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A great deal with the logistics of these meetings, and we certainly want to thank them for all being so helpful. We appreciate that very much.

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These facilities do have Wi-Fi available for those who have cell phones, laptops and tablets.

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If you wouldn't mind, we would ask you to please turn them off to the silent mode and deference to your proceedings.

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For those of you who wish to speak to the Board, we have speaker slips, the forms are in the lobby,

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prior to the entrance to the chambers, please fill out the form and give it to one of our staff members,

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and they'll get it to us so that we can hear.

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Please read the mark, the number of the item you want to address, so that we can call on you

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the meeting for when the item comes up and we can call on you on that item.

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If you are anticipating speaking to the Board, I'd suggest that you would read the notes

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on the agenda so that you're properly prepared, prior to making your presentation.

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Members, I do believe that depending on circumstances this morning, we may have a rather light

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agenda. Therefore, I'm anticipating a journey in this meeting around one o'clock or so.

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We don't have according to our council. We don't have a closed session today. However, I am mindful

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that we have several board members that have been important flood board related meetings

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in the afternoon, and I want to accommodate their needs. Also, for your information,

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And Leslie has a 11 o'clock budget subcommittee meeting at the Capitol and she'll be leaving

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and I'm assuming Michael will take her place as the staff here.

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Regarding the agenda items themselves, Vice President and Secretary Jane Dolan under

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item three will be presenting the minutes of the November 22nd regular board meeting for your

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approval. The approval of the minutes obviously is an action item that will be taken this morning.

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Next we have our consent calendar which is item five and has two items on it. To my knowledge

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these two items are in order and therefore unless someone decides to remove one of the items

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5A or 5B from the agenda, or the public decides that the an item should be removed.

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These will be approved in one motion from the board.

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Obviously, this will be an action item for the board that's the consent calendar.

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Next item, 7, Nancy Vogel has graciously agreed to present the recently released

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Governor's water resiliency portfolio to the board, more pleased about that and having

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her at the board meeting and this meeting streamed is very helpful and we appreciate

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her doing that.

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Next under item eight, Darren Sue and we'll brief us on the proposed legislation that's

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now addressing the damaged actions to our public infrastructure, particularly our levees,

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that we've been made aware of and has been the subject of some media attention. Under

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that same item, Durham is also going to brief us on the governor's recent executive order,

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which relates to the use of surplus property, which Sacramento San Joaquin District has property,

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and we are affected by that executive order, so he will brief the board on that.

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Next under item nine, John Passes, sub-situting for Jeremy, he's going to be at the same meeting

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that Leslie is subcommittee on the budget this morning, so John has is going to be sitting in

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and John Pash and Michael Wright will be filling in

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when assuming do a great job while the first team

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for stringer over at the capital.

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the Division's Normal Monthly Report,

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regarding ongoing activities that have the Division

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Project Updates reach an events that have occurred

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since last month, then under Item 9B, President Schoppwell from our staff at Wade Wiley and

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Sikastah Donovan from DWR will provide the annual inspection briefing from 2019 inspection

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and LMA local meeting agency reports, and we're always interested in that trying to see how

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and maintenance of our levees system,

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which we've placed a high priority on.

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9C, Dave Wilden, will provide an update

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on the state and federal rehabilitation work

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resulting in the result of the storms of 2017 and 19.

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and John's done a good job of getting those

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working with the core and getting those jobs to bid and underway.

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And finally, under item 90, Kyle Bickler from DWR, who's working with in Christian

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L's area of responsibility in the department, will provide an informational briefing on

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the proposed 7-mile levies setback, project along the north bank of the Sacramento

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bypass and the East Bank of the Yellow bypass.

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This levy setback will require an encroachment permit from this board that will be on our

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In under item 10, which are the board ions, we have three items to the board's consideration

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If item 10A looks familiar, it is.

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This is an item that we looked at before.

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The property owner has asked that he appeared before the board and talked to the board

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about this item and the issue before the board is whether this application in its redesigned

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Configuration will make sense to proceed with staff review and new application, or the old existing application as it applies to this new application.

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Next under item 10B, we have another resolution of necessity that Joe Bartlett and Matt Degroot of the Department's Division of Engineering will present.

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And then under Item 10C, Connie Perkins of our staff, and Paul Bruner of three Rivers

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Improvement Authority will provide us with an informational briefing on the proposed 200 year

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goal fields, Levy Project, by the authority they're proceeding.

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We also will have the normal board comments, committee updates, and calendar for everyone's

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is going to be an interesting meeting.

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A lot of interesting subjects on it.

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As I say, we should be journeying around one o'clock, so I think we'll try to go straight

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through, rather than having a recess for lunch.

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Okay, under item one, introductions and announcement, Leslie, I understand we have a new board member.

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If you wouldn't mind, please tell us about it in the background of the background.

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Yes, good morning, Mr. President.

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Good morning, everyone, for those of you who have not yet heard the governor did announced yesterday that our attorney

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Board member vacancy has been filled.

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Brian Johnson from San Francisco has been appointed to the board to fill the attorney slot.

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He has been the California Director at Trout Unlimited since 2011.

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He was the Director of the California Water Program there from 2005 to 2011.

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He was an Associate at Shoot, Mahaley, and Wineberger from 2002 to 2005, an Associate

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Director for Communications at CEQ, which is the Council on Environmental Quality with the

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in his office and that was from 93 to 97. He was the manager of energy star computers for the

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U.S. environmental protection agency and in the office of Air and Radiation from 91 to 93.

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He does hold a J.D. nurse doctorate from Stanford Law School and he will be joining our board

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probably for next month's meeting. So welcome to Brian and we'll look forward to having a full

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to board members. I also have a couple of staff announcements, Mr. President.

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We have two new staff members with us today. First of all, in our inspection section,

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we have Priscilla De LaMère. I see her out in the audience waving. She joined us. She comes to

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us from the state water project at DWR. She performed modeling analysis and has a lot of experience

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with reservoir releases, how they affect river stages, elevations. She's graduated from

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UC Berkeley has a BS in chemical engineering and does have her engineering in training certificate

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currently working to take the PE exam. So welcome to Priscilla. We also joining us in our

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enforcement section, David Ismailion. He has five years experiences he and the audience with us.

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There he is next to John. He has five years of experience as a regulator with the California

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energy commission and there he was responsible for enforcing compliance of energy efficiency regulations,

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investigating leads for potential violations and research and review of technical test reports.

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He was a project manager over saw key contracts so we are happy to have him.

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He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from sex state and also has his EIT or engineering

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in training certificate and is working to get his P.E. so welcome to David as well.

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Those are all the announcements.

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Okay, thanks Leslie and welcome to the two new staff members. We're happy to have you aboard

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and thanks for coming to the meeting to watch this wonderful proceeding.

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Okay, we're on item number two,

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which is the roll call and establishment of a quorum. Ryan, would you read the roll and

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and determine whether or not we have more

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and if we conduct our business.

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Board Member Ramirez, Board Member Velines,

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Board Member Countryman, Board Member McDonald,

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Vice President Dolan, President Edgar.

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I'm here also, we have a full board this morning.

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Thank you, Members.

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That's great.

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We're on item three, the minutes of our November 22nd,

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regular board meeting for everyone's information.

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This is an action item.

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Mr. Dolan, our board vice president and secretary has this item.

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Mr. Dolan, the floor is yours.

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Thank you, and good morning.

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I don't know about the rest of you, but for me this year of 2020 started at 90 miles an hour.

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And I really can't believe it's nearly the end of the month.

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So that means that you all received the minutes a few days later.

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It was on the 22nd for the November.

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I know you all read them. I appreciate that. Catching anything I might have missed.

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I think they're in order, but let me just pause to see if any of you have inputs or questions.

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Or anyone else? It's been a time reading the minutes.

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I see none. So I will move approval of the meeting minutes for November 22nd, 2019.

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Okay, so you know, objections to the minutes, moved by Ms. Dolan seconded by McDonald's,

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all in favor?

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Right.

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Opposed?

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Okay, the minutes are past.

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Thank you, Jane, for doing that work so quickly.

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We're on item number four, review of the agenda, and Leslie, I've asked you to, we've

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the agenda for us and indicate any items that I may have missed.

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Thank you, Mr. President.

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We do have one request from the department.

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We received a message from Dave Wilden on item nine.

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We are putting a summary report on the board and DWR website that relates to this presentation and wanted to have it posted when the presentation is given.

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Additionally, more internal reviews have been requested that will not happen before the January meeting.

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So they are requesting that the site and be removed from the agenda.

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That item will be item 9C, the drainage report from Dave Wilson will be postponed to, I guess, next month is what he's saying.

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It's unclear.

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All right, okay, we're on to item 5, which is our consent calendar.

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As I said earlier, unless someone on the board or the public want to remove any item from

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the consent calendar, these are items 5A and 5B, we will be approving both those items in

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single vote. Does anyone on the board want to remove 5A or 5B? Okay. Michael, the staff's

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okay on both those items at this point. Yeah, both of those items are okay. Anybody from

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of the public when I remove.

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5A or 5B for further discussion. Okay, back to the board. Mayor, please have a motion and second on the two items on the

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consent calendar.

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Okay, moved by countrymen, second by Dolan that the items 5A and 5BB approved as submitted. This is an action item, all in favor.

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Okay, the two items pass, thank you, members.

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Members were on item six, public comments, is there anyone in the audience regarding that

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wants to speak to the board of items not on the agenda?

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Not on the agenda and we have one that looks like Melinda, I think you're the only one

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wants to speak on so far on this right?

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Good morning.

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Wow, I feel so short.

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I feel like I'm an elementary school student.

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Sorry, Melinda Terry, executive director

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of the California Center Valley Flag Control Association.

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And I'm going to try and come monthly

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and just on this agenda item, just share with you,

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maybe some of the things that we're discussing in our meetings

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to kind of give you a heads up about things that we're talking about, and so that maybe in the future agendas,

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you know, they can shut up.

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One, I just wanted to make you aware, not that anyone ever has shown up to our office from here,

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but we were located downtown, we just moved our office at the end of December.

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So we're now in West Sacramento at 3050 beacon boulevard, sweet 203.

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ZIP code is 9.5, 6.9.1, but so if you want to stop by, we are there now.

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We do have the same phone number, the same email, so none of that changed, but did

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want to make you aware of our location change.

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One of the issues is, I think, you're wearing your word commented on the ISM&D negative deck

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for the Delta Drilling that is proposed, and I've talked to your staff, but one of the things

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that we really noticed, we submitted a comment letter on the negative deck as well.

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But when you looked at the map, there's hundreds of sites that they are planning on doing

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exploratory drilling for both the tunnel, as well as, I guess, other projects they have in mind.

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When you looked at it, it looked like a lot of them were going to be on levies, but the

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Failed to talk about levees, drilling in levees, encroachments on project levees or anything like that.

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So I guess one of the things we would like to see is even before they're coming to you for a far away.

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It is maybe if you could ask DWR if they'd be willing to come make a presentation and talk about, you know,

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particularly the drilling that relates to either in, you know, the pathway, you know, adjacent to both.

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because they plan on doing on the water side,

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the land side through the levees.

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So it'd be helpful so that when you are in your for a process,

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we're able to discuss that with you from an LMA perspective.

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I see the light blinking.

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Delta's prevention funding.

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We are a little bit concerned about.

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I know you guys approved for next year,

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but it's hard to say, with bond money,

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we may have to go to general fund.

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And so I hope that your board will really,

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along with us, they on top of that and really work with the administration and the legislature to make sure.

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We do get that funding for what you approve this year, because it's not as certain, I would say, as it has been in past years.

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And then finally a topic that our Delta members are going to be reaching out to you and your staff is on lookout slew project and some issues that we have there, and I will leave it at that.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Melinda.

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I think that's a good policy to have you come before the board.

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Yeah, we just thought, you know, we just kind of let, you know, a few items and give you heads up, like I said, an opportunity to, you know, think about agenda items for the future.

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Or just talk with us, you know, outside of the meeting on some of these topics. Thank you.

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Okay, anybody else on that item?

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Okay, that's the only written slip, is there anybody else that wants to speak on matters off the agenda?

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Okay, I'll bring that back to the board and then move to

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item number seven. This is

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the water resiliency portfolio and

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or no, I'm sorry. Yes.

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Is Nancy Bolgo here?

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She is.

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You're going to be introduced.

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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Vice President Dole and members of the board.

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Darren Seen Policy Advisor for the Board.

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Back in April, you'll recall that the Governor's Executive Order, Natural Resources Agency,

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Kelly P.A. and California Department of Food and Agriculture to conduct listening sessions.

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that would culminate in a water results in resiliency portfolio, and this morning, as you mentioned earlier,

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we have Nancy Vogel, who is the director of the Governor's water portfolio program, here to talk about the portfolio this morning.

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We're very pleased to have her with us, and Nancy, Dr. Frother, do.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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You have to.

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Is it just this one?

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Yeah.

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Good morning.

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Good morning, Chairman.

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And it's great to see so many trusted experts from earlier phases of my career here.

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And I congratulate you on the addition of Brian Johnson.

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He and I worked briefly together on the Clemth River Renew Corporation Board.

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I think you'll find him the kind of board member that goes above and beyond.

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And he understands the importance, the transformational importance of multi-benefit floodplain projects.

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And I think he'll be a great addition.

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So I will give a little background on the portfolio.

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I want to thank the board for being one of the bodies that held a public listening session for us and gathered up input from the public and provided your own input as well.

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And helped us in the iterative process of pulling together the suite of actions.

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We released a draft on January 3rd and we're asking for public comment until February 7th.

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So, as I tick through these slides, please bear in mind, this is a draft document.

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We want to improve it, refine it, so we want to hear from you and the public and stakeholders

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on how we can go about doing that.

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Excuse me, Ms. Vogel, would you please mind stating your name for the record?

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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My name is Nancy Vogel.

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Thank you.

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In September, your board offered several points for our consideration based on the public listening

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sessions and your own expertise and your guidance to us broadly was this, strengthen collaborative

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federal state, local tribal and public private partnerships, prioritize multi-benefit projects

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that utilize natural infrastructure, improve permitting and monitoring and mitigation and

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funding processes to facilitate implementation of both traditional and multi-benefit projects,

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integrate investments, policies and programs including the floodplain, the Sustainable

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ground water management act and potentially voluntary agreements to improve conditions for

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efficient wildlife.

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Encourage regional watershed approaches and identify sustainable funding for operations

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maintenance and repair of floodplain infrastructure.

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So I hope you'll see much of that reflected in the draft document and to some degree at least.

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And if you think we're missing something important or could do a better job of articulating

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something that's a priority for you, let us know.

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Please.

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So, some background, as Darren said in April, the governor issued about a 2.5 page executive order that was jam packed with to do's.

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And the natural resources agency, Cal EPA and the California Department of Food and Agriculture were asked to, together prepare a suite of actions that would prepare California's communities, environment and economy for the conditions of the future.

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Now, many factors, there are many factors, many good reasons to step back and take a look at

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California water policy right now, a couple of the most pressing are one we demographers

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tell us we can expect another 10 million Californians in the state by 2050 going from 40 million

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people to 50 million people. And as I'm sure you are all aware, the average warmer temperatures

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that we're seeing can wreak havoc with our precipitation patterns, we're seeing, you know,

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we are expecting, shrinking snowpack intensified drought and flood.

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So we think of this document as an integrated set of actions designed to help communities be ready

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for flood and drought on a scale and intensity that we haven't seen before.

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and to if not withstand those stressors to at least recover quickly from them and then to adapt and grow from these experiences.

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The governor asked us to as we were preparing the suite of actions to emphasize projects that would offer multiple benefits, and of course you're quite familiar with that concept of finding ways to both improve habitat.

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that retards groundwater, better protect communities, et cetera.

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It's hard to quantify, but we do get incredible benefits from natural infrastructure such as wetlands and forests and floodplains.

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He asks that we emphasize that.

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He wants regional approaches, and he wants partnerships.

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He asks us to innovate and pay mind to new technology where possible.

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And to work on a watershed and regional scale with these actions.

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We, after hearing a great deal of input from the public through the public listening sessions

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through more than 61-on-one meetings with stakeholders and incredibly comprehensive and substantial

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and impressive input from more than 100 different organizations and individuals, we came up

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with 133 draft actions and all of them fit under these four major rubrics, maintain and diversify

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water supplies, protecting enhanced natural systems, build connections, whether that's human,

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physical, digital, data oriented, et cetera, and be prepared.

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So some of the themes that you'll see in the portfolio proposed actions, there are quite

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a few options that direct the administration simply to implement laws that were enacted

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than in recent years.

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Through the 2012-2016 drought complex,

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but incredibly important legislation was enacted,

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including SIGMA,

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SB 606 and AB 1668,

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which will essentially give us a new framework

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for what are use of efficiency in our cities,

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and on our forms.

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And then in July 2019,

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the Governor enacted the Safe and Affordable

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drinking water act to try to deal with the problem of more than one million California

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to lack access to safe drinking water. And then not all the efforts that are ongoing

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that we highlight in the portfolio were legislative. We are also working, obviously,

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and it's important to do so to eradicate the nutrient. The rodents introduced from South America

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have that can cause lots of levy problems as you all know.

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Some of the actions in the portfolio, many of them actually called for much greater state

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coordination among agencies.

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This governor does not want to see folks working in silos when that's counterproductive.

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We have proposed actions to coordinate grant and loan programs and permitting to try to integrate

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our models and to be essentially a help and not a hindrance when local and regional entities come to us

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with complex multiple partner, multiple benefit projects that they want to carry out.

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Some of the actions highlight the role of science and the need for better data, we learned a lot

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in the 2012 to 2016 drought that we could use a lot better real-time information about who's

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using water, where, and how, so some of the actions

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are related to that, we heard from stakeholders

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that watershed scale, climate, vulnerability,

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and adaptation analyses that use the best science

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and that are conducted by the state in a consistent way

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would be incredibly valuable for their planning efforts.

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And so that's one of our proposed actions.

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So the themes, I think, some of the broad themes

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the portfolio taken together are that water management in California is by and large a local

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effort, local and regional, the public policy institute of California tells us that of the

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estimated $33 billion a year that are spent on water management in California 85% of that

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is raised and spent at the local level. But the state does have an important role as a policy maker,

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regulator, a funder, a collector, and a disseminator of information, an incentivizer, et cetera.

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There was great progress made in the 2012 to 2016 drought with legislation that if fully implemented

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will go a long way towards helping to build regional water resilience, and we should not

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squander that momentum. And again, state agencies need to do a better job of integrating their efforts

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to support local water resilience efforts.

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All right, so I've given your interest.

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I pulled out here the actions that are in the draft

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portfolio related to flood.

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And there are quite a few actually relative

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to other aspects of water management.

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In fact, I think there's more proposed actions

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in this document related to flood

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than anything except groundwater.

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So we agreed that we've got to find more efficient ways

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to permit the operation and maintenance of flooding for structure, and his board member Tim Ramirez

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is so articulately expressed as we've got to pay attention to the San Joaquin where the peak

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flows are scary when you look at what's projected into the...

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Future. So here are some of the proposed actions. And here are more. It's worth noting that the governor's proposed budget,

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which was released earlier. This month includes a proposed $4.75 billion climate resilience bond that would go before voters in November 2020.

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Of course, that needs to be negotiated with the legislature. But that bond proposed would include $340 million for the state match on various

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US Army Corps of Engineer projects through 2024-25, and another $270 million dollars from

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all type benefit flood projects.

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In addition, the proposed budget includes $54.6 million in Prop 68 funding to enhance

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the state's flood control and prevention system through the floodplain management, Yolo Bipass,

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multi-benefit, and floodwater groundwater, or floodwater groundwater recharge programs.

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So, as you can see, the draft portfolio calls for a lot of interagency work to find ways to make permitting a flood projects and operations and maintenance easier to get and to get some synergy with environmental benefits as well.

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And the draft portfolio would commit the state to try to pursue federal funds for flood risk reduction before and after any disaster.

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So where do we go from here?

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Hopefully you'll take the time to review the draft documents and get us written feedback.

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I really appreciate written feedback.

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There's not enough time in the day to collect it all face-to-face.

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And we'll revise the document as quickly as we can.

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And get a final version to the governor.

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I can't give you an exact date as to when that would happen.

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But ideally we'll not take months.

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And I appreciate the opportunity to give you this quick overview.

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And I'm happy to try to answer any questions.

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Thank you.

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Nancy.

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I really appreciate that.

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We had a meeting or started discussion on the on the resiliency of Portfolio at the coordinating committee on Wednesday.

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the gene and Clyde kind of coordinated that for the stakeholders that and we've gotten

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some feedback and probably we'll have some feedback today.

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But I think I just like to share a couple of thoughts and then maybe gene and Clyde can jump

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in and then we have a number of speakers that we can have also come in.

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I think the bottom line is, is we think this is a great vehicle.

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This will be our really our key tool for integrating all the silos that are operating

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now.

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And that's the key here.

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We hear that from all the stakeholders that the state is actually coming at them with

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a whole bunch of restrictions, regulations, and so on that they feel and some areas are competing

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and are conflicting.

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And it's going to take something like this resiliency portfolio to pull that together.

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And we have a little bit of experience with that in the Yolo bypass, which I think we can

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look at, in order to get that group of suite of projects underway, he had to have a little

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team that he put together and it took an awful lot of work, meetings all the time to

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try to get those projects underway and some of them, you know, we still aren't started

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yet, but many of them are started and many of them, a couple of them they have been completed.

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So it's a success, but it takes a lot of work.

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There needs to be a team of people, there needs to be technical work groups that report back.

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There just everybody is, has got to get the message and at least that's what I'm thinking.

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I think in the way of background, I think, we can all agree that we're really at a really critical point in our state's history where both from a regulatory policy standpoint and also from a program implementation standpoint.

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So we've got to start getting some things done.

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We have a, you know, just looking at it from a stakeholder standpoint or a landowner's

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standpoint.

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We do have a very stringent regulatory environment, which all the landowners, all the local

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governments are facing.

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And I think the stakes have never been higher to try to have this water resiliency portfolio

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So actually pull all of these programs, these siloed programs, these siloed projects together

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and develop priorities.

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Now I think your portfolio, in my view, presents a vision.

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It's really a vision for how we integrate programs and establish priorities for funding

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In our case, $30 billion over 30 years and, you know, you had in water and all of these other things that are going on and it's a big, big number.

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And it's bigger than what is being considered as a bond issue for everything.

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The bond issue includes streets and there are, I mean, highways and all the

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Cal Transmoney and bridges and in addition to flood and flood itself as huge.

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And I imagine these others are even even bigger.

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But I'm just hoping that this tool can all mentally be the tool that brings our programs

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together.

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But I just based on our experience and you talked to Chris, I'm sure about what he's faced with just in the Yolo.

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I was going to take a lot of work and it's going to take a lot of people working hard to bring this together.

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I guess, frankly, when I read the document, I didn't see much in there on flood, to be honest,

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maybe I'm not, I'll read it again, and so on, but we all know, I think, that flood has always been kind of an afterthought,

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You know, as we're thinking about it, most people DWR and in the policy arena are thinking of water supply, water, dams, that's kind of the main focus and oh, yeah, by the way, we have flood, but it's always kind of been an afterthought.

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I believe, and maybe that's overstated, but I think, but I was hoping for a little more on the flood area in the portfolio.

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you. Well, please tell us exactly what you would add. Yeah, okay. Well, well, since you asked.

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Well, I don't mean it this moment. No, but just a couple of things. And I thank you for your invitation.

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I will probably be sorry for this invitation to give you comments and so on and it is a draft.

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But I think it is going to be dynamic document because as we go along it's going to have

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to change and so on and that's good, I think it's good.

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Well, we need to say somewhere that without the levees and channels there is no water

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advance. And the Central Valley flood protection plan, I think, is in order to both flood

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and water supply resiliency. And I should, I think it needs to be viewed more as complementary

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to water supply, and not as competitors, which it has been in the past. I think it has

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that there needs to be a greater emphasis on reducing or investing in reducing flood risk.

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And the maintenance and operations of our flood system, we have to take care of what we have.

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And the be honest, we haven't.

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If you look at the inspection reports on the levies, which we get annually, it shows the same

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folks at local maintaining agencies have not been maintaining their lobbies the way they should.

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So what have we done about it?

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Well, not much for trying, we're increasing our programs out there, here again, it's

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putting more pressure on the local governments who don't have a lot of money out there.

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We're depending upon our BCP that Leslie's going to have been not that one, but the BCP

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was already been approved to look into funding through the SSJD for kind of, we view that

439
00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:49,240
is it might be the glue that puts all these programs and projects together that the locals can't

440
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:53,920
these rural districts, these rural areas where these

441
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:58,100
levees are important to property and people safety.

442
00:39:58,340 --> 00:40:03,600
Public safety, these rural areas simply can't afford what

443
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:08,600
we're asking in our area, in our area of flood protection,

444
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,840
certain criteria that the core requires for operation

445
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:14,600
maintenance.

446
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:25,620
We spent a year on the year on the year on

447
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:45,680
the issue of what is the criteria and we went back and forth with the Delta Stewardship Council and trying to define what we really mean.

448
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:53,420
And I think we now have what the core means and what it's accepted, what's the correct

449
00:40:53,420 --> 00:40:56,120
area for the main, that's an operation, these levies.

450
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:02,340
And I think there needs to be something in there about that.

451
00:41:02,340 --> 00:41:07,640
I also think there needs to be, you know, and some people are going to go crazy about this,

452
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:13,920
but it seems to me we need the least recognized that there's going to be some continued

453
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:22,560
investment in the Delta in the maintenance area because it's going to take 10 years to get a

454
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:35,600
new paradigm and a you know beneficial water system there so it's going to take a decade before the

455
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:41,240
new conveyance system is operational and I think that's you know what are we doing the mean time

456
00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:44,980
So there's going to have to be some work we need to do there.

457
00:41:47,820 --> 00:41:56,900
Obviously, the portfolio recognizes the importance of multi-benefit initiatives.

458
00:41:59,380 --> 00:42:01,180
But I think

459
00:42:05,380 --> 00:42:13,420
we can't really protect as the flood plan says through everything.

460
00:42:13,420 --> 00:42:18,600
It has to be a suite of things that we're doing, multi-benefit projects, flood maintenance

461
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:24,400
projects, water supply projects, they all have to, they are going to have to do different

462
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:24,820
things.

463
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:32,240
That's what multi-benefit means, and I think flood protection is a key to some of these

464
00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:36,000
rural areas, especially where they can't afford it.

465
00:42:36,060 --> 00:42:38,560
I think the state's going to have to help out with those.

466
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,280
Anyway, those are

467
00:42:43,450 --> 00:42:52,890
the one thing that we're faced with now, and I know the governor's interest in homelessness.

468
00:42:54,650 --> 00:43:00,010
There needs to be something in the portfolio. We have a lot of state surplus property.

469
00:43:00,210 --> 00:43:05,490
We have a lot of it. We're going to have to deal with public safety issue.

470
00:43:05,490 --> 00:43:13,390
But we're going to have to recognize that we're also going to have to deal with that problem and, frankly, we're just in the middle of dealing with that.

471
00:43:13,750 --> 00:43:30,210
So I'm not sure how the portfolio is going to reconcile what he wants in his executive order versus this water resiliency portfolio, whether it's going to be totally to separate things or not, but as you know we've been asked to kind of look at that.

472
00:43:30,210 --> 00:43:41,190
I was looking for, I guess, more specificity in the portfolio, more timelines, more specific outcomes,

473
00:43:42,170 --> 00:43:48,130
so that the people, so that our stakeholders would get a sense of where the state's going.

474
00:43:49,290 --> 00:43:55,270
What I feedback on getting from them is that they're getting all of these requirements.

475
00:43:55,270 --> 00:44:05,190
We're requiring more maintenance and operational attention on the levees taking care of what we have.

476
00:44:05,630 --> 00:44:15,410
Other people are requiring that other things that they're doing which are important restoring ecosystems and so on,

477
00:44:16,010 --> 00:44:22,970
but they're not getting a sense of what the state overall direction is.

478
00:44:22,970 --> 00:44:34,550
And I think that's what your portfolio is going to ultimately do, and we want to work very closely with you on that.

479
00:44:39,340 --> 00:44:55,380
Anyway, those are just some comments that for what it's worth, I think the only thing that's going to bring these together is what you're trying to do, but I really think it's going to be a lot of work, a lot of people and a lot of teams.

480
00:44:55,380 --> 00:44:59,940
So, those are just some comments that I...

481
00:45:00,460 --> 00:45:05,740
May appreciate any other questions for Nancy from the board.

482
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:08,600
Go ahead.

483
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:09,080
Go ahead.

484
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:09,340
Go ahead.

485
00:45:09,940 --> 00:45:10,400
Go ahead.

486
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,360
I'll be brief on this.

487
00:45:14,820 --> 00:45:18,380
As you know, I spent my career working on water policy, mostly in the legislature.

488
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:27,440
I think one of the things that, as I kind of look back on that period for me, it was really difficult to get anything done.

489
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:32,820
There were lots of projects proposed, but a lot of things just could not get done.

490
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:39,460
And I really like what this, what the project that you're working on Nancy is doing and

491
00:45:39,460 --> 00:45:47,540
what it's proposing, and I think it's a very much of a shift in a direction that is really

492
00:45:47,540 --> 00:45:47,940
good.

493
00:45:47,940 --> 00:45:49,260
It's more holistic.

494
00:45:49,780 --> 00:45:51,820
It's more participatory.

495
00:45:53,120 --> 00:46:01,460
It's moving us in a better direction where we are better connected at the state level, at the local level, at the federal level.

496
00:46:02,540 --> 00:46:06,040
And I think it has lots and lots of opportunities there.

497
00:46:07,700 --> 00:46:12,420
And I hope this is successful, but I really like the direction you're going.

498
00:46:12,980 --> 00:46:16,980
I just like to make another comment on things like funding.

499
00:46:16,980 --> 00:46:19,520
We have to pay attention to the funding issue.

500
00:46:19,620 --> 00:46:27,560
I mean, we've talked in this board about wanting to do uplift of habitat values, fishery

501
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:31,640
values, birds, things like that, but there's not funding for it.

502
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:38,960
And if we're going to do, a lot of work gets done as mitigation, but mitigation is just mitigation.

503
00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:44,860
And we really don't have an uplift component, and we need things like that.

504
00:46:44,860 --> 00:46:54,720
We need to have, and also if we're going to build multi-benefit projects, we under

505
00:46:54,720 --> 00:47:02,080
prop to 18, districts can't go to their voters and say, hey, we want to fund birds and

506
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:07,740
things like that, and so we need a mechanism that we, that's somehow we fund those things.

507
00:47:08,060 --> 00:47:11,720
And so I think we need to pay attention to fun, and I'm not saying you're not, but it's kind

508
00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:16,820
of the things that I see is it's really important on what we've been trying to do and also

509
00:47:16,820 --> 00:47:21,100
what your document is trying to do. So I thank you for what you're doing. Thank you, Clay.

510
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:33,740
Hi, Nancy. We go back a little ways that I remember being interviewed by you as

511
00:47:33,740 --> 00:47:39,480
when you were a reporter. And I remember your story is about 86 and it's awesome.

512
00:47:46,080 --> 00:48:02,280
I agree with what Bill and Clyde have to say, so I'm going to get off the boat a little bit here and go into the area of actual water supply and delivery, which not necessarily, you know, directly related to flood control.

513
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:08,760
I think the emphasis on improved efficiency

514
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,900
has the greatest potential.

515
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,780
In California, we have what I call a dam dream.

516
00:48:17,820 --> 00:48:21,920
Everybody feels, oh, I spilled a dam, all the problems go away.

