent
County Counsel - legal work
EMS - Pump -out services
Day labor
Whiting - vessel survey
CAHMPC Training - meals
County Counsel - legal work
CAHMPC Training - lodging
In N Out - crew lunch
CAHMPC Training - mileage
CAHMPC Training - parking
Home Depot - powertools, absorbent
FedEx Kinkos
Goodman's Bldg - saw blades
Day labor
All Star rentals - backhoe rental
Amazon - work gloves
USPS - shipping
Bay Cities - Dumpster hauling
AT & T - mobile phone
Sailflow - internet weather service
AT&T Internet
AT&T - office phone line
AT & T - mobile phone
Salary
San Rafael YH - Boat disposal
MT Head - pump -out services
Total expenditures
350.00
781.20
500.00
4.35
20.97
430.22
11,557.58
40.00
48.57
300.00
480.00
243.00
160.00
6,560.00
212.50
150.00
235.00
167.22
153.75
443.52
55.61
212.02
45.00
1,147.70
36.70
38.62
600.00
741.03
68.21
13.45
1,044.40
53.04
109.99
40.00
76.19
53.04
12,154.74
5,650.00
300.00
93,991.18
Date
4/30/2016
4/30/2016
4/30/2016
4/30/2016
4/30/2016
4/30/2016
5/4/2016
5/27/2016
6/2/2016
6/4/2016
6/4/2016
6/4/2016
Richardson Bay Regional Agency
RBRA Vessel Disposal List April - June 2016
Name
COVE BAYLINER
CHRISTIE
GRAYSON
THOMPSON
SCHOONY BEACH
LANCER
LOPA
ROSALEE
SEA RAY
TROJAN KAPPAS ***
SUSY LIFEBOAT ***
IKURU ***
Type
28' f/g powerboat
40' wooden powerboat
28' wooden sailboat
22' f/g powerboat
7 skiffs, jet ski, dock
28' f/g sailboat
22' f/g powerboat
41' f/g powerboat
28' f/g powerboat
28' wooden powerboat
30' steel houseboat
40' wooden houseboat
Amount Condition
$2,880.00 sunk - abnd. - SAVE
$3,500.00 abandoned - VTIP
$2,168.95 abandoned - VTIP
$4,334.38 sunk - abnd. - SAVE
$1,044.40 abandoned - SAVE
$1,376.03 abandoned - SAVE
$781.20 sunk - abnd. - SAVE
$5,650.00 abandoned - VTIP
$1,325.00 abandoned - SAVE
$500.00 abandoned - VTIP
$900.00 abandoned - VTIP
$1,000.00 abandoned - VTIP
12 vessels (+8 skiffs) total $25,459.96
*** indicates estimated invoices
Location
MC Anchorage
SR harbor
Tiburon harbor
MC Anchorage
Sausa. / MC anchorage
MC Anchorage
MC Anchorage
Sausalito harbor
MC Anchorage
MC harbor
Sausalito harbor
Sausalito harbor
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Percent of Budget and Percent of FY2015-2016 as of June 2, 2016
Expenditures vs. Adopted Budget
Expenditures $402,041
Adopted Budget $447,508
Realized Revenue vs. Budgeted Revenue
Realized Revenue
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RICHARDSON'S BAY REGIONAL AGENCY
REPORT
June 3, 2016
TO: RBRA Board
FROM: RBRA Clerk
SUBJECT: Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Budget
The RBRA continues to face challenges in attempting to develop a work program and budget
consistent with its member jurisdictions' needs and emerging issues.
First, some good news. The RBRA expended its SAVE grant funding this fiscal year, most
notably including unexpected and significant expenses to abate a 95 -ton former military vessel
that recently sank in the anchorage. That required your Board's April approval for transferring
funding from reserves to continue performing abatements through the end of this fiscal year.
However, since that April meeting the Harbor Administrator has successfully secured $59,000 in
additional SAVE funding through two other jurisdictions' unexpended grant funds, which means
that abatement can proceed for the remainder of this fiscal year without requiring use of reserve
funds. Your Board is requested to accept the additional $59,000 and to approve the increased
current fiscal year's expenditures and revenues.
