BOLINAS  COMMUNITY PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT

Resolution No. 554

Ratifying the Board of Directors’ September 19, 2007 Adoption of the Tomales Bay Watershed Council’s Integrated Coastal Watershed Management Plan.

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    WHEREAS, the voters in the State of California authorized Proposition 50, the Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Act, in November of 2002 and Proposition 84, the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act, in November of 2006; and

    WHEREAS, the State Water Resources Control Board (“SWRCB”) and the State Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) established an Integrated Regional Watershed Management Program to appropriate, via a competitive grant program, the authorized Proposition 50 and 84 funding to protect coastal watersheds and wetlands, protect communities from drought, protect and improve water quality, and improve local water security by reducing dependence on imported water while encouraging water management on a regional level; and

    WHEREAS, the Bolinas Community Public Utility District (“BCPUD”) participated with the Tomales Bay Watershed Council and other local water suppliers (the Inverness Public Utility District, the North Marin Water District and the Marin Municipal Water District) in the development of an Integrated Coastal Watershed Management Plan to assist the Tomales Bay Watershed Region (which includes the Bolinas area) in participating in the Integrated Regional Watershed Management Program; and

    WHEREAS, the BCPUD supports the primary goals and objectives of the planning process including, but not limited to, the cooperative development of an Integrated Coastal Watershed Management Plan that addresses and proposes solutions for, among other things, issues relating to water supply, water quality, flood control, ecosystem and habitat protection, and impacts on Areas of Special
Biological Significance (“ASBS”) and Critical Coastal Areas (“CCA”) in the Tomales Bay Watershed Region.

    WHEREAS, the BCPUD supports the overall goals and objective outlined in the Integrated Coastal Watershed Management Plan for the Tomales Bay Watershed Region and will continue to work with the Tomales Bay Watershed Council and participate in future updates of this plan, especially as it applies to securing implementation grant funding.

    WHEREAS, on September 19, 2007, the BCPUD Board of Directors held a duly noticed regular meeting and, by a unanimous vote of the Board members present (Director Siedman was absent), the Board approved the district’s adoption of the Tomales Bay Watershed Council’s Integrated Coastal Watershed Management Plan.

    NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the BCPUD Board of Directors that its September 19, 2007 adoption of the Tomales Bay Watershed Council’s Integrated Coastal Watershed Management Plan is hereby RATIFIED.

    IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that this resolution was duly introduced and adopted by the Board of Directors of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District on this 17th day of October, 2007 by the following vote:

AYES:   Amoroso, Kimball, McClellan, Siedman, Smith

NOES:   None

ABSTAIN:  None

ABSENT:  None


          __________Jack Siedman__________
                    President, Board of Directors

attest:
Jennifer Blackman
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    secretary