517
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:29,260
And if you actually look at the water supply runoff,

518
00:48:29,860 --> 00:48:31,620
you just can't get there from here.

519
00:48:31,620 --> 00:48:34,280
You can't get there from here.

520
00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:45,660
And the dams that we have provide something like three to five year water supply, something in that order.

521
00:48:47,220 --> 00:48:52,260
And we know from tree rings that we could easily have seven to ten year.

522
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:59,380
So you can build all the surface storage you want, and if you have a seven to ten year drought,

523
00:48:59,380 --> 00:49:05,100
You're going to run out of water if that's your main emphasis on solving this problem.

524
00:49:06,380 --> 00:49:11,980
So really, we can't, we've got a really emphasized, improved efficiency.

525
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,180
I don't see the other way out for California.

526
00:49:16,180 --> 00:49:23,920
I mean, we could have a huge dislocation of the population if we had experienced the

527
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:30,840
to 10-year drought. And it would be beyond anything that's been experienced previously, an enormous

528
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:40,560
disaster. So I encourage what you're doing the way you're thinking about this. And we all have

529
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:50,580
to pull together because I think this in flood and this drought are the two biggest emergencies or

530
00:49:50,580 --> 00:49:54,020
We, you know, threats to our way of life in California.

531
00:49:54,660 --> 00:49:57,220
So I'm glad that we're taking some action here.

532
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:00,560
Yeah, the only thing that I would add,

533
00:50:01,020 --> 00:50:03,540
I remember I emphasized that Nancy,

534
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,280
you're gonna have to have a team of people

535
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,300
that helps get this done and not just two or three.

536
00:50:09,740 --> 00:50:12,620
It's got to be a full effort out there.

537
00:50:13,060 --> 00:50:17,060
But the bottom line is we have got to bring the locals

538
00:50:17,060 --> 00:50:26,740
along with the priorities and the timelines and what they're perceiving as the restrictions

539
00:50:27,620 --> 00:50:29,680
and the edicts by the state.

540
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:34,700
We've got to be with us on this or it's going nowhere.

541
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:40,240
That's what we've learned or it's going to court and we don't want that either.

542
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,020
But that's what we learned in the flood plan.

543
00:50:43,020 --> 00:50:52,260
we've got to start with them and hear them and understand them and work to get this resiliency

544
00:50:52,260 --> 00:51:00,120
portfolio to a point where we all are on the same page and that's that's really a key

545
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:07,520
to do. I think they're wanting to do that. So maybe the outreach we can help with the outreach

546
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:15,440
it automatically meetings or whatever you want were available for that, because it did work

547
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:23,120
with the flood plan anyway. Tim or Maris?

548
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:29,920
Yeah, thank you.

549
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:31,060
Oh, you got it.

550
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,700
That's okay. There's an order here and it's sort of mixed down a little bit. First, thank

551
00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:39,760
you for coming today and for doing this. I want to echo up Clyde said,

552
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:49,240
I watched the last several plans from a governor get developed and this is, I think, by far, the most comprehensive thorough and open to participation.

553
00:51:50,660 --> 00:51:58,320
The process by itself is a challenge and to put it all in one place, I'm sure, as you know, is a big accomplishment and just to have a draft.

554
00:51:58,980 --> 00:52:03,620
So, thank you for doing that. It's really nice to have a place to focus our comments and we'll do that.

555
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:12,160
And I want also, like what Bill said about whatever we can do to help, I'm sure we would do that, so please lean on us and whatever way you think we can be useful.

556
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,840
Just two quick comments as well about the details.

557
00:52:18,420 --> 00:52:24,800
I think the story you gave at the beginning looks just like our Central Valley Floor Protection Plan, the DWR help prepare.

558
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:31,860
All of those themes, regional and integrated in multi-benefit, which is great because it's very totally in sync, which is going to be,

559
00:52:31,860 --> 00:52:35,860
I think it really important because, right after this gets done, we're going to launch into our five

560
00:52:35,860 --> 00:52:39,520
replicators, you know, so I think it's going to dovetail really well. It's going to be a great opportunity.

561
00:52:40,580 --> 00:52:46,040
And I love that the SoundMaking part is in build connections because I can't think of a better way to

562
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:51,780
describe that story. All the things that are in the document, you could put under build connections

563
00:52:51,780 --> 00:52:55,720
in the SoundMaking, you know, quality water for people to drink,

564
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:02,880
precreation, fish, protecting communities that are behind levees, and there's good stories

565
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:08,140
in pieces in the valley, but I think what we're really lacking is the stage role to knit

566
00:53:08,140 --> 00:53:14,340
that together. And the board, I think, has a really great opportunity to do that because the footprint

567
00:53:14,340 --> 00:53:18,440
of our responsibilities, structures throughout the land and higher system, all the way from

568
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,880
Brian down, and GDPR was just here with the Bureau of Aspons,

569
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,640
as you probably know talking about the San Joaquin Restoration Program.

570
00:53:25,860 --> 00:53:27,560
So that's where I'm going to try to focus our comments.

571
00:53:27,780 --> 00:53:31,540
Just to try to think about how we can really try to help connect those dots.

572
00:53:31,980 --> 00:53:36,320
And then maybe through the plan and through the words of the 30 help bring

573
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:37,260
life to those things.

574
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:41,000
I think it's been a long time coming and hopefully we can help

575
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:42,020
provide some of that insight.

576
00:53:42,820 --> 00:53:43,740
So I appreciate that.

577
00:53:43,740 --> 00:53:44,300
Thank you.

578
00:53:45,060 --> 00:53:45,160
Thank you.

579
00:53:45,460 --> 00:53:46,860
Yeah, that's a good point.

580
00:53:48,780 --> 00:53:55,900
We are successful, we have been successful with putting a plan together that's been accepted

581
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:04,920
by our local stakeholders and all the players and we need to build on that.

582
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:11,180
We don't need to start over, we need to build on something that's successful and move that

583
00:54:11,180 --> 00:54:15,420
forward and that needs to be part of our thinking too.

584
00:54:15,420 --> 00:54:18,840
We have some people in the audience that'd like to...

585
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:19,920
You also have a group.

586
00:54:22,100 --> 00:54:23,700
You can do that.

587
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:24,260
I'm sorry.

588
00:54:26,460 --> 00:54:26,960
I know.

589
00:54:28,180 --> 00:54:30,920
I think that the draft is excellent.

590
00:54:32,060 --> 00:54:38,480
And that it came together in government timelines so quickly and comprehensively.

591
00:54:39,020 --> 00:54:40,520
Not as quickly as I'd have liked.

592
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:41,480
Thank you.

593
00:54:41,780 --> 00:54:47,980
So how the team took what I thought was probably was extensive input into something that's

594
00:54:47,980 --> 00:54:50,360
so cogent, like, graduations to that.

595
00:54:50,780 --> 00:54:54,800
I think that our job, and I think you've heard this here, so I'm going to associate myself

596
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:59,600
with my board members, what they said is clear what we all tried to work on.

597
00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:01,400
The needs are pretty well known.

598
00:55:01,500 --> 00:55:05,840
We've talked about them for a long time, even way back in my days is county supervisor.

599
00:55:06,020 --> 00:55:07,000
We've talked about that.

600
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:14,400
We have systems, all kinds of systems built for a population that is much less than what we

601
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,760
have right now, let alone what is coming forward.

602
00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:22,360
And our work in creating first, the first, the first, the center of the Lifeblood Protection

603
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:31,260
Plan and the update in 2017, clearly identifies that multi-benefit is what the plan and

604
00:55:31,260 --> 00:55:32,820
our systems have fled due.

605
00:55:32,820 --> 00:55:35,560
we just don't understand that or take advantage of it

606
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:37,120
or know how to make that better.

607
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:40,200
So I identified many ways in the plan to work forward.

608
00:55:40,900 --> 00:55:42,640
And I don't think it's you.

609
00:55:42,740 --> 00:55:43,820
I think it's a we.

610
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:47,700
And I really believe that the blood board and its staff

611
00:55:47,700 --> 00:55:51,440
are ready to actively work on collaboration,

612
00:55:51,700 --> 00:55:52,840
not to say we support it.

613
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,240
Because it takes effort and it takes time.

614
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,040
It takes initiative, not to say, oh yeah, I'm on board,

615
00:55:58,200 --> 00:55:59,300
but to be present.

616
00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:01,820
And so we're there to do that.

617
00:56:01,820 --> 00:56:07,440
And it just inputs we get from our stakeholders and we have lots of stakeholder meetings because

618
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:13,500
we think that's important to get folks knowledgeable and on board is how to look at

619
00:56:13,500 --> 00:56:18,920
recrafting all the systems we have and we're fled, but there's contains and all the others

620
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:28,320
to build ways that they can be recrafted to meet future needs because future is upon us.

621
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:33,120
And we talk about things like, oh, I'll use excess flood waters to recharge ground water.

622
00:56:33,620 --> 00:56:39,560
Well, that's an excellent concept, very difficult to achieve, and we'll be at the table to help

623
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:40,580
help work that out.

624
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:42,040
So thank you for being here today.

625
00:56:42,060 --> 00:56:42,720
Thank you.

626
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:43,760
Thank you very much.

627
00:56:44,380 --> 00:56:45,520
Any other board members?

628
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:47,660
Okay.

629
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:49,900
Thank you, Nancy.

630
00:56:51,580 --> 00:56:51,640
Thank you.

631
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:51,740
Okay.

632
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:53,660
We have a work where I know it.

633
00:57:03,830 --> 00:57:04,850
Thank you, President Eger.

634
00:57:05,130 --> 00:57:07,230
Members of the Board, Executive Officer Gallagher.

635
00:57:07,230 --> 00:57:10,010
Rick Reinhardt, I'm here on behalf of the Central Valley

636
00:57:10,010 --> 00:57:11,510
Flood Control Association today.

637
00:57:12,710 --> 00:57:14,870
We greatly appreciate the New Smith Administration's

638
00:57:14,870 --> 00:57:18,790
leadership and Nancy in particular for leading authoring

639
00:57:18,790 --> 00:57:19,970
this document.

640
00:57:21,010 --> 00:57:25,350
It lays out a plan for how we do what we're doing on the

641
00:57:25,350 --> 00:57:27,910
Central Valley protection plan in the Central Valley

642
00:57:27,910 --> 00:57:31,070
really to statewide scale and emphasizing the importance

643
00:57:31,070 --> 00:57:34,410
of how these programs that so far have been implemented

644
00:57:34,410 --> 00:57:43,310
silos can be more effective if done as in an integrated fashion. I want to touch on a

645
00:57:43,310 --> 00:57:47,210
a couple of things that the board members have said and was really pleased to hear that

646
00:57:47,210 --> 00:57:53,430
and building on our discussion at the coordinating committee meeting on Wednesday. We were

647
00:57:53,430 --> 00:57:57,810
pleasantly surprised to see there are quite a few things and flood management listed in the

648
00:57:57,810 --> 00:58:02,210
water resiliency portfolio. But there's a few areas that we want to see highlighted.

649
00:58:02,210 --> 00:58:12,730
I'm not going to go into detail today, but we are going to provide some comments and some suggestions for some very small edits that we think will make a meaningful impact in emphasizing flood management.

650
00:58:14,270 --> 00:58:24,230
In particular, is the need for structural investment. The plan lays out and identifies and stresses multi-benefit opportunities, floodplain restoration.

651
00:58:24,230 --> 00:58:30,690
And the Flood Control Association has absolutely supported that and supported as it played out in the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan.

652
00:58:31,050 --> 00:58:34,770
But as the water resiliency portfolio points out, we need many tools in our toolbox.

653
00:58:35,410 --> 00:58:36,310
Those are two tools.

654
00:58:36,950 --> 00:58:43,690
You're not going to do a multi-benefit project or a Flood Plan restoration project in the middle of downtown Stockton or in the middle of downtown Stockton.

655
00:58:44,550 --> 00:58:47,530
We're still going to need to make traditional structural investments.

656
00:58:48,870 --> 00:58:54,630
And that is highlighted in the Governor's budget as Ms. Vogel identified with funding the Army

657
00:58:54,630 --> 00:58:55,690
Corps of Engineers programs.

658
00:58:56,210 --> 00:59:01,150
But the problem we're seeing is the problem that's identified in the Governor's budget

659
00:59:01,150 --> 00:59:01,670
proposal.

660
00:59:02,010 --> 00:59:02,750
We have two programs.

661
00:59:03,330 --> 00:59:06,590
If you're an urban area and have an Army Corps of Engineers project, states going to step up

662
00:59:06,590 --> 00:59:07,570
and make that cost share.

663
00:59:08,050 --> 00:59:11,570
If you do a multi-benefit project, the state's going to step up and make that cost share.

664
00:59:12,390 --> 00:59:17,050
But if you're a small community, if you're a disadvantaged community, if you're a rural

665
00:59:17,050 --> 00:59:18,630
area, there's no money in this budget.

666
00:59:18,890 --> 00:59:23,590
And the Central via flood protection plan has identified significant need and deficiencies in

667
00:59:23,590 --> 00:59:28,150
these rural areas, these small communities, and we need to have that as a priority in the

668
00:59:28,150 --> 00:59:32,530
water resiliency portfolio as well to make sure that we're getting investment in those.

669
00:59:35,610 --> 00:59:41,790
On Wednesday, coincidentally, I was on a conference call with Bay Area flood interest and

670
00:59:41,790 --> 00:59:45,970
California flood interest, and we're looking for areas where we can find alignment

671
00:59:47,090 --> 00:59:51,090
throughout local agencies and California on flood issues. And two issues in particular

672
00:59:51,090 --> 00:59:53,490
were highlighted in that call. The first is homelessness.

673
00:59:55,870 --> 00:59:59,030
In the water quality section of the

674
00:59:59,030 --> 00:59:59,990
Water Resonancy Portfolio.

675
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:27,560
So, homelessness in the rivers in floodways needs to be highlighted. I can't think of a greater environmental disaster that's happening right now than the solid waste, untreated waste and hazardous waste. It's in our rivers and streams. And while it acts absolutely is a public crisis and the governor's made it quite dealing with homelessness, we don't have five or ten years of that continued environmental degradation in our streams and rivers while we're trying to do these restoration projects.

676
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,480
We've got to get people out of our rivers and streams.

677
01:00:32,460 --> 01:00:36,620
What was interesting to hear from the Bay Area flood interest and a southern California flood interest is,

678
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,740
in many cases, it's the land use agency that has the flood control responsibility,

679
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:46,280
and so they're also having the deal with the cleanup aspect of that,

680
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:47,820
and it's affecting their maintenance budgets.

681
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:53,360
Here in the central valley, our local maintaining agencies generally don't have their responsibility

682
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:58,000
for dealing with homelessness except as they're affecting the flood control infrastructure.

683
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:03,600
And the board has provided a leadership role with that, which was previously AB 137 and now AB

684
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:10,020
1958. We hope that moves forward and helps us, but clearly there's a greater need across the state

685
01:01:10,020 --> 01:01:15,800
for dealing with the homelessness as part of our flood management strategies. The other item that came

686
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:20,880
up in that call that is identified in the Water Residency portfolio, but we want to see the

687
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:28,920
leaders detail on is operation maintenance and the ongoing challenges we have, especially with

688
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:34,740
these resource agencies requiring compensatory mitigation for ongoing operation maintenance.

689
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:43,180
As we see at the state level with the maintenance responsibilities that the board has under water

690
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:51,560
The administration and the legislature's budget isn't always a reflection of what the department says needs to be done.

691
01:01:51,740 --> 01:01:53,360
What their maintenance need is.

692
01:01:53,660 --> 01:01:58,020
We've done really good over the past couple of years in getting funding for deferred maintenance.

693
01:01:58,660 --> 01:02:03,040
Getting our maintenance budget better matching what the demand is.

694
01:02:03,340 --> 01:02:08,040
But what we've seen in the passes when we have an economic downturn that budget for own insurance.

695
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:23,220
a deferred maintenance backlog builds and now there's compensatory mitigation required for that deferred backlog and the additional budget is not proposed to deal with both those things that deferred maintenance and the mitigation goes with it.

696
01:02:23,740 --> 01:02:30,080
So we appreciate the board providing leadership in the stakeholder outreach to provide input to the plan.

697
01:02:30,380 --> 01:02:33,680
We are going to come back to you with some very specific edits in fact for meeting this afternoon.

698
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:46,180
And we look forward to working with the administration to finalize this plan and have it be something that has the same broad support, but the center of our flood protection has from the flood control community, environmental community and the farming community. Thank you.

699
01:02:46,260 --> 01:02:46,560
Thank you.

700
01:02:47,260 --> 01:02:47,680
Thank you.

701
01:02:51,260 --> 01:02:51,700
Guilcasio.

702
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:56,720
Good morning, Guil.

703
01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:57,880
Good morning, Mr. President.

704
01:02:58,780 --> 01:02:59,420
What's that?

705
01:02:59,420 --> 01:03:00,500
I thought you were retiring.

706
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:02,960
You know, I'm never going to retire.

707
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:05,700
I'm going to be like a countryman to call back.

708
01:03:05,700 --> 01:03:09,180
I'm working full-time now, but next year could be a different story.

709
01:03:09,940 --> 01:03:13,600
I thought, you know, 36 years ago when I started, I'd have this problem resolved.

710
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:17,120
You know, we had bulletin one, 92, we're going to get money from a levy program.

711
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:21,560
I could put in 30 years retire and the Delta would be fixed while we're not there.

712
01:03:22,300 --> 01:03:24,500
And we won't be there for a while.

713
01:03:26,260 --> 01:03:26,300
Yeah.

714
01:03:26,300 --> 01:03:29,460
I could still dream, but it's getting a short time here.

715
01:03:30,420 --> 01:03:37,080
I echo Mr. Reinhardt's comments and also appreciate the fact that the board is understanding

716
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:41,720
what the plan shows, which is a comprehensive, but then what it doesn't show also,

717
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:43,460
which does affect us directly.

718
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:49,560
I want to focus my comments on specifically in the Delta, because I think we've got some

719
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:54,220
momentum going in the Delta, and it doesn't recognize that, and it doesn't recognize that

720
01:03:54,220 --> 01:03:59,320
need to keep things going in order to keep the water plan in place.

721
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:02,640
First of all, we state your name for the record.

722
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:05,020
I'm Sergeant Gilbert Kosio and B.K. Engineers.

723
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:12,420
So one of the things in the water priorities section it talks about the

724
01:04:12,420 --> 01:04:16,360
levy conveyances to right now is a single conveyance system utilizing the

725
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:22,040
levy's and that possible earthquake has a probability of 66%

726
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:29,340
happening in the next 30 years that could disable the levy system. What it fails to acknowledge

727
01:04:29,340 --> 01:04:33,600
that even after a tunnel is built, it's going to be a dual conveyance system, so you still

728
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:39,800
have to rely on the levees. That single tunnel is not going to resolve the problems. And then

729
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:44,700
also like President Eger mentioned, until we get to that tunnel, it's got to rely on levees. Now,

730
01:04:44,700 --> 01:04:50,860
you said 10 years, I think, based on some of the design and permitting that has to go on

731
01:04:50,860 --> 01:04:52,840
you're on a couple of lots of these poor construction.

732
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:56,520
You're talking probably 20 years before you see a tunnel.

733
01:04:56,700 --> 01:04:59,480
So these loveies have to stay up another 20 years,

734
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,040
which is essentially those 30 years

735
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:04,600
that that probability was thrown out

736
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:06,320
because that probability came out in the dreams

737
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:07,480
to study in 2008.

738
01:05:07,580 --> 01:05:10,360
So we're going to be at 30 years before any tunnels in place.

739
01:05:10,740 --> 01:05:12,580
So I hope these loveies stay up to all then.

740
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:14,400
But I'll be retired, so maybe I won't care.

741
01:05:17,460 --> 01:05:19,700
So what I'm concerned about is that the verbiage

742
01:05:19,700 --> 01:05:25,000
they're using is 2008 based on 2005 levy data.

743
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:28,300
Since 2005, the Delta Levy program,

744
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:29,980
which includes your Seventions program,

745
01:05:30,220 --> 01:05:33,280
is spent a tremendous amount of energy and money

746
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:35,860
on making these levy better.

747
01:05:36,440 --> 01:05:39,900
I estimated that there's about $650 million invested

748
01:05:39,900 --> 01:05:44,600
since 2005 by 200 millions come from the Seventions program

749
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:47,680
and about 450 from a special projects program.

750
01:05:49,700 --> 01:05:56,280
And also since that time, one of the concerns we had about dreams when it discussed the

751
01:05:56,280 --> 01:06:02,000
susceptibility to seismic action in the Delta was that they overwhelmingly conservative

752
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,580
in some of the parameters they used.

753
01:06:03,980 --> 01:06:08,520
In 2016, the independent science board of the stewardship council held a workshop on seismicity

754
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:09,100
in the Delta.

755
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:14,280
And the USGS presented some interesting data because they've set up some motion sensors in

756
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:17,720
the Delta and happened to have them in place when the NAPA earthquake hit.

757
01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:24,960
And what they found is that instead of amplifying the motion that the delta levees and their

758
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:30,980
foundation actually attenuated the motion, and they estimated that the dream's overestimated

759
01:06:30,980 --> 01:06:36,740
the force of seismicity and the delta by four times, and then was ever gone back to check

760
01:06:36,740 --> 01:06:43,300
what that would mean to the statement about the levees crumbling during earthquake.

761
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:52,040
And also, it's been known for a long time by DWR and others, at least 40 years, that when you construct

762
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:59,660
toberms and widen the base of the levy, you don't totally make them earthquake resistant,

763
01:07:00,220 --> 01:07:04,660
but you do make a more stable after a seismic event, and so you have more material to work

764
01:07:04,660 --> 01:07:05,700
on to rebuild levy.

765
01:07:06,500 --> 01:07:10,240
And a lot of our work we've been doing in the last 15 years has been building toberms.

766
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:14,260
Our first priority was to get the elevations raised,

767
01:07:14,420 --> 01:07:15,420
which we did in the 90s,

768
01:07:15,540 --> 01:07:18,220
and then now we're doing more stability type work.

769
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:20,020
So that should be recognized,

770
01:07:20,660 --> 01:07:22,380
and the fact that we've got this momentum

771
01:07:22,380 --> 01:07:24,920
going with the Loveys program should be recognized.

772
01:07:25,180 --> 01:07:26,940
It's something that's that's been beneficial

773
01:07:26,940 --> 01:07:30,460
and can continue if it's explicitly

774
01:07:30,460 --> 01:07:33,620
outlined as one of the priorities for the plan.

775
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:36,240
And then the next comment on

776
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:43,920
Delta levies and how they do or aren't included in the plan is the section that talks about regional networks and state support.

777
01:07:44,080 --> 01:08:04,580
These multi-benefit projects, getting stakeholders and partners together, and the Delta levies program is kind of the poster child for that if you don't realize that back in 1988 when it really got kickstarted with SB 34, the plan was we needed to have a program that not only provided the flood benefit,

778
01:08:04,580 --> 01:08:10,820
It focused money on levies that protected water quality and water supply, and it also improved

779
01:08:10,820 --> 01:08:11,320
the habitat.

780
01:08:11,660 --> 01:08:16,060
So for many years, we've had an enhancement requirement, and to this day, we're on the

781
01:08:16,060 --> 01:08:18,120
positive, we've enhanced the environment.

782
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:25,100
Now, it isn't multi-benefit project by project, but it's multi-benefit on a program, and I

783
01:08:25,100 --> 01:08:29,420
know Rick mentioned earlier that it's hard to get these multi-benefit projects, but if you

784
01:08:29,420 --> 01:08:32,900
look at it programmatically, I think we can work things out a little easier.

785
01:08:34,140 --> 01:08:37,920
And if you look at the beneficiaries, like I said, there's a habitat enhancement, we've

786
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:42,940
got the water supply, we've got flood control in egg and small communities in the Delta,

787
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,220
but we're at the bottom of the barrel for the state plant and flood control.

788
01:08:46,480 --> 01:08:54,360
So we're also providing the last conveyance of flood waters out of the reaches of the valley.

789
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:59,560
So the beneficiaries of working on Delta Lovies, you know, stretch the entire valley.

790
01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:03,260
And so it's not just a few farmers that are benefiting its entire state.

791
01:09:03,900 --> 01:09:10,240
So the portfolio should recognize that the Dutleti program was important, can be important,

792
01:09:10,820 --> 01:09:12,540
and should be continued to get funded.

793
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:14,680
Thank you.

794
01:09:14,940 --> 01:09:15,780
Thank you, Bill.

795
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:17,080
Joe?

796
01:09:18,100 --> 01:09:18,420
Joe?

797
01:09:21,140 --> 01:09:22,380
Thank you for that.

798
01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:30,000
I wasn't aware of the information about that map earthquake seems like that's very critical information.

799
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:37,100
information, do you know of any attempt to integrate or absorb that data and make another

800
01:09:37,100 --> 01:09:37,800
evaluation?

801
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:42,740
Not that I know what I've been on my list of things to do is to try to contact the authors

802
01:09:42,740 --> 01:09:46,500
to see if they've done any more work and improved on it, but certainly the independent

803
01:09:46,500 --> 01:09:51,900
science board hasn't taken on responsibility of expanding the science to figure out what

804
01:09:51,900 --> 01:09:52,480
that means.

805
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:56,980
Yeah, I could have a big impact on the whole way we look at things in the dull time, so

806
01:09:56,980 --> 01:09:57,760
thank you.

807
01:09:58,980 --> 01:10:00,360
Thank you, go.

808
01:10:02,570 --> 01:10:03,030
I'm a Linda.

809
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:12,660
I'm a Linda Terry, Central Valley Flood Control Association.

810
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:14,200
Obviously, Rick did a good job.

811
01:10:15,020 --> 01:10:17,800
Just wanted to add in a couple of things.

812
01:10:18,460 --> 01:10:20,120
Obviously, we're very appreciative.

813
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:23,820
The administration didn't get just early on and they're providing an opportunity

814
01:10:23,820 --> 01:10:24,960
to come in on a draft.

815
01:10:25,620 --> 01:10:26,840
So that is very nice.

816
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:30,820
But just high, you know, big picture looking at it too.

817
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:34,760
We were just really worse surprised to not see a little bit more

818
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:38,520
focus on your board specifically in light of the

819
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:40,020
Sunshine Valley Fled Protection Plan.

820
01:10:40,260 --> 01:10:43,840
So for instance, on page 42, prior to that, they've

821
01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:47,860
listed different departments and agencies and actions

822
01:10:47,860 --> 01:10:49,420
that fall underneath them.

823
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:52,640
And so what we'd like to see is an added in there, if you

824
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:53,900
will, for a Fled Board.

825
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:57,080
It may be pull out some of those actions from the Fled Plan

826
01:10:57,080 --> 01:11:00,160
that works so well with what they've already put together.

827
01:11:00,300 --> 01:11:02,840
And I think with the direction that they're headed,

828
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:07,300
that would really be complimentary, but at this point it's kind of a missed opportunity

829
01:11:07,300 --> 01:11:13,660
unless that gets added in, you know, the definition of resiliency is acknowledging

830
01:11:13,660 --> 01:11:18,660
that bad things are going to happen and being prepared and then being able to recover quickly

831
01:11:19,500 --> 01:11:26,100
and so as was said earlier as the key to both being prepared and recovering quickly is maintenance.

832
01:11:26,100 --> 01:11:35,420
And for the recovery side, having federal funding come in is really important, and it doesn't

833
01:11:35,420 --> 01:11:39,540
matter if you're a project levy that you're responsible for, the Army Corps is going

834
01:11:39,540 --> 01:11:44,640
to require maintenance, but also for those non-project levy's 700 miles in the Delta

835
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:47,540
non-project FEMA requires maintenance.

836
01:11:48,140 --> 01:11:49,180
So that's it.

837
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:54,340
I'll just end with, I would really agree with President Edgar, it'd be nice.

838
01:11:54,340 --> 01:11:58,800
I was maybe just a little disappointed that the plan wasn't providing more of the vision of

839
01:11:58,800 --> 01:11:59,640
the outcomes.

840
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:01,180
Like, where were we headed?

841
01:12:01,260 --> 01:12:02,780
What do we want to try to achieve?

842
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:08,200
And, of course, the flood plan has some ideas that could help build upon that.

843
01:12:08,220 --> 01:12:12,880
And then just on a personal note, I would say I really agree with Mr. Countryman's comment

844
01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:15,060
about the efficiency after having read it.

845
01:12:15,140 --> 01:12:18,240
And then he said, I'm like, wow, that was something I really saw missing.

846
01:12:18,580 --> 01:12:23,620
And as he said, it's 70-year, 10-year drought, you know, from my personal experience and

847
01:12:23,620 --> 01:12:26,560
working back on the records, there's a drop happens every 10 years.

848
01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:30,520
The question is, you know, how frequently and it's not a matter of, you know,

849
01:12:30,620 --> 01:12:31,760
if it's just when and so.

850
01:12:32,060 --> 01:12:32,560
Thank you.

851
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:34,500
Thank you, Melinda.

852
01:12:35,660 --> 01:12:38,800
Any other comments from the public on the resiliency portfolio?

853
01:12:42,260 --> 01:12:42,440
Okay.

854
01:12:42,540 --> 01:12:43,600
Thank you.

855
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:44,340
For Darren.

856
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:45,500
Okay.

857
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:48,460
Nancy, thanks very much for being here today.

858
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:49,740
Appreciate it.

859
01:12:52,250 --> 01:12:57,470
Members were on item eight public safety information item.

860
01:12:57,470 --> 01:13:16,470
And we have, as I indicated before, two items before the board under item 8A, an update on the proposed legislation, and under 8B or overview of the governor's recent executive order, Darren's going to handle both of them.

861
01:13:16,790 --> 01:13:20,250
But one overarching question, Darren.

862
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:34,300
So with regard to the damage that's being happening on the lovis itself, American River

863
01:13:34,300 --> 01:13:43,960
Flood Control District told me that there's, I believe, 38 miles of lovis in which there

864
01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:49,300
are 148 encampments, is that about right, is that what you are?

865
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:54,480
I haven't spoken with Mr. Kerr as of late.

866
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:56,580
I trust what he told you.

867
01:13:57,080 --> 01:13:59,860
Okay, that that was really a surprise.

868
01:14:00,780 --> 01:14:02,300
148 key encampments.

869
01:14:03,300 --> 01:14:03,880
I don't like that.

870
01:14:04,500 --> 01:14:05,360
Do you remember that, Leslie?

871
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:10,160
Or is that you were at the same meeting as I was?

872
01:14:10,320 --> 01:14:10,580
Yeah.

873
01:14:11,180 --> 01:14:11,800
Is that a bad way?

874
01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:13,560
It was a lot.

875
01:14:13,700 --> 01:14:14,960
I don't recall the exact number.

876
01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:23,820
Yeah, but that was just unbelievable the amount of issued encampments that he has.

877
01:14:24,260 --> 01:14:30,680
The question is for me is, I know you have the legislation going and the governor's

878
01:14:30,680 --> 01:14:36,440
executive orders pretty clear, he wants an inventory of all the surplus state property

879
01:14:36,440 --> 01:14:47,960
with an eye that may be using some parts of it as a way to place shelters for these

880
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:55,540
folks. And we're obviously going to comply with supplying, I guess, GSA with that

881
01:14:55,540 --> 01:14:59,940
information because they're the ones who are responsible for putting it together.

882
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:14,200
But is there something else that we can do now to assist these local areas, giving them more assistance

883
01:15:14,200 --> 01:15:24,300
or working with the locals to attempt to solve this problem? Now, for example, I know in city parks,

884
01:15:24,300 --> 01:15:35,840
and you're on the electricity council, you know, we have hours on, you know, the parks are closed after

885
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:42,700
nine o'clock and if you're in the park you gotta get out. Is there something we could do with hours on the

886
01:15:42,700 --> 01:15:48,940
levies, daylight hours? After seven o'clock at night these levies are closed, can't be on a period.