With the beginning of FY 2016-2017 only a few weeks away, we are presented with a similar
vessel abatement funding challenge in the beginning of the new fiscal year, as funding from the
next grant will not be available until October. The Harbor Administrator hopes to garner enough
funding from other jurisdictions' unexpended SAVE grants to cover some ongoing abatement
costs in the interim. Given the use of reserves proposed in the "current member contribution"
budget for FY 2016-17, Staff recommends avoidance of any further use of reserves to the extent
possible.
Enforcement
The April meeting Staff report and budget on the proposed RBRA FY 2017 work program was
oriented towards enhanced enforcement. Sausalito's RBRA representative and City Mayor did
not support the proposed enforcement work program and budget without a discussion regarding
Sausalito's share of costs (please see attached April meeting minutes).
Two working group meetings of RBRA City Managers and the County Administrator have
occurred since then in an effort to discuss the operating budget and a potential enhanced
enforcement work program and budget. At this time, we are presenting a proposed operating
budget for next year that maintains current member contributions, with study efforts to continue
regarding an enforcement enhancement option.
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CURRENT MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS BUDGET
Per the current Joint Powers Agreement governing the RBRA, an operating budget for the
coming fiscal year may be approved with a simple majority vote of RBRA Board members
(subject to subsequent confirmation from the jurisdictions' governing bodies) so long as member
agency contributions are not increased. Any increase in member contributions, however,
requires unanimous consent. Given our responsibility to present an operating budget for the new
fiscal year, Staff is proposing an operating budget that maintains current contribution levels.
Adopting a "current member contributions" budget has several implications for RBRA. It will
require drawing down reserves by an estimated $41,684 (above this year's estimated $9,393 use
of reserves) to incur cost -of -living increases and to continue baseline RBRA functions including
legal services, rapid response, anchorout vessel pumpout, and Agency patrol boat maintenance.
While the use of one-time reserves to finance ongoing operations is not a sustainable practice,
the recommended "current member contributions" budget provides the RBRA with an operating
budget effective July 1 that allows conversations to continue regarding a more sustainable work
program and level of funding consistent with member agency needs and expectations.
An increase of note includes a $25,000 line item for legal services, increased from a revised
$18,500 this year, for existing/anticipated litigation continuing from FY 2015-16. It assumes no
enforcement enhancement efforts at this time. A 3% cost -of -living increase is included for the
Harbor Administrator and Clerk positions. Finally, Staff estimates $200,000 will be available in
professional services expenditures for additional abatements, offset by the State grant revenue
which will is anticipated to be available in October.
Recommendation
While efforts continue to develop an ongoing work program, including increased enforcement,
Staff recommends adopting the "current member contributions" budget for FY 2016-2017.
Attachment: Fiscal Year 2016-2017 current member contributions budget
FY 2017 Budget 060316 rpt.docx
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SANITARY DISTRICT NO. 5 OF MARIN COUNTY //A
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2001 Paradise Drive
Tiburon, California 94920
AGENDA
Finance & Fiscal Oversight Committee Special Meeting
Thursday, June 9th, 2016, 9:00 A.M.
I. Roll Call
II. Public Comments
III. New Business
1. Warrants for May 13th through June 9th 2016
2. Financial Reports for May, 2016
3. Review of FY2016-2017 SD5 Budget (w/ Kat Harris of Perotti &
Carrade)
4. Review of Ca1PERS GASBY 68, Measurement Date of June 30, 2015
5. Review Board Rules of Procedure regarding Committee Meeting
Compensation for Attendance
6. Discussion re: Board Recommendation for SD5's Strategy Change on
Ca1PERS CERBT/OPEB Funding & Review of Upcoming CERBT/OPEB
ARC Payment
7. Upcoming District Obligations for June - July, 2016
IV. Adjournment
This Committee may be attended by Board Members who do not serve on this committee. In the event that a quorum of the
entire Board is present, this Committee shall act as a Committee of the Whole. In either case, any item acted upon by the
Committee or the Committee of the !Thole will require consideration and action by the full Board of Directors as a
prerequisite to its legal enactment,
Accessible public meetins: Upon request, the District will provide written agenda materials in appropriate alternate
formats, or disability -related modification or accommodation, including aaexiliany aids or services, to enable individual with
disabilities to participate in public meetings. Requests are to be submitted in writing to the Administrative/Finance Specialist
at Post Office Box 227, Tiburon CA 94920 or rdohrinanntibsa i5.org at least two days prior to the meeting.
