11:00 - Bay Area Metro Center
Agenda Updated 6/7/2024, Item 15A, Attachment 2 is now correctly labeled as "Draft 2024 Grant Application Form - Redlined" instead of "Draft 2024 Grant Pre-Application Form - Redlined"
Meeting Notice
Dave Pine, Supervisor, County of San Mateo, Chair
John Gioia, Supervisor, County of Contra Costa, Vice Chair
Aaron Peskin, Supervisor, City and County of San Francisco
Susan Gorin, Supervisor, County of Sonoma
Karen Holman, Director, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
Sophie Hahn, Councilmember, City of Berkeley
Lisa Gauthier, Mayor, East Palo Alto
Amy Hutzel, Executive Officer
Amy Roach, General Counsel
AGENDA
DATE: June 14, 2024
TIME: 11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
LOCATION: Bay Area Metro Center – Temazcal Room
375 Beale Street, San Francisco CA 94105
The Authority meetings will be conducted in a hybrid format. To maximize public safety while maintaining transparency and public access, members of the public can choose to participate either virtually via Zoom or Webcast, by phone, or in person at the locations listed below. Physical attendance at any site listed below requires that all individuals adhere to the site’s health guidelines including, if required, wearing masks, health screening, and social distancing.
- Metro Center, 375 Beale Street, San Francisco, California 94105, 415-352-3600
- Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Office, 5050 El Camino, Los Altos, CA 94022. 650-691-1200
- Office of Supervisor Gioia, 11780 San Pablo Avenue, Suite D, El Cerrito, CA 94530, 510-942-2221
Note: Each location listed above is open to the public and is ADA accessible.
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Members of the public can make comments during the meeting by using the “Raise Hand” function in Zoom at the appropriate time(s) in the meeting. Public comments will be taken during each agenda item and at the beginning of the meeting on non-agenda items. Additional information on ways to provide public comments on agenda items is available on the Authority’s website on the Meetings tab.
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Public Comments (Information)
4. Board Member Announcements (Information)
5. Chair’s Report (Information)
6. Executive Reports
7. Approval of Summary Minutes of May 03, 2024 (Action)
Item 7: Summary Minutes for May 03, 2024
8. Advisory Committee Chair’s Report (Information)
Jessica Martini-Lamb, Chair of the Advisory Committee
9. Independent Citizens Oversight Committee’s Annual Review of Conformance with Measure AA (Information)
Jim Fiedler, Vice Chair, Independent Citizens Oversight Committee
Item 9: Independent Citizens Oversight Committee Annual Review Letter, Fiscal Year 2022/2023
Grant Items
EAST
10. San Leandro Treatment Wetland (Action)
Consideration and possible authorization to disburse up to $3,734,489 to the City of San Leandro to: 1) convert a 6.9-acre wastewater storage basin adjacent to San Leandro’s Water Pollution Control Plant to a multi-benefit freshwater treatment wetland that will remove wastewater-borne nitrogen, phosphorus, and contaminants of emerging concern, including completion of final permitting for the conversion, and 2) develop a shared vision for community-based shoreline resilience planning efforts and scope a Shoreline Master Plan for the City of San Leandro, Alameda County. [Liz Juvera]
11. South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project: Eden Landing Implementation (Action)
Consideration and possible authorization to disburse up to $1,155,000 to the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory for levee slope and transition zone enhancement to benefit western snowy plovers and marsh-dependent wildlife, as part of Phase 2 of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Alameda County. [Laura Cholodenko]
12. Storytelling Shoreline Futures: Youth Visioning and Action (Action)
Consideration and possible authorization to disburse up to $300,000 through the Community Grants Program to Mycelium Youth Network to develop and implement the Storytelling Shoreline Futures: Youth Visioning and Action project, which consists of: 1) empowering and educating approximately 12 youth on shoreline and climate justice issues through the power of storytelling; 2) conducting shoreline habitat restoration and enhancement; and 3) hosting a community event that will engage approximately 150-300 members in shoreline restoration activities, artmaking, and role-playing games at three shoreline locations in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. [Vanessa Aczon]
NORTH
13. Camp 3 Ranch Acquisition (Action)
Consideration and possible authorization to disburse up to $5,730,000 to Sonoma Land Trust to acquire the 1,480-acre Camp 3 Ranch property in Sonoma County for habitat restoration and protection and open space preservation, with the potential to allow limited public access and recreation that is compatible with those purposes, as Phase 3 of the San Pablo Baylands Collaborative Protection and Restoration Project. [Sara Haugen]
14. Budget and Staff Work Plan Fiscal Year 2024/2025 Budget (Action)
Derek Hansel, Treasurer
Item 14A: Memo on FY 2024/2025 Operating and Project Budget
Attachment 1: Resolution 125 Adopting the FY 2024/2025 San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority Operating and Project Budget
Fiscal Year 2024/2025 Staff Work Plan (Information)
Jessica Davenport, Deputy Program Manager
Item 14B: Memo on Fiscal Year 2024/2025 Staff Work Plan
Attachment 1: Fiscal Year 2024/2025 Staff Work Plan
15. Draft 2024 Grant Round Materials (Action)
Jessica Davenport, Deputy Program Manager
Item 15A: Memo on Authorization to Release the 2024 Grant Round Materials
Attachment 1: Draft 2024 Request for Proposals – Redlined
Attachment 2: Draft 2024 Grant Application Form – Redlined
Exhibit A: Draft 2024 Request for Proposals
Exhibit B: Draft 2024 Grant Pre-Application Form
Exhibit C: Draft 2024 Grant Application Form
16. Formation of Ad Hoc Committee to Select Oversight Committee Members (Action)
Karen McDowell, Deputy Program Manager
17. Adjournment
Note: Agenda items may be taken out of sequence at the discretion of the Restoration Authority. At any time during the meeting, but prior to the adjournment of the open session of the meeting, the Restoration Authority may recess or adjourn to closed session to consider personnel matters, prices and terms of real estate transactions, and possible and pending litigation. Session will be closed to the public pursuant to attorney-client privilege and statutory authorization under Government Code Sections 11126(a), (c) (7), and (e).
Any person who has a disability and requires reasonable accommodation to participate in this public meeting should contact Paul Johnson no later than five days prior to meeting. Also, an assistive listening device can be made available for use during the meeting.
For questions about the meeting or the agenda, please contact Paul Johnson at
(510) 367-9481 or Paul.Johnson@scc.ca.gov