887
01:15:49,940 --> 01:15:58,260
Can't we do something like that as an immediate issue or, or so, I think, you know,

888
01:15:58,380 --> 01:16:02,100
legislation is going to take a while and we need that and we want to do that.

889
01:16:02,420 --> 01:16:10,480
But it seems to me that there's some things that we could do now to help if the police

890
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:15,920
and the local officials need that assistance or where they could do it themselves.

891
01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:23,020
I mean, we don't establish the hours on part, but maybe we have to unleave these, I don't know.

892
01:16:23,820 --> 01:16:35,000
But it seems to me, as part of your efforts to resolve this problem, we need a little analysis of what can be done now.

893
01:16:35,220 --> 01:16:43,380
And if we can assist in any way, or whether this is simply a local government city or county issue, that's fine.

894
01:16:43,380 --> 01:16:54,540
But if we have to do something, we need to deal with this right now, not 30 days from now on, and so on, but right now it has to be dealt with.

895
01:16:55,620 --> 01:16:56,480
Thank you, President Egra.

896
01:16:56,480 --> 01:17:00,500
I appreciate your sense of urgency and your question.

897
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:09,080
I think we'll talk more about that in the next item in terms of urgency and your point about park hours.

898
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:16,160
We have a stakeholder group that meets in discussion regarding this proposed legislation.

899
01:17:17,140 --> 01:17:25,040
The last meeting we brought up park hours, the response was that it didn't seem helpful

900
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:37,340
to them because the perception was that this could imply it would be okay to be on the

901
01:17:37,340 --> 01:17:45,580
So it's that was initial reactions, but we continue to meet regularly and I can bring that back and then

902
01:17:45,580 --> 01:17:51,080
pose a more general question about what they think could be done now.

903
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:51,920
That would be great.

904
01:17:52,620 --> 01:17:53,820
I'll report that back.

905
01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:58,200
And if we can assist in any way, I'm sure the board wants to do that.

906
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:01,400
This is one of our main priorities.

907
01:18:02,180 --> 01:18:08,640
taking care of what you have, and obviously we're not, so we need to do something.

908
01:18:10,440 --> 01:18:11,320
All right.

909
01:18:11,540 --> 01:18:16,840
So under 8A, which is the update on the proposed legislation?

910
01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:17,640
Yes.

911
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:18,720
Thank you.

912
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:21,300
Again, I'd warm down soon with the Flood Board.

913
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:23,860
So it's a principal civil engineering policy advisor.

914
01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:27,720
With the lead in President Eger, you gave, you know,

915
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:36,320
last year, we noticed through the media and brought to our attention by the local, some of the

916
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:43,740
local maintain agencies around here, the illegal actions that were occurring on our

917
01:18:43,740 --> 01:18:48,680
levee system and damaging the significant damaging levee that was happening.

918
01:18:49,900 --> 01:18:57,520
With that, we proceeded to take action, some remember Jim Cooper at that time, also saw the

919
01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:03,920
media and wanted to assist, put forth a, it got in the men bill, and known as AB 137.

920
01:19:04,340 --> 01:19:09,380
That bill failed in committee, but as they say, try, if you don't see it first, see,

921
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:10,420
try, try again.

922
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:12,760
So here we are in the next session.

923
01:19:13,820 --> 01:19:22,320
And before I, you move in, I just want to remind folks that there was the need for this,

924
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:29,860
still remains, as President Agar articulated, the concealing, defacing and destroying of our

925
01:19:29,860 --> 01:19:38,540
levees continue to occur from the last piece of legislation, these entities issued letters

926
01:19:38,540 --> 01:19:44,800
of support to these other members' office. This was a very quick timeline.

927
01:19:49,460 --> 01:19:50,260
The government

928
01:19:50,260 --> 01:19:57,620
to the policy committee very quickly, but did not get out of the appropriations committee

929
01:19:57,620 --> 01:19:58,660
of fiscal committee.

930
01:20:00,460 --> 01:20:07,360
There are some folks that were opposed to the legislation as well as it was written.

931
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:10,980
And these folks are listed here.

932
01:20:11,580 --> 01:20:19,460
So fast forward and on January 17th, we need focus, we had a little more time to coordinate

933
01:20:19,460 --> 01:20:26,440
our efforts, proud to say that others joined in to introduce, so this is a piece of legislation

934
01:20:26,440 --> 01:20:37,780
now known as AB 1958, and it is a joint authored by some of the members Cooper and Kevin McCarty,

935
01:20:40,660 --> 01:20:48,860
and I apologize I had one to read the, oh there it is of there. Levy maintenance inspection

936
01:20:48,860 --> 01:20:52,280
and protection bill AB-1958.

937
01:20:53,220 --> 01:20:56,320
So we introduced that in the Assembly of the Office to

938
01:20:56,320 --> 01:20:58,520
do that on January 17th.

939
01:20:58,740 --> 01:21:03,080
A couple of minor edits that were done, the words used in

940
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:07,700
occupy were removed from the language that did cause some

941
01:21:07,700 --> 01:21:12,200
angst, but I wanted to clarify that as a state, we gave

942
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:16,460
assurances to the federal government to maintain the

943
01:21:16,460 --> 01:21:23,100
state plant flood control system within the federal code, these terms were used in there.

944
01:21:23,620 --> 01:21:31,460
The intent was to only mirror the federal language, but understandingly that it costs some

945
01:21:31,460 --> 01:21:31,840
concerns.

946
01:21:32,700 --> 01:21:37,840
So, when I had to just remove that up front with this new introduction, also added an urgency

947
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:42,820
statute, which means it'll go on an effect right away if the governor were to sign it,

948
01:21:46,440 --> 01:21:46,440
if it

949
01:21:46,440 --> 01:21:55,400
greater threshold for approval, two-thirds threshold, some additional co-authors were added

950
01:21:55,400 --> 01:22:02,160
on or joined on in this initial introduction, including other some members Gallagher and

951
01:22:02,160 --> 01:22:11,900
Flora and Senators Richard Pan and Dodd. So I think it's a great start. We've got both houses.

952
01:22:11,900 --> 01:22:25,060
We've got by partisan and we've got a representation in the north and the southern parts of the system in the San Joaquin system and the Sacramento area.

953
01:22:25,740 --> 01:22:33,240
I think we'll have more legislators to join on as we continue our outreach process.

954
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:40,440
Local agency support, so we're continuing to ask local agencies and we appreciate they help

955
01:22:40,440 --> 01:22:45,400
and assistance from the SITRI flight control association on their outreach efforts, and

956
01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:54,100
we're going to continue to seek more support to come in and send letters in support,

957
01:22:54,280 --> 01:22:57,980
and encourage their legislators to join on as well.

958
01:22:57,980 --> 01:23:04,920
that will continue on. We'll wait for it. It's in the 30-day process so we'll wait for it

959
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:14,380
to go to Rose Committee and then within the 30 days and be assigned to A or multiple committees

960
01:23:14,380 --> 01:23:22,680
as a possibility. We hope and anticipate that it will be assigned to one committee but we'll see

961
01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:30,900
that process goes. And then the flood caucus members as well, I wanted to say that the ad hoc

962
01:23:30,900 --> 01:23:38,720
flood caucus we were out reaching doing outreach to them as well. And continuing our dialogue

963
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:44,180
with the housing advocates that had concerns in the first place. So we'll be holding meetings

964
01:23:44,180 --> 01:23:51,420
with them and continuing that dialogue seeing that we can find some common ground. And that's it.

965
01:23:51,420 --> 01:23:57,480
So I have for a right now, there's, we'll wait and see how things progress.

966
01:23:58,180 --> 01:24:01,220
Before any questions, if there are any.

967
01:24:03,540 --> 01:24:04,320
Let's see.

968
01:24:07,890 --> 01:24:07,990
Gather.

969
01:24:09,710 --> 01:24:10,850
And that says, what are Garcia?

970
01:24:11,510 --> 01:24:13,290
Yeah, I was wondering where the truth is.

971
01:24:14,510 --> 01:24:20,450
So I would, one, we will be receiving the bill in Assembly Water Park some while I've

972
01:24:20,450 --> 01:24:27,550
review it as a committee. I do think that it may end up in two committees, at least in one

973
01:24:27,550 --> 01:24:32,630
house or another. The thing that I would suggest is continue with what you're doing, but

974
01:24:32,630 --> 01:24:38,870
maybe use your outreach group as an opportunity to think of what those current actions are that

975
01:24:38,870 --> 01:24:45,110
the board can do with its existing authority. This is something that has to be addressed. It is going

976
01:24:45,110 --> 01:24:50,950
be very sensitive. It's going to be very difficult. And since we have that the governor

977
01:24:50,950 --> 01:24:57,190
as the homelessness are, we probably should have this moving with the governor's proposals

978
01:24:57,190 --> 01:25:04,210
as they go forward. This is something that is going to be challenging in the folks that

979
01:25:04,210 --> 01:25:10,110
are working so hard on that front need to know about this as well. It's not that different

980
01:25:10,110 --> 01:25:14,230
than what local, any local agency is dealing with,

981
01:25:14,230 --> 01:25:17,990
except that it's protecting our assets in the state.

982
01:25:19,130 --> 01:25:22,370
I would strongly suggest looking at your current authorities

983
01:25:22,370 --> 01:25:24,850
and seeing how much you can do.

984
01:25:24,870 --> 01:25:26,910
The legislation is always fraught with peril,

985
01:25:27,070 --> 01:25:28,010
as I like to say.

986
01:25:28,410 --> 01:25:29,890
There are a lot of committees to get through.

987
01:25:30,070 --> 01:25:32,750
There's a lot of, even though the two-thirds vote,

988
01:25:32,890 --> 01:25:35,050
it's a very difficult, still difficult threshold.

989
01:25:35,990 --> 01:25:39,870
So I would just suggest sort of all in figure

990
01:25:39,870 --> 01:25:42,990
about everything you can do and move forward.

991
01:25:43,750 --> 01:25:47,730
And we're, our staff are always willing to sit down

992
01:25:47,730 --> 01:25:50,430
in any of the groups to help rainstorm

993
01:25:50,430 --> 01:25:52,190
or try to figure out other ways to work.

994
01:25:53,170 --> 01:25:53,990
Thank you, Kevin.

995
01:25:54,230 --> 01:25:54,770
Appreciate that.

996
01:25:55,010 --> 01:25:55,410
Clyde?

997
01:26:03,430 --> 01:26:04,970
Do you remember the fire bill?

998
01:26:06,450 --> 01:26:10,230
I really didn't like the prior bill at all.

999
01:26:10,550 --> 01:26:13,230
I spoke against it when we discussed it.

1000
01:26:14,090 --> 01:26:16,750
I think so that point, just point number one,

1001
01:26:16,750 --> 01:26:26,070
point number two, I think this is much better, and I think if this board wants to move

1002
01:26:26,070 --> 01:26:30,910
this long, it is already an urgency statute, kind of going to bills comment, we want to

1003
01:26:30,910 --> 01:26:36,470
get something going. This is an urgency statute, so it goes into effect when it's passed

1004
01:26:36,470 --> 01:26:42,390
by the legislature signed by the governor. If this board wants to move this along on the

1005
01:26:42,390 --> 01:26:48,270
The board could become the sponsor of the legislation and put the weight of the board behind

1006
01:26:48,270 --> 01:26:54,750
the bill and we'd have to go through agency, we'd have to go through the governor's office

1007
01:26:54,750 --> 01:27:02,650
if that's to do that process, but that would allow us to push harder on the bill.

1008
01:27:04,090 --> 01:27:10,970
Next point, I'm not really convinced this, the language of the way it's written now in

1009
01:27:10,970 --> 01:27:15,290
AB-1958, really accomplishes what it needs to be accomplished.

1010
01:27:16,190 --> 01:27:19,890
Current law makes it illegal to cut and alter the levy.

1011
01:27:22,230 --> 01:27:27,950
The bill adds a number of additional things that you can't do to the levy, one of which

1012
01:27:27,950 --> 01:27:35,090
is de-face the levy, and all these and that the same is alter, it's de-face, current law,

1013
01:27:35,410 --> 01:27:37,890
can't alter it, now you can't de-face it.

1014
01:27:37,890 --> 01:27:41,710
Okay, so that word, in my opinion, an add-in-e-thing.

1015
01:27:44,110 --> 01:27:47,570
Next word, new word that's added, is destroy.

1016
01:27:49,050 --> 01:27:51,250
Well, you can't, cut it, you can't alter it.

1017
01:27:51,310 --> 01:27:54,930
Under existing law, so what does destroy out,

1018
01:27:54,930 --> 01:27:56,390
I don't think destroy out is anything.

1019
01:27:58,210 --> 01:28:00,330
And then the next one is, can't modify it.

1020
01:28:00,430 --> 01:28:02,750
Well, once again, that's the same as cutting alter,

1021
01:28:03,290 --> 01:28:06,470
which is existing law, so it doesn't add anything.

1022
01:28:06,470 --> 01:28:10,470
The words that are added are, you can't conceal it.

1023
01:28:11,510 --> 01:28:13,770
Now let's see, let's say, how do you conceal a levee?

1024
01:28:14,350 --> 01:28:16,790
Do you bring a blimp in or what do you do?

1025
01:28:17,790 --> 01:28:20,750
I think it's pretty vague there.

1026
01:28:21,250 --> 01:28:25,690
The other thing you're not allowed to do is physically obstruct the levee.

1027
01:28:26,310 --> 01:28:29,810
And then the next one is you cannot visually obstruct the levee.

1028
01:28:30,990 --> 01:28:33,730
And I don't not sure exactly what that means.

1029
01:28:33,730 --> 01:28:42,890
And I think when we talked about this legislation and at least in my concept of what the problem is,

1030
01:28:43,330 --> 01:28:52,430
is that the water level comes up and people move out of the floodplain because it's wet,

1031
01:28:52,970 --> 01:28:56,890
and they excavate, they make cuts in the levees so they can have sleeping pads.

1032
01:28:57,650 --> 01:29:01,130
That is illegal under current law.

1033
01:29:01,350 --> 01:29:02,270
Can't cut and alter.

1034
01:29:02,550 --> 01:29:03,350
Existing law.

1035
01:29:03,390 --> 01:29:04,090
Can't cut.

1036
01:29:04,410 --> 01:29:05,230
You can't alter.

1037
01:29:06,090 --> 01:29:08,530
Making that cut is already illegal.

1038
01:29:09,710 --> 01:29:15,150
The problem is that we don't find people cutting and altering the levy.

1039
01:29:15,290 --> 01:29:16,930
You don't find the guy with the shovel.

1040
01:29:16,930 --> 01:29:18,110
You find the guy with the shovel.

1041
01:29:18,310 --> 01:29:19,070
You got him.

1042
01:29:19,610 --> 01:29:25,110
The problem is that it's been cut and there's somebody sleeping there.

1043
01:29:25,110 --> 01:29:30,290
Now, did that, that's when we find it because we don't have people there all the time.

1044
01:29:30,810 --> 01:29:32,990
So, you don't have people right there.

1045
01:29:33,990 --> 01:29:37,430
So, you've got somebody sleeping, what can you do with it?

1046
01:29:37,770 --> 01:29:41,090
Is that person he's got a sleeping bag out there or maybe a little tent?

1047
01:29:42,330 --> 01:29:44,490
Is that, can we, you know, do we get it?

1048
01:29:44,870 --> 01:29:47,050
You're visually obstructing a levy?

1049
01:29:47,210 --> 01:29:47,870
Is that what he's doing?

1050
01:29:48,410 --> 01:29:50,530
Or physically obstructing or concealing?

1051
01:29:51,750 --> 01:29:52,950
I think those are.

1052
01:29:52,950 --> 01:29:57,010
I mean, I think the issue here is you can't camp on the levee.

1053
01:29:57,190 --> 01:29:59,890
You can't camp and you can't build structures on the levee.

1054
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:25,280
Unless you have permission, that's what we really need to do. Then we've got, then you've got some teeth. You can, then we can go out and put up signs that say, you can't camp on the levy. If you use this law, you could go in there and you could put a big sign up on the American Reparkway out there that says, you cannot, it is against a lot of physically obstruct the levy. People are going to walk by that sign and go, huh?

1055
01:30:28,130 --> 01:30:31,830
So I think, you know, my suggestion is take, you know,

1056
01:30:31,830 --> 01:30:36,830
that we ought to take a look at what the words mean to people.

1057
01:30:37,110 --> 01:30:39,190
What does it mean to the judicial system?

1058
01:30:39,330 --> 01:30:41,910
What does it mean to the policemen who's out there

1059
01:30:41,910 --> 01:30:43,190
or the park ranger or something?

1060
01:30:44,310 --> 01:30:46,030
All right, thank you.

1061
01:30:46,790 --> 01:30:51,430
I think the salt gets back to the point that Catherine made, Darren.

1062
01:30:54,130 --> 01:30:56,530
We'll stick with the legislation, see how it goes.

1063
01:30:57,930 --> 01:30:59,870
But if you're interested in doing something right away,

1064
01:30:59,870 --> 01:31:02,390
we need to really look at the existing authority.

1065
01:31:03,390 --> 01:31:09,510
That's where we need to focus, because we can't wait any longer for this, especially in the winter.

1066
01:31:10,330 --> 01:31:11,470
Right, we'll keep doing that.

1067
01:31:11,830 --> 01:31:21,250
You know, just as a reminder, so this stakeholder group consisting of representatives from the Central

1068
01:31:21,250 --> 01:31:24,870
flood control association, R-D-1,000,

1069
01:31:24,870 --> 01:31:26,510
a micro-reflect control district,

1070
01:31:27,330 --> 01:31:28,810
Sacramento City,

1071
01:31:30,370 --> 01:31:32,330
and the attorneys were involved as well,

1072
01:31:32,650 --> 01:31:36,010
and so that these words to,

1073
01:31:36,010 --> 01:31:39,410
whatever McDonald's point were,

1074
01:31:39,410 --> 01:31:43,650
the group proposed this for to the assembly member.

1075
01:31:44,130 --> 01:31:47,810
I'm happy to take this back to that group

1076
01:31:47,810 --> 01:31:50,590
and the assembly member and see if they'd be willing to,

1077
01:31:50,590 --> 01:31:56,930
If they want to alter it, if that's the sports desire, or, so I'm guessing I'm seeking direction

1078
01:31:56,930 --> 01:32:03,170
from this board, if to keep going with the current, because there will be opportunity to change

1079
01:32:03,170 --> 01:32:08,130
or I'm sure things, you know, I do the process, things will change anyway, but I wanted

1080
01:32:08,130 --> 01:32:16,070
to make sure I understand this board's direction clearly about the language, about reaffirming

1081
01:32:16,070 --> 01:32:24,030
Our last time we spoke, there was the board's desire to submit a letter of support because

1082
01:32:24,030 --> 01:32:25,150
it felt in committee.

1083
01:32:25,570 --> 01:32:29,130
We did not proceed with that letter, but I want to reaffirm that the board's desire to

1084
01:32:29,130 --> 01:32:29,610
submit that.

1085
01:32:29,870 --> 01:32:36,810
I think the board wants you to proceed with the changes that have been accepted, but I think

1086
01:32:38,010 --> 01:32:40,270
we're based on what Katherine said.

1087
01:32:40,270 --> 01:32:49,390
This is going to be a long, hard effort and, you know, it's not going to be any time soon.

1088
01:32:49,870 --> 01:32:55,790
But this other fork, this other avenue, is where I think she's recommending,

1089
01:32:56,950 --> 01:33:01,750
and I am too, that we focus on what we can do under our existing authorities.

1090
01:33:03,090 --> 01:33:07,550
And, you know, I think we can do something. We ought to be able to do something.

1091
01:33:11,410 --> 01:33:12,290
I

1092
01:33:15,780 --> 01:33:23,420
think board member Rick Donald has raised my consciousness considerably with his comments

1093
01:33:23,420 --> 01:33:28,320
today and I sincerely appreciate what you had to say.

1094
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:36,980
It's true that mutilating or damaging the levees is already against the law.

1095
01:33:37,600 --> 01:33:45,000
It's the campaign that's a problem because you can find the people that are there

1096
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:52,580
camping and you can do something about it and maybe you know in the legislation we

1097
01:33:52,580 --> 01:34:01,180
just need to say already it's against a lot to do this and this and to assure

1098
01:34:01,180 --> 01:34:10,760
that that can be managed or whatever that right legal words are. We need to make it clear that

1099
01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:17,900
camping is prohibited on the levees are within 10 feet of the base of the levee and that would

1100
01:34:17,900 --> 01:34:24,960
give us something that could actually be enforced and I appreciate what he had to say about that.

1101
01:34:25,080 --> 01:34:30,200
I hadn't thought about it like that before and I support what he had to say there.

1102
01:34:31,180 --> 01:34:46,170
Thank you, Jewel. Okay, Darren. Okay. Now under item four. Yeah, eight be that fourth. Okay, so item eight beats and on the top leg of of homelessness.

1103
01:34:48,030 --> 01:34:58,750
The governor issued an executive order and desk 23 dash 20 back in January and thank

1104
01:35:25,860 --> 01:35:26,180
you, Wendy.

1105
01:35:27,490 --> 01:35:39,350
Okay, executive index 23-20, it noted that the new point in time count, from HUD, that the

1106
01:35:39,350 --> 01:35:47,430
approximate number of homelessness have gone up to over 151,000 from 130,000 back in 2017,

1107
01:35:48,030 --> 01:35:51,710
and over 108 of those are unsheltered.

1108
01:35:51,710 --> 01:36:13,270
200 counties the cities have declared a shelter crisis, and there's been already 2.7 billion dollars in new funding these last couple years that the government has issued for safety net services and limiting barriers to get navigation centers and temporary housing bill.

1109
01:36:13,270 --> 01:36:18,670
And they acknowledge that requires innovation, solutions require innovation, cooperation, and

1110
01:36:18,670 --> 01:36:23,070
the sense of urgency as President Eger articulated, and that this is a matter of state-wide

1111
01:36:23,070 --> 01:36:23,770
importance.

1112
01:36:25,030 --> 01:36:31,590
I just want to note, you know, back in October of last year, P.P.I.C. as Paul noted that homelessness

1113
01:36:31,590 --> 01:36:40,410
is one of the top issues facing the state in addition to the economy.

1114
01:36:40,410 --> 01:36:50,990
it. So to respond to that as executive order, I think it's very innovative in and of

1115
01:36:50,990 --> 01:36:57,790
the self and employees, current state resources, getting back to the comments we heard earlier

1116
01:36:57,790 --> 01:37:04,810
about what existing authorities this board has and what can we do now. I think I want to

1117
01:37:04,810 --> 01:37:09,030
commend the governor's office, I think that's exactly what they're doing here with this executive

1118
01:37:09,030 --> 01:37:15,810
order. They're requiring all state agencies to develop accountability metrics by the end of

1119
01:37:15,810 --> 01:37:21,490
next month, February 28th, by 2020, that include Department of Finance, Department of General

1120
01:37:21,490 --> 01:37:26,430
Services, Department of Transportation, Office of State White Health Planning and Development,

1121
01:37:27,350 --> 01:37:36,530
and California Department of Food and Agriculture. They are ordering a establishment of

1122
01:37:36,530 --> 01:37:40,730
access and housing and services fund within the Department of Social Services.

1123
01:37:42,030 --> 01:37:47,430
This fund will be able to receive state appropriations and donations from nonprofits

1124
01:37:47,430 --> 01:37:51,330
and private entities, some encouraging public private partnerships.

1125
01:37:52,690 --> 01:37:57,050
They want to rapidly increase housing options by the end of this month.

1126
01:37:57,710 --> 01:38:00,570
So to that end, President Eger, you referred to this earlier too.

1127
01:38:00,830 --> 01:38:04,570
The Department of Journal Services, DGS, they've been tasked to identify excess state

1128
01:38:04,570 --> 01:38:11,930
and the state facilities that can be used by our local partners today, for housing which includes

1129
01:38:11,930 --> 01:38:18,950
our own land management authorities, they're looking at our inventory as well that they'll

1130
01:38:18,950 --> 01:38:24,210
then provide back to us so we can assess whether they would be feasible to provide shelter.

1131
01:38:25,750 --> 01:38:30,550
They're ordering the Department of Transportation to develop a model lease template to allow

1132
01:38:30,550 --> 01:38:35,110
cities and counties to use cow trans property for shelter.

1133
01:38:36,390 --> 01:38:42,510
And they're also asking an ospada of the state-wide health planning development to look

1134
01:38:42,510 --> 01:38:50,450
at any decommissioned hospitals as an opportunity for shelter to be utilized as shelters

1135
01:38:50,450 --> 01:38:51,650
as well.

1136
01:38:51,870 --> 01:38:55,310
And then finally, let me ask a question there.

1137
01:38:55,310 --> 01:39:04,350
Disage pod have authority over decommissioned hospitals like a county hospital, or would that be the county board?

1138
01:39:06,530 --> 01:39:15,430
I don't know the exact answer that I could tell you theage pod though, as their charge is to oversee permitting for hospitals.

1139
01:39:15,430 --> 01:39:26,210
You know, a lot of the county hospitals are decommissioned or operating on their own now,

1140
01:39:26,390 --> 01:39:28,750
because they can't comply with Auspots.

1141
01:39:29,290 --> 01:39:30,470
What about those?

1142
01:39:31,030 --> 01:39:31,790
That's a good question.

1143
01:39:32,090 --> 01:39:33,610
I can we can do that.

1144
01:39:33,850 --> 01:39:35,810
Jane, you probably know more about that than I do.

1145
01:39:39,500 --> 01:39:41,840
I wish that I did.

1146
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:48,600
Beard County closed decommission and provides no county hospital services since 1972.

1147
01:39:49,800 --> 01:39:50,680
Oh, wow.

1148
01:39:50,720 --> 01:39:52,820
So, there you are.

1149
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:53,640
Yeah, there you are.

1150
01:39:53,740 --> 01:39:55,000
Stake money to place in.

1151
01:39:55,000 --> 01:39:56,780
But what happened to the building?

1152
01:39:57,220 --> 01:39:58,240
Did they tear it on the building?

1153
01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:00,780
Um, part of it.

1154
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:02,460
Um, it's always been county owned.

1155
01:40:03,260 --> 01:40:05,220
That I know because my mother was born there.

1156
01:40:05,300 --> 01:40:05,440
Yeah.

1157
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:07,860
In the 20s, I, I wasn't there.

1158
01:40:10,320 --> 01:40:15,040
And over decades converted to other offices, completely altered.

1159
01:40:17,500 --> 01:40:17,700
Good.

1160
01:40:18,620 --> 01:40:19,780
The orts for incarceration.

1161
01:40:20,980 --> 01:40:21,820
I don't go.

1162
01:40:23,040 --> 01:40:23,940
I certainly can do that, President.

1163
01:40:24,120 --> 01:40:24,360
I can do that.

1164
01:40:24,360 --> 01:40:25,980
Not every county has a county hospital.

1165
01:40:29,310 --> 01:40:34,530
There's also orders for many agencies, food and agriculture, general services, housing

1166
01:40:34,530 --> 01:40:38,970
community development, department social services, office and emergency services

1167
01:40:38,970 --> 01:40:50,190
to look at fairgrounds where shelter crisis has been, in effect, and see if those would be opportunities to house or shelter people.

1168
01:40:52,130 --> 01:40:59,910
So, a lot of inventorying going on, what have we got, and what can we use to, as shelters for folks.

1169
01:41:00,890 --> 01:41:09,910
Also, by the immediately, it's kind of a triage response until at least until September 30th.

1170
01:41:10,850 --> 01:41:15,010
DGS is to supply 100 travel trailers from the state fleet.

1171
01:41:15,650 --> 01:41:26,910
They're the emergency medical services authorities to supply complimentary modular tank structures and temporary emergency housing and deliver health and social services to communities throughout the state.

1172
01:41:26,910 --> 01:41:30,050
There's some qualifications for that.

1173
01:41:30,330 --> 01:41:36,150
You had to have declared a shelter crisis under government code and local partners have

1174
01:41:36,150 --> 01:41:40,610
to have to pass these deploy and operate and maintain those facilities.

1175
01:41:41,530 --> 01:41:46,750
They also need to make support services available and they need to report back their data

1176
01:41:46,750 --> 01:41:52,230
that they've obtained based on metrics that need to be determined as stated earlier.

1177
01:41:54,120 --> 01:42:04,560
And then finally, a multi-agency state strike team is being ordered from the agencies listed

1178
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:05,560
above here.

1179
01:42:06,400 --> 01:42:11,800
They would be coordinated by the homeless and coordinating financing council and they provide

1180
01:42:11,800 --> 01:42:17,060
technical assistance and targeted direct support to county cities and public transit agencies.

1181
01:42:18,100 --> 01:42:24,040
Lastly, the water also asks local governments, transit agencies, non-profits, school districts,

1182
01:42:24,380 --> 01:42:29,360
faith-based organizations to assess their own resources and abilities to provide shelter.

1183
01:42:31,240 --> 01:42:34,980
So, this is all hands on deck.

1184
01:42:35,740 --> 01:42:40,260
What if you got from state all the way down to the local level?

1185
01:42:40,260 --> 01:42:47,240
So, how do we employ private help from donations to the fund I mentioned earlier?

1186
01:42:49,500 --> 01:42:57,040
So it's really trying to, I feel, make, have the state lead the way in utilizing its

1187
01:42:57,040 --> 01:43:05,750
current resources and also demanding, asking, pleading, local agencies to do everything that

1188
01:43:05,750 --> 01:43:11,730
they can as well, to really address this issue, this crisis that we have right now.

1189
01:43:13,050 --> 01:43:14,690
With that, I'll take any.

1190
01:43:15,050 --> 01:43:23,770
Are you going to follow up with the Andrea and provide a list of properties to the general services?

1191
01:43:24,710 --> 01:43:31,130
Yes, Andrea, if you have any direct questions for her, but she and I spoke, so DGS is looking

1192
01:43:31,130 --> 01:43:32,090
at our inventory as well.

1193
01:43:32,130 --> 01:43:38,650
They will provide us a list of our inventory properties, and then we'll assess it whether

1194
01:43:38,650 --> 01:43:41,690
it's feasible, for instance, I think you have a call

1195
01:43:41,690 --> 01:43:42,950
of one that we saw.

1196
01:43:43,250 --> 01:43:46,870
They will provide us with the list of our properties,

1197
01:43:47,090 --> 01:43:48,510
because they have a list?

1198
01:43:49,930 --> 01:43:53,870
It's their inventory, it's in their database.

1199
01:43:54,450 --> 01:43:54,590
OK.

1200
01:43:55,830 --> 01:43:56,270
And that's it.

1201
01:43:56,270 --> 01:43:57,570
Well, in ours is better.

1202
01:43:58,030 --> 01:44:01,030
You can look at a map and you can see 30 acres.

1203
01:44:01,950 --> 01:44:03,330
And those structures on there, and you

1204
01:44:03,330 --> 01:44:04,190
say this will that.

1205
01:44:04,330 --> 01:44:05,830
And you go see it, and it's underwater.

1206
01:44:06,410 --> 01:44:06,610
Yeah.

1207
01:44:07,330 --> 01:44:07,930
That's right.

1208
01:44:07,930 --> 01:44:11,010
So it means some refinement.

1209
01:44:13,290 --> 01:44:16,010
So when they give us, they're going to provide us

1210
01:44:16,010 --> 01:44:17,870
with the list and we're going to correct it.

1211
01:44:18,110 --> 01:44:19,610
We're going to use your knowledge.

