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FROM: Phil .Batchelor, County Administrator
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DATE: December 10, 1992 County
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SUBJECT: APPOINTMENT OF SUPERVISOR TOM TORLAKSON TO SERVE ON THE DELTA
PROTECTION COMMISSION
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
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RECOMMENDATION:
APPOINT Supervisor Tom Torlakson to the Delta Protection Commission
pursuant to the provisions of Public Resources Code Section. 29735
(a) as added by SB 1866 (Chapter 898, Statutes of 1992) .
BACKGROUND:
The Board of Supervisors co-sponsored SB 1866 in 1992 . This bill,
which was authored by Senator Patrick Johnston, enacted the Delta
Protection Act of 1992 . The Act creates the Delta Protection
Commission, which is charged with preparing and adopting, by July
1, 1994, a comprehensive long-term resource management plan for
land uses within the primary zone of the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta. Thereafter, the Commission is to review and maintain the
Resource Management Plan. The Plan is designed to protect and
preserve the quality of renewable resources, the viability of
agriculture, delta dependent fisheries, riparian and wetlands
habitat, water quality in the delta, open-space and outdoor
recreational opportunities .
In addition, the Plan must promote strategies for the funding,
acquisition, and maintenance of voluntary cooperative arrangements,.
such as conservation easements, between property owners and
conservation groups that protect wildlife habitat and agricultural
land, while not impairing the integrity of levees, and other
specified matters .
Also, the Plan must include a strategy for the implementation of a
coordinated marine patrol system throughout the Delta which will
improve law enforcement and coordinate the use of resources by all
jurisdictions to ensure an adequate level of public safety.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
-t—y RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
-L APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON JL5, t992 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS(ABSENT _ ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
ATTESTED DEC 15 1992
Contact, County Administrator PHIL BATCHELOR.CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
cc: Supervisor Tom Torlakson SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Senator Patrick Johnston
Community Development Director
Roberta Goulart, CDD BY DEPUTY
The Delta Protection Commission consists of 19 specified
individuals or representatives of specified organizations . Among
these members are "one member of the board of supervisors of each
of the five counties within the delta whose supervisorial district
is within the primary zone. . . " . The five counties are Sacramento,
Yolo, San Joaquin, Solano and Contra Costa. Supervisor Torlakson' s
district is the only one which includes a portion of the "primary
zone" as defined in the law as "the delta land and water area of
primary state concern and statewide significance which is situated
within the boundaries of the delta, as described in Section 12220
of the Water Code. . . " . The law provides that the appointment be
made by the Board of Supervisors .
Senator Johnston' s office has urged the Board of Supervisors to
make its appointment as soon as possible, since the first meeting
of the Commission is being scheduled for the third week of January,
1993 . It is therefore recommended that the Board of Supervisors
appoint Supervisor Torlakson to this most important Commission.
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