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TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS �+,�,
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Costa
DATE'. May 12, 1986 CO3lr11j/
SUBJECT: Appointment to the HMO Advisory Board
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION-
Appoint to the HMO Advisory Board to the vacant position of
Financial Management Experience; . term to expire January 31, 1989:
Stephen A. Hamill
421 Full Moon Way
Danville, CA 94526
BACKGROUND:
The Health Services Department staff have recruited for an
individual with financial management experience. Mr.Hamill was
the only applicant. Mr. Hamill is the former Assistant County
Administrator from Alameda County where he had extensive
financial management experience.
We believe Mr. Hamill would make an outstanding addition to the
HMO Advisory Board.
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_V RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR _ RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
_n APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE Nancy C. Fanden Sunne W. McPeak
ACTION OF B ARD ON I1ay 13. 1936 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER _
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT III 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.
cc: County Administrator ATTESTED
Bobbi Baron, CCHP 14 0
PHIL BATC ELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Stephen Hamill SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
County Auditor
BY--(�' �.��,� ,DEPUTY
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To:, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM; - Contra
RESOURCES COMMITTEE
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DATE: May 1-3 , 1986
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SUBJECT: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECCMMENDATION(S ) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Reaffirm the Board' s support for implementation of Transportation
Systems Management measures for County employees and request the
Director of Community Development to prepare a report on this
matter.
2 . Declare the need for advance regional planning along major roadways
and request the Director of Community Development to see that this
matter is addressed as part of the General Plan review.
3 . Request the Contra Costa Transportation Advisory Committee to contact
the School Districts within the County to encourage the development
of student carpools.
BACKGROUND:
The Resources Committee has met with County staff to discuss the status
of development of a Transportation Systems Management plan for County
employees. Our committee is of the opinion that more staff effort
should be directed to the development of such a plan. Individual County
departments are utilizing various techniques, such as flex hours and
staggered work time, to help mitigate commute hour traffic congestion.
However, an overall plan for implementation of specific measures on a.
Countywide basis is needed.
Traffic congestion along the major roadways within the County has become
of critical significance. Impact of this traffic congestion is felt by
all jurisdictions served by a particular roadway and is, therefore, of
regional concern. Land use policies for areas lying along major
thoroughfares are critical and must be approached on a regional basis.
This point needs to be emphasized as the County undergoes its General
Plan review.
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RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVEnn' OTHER
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ACTION OF BOARD ON �i3[l �� gg6 APPROVED S RECOMMENDEDx OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT III ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES'._ AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: f ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
cc: County Administrator ATTESTED _ May. 13, 1986
Director of Community Development PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Contra Costa Trans . Adv. Cte
c/o Public Works SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
M382/7-83 ,DEPUTY
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BACKGROUND: (Continued)
There is a very large number of school students who are transported to
and from school via private automobile. Establishment of a carpool
system for school students has a potential for significantly reducing
the volume of vehicles on the road during the pre and after school
hours. Our Committee believes it appropriate for the Contra Costa
Transportation Advisory Committee to discuss this matter with school
officials.
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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: WATER COMMITTEE
DATE: MAY 5, 1986
SUBJECT: WATER COMMITTEE REPORT
Specific Request(s) or Recommendations & Background b Justification
RECOMMENDED ACTION
1. AUTHORIZE the Chairman of the Board to sign a letter to the San Francisco Bay Regional
Water Quality Control Board endorsing recommended amendments to the San Francisco Bay Plan
developed by the "Basin Plan Task Force" and the Committee for Water Policy Consensus, with
one modification.
2. AUTHORIZE the Chairman of the Board to sign a letter congratulating the Contra Costa
Water District on its successful efforts to purchase property for the proposed Los Vaqueros/
Kellogg Reservoir out of existing District funds.