1212
01:44:19,930 --> 01:44:21,630
We're going to evaluate whether, OK.

1213
01:44:22,010 --> 01:44:23,570
So you'll remember there was one.

1214
01:44:24,150 --> 01:44:25,390
We, and I want to end the location.

1215
01:44:26,270 --> 01:44:28,890
But when we went out there, it looked great on a map.

1216
01:44:28,950 --> 01:44:31,410
But when you went out there, it was in a detention basin.

1217
01:44:32,530 --> 01:44:34,650
So that needs to be followed up by the way.

1218
01:44:34,650 --> 01:44:39,710
Well, we, uh, and it needs to be a contract. I mean, we, we on the property, right?

1219
01:44:40,610 --> 01:44:45,210
Yes. Well, whoever is doing what they're doing on that property, it looks like a detention

1220
01:44:45,210 --> 01:44:50,970
basin, which is fine. We got to find out whether we have a contract with them.

1221
01:44:53,020 --> 01:44:53,760
We'll definitely take

1222
01:44:53,760 --> 01:44:59,940
it. Yeah. Yeah. So when we, we see that, we'll, we'll evaluate this property, and then we'll provide

1223
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:04,280
I'd feed back to DGS, which ones are feasible.

1224
01:45:04,920 --> 01:45:10,940
Okay, could we run that by the board just as an informational item?

1225
01:45:11,020 --> 01:45:11,580
Absolutely.

1226
01:45:12,060 --> 01:45:15,820
Some of us have been through the NIMB wars a little bit.

1227
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:18,140
And I think we could provide some input here.

1228
01:45:26,520 --> 01:45:28,480
Oh, Jane. Okay, sure.

1229
01:45:31,140 --> 01:45:36,540
A lot of this that you're talking about in executive order is not directly related to our responsibilities,

1230
01:45:36,540 --> 01:45:38,960
but we're on board.

1231
01:45:39,160 --> 01:45:43,520
We are citizens in live in this state.

1232
01:45:43,700 --> 01:45:45,160
So we know what the issue is.

1233
01:45:46,100 --> 01:45:48,460
I don't, I'm not an A and A in these task forces,

1234
01:45:48,600 --> 01:45:50,880
and I don't know if people from Buc County are part of them,

1235
01:45:50,940 --> 01:45:54,660
but they ought to be in our county, 50,000 people

1236
01:45:54,660 --> 01:45:59,040
became homeless on November 8th, 2018,

1237
01:45:59,580 --> 01:46:02,180
with the campfire that destroyed a town.

1238
01:46:02,740 --> 01:46:05,580
So we've been living with that in our communities,

1239
01:46:05,580 --> 01:46:08,820
our backyards, our parks, and everything since then.

1240
01:46:08,920 --> 01:46:11,140
So there's a cute need for shelter.

1241
01:46:13,320 --> 01:46:17,880
And it's just compounded at, so I can, the fact that the point in time went up,

1242
01:46:18,180 --> 01:46:22,220
the lot of that was attributed to the fires that occurred in people's homes were destroyed.

1243
01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:25,220
And so there's a lot that needs to be done.

1244
01:46:25,300 --> 01:46:28,140
I think this executive order is exactly what needed to be done.

1245
01:46:28,220 --> 01:46:29,980
The governor said, this is a crisis.

1246
01:46:30,540 --> 01:46:32,380
Start acting, quit saying what the problem is.

1247
01:46:32,380 --> 01:46:41,560
We all know, and speaking with people, where we don't want homelessness to be, we gotta change that conversation to, where can we place them?

1248
01:46:41,820 --> 01:46:48,660
This is not like housing is available. It's not, so we've got to figure it out, and so we'll do what we can.

1249
01:46:48,960 --> 01:46:53,260
But people in a dangerous situation, a floodpour in land, it's not the answer.

1250
01:46:54,500 --> 01:46:59,020
We're only once that, so we'll step forward and do what we can.

1251
01:46:59,020 --> 01:47:04,550
So it's it's a big deal. Yeah, it is. You haven't already said quit talking about do something

1252
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:11,400
You may have seen the article today in the paper where several mayors in the state are meeting with the the

1253
01:47:11,400 --> 01:47:17,320
Present administration. I believe today as well to talk about this this issue

1254
01:47:17,900 --> 01:47:21,960
So we all talk it's time to do something people are in need.

1255
01:47:24,670 --> 01:47:25,710
Okay, they

1256
01:47:29,410 --> 01:47:39,930
The action item, then, Andrea, if you could, is when we get that list of properties boarded

1257
01:47:39,930 --> 01:47:43,570
like to look at it, just as an information item before that submitted.

1258
01:47:45,490 --> 01:47:52,490
But I guess what the Department of General Services is, they have a list, they want our analysis

1259
01:47:52,490 --> 01:47:53,970
of it.

1260
01:47:53,970 --> 01:47:59,390
And then we cement it back, but before we cement it back, we'd like to see that.

1261
01:48:06,320 --> 01:48:08,420
Any questions, other questions from the ward?

1262
01:48:08,680 --> 01:48:10,500
Anything from the audience on this issue?

1263
01:48:14,070 --> 01:48:14,190
Okay.

1264
01:48:14,810 --> 01:48:15,190
Thank you.

1265
01:48:15,290 --> 01:48:15,990
Thank you, Darren.

1266
01:48:17,130 --> 01:48:20,350
Okay, at this time, we're going to take a little break, John,

1267
01:48:20,710 --> 01:48:26,790
apologize for this, but we need a break for our court reporter.

1268
01:48:27,470 --> 01:48:31,330
We'll be back at, what is it, 10th?

1269
01:48:43,100 --> 01:48:43,540
Thank

1270
01:49:29,940 --> 01:49:35,080
you very much, President Neger, Vice President Dolan, and Chief Engineer, right.

1271
01:49:36,960 --> 01:49:41,120
My name is John Passch. I'm Chief of Hydrology and Flood Operations with the Department of Water Resources,

1272
01:49:41,240 --> 01:49:45,220
and I appreciate the opportunity to deliver the departments update on our activities.

1273
01:49:46,500 --> 01:49:54,480
First thing I want to do is just, you know, call out the written report of activities that we provide to the board every month,

1274
01:49:54,480 --> 01:49:58,560
and just comment on the substantial body of work

1275
01:49:58,560 --> 01:50:02,340
that's identified in there as the Department Finist

1276
01:50:02,340 --> 01:50:05,220
that the Department Finist off in 2019.

1277
01:50:09,640 --> 01:50:11,160
But moving forward, what you have to look forward

1278
01:50:11,160 --> 01:50:14,560
to in February is the beginning of our issuance

1279
01:50:14,560 --> 01:50:15,960
of bullets in 120.

1280
01:50:17,000 --> 01:50:19,520
Bulletin 120 is the publication issued four times a year

1281
01:50:19,520 --> 01:50:22,300
in the second week of February, March, April and May

1282
01:50:22,300 --> 01:50:24,540
by the Department of Water Resources,

1283
01:50:25,440 --> 01:50:31,580
initially dating back to February 1st, 1930. Our California cooperative snow survey program

1284
01:50:31,580 --> 01:50:36,440
forecast seasonal in water year runoff for the major snow bearing watersheds in California.

1285
01:50:37,200 --> 01:50:42,320
It's bulletin 120 provides seasonal in water year forecast or runoff volume for each of the major

1286
01:50:43,140 --> 01:50:51,320
watersheds. It is qualitative. I want to contrast this with one of the items on page 6 of our written report.

1287
01:50:52,560 --> 01:50:59,260
You'll see that the staff issued a water supply index forecast for conditions is of December 1, 2019.

1288
01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:07,280
The Sacramento Valley Index was forecast at 7.3, based on the 50% exceedants, and is classified as below normal.

1289
01:51:08,120 --> 01:51:14,620
The Samuel King Valley Index was forecast at 2.2, based on the 75% exceedant level, and is classified as dry.

1290
01:51:14,620 --> 01:51:22,660
That water supply index is qualitative, falling into 105 categories, what above normal, below normal and dry and critical.

1291
01:51:24,870 --> 01:51:27,910
So you'll look forward to that bullet at 120, starting next month.

1292
01:51:30,900 --> 01:51:34,540
You're going to receive some project updates that are already identified later in your agenda.

1293
01:51:34,820 --> 01:51:37,520
Did you want to mention that item number two there.

1294
01:51:38,300 --> 01:51:41,240
The storm damage, emergency rehabilitation program summary.

1295
01:51:41,840 --> 01:51:44,860
We anticipate that showing up on your February agenda.

1296
01:51:45,240 --> 01:51:48,240
But immediately after me, you'll hear from the date, John.

1297
01:51:48,820 --> 01:51:50,300
That's what we're targeting is to be worried.

1298
01:51:50,660 --> 01:51:52,680
I know there were some questions about when that'll show up.

1299
01:51:52,680 --> 01:51:53,840
I don't think you'll have to wait long.

1300
01:51:54,240 --> 01:51:54,840
Okay, great.

1301
01:51:58,990 --> 01:52:02,510
But you will hear from, from Wade Wiley and his team on our,

1302
01:52:02,630 --> 01:52:04,830
we deliver our 2019 Lib in Spectre Report,

1303
01:52:04,830 --> 01:52:07,490
and you'll hear also from Kyle Bickler and his team

1304
01:52:07,490 --> 01:52:09,750
on the lower L-Corn Basin Libby setback project.

1305
01:52:14,490 --> 01:52:16,290
I had a chance to speak with our state climatologist,

1306
01:52:16,610 --> 01:52:18,710
Dr. Anderson, who could not be here today,

1307
01:52:19,030 --> 01:52:21,130
yet had some information that he wanted to share regarding

1308
01:52:21,130 --> 01:52:26,570
the weather outlook, December 3, February is historically our wetest period with half of the

1309
01:52:26,570 --> 01:52:32,290
annual average precipitation expected in these three months. This has also historically been

1310
01:52:32,290 --> 01:52:37,490
when our major flood events have occurred. December through the Climate Prediction Center still

1311
01:52:37,490 --> 01:52:41,970
favors the drier than average winter for California. This will likely manifest itself in

1312
01:52:41,970 --> 01:52:47,150
extended dried periods between an active week or two, iterably, through the winter. And please note

1313
01:52:47,150 --> 01:52:52,730
that in an active pattern, any unusually large atmospheric river can bring flooding conditions

1314
01:52:52,730 --> 01:52:54,030
to the Central Valley.

1315
01:52:56,180 --> 01:53:04,440
John, just on Mike's prior presentations with the board, he indicated

1316
01:53:04,440 --> 01:53:15,180
that he and his team are working on a new methodology for predicting the extent of flooding

1317
01:53:15,180 --> 01:53:21,280
essentially the most probable flood in particularly the San Joaquin and light of climate

1318
01:53:21,280 --> 01:53:28,900
change. He's working on another methodology to include in the plan. The next update of

1319
01:53:28,900 --> 01:53:34,080
the flood plan. And at some point when he's ready to come before the board, I think some

1320
01:53:34,080 --> 01:53:42,960
of us would like to hear what that new method ought to let you probably don't understand what

1321
01:53:42,960 --> 01:53:44,060
talking about half the time,

1322
01:53:46,140 --> 01:53:52,140
but maybe Joe does, but he said that he's working on that would

1323
01:53:52,140 --> 01:53:56,140
be interested in an update when he gets a chance and has a time.

1324
01:53:56,700 --> 01:53:56,880
Sure.

1325
01:53:57,060 --> 01:53:59,640
I'm sure that could be scheduled and worked out either, either.

1326
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:03,840
Well, when he's meeting or one of the coordinating meetings that you have, and we can work

1327
01:54:03,840 --> 01:54:09,160
that out with Mary Jimenez, Eric Sy and the Eric who's involved in the planning team.

1328
01:54:09,160 --> 01:54:37,140
Yeah, there's some language in the flood plan, and it came in right at the end where we were finalizing the recent update about that issue, climate change, the effects on the sandwalking, and so on, but that needs to be really fleshed out a little bit in the new update, and part of the work we're going to be doing depends on his analysis and his projection, so.

1329
01:54:37,960 --> 01:54:56,800
Just let you know that I asked to meet with Mike, and we've spent about an hour going over different ways of analyzing the climate change impacts from north to south through the basin and ways to describe it better.

1330
01:54:56,800 --> 01:55:01,960
And so I think we found some things that will look good

1331
01:55:01,960 --> 01:55:06,760
and I'm pretty sure he'll be coming in with some more information on that.

1332
01:55:06,800 --> 01:55:09,840
But I wanted you to know that I did meet with them and we did discuss this.

1333
01:55:10,020 --> 01:55:17,800
Okay, that'd be great if he's at a point where he's ready to kind of lay out

1334
01:55:19,160 --> 01:55:20,680
based off on your input.

1335
01:55:20,880 --> 01:55:24,020
What he wants to do, that would be a good time to brief the board.

1336
01:55:24,020 --> 01:55:27,140
Okay. Thanks. That's great, Joe.

1337
01:55:30,550 --> 01:55:37,530
Sure. I'll continue then with a while we're at so far, water year 2020, precipitation is below average.

1338
01:55:39,070 --> 01:55:47,670
For most of the state with 64% of average in the Sacramento, 58% in the San Joaquin, and 63% for the Telerian decks.

1339
01:55:48,910 --> 01:55:55,910
Our statewide snow pack is also below average, 81% in northern Sierra, 73% for the central

1340
01:55:55,910 --> 01:56:00,530
Sierra, and 75% for the southern Sierra, and those numbers were pulled off of C-deck

1341
01:56:00,530 --> 01:56:00,990
yesterday.

1342
01:56:02,890 --> 01:56:04,650
Temperatures have generally been above average.

1343
01:56:05,710 --> 01:56:10,010
However, our statewide reservoir storage is above average, with most flood control reservoirs

1344
01:56:10,010 --> 01:56:11,110
near their top of conservation.

1345
01:56:15,520 --> 01:56:19,740
Looking ahead, multiple sources suggest a dryer than average outcome for the winter and

1346
01:56:19,740 --> 01:56:25,260
year of 2020. The figure on the left is a product by Noah's

1347
01:56:25,260 --> 01:56:28,560
Climate Prediction Center. They're a national multi-model and

1348
01:56:28,560 --> 01:56:31,480
ensemble global forecast model generates 90-day precipitation

1349
01:56:31,480 --> 01:56:37,720
outlooks with January 2020 initializations. This forecast is for the

1350
01:56:37,720 --> 01:56:41,900
period of February, March, and April. Red indicates that a significant

1351
01:56:41,900 --> 01:56:47,960
dry anomaly is forecast. The figure on the right is a product by a center

1352
01:56:47,960 --> 01:56:49,760
for Western weather and water extremes,

1353
01:56:50,340 --> 01:56:52,400
so affiliated with scripts at UCC and Diego,

1354
01:56:52,860 --> 01:56:55,380
with data courtesy of the Plurprism Climate Group

1355
01:56:55,380 --> 01:56:56,600
in Oregon State University,

1356
01:56:57,020 --> 01:56:59,020
and that this figure on the right is not a forecast,

1357
01:56:59,460 --> 01:57:01,980
it's just an overlay of historical outcomes

1358
01:57:01,980 --> 01:57:04,080
and current year's initial conditions.

1359
01:57:05,240 --> 01:57:08,520
CW-3E took prisons monthly observed precipitation grid

1360
01:57:08,520 --> 01:57:09,920
as it is initial condition,

1361
01:57:10,540 --> 01:57:12,040
and then applied historical outcomes

1362
01:57:12,040 --> 01:57:13,840
for the remainder of the water year

1363
01:57:13,840 --> 01:57:16,920
to determine a likelihood of reaching average conditions.

1364
01:57:17,960 --> 01:57:24,680
Red indicates less than a 30% chance of historical outcomes will reach or exceed that average condition.

1365
01:57:25,120 --> 01:57:29,940
Green means that 50% of historical outcomes will reach that average condition.

1366
01:57:30,720 --> 01:57:33,740
And dark blue means either that average has already been reached,

1367
01:57:34,280 --> 01:57:38,260
or that all historical outcomes would result in average conditions.

1368
01:57:39,820 --> 01:57:44,880
That's what we have in store for us for the remainder of the winter.

1369
01:57:47,480 --> 01:57:49,640
Looking ahead in next month, as I mentioned before,

1370
01:57:49,640 --> 01:57:56,280
will look forward to hearing from Dave Wilden and his group on the Storm Damage emergency rehab program,

1371
01:57:56,760 --> 01:58:04,160
some raising that work, and I'm happy to entertain any questions before I introduce the next speaker.

1372
01:58:10,660 --> 01:58:13,780
You mentioned the reservoir storage.

1373
01:58:15,420 --> 01:58:20,340
I thought the oreville was quite a bit below its conservation storage.

1374
01:58:20,740 --> 01:58:21,860
Am I wrong about that?

1375
01:58:21,900 --> 01:58:22,060
Nope.

1376
01:58:22,220 --> 01:58:23,100
You are right, Joe.

1377
01:58:23,660 --> 01:58:24,420
What's up?

1378
01:58:24,420 --> 01:58:24,640
What's up?

1379
01:58:24,640 --> 01:58:24,800
What's up?

1380
01:58:25,880 --> 01:58:26,480
What's up?

1381
01:58:28,800 --> 01:58:30,040
What's up?

1382
01:58:30,040 --> 01:58:32,740
within enhanced flood control pool this winter.

1383
01:58:33,220 --> 01:58:35,620
And so, as expected,

1384
01:58:38,470 --> 01:58:41,430
they're gonna be running, probably be a little lower

1385
01:58:41,430 --> 01:58:44,690
during the beginning of the winter than they historically would.

1386
01:58:44,970 --> 01:58:46,830
Is there safety concerns still,

1387
01:58:47,070 --> 01:58:48,770
or what's causing that?

1388
01:58:49,010 --> 01:58:50,890
Nothing, nothing new this year.

1389
01:58:51,290 --> 01:58:54,650
They ran with an enhanced flood control pool last year as well.

1390
01:58:55,090 --> 01:58:57,590
Well, you say enhanced flood control pool,

1391
01:58:57,590 --> 01:59:01,610
That means reduced conservation storage.

1392
01:59:02,750 --> 01:59:06,690
So I'm just, you know, is this going to be a permanent thing

1393
01:59:06,690 --> 01:59:08,370
or what's going on here?

1394
01:59:09,350 --> 01:59:13,290
I'm really hesitant to speak on behalf of how

1395
01:59:13,290 --> 01:59:16,210
the operating or a reservoir, but Mr. Conchman,

1396
01:59:16,430 --> 01:59:21,950
but for a week and a, okay, it seems to me,

1397
01:59:22,530 --> 01:59:26,470
it's been a billion dollars fixing or a bill,

1398
01:59:26,470 --> 01:59:35,630
And it's hard to understand why we would be operating it below its capacity, but in the information you have on that, I'd appreciate.

1399
01:59:38,860 --> 01:59:39,920
Okay, anything else?

1400
01:59:40,480 --> 01:59:42,300
Okay, John, let's proceed.

1401
01:59:42,940 --> 01:59:43,920
All right, thank you very much.

1402
01:59:44,220 --> 01:59:45,660
That concludes my remarks.

1403
01:59:46,820 --> 01:59:47,120
Okay.

1404
01:59:47,200 --> 01:59:47,840
I think for the opportunity.

1405
01:59:48,820 --> 01:59:59,900
At this point, we're on item members, we're on item 9B and Wade Wiley and Preston Shopfell has this report.

1406
02:00:00,910 --> 02:00:02,910
For the board,

1407
02:00:16,880 --> 02:00:21,760
Mr. Donovan, I forgot to recognize you, you are also here, part of the team.

1408
02:00:33,440 --> 02:00:36,560
Good morning, President Edgar. Members of the board, I'm President Schoppel.

1409
02:00:37,020 --> 02:00:39,560
Chief of the inspection sector, section at the board.

1410
02:00:42,080 --> 02:00:45,960
Before Wade and Saskia give their results of the annual report,

1411
02:00:46,280 --> 02:00:54,080
wanted to give a high-level, very basic overview of inspections that are completed on the state plan of buck control.

1412
02:00:55,100 --> 02:01:00,880
The question we get asked from time to time is why are there so many different inspections

1413
02:01:00,880 --> 02:01:02,020
than on my levy?

1414
02:01:02,540 --> 02:01:07,480
This question is asked to us by a lot of landowners, maintaining agencies, and sometimes

1415
02:01:07,480 --> 02:01:08,020
our regulators.

1416
02:01:10,440 --> 02:01:15,860
So this is a big overview that's just kind of breakdown in the basics of what's out there,

1417
02:01:15,920 --> 02:01:18,020
who looks at what and why they do it.

1418
02:01:21,940 --> 02:01:23,100
So let's start with what gets inspected.

1419
02:01:24,640 --> 02:01:30,480
And in no particular order, we have levy improvement projects, or levy repair projects.

1420
02:01:31,840 --> 02:01:37,120
Projects such as West Safe and Southport projects, Trilia, ones you all know very well.

1421
02:01:40,080 --> 02:01:43,780
There's those system features that are subject to those operations and maintenance activities,

1422
02:01:44,460 --> 02:01:50,880
mowing things that are the day-to-day activities of the LMAs, includes levy structures,

1423
02:01:50,880 --> 02:01:53,920
which is pump stations and wears and channels.

1424
02:01:55,500 --> 02:01:59,060
This efforts the focus of DABR's annual inspection report.

1425
02:02:01,850 --> 02:02:03,110
And of course encroachments.

1426
02:02:03,510 --> 02:02:04,730
That's permitted or otherwise.

1427
02:02:05,850 --> 02:02:07,890
Anything that's not there for the functioning of the system,

1428
02:02:08,470 --> 02:02:10,330
but have been allowed to remain there by permit.

1429
02:02:13,170 --> 02:02:14,350
And also designated floodways.

1430
02:02:14,790 --> 02:02:16,810
Typically non-levy areas within our jurisdiction.

1431
02:02:17,570 --> 02:02:18,370
They're subject to flooding.

1432
02:02:20,160 --> 02:02:29,740
Okay, person on those various breakdowns, the lovey repairs, for example, who does that?

1433
02:02:29,820 --> 02:02:33,420
Is that the core, and DWR, or just the core?

1434
02:02:33,840 --> 02:02:39,160
For inspections, there can be inspectors for the core with the contractor,

1435
02:02:40,460 --> 02:02:46,400
but on the state side, there's a inspector from DWR's division of engineering.

1436
02:02:46,400 --> 02:02:50,420
Okay. And we'll get to the who's coming up.

1437
02:02:54,460 --> 02:02:55,500
All right.

1438
02:02:55,500 --> 02:03:00,180
So why? Let's take a second and think about why we're doing this.

1439
02:03:00,480 --> 02:03:04,040
I mean, I think we'd all agree it's probably a good idea.

1440
02:03:04,260 --> 02:03:07,960
We have 1,600 miles of levees that California has given insurance

1441
02:03:07,960 --> 02:03:11,380
assurances to the federal government that will maintain in accordance with

1442
02:03:11,380 --> 02:03:13,040
those operations and maintenance manuals.

1443
02:03:14,000 --> 02:03:16,020
You add in designated floodways and regulate streams.

1444
02:03:16,020 --> 02:03:18,700
that means there's a lot to keep track about there.

1445
02:03:20,890 --> 02:03:23,230
And I'm not too distant second, it's also the flaw.

1446
02:03:24,490 --> 02:03:28,510
The code of federal regulations title 33, Section 20810,

1447
02:03:28,570 --> 02:03:30,010
that's promulgated through those operations

1448
02:03:30,010 --> 02:03:33,370
and maintenance manuals, that's one of the main

1449
02:03:33,370 --> 02:03:36,770
matters of how we have agreed to maintain

1450
02:03:37,650 --> 02:03:39,370
these levees and SPFC.

1451
02:03:40,930 --> 02:03:42,690
And then state law, of course, there's

1452
02:03:42,690 --> 02:03:44,490
various sections of water code and the California

1453
02:03:44,490 --> 02:03:45,370
and the code of regulations,

1454
02:03:46,030 --> 02:03:49,150
out of 23 to 21 that were all so familiar with.

1455
02:03:51,610 --> 02:03:54,010
Also it provides a presence that can be a deterrence

1456
02:03:54,010 --> 02:03:55,910
to potentially damaging our legal activities

1457
02:03:55,910 --> 02:03:59,490
as was talked about earlier in the previous presentations.

1458
02:04:01,090 --> 02:04:03,430
And then finally, and most basically,

1459
02:04:03,530 --> 02:04:05,550
it helps identify those possible issues

1460
02:04:05,550 --> 02:04:08,190
unless it's take action before they become emergencies.

1461
02:04:12,600 --> 02:04:15,400
It's all under who inspects, who does this work?

1462
02:04:16,720 --> 02:04:18,040
At the federal level,

1463
02:04:18,680 --> 02:04:26,960
U.S. Army Corps, conducts PL-84-99, continuing eligibility inspections, as well as periodic and routine inspections.

1464
02:04:27,680 --> 02:04:29,140
They do their inspections annually.

1465
02:04:29,680 --> 02:04:35,640
They choose different systems in which to take a look at, and then are reported those, their findings to the state.

1466
02:04:36,920 --> 02:04:41,820
At the local level, those local agencies are constantly monitoring their system while doing maintenance,

1467
02:04:41,820 --> 02:04:46,380
and then reporting the results as required by WaterCode 9141.

1468
02:04:46,940 --> 02:04:49,520
And Sasuke will talk to you more about that coming up.

1469
02:04:54,180 --> 02:04:59,920
And at the state level, we have many inspection programs and efforts to meet our obligations

1470
02:04:59,920 --> 02:05:03,640
to the federal government and to comply with those state laws and regulations.

1471
02:05:04,860 --> 02:05:07,720
Some of these responsibilities are shared between DWR and the board.

1472
02:05:08,860 --> 02:05:15,020
They include encroachment construction inspections handled by our inspection section at the board.

1473
02:05:15,600 --> 02:05:20,420
with the support of DWR, system alteration and project inspections.

1474
02:05:21,220 --> 02:05:25,820
I interchange those with lovely repair projects, the large ones that we all know about.

1475
02:05:26,200 --> 02:05:28,340
That's taken care of by DWR as Division of Engineering.

1476
02:05:30,160 --> 02:05:35,360
Routine encroachments, inspections, permitting, and enforcement are all handled by Board staff.

1477
02:05:40,680 --> 02:05:42,260
And here are the types of inspections that are handling.

1478
02:05:42,260 --> 02:05:51,940
on these inspections that have more than one agency, do they attempt to do it together or

1479
02:05:51,940 --> 02:05:53,500
are they inspecting different things?

1480
02:05:53,960 --> 02:05:59,140
It's usually, it's usually coverage, so maybe not both agencies there at the same time,

1481
02:05:59,780 --> 02:06:02,620
but ensuring that someone is covering that that needed inspection.

1482
02:06:03,220 --> 02:06:08,040
So for instance, I have three inspectors that can't get to every encroachment all the time.

1483
02:06:08,720 --> 02:06:14,040
We partner with Wade's group to make sure there's coverage for construction of an encroachment.

1484
02:06:15,400 --> 02:06:15,420
Right?

1485
02:06:16,040 --> 02:06:16,180
Okay.

1486
02:06:21,120 --> 02:06:21,300
So.

1487
02:06:23,040 --> 02:06:28,420
But it is in the situation where we go out one day and Wade's group goes out another day.

1488
02:06:28,820 --> 02:06:31,240
No, typically if that's the case.

1489
02:06:31,340 --> 02:06:35,620
Wade might be going out for a completely different reason for his annual inspections.

1490
02:06:35,860 --> 02:06:39,740
But we may be looking at a specific pipe that they may seem that's a problem.

1491
02:06:39,740 --> 02:06:50,740
But it's up to us to follow through and with the owner or whoever that is, and they may inform us of what that is if we didn't already see it.

1492
02:06:53,440 --> 02:07:01,320
So I left this table as itself because you can see how much is really performed by the flood projects project inspection and assessment branch.

1493
02:07:01,320 --> 02:07:07,040
These are going to be detailed in the report that Wade and Sasuke are going to provide, but I just

1494
02:07:07,040 --> 02:07:12,160
want to list that to kind of emphasize how much work it is just to observe and report and

1495
02:07:12,160 --> 02:07:18,100
produce that every year so that we can make informed decisions about what to do next.

1496
02:07:20,060 --> 02:07:24,400
Just quickly, there are work includes spring and fall heavy maintenance inspections, channel

1497
02:07:24,400 --> 02:07:29,800
instruction maintenance inspections, the San Joaquin River erosion survey, the utility

1498
02:07:29,800 --> 02:07:32,960
crossing inspection program and levy log updates.

1499
02:07:34,600 --> 02:07:37,940
These efforts are ones that are going on every year, and in this list doesn't include

1500
02:07:37,940 --> 02:07:44,660
those singular efforts like the Uly newly programs that deep dive into one specific

1501
02:07:44,660 --> 02:07:49,260
subject matter, or for instance the levy tree assessment program that kind of have a beginning

1502
02:07:49,260 --> 02:07:53,120
and end and go with the funding that they came with.

1503
02:07:53,140 --> 02:07:55,400
These are ongoing works every year.

1504
02:07:58,410 --> 02:08:09,110
So, seeing that graphically, let's look at an example of a stretch of levee, in just one area we can find a lot of elements that deserve attention and monitoring.

1505
02:08:09,690 --> 02:08:27,110
Up at the top, you've got a potential channel maintenance issue, encroachments like that boat dock, levy operations and maintenance, mowing, vegetation management, tree surveys, the periodic inspections and PLA-499 inspections and by the core.

1506
02:08:27,970 --> 02:08:30,690
This could be an area where there's a living improvement project.

1507
02:08:30,930 --> 02:08:32,590
Maybe there's a cut-off wall that's installed,

1508
02:08:32,870 --> 02:08:36,350
such as in the Sacramento River area.

1509
02:08:39,160 --> 02:08:41,240
And then also there could be enforcement cases,

1510
02:08:41,460 --> 02:08:43,940
not saying that is one, but just as an example.

1511
02:08:50,580 --> 02:08:52,980
So our group are relatively new in humble inspection

1512
02:08:52,980 --> 02:08:56,320
section focuses on our efforts on the following areas.

1513
02:08:57,400 --> 02:09:00,320
The construction of new encroachments and encroachments that

1514
02:09:00,320 --> 02:09:08,700
repair that are beyond their useful design life, we look for continued compliance of existing

1515
02:09:09,620 --> 02:09:14,300
encroachments through our routine inspections and we're constantly updating our records

1516
02:09:14,300 --> 02:09:18,220
and our databases to be smart about what areas need more attention.

1517
02:09:20,080 --> 02:09:25,940
Like I said before, we coordinate these inspection efforts with DWR and the Army Corps, and

1518
02:09:25,940 --> 02:09:37,750
assist with the enforcement cases and, as you know, is to comply to folks in the field and we provide support as requested by our management, real estate branch and environmental branch.

1519
02:09:44,800 --> 02:09:52,280
As you all know, very well, coordination is plays a huge role in maintaining the awareness and efficient of our inspection oversight.

1520
02:09:52,900 --> 02:09:59,820
We're in constant communication with board staff and DWR inspectors to ensure construction activities are adequately monitored.

1521
02:10:01,060 --> 02:10:06,180
And I wanted to talk specifically about this inspection compliance work group.

1522
02:10:06,260 --> 02:10:11,840
President Edgar, you would ask us at the end of the year in the December workshop about how our inspection

1523
02:10:11,840 --> 02:10:16,180
section relates to the efforts of that inspection compliance work group.

