Restoration Authority Awards $4.4 million in Measure AA Grant Funds

6/6/2025 - The Governing Board of the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority awarded over $4.4 million funding from the 2016 Measure AA parcel tax to six projects that will help restore the bay shoreline, improve climate resilience, support wildlife habitat, and improve water quality.  The projects include two Community Grants, which support Community Based Organizations working on shoreline restoration. 

The projects are:

• $330,730 to Grassroots Ecology for the Alviso Shoreline Habitat Restoration, which will restore and enhance two acres of marsh-adjacent upland habitat with a focus on benefits to the burrowing owl and monarch butterfly within the Alviso district of the City of San Jose.
• $1,300,000 to the County of Marin for the McInnis Marsh Beneficial Dredge Sediment Reuse and Tidal Wetlands Restoration Project, which will further preliminary designs, collect data and perform technical studies, prepare CEQA documents, and prepare regulatory permit applications for the McInnis Marsh Beneficial Dredge Sediment Reuse and Tidal Wetlands Restoration Project, which will improve future tidal restoration potential of the McInnis Marsh Basin.
• $1,000,000 to K to College (doing business as SupplyBank.org) for the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline Restoration and Flood Management Project, which consists of conducting feasibility studies and community engagement, developing designs, and preparing permit applications for tidal marsh restoration, public access, and nature-based flood management features at Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in Oakland.
• $1,200,000 to City of American Canyon to complete technical studies, 60% design, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) documentation, and draft permit applications, and to conduct public outreach for the American Canyon Wetlands Restoration and Public Access Project Phase II

Community Grants

• $278,660 to San Bruno Mountain Watch for the Healing a Wounded Watershed with the Colma Creek Collective project, which consists of community-led restoration on approximately one quarter to one third acre at the mouth of Colma Creek; hosting restoration education workshops, watershed field trips, and community-based shoreline restoration events; and collecting and distributing historical Colma Creek Watershed information.
• $300,000 to Literacy for Environmental Justice for the Southeast San Francisco Shoreline Stewards Project to implement the Southeast San Francisco Shoreline Stewards Project, consisting of shoreline stewardship capacity building, habitat enhancement, climate adaptation planning, and workforce development in San Francisco.