TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Supervisor Brown
MEETING DATE: June 21, 2016
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Carre Brown
PHONE:
463-4441
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Sarah Dukett
PHONE:
463-4441
ITEM TYPE: Consent Agenda
TIME ALLOCATED FOR ITEM: N/A
AGENDA TITLE:
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Approval of Letter of Opposition to the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee regarding State Senate Bill 1396 (Wolk) Relating to the Inner Coast Range Program
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RECOMMENDED ACTION/MOTION:
recommendation
Approve letter of Opposition to the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee regarding State Senate Bill 1396 (Wolk) relating to the Inner Coast Range Program; and authorize Chair to sign same.
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PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS:
No previous action.
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
The Inner Coast Range region for the proposed Program as defined in Senate Bill 1396 includes all or part of the following 13 counties: Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Shasta, Siskiyou, Solano, Tehama, Trinity and Yolo.
SB 1396 as amended would create a new Program within the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB), an independent board consisting of the Director of Department of Fish and Wildlife, President of Fish and Game Commission and the Director of Finance, with many of the responsibilities of a state conservancy, but without the oversight and accountability of the ten existing state conservancies. While SB 1396 provides for an advisory board that allows for representation by local government, virtually all the authority and decision-making rests with the WCB.
The proposed boundaries of the Inner Coast Range Program raise a number of concerns as well. Unfortunately, as with the entire proposal, none of the impacted counties including Mendocino County were approached or had any opportunity for input regarding the proposed boundaries. This raises a host of issues including the land use decision-making process and jurisdiction of local government, impact to prop...
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