1524
02:10:17,280 --> 02:10:19,580
So as I mentioned previously in the presentation,

1525
02:10:20,420 --> 02:10:27,120
we focus on those construction of new encroachments, repair, existing encroachments to make sure things get built.

1526
02:10:27,120 --> 02:10:31,280
according to the 23 standards, the permit conditions, that kind of thing.

1527
02:10:31,600 --> 02:10:33,640
That's a piece of the larger puzzle.

1528
02:10:34,380 --> 02:10:37,340
Just like O&M inspections is a piece of the puzzle,

1529
02:10:37,580 --> 02:10:40,520
just like the system improvement projects are a large piece,

1530
02:10:41,300 --> 02:10:42,560
and those channel maintenance inspections.

1531
02:10:43,200 --> 02:10:44,520
That's all pieces of that.

1532
02:10:46,820 --> 02:10:52,460
A subgroup of that, I see WG as we call it,

1533
02:10:52,460 --> 02:10:54,460
is a data management team.

1534
02:10:54,460 --> 02:11:05,340
And we're currently discussing how to manage all the data that comes from all those inspections at different levels, local reporting, state reporting, federal reporting,

1535
02:11:05,840 --> 02:11:12,740
with the ultimate goal of helping LMAs streamline their reporting to the state and onward to the Army Corps.

1536
02:11:14,640 --> 02:11:21,820
That's for PLD-489, continuing eligibility, the annual SWIFT reports, and state reporting

1537
02:11:21,820 --> 02:11:24,980
requirements, which must dawn of an old detail later.

1538
02:11:27,820 --> 02:11:30,860
As much as much of this type of work, the devil's sort of in the details.

1539
02:11:31,880 --> 02:11:35,340
And so the data is a challenge.

1540
02:11:35,580 --> 02:11:42,620
We need to streamline and efficiently communicate what those bits of data are, so that the

1541
02:11:42,620 --> 02:11:47,800
are going to be receiving from the state. We know receiving from the locals and back and forth.

1542
02:11:51,100 --> 02:11:57,900
So this data management team is currently meeting. We just met yesterday or two days ago.

1543
02:11:58,360 --> 02:12:03,680
We're in the office to, we met this Tuesday,

1544
02:12:06,680 --> 02:12:09,600
and this upcoming money will meeting,

1545
02:12:09,600 --> 02:12:14,680
be meeting in the field to go over some of the tools that Army Corps has, one of their

1546
02:12:14,680 --> 02:12:19,660
new mobile inspection apps, in order to get ideas of how the state and local partners

1547
02:12:19,660 --> 02:12:22,500
can better transmit back into the reporting system.

1548
02:12:23,300 --> 02:12:28,400
So the Corps has been fantastic in letting us know the new system that they're moving to,

1549
02:12:28,600 --> 02:12:35,140
giving us an opportunity to present our challenges with the old way of reporting and having

1550
02:12:35,140 --> 02:12:40,280
going to inspect around the field, it has a book that's three inches wide with reports and

1551
02:12:40,280 --> 02:12:45,380
how to really communicate back correctly the most efficient way.

1552
02:12:48,480 --> 02:12:52,660
So with that, I'll take your questions, but before I do, I just wanted to congratulate Wade

1553
02:12:52,660 --> 02:12:57,840
Wiley on his recent promotion to Chief of DBR's flag project inspection and assessment

1554
02:12:57,840 --> 02:12:58,720
branch.

1555
02:12:59,040 --> 02:12:59,540
There he is.

1556
02:13:00,540 --> 02:13:03,840
It's well deserved and we're looking forward to working with you in your role.

1557
02:13:05,260 --> 02:13:14,220
Question on the work that I've sat in on that inspection, or yeah, inspection compliance

1558
02:13:14,220 --> 02:13:23,960
work group, we looked at ways to try to reduce the time for permitting, because that's

1559
02:13:25,420 --> 02:13:31,460
a concern of the governor right, and it's part of his resiliency plan that he wants

1560
02:13:31,460 --> 02:13:43,320
the promote and it seems to me just for listening to what Ryan Larson was saying and the

1561
02:13:43,320 --> 02:13:49,600
folks from DWR and you were saying that the best we can do on those permits.

1562
02:13:51,500 --> 02:13:58,240
If everything was perfect and you know went through and there weren't any big problems which

1563
02:13:59,140 --> 02:14:08,420
unbelievable, but assuming the best three months is the best the core could do. And then it

1564
02:14:08,420 --> 02:14:13,420
comes over to us and there's another three months. So it looks like to me that if

1565
02:14:13,420 --> 02:14:21,040
you had just a perfect permit that was going through and nothing was it still take you

1566
02:14:21,040 --> 02:14:26,280
because of the statutory requirements and all of this it still take you about six months

1567
02:14:26,280 --> 02:14:28,900
to get a permit. Is that right?

1568
02:14:29,660 --> 02:14:33,500
I defer to Gary Lemon on some of that, but I believe that sounds about right.

1569
02:14:34,140 --> 02:14:42,080
Yeah, okay. So I think the feedback we're getting, I just want to make sure that the

1570
02:14:42,080 --> 02:14:47,800
message is clear to the locals, because the feedback we get is, you know, if I have to

1571
02:14:47,800 --> 02:14:54,060
get a permit from a city or a county, it's the most it'll be 30 days. I have to get one

1572
02:14:54,060 --> 02:14:59,520
from the state, and it's partners, the core, and...

1573
02:15:20,020 --> 02:15:29,980
I don't know how we look into that system, and I know everybody is doing this, but I don't

1574
02:15:29,980 --> 02:15:38,020
best to kind of re-engineer that system, but that still seems like a long time to me.

1575
02:15:38,520 --> 02:15:45,920
But it is what it is, so we will move from there, but at least we have an answer.

1576
02:15:48,420 --> 02:15:54,680
I think that group has got good participation from the core of the core of doing a great

1577
02:15:54,680 --> 02:15:57,160
job and sharing data with us now.

1578
02:15:57,160 --> 02:16:04,440
haven't done that in the past and it's really very helpful and of course DWR is doing a great

1579
02:16:04,440 --> 02:16:05,520
job in helping us.

1580
02:16:07,540 --> 02:16:15,280
That seems to be working well and the database if you can get that new database

1581
02:16:15,280 --> 02:16:21,180
that the core talked about the other last meeting that would be fantastic.

1582
02:16:21,640 --> 02:16:27,840
Right, it looked pretty good, we're still looking at what options there are, and what works

1583
02:16:27,840 --> 02:16:33,300
best for state and locals, you know, but it's a good idea of what the endpoint of where

1584
02:16:33,300 --> 02:16:38,780
that data might end up, so that we can get an efficient way to report it without bogging

1585
02:16:38,780 --> 02:16:41,780
people down with a lot of paperwork.

1586
02:16:41,960 --> 02:16:46,480
A lot of paperwork and thou shalt only use this thing, we want to provide that flexibility

1587
02:16:46,480 --> 02:16:47,000
as well.

1588
02:16:47,000 --> 02:16:57,820
And people like Chris Newdack and Gil-Kazio, they're helping with that group still.

1589
02:16:58,480 --> 02:16:59,780
Chris Newdack for sure.

1590
02:17:01,080 --> 02:17:01,140
Yeah.

1591
02:17:01,140 --> 02:17:01,860
Some of them.

1592
02:17:02,220 --> 02:17:02,640
I mean partners.

1593
02:17:03,980 --> 02:17:05,380
And Barry is there.

1594
02:17:05,580 --> 02:17:06,120
Very, very good.

1595
02:17:08,120 --> 02:17:08,480
All right.

1596
02:17:09,220 --> 02:17:10,020
Thank you.

1597
02:17:10,600 --> 02:17:12,100
Thank you.

1598
02:17:12,140 --> 02:17:12,880
Give it over to Wade.

1599
02:17:15,280 --> 02:17:15,820
Thanks, Preston.

1600
02:17:21,740 --> 02:17:22,220
Good morning.

1601
02:17:22,740 --> 02:17:23,540
President Edgar, ladies.

1602
02:17:23,540 --> 02:17:28,260
and gentlemen of the board. My name, as president, is Wade Wiley and I'm the chief of the

1603
02:17:28,260 --> 02:17:33,300
flood project inspection and assessment branch. Today with the help of Saskia Donovan,

1604
02:17:34,360 --> 02:17:40,180
an engineer with the local maintaining agency reporting section. We will be presenting the 2019

1605
02:17:40,180 --> 02:17:43,080
inspection and local maintaining agency report.

1606
02:17:52,120 --> 02:17:54,500
Today I will be given a brief overview of the contents

1607
02:17:54,500 --> 02:18:00,300
of the report. Then I will highlight some of the differences between this year's summary profiles

1608
02:18:00,300 --> 02:18:06,660
and previous summary profiles, then I'll talk about the 2019 inspection results.

1609
02:18:07,680 --> 02:18:12,840
At that point I'll hand it off to Saskia who will talk about the LMA reporting results.

1610
02:18:14,680 --> 02:18:18,560
And when Saskia is finished with that, I'll provide an update on our programs,

1611
02:18:19,560 --> 02:18:21,220
tools, activities, and achievements.

1612
02:18:22,800 --> 02:18:28,400
Then I'll finish with a discussion of the inspection and assessment branches goals looking forward.

1613
02:18:31,860 --> 02:18:38,620
This year, this year's report combines the results of programs from both DWR and the Army Corps of Engineers.

1614
02:18:39,820 --> 02:18:45,480
Some of the programs included in this report are the utility crossing inspection program,

1615
02:18:46,500 --> 02:18:52,240
the Sacramento River Bank Erosion Survey, DWR's flood system repair project,

1616
02:18:53,040 --> 02:18:55,760
and the Army Corps PL-8499 eligibility.

1617
02:18:57,000 --> 02:19:04,220
together with our inspections, our maintenance inspections, the information provided by these programs,

1618
02:19:04,540 --> 02:19:09,140
helps the inspection determine, inspection section, determine the quality of maintenance,

1619
02:19:09,480 --> 02:19:11,300
the levy maintaining agencies are providing.

1620
02:19:13,470 --> 02:19:15,410
In the report are the maintenance inspection

1621
02:19:15,410 --> 02:19:22,430
results for the levy's, channels, structures, the results of the DWR Samwakeen River erosion

1622
02:19:22,430 --> 02:19:26,110
survey and the LMA annual reporting results.

1623
02:19:27,850 --> 02:19:29,990
New this year are the results from the designated

1624
02:19:29,990 --> 02:19:31,110
floodway inspections.

1625
02:19:32,770 --> 02:19:35,970
And as an previous reports, the flood project inspection

1626
02:19:35,970 --> 02:19:38,150
and assessment branch activities and accomplishments

1627
02:19:38,150 --> 02:19:43,250
are listed as are the LMA summary profiles in Appinix's AVNC.

1628
02:19:47,580 --> 02:19:51,880
The LMA summary profiles in Appinix AVNC provide one location

1629
02:19:51,880 --> 02:19:55,260
for each LMA to review all the data gathered

1630
02:19:55,260 --> 02:20:00,280
from the many programs that contribute to the results of this inspection report.

1631
02:20:01,580 --> 02:20:07,720
This includes data and results from the inspection branch, the flood projects office and the Army Corps of Engineers.

1632
02:20:09,500 --> 02:20:14,580
There are some differences in this year's summary reports when compared to last year's.

1633
02:20:14,720 --> 02:20:20,860
This year there was an update to the erosion inspection from the Army Corps Sacramento River Bank Protection Program.

1634
02:20:20,860 --> 02:20:27,460
The core provided vinyl inspection results from their 2017 inspection, which we were previously

1635
02:20:27,460 --> 02:20:28,440
showing is draft.

1636
02:20:30,140 --> 02:20:35,680
Another item to note is the DWR flood system repair projects points of interest.

1637
02:20:37,020 --> 02:20:41,960
Because of the 2017 storm damage repair efforts that are ongoing, the flood system repair

1638
02:20:41,960 --> 02:20:48,340
project points of interest data was not updated in 2019, so in these reports you'll see

1639
02:20:48,340 --> 02:20:50,540
the 2018 FSRP data shown.

1640
02:20:53,140 --> 02:20:56,900
And when viewing these points on the summary profile maps,

1641
02:20:57,320 --> 02:20:59,580
that there's overlap between the FSRP points

1642
02:20:59,580 --> 02:21:05,700
and the 2017 storm damage, the 2017 storm damage sites

1643
02:21:05,700 --> 02:21:06,260
are shown.

1644
02:21:10,350 --> 02:21:12,490
It's important to note that only storm damage sites

1645
02:21:12,490 --> 02:21:14,830
identified as critical or serious were shown

1646
02:21:14,830 --> 02:21:16,470
in our LMA summary maps.

1647
02:21:17,130 --> 02:21:20,190
Sites rated as area of concern were not shown.

1648
02:21:20,830 --> 02:21:27,190
I would also like to point out that this is the last inspection where the 2017 storm damage

1649
02:21:27,190 --> 02:21:31,950
sites will not be included in the calculation of the LMAs overall rating.

1650
02:21:33,650 --> 02:21:38,150
As the three year grace period that we were providing for repairs has come to an end.

1651
02:21:40,020 --> 02:21:44,740
Starting in spring of 2020 sites that are not repaired and do not have a plan and place

1652
02:21:44,740 --> 02:21:48,640
for repair will again be counted in that overall calculation.

1653
02:21:48,640 --> 02:21:49,560
So

1654
02:21:54,320 --> 02:22:01,000
here we have the overall ratings for the different elements of the flood protection system for 2019.

1655
02:22:01,420 --> 02:22:08,740
The table shows results for the levees, channels, structures, and pumping plants within the state plan of flood control.

1656
02:22:16,340 --> 02:22:22,440
On the, when we look at that previous chart, when we

1657
02:22:26,380 --> 02:22:29,300
say acceptable and linearly acceptable,

1658
02:22:30,560 --> 02:22:35,100
Do we, are those the ones that qualify for PL-84-99?

1659
02:22:35,880 --> 02:22:37,420
These are our state ratings.

1660
02:22:38,240 --> 02:22:38,640
Not the state.

1661
02:22:39,140 --> 02:22:40,920
This is not PL-84-99.

1662
02:22:48,980 --> 02:22:51,580
Looking at just the levian inspection results,

1663
02:22:51,900 --> 02:22:55,140
you can see this year's ratings declined somewhat from last year,

1664
02:22:55,720 --> 02:22:58,360
but they're pretty similar to what we had in 2017.

1665
02:23:00,380 --> 02:23:03,800
We think that this year's decline may have been related to a late spring rainfall

1666
02:23:03,800 --> 02:23:08,840
that contributed to vegetation growth after herbicides were applied by some of the

1667
02:23:08,840 --> 02:23:09,920
LMAs.

1668
02:23:10,820 --> 02:23:18,920
Of the 48 LMAs receiving unacceptable ratings, 29 of them, or 60% have received the same

1669
02:23:18,920 --> 02:23:22,020
unacceptable rating for five years or more.

1670
02:23:23,990 --> 02:23:31,430
Of the 23 LMAs receiving minimally acceptable ratings, 16 of them were rated minimally

1671
02:23:31,430 --> 02:23:35,050
acceptable or better for each of the last five years.

1672
02:23:36,150 --> 02:23:38,850
And many of those same 16 would have received an acceptable rating.

1673
02:23:39,450 --> 02:23:44,250
This year had the inspection not noted one or more unacceptable item in those areas.

1674
02:23:46,660 --> 02:23:52,520
Of the 35 LMAs receiving an acceptable rating, only nine have received the same acceptable

1675
02:23:52,520 --> 02:23:54,520
rating for each of the last five years.

1676
02:23:58,770 --> 02:24:05,190
As of previous years, the most common, maintenance deficiency identified by inspectors

1677
02:24:05,190 --> 02:24:06,870
has to do with vegetation management.

1678
02:24:08,350 --> 02:24:12,710
This year's results show that 19 of the LMAs receiving unacceptable ratings

1679
02:24:13,250 --> 02:24:19,390
could improve to an acceptable rating if their LMAs just performed thorough vegetation management.

1680
02:24:21,760 --> 02:24:24,860
An additional eight of the LMAs receiving unacceptable ratings

1681
02:24:24,860 --> 02:24:30,560
could also improve their current ratings if their LMAs performed a combination of vegetation management

1682
02:24:30,560 --> 02:24:36,320
with efforts in either animal control, erosion maintenance, or crown surface maintenance.

1683
02:24:42,410 --> 02:24:48,950
The 2019 channel inspection results are very similar to last years with only one channel being rated as unacceptable.

1684
02:24:50,630 --> 02:24:56,790
These channels, these 26 channels that we report on, are non-lebbied project channels,

1685
02:24:57,450 --> 02:25:01,890
specifically called out in the water code and the Army Corps O&M manuals.

1686
02:25:01,890 --> 02:25:05,390
our inspectors evaluate the channels at specific locations

1687
02:25:05,890 --> 02:25:09,370
where there are restrictions to the channel like bridges or road crossings.

1688
02:25:11,270 --> 02:25:12,130
Excessive vegetation,

1689
02:25:13,170 --> 02:25:17,250
Sholing, erosion, or other factors that may impact the capacity of the channel,

1690
02:25:17,830 --> 02:25:20,990
are noted and used in the rating analysis for each channel.

1691
02:25:22,530 --> 02:25:26,630
And the main issue driving the channel ratings this year, like the levees, is the vegetation.

1692
02:25:32,730 --> 02:25:36,570
Structure maintenance appears to be pretty consistent for the last five years

1693
02:25:36,570 --> 02:25:39,750
with some fluctuation between minimally acceptable and acceptable.

1694
02:25:41,790 --> 02:25:50,890
And the slight increase you can see between 2016 and 2018 is a result of splitting up various structures that we previously treated as one,

1695
02:25:51,070 --> 02:25:54,010
so it's not like we added any new structures to this report.

1696
02:25:57,970 --> 02:26:07,050
Moving on to pumping plant inspections, the results are pretty similar over the last several years, with 11 rated as acceptable and 2 is minimally acceptable.

1697
02:26:10,820 --> 02:26:14,940
So, new to the report this year are the results of the designated floodway inspection.

1698
02:26:16,280 --> 02:26:24,260
We began a new inspection process in 2018 and we created a baseline inspection for 31 floodways within the central valley.

1699
02:26:25,320 --> 02:26:31,260
Inspectors use readily available aerial imagery to perform floodway inspections from the office.

1700
02:26:32,240 --> 02:26:38,480
They identify encroachments within the floodways that might impact the capacity of the floodway or require a board permit.

1701
02:26:39,780 --> 02:26:45,040
Identified encroachments are delineated and geo-referenced and then documented in the database.

1702
02:26:46,720 --> 02:26:51,480
The 2018 baseline assessment identified nearly 6,700 encroachments.

1703
02:26:52,860 --> 02:26:57,420
And an additional 860 encroachments were identified during our 2019 inspection.

1704
02:26:58,380 --> 02:27:02,900
But we think that those are mostly items that were probably existed before 2019.

1705
02:27:03,100 --> 02:27:05,040
We just had better imagery in 2019.

1706
02:27:05,040 --> 02:27:06,100
So

1707
02:27:09,530 --> 02:27:15,990
the results of the designated floodway inspection indicate that much is being done in the floodways without proper board permits.

1708
02:27:17,290 --> 02:27:20,050
Of the 7,500 encroachments that we identified,

1709
02:27:20,750 --> 02:27:26,730
7,200 of those require permits, but only 13% had permits.

1710
02:27:28,270 --> 02:27:33,450
So nearly 50% of all the encroachments that we identified were a structure of some sort.

1711
02:27:33,450 --> 02:27:40,830
The rest in order of magnitude were crops, utilities, and other items like fences, equipment, and debris piles.

1712
02:27:45,040 --> 02:27:49,380
Bridges were the most, were the encroachment that were the most likely to have a board permit,

1713
02:27:50,360 --> 02:27:52,180
with about a 50% compliance rate.

1714
02:27:53,200 --> 02:27:57,200
All other categories of encroachments had a much lower compliance rate.

1715
02:27:58,380 --> 02:28:03,200
Of the 31 floodways inspected, all had unauthorized encroachments.

1716
02:28:03,940 --> 02:28:11,560
And as a result of our findings and seeing the scale of this issue, we're eager to help find approaches to dealing with it.

1717
02:28:11,820 --> 02:28:15,740
We've shared our findings with Board staff and are ready to assist however we can.

1718
02:28:17,400 --> 02:28:21,960
Are there any questions for me before I turn it over to Saskia, who will be talking about the LMA reporting program?

1719
02:28:21,960 --> 02:28:23,860
Okay, what,

1720
02:28:26,580 --> 02:28:30,920
what has to be done here in terms of compliance?

1721
02:28:32,300 --> 02:28:47,000
Let's assume, for example, of the 80% of the non-compliance structure in the designated floodways.

1722
02:28:48,440 --> 02:28:58,160
Are we at a point where we go out and talk to these people or do we set up some sort of another

1723
02:28:58,160 --> 02:29:00,420
system or how does that work?

1724
02:29:02,100 --> 02:29:08,400
Well, I think what we need to do is have some sort of outreach to public agencies that

1725
02:29:08,400 --> 02:29:13,720
are controlling development in their areas and make sure that they understand the requirements

1726
02:29:13,720 --> 02:29:19,320
to apply for board permits and do more of an educational outreach?

1727
02:29:22,520 --> 02:29:28,500
Well, a lot of these are structures in agricultural zone areas, right?

1728
02:29:32,780 --> 02:29:34,540
I wouldn't be able to speak to that.

1729
02:29:34,660 --> 02:29:38,680
I mean, they're in the floodway that the board is delineated.

1730
02:29:38,960 --> 02:29:39,120
Right.

1731
02:29:39,480 --> 02:29:46,400
I'm thinking whether or not the county would require a permit on a agricultural

1732
02:29:46,400 --> 02:29:53,980
your cultural how building do they do that Jane yes they do all

1733
02:29:53,980 --> 02:29:55,580
That's all structures.

1734
02:29:56,020 --> 02:29:57,400
With some...

1735
02:30:00,240 --> 02:30:14,060
Yes, with some exemption for small structures. So that, and small, pretty small. I was just wondering, you

1736
02:30:14,060 --> 02:30:22,440
don't go the inspections, folks don't go on to see if there was a county building permit or a county requirement.

1737
02:30:22,440 --> 02:30:24,180
Not at this point.

1738
02:30:25,800 --> 02:30:31,260
No, if there's in a local bill's taking care of it.

1739
02:30:31,560 --> 02:30:36,180
So you don't know if there's been a local approval, but not a flood board permit.

1740
02:30:36,540 --> 02:30:37,840
That's something to be investigated.

1741
02:30:38,100 --> 02:30:38,400
Correct.

1742
02:30:38,620 --> 02:30:42,900
We do not know if the local floodplain manager has authorized that development.

1743
02:30:43,240 --> 02:30:52,120
And does this report indicate some more examples than a bridge as to what is identified in

1744
02:30:53,140 --> 02:30:55,280
Are you talking about buildings?

1745
02:30:55,920 --> 02:31:03,120
We're talking about buildings, pole barns, garages, out structures, houses, lots of

1746
02:31:03,120 --> 02:31:03,900
lots of structures.

1747
02:31:04,540 --> 02:31:08,260
But you wouldn't know the date the house was built?

1748
02:31:08,980 --> 02:31:09,020
No.

1749
02:31:10,140 --> 02:31:13,000
And that's why we did the baseline survey.

1750
02:31:13,520 --> 02:31:19,400
And our focus is really trying to capture new, recent activity.

1751
02:31:19,400 --> 02:31:25,880
And I think, you know, working with the board staff and enforcement, if necessary, we would

1752
02:31:25,880 --> 02:31:30,520
be able to identify that sort of activity and highlight that for the board.

1753
02:31:32,260 --> 02:31:33,760
Okay, because I think that matters.

1754
02:31:34,040 --> 02:31:38,080
I don't know about all counties, but in the North there was building permits for not required

1755
02:31:38,080 --> 02:31:40,060
for homes until about World War II.

1756
02:31:40,660 --> 02:31:46,560
So you would have, there's a lot of them understood the train by looking at and built their

1757
02:31:46,560 --> 02:31:54,540
on a null and not a hundred feet before the water level or the river. But it'd be hard to get a

1758
02:31:54,540 --> 02:31:58,920
permit for something that was built without requiring that. But yeah, there are things there's

1759
02:31:58,920 --> 02:32:00,300
some work to do with local government.

1760
02:32:04,720 --> 02:32:07,140
We had, you

1761
02:32:09,190 --> 02:32:13,110
know, in terms of our local committee that's

1762
02:32:13,110 --> 02:32:22,270
looking into local compliance to inspections, we had actually the focus of that group was to

1763
02:32:22,290 --> 02:32:25,290
try and eliminate this,

1764
02:32:27,860 --> 02:32:31,940
try and get everybody into the PL-84-99 program. So it didn't

1765
02:32:31,940 --> 02:32:39,640
focus on all these, you know, the nature of your particular inspection program and all

1766
02:32:39,640 --> 02:32:45,060
the deficiencies. But I'm kind of wondering if we're going out and talking to these

1767
02:32:45,060 --> 02:32:53,500
landowners, they've got a number of deficiencies probably on their property one that they

1768
02:32:53,500 --> 02:33:00,300
don't have a swift, the other is, is the compliance problems of all these different kinds

1769
02:33:00,300 --> 02:33:06,140
of inspections. It seems to me there ought to be a way to talk to the property on a one-time.

1770
02:33:07,840 --> 02:33:12,940
And, you know, and, you know, by the way, we want to fix these things. We want to fix the

1771
02:33:12,940 --> 02:33:20,040
deficiencies in DWR. That's pointing out. We want to, we want to make sure you've got a swift going

1772
02:33:20,040 --> 02:33:24,100
on here, so that we don't lose money at the state level.

1773
02:33:24,680 --> 02:33:27,400
And there may be other things that we're talking about.

1774
02:33:28,180 --> 02:33:33,600
But I think maybe as we get into refining this enforcement

1775
02:33:33,600 --> 02:33:38,760
program, now that we have beginning to really bubble up

1776
02:33:38,760 --> 02:33:43,780
this specific data, we're going to need some sort of a way

1777
02:33:43,780 --> 02:33:47,160
to talk to the owners about all the problems,

1778
02:33:47,160 --> 02:33:50,760
rather than have different meetings on different things.

1779
02:33:51,200 --> 02:33:53,500
I don't know if that's possible or not.

1780
02:33:53,620 --> 02:33:54,680
But how you do that?

1781
02:33:54,920 --> 02:33:55,840
I don't know.

1782
02:33:58,410 --> 02:33:58,610
Joe.

1783
02:34:08,730 --> 02:34:12,830
I'm concerned about the designated floodway issue.

1784
02:34:14,090 --> 02:34:19,870
Do you have some sort of breakdown between San Joaquin Valley

1785
02:34:19,870 --> 02:34:24,310
and Sacramento Valley as far as a designated floodway

1786
02:34:24,310 --> 02:34:25,350
and encroachments?

1787
02:34:26,730 --> 02:34:42,070
We could certainly look at the data and mine it for, you know, as separation of the reason that I bring this up is I'm aware in the San Joaquin, especially in the Tolerary Basin.

1788
02:34:42,670 --> 02:34:48,630
There's like entire county practically in the designated floodway.

1789
02:34:49,830 --> 02:34:53,590
I mean, literally, you know, it's a foot deep in its forever.

1790
02:34:55,930 --> 02:35:08,250
And it seems to me that our board should somehow hand that responsibility off to the county to administer.

1791
02:35:08,530 --> 02:35:16,870
I mean, the designated floodway maps weren't published until the 70s, I believe.

1792
02:35:17,230 --> 02:35:19,290
You know, that's my recollection at least.

1793
02:35:19,990 --> 02:35:27,370
So, there had to be a lot of structures in the 70s that already were in the designated floodways.

1794
02:35:27,410 --> 02:35:35,050
How do we know what's new and what's all certainly the designated floodway program didn't require removal of existing structures?

1795
02:35:38,910 --> 02:35:45,710
So, it's impossible, and might, well, nothing's impossible, I guess, but it's extremely difficult

1796
02:35:45,710 --> 02:35:52,630
to administer a program of that breadth and width that covers like entire counties and

1797
02:35:52,630 --> 02:35:53,990
goes for miles.

1798
02:35:56,590 --> 02:36:01,670
I don't know what your thoughts about that, how would you even start to enforce?

1799
02:36:03,210 --> 02:36:09,670
Well, I think the process and the tool that we developed with the help of Oleg Yakima in

1800
02:36:09,670 --> 02:36:18,010
our branch has really provided us a way to do inspections from the office where previously

1801
02:36:18,430 --> 02:36:22,550
it would have been very difficult to get out there and do that kind of leg work to do inspections

1802
02:36:22,550 --> 02:36:25,090
on all the floodways that we have.

1803
02:36:25,090 --> 02:36:40,050
So the process basically we delineate these items on a map and then we come back and re-inspect them when new imagery is available and it helps us identify new encroachments.

1804
02:36:40,130 --> 02:36:47,030
And I think that's where our focus would be, would be, new new encroachments that we identify active stuff that's happening.

1805
02:36:47,030 --> 02:36:56,050
I think you have to accept that these floodways have been developed in places to some extent.

1806
02:36:57,090 --> 02:37:06,130
And I don't have an answer for what you would want to do with all the encroachments that 70, 200 or so that we've identified,

1807
02:37:07,490 --> 02:37:16,810
but certainly moving forward, I think education where we can would be helpful in making sure that our development

1808
02:37:16,810 --> 02:37:23,870
practices aren't impacting the capacity of those floodways, and that somebody at a state

1809
02:37:23,870 --> 02:37:27,590
level is monitoring how locals are managing their floodways.

1810
02:37:28,690 --> 02:37:36,130
I know at one time we were looking into could the FEMA flood map program replace they both

1811
02:37:36,130 --> 02:37:44,730
had the hundred-year floodplain criteria if we could just say,

1812
02:37:44,810 --> 02:37:49,290
let's adopt FEMA's flood maps and let the counties administer it.

1813
02:37:49,590 --> 02:37:56,730
I just don't see how this is such a wide breadth how we should be trying

1814
02:37:56,730 --> 02:38:00,330
to administer this land use in these huge areas.

1815
02:38:00,330 --> 02:38:09,230
I mean, that's a, you know, personal opinion, but to the extent that we could rely more on the counties,

1816
02:38:09,930 --> 02:38:13,570
we should definitely try to go in that direction, I think.

1817
02:38:14,610 --> 02:38:21,550
Just give that responsibility to the floodplain manager of the county of the city and let him deal with it.

1818
02:38:21,550 --> 02:38:24,290
They deal with it anyway. I would think.

1819
02:38:27,650 --> 02:38:28,870
Okay. Tim.

1820
02:38:33,040 --> 02:38:39,200
Thanks. As a reminder, let me ask the first question, which appendix is the designated floodway

1821
02:38:39,200 --> 02:38:42,660
in the report, because I can't find it. Do you know, I'll top your head?

1822
02:38:42,700 --> 02:38:44,520
Only included a high level.

1823
02:38:45,720 --> 02:38:51,180
Okay. Summary of the data behind what's in the body of the report.

1824
02:38:51,360 --> 02:38:54,720
Okay, so that helps. So it's not there. So that can't find. It's just not in the report.

1825
02:38:55,480 --> 02:38:59,480
Okay. Well, I think that I feel a little better about my ability to find information in the report.

1826
02:38:59,480 --> 02:39:00,600
So thanks for that.

1827
02:39:02,320 --> 02:39:05,700
As a reminder for us, we asked for this.

1828
02:39:06,340 --> 02:39:08,780
So this is not something that should be surprised to anybody.

1829
02:39:09,660 --> 02:39:11,180
And this surprised me at all, the numbers don't.