T:1Board\Committees\Finance Committee\Aeendas12016 06 09 Finance Committee Agenda RB TR.docx
COUNTY OF MARIN /'
NOTICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING
Redwood Landfill permit to operate a new Construction, Demolition and
Inert Debris Material Recovery Facility (MRF)
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
IGEST
RIA •3
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, June 22, 2016
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
LOCATION:
PROJECT:
Marin Humane Society Auditorium
171 Bel Marin Keys Blvd., Novato
Please park over Sophie's Bridge (immediately on your right when
you enter the grounds from Bel Marin Keys Blvd) by the dog parks.
Permit to operate a new Construction, Demolition and Inert Debris
Material Recovery Facility (MRF)
Redwood Landfill, Inc.
8950 Redwood Highway, Novato
FACILITY CONTACT: Ramin Khany, Redwood Landfill (415) 892-2851
PURPOSE OF MEETING:
LEA CONTACTS:
This informational meeting is an opportunity for the public to receive
information and comment on the preliminary determination by the LEA on
the accepted application package. The meeting is informational only and
no official decision will be made at the meeting regarding the formal
determination on the permit application.
Eithne Bullick, Supervising Environmental Health Specialist -
(415) 473-6814, ebullick@marincounty.org
Rebecca Ng, Deputy Director
(415) 473-6907, rnqmarincountv.orq
Marin County Environmental Health Services
3501 Civic Center Drive, Room 236, San Rafael, CA 94903
(415) 473-4120 fax
APPLICATION ACCEPTANCE: June 2, 2016
Redwood Landfill, Inc. is required to secure a permit to construct and implement a Material Recovery Facility to
re -use and recycle diverted waste deemed for the landfill. The permit application is available for review at the
Marin County Environmental Health Services office: 3501 Civic Center Dr., Room 236, San Rafael.
Comments may be submitted prior to the meeting to Eithne Bullick at the above address, email or fax.
Any appeal will be processed in accordance and pursuant to the Public Resource Code Sections 44307 and
44310. Appeals can only be made after the decision to issue or deny the permit has occurred.
3501 Civic Center Drive - Suite 236 - San Rafael, CA 94903-4157.415 473 6907 T • 415 473 4120 F • 415 473 2255 TTY • www-marincouniy.org/ehs
TOWN COUNCIL WEEKLY DIGEST
June 6-10, 2016
TIBURON
Correspondence, Notices and other Information
1. Letter - May 2- HDL Summary - Town of Tiburon cumulative sales and tax recoveries
2. Letter - June 2 - Greenwood Beach Road Bicycle Plan
3. Memo - June 6 - ABAG and MTC Plan Bay Area 2040 Update
Agenda, Minutes
1. Agenda - June 16 - Tiburon Design Review Board regular meeting
REGIONAL, NOTICES AND AGENDA
Correspondence, Notices and other Information
1. Newsletter - Bay Area Monitor - June/July
2. Call for Public Comment - Cove Stormwater Pump Station
Agenda, Minutes
1. Agenda - June 9 - Richardson's Bay Regional Agency
2. Agenda - June 9 - Sanitary District 5
3. Public Meeting - June 22 - Redwood Landfill permit
ABAG: Association of Bay Area Governments
MTC: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Hdu CITY OF TIBURON
COMPANIES ANNUAL SALES TAX RECOVERY
45,000 ;
40,000
35,000
30,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000 '
5,000
�•
0'` Aar-
-5,000
r-5,000 .,':'..._.. - _.
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
$(739) $0 $24,010 $8,464 $10,646
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015*
$10,865 $14,074 $13,731 $41,371 $18,693
Cumulative Recovery Since 2004: $162,403*
* 2015 dollars are estimated
04/22/2016 11:48am HdL • 909.861.4335 • www.hdlcompanies.com
Town of Tiburon
MEM
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TO: Mayor and Members of the Town Council
FROM: Scott Anderson, Director of Community Development
SUBJECT: Plan Bay Area 2040 Update Alternative Scenarios
DATE: June 6, 2016
BACKGROUND
The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission (MTC) are busily updating their Plan Bay Area 2040 document, which sets forth a
long-term growth strategy for the Bay Area, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and responds
to other mandates of Senate Bill 375 and Assembly Bill 32 passed by the State Legislature
several years ago. The initial Plan Bay Area process circa 2012-2013 was highly controversial
for a number of reasons, not least of which were the exaggerated employment and population
projections built into the model as well as its combination with the Regional Housing Needs
Assessment (RHNA) update process conducted periodically by ABAG as part of the housing
element update cycle. The update process for this round appears much less controversial and
problem -plagued, with more realistic growth projections and no housing element updates.