3. APPOINT Mr. Robert Nuzum to the Fish & Wildlife Study Committee for a term ending
December 31 , 1987.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
None
REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION/BACKGROUND
1 . The San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board is considering amendments to
the San Francisco Bay Basin Plan. . The Basin Plan identifies beneficial uses of waters in
the region, determines water quality objectives to protect these beneficial uses, and plans
for implementing control strategies so that the water quality objectives can he achieved.
A coalition of environmental groups has formulated recommendations for amendments to the
Basin Plan. These amendments were presented to the Committee for Water Policy Consensus at
the Committee's April 9, 1986 meeting. These amendments were endorsed by the Committee for
Water Policy Consensus with only a few committee members opposing or abstaining on certain
issues. The Water Committee recommends that the Board endorse the proposed amendments to
the Bay Basin Plan with the addition of the exemption (under certain specified conditions)
to the prohibition of development or discharge to wetlands. The Board should also go on
record indicating that the recommendations are general in nature and that any specific
Continued on attachment: X yes Signature:
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Approve Other:
Signature(s):
unne Wright McPeak Rob . Schroder
Action of Board on: May 13, 1986 Approved as Recommended x Other_
Vote of Supervisors I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
Unanimous (Absent ) AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE ..
Ayes: Noes: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON DATE SHOWN.
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Orig. Div.: Community Development PHIL BATCTE-CbR-,,-UMK
cc: County Administrator OF THE BOARD AND COUNTY
R. Nuzum (via CDD) ADMINISTRATOR
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WATER COMMITTEE REPORT
May 5, 1986
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implementation measures resulting from these recommendations need further input from
affected agencies , including local government. It is appropriate that the Chair of the
Board transmit these comments to the Regional Water Quality Control Board.
2. The Contra Costa Water District has purchased approximately 2,000 acres of land within
the Los Vaqueros/Kellogg watershed as a initial step in securing property rights to the
reservoir and the reservoir's watershed. The Contra Costa Water District has been actively
pursuing negotiations with various property owners for acquisition of land in the area.
The proposed Los Vaqueros/Kellogg Reservoir has the potential to improve water quality in
Contra Costa County. It is appropriate for the Board of Supervisors to congratulate the
Contra Costa Water District in their efforts to secure this land with its existing financial
capability as a prerequisite to future development of the reservoir.
3. The Water Committee and the Fish & Wildlife Study Committee have reviewed the applica-
tions for the vacancy on the Fish & Wildlife Study Committee. Both committees feel that
Mr. Nuzum (1072 Juanita Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94596) has the technical background that
will be useful to the Committee and is highly qualified to be a member of the Committee.
Phl
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'The, Board of Supervisors Contra Clerk oehehBoard
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County Administration Building Costa County Administrator
(415)372-2371
651 Pine St., Room 106 County
Martinez, California 94553
Tom Powers, 1st District
Nancy C. Fanden,2nd District
Robert I.Schroder,3rd District
Sunne Wright McPeak,41h District
Tom Torlskson, 5th District
May 13, 1986
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Roger B. James, Executive Officer
Regional Water Quality Control Board
1111 Jackson Street, Room 6040
Oakland, CA 94607
Dear Mr. James:
This letter is to transmit comments from Contra Costa County on the proposed
amendments to the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay Basin.
The County also submitted comments via the Community Development Department on
December 23, 1985.
The County has reviewed the attached proposed amendments to the Basin Plan by the
"Basin Plan Task Force". The. County is in general agreement with these proposed
amendments. We understand the Basin Plan Task Force has subsequently modified
the proposed amendments. The attached version of the prodposed amendment shows
one of the modifications (the additional language in Recommendation 3. ) The
County does not agree with the proposed deletion in Recommendation 4 concerning
the exemption for wetlands (not shown deleted on attached paper) .
Since these proposed amendments are general in nature, the County assumes that
any specific requirement resulting from the proposed amendments will result in
further review and comment by impacted agencies , including local government.
Countr Costa County looks forward to working with the Regional Water Quality
Control Board in protecting San Francisco Bay water quality.
If you have any questions, please contact Dave Okita of the Community Development
Department at 372-2071.