1830
02:39:12,600 --> 02:39:14,040
And I'm glad you guys did it.

1831
02:39:14,180 --> 02:39:18,640
And I know it was done efficiently, not from the field.

1832
02:39:19,980 --> 02:39:21,960
And I recall from the flowway program.

1833
02:39:23,020 --> 02:39:24,380
I think this is probably pretty obvious.

1834
02:39:24,500 --> 02:39:26,240
But the lines are based on topography.

1835
02:39:26,240 --> 02:39:35,640
they were drawn 50 years ago, and it's, but in the end, it's right now our responsibility.

1836
02:39:36,920 --> 02:39:42,940
So now we have even more information about what a colossal volume of work it might be to try to jump into it.

1837
02:39:44,220 --> 02:39:45,500
So we're not going to solve that problem today.

1838
02:39:45,660 --> 02:39:52,240
I think it's worth a discussion offline somehow for us to peel this back a little bit and figure out what to do now.

1839
02:39:53,720 --> 02:40:00,300
I know from a couple of specific examples and I'm aware of like these are they're not old and they're not piles.

1840
02:40:00,680 --> 02:40:06,280
Some of these are homes. Some of them are new and some of them are right next to the river.

1841
02:40:08,120 --> 02:40:11,520
And I think in some cases the city and counties know full well that they're there.

1842
02:40:13,400 --> 02:40:18,320
So this is not obviously something that's going to be worked out in the near future, but I think it's important to start.

1843
02:40:18,320 --> 02:40:20,220
you guys gave us a starting point, which is great.

1844
02:40:20,380 --> 02:40:21,780
So I appreciate that, thank you.

1845
02:40:21,820 --> 02:40:23,580
But I think we need to sit down and figure out

1846
02:40:23,580 --> 02:40:26,300
what we do with it and how we move forward.

1847
02:40:27,060 --> 02:40:30,060
And prioritize whatever it is, our actions are,

1848
02:40:30,120 --> 02:40:32,340
whether we're taking some kind of action to follow up,

1849
02:40:32,460 --> 02:40:34,680
or we're going to follow up with local governments

1850
02:40:34,680 --> 02:40:37,160
and ask them to help do that, or both.

1851
02:40:38,080 --> 02:40:41,500
So let's do that, and probably not do it today.

1852
02:40:42,200 --> 02:40:44,260
But I'm really grateful that you guys were able to pull this

1853
02:40:44,260 --> 02:40:47,100
together, because I think it's been a long time coming.

1854
02:40:47,100 --> 02:40:50,700
Whether we know or not, it's our responsibility right now.

1855
02:40:51,580 --> 02:40:53,820
So, I did want to point out also just as a reminder

1856
02:40:53,820 --> 02:40:57,340
because Bill asked about the POV 499 program.

1857
02:40:57,900 --> 02:40:59,740
And I know this is related to the information

1858
02:40:59,740 --> 02:41:01,040
you've got to present in the report.

1859
02:41:01,800 --> 02:41:04,560
But in our staff report, you'll see our little chart

1860
02:41:04,560 --> 02:41:05,360
in there again.

1861
02:41:05,900 --> 02:41:09,020
And just so folks know that there's always more to be done.

1862
02:41:10,540 --> 02:41:12,640
Over half of the systems and half of the miles

1863
02:41:13,200 --> 02:41:15,160
that are in that program are still not,

1864
02:41:15,200 --> 02:41:16,140
they're inactive.

1865
02:41:17,100 --> 02:41:20,940
You know, and a good 100,000 people plus are also in areas that are inactive.

1866
02:41:22,160 --> 02:41:30,400
So we have the swifts and they've provided a buffer of safety in some cases, not safety, but a buffer for help from the federal government if things go crazy.

1867
02:41:31,280 --> 02:41:36,280
But we're exposing a lot of areas besides the ones that are flagged here in the floodways already.

1868
02:41:37,040 --> 02:41:39,960
And we need to think about how we track that as well.

1869
02:41:40,120 --> 02:41:44,560
Our staff are tracking it, but we need to figure out what we're going to do about it based on the coercive inspections.

1870
02:41:45,680 --> 02:41:50,680
So, because that's still a big, and they're in red, so jumps out of me every month, but it's

1871
02:41:50,680 --> 02:41:52,760
not a report every month, just as a reminder.

1872
02:41:53,880 --> 02:41:55,120
Thank you guys for pulling this together.

1873
02:41:55,620 --> 02:41:57,640
Appreciate it.

1874
02:41:58,060 --> 02:41:58,420
Clyde.

1875
02:41:59,720 --> 02:42:00,340
Thank you.

1876
02:42:03,060 --> 02:42:09,200
Well, here we are again, looking at things, you know, we've all been together here for eight

1877
02:42:09,200 --> 02:42:18,660
And according to my numbers looking at this, it's, we've got 28, I think,

1878
02:42:18,740 --> 02:42:26,620
weights at 29, LMAs have been deemed unacceptable in their maintenance for five years.

1879
02:42:27,320 --> 02:42:30,000
And it's 15 for 13 years. Straight.

1880
02:42:32,360 --> 02:42:34,780
It's not exactly a great record.

1881
02:42:35,840 --> 02:42:38,240
We've done some things to try to deal with this.

1882
02:42:38,580 --> 02:42:40,920
We had established a committee, a deal in Jane,

1883
02:42:41,000 --> 02:42:44,300
to go out and talk to some of these deficient LMAs.

1884
02:42:44,960 --> 02:42:47,740
The Department has established the F map program

1885
02:42:47,740 --> 02:42:53,120
to give the LMAs some funding to try to get into swifts

1886
02:42:53,800 --> 02:42:58,120
and to start looking at prop to 18 revisions,

1887
02:42:58,600 --> 02:43:00,420
and then also some additional funding.

1888
02:43:00,940 --> 02:43:04,580
We've got the SSJDD assessment study going along.

1889
02:43:05,760 --> 02:43:10,040
I mentioned two years before we have RD-1602, which is down by Patterson,

1890
02:43:10,680 --> 02:43:13,320
they came before the board in 2014.

1891
02:43:14,780 --> 02:43:18,340
And basically, we're asking, is there a way we can get out of this system?

1892
02:43:19,700 --> 02:43:23,560
RD-1602 does not have a board of directors, they do not collect an assessment,

1893
02:43:23,720 --> 02:43:25,980
and they do no work.

1894
02:43:26,620 --> 02:43:30,100
the local landowners do whatever work is going to be done.

1895
02:43:30,720 --> 02:43:37,380
And then we had the horseshoe levy problem that we got the letter for last week.

1896
02:43:38,240 --> 02:43:41,860
And at the Coordinating Committee, we have Madera County come into a presentation

1897
02:43:42,780 --> 02:43:50,980
of their conflicts really between looking at the groundwater law and looking at what we are asking them

1898
02:43:50,980 --> 02:43:55,480
and giving us information on what their landowners think they did some surveys.

1899
02:43:55,480 --> 02:44:01,680
They were going to try to go out with a prop to 18 and just kind of went, it didn't

1900
02:44:01,680 --> 02:44:04,380
got a pass, so let's just not go do that.

1901
02:44:06,180 --> 02:44:12,860
I think, you know, we've been here for eight years, and I also did one other thing.

1902
02:44:13,240 --> 02:44:16,180
I looked, I looked to see if I can find this.

1903
02:44:16,180 --> 02:44:28,790
I look to see from Wade's information about how have agencies improved or not improved across

1904
02:44:28,790 --> 02:44:31,970
the time in his chart, which is a five-year chart.

1905
02:44:32,910 --> 02:44:35,690
And I thought it would have been improved some.

1906
02:44:35,870 --> 02:44:45,150
It has 14 of those agencies have improved from that one-in five years later, but 18 of them have gone down.

1907
02:44:46,410 --> 02:44:55,430
And I kind of think it's time we kind of stepped into this, figured out what we're going to do and go do it.

1908
02:44:56,530 --> 02:44:59,950
PG&E had this problem, and we have this problem.

1909
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:03,040
Problem. And I think, you know, it's time.

1910
02:45:04,740 --> 02:45:10,500
Yeah, I agree with that. And I think there's some things that will, I guess, lead to all, after

1911
02:45:10,500 --> 02:45:14,300
Wades finish, but Jane, you want to comment?

1912
02:45:15,380 --> 02:45:20,900
I would. These annual reports and presentations are obviously very, so

1913
02:45:21,980 --> 02:45:28,340
and troubling and present to us an ongoing challenge to figure out what to do.

1914
02:45:28,700 --> 02:45:33,040
But to suggest that we just hear this report once a year and don't do anything,

1915
02:45:34,040 --> 02:45:35,940
is it's one of our reminds of all we are.

1916
02:45:36,820 --> 02:45:41,900
We have many of these elements that have presented the letters of intent

1917
02:45:41,900 --> 02:45:44,000
that are moving toward a swift.

1918
02:45:45,840 --> 02:45:56,480
I would say the ones that are unacceptable are ones that up until there was active and intensive inspections were just left alone.

1919
02:45:57,060 --> 02:46:03,260
So if you have 20, 30 years of backlog, it's going to take you more than 12 months to correct.

1920
02:46:03,260 --> 02:46:13,980
And the rural entities, and Madera was certainly an example yesterday at Cordon, or Wednesday at Cordonating Committee, that they are working on what to do.

1921
02:46:14,320 --> 02:46:21,640
And they have identified that the number one issue is funding for any number of years.

1922
02:46:22,200 --> 02:46:28,140
Let's pick 1978 when Prop 13 limited local government funding.

1923
02:46:28,140 --> 02:46:30,560
and then whatever year to 18 came along and said,

1924
02:46:30,800 --> 02:46:32,640
you can't do it until you go to the election,

1925
02:46:34,040 --> 02:46:37,880
and can't take away the authority to leave assessments.

1926
02:46:38,920 --> 02:46:40,960
It's made it even even more challenging.

1927
02:46:41,900 --> 02:46:43,720
But they are moving toward that.

1928
02:46:43,740 --> 02:46:45,920
So it's not like we've got to decide to do something.

1929
02:46:46,280 --> 02:46:49,140
We have decided, and Bill and I are the ad hoc community

1930
02:46:49,140 --> 02:46:50,500
to meet with these local groups.

1931
02:46:50,860 --> 02:46:51,520
And some are urban.

1932
02:46:51,980 --> 02:46:53,500
Most are rural.

1933
02:46:54,240 --> 02:46:57,060
Some have functioning boards, some do not.

1934
02:46:57,060 --> 02:47:04,360
Someone out, someone money from the state, they all have a sort of ideas, but they're moving forward.

1935
02:47:04,500 --> 02:47:11,880
They're not stuck in doing nothing, and I appreciate the data that we have now, and you've got

1936
02:47:11,880 --> 02:47:18,500
identified encroachments. Some are bridges, and we know some are structures, but we don't know exactly where.

1937
02:47:18,500 --> 02:47:48,480
So, now we have that data from inspection, but I think that we then move to classifying them by location, risk, history, what's got a local permit, but doesn't have our permit, you know, a sort of review, analyze, maybe the designated floodway maps need to be adjusted, wider, not so wide.

1938
02:47:48,480 --> 02:47:50,580
we wouldn't be in a designated bloodway.

1939
02:47:51,000 --> 02:47:52,540
We're just in a high risk area.

1940
02:47:53,440 --> 02:47:55,660
That's got a whole different kind of classification.

1941
02:47:55,960 --> 02:47:58,540
And then begin to meet with the land use authority,

1942
02:47:59,220 --> 02:48:01,600
which is not the state government or any state entity.

1943
02:48:02,660 --> 02:48:05,200
Even though there's a lot of people that would like that to be done,

1944
02:48:05,640 --> 02:48:07,920
if you pretty complicated to take that away,

1945
02:48:08,060 --> 02:48:09,400
it wouldn't be quick.

1946
02:48:09,720 --> 02:48:10,720
But we have some tools.

1947
02:48:11,460 --> 02:48:14,980
The flood board, and it's we delegate it to our staff,

1948
02:48:15,240 --> 02:48:17,660
review counties general plans, particularly

1949
02:48:17,660 --> 02:48:24,540
their safety element and if they don't have requirements of keeping encroachments that block

1950
02:48:24,540 --> 02:48:30,860
or affect the function of a floodway in their general plan, they would tell them to do that.

1951
02:48:31,580 --> 02:48:37,540
And there are ways that we can encourage them, but you know, my first year is on the board.

1952
02:48:37,860 --> 02:48:39,160
All of our first year is on the board.

1953
02:48:39,460 --> 02:48:47,640
We struggled a lot and put some public money into removing a swimming pool that was in a

1954
02:48:47,640 --> 02:48:50,020
And it was in a place that shouldn't be.

1955
02:48:51,180 --> 02:48:54,020
So it's, you can, you got done.

1956
02:48:54,200 --> 02:48:55,440
And what do you come in after us for?

1957
02:48:55,560 --> 02:48:56,560
We got our building permit.

1958
02:48:56,740 --> 02:48:58,040
We've been all the rest of that.

1959
02:48:58,280 --> 02:49:01,040
So it's, we are making some effort.

1960
02:49:01,420 --> 02:49:06,980
But to think that we can turn this around in even eight years,

1961
02:49:07,040 --> 02:49:10,300
I think, is a good challenge.

1962
02:49:10,680 --> 02:49:12,640
But we continue to work on it.

1963
02:49:13,240 --> 02:49:15,080
And these conversations with the local agencies

1964
02:49:15,080 --> 02:49:21,700
are incredibly enlightening and it does come down to knowing what they need to do and that's

1965
02:49:21,700 --> 02:49:28,360
what the inspection tells them, knowing what they're capable of doing and finding a way to

1966
02:49:28,360 --> 02:49:34,760
fund it. You can't just ride the letter and I'll get it done. But the letter starts and this

1967
02:49:34,760 --> 02:49:45,870
information begins so I think it's good. It helps us to continue to do the work that we've

1968
02:49:45,870 --> 02:49:53,790
following up on these. But what I'm the feedback I'm getting from the people that are out in

1969
02:49:53,790 --> 02:50:02,190
the field, the consulting engineers, who basically are supporting us in terms of the PL-8499

1970
02:50:02,190 --> 02:50:15,850
issue when that comes up. They're supporting, they're trying to get the swifts, trying to get

1971
02:50:15,850 --> 02:50:22,570
faced with and they've told, they've told all their clients that the floodboards coming

1972
02:50:22,570 --> 02:50:27,370
say you better be ready for this and you better sign the swift letter and they'll give you

1973
02:50:27,370 --> 02:50:33,870
some money for it and you need to have a plan and we call it a swift, you can call it a monkey

1974
02:50:33,870 --> 02:50:40,310
renter or whatever but the fact of the matter is you need a plan. Now the chorus said that it

1975
02:50:40,310 --> 02:50:46,870
I was with reasonable, you know, we can't get it done in 10 years or 15 years, they don't care.

1976
02:50:47,110 --> 02:50:52,590
As long as you have a plant to get some of these things done, and that's what they've been selling it.

1977
02:50:52,830 --> 02:50:53,510
But lately,

1978
02:50:56,370 --> 02:51:08,810
what these folks are, at least what the engineers are telling us, in light of these other things that we talked about this morning, all of these rules and regulations.

1979
02:51:08,810 --> 02:51:14,970
and dip from different programs that the state has, whether it's sigma, whether it's

1980
02:51:16,330 --> 02:51:23,850
fish and wildlife, or whatever, they have to choose because they don't have a lot of

1981
02:51:23,850 --> 02:51:38,750
money. So what they're saying is that the flood board never enforces anything that don't

1982
02:51:38,750 --> 02:51:47,670
The sigma regulations that are groundwater regulations that are now coming up and are facing, they're facing.

1983
02:51:48,810 --> 02:51:59,290
So I think at this point we've got two things that I think we need a recommendations from the staff on.

1984
02:51:59,290 --> 02:52:12,750
The way the enforcement works on the repeat offenders, so to speak, is that DWR has to do a report.

1985
02:52:13,430 --> 02:52:19,010
And it's not a little report, but it's according to Mike Mizorah.

1986
02:52:19,790 --> 02:52:27,130
It's a lengthy report, a lot of documentation, a lot of analysis and so on as to go into this report.

1987
02:52:27,130 --> 02:52:39,810
And the Department has to give us a recommendation that this particular LMA has not completed.

1988
02:52:40,150 --> 02:52:43,570
There has not passed an inspection in 20 years.

1989
02:52:44,850 --> 02:52:53,790
And we proposed that the Ford start a maintenance area in that area in order to get the job done.

1990
02:52:53,790 --> 02:53:02,910
There has to be one or two of those so that we can, so the engineers have a little data

1991
02:53:02,910 --> 02:53:09,410
that they can tell their clients and you got to do this swift, you got to have a plan, blah, blah, blah,

1992
02:53:09,970 --> 02:53:11,880
and the state's willing to help out a little bit.

1993
02:53:12,990 --> 02:53:14,230
But we got to perform.

1994
02:53:15,390 --> 02:53:21,430
So I think, as far as the repeat offenders, I think we ought to get with

1995
02:53:25,620 --> 02:53:27,260
who's the fellow

1996
02:53:27,260 --> 02:53:30,840
that the heads up the maintenance are clasped.

1997
02:53:31,160 --> 02:53:31,680
Yeah, more clasped.

1998
02:53:31,800 --> 02:53:35,560
We've got to get with Mark and we've got to look at this data

1999
02:53:35,560 --> 02:53:41,720
and we've got to recommend one or two areas in which

2000
02:53:41,720 --> 02:53:47,460
have not been complied with for 20 years, 15 years,

2001
02:53:48,040 --> 02:53:54,640
and that would be good examples, you know, not one of these examples

2002
02:53:54,640 --> 02:54:02,360
where they don't have a board. It never meets or whatever. We need a good example of

2003
02:54:03,040 --> 02:54:10,220
LMA that is not complied in 15 or 20 years and we need to do a state being necessary. One

2004
02:54:10,220 --> 02:54:18,220
or two examples for the staff based on that and we've got to be some of that in order to support

2005
02:54:18,220 --> 02:54:23,400
what the engineers are telling their clients. We need to do that or they're just going to blow

2006
02:54:23,400 --> 02:54:30,800
off, and like they have been. Now, and in the meantime, Jane and I will continue to meet with

2007
02:54:30,800 --> 02:54:36,180
people that are willing to work with us and see if we can help and gain compliance, and that's

2008
02:54:36,180 --> 02:54:42,560
the idea is to gain compliance in these areas. In the second area that we talked about, or the

2009
02:54:45,680 --> 02:55:06,480
We've got to take what Joe talked about today and Tim and come back with a recommendation on what we ought to be doing, whether we ought to have our committee meet with the land use agency, people, the floodplain managers and the cities and the counties.

2010
02:55:06,480 --> 02:55:10,140
And we say, you know, this is, this is crazy.

2011
02:55:10,440 --> 02:55:13,960
We can't do this kind of, we can't do compliance.

2012
02:55:14,300 --> 02:55:16,360
And this designated from it was, they're making a sense.

2013
02:55:16,360 --> 02:55:18,280
And we want to delegate that responsibility

2014
02:55:19,080 --> 02:55:21,240
to the, to the cities or the, the floodplain

2015
02:55:21,240 --> 02:55:25,060
managers in the city or the county, or something,

2016
02:55:25,500 --> 02:55:26,680
whatever recommendation.

2017
02:55:26,980 --> 02:55:31,280
But those are the two areas that I hear coming out of here

2018
02:55:31,280 --> 02:55:33,840
that we need to recommendations on.

2019
02:55:33,840 --> 02:55:41,120
one or two repeat offenders and what we're going to do on this designated floodway program and

2020
02:55:41,120 --> 02:55:46,380
please don't come back and say we're going to hire 100 people to go out and enforce the

2021
02:55:46,380 --> 02:55:53,890
designated floodway program. I ain't going to work either. So yeah, that'll just blow everything up.

2022
02:55:56,080 --> 02:56:02,660
So anyway, we've got to, I think we've got to start doing our job here. Our job is to enforce

2023
02:56:02,660 --> 02:56:09,700
compliance. The two things is issue permits and enforce compliance. That's our core responsibility.

2024
02:56:10,480 --> 02:56:13,300
Or not doing it. So we gotta do it. Clients right.

2025
02:56:14,560 --> 02:56:22,160
Well, so it's so's Jane. I don't think it's start doing our job. I think it's to continue and to enhance our job.

2026
02:56:22,340 --> 02:56:25,440
Well, yeah, but we gotta we gotta mean what we say.

2027
02:56:25,440 --> 02:56:29,500
Yeah, it's easy to be hard on nobody's doing anything.

2028
02:56:29,680 --> 02:56:38,780
The semi-local agencies are doing nothing because they functionally don't exist, but many of them are struggling with the same things that we're struggling with.

2029
02:56:38,900 --> 02:56:40,700
But yeah, some of them are not doing anything.

2030
02:56:40,740 --> 02:56:41,760
I said that.

2031
02:56:41,780 --> 02:56:42,940
Some of them are doing nothing.

2032
02:56:42,940 --> 02:56:44,720
But we've got to demonstrate that.

2033
02:56:45,000 --> 02:56:46,200
There's a price to pay for that.

2034
02:56:46,540 --> 02:56:47,840
So we need to enhance that.

2035
02:56:48,200 --> 02:56:50,640
So it's kind of like the first enforcement we did.

2036
02:56:51,060 --> 02:56:52,020
And never going in force.

2037
02:56:52,220 --> 02:56:52,920
And so we did something.

2038
02:56:53,100 --> 02:56:54,660
It was like, oh, wow, they're serious.

2039
02:56:54,660 --> 02:56:58,240
Yes, that's right. That's right. Yeah, that's all. So where do we start?

2040
02:56:58,560 --> 02:57:01,980
And we don't start with the pole barn. That protects a goat.

2041
02:57:03,740 --> 02:57:09,000
Well, I don't know. We start with the subdivision. Where we start with home buildings.

2042
02:57:09,400 --> 02:57:14,020
I don't think they're done with the presentation yet. No, I know. I know the art. Okay.

2043
02:57:14,180 --> 02:57:20,180
We're like to test those ourselves. Okay. Okay. Thank you for handling that.

2044
02:57:21,060 --> 02:57:23,860
The rest of your presentation, let's go ahead with it. All right.

2045
02:57:25,700 --> 02:57:26,380
Thank

2046
02:57:33,330 --> 02:57:34,370
you, Wade.

2047
02:57:38,860 --> 02:57:42,860
Good afternoon, President Edgar, and esteemed members of the board.

2048
02:57:43,500 --> 02:57:49,100
My name is Saskia Donovan. I manage the local maintaining agency reporting program,

2049
02:57:49,700 --> 02:57:55,460
and today I will be giving you a brief update on last year's activities and the results of the program.

2050
02:57:56,300 --> 02:58:00,180
As a reminder, this program is separate from the inspection program.

2051
02:58:00,180 --> 02:58:08,540
Now for quick background, the LMA reporting program was established by Assembly Bill 156

2052
02:58:08,540 --> 02:58:15,680
in 2007 and is codified in World Record sections 9140 and 9141.

2053
02:58:16,700 --> 02:58:22,340
It requires annual reporting on operation and maintenance activity for project

2054
02:58:22,340 --> 02:58:25,700
as well as for certain non-project levees.

2055
02:58:27,320 --> 02:58:31,460
What a code 9140 requires that the LMAs report

2056
02:58:31,460 --> 02:58:35,000
annually to DWR, and 9141,

2057
02:58:35,640 --> 02:58:39,880
requires that we in turn report that information to the board.

2058
02:58:41,300 --> 02:58:45,000
The intent is to obtain information beyond what is observed

2059
02:58:45,000 --> 02:58:46,340
by DWR inspectors.

2060
02:58:47,500 --> 02:58:50,360
We are looking for the local operators perspective

2061
02:58:50,360 --> 02:58:56,940
of their problems with the levees and their priorities for levee maintenance in addition to

2062
02:58:56,940 --> 02:58:58,340
information on costs.

2063
02:59:02,660 --> 02:59:06,860
There are five parts to the information we request from the LMAs.

2064
02:59:07,780 --> 02:59:13,480
In part one, we ask for information that is relevant to the levees condition or performance,

2065
02:59:14,220 --> 02:59:20,400
such as vegetation issues, encroachments, sediment accumulation and borne erosion.

2066
02:59:21,500 --> 02:59:42,000
In part two, we ask for information relevant to Levy Integrity and known conditions that might impair or compromise the level of blood protection provided by the Levy, such as C-Pitch, Boils, Burrowholes, Levy Erosion, Levy Instability, Cracks and Penetration deficiencies.

2067
02:59:44,410 --> 02:59:50,170
In part three, we ask for a summary of maintenance performed during the previous fiscal year.

2068
02:59:51,150 --> 02:59:59,950
This is also the part where in which LMAs have the opportunity to provide responses to DWR instance.

2069
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:19,920
Section items, which the DWR inspectors see during the next inspection cycle. In Part 4, we ask for a list of maintenance activities planned for the current fiscal year, as well as the estimated cost for operation and maintenance of the levy in the current fiscal year.

2070
03:00:21,140 --> 03:00:33,440
In Part 5, we ask for supporting information and any other readily available information that is in the records of the LMA relevant to the condition or maintenance of the levy.

2071
03:00:33,440 --> 03:00:37,600
Examples are updates to emergency action plans,

2072
03:00:37,900 --> 03:00:42,360
as builds, permits, memoranda of understanding and studies.

2073
03:00:47,900 --> 03:00:51,900
There are 106 geographical levied areas

2074
03:00:51,900 --> 03:00:54,760
that have been identified as required to report.

2075
03:00:55,820 --> 03:01:00,360
And those 106 levied areas are represented by 84 elements.

2076
03:01:01,640 --> 03:01:10,380
of those 106 areas, 94% reported in 2019, or met the minimum requirements.

2077
03:01:11,820 --> 03:01:16,540
We have been defining that as responding to at least one of the five parts.

2078
03:01:17,500 --> 03:01:25,040
However, the bar is going to be raised this year requiring a response to all five parts to be considered compliant.

2079
03:01:26,640 --> 03:01:35,020
Last year's reporting compliance trends in line with the four previous years, when it was between 93 and 95 percent.

2080
03:01:35,400 --> 03:01:42,580
We will strive to keep up this high level of compliance and to improve the quality of reporting over the next several years.

2081
03:01:44,680 --> 03:01:52,700
Last year, we implemented a new online reporting system and a percentage of reports that were received electronically,

2082
03:01:52,700 --> 03:01:58,840
when from 69% in 2018 to 83% last year.

2083
03:01:59,600 --> 03:02:06,640
The remaining 17% of reports were submitted as hard copy, which we then entered into the database ourselves.

2084
03:02:11,260 --> 03:02:22,160
For part 3, 92% of the reports that we received provided a summary of maintenance activities performed during the previous fiscal year.

2085
03:02:22,160 --> 03:02:29,040
The graph shows the major maintenance categories which were similar to the ones reported in 2018.

2086
03:02:30,300 --> 03:02:42,120
As an example, for vegetation in 2019, 82% of the reporting levied areas stated that they performed vegetation control during the previous fiscal year.

2087
03:02:42,720 --> 03:02:48,540
Whereas in 2018, 86% of the areas stated that they performed vegetation control.

2088
03:02:49,620 --> 03:02:57,240
As in previous years, vegetation management was the dominant activity, followed by road and control,

2089
03:02:57,720 --> 03:03:01,680
levee repair, levee crown maintenance and encroachment control.

2090
03:03:06,260 --> 03:03:15,400
For part 4, 91% of the reports that we received provided a list of maintenance activities planned for the current fiscal year.

2091
03:03:15,400 --> 03:03:21,740
Again, as reported in previous years, and as shown in the graph, the major categories

2092
03:03:21,740 --> 03:03:27,440
are vegetation control, road and control, levee crown maintenance and levee repairs.

2093
03:03:29,760 --> 03:03:36,960
As part of our efforts to benefit current repair and flood planning programs, we began providing

2094
03:03:36,960 --> 03:03:42,040
the individual LMA cost for operational maintenance per levee mile.

2095
03:03:42,040 --> 03:03:51,740
In the 2019 part four summaries in appendices A and B, our goal for this year is to also provide

2096
03:03:51,740 --> 03:03:58,000
system-wide budget information in the annual report, such as a cost breakdown by maintenance

2097
03:03:58,000 --> 03:04:02,540
category, basin, and urban versus non-urban areas.

2098
03:04:07,800 --> 03:04:16,340
On August 8th, 2019, we held a workshop at the Flatubration Center and Viscipe to provide training

2099
03:04:16,340 --> 03:04:20,460
on the reporting program and the new LMA reporting system.

2100
03:04:21,380 --> 03:04:27,740
A total of 25 participants representing 50 LMAs or 57 areas

2101
03:04:27,740 --> 03:04:29,040
attended the workshop.

2102
03:04:30,180 --> 03:04:35,320
We held additional workshops with DWR Sutter and Sacramento maintenance yard staff.

2103
03:04:36,640 --> 03:04:42,220
The new reporting system was developed with the collaboration of the California Data Exchange

2104
03:04:42,220 --> 03:04:50,280
center or CDEC and the major improvements include easier access, less time consuming data entry,

2105
03:04:51,100 --> 03:04:56,440
improved user interface and overview of data entries and easier generation of summary

2106
03:04:56,440 --> 03:05:03,420
reports of current and previous data. In addition, the LMAs have the opportunity to submit

2107
03:05:03,420 --> 03:05:11,480
their budgets as an attachment in part 4. We developed a user guide for the new reporting system,

2108
03:05:11,480 --> 03:05:17,320
which is available on CDEC, and also provided in the virtual assistance via phone.

2109
03:05:18,920 --> 03:05:24,180
Like every year, we mail the annual reporting reminder to all LMAs, including instructions

2110
03:05:24,180 --> 03:05:25,720
and hard copy forms.

2111
03:05:26,920 --> 03:05:32,300
We also contacted the LMAs that missed the reporting deadline and reduced the number of

2112
03:05:32,300 --> 03:05:34,740
non-reporters from 18 to 6.

2113
03:05:39,680 --> 03:05:45,400
The annual inspection and local maintaining agency report, as well as in the virtual

2114
03:05:45,400 --> 03:05:52,380
inspection reports are accessible on CDEC. Also, CDs and or hard copies of the

2115
03:05:52,380 --> 03:05:57,380
annual report will be distributed to each LMA and to counties and libraries within

2116
03:05:57,380 --> 03:06:03,980
the LMAs jurisdiction. The raw data from the LMA reporting can be accessed by the

2117
03:06:03,980 --> 03:06:06,260
LMAs through the LMA reporting system.

2118
03:06:12,040 --> 03:06:14,180
The information provided through our program

2119
03:06:14,180 --> 03:06:15,720
has several benefits.

2120
03:06:17,220 --> 03:06:20,460
It provides a local perspective of system performance,

2121
03:06:20,960 --> 03:06:22,680
a knowledge of maintenance challenges

2122
03:06:22,680 --> 03:06:27,060
and management practices that we otherwise would not have.

2123
03:06:28,120 --> 03:06:31,500
Also, the data provide information for flood emergency

2124
03:06:31,500 --> 03:06:34,940
preparedness and system-wide financial information

2125
03:06:34,940 --> 03:06:36,200
for flood planning.

2126
03:06:37,560 --> 03:06:41,520
The issues raised can be informative to allocating future

2127
03:06:41,520 --> 03:06:46,280
level improvement funding, like the flood maintenance assistance program and the flood

2128
03:06:46,280 --> 03:06:53,180
system repair project, and my result in cost share enhancement for certain DWR grants and

2129
03:06:53,180 --> 03:06:54,320
repair programs.