CURRENT UPDATE
The current update sets forth three alternative scenarios: Main Streets, Connected
Neighborhoods, and Big Cities. These are described in more detail in the attached materials,
but can be briefly summarized as follows:
Scenario #1: Main Streets ---Targets future population and employment growth to the downtowns of
every city in the Bay Area to foster a region of moderately-sized, integrated town centers.
Scenario #2: Connected Neighborhoods ---Targets future population and employment growth to
locally -identified PDAs along major corridors, with an emphasis on growth in medium-sized cities with
access to the region's major rail services.
Scenario #3: Big Cities ---Concentrates future population and employment growth in the locally -
identified PDAs and TPAs within the Bay Area's three largest cities (San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland).
For the Town of Tiburon, job growth projections are zero through 2040 for all the scenarios
except for Main Streets, where a 100 -job increase is projected. Household growth (not
equivalent to housing units) is projected to increase by 200 in the Connected Neighborhoods
and Big Cities Scenarios, and by 300 in the Main Streets scenario. These household
projections would roughly equate to between 144 and 216 new housing units being created in
Tiburon by 2040. These housing unit numbers are similar to projections used by the Town
based on its current General Plan and Zoning, assuming that many vacant lots, potential
subdivisions, and some affordable housing projects are constructed. Staff finds the projections
for the various scenarios to be reasonable and within acceptable ranges.
Town staff will keep the Council apprised of the Plan Bay Area 2040 update process.
Area adopted in 2013 and in some cases may differ from current local plans as well. Moving
forward, local input will be vitally important to the creation of a Preferred Scenario, slated for
adoption in September 2016. Local input will also inform refinements to the Preferred Scenario
leading to the Draft Plan (Winter 2017) and then the final Plan Bay Area 2040 to be adopted in
July 2017. The distribution of forecasted Household and Job Growth by Jurisdiction and PDA is
outlined in Attachment 2.
If you believe the information provided to date by your jurisdiction to ABAG's Regional
Planners is appropriate, that information will be used to inform Plan Bay Area 2040's preferred
scenario going forward. Additional feedback related to the Alternative Scenarios, may be
provided to me (kkirkey@mtc.ca.gov) and Miriam Chion, ABAG (MiriamC@abag.ca.gov).
Scenario Workshops
MTC and ABAG are holding a series of open houses in each of the nine counties in late May and
early June. Each open house will feature multiple stations at which participants will be able to
view displays and offer comments on ways to accommodate projected growth while retaining the
distinct qualities of our communities; maintain and enhance the Bay Area's transportation
network; preserve open space; reduce greenhouse gas emissions; improve public-health; and
achieve other Plan Bay Area 2040 goals. Information on the Plan Bay Area Scenario Workshops
as well as the PBA2040 Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Scoping Meetings is provided in
Attachment 3 and here: http://mtc.ca.gov/whats-happening/news/bay-area-residents-invited-
shape-regions-long-range-plan.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or comments. Please note our new
contact information: (415) 778-6790, Bay Area Metro Center, 375 Beale Street, Suite 800, San
Francisco, CA 94105. We greatly appreciate your involvement and input in the development of
Plan Bay Area 2040.
Best Regards,
Ken Kirkey
MTC, Planning Dir or
cc: Miriam Chion, ABAG
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League of Women Voters of the Bay Area Education Fund
BAY AREA MONITOR
June/July 2016
Volume 41, Number 6
On the Path to Balanced Watershed Use
By Robin Meadows
Ever since he was a little boy
growing up in San Francisco,
Andy Howse has wanted to hike
in the hills that beckon just west
of I-280 between San Bruno and
Woodside. "I asked my dad why we
couldn't go there and he said it was
to protect our water," he recalled.
Called the Peninsula Watershed,
the 23,000 acres are owned by
the San Francisco Public Utilities
Commission (SFPUC) and provide
part of the city's drinking water.
