BAY AREA IRWMP SINCE PLAN ADOPTION:

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BAY AREA IRWMP SINCE PLAN ADOPTION

• From January 2007 to Now

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Reviewed Governance

• Watershed group convened in March. Wanted more
  local voice, as well as more citizen and resource
  and regulatory agency involvement.
• Flood group wanted to add land use agencies to
  decisionmakers.
• WSWQ and WW/RW wanted status quo.

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Reviewed Governance

• Conservancy invited other FAs to participate in
  governance discussion among GMs and electeds.
  Tabled idea due to lack of interest/willingness.
• No change has been made in governance structure
  or participation.
• May change in response to future Prop. 84
  guidelines or legislation.

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Refined Chair, Added Vice-Chair

• Expect chair and vice-chair to provide
  leadership, remain neutral, represent CC
• Stan Williams, GM of Santa Clara Valley Water
  District retained as chair Nadine Hitchcock
  appointed vice-chair
• CC meetings seem more focused and productive
  since change was made in early summer

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Awarded 12.5m for Projects from Prop. 50 Round 1

• Proposal package asking for 25m decided upon
  before full involvement by Conservancy
  therefore, no habitat
• Originally rejected by DWR due to inadequacy of
  Bay Area plan reviewed in draft form
• Later, DWR decided to fund various deficient
  proposal packages at 12.m ea.

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Hiring Consultants

• Website maintainance and development
• Other administrative support as needed

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Prop. 50 Round 2

• Step 1 is evaluation of plan.
• Will hear in Nov. if invited to submit Step 2
  proposal in Jan.
• Most available to Bay Area is 12.5m.
• WS/WW not participating in proposal.
• CC has agreed to include 2 regional projects Bay
  mercury risk assessment and 9-county topo mapping

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Prop. 50 Round 2

• Rest of projects will probably be multi-purpose,
  site-specific projects from Cohort 1 in the plan.
  
• Harry is leading committee trying to decide on
  fair distribution of potential funds among
  counties and fair and practical way to select
  projects for funding package.

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IRWMP Funding for Watershed/Habitat Projects

• Will watershed projects be competitive with water
  supply and other water infrastructure projects?
• Yes. All projects expected to benefit from
  having multiple purposes. We are seeing more
  emphasis on multi-purpose projects. Prop. 84
  guidelines will provide more clues and directions.

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IRWMP Funding for Watershed Projects

• What IRWMP funds will be available for the Bay
  Area, including watershed projects?
• Up to 12.5m from Prop 50
• 138m from Prop. 84 (not appropriated yet)
• Possibly a portion of Prop. 84 100m for IRWMP
  but not allocated to any region

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IRWMP Funding for Watershed Projects

• When will there be new grant rounds?
• Discussed Prop. 50 Round 2 earlier
• DWR not sure when Prop. 84 Round 1 will be
  conducted. Probably will be for planning to
  improved IRWMP plans, including functional area
  components

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IRWMP Funding for Watershed Projects

• When will new projects be added to the plan?
• As mentioned earlier, a committee is trying to
  figure that out.

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Setting up Regional Stream and Watershed Group

• Help from BAOSC staff and new ED of Urban Creeks
  Council, Phil Stevens
• Steps
• Reconaissance with organizers of Sept. 2006
  watershed workshop (10/06)
• Convene volunteer steering committee (10/06)
• Clarify vision and purpose (11/06)
• Convene regional grp with strg. com. advice
  (1/07?)
• Identify committees, incl. voice in reg. planning
• Challenge net benefit to streams/wtrsheds

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Other Conservancy Stream and Watershed Activities

• Interviews with 30 local and additional regional
  groups to confirm/add to understanding of
  technical/communication/other impediments to
  effective stream and watershed protection and
  restoration (10/07-12/07)
• Fill selected needs identified

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Other Conservancy Stream and Watershed Activities

• Maintain and expand website set up by BC Capps.
• Identify funding strategy to continue support and
  administrative services after approx. Feb. 2008
  (incl. CIAP proposal)
• Continue to fund stream- and watershed-specific
  plans and projects
• Update and expand Watershed FAC as needed

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