2130
03:06:56,430 --> 03:07:01,030
To fully realize these benefits, we depend on receiving quality information

2131
03:07:01,030 --> 03:07:08,850
from the LMAs. In general, about 85% of the levied areas provide sufficient information

2132
03:07:08,850 --> 03:07:16,070
for all five parts. As mentioned before, we are striving to improve the reporting quality

2133
03:07:16,070 --> 03:07:22,790
of the remaining 15% of reports by providing more feedback and performing more outreach.

2134
03:07:24,750 --> 03:07:31,590
Finally, the LMA reporting system provides LMAs a pathway to water code 9140 compliance

2135
03:07:32,330 --> 03:07:36,590
and provides LMAs with secure management of their inspection data.

2136
03:07:38,090 --> 03:07:40,450
And now I've all turned it back to wait.

2137
03:07:46,290 --> 03:07:50,210
Yeah, that looks, that looks like a good program.

2138
03:07:50,470 --> 03:07:55,910
I'm interested in the interface between your reporting system and

2139
03:07:55,910 --> 03:07:57,550
Wades inspection program.

2140
03:07:58,710 --> 03:08:01,730
When you sit down with these LMAs, is there a

2141
03:08:01,730 --> 03:08:02,790
Discard World Wait a minute?

2142
03:08:02,970 --> 03:08:07,250
You said you did these seven things and the

2143
03:08:07,250 --> 03:08:14,390
inspection found that you're deficient in the same areas of, you know, that are identified

2144
03:08:14,390 --> 03:08:22,070
in your, yeah, right. Do you have those discussions? Is that what happens? Or how does,

2145
03:08:22,070 --> 03:08:28,330
how does the reporting system relate to the inspection system as far as the LMA is concerned?

2146
03:08:29,850 --> 03:08:35,750
Well, as I mentioned before, they have the LMAs, the local maintaining agencies have the

2147
03:08:35,750 --> 03:08:44,250
opportunity to look at their inspection items from the spring inspections, and they can provide

2148
03:08:44,250 --> 03:08:47,690
these boxes to those items.

2149
03:08:48,570 --> 03:08:55,070
For example, they can work in progress or pending or complete corrected.

2150
03:08:56,750 --> 03:09:03,630
So that's the connection and the inspectors see these responses during their next inspection,

2151
03:09:03,630 --> 03:09:12,690
during the fall inspection, so it gives them a heads up and it provides an opportunity for

2152
03:09:12,690 --> 03:09:22,390
the LMAs to check these items off, but the inspectors will still, it gives them a heads

2153
03:09:22,390 --> 03:09:22,510
up.

2154
03:09:22,650 --> 03:09:30,950
They will still go through each of these items and check to see how these items were addressed.

2155
03:09:32,270 --> 03:09:39,530
So, it's just a matter of, it's a form of communication where the LMAs let us know what they have done.

2156
03:09:47,400 --> 03:09:48,120
Thank you, Saskia.

2157
03:09:49,900 --> 03:09:54,260
So, at this time, I'd like to provide an update on our programs, tools, and branch activities.

2158
03:09:55,760 --> 03:09:58,560
The first tool I'd like to talk about is our inspection tool.

2159
03:09:59,580 --> 03:10:02,940
This tool is the workhorse of the inspection sections.

2160
03:10:02,940 --> 03:10:13,680
We use it continually, or we are continually updating its content and functionality, and it is used to collect all inspections performed within the inspection sections.

2161
03:10:14,940 --> 03:10:25,120
This year improvements were made that will allow supervisors and inspectors a way to highlight incidents needing special attention when they're out in the field.

2162
03:10:25,120 --> 03:10:26,080
The

2163
03:10:31,270 --> 03:10:40,830
levee log tool is what we are using to update the long outdated paper copies of the levee logs used to document features along the state plan of flood control levees.

2164
03:10:42,150 --> 03:10:53,050
To accomplish this, the branch created the levee log tool which utilizes the same platform as the inspection tool, but modified it specifically for using collecting features for the levee log update.

2165
03:10:53,970 --> 03:11:07,130
The tool was used successfully to perform the field inspections needed for the update, but the work that we have to do to finalize the levy logs is ongoing because of the very complex nature of the QA review that needs to be done.

2166
03:11:09,340 --> 03:11:17,040
Branch staff work to finalize the field inspections data and have completed what we are now calling phase one of the QA review.

2167
03:11:18,180 --> 03:11:22,920
Based two, which will result in the final version of the levy log, has started.

2168
03:11:23,940 --> 03:11:32,240
The final QA review involves purging of duplicate entries and addition of known permit information to associated encroachments.

2169
03:11:33,640 --> 03:11:42,180
To date, staff have completed approximately 250 miles of levy log updates, and as those levy logs are finalized, we will update them on our website.

2170
03:11:43,400 --> 03:11:48,980
We are prioritizing this effort and are anticipating making significant progress toward completing

2171
03:11:48,980 --> 03:11:50,160
this work here in 2020.

2172
03:11:53,720 --> 03:11:57,440
The LMA reporting tool that Soski was referring to has been redesigned.

2173
03:11:58,340 --> 03:12:04,980
The old version of the tool has been available since 2008 and allowed LMAs access to information

2174
03:12:04,980 --> 03:12:12,120
about their LMAs as well as provided a tool for them to submit their LMA reporting requirements.

2175
03:12:12,980 --> 03:12:15,840
based on feedback over the last few years from users,

2176
03:12:16,560 --> 03:12:17,940
the tool has been redesigned.

2177
03:12:19,700 --> 03:12:22,720
The new tool called the LMA reporting system is now faster

2178
03:12:22,720 --> 03:12:24,960
and more user-friendly than its predecessor.

2179
03:12:26,040 --> 03:12:28,840
The user can update their contact information,

2180
03:12:29,420 --> 03:12:32,580
provide feedback to the inspectors on inspection items,

2181
03:12:33,080 --> 03:12:35,400
and submit their five-part reporting requirements.

2182
03:12:37,600 --> 03:12:40,300
Though not all portions of the previous version are included

2183
03:12:40,300 --> 03:12:45,940
in this redesign, the new system is getting pretty good feedback or positive feedback from

2184
03:12:45,940 --> 03:12:46,760
LMAs.

2185
03:12:47,780 --> 03:12:50,640
And we saw that with the increase in reporting results.

2186
03:12:51,200 --> 03:12:59,050
Are you on your inspection tool is the reporting information also there on our inspection

2187
03:12:59,050 --> 03:12:59,450
tool?

2188
03:12:59,770 --> 03:13:02,930
Like when we go out in the field, the inspection tool is the reporting information there.

2189
03:13:03,610 --> 03:13:03,690
No.

2190
03:13:04,750 --> 03:13:11,690
Well, in part, yes, where they indicate that they have corrected or done something,

2191
03:13:11,690 --> 03:13:18,750
It highlights that item for us when we're out in the field doing the inspection to let us know to

2192
03:13:19,850 --> 03:13:25,510
Look at it, basically, to verify that it was complete. Okay, that's that's where the verification comes in.

2193
03:13:27,590 --> 03:13:34,190
The portions of the previous version that were not in this update are still available for users

2194
03:13:34,850 --> 03:13:40,070
and they will eventually be migrated over to the new LMA reporting tool or reporting system.

2195
03:13:40,070 --> 03:13:46,350
system. So utilizing the previous versions, users can still access the utility crossing inspection

2196
03:13:46,350 --> 03:13:52,670
reports, obtain copies of maps and own immanials, and update board staff with corrections

2197
03:13:52,670 --> 03:13:55,650
they have made to their Army Corps periodic inspections.

2198
03:13:59,330 --> 03:14:00,870
Our efforts to develop street view

2199
03:14:00,870 --> 03:14:06,370
imagery of the state plan of flight control levees continues. Currently, we're collecting

2200
03:14:06,370 --> 03:14:12,370
imagery for state maintained areas, and we'll continue to expand our imagery database

2201
03:14:12,370 --> 03:14:13,910
over the next several years.

2202
03:14:15,330 --> 03:14:19,190
To date, we've collected about 280 miles of street view imagery.

2203
03:14:21,130 --> 03:14:25,690
Unfortunately, at this time, it's only available to the inspection section.

2204
03:14:26,590 --> 03:14:32,890
However, we are looking to make this imagery available to DWR, board, and LMA personnel in the future,

2205
03:14:33,610 --> 03:14:35,530
as funding becomes available for that.

2206
03:14:36,330 --> 03:14:40,210
We are also looking into the use of drone imagery by some

2207
03:14:40,210 --> 03:14:42,510
LMAs to accomplish a similar function.

2208
03:14:43,650 --> 03:14:46,490
How that might be used in conjunction with or instead of

2209
03:14:46,490 --> 03:14:49,410
street view imagery to provide valuable information for

2210
03:14:49,410 --> 03:14:52,130
emergency response, operation and maintenance,

2211
03:14:52,990 --> 03:14:55,230
environmental studies, permitting, and enforcement.

2212
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:05,780
The utility crossing inventory project continues to evolve, making advancements and how data is shared

2213
03:15:05,780 --> 03:15:10,200
with our partners through upgrades to ferrets and how they operate.

2214
03:15:11,580 --> 03:15:16,180
Starting in 2019, the utility crossing inventory project was renamed the utility crossing

2215
03:15:16,180 --> 03:15:21,860
inspection program. And use of staff has started programmatically inspecting all pipes

2216
03:15:21,860 --> 03:15:27,960
within the system on a five year rotation. Ensuring each year, 20% of the pipes will be visited

2217
03:15:27,960 --> 03:15:30,060
expected and reported on.

2218
03:15:33,500 --> 03:15:39,080
Some additional branch activities I'd like to highlight, we continue to participate in coordination

2219
03:15:39,080 --> 03:15:43,920
meetings with the core, the board, and the LMAs, helping to ensure good communication

2220
03:15:43,920 --> 03:15:45,100
between all agencies.

2221
03:15:47,020 --> 03:15:51,580
Supporting the Flood Operations Center to improve flood response capabilities, branch personnel

2222
03:15:51,580 --> 03:15:55,340
taught flood-fight training courses throughout the state.

2223
03:15:55,340 --> 03:16:01,600
Over the last year, our inspectors helped to teach 19 flood-fight classes, providing training

2224
03:16:01,600 --> 03:16:08,040
to about 750 flood-fighters from LMAs, municipalities, and communities in hazard areas.

2225
03:16:10,160 --> 03:16:14,840
Branch flood-fight specialists were deployed to provide technical assistance to multiple

2226
03:16:14,840 --> 03:16:21,860
events throughout the year, including deployments to Hamilton City, Cash Creek, Kings River,

2227
03:16:22,160 --> 03:16:24,080
and most recently the Stanislaus River.

2228
03:16:25,490 --> 03:16:30,070
Inspectors continue to make great progress on updating permits.

2229
03:16:30,890 --> 03:16:35,510
This year inspectors reviewed and updated or closed over 1,000 permits.

2230
03:16:36,550 --> 03:16:40,150
Their work is ensuring active construction projects are meeting board conditions

2231
03:16:40,150 --> 03:16:46,110
and board databases are updated with accurate locations and information for existing encroachments.

2232
03:16:49,430 --> 03:16:57,010
Looking forward into 2020, we will continue to coordinate and communicate with the many agencies involved with maintaining the levees

2233
03:16:57,010 --> 03:17:01,730
in order to share knowledge between board, core and LMAs

2234
03:17:01,730 --> 03:17:04,870
to help meet the operational and regulatory challenges.

2235
03:17:06,110 --> 03:17:09,770
We will continue to improve the LMA reporting program

2236
03:17:09,770 --> 03:17:11,750
and the quality of the reports.

2237
03:17:13,390 --> 03:17:16,390
We will work to obtain more detailed budget information

2238
03:17:16,390 --> 03:17:20,250
to provide better planning programs or better planning

2239
03:17:23,530 --> 03:17:25,830
to provide better data for planning programs.

2240
03:17:26,530 --> 03:17:29,950
We will advance the update of the web-based

2241
03:17:29,950 --> 03:17:33,010
LMA reporting system and we will continue to

2242
03:17:33,010 --> 03:17:34,910
finalize levy log updates throughout the

2243
03:17:34,910 --> 03:17:35,550
system.

2244
03:17:37,150 --> 03:17:39,650
We plan to continue our efforts to start assessing

2245
03:17:39,650 --> 03:17:43,330
LMA responsible drainage pipes as part of the LMAs

2246
03:17:43,330 --> 03:17:44,050
overall rating.

2247
03:17:46,030 --> 03:17:48,770
As always, we will respond to flood and other

2248
03:17:48,770 --> 03:17:53,400
emergencies as they arise and are requested.

2249
03:17:54,860 --> 03:18:01,240
This concludes our presentation of the 2019 LMAE Agency report, and I want to thank the board

2250
03:18:01,240 --> 03:18:05,920
for this opportunity to share our inspection results and showcase some of our accomplishments.

2251
03:18:06,960 --> 03:18:11,900
I would also like to thank the FBIB Branch staff who worked throughout the year to accomplish

2252
03:18:11,900 --> 03:18:12,700
this good work.

2253
03:18:14,320 --> 03:18:14,920
Thank you.

2254
03:18:17,480 --> 03:18:38,760
Yeah, that's thanks very much Wade that you and Sasuke did a good job and and pressed into there's an awful lot of coordination here, and that's why the database program that you're working on is so important and I hope the LMAs tremendously, I'm sure we've

2255
03:18:38,760 --> 03:18:42,980
So anyway, thanks very much.

2256
03:18:43,120 --> 03:18:45,100
Any board members have any other questions?

2257
03:18:46,980 --> 03:18:48,200
Okay, we have one speaker.

2258
03:18:49,140 --> 03:18:49,780
We're going hard.

2259
03:18:51,200 --> 03:18:51,360
Thank you.

2260
03:18:51,360 --> 03:18:51,800
Thank you, Wade.

2261
03:18:58,310 --> 03:19:00,030
Thank you, President Edgar, members of the board.

2262
03:19:00,030 --> 03:19:02,090
We're going hard on behalf of the Floor Control Association.

2263
03:19:02,410 --> 03:19:03,530
I have two comments I want to make.

2264
03:19:03,870 --> 03:19:07,010
First, I want to thank the Department for generating this information and

2265
03:19:07,010 --> 03:19:10,950
continuing to improve our understanding of the deficiencies with the system and

2266
03:19:10,950 --> 03:19:11,930
the status of the system.

2267
03:19:11,930 --> 03:19:20,710
The first comment is on the decision to list the remaining 2018 unrepaired sites on the districts

2268
03:19:20,710 --> 03:19:22,070
of the LMA reports.

2269
03:19:22,690 --> 03:19:24,050
We don't think that's a reasonable approach.

2270
03:19:24,850 --> 03:19:33,210
As we went through the process of defining what is OMR and our understandings, we reached agreement

2271
03:19:33,210 --> 03:19:38,130
that the type of large capital improvement projects that happen after a flood event is not

2272
03:19:38,130 --> 03:19:39,310
the LMA's responsibility.

2273
03:19:39,950 --> 03:19:47,470
The department has a list of 2017 and 2019 storm damage recites that they intend on repairing.

2274
03:19:48,270 --> 03:19:51,790
The sites haven't been repaired for one or two reasons as I understand it.

2275
03:19:51,970 --> 03:19:54,790
First is the lack of resources and the second is the lack of funding.

2276
03:19:57,070 --> 03:20:01,410
Those two reasons should not be why it gets put on to the LMAs responsibility.

2277
03:20:01,590 --> 03:20:04,330
And our concern is if it starts getting listed on the periodic inspections,

2278
03:20:04,570 --> 03:20:08,530
the perception is going to be, this is the deficiency that the LMA needs to take responsibility for.

2279
03:20:08,530 --> 03:20:09,950
and we don't think that's reasonable.

2280
03:20:10,550 --> 03:20:12,810
And so we do want to revisit that issue of what happens

2281
03:20:12,810 --> 03:20:15,450
to these sites that haven't been repaired

2282
03:20:15,450 --> 03:20:17,110
either because of a lack of resources.

2283
03:20:17,210 --> 03:20:19,430
And if we need more funding, then the administration

2284
03:20:19,430 --> 03:20:22,470
should be putting that in there proposed budget for 2020.

2285
03:20:22,710 --> 03:20:24,350
And that funding is not in there.

2286
03:20:25,690 --> 03:20:28,150
The second item is something that I brought it

2287
03:20:28,150 --> 03:20:29,110
before your board before.

2288
03:20:29,290 --> 03:20:32,150
We have had a periodic inspection, a levian inspection program

2289
03:20:32,150 --> 03:20:33,830
that gives us all of the deficiencies

2290
03:20:33,830 --> 03:20:36,530
with existing levies, but we don't have that for the floodways.

2291
03:20:36,530 --> 03:20:41,450
And so I'm looking forward to reviewing this report and seeing and hoping that it identifies

2292
03:20:42,110 --> 03:20:46,950
where through maintenance, a lack of maintenance for vegetation or sediment or subsidence,

2293
03:20:47,610 --> 03:20:51,770
we don't have sufficient capacity in our levy systems. To bring that home, I want to cite two

2294
03:20:51,770 --> 03:20:58,590
examples that I know are problems. On February 27th of 2019, we had a flood event on Cash Creek

2295
03:20:58,590 --> 03:21:05,770
and a levy overtopped in two locations at a flow of 26,400 CFS. The advertised capacity for that

2296
03:21:05,770 --> 03:21:10,590
system is 30,000 CFS, and that's what the core, the locals, the state, believed what it was,

2297
03:21:10,730 --> 03:21:13,330
but yet we overtop the levees system to flow well below that.

2298
03:21:13,850 --> 03:21:17,070
We still don't know why that's the case, and we don't know what the plan is to do anything

2299
03:21:17,070 --> 03:21:18,290
about it.

2300
03:21:18,890 --> 03:21:21,330
The other area is that the Fremont Weir.

2301
03:21:22,110 --> 03:21:26,810
There's a riparian forest that's been growing for some time on the east side of the Fremont

2302
03:21:26,810 --> 03:21:27,230
Weir.

2303
03:21:27,530 --> 03:21:31,890
That's not in compliance with the maintenance program that are the maintenance requirements

2304
03:21:32,950 --> 03:21:35,070
for the advertised channel capacity.

2305
03:21:35,070 --> 03:21:39,910
I know there are other locations like that, and knowing where these are so that we can prioritize funding.

2306
03:21:40,430 --> 03:21:42,830
I'm hoping are identified in this report.

2307
03:21:43,550 --> 03:21:48,410
The association will make comments on it, and hopefully we can work with you to address both of those issues going forward.

2308
03:21:48,590 --> 03:21:49,160
So thank you.

2309
03:21:50,330 --> 03:21:52,290
Any questions from Rick?

2310
03:21:53,750 --> 03:22:00,330
Okay, you're working with both President and Wade on trying to develop these.

2311
03:22:00,330 --> 03:22:06,310
Number one, reporting systems and identification systems,

2312
03:22:06,850 --> 03:22:10,350
the more information we get on these, the better, I think,

2313
03:22:10,570 --> 03:22:13,990
and then we can deal with the data as we can.

2314
03:22:14,430 --> 03:22:16,510
So I would hope that would continue.

2315
03:22:18,350 --> 03:22:22,590
We just like to see some urgency brought to completing the storm damage repairs.

2316
03:22:23,230 --> 03:22:25,010
I think that's an equal issue.

2317
03:22:25,630 --> 03:22:27,890
If the resources don't exist within an apartment,

2318
03:22:27,890 --> 03:22:32,570
then what other resources are available? Can we contract with local LMA to do the

2319
03:22:32,570 --> 03:22:36,670
live your repairs, or can additional resources be brought to bear with us that you

2320
03:22:36,670 --> 03:22:38,090
consider that as well?

2321
03:22:40,560 --> 03:22:41,240
Yeah, Joe.

2322
03:22:46,540 --> 03:22:53,760
On cash-create, I understand there's been subsidence and cash-create areas.

2323
03:22:53,960 --> 03:22:54,680
Is that correct?

2324
03:22:54,940 --> 03:22:55,200
Yes.

2325
03:22:55,680 --> 03:23:01,100
So is that the most likely reason that the levees are being overtoped,

2326
03:23:01,260 --> 03:23:02,920
that we're losing gradient through there?

2327
03:23:02,920 --> 03:23:06,100
I want to be careful about forming an opinion

2328
03:23:06,100 --> 03:23:06,980
without seeing the data.

2329
03:23:07,160 --> 03:23:08,720
The Department did survey it.

2330
03:23:08,860 --> 03:23:10,200
And so we're going to have that data.

2331
03:23:10,520 --> 03:23:12,760
I understand that a department has been doing hydraulic modeling,

2332
03:23:13,140 --> 03:23:15,160
using that survey data to prepare report.

2333
03:23:15,620 --> 03:23:16,860
Oh, that's to document it.

2334
03:23:17,000 --> 03:23:19,020
And I think we ought to hold out judgment.

2335
03:23:19,800 --> 03:23:22,680
But it is correct to say that there has been subsidence

2336
03:23:22,680 --> 03:23:24,220
in that general area.

2337
03:23:24,540 --> 03:23:26,020
That was my next question.

2338
03:23:26,240 --> 03:23:28,020
It seems that it should be a very high priority

2339
03:23:28,020 --> 03:23:29,980
to get new hydraulic modeling.

2340
03:23:29,980 --> 03:23:33,600
I believe it only has a 10-year design.

2341
03:23:34,380 --> 03:23:34,760
Yeah.

2342
03:23:34,920 --> 03:23:35,800
It's something like that.

2343
03:23:36,060 --> 03:23:38,140
And this year's foot event was smaller than that.

2344
03:23:38,240 --> 03:23:38,880
And it overtopped.

2345
03:23:39,400 --> 03:23:39,660
Yeah.

2346
03:23:40,300 --> 03:23:42,840
So this is like, we're asking for a failure.

2347
03:23:43,020 --> 03:23:45,980
Did it overtop on the south side or the north side?

2348
03:23:46,640 --> 03:23:47,920
It overtopped on two locations.

2349
03:23:48,360 --> 03:23:52,160
It overtopped on the north side just downstream of the community to YOLO

2350
03:23:52,160 --> 03:23:55,980
and the department did a wonderful job.

2351
03:23:55,980 --> 03:23:58,880
Flood fighting, sandbagging to make sure that we didn't have a failure there.

2352
03:23:58,880 --> 03:24:03,760
And then there was also a overtopping on the south side

2353
03:24:03,760 --> 03:24:04,480
farther downstream.

2354
03:24:05,980 --> 03:24:07,660
OK, yeah, this is something we really need

2355
03:24:07,660 --> 03:24:10,300
to stay on top of because of potential flooding

2356
03:24:10,300 --> 03:24:12,160
of woodlands of all there.

2357
03:24:14,420 --> 03:24:14,440
Thank you.

2358
03:24:14,780 --> 03:24:15,080
Thank you.

2359
03:24:15,540 --> 03:24:16,500
Any other questions?

2360
03:24:17,380 --> 03:24:17,720
The board.

2361
03:24:22,900 --> 03:24:27,720
OK, Preston, I think you've heard the boards concern.

2362
03:24:30,000 --> 03:24:32,860
We need you to sit down with the team

2363
03:24:32,860 --> 03:24:38,360
And develop some reports back on what to do about these issues.

2364
03:24:39,200 --> 03:24:40,680
One is the repeater fenders.

2365
03:24:41,960 --> 03:24:44,120
One is the designated floodway.

2366
03:24:44,280 --> 03:24:46,820
What's our way forward here, program.

2367
03:24:48,140 --> 03:25:03,500
And then I guess this last issue is the storm damage repairs we need to somehow develop some

2368
03:25:03,500 --> 03:25:07,200
funding, and I'm not sure whether or not to include that.

2369
03:25:07,400 --> 03:25:10,260
I've done seems to me Rick is right.

2370
03:25:10,460 --> 03:25:13,200
I mean, if this has been areas been designated

2371
03:25:13,200 --> 03:25:15,120
as a storm damage repair,

2372
03:25:15,160 --> 03:25:18,360
the state is going to come in with funding and do,

2373
03:25:18,980 --> 03:25:22,260
then we shouldn't have it on inspection report

2374
03:25:22,260 --> 03:25:24,880
that's the efficiency of the LMA,

2375
03:25:25,560 --> 03:25:27,500
but I don't know how you want to deal with that.

2376
03:25:27,600 --> 03:25:29,300
Well, after discussing those,

2377
03:25:29,560 --> 03:25:30,220
you still tell us.

2378
03:25:30,220 --> 03:25:43,300
And then the final issue is this issue of subsidence and over-topping in these two areas that we probably should look at, and I guess is being looked at at the present time.

2379
03:25:43,700 --> 03:25:45,100
We can follow up.

2380
03:25:45,280 --> 03:25:47,240
Any other concerns to the board?

2381
03:25:50,960 --> 03:25:51,140
Okay.

2382
03:25:51,520 --> 03:25:52,600
Thanks very much, Percy.

2383
03:25:58,110 --> 03:25:58,490
Okay.

2384
03:25:58,810 --> 03:26:02,410
Item C-9C has been removed from the agenda.

2385
03:26:03,390 --> 03:26:07,270
At this point, Kyle Bickler, Senior Engineer,

2386
03:26:07,630 --> 03:26:15,190
he works for the Christianel team in the Department of Water Resource.

2387
03:26:15,590 --> 03:26:21,800
He's going to give us an informational briefing on the 7-mile

2388
03:26:21,800 --> 03:26:25,120
setback project along the north bank of the Sacramento Viper.

2389
03:26:26,660 --> 03:26:27,340
Good afternoon.

2390
03:26:27,900 --> 03:26:29,420
President Agar and members of the board.

2391
03:26:30,020 --> 03:26:30,740
My name is Kyle Bickler.

2392
03:26:30,880 --> 03:26:32,460
I'm with Department of Water Resources.

2393
03:26:33,120 --> 03:26:39,300
I'm here today to provide a briefing on the lower L-Core and Basin Libby setback project.

2394
03:26:40,140 --> 03:26:42,740
It's a kind of an exciting day for us.

2395
03:26:43,180 --> 03:26:45,440
I've personally been working on this project for four years.

2396
03:26:45,760 --> 03:26:52,180
I'm the lead to a technical engineer recently taken over as the project manager for Corey

2397
03:26:52,180 --> 03:26:52,800
Lasso.

2398
03:26:53,540 --> 03:26:57,460
We've the board has seen several briefings on this project over the years.

2399
03:26:58,320 --> 03:27:04,800
I want to thank the Board's participation in bringing this project to where it is today.

2400
03:27:05,720 --> 03:27:11,260
And I want to thank our project partners at the Army Corps of Engineers and SafeCA.

2401
03:27:11,260 --> 03:27:25,800
The Reclamation District's 537-785-827 Yellow County and the Landowners as well as Wickland

2402
03:27:25,800 --> 03:27:28,120
breakdown this summer.

2403
03:27:30,680 --> 03:27:35,500
The purpose of this briefing is to provide a status update for the lower L-Permbation

2404
03:27:35,500 --> 03:27:38,520
Libby setback project, which I'll refer to as levels.

2405
03:27:40,300 --> 03:27:44,200
And to inform the Board of our intention to request an approval of the encroachment permit

2406
03:27:44,200 --> 03:27:46,880
at the board meeting on February 28, next month.

2407
03:27:49,670 --> 03:27:55,310
Many of you have seen this in the past, but I'll go through it briefly to orient yourself

2408
03:27:55,310 --> 03:28:00,810
if the mouse works, I'd like to be able to point up here at the screen, but it doesn't

2409
03:28:00,810 --> 03:28:11,410
appear to be working, so I'll read off the red line there, is the existing yellow bypass

2410
03:28:12,170 --> 03:28:17,890
east levee, and that line will shift over to the yellow line, that will become the setback

2411
03:28:20,650 --> 03:28:29,470
It's about a 1,500 to 1,800 foot set back, the brown area in between will be the future expanded

2412
03:28:30,190 --> 03:28:34,150
floodway and will borrow the material for the new levy out of this area.

2413
03:28:35,910 --> 03:28:40,170
If you're not familiar, many of us are, this is the Sacramento National Airport up here, north

2414
03:28:40,170 --> 03:28:47,870
of I-5, Sacramento River, flows down, if you've got an atoneness over here, Woodland is

2415
03:28:47,870 --> 03:28:52,690
across the bypass, and the Sacramento bypass comes to you right here.

2416
03:28:53,150 --> 03:28:56,870
The Army Corps of Engineers is currently working on widening the

2417
03:28:56,870 --> 03:28:57,630
wear.

2418
03:28:57,930 --> 03:29:00,850
It'll widen right here, and then the levy will come straight across.

2419
03:29:01,210 --> 03:29:04,550
So this levy segment that we have here is meant to be temporary.

2420
03:29:06,110 --> 03:29:08,350
We didn't expect that the Corps was going to move as quickly as they did,

2421
03:29:08,450 --> 03:29:09,330
but they're right on our tails.

2422
03:29:09,690 --> 03:29:14,170
And so it looks like they'll be wanting to go to construction in 2021.

2423
03:29:14,870 --> 03:29:19,430
and they're very eager to have us move forward with this project quickly.

2424
03:29:21,750 --> 03:29:25,370
The seven miles, the new levee will be seven miles long.

2425
03:29:25,890 --> 03:29:30,110
The main benefits are flood risk reduction, ecosystem, agricultural preservation,

2426
03:29:31,970 --> 03:29:35,370
sequela notice that determination was filed March 19, 2019,

2427
03:29:35,870 --> 03:29:37,970
and we're expecting to go to construction this summer.

2428
03:29:39,470 --> 03:29:42,090
As you know, the genesis of the lower-alcrum basin,

2429
03:29:42,090 --> 03:29:46,650
So let me set back Project, started with the Center of Life of a Protection Plan and the update,

2430
03:29:47,610 --> 03:29:54,750
based on white feasibility studies, regional studies, and federal and local partners,

2431
03:29:55,450 --> 03:29:59,730
stakeholders were involved as well as the conservation strategy.

2432
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:04,420
Informed a lot of our mitigation requirements for the project.

2433
03:30:06,460 --> 03:30:11,700
Levels is a multi-ventific project. It's a state-led project. We started about five years ago.

2434
03:30:12,320 --> 03:30:18,760
However, it is required a lot of resources, both within the department and within our consulting partners

2435
03:30:18,760 --> 03:30:26,560
and partnering agencies and permitting agencies. We've worked extremely hard over the last five years to get to where we are today.

2436
03:30:26,560 --> 03:30:32,720
The primary benefits that I'll go over in the next few slides are flood risk reduction, ecosystem, and agriculture.

2437
03:30:34,600 --> 03:30:40,040
Flood benefits include flood risk reduction for over 700,000 people, and more than 50 billion dollars in assets.

2438
03:30:40,700 --> 03:30:45,740
We're going to construct seven miles of new setback levees replacing existing deficient levees.

2439
03:30:45,960 --> 03:30:53,660
The setback levees are designed to withstand the 100-year water source elevation plus one foot for resiliency and climate change adaptation,

2440
03:30:53,660 --> 03:30:56,460
as well as the levees will have six feet of free board.

2441
03:30:57,320 --> 03:31:01,680
The project lowers flood stages on both the Sacramento River and the Illinois pass.

2442
03:31:02,380 --> 03:31:08,000
levees will have a 28-foot wide crown width for resiliency and do come a future raise if needed

2443
03:31:08,000 --> 03:31:11,000
to still also have a 20-foot crown width.

2444
03:31:11,160 --> 03:31:16,600
So we could raise it one foot, further if the future demanded that.