Nationwide, most water agency -
owned watersheds — areas that drain
into a creek, lake, or reservoir — are
offlimits to the public. But "in the Bay
Area, some water agency watersheds
are open to the public, and New
York City does this too; said Tim
Ramirez, who manages natural resources at the SFPUC. "The
rest think we're crazy." The biggest risk is that people will spread
pathogens, including intestinal parasites such as giardia and
cryptosporidium. Another downside is that trails can erode,
muddying water and filling reservoirs with sediment.
Today, the Peninsula Watershed hills are more accessible
than when Howse was a child — but only a bit. Ridge hikes
require a docent and are limited to 60 people a day, three
days a week. Now a father himself, Howse hopes his infant
daughter will someday be able to hike there freely. "There
should be public access to nature;' he said. "We need to teach
our kids to be stewards of the land." So he founded Open
the SF Watershed to advocate for opening the Peninsula
Bay Area Ridge Trail Board Member Joel Gartland takes a docent -led bicycle ride in the
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Peninsula Watershed, where tight restrictions on
public access are in place to protect wildlife and drinking water. photo courtesy ofc}srhe K,enr/Open the 5F Watershed
Contents
Clean Air Plan Update
Commuter Benefits Program
Archaeology and Land Management
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Watershed to hikers and bicyclists, envisioning a trail system
that connects it with the many parks along its edges. And he's
about to get part of his wish.
Open Access
Allowing more people on watersheds that supply drinking
water can work. The Marin Municipal Water District
(MMWD) gets most of its water from Mount Tamalpais,
which is a state park. "We get 1.8 million visitors a year;'
said Mike Swezy, who manages MMWD's 22,000 acres of
watersheds. "Hordes of people are eager to enjoy nature:'
But all those people come at a cost. Take the Cataract
Trail, one of the most popular on Mt. Tam for its series of
waterfalls. "It's stunningly beautiful in the winter and there
can be 400 people per hour;' Swezy said. "It's getting loved
to death:' People trample plants at waterfall overlooks and
may have driven the endangered yellow -legged frog from
Cataract Creek. "They're no longer there, probably because
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June/July 2016
Bay Area Monitor - 3
track use and it's an educational opportunity — people have
to learn about hiking on a watershed;' Ramirez noted.
Keeping people from going off trail will be among the
biggest challenges. Options include volunteer patrols and
fencing in key areas. As MMWD's Swezy said, "People are
hungry for nature and you want to satisfy that — but we do
need wild places where human impact is minimal, even in
urban areas:'
Robin Meadows covers water for the Monitor.
Air Quality Arsenal: Stockpiling Strategies across Sectors
By Leslie Stewart
This summer, Bay Area residents will have the chance
to weigh in on policies that could shape the battle against
climate change. How? The Bay Area Air Quality Management
District is updating its Clean Air Plan, and will soon release a
draft for public comment.
These state -mandated plans have historically targeted
ozone, but the last version, adopted in 2010, also took aim
at particulate matter, local air toxics, and greenhouse gases.
Abby Young, a climate protection manager with the agency,
called it a "groundbreaker;' remarking, "at the time we did it, a
multipollutant plan was a very new concept:' So new, in fact,
that "I dont believe any other plan — even nationally — looked
at the suite of pollutants our plan looked at; she recounted.
However, of the plan's 55 measures, only four were
greenhouse gas -specific. Although many other measures
reduced greenhouse gases as an added effect, observers both
in and around the Air District saw room to strengthen the
climate protection component of the plan. For years, the
agency had been offering grant funding and technical advice
to municipalities attempting to address climate change in
their own planning efforts. Ramping up that aspect of its own
plan made sense, so in November of 2013 the Air District's
board of directors adopted a resolution to do just that.
When the time came to begin updating the 2010 plan,
Air District staff reached out to local government officials
and staff, explaining the new approach and soliciting input.
They also convened outside experts, sharing emissions data
and other climate change information, while continuing to
discuss how to accomplish goals regarding ozone, particulate
matter, and local air toxics.
The external and internal brainstorming and winnowing
created an extensive list. Although Young called it "our short
list;' the resulting table includes 83 draft control measures
grouped into nine sectors (stationary sources; transportation;
buildings; energy; agriculture; natural and working lands;
waste; water; and short-lived climate pollutants). These were
distilled into fact sheets for each sector, with relevant graphs
Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector
The 2016 Clean Air Plan focuses on nine sectors of the
economy. The pie graph below shows what percentage of
greenhouse gas emissions eight of those sectors contribute to the
Bay Area's total. The ninth, natural and working lands, is unique
in its capacity to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Short-lived Climate Pollutants 3.5%
Agriculture L5%
Water 0.5%
Waste 2.6%
source: Day Area Nr Quality Management District fact ,heeu
of emissions, a proposed overall approach, and specific action
items. The fact sheets were distributed online and at a series of
public open houses held this past February, while the agency's
new online Open Air Forum also gathered comments.