Very tr urs,
Tom Powers
Chair
Board of Supervisors
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AMENDMENTS TO THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY BASIN PLAN
Basin Plan Task Force Recommendations
April 1986
The San Francisco Bay/Delta represents a regional and national resource of
enormous environmental and economic value. A growing body of scientific
evidence warns us that this major estuarine system faces a continuing, longterm
decline in health and productivity. The present triennial review of the Water
Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay Basin is a crucially important
opportunity to strengthen existing water quality control policy and thus fulfill
state and federal mandates to protect the beneficial uses of the San Francisco
Bay/Delta estuarine system.
Our organizations jointly endorse the following policy recommendations.
1. CONTROLS ON TOXIC POLLUTANT DISCHARGES MUST BE STRENGTHENED.
FINDINGS: The existing Basin Plan fails to set standards specific enough to
monitor and control ongoing toxic discharges or to require cleanup of toxic
"hotspots" resulting from pollution of the Bay. Despite federal and state water
quality legislation and the progress in pollution cleanup of the past 20 years ,
toxic pollution of the Bay continues to pose a serious and documented threat to
aquatic life and wildlife , as well as a health risk to people who eat
contaminated fish and shellfish from the Bay.
RECOMMENDATIONS: The Basin Plan should:
* Immediately monitor and control acute and sub-lethal effects of toxic
pollutants in discharges by requiring bioassays that use the three most
sensitive and ecologically diverse test species for which standardized
tests have been developed.
The dilution of wastewater to achieve compliance with toxicity requirements
should be prohibited.
* Adopt numerical water quality-based standards for ambient Bay waters and
wastewater discharges, to limit the concentration and mass loading of
toxic water pollutants , to protect the Bay environment from the adverse
cumulative effects of these pollutants and to ensure the use of the best
available pollution control technology.
* Ban the discharge of toxic corrosion control chemicals when non-toxic
substitutes exist.
* Develop a program to identify, assess and clean up highly contaminated
toxics hotspots".
* Establish a program for identifying, assessing and proposing solutions to
the contribution of toxic pollution from the Delta to the Bay.
2. STORMIIATER RUNOFF AND OTHER NONPOINT SOURCES OF POLLUTION MUST BE CONTROLLED.
FINDINGS: Runoff from urban, industrial and agricultural areas is a major
source of toxic pollutant discharge to San Francisco Bay, but is inadequately
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addressed in the Basin Plan.
RECOMMENDATIONS: The Basin Plan should :
* Establish a program for the identification, monitoring and assessment of
these pollutants and their sources.
* Require discharge permits for new and existing nonpoint source dischargers,
with immediate requirements for new commercial and industrial developments,
to encourage the cost-effective control and treatment of pollutant
discharges.
* Establish the Regional Water Quality Control Board as the lead agency for
the development of this program, working in full cooperation with other
relevant agencies.
3. OPTIMAL FRESHWATER FLOWS TO THE BAY MUST BE GUARANTEED.
FINDINGS: The protection and enhancement of beneficial uses and public trust
values of the San Francisco Bay estuarine system are directly related to the
amount of freshwater entering the Bay from the Delta. Adequate freshwater
inflow is necessary to create and maintain the estuarine habitat values required
for fish migration and spawning, to prevent salt intrusion, to provide mixing,
to provide diverse and important wetland habitats , to maintain proper
temperature and to transport and dissipate residual pollutants that cannot be
eliminated by treatment. Freshwater flows have already been reduced below
levels needed to protect the beneficial uses and public trust values of the Bay.
RECOMMENDATIONS: The Basin Plan should: 11
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* Declare the State's obligation to set salinity standardsAfor the Bay at a
level that guarantees protection of the Bay's resources.
* Require the Regional Board to be involved in the water quality aspects of
this standard-setting process, and assert the need for other agencies and
institutions involved in Bay/Delta research, to have a role as well .
