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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 07141987 - 1.49 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FRM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Contra Costa DATE . July 2, 1987 Co^ S.UBJECLYalifornia Desert Protection Actof 1987 SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMIENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION Recommendation: Take no position on the request of the Inyo County. Board of Supervisors that the Board oppose the "California ,Desert Protection fact of 1987" by Senator Alan Cranston and authorize the Clerk of the Board to so advise the Inyo County Board of Supervisors. Background: .The Inyo County Board of Supervisors has written to the Board of Supervisors requesting the Board to join the Inyo County Board in opposing the California Desert Protection Act of 1987 . In 1986 the Inyo County Board of Supervisors made a similar request. After receiving extensive written materials on the content of the legislation from Senator Alan Cranston, this office recommended that the Board take no position on the Inyo County Board' s request. In response to this year' s request the Mt. Diablo Audubon Society has urged the Board to take no position on the "California Desert Protection Act of 1987" rather than opposing it. The act is lengthy, extremely complex and has little direct impact on Contra Costa County. This is not to minimize its direct impact on Inyo County nor its overall impact on the environmental. and recreational needs of California. However, taking all of these factors into account it appears that a thorough analysis of the act might .well lead one to support the Act as an effort -on Senator Cranston' s part to protect much of the California Desert by designating it a National Park and to expand the Wilderness areas. As a result, and out of respect to the. strong feelings of the Inyo County Board of Supervisors and their concerns about the. impact Senator Cranston' s bill would have on the economy of Inyo County it is recommended that the Board of Supervisors take no position on the California Desert Protection Act of 1987 . CC: County Administrator Inyo County Board of Supervisors Senator Alan Cranston. Mt. Diablo Audubon Society_ CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: / RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD-COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER - SIGNATURE S : ACTION OF BOARD ON __71/1�187 'A'IPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER 4 VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X_ 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 SRHOWN. CC: ATTESTED JUL ��" PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR BY M382/7-83 DEPUTY A�1✓ ,-