At first glance, the draft control measures may seem very
ambitious. "We're using all feasible measures" to create the
new strategy, Young said. These range from very short-term
rulemaking to actions looking out to 2050 or beyond, and
they cover refinery emissions reductions, increased electric
vehicle use, Plan Bay Area transportation measures, and
carbon sequestration on rangelands, to name just a few.
"The initial list looks amazing;' said Jed Holtzman, a
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June/July 2016 Bay Area Monitor - 5
Benefits Package: Program Eases Commute Expenses and Emissions
By Cecily O'Connor
Anyone who's slogged through Marin County to the Golden governor;' said Rebecca Long, legislative analyst at MTC.
Gate Bridge or battled gridlock on the Peninsula's Highway Carbon dioxide emissions were cut by 35,778 tons during
101 knows the discomfort of traffic pain and pressure. the program's first year, equal to a reduction of 149 tons
But the Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program is showing per day, according to a February legislative report by MTC
promise in treating some regional congestion symptoms. and the Air District. About 44,000 workers switched to an
That's because a growing number of employers are registering "alternative mode" like transit, shuttle, vanpool, or bike,
to offer commuter benefits, which not instead of driving alone over the
only ease workers' monthly transit same period. About 28 percent of
expenses, but nudge those inclined `Y G employees at registered worksites
to drive solo to consider vanpools,
X L � take advantage of commuter benefits
biking, or public transit. The program °x `' ��# z �; , provided by their employers on a
also has potential to save employers `'' *„' full- or part-time basis.
money by lowering payroll taxes. "With the level of congestion
PPP
Green -lighted by Senate Bill „,x,--7,. getting worse in the Bay Area,
1339 (Yee) in 2012, the program ` tel [commuter benefits have] been
has been operating as a pilot under - beneficial in terms of providing
the direction of the Bay Area Air The Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program helps employees options; said Krute Singa,
Quality Management District and workers save on transit costs. photo by AlecM.cDoaild senior clean transportation program
the Metropolitan Transportation coordinator at the San Francisco
Commission (MTC) from April 2014 to the present. Department of the Environment.
A total of 3,999 employers had registered with the Still, there's work to be done to realize the program's full
program through the end of this past April, up 25 percent impact. It may apply to as many as 6,000 to 7,000 additional
from September 30, 2014, the deadline by which employers employers, according to estimates in the MTC/Air District
with 50 or more full-time employees working in the nine- report. The list is drawn from information compiled by
county region were required to comply. Collectively, the the data analysis firm Dun & Bradstreet and the California
participating companies employ well over a million people Employment Development Department, offering a base to
across the region. target employers through outreach and education.
Approximately 2,329 employers, or nearly 60 percent, said Some cities and counties also maintain their own employer
they had begun offering commuter benefits for the first time. lists, so given the variety of sources, businesses can fall
The remainder were offering benefits before the program took through the cracks; several transit officials noted. It's also likely
effect. Employers must update their registration annually. companies are providing benefits, but haven't registered.
"There is room for more growth in the program. But overall, "It will require continual outreach at the local level to
we are happy with where we are right now," said David Burch, make sure all employers subject to the ordinance are making
principal environmental planner at the Air District. efforts to be compliant," said John Ford, executive director
Like the Clipper Card and 511.org, commuter benefits at Commute.org, a public agency that provides commute
represent another investment aimed at improving Bay assistance service in San Mateo County. He estimated half of
Area transportation. San Francisco introduced a commuter eligible employers there are registered.
benefits ordinance in 2009, later followed by Berkeley and The Air District has contacted 9,800 employers so far
Richmond. Success in those cities was a driving force in via phone, e-mail, and multiple direct mailers, said Tom
establishing a regional effort. Flannigan, a public information officer with the agency. It
Now, newly introduced Senate Bill 1128 (Glazer) seeks to has spent $115,000 on radio and television ads, and turned to
remove the program's December 31, 2016 sunset date, based social media plugs, webinars, tutorials, FAQs, and registration
on improvements in mobility, air quality, and greenhouse gas how-to videos as part of a broad-based outreach approach.