The burden should be on the state and federal water projects and on other
upstream diverters to demonstrate that their diversions of freshwater flows
from the Delta do not harm Bay beneficial uses and public trust values.
No additional freshwater diversions should be permitted where there are
alternatives which could avoid or minimize harm to the Bay.
4. BAY WETLANDS MUST BE PROTECTED.
F114DINGS: State policy calls for the expansion of the State's wetlands by 50%
by the year 2000. Recent scientific work has linked the destruction of 80% of
the Bay's historic wetlands to the decline in Bay water quality. Yet despite
the beneficial uses that the Basin Plan recognizes are provided by the Bay's
wetlands , the Plan includes few policies for wetlands protection.
RECOM14ENDATIONS: The Basin Plan should :
* Prohibit the approval of development, landfill or effluent discharge
projects which would adversely affect wetlands, unless the applicant
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demonstrates that there is no feasible, less environmentally damaging
alternative location for the type of project being considered and that
there will be no net loss of wetlands acreage, diversity and value in the
San Francisco Bay Basin as a result of the project.
* Adopt the definition of wetlands developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, to distinguish the different types more clearly.
* Recognize that wetlands perform many important beneficial uses in addition
to those! already specified, such as flood control , groundwater recharge,
the enhancement of water quality and providing an educational and
scientific resource.
5. DISPOSAL OF DREDGE SPOILS MUST BE CONTROLLED.
FINDINGS: Inadequate monitoring of toxic pollutants and uncoordinated
regulation by government agencies render regulation of dredging in the Bay
unsatisfactory. In view of new evidence of toxic contamination due to dredge
spoils disposal in the Bay and the lack of adequate transport of spoils disposed
in the Bay to the ocean, plans to expand the Alcatraz dump site have to be
viewed with alarm.
RECOMMENDATIONS: The Basin Plan should:
* Establish criteria and a time schedule to prohibit the disposal of dredge
spoils which have adverse impacts on water quality in the Bay.
* Institute immediate monitoring and characterization of toxic pollutants and
toxicity in dredge spoils material.
* Require the Regional Board to review all U.S. Army Corps of Engineer
permits, monitoring programs and test protocols relating to dredge spoils
disposal .
6. BAY DISCHARGE SEGMENTS MUST BE REVISED.
FINDINGS: To implement pollution controls and distinguish the capacity of
different sections of the Bay to assimilate pollution, the Basin Plan divides
the Bay into administrative segments. The present system of segmentation has not
been changed since 1975. It does not reflect either current knowledge of the
hydrodynamics of the Bay or the evidence of toxic pollutant-induced stress in
all the existing segments. The segmentation of South Bay is particularly in
need of review.
RECOMMENDATIONS: The Basin Plan should:
* Classify Bay segments in a scientific manner, by major hydrodynamic
sections that reflect similar physical , chemical and biological conditions.
* Designate all segments as "water quality limited`, in need of water
quality-based controls.
The Board of Supervisors Contra ��o�h�a
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County Administration Building County Administrator
651 Pine St., Room 106 �Oun}`
Martinez, California 94553 County
Tom Powers, tat District
Nancy C.Fanden,2nd District
Robert I.Schroder,3rd District
Sure Wright McPeak,4th District
Tom Tortakson,5th District
May 13, 1986
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Craig Z. Randall , President
Contra Costa Water District
P.O. Box H2O
Concord, CA 94524
Dear Mr. Randall , and
Members of the Board of Directors:
The Board of Supervisors congratulates the Contra Costa Water District on your
recent acquisition of approximately 2,000 acres of land, using existing District
funds, for the proposed Los Vaqueros/Kellogg Reservoir Project. The Los Vaqueros/
Kellogg Reservoir has the potential to improve water quality in Contra Costa .
County. The Board encourages- the District to continue efforts to secure land,
other participants, and funding for the proposed reservoir.
The Board looks forward to working with your District on this and other water
quality matters in Contra Costa County.
Very truly yours,
Owers
Chairman
Board of Supervisors
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