emissions realized so far. If an employer refuses to comply, the Air District can
"There is no opposition on record and we're feeling impose a financial penalty as authorized by the California
optimistic it will pass the legislature and be signed by the continued on page 6
June/July 2016
Bay Area Monitor - 7
the Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve. Located inside Ano
Nuevo State Park, this is where Spanish explorers from
the 1769 Portola expedition encountered local tribes. At
the time, the explorers described an area of grasslands and
a variety of plant -based foods. But centuries later, when
Hylkema returned to survey the site in the early 2000s, it
was overgrown with poison oak. In the intervening years, a
succession of landowners grazed cattle or grew crops on the
land.
Quiroste Valley provided a test case for landscape changes
in the absence ofhuman disturbance because the property was
untouched from 1982 to 2012, said Rob Cuthrell, director of
archaeological resource management for the Amah Mutsun
Land Trust. During that time the grasslands shrank from
about 40 percent of the landscape down to about 15 percent.
At the same time, Douglas fir trees increased more than 300
percent. This untended landscape model is at odds with the
landscape described by the early Spaniards.
To reconstruct that former landscape, archaeologists used
a combination of modern technology and classic methods.
They hunted for centuries-old hearths using ground -
penetrating radar, which helped them avoid digging into
places that might be ancient burial sites. Once a hearth was
located, they dug a square pit, unearthed in 10 -centimeter
increments. They used flotation — pouring dirt in a bucket of
water — to search for macroflora such as seeds from grasses,
tarweed, and clover, as well as nut remains from oak and
hazelnut trees. Then they sieved out tiny fish bones and other
remnants from the soil. Among this microflora are phytoliths,
the minuscule rock -hard remnants from plant cells that have
long since degraded. Some phytoliths are unique to certain
plants so they can be used to estimate the spectrum of plants
that once grew on the landscape. Additional information was
coaxed from bones or shells through the use of carbon dating
and the analysis of oxygen isotopes.
By taking such inventories, the archaeologists get an idea
of what once grew there, under what conditions, and when.
By further considering what would grow there without
any type of human land management, and comparing that
scenario with the plant and animal remains found when
Native Americans lived on the land, they formulate models
of land management practices that could be useful today.
Taking these ethnographic accounts together with
findings at excavation sites, researchers surmise there were
many ways the land had been managed by pruning, weeding,
seeding, and other techniques. "But the primary tool
appears to be fire, and it appears to be important all across
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the state;' said Kent Lightfoot, professor of archaeology at
UC Berkeley.
Through modeling, the researchers found human -induced
fires (as opposed to those caused by lightning strikes) tended
"to create and maintain grassland vegetation communities,"
according to journal articles coauthored by Lightfoot, along
with his former doctoral student Cuthrell, and Hylkema.
During those periods of increased burning, there's evidence
of more diversity in the plants and animals that were
economically important to the native people.
"There was this idea that tribes were living off the land —
eating berries and hunting game — with no impact on it. But
that's not so," added Lightfoot.
Tribal members, such as those representing the Amah
Mutsun, are eager to have this information. "At first we were
kind of down on science," said Valentin Lopez, tribal chair
of the Amah Mutsun. "But — with great care for the land —
science can help restore our indigenous knowledge," he said.
Land agencies, such as the federal Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), are also interested in these studies
because many public lands have heavy fuel loads from
plant overgrowth. "Although fire is typically considered
a destructive force, the small scale, low -burn indigenous
practices can be quite healthy and at least minimize the risk
of huge catastrophic fres, like the one that hit Clear Lake last
summer," Lightfoot said.
But it's not just about fire management, either. Working
with California State Parks, the Amah Mutsun Land Trust's
Native Stewardship Corps program gives tribal members the
opportunity to get in the field and relearn traditional land
lore. For example, finding tarweed seeds dating back 1,000
years at the Quiroste Valley site is one piece of archaeological
evidence which is changing their land use plans. The native
tarweed plant, considered a "pest" plant and removed by
some range managers, still grows well in the valley — along
with tens of thousands of poisonous hemlock plants. So
tribe members are removing the hemlock plants before they
can drop their seeds. With time, they hope to progressively
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