2445
03:31:17,220 --> 03:31:21,800
Both sides of the levee of the water side and the landslide slopes will have four to one slopes

2446
03:31:21,800 --> 03:31:27,740
to allow use of on-site clay, but if you can imagine existing levees out there today have roughly

2447
03:31:27,740 --> 03:31:32,500
two and a half to one slope, so they barely have 20 foot crowned with, they're comparatively

2448
03:31:32,500 --> 03:31:37,500
this levees are going to be much larger, much more resilient or robust and redundant.

2449
03:31:38,820 --> 03:31:45,360
We'll be constructing three miles of seeped berms, in areas where the blanket is not sufficient

2450
03:31:45,360 --> 03:31:46,860
to deal with seepage.

2451
03:31:46,860 --> 03:31:52,520
For the most part, the lower L-Corm basin has a very thick clay blanket, and then in the

2452
03:31:52,520 --> 03:31:55,540
few areas where the clay blanket is thinner, we'll construct secret verms.

2453
03:31:58,340 --> 03:32:05,220
I was hoping that this wasn't as small as it is on the screen, but if I could just give you

2454
03:32:05,220 --> 03:32:08,240
a quick overview, I'll try to remember what the numbers are.

2455
03:32:09,120 --> 03:32:11,320
There are five points here.

2456
03:32:12,480 --> 03:32:18,140
These are hydraulic modeling points, or I'm sorry there's actually six points, we've got the

2457
03:32:18,140 --> 03:32:21,520
My sheet bridge is probably the biggest one that we want to talk about.

2458
03:32:22,260 --> 03:32:24,200
This box should be blue.

2459
03:32:24,860 --> 03:32:29,360
When we converted this to a slide yesterday, it actually would thank you very much.

2460
03:32:30,220 --> 03:32:32,380
Jeremy Hill is our H&H modeler.

2461
03:32:33,000 --> 03:32:33,840
He's with us.

2462
03:32:34,060 --> 03:32:39,500
If you have any questions, basically, at the I-Street Bridge location or the 100 year flood event,

2463
03:32:39,660 --> 03:32:49,940
the flood stays will lower by 0.8 feet and up here at the top of I-5, the very

2464
03:32:49,940 --> 03:32:55,600
northernmost dot, if the cursor will turn on, is will lower the water

2465
03:32:55,600 --> 03:33:02,800
serve salvation in the L of bypass by 0.71 feet. And just south of that east of

2466
03:33:02,800 --> 03:33:10,860
Woodland, the water serve salvation will lower by about 0.7 feet. And the third

2467
03:33:10,860 --> 03:33:18,840
dot down in the L of bypass, will lower by about 0.2 feet. There's one anomalous

2468
03:33:18,840 --> 03:33:24,840
point here that has seen a small increase of about an inch, about a tenth of a foot.

2469
03:33:25,080 --> 03:33:28,740
And the reason for that is we're allowing more water in a little bypass.

2470
03:33:29,180 --> 03:33:34,960
And so as we implement the Center for Firefly Protection Plan and Stages, there will be

2471
03:33:34,960 --> 03:33:38,840
slight impacts that are have to be offset by future projects and future widenings.

2472
03:33:38,880 --> 03:33:41,460
And that's the plan where we can't do everything it wants.

2473
03:33:42,140 --> 03:33:48,800
But this project goes a long way to expand the olivipass to about more flood water to come off the main stem.

2474
03:33:49,880 --> 03:33:55,460
river get it away from the urban areas of Sacramento into the olvipass, which is what

2475
03:33:55,460 --> 03:34:03,100
it's designed for. The olvipass carries 80% of the footfills. And so the main goal is to

2476
03:34:03,620 --> 03:34:08,860
get the water into the olvipass. The Army Corps of Engineers recognizes this. They have

2477
03:34:08,860 --> 03:34:17,440
the third-way authorized project to widen the weir. And so we're moving right along in that

2478
03:34:17,440 --> 03:34:17,920
effort.

2479
03:34:19,580 --> 03:34:23,460
Acosis and benefits produce 1,000,000 acres of additional

2480
03:34:23,460 --> 03:34:26,920
innovative floodplain, 18 acres of riparian wood and

2481
03:34:26,920 --> 03:34:31,980
forest, 320 acres of native perennial grassland, 169

2482
03:34:31,980 --> 03:34:36,580
acres of giant goddess snake habitat, and 156 acres of

2483
03:34:36,580 --> 03:34:38,180
swanes and hawk, foraging habitat.

2484
03:34:39,460 --> 03:34:47,420
Agriculture benefits improve flood protection for the

2485
03:34:47,420 --> 03:34:54,820
County. 282 acres of Agaland protected under easement as a result of this project. Interior

2486
03:34:54,820 --> 03:35:01,360
drainage system for the lower Alcorm basin is being upgraded to discharge the 100 year storm

2487
03:35:01,360 --> 03:35:06,780
event. Currently their discharge capabilities around the 10 year event and they have local flooding.

2488
03:35:07,720 --> 03:35:14,000
So there's a big modernization effort. Safeica has been helping us out quite a bit on this working

2489
03:35:14,000 --> 03:35:20,140
directly with the Reclamation Districts in the landowners to improve drainage in the basin.

2490
03:35:22,240 --> 03:35:25,640
The three Reclamation Districts are in the process of merging.

2491
03:35:26,460 --> 03:35:30,580
RD537 will take over as the single Reclamation District in a lower L-Carm basin.

2492
03:35:31,400 --> 03:35:35,820
And their future corporation yard will be constructed of above the 100-year floodplain,

2493
03:35:36,700 --> 03:35:41,720
which is a great benefit for them for their operations and emergency response throughout the basin.

2494
03:35:42,920 --> 03:35:50,160
Project funding, $151 million comes from Proposition 2035 million from Prop 68,

2495
03:35:50,780 --> 03:35:55,440
$5 million from Prop 1, give us a total of $291 million.

2496
03:35:55,800 --> 03:35:59,500
That's covered planning, design, permitting real estate, and that will take us through construction.

2497
03:36:01,870 --> 03:36:05,170
Our construction contract procurement schedule that we're targeting,

2498
03:36:05,230 --> 03:36:09,410
we're targeting to go out to construction and advertise for construction on March 27.

2499
03:36:09,410 --> 03:36:16,230
We'll job walk with the bidders approximately three weeks later on April 14, and then three weeks later.

2500
03:36:16,490 --> 03:36:19,970
So a total of six weeks this package will be on the street.

2501
03:36:20,770 --> 03:36:26,550
We'll open bids and award and commit funds approximately eight to ten days later.

2502
03:36:27,450 --> 03:36:32,230
The Department Division of Engineering will issue notice of being in work on June 1.

2503
03:36:32,610 --> 03:36:38,030
We expect three years of construction, depending on the water years,

2504
03:36:38,030 --> 03:36:42,310
If we have high water in the Sacramento River, the little bypass ground water could be high for

2505
03:36:42,310 --> 03:36:48,810
extended periods of time, which kick us into a fourth year of construction, it's a contingency

2506
03:36:48,810 --> 03:36:49,310
idea.

2507
03:36:50,170 --> 03:36:55,030
We're on the hook for five years of monitoring, mitigation, establishment.

2508
03:36:55,970 --> 03:37:02,190
That takes us into at least 20-27, are there any questions on this?

2509
03:37:02,310 --> 03:37:02,970
Are we going fast?

2510
03:37:03,070 --> 03:37:07,470
I know the day is long, I'm trying to help you guys out here, but I'll stop if you have

2511
03:37:07,470 --> 03:37:16,970
questions and in closing we request for approval of the encroachment permit for levels will be a consent item at next month's board meeting.

2512
03:37:17,610 --> 03:37:18,490
That's all I have.

2513
03:37:19,290 --> 03:37:19,350
Okay.

2514
03:37:20,150 --> 03:37:22,570
Any questions for Kyle?

2515
03:37:27,220 --> 03:37:27,240
Okay.

2516
03:37:27,520 --> 03:37:27,580
Jane.

2517
03:37:31,070 --> 03:37:38,370
Is the increased flood protection for agriculture agricultural uses within the bypass or outside?

2518
03:37:40,330 --> 03:37:47,470
Primarily, it's in the protected, how do I go back, previous, you want to go back for me, please.

2519
03:37:49,750 --> 03:38:00,630
It's in the protected area of the lower, okay, so currently the existing seven miles

2520
03:38:00,630 --> 03:38:05,450
here experiences a slope failure about once every three or four years from the bypass as high.

2521
03:38:05,450 --> 03:38:07,790
They're actually battling a failure right now.

2522
03:38:09,170 --> 03:38:11,990
And the department fixed a couple of failures in 2017

2523
03:38:11,990 --> 03:38:14,590
on the North Levy the Sac bypass.

2524
03:38:15,430 --> 03:38:16,810
Do the nature of the clay soil.

2525
03:38:17,310 --> 03:38:19,350
In fact, all the levies in the vicinity

2526
03:38:19,350 --> 03:38:22,690
of this project area have clay soils that generally

2527
03:38:22,690 --> 03:38:24,570
misbehaved when they get wet.

2528
03:38:24,890 --> 03:38:25,930
They lose strength.

2529
03:38:27,430 --> 03:38:28,790
And that's one of the reasons why we're going

2530
03:38:28,790 --> 03:38:29,650
to 41 slopes.

2531
03:38:30,230 --> 03:38:31,370
Yeah, clay soils.

2532
03:38:31,550 --> 03:38:32,650
A clay soils, yes.

2533
03:38:33,310 --> 03:38:38,850
You could look at it as since flood stages are being lowered in the olivipass.

2534
03:38:39,010 --> 03:38:44,950
They'll see less frequent inundation during the larger events or the inundation won't be as high.

2535
03:38:46,450 --> 03:38:54,930
So you could argue that the city of Woodland across the way is receiving some increased flood protection

2536
03:38:54,930 --> 03:38:59,610
because during 100 years from event, they're seeing lower water levels on their levees.

2537
03:39:01,070 --> 03:39:07,430
by approximately 0.6 feet and just above 0.71 feet.

2538
03:39:07,670 --> 03:39:13,110
So almost a foot, we'd argue that even after the weir is widened, they'll see further.

2539
03:39:14,050 --> 03:39:16,070
And the CPG berms would help as well.

2540
03:39:16,730 --> 03:39:20,830
The CPG berms are mainly to control exigredients for the new levee.

2541
03:39:21,790 --> 03:39:22,930
Cut-off walls are used.

2542
03:39:23,510 --> 03:39:28,210
This particular basin is interesting because cut-off walls may

2543
03:39:29,490 --> 03:39:34,190
creates some issues during certain hydraulic events because primary

2544
03:39:34,190 --> 03:39:37,570
seepage in the lower L-Cormbasin comes from the Sacramento River.

2545
03:39:38,090 --> 03:39:41,150
Seepage is generally the Sacramento River is higher by about three

2546
03:39:41,150 --> 03:39:42,750
feet in the Yola bypass.

2547
03:39:43,810 --> 03:39:48,210
And the non-Raven Lever evaluation program actually rated the entire

2548
03:39:49,430 --> 03:39:54,690
Sacramento River east-levy of the lower L-Cormbasin as highly

2549
03:39:54,690 --> 03:39:56,510
susceptible to under seepage.

2550
03:39:57,230 --> 03:40:05,930
And so if we had a cutoff wall to mitigate high-exit gradients on our setback levy, there's

2551
03:40:05,930 --> 03:40:10,590
a scenario where groundwater would come in from the Sacramento River and actually hit

2552
03:40:10,590 --> 03:40:14,450
that as a seafood block and raise groundwater levels in the lower-alpern basin.

2553
03:40:14,690 --> 03:40:21,330
And so to make sure that the farmers can can farm and they generally have to deal with high

2554
03:40:21,330 --> 03:40:27,070
water out there on a regular basis. They actually can predict very quickly, depending on where

2555
03:40:27,070 --> 03:40:30,450
the rivers that, which fields they can actually get into and which fields they can't.

2556
03:40:33,180 --> 03:40:34,220
All right. Thank you.

2557
03:40:35,440 --> 03:40:37,160
You said the,

2558
03:40:39,370 --> 03:40:44,890
the stage of the river at the ice street bridge is going to be reduced by

2559
03:40:44,890 --> 03:40:50,430
two and a half feet or something. No. With just the lower all-cran basin, let me set back

2560
03:40:50,430 --> 03:40:57,190
project. This stage reduction is 0.8 feet. After the weird widening, it reduces another

2561
03:40:57,190 --> 03:41:03,170
foot of about and so it's about 1.8 feet total. So we have an opportunity about five

2562
03:41:03,170 --> 03:41:08,130
years from now if we can implement this project and the weird completes that we'll have stage

2563
03:41:08,130 --> 03:41:13,950
reductions at I-Story of almost two feet. That's pretty know. Do you happen to know

2564
03:41:13,950 --> 03:41:20,630
whether there's the, in the emergency operations, manuals or procedures,

2565
03:41:23,510 --> 03:41:24,410
the stage of the

2566
03:41:24,410 --> 03:41:31,930
ice street is, I think, 27 feet and then they start emergency operations. I'm assuming that's

2567
03:41:31,930 --> 03:41:35,150
going to be adjusted based up on this work that's being done.

2568
03:41:36,110 --> 03:41:40,210
I would guess the core might update the water control manual as part of the weird widening.

2569
03:41:40,210 --> 03:41:44,470
I don't know, that I could be a question we could follow upon for you.

2570
03:41:44,470 --> 03:41:45,530
Oh, do you know that?

2571
03:41:47,000 --> 03:41:48,780
No, patient, you need to open a gate.

2572
03:41:48,960 --> 03:41:50,940
She wouldn't change that rule.

2573
03:41:50,980 --> 03:41:51,340
Right.

2574
03:41:51,700 --> 03:41:53,900
Oh, I mean, oh, okay.

2575
03:41:54,420 --> 03:41:54,540
Okay.

2576
03:41:54,720 --> 03:41:57,400
So you'd open the gate the same as you did before.

2577
03:41:57,860 --> 03:41:58,140
All right.

2578
03:41:58,140 --> 03:41:59,060
Just be less free.

2579
03:41:59,340 --> 03:42:00,120
Less free.

2580
03:42:00,420 --> 03:42:00,640
Okay.

2581
03:42:01,120 --> 03:42:01,540
All right.

2582
03:42:02,700 --> 03:42:03,880
Any other questions?

2583
03:42:05,180 --> 03:42:06,000
Okay. Thank you.

2584
03:42:06,340 --> 03:42:07,100
Thank you.

2585
03:42:13,000 --> 03:42:13,300
Okay.

2586
03:42:13,500 --> 03:42:13,600
Where?

2587
03:42:14,220 --> 03:42:14,480
President?

2588
03:42:16,720 --> 03:42:24,120
It's an item of this importance and magnitude and intention of appropriate on the consent.

2589
03:42:29,140 --> 03:42:30,700
Well, further the couple times.

2590
03:42:30,740 --> 03:42:32,000
We're more than a couple times.

2591
03:42:32,100 --> 03:42:33,680
Do you want it?

2592
03:42:33,680 --> 03:42:34,340
What's the actual?

2593
03:42:35,060 --> 03:42:36,880
It just seems because it's so important.

2594
03:42:38,000 --> 03:42:38,140
Okay.

2595
03:42:39,040 --> 03:42:40,180
We can do that.

2596
03:42:40,380 --> 03:42:40,560
Sure.

2597
03:42:40,640 --> 03:42:42,780
We can agenda as in any way you'd like.

2598
03:42:43,140 --> 03:42:44,060
You want it as a hearing?

2599
03:42:47,210 --> 03:42:47,730
Okay.

2600
03:42:50,410 --> 03:42:51,990
We're on items 10.

2601
03:42:53,210 --> 03:42:57,530
My understanding is that item 10A has been removed.

2602
03:42:58,630 --> 03:43:00,390
Jake, can you?

2603
03:43:00,410 --> 03:43:01,730
Yes, that's correct.

2604
03:43:02,710 --> 03:43:04,670
Jake, can you give us a report, please?

2605
03:43:05,410 --> 03:43:05,650
Yes.

2606
03:43:06,710 --> 03:43:11,930
Mr. Harmats, who initially requested to appear before the board, had another commitment.

2607
03:43:12,210 --> 03:43:14,770
One could not wait until his item was being called.

2608
03:43:14,950 --> 03:43:18,250
And two, we also worked out he has a new designs,

2609
03:43:21,940 --> 03:43:22,080
which

2610
03:43:22,080 --> 03:43:30,460
We're going to need to talk to the board, so we have a path forward, so he's going to submit a new application with the redesign for the board's consideration at a future date.

2611
03:43:31,920 --> 03:43:35,380
Okay, so this will be next week, next month.

2612
03:43:38,180 --> 03:43:38,640
All right.

2613
03:43:40,040 --> 03:43:52,810
We're on item 10B, which is the Resolution and Accessory Conway Preservation Group and presentation from

2614
03:43:54,090 --> 03:43:56,430
Mr. Bartwood and Matt DeGrew.

2615
03:44:00,790 --> 03:44:03,650
I guess I need glasses for part of this.

2616
03:44:04,090 --> 03:44:04,410
Good afternoon.

2617
03:44:04,870 --> 03:44:06,370
President Eggher, members of board.

2618
03:44:06,510 --> 03:44:07,330
My name is Joe Bartlett.

2619
03:44:07,530 --> 03:44:10,370
I work with DWR in the Division of Multi-Manifet initiatives.

2620
03:44:10,690 --> 03:44:14,330
I think it's been quite a while since I've had the opportunity to give a

2621
03:44:14,330 --> 03:44:15,130
presentation to you also.

2622
03:44:15,150 --> 03:44:16,890
I appreciate you having me here today.

2623
03:44:17,950 --> 03:44:21,350
We're going to talk a little bit about the resolution and necessity for

2624
03:44:23,770 --> 03:44:25,810
property needed for the lower L-Corn based and

2625
03:44:25,810 --> 03:44:35,090
be set back on project and go through the presentation overview, start with some introductions.

2626
03:44:35,830 --> 03:44:38,370
I do have a co-presenter that I'll be interested in here in a moment.

2627
03:44:39,350 --> 03:44:45,210
I'll talk about the purpose of this presentation, a project overview, the resolution of necessity requirements,

2628
03:44:46,910 --> 03:44:51,770
the authorities of the board, the resolution of necessity findings, the project conception,

2629
03:44:51,770 --> 03:44:57,630
project need and of course the details of the subject property.

2630
03:45:00,620 --> 03:45:13,560
So, I've arranged this myself as to a partlet. Matt DeGrew, senior right away, agent for the vision of adjourning with end department, will speak a little bit later on the specifics of the subject property.

2631
03:45:17,090 --> 03:45:32,790
So, the purpose of this presentation is to, and we have a request from the Board, obviously, to consider the adoption of the attached resolution, number 2020-01, authorizing eminent domain to acquire and fee-simple interest, a part of the following property.

2632
03:45:32,790 --> 03:45:38,770
identified by Yola County assessor-prosal number sorry I always want to say

2633
03:45:38,770 --> 03:45:46,010
8 p.m., but if you end 0, 4, 2, dash 1, 9, 0, dash 0, 4, and 0, 5, 7,

2634
03:45:46,350 --> 03:45:49,790
dash 2, 0, 0, dash 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6.

2635
03:45:50,110 --> 03:45:52,730
And we'll refer to that furthermore as the property.

2636
03:45:52,730 --> 03:45:57,910
for the lower lorahode core base and leveeset back or commonly in a levels project.

2637
03:46:00,840 --> 03:46:05,480
I'm the brief project of VD, and this probably looks pretty familiar to you since we just saw the

2638
03:46:05,480 --> 03:46:08,520
same slide only moments ago in Kyle's presentation.

2639
03:46:10,760 --> 03:46:14,260
The project is located just south of i5,

2640
03:46:14,380 --> 03:46:19,720
and is bound on the west by the yellow bypass on the east by the Sacramento River and

2641
03:46:19,720 --> 03:46:25,840
at the Southwest Sacramento Bypass to kind of see at the bottom right corner, it says West Sacramento,

2642
03:46:25,960 --> 03:46:31,420
that's the location of the CHP Academy, and below that, you would see offscreen that would

2643
03:46:31,420 --> 03:46:38,100
where we would be where our highway AD causeway crosses the Yellow Bypass. So that's basically where

2644
03:46:38,100 --> 03:46:44,860
we're located. We talked a little bit about the, you know, what this project does,

2645
03:46:44,860 --> 03:46:49,680
covered it pretty extensively, but for the most part, we're setting back this

2646
03:46:49,680 --> 03:46:56,240
levies, 7 miles long, 1,500 foot setback. There's approximately 2,000

2647
03:46:56,240 --> 03:47:02,440
acres within that footprint, over 1100 acres of inadated floodplain, or reconnected

2648
03:47:02,440 --> 03:47:09,260
floodplain, which will provide benefits to both salamonids and regulatory birds

2649
03:47:09,260 --> 03:47:16,760
when it is inundated, there's support for agriculture which, you know, we want to

2650
03:47:16,760 --> 03:47:22,320
great that there's great detail provided by cows this month's ago, but obviously

2651
03:47:22,320 --> 03:47:28,580
flood protection and also where we're converting, you know, land permanently, we're

2652
03:47:28,580 --> 03:47:37,020
putting other lands into easements so that they can no longer be converted. Just to go over a

2653
03:47:37,020 --> 03:47:39,020
couple dates here.

2654
03:47:39,340 --> 03:47:43,460
They were back in July of 2016 as when the project was initiated.

2655
03:47:44,440 --> 03:47:47,960
We had the four-way request to alter levees in September of 2017.

2656
03:47:49,200 --> 03:47:54,460
The draft, EIR, EIS was put out in May 2018.

2657
03:47:55,960 --> 03:48:01,160
The in March 2019 is when the determination, the notice of

2658
03:48:01,160 --> 03:48:08,900
was filed for our secret documents, and then currently our final four-weight package is with

2659
03:48:08,900 --> 03:48:15,460
division, U-says division, and it's under review, and we anticipate it's approval in the next

2660
03:48:15,460 --> 03:48:21,700
coming weeks, and then, you know, as Kyle just went through, we're anticipating going to

2661
03:48:21,700 --> 03:48:26,740
construction in the summer of 2020 this year, so just a few months from now.

2662
03:48:30,810 --> 03:48:41,330
Just to go over the resolution and necessity requirements, I noticed I'm intent to adopt a resolution and necessity was milled on January 6th, 2020 to the owner's record.

2663
03:48:42,830 --> 03:48:45,810
There's a hearing required, which we're in the middle of right now.

2664
03:48:46,530 --> 03:48:58,710
There's a finding and determination, a public use of property, the property description, resolution and necessity findings, and then ultimately adoption of resolution and necessity go over a few of those details here.

2665
03:49:02,580 --> 03:49:05,680
Start up the thirties of the board first.

2666
03:49:06,460 --> 03:49:08,600
The board has authority for resolution necessity and

2667
03:49:08,600 --> 03:49:13,000
eminent domain to California water code section 8590 and

2668
03:49:13,000 --> 03:49:16,980
California water code section 8593 and additional authority and

2669
03:49:16,980 --> 03:49:19,620
California code of civil procedure section 1245.

2670
03:49:21,680 --> 03:49:22,300
.210B

2671
03:49:24,700 --> 03:49:26,280
and they talk a little bit about those

2672
03:49:26,280 --> 03:49:29,480
resolution necessity findings that I mentioned earlier slide.

2673
03:49:29,500 --> 03:49:33,040
Board is being asked to find and determine that the public

2674
03:49:33,040 --> 03:49:43,720
interest in necessity or required by the proposed project, the project is planned or located in a manner that will be most compatible with the greatest public aid and the least private injury.

2675
03:49:44,460 --> 03:49:48,680
The property described in a resolution necessity is necessary for the proposed project.

2676
03:49:49,380 --> 03:49:54,940
And the offer required by government code section 7267.2 has been made to the owner of record.

2677
03:49:54,940 --> 03:49:55,680
So,

2678
03:49:59,810 --> 03:50:26,250
again, I think it's a pretty familiar slide, and Kyle did go through this, I might have a slightly different discussion around it, but, you know, project, how this project really came about, and really started quite a long time ago, with the passing of the SB5-2008 Flip Protection Act, at that time DWR began its planning with the CBAPP and ultimately the board adopted that in 2012.

2679
03:50:27,070 --> 03:50:34,610
for the revisions, and the update to 27 CBP update were informed by more refined and detailed

2680
03:50:34,610 --> 03:50:38,630
studies at local levels, including the Sacramento River Basin White Peacefully Study, performed

2681
03:50:38,630 --> 03:50:44,870
by DWR and also the, I think it's the, I'm going to get this wrong, but the regional flood

2682
03:50:44,870 --> 03:50:51,110
management study and it's the lower Sacramento River Delta North group.

2683
03:50:51,230 --> 03:50:55,350
I think I have that right, it's, but they're the ones who put together the regional flood

2684
03:50:56,270 --> 03:51:08,230
So in the highlights of all of those studies and previous studies are basically, you know, one of the big things that we know is that about 80% of large fled conveyance goes through the bypass system.

2685
03:51:09,150 --> 03:51:15,210
So when you start to talk about adding resiliency and capacity, it makes a lot sense to look in the bypasses.

2686
03:51:15,490 --> 03:51:22,590
So when you start looking at the bypasses and you look at those, you know, more detail studies on the landscape of yellow bypass.

2687
03:51:23,530 --> 03:51:29,810
But the Basin-wide and Regional Studies recognize that there's pretty good opportunities in the lower

2688
03:51:29,810 --> 03:51:39,330
Alcorn Basin, specifically it opens up the SAC bypass and allows the future expansion of the

2689
03:51:39,330 --> 03:51:44,030
wear, but even in itself at lower stages, just by doing that, because it will increase the efficiencies.

2690
03:51:45,030 --> 03:51:51,110
There's also a lot of alignment between the two plans, and with a lot of work with the locals,

2691
03:51:51,110 --> 03:51:57,230
the RDs, landowners, and others, we were able to adjust the linements and come up with something

2692
03:51:57,230 --> 03:52:02,190
that really worked for everyone. So, through all this planning purposes, I think we came up with a,

2693
03:52:02,190 --> 03:52:09,470
you know, a really good project that's able to achieve multi-benefits, you know, flood risk, agricultural

2694
03:52:10,570 --> 03:52:18,210
and ecosystem benefits. So, it really is kind of, I think a model for the future on how we can

2695
03:52:18,210 --> 03:52:23,090
multi-benefit projects, and it really is, I think, a well-planned and thought-out project.

2696
03:52:25,130 --> 03:52:28,210
I should, I know I'd start with something like that, so I'm going to read because I

2697
03:52:28,210 --> 03:52:31,990
want to forget this one. So, this project will be most compatible with the Grace Public

2698
03:52:31,990 --> 03:52:36,830
Good and at least private entry because it will provide maximum flood protection while simultaneously

2699
03:52:36,830 --> 03:52:40,930
minimizing the amount and private land that will be acquired. The project design incorporates

2700
03:52:40,930 --> 03:52:46,330
communicate community input and advice, technical, and safety considerations, and multiple agency

2701
03:52:46,330 --> 03:52:52,130
review is. So, I talked a lot about the stakeholder participation, but we've also been

2702
03:52:52,130 --> 03:52:56,750
working closely with the different agencies, including California Department,

2703
03:52:56,870 --> 03:53:02,270
Official Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, and then with the court self from

2704
03:53:02,270 --> 03:53:08,770
a technical standpoint. We've also employed, as part of our quality assurance program, several

2705
03:53:08,770 --> 03:53:16,250
experts outside experts of the department to review our work in terms of safety of design

2706
03:53:16,250 --> 03:53:19,790
from hydrology and hydrology standpoint and geotechnical standpoint.

2707
03:53:22,880 --> 03:53:29,400
The project need, this is also some repetitive information, but I'll go through it quickly,

2708
03:53:30,460 --> 03:53:34,320
flooding threatens life and public safety property, critical infrastructure, and the environment.

2709
03:53:35,720 --> 03:53:41,220
This project will improve public safety for over 700,000 people, it will increase protection

2710
03:53:41,220 --> 03:53:46,640
of more than $50 billion in assets, it provides increased system resiliency, it replaces

2711
03:53:46,640 --> 03:53:52,660
efficient existing levees. Kyle talked a little bit about some of the recent issues we've

2712
03:53:52,660 --> 03:53:56,880
had out there. We haven't had a brittle failure or we lost the levee, but we've had stability

2713
03:53:56,880 --> 03:54:03,820
issues and slething and slope failures over the years and even in 2017 we had fairly extensive

2714
03:54:03,820 --> 03:54:15,600
damage that had to be repaired. As the system ages and we see higher flows and the back

2715
03:54:15,600 --> 03:54:19,040
isn't, you know, in addition to doing all the great things it does, it also gets an opportunity

2716
03:54:19,560 --> 03:54:21,880
to improve a structure and bring it up to modern standards.

2717
03:54:25,100 --> 03:54:28,940
And then, you know, I mentioned earlier, we're going to provide increased in a data flood

2718
03:54:28,940 --> 03:54:33,880
plants for diversity of native aquatic and traditional species in the ULVIPAS.

2719
03:54:36,950 --> 03:54:41,630
And with that, I would like to introduce that degree to come up and talk a little bit

2720
03:54:41,630 --> 03:54:45,410
more about the specifics of the subject property.

2721
03:54:51,650 --> 03:54:54,910
Good afternoon, or President Eger,

2722
03:54:55,710 --> 03:54:56,470
bill of board members.

2723
03:54:57,410 --> 03:54:59,390
Matt are good, seeing a right-of-way agent

2724
03:54:59,390 --> 03:55:00,510
Department of Water Resources.

2725
03:55:02,070 --> 03:55:04,850
Before I get started, I'd just like to acknowledge that

2726
03:55:04,850 --> 03:55:06,050
on Tuesday afternoon.

2727
03:55:06,490 --> 03:55:09,430
We did receive a letter from the property owner,

2728
03:55:09,850 --> 03:55:11,550
contesting the four different findings

2729
03:55:11,550 --> 03:55:13,130
that we're here today to discuss.

2730
03:55:14,270 --> 03:55:17,410
So we do intend to address those.

2731
03:55:17,870 --> 03:55:21,170
But first, I'd like to describe

2732
03:55:21,170 --> 03:55:25,650
subject property a little bit to you. So, the subject property is owned by a common

2733
03:55:25,650 --> 03:55:39,390
represervation group LLC. It is 2APN, APN, 042, 190, 0404, 057, 200, 0006. We have a proposed

2734
03:55:39,390 --> 03:55:45,850
acquisition in fee of roughly 21 acres out of a total larger parcel of about 97 acres.

2735
03:55:48,270 --> 03:55:57,050
The property is currently located, you can see on the slide, it is the highlighted yellow

2736
03:55:57,050 --> 03:56:02,430
area that is underneath the existing levee on the northern portion of the project.

2737
03:56:03,650 --> 03:56:07,410
So the highlighted strip is the 21 acres that we are proposing to purchase.

2738
03:56:08,630 --> 03:56:13,470
The yellow hashed area is what would be remaining of the larger parcels.

2739
03:56:13,470 --> 03:56:18,050
So roughly 76 acre acres would be remaining.

2740
03:56:20,330 --> 03:56:22,670
So the property is needed for this project.

2741
03:56:23,630 --> 03:56:29,310
It's going to be degraded in order to increase the flood capacity of the yellow bypass to produce.

2742
03:56:30,110 --> 03:56:36,390
And also, it will be providing upland habitat for special species, namely giant goddess snake.

2743
03:56:37,310 --> 03:56:40,490
There are some utility relocation activities that are going to take place.

2744
03:56:40,490 --> 03:56:45,490
and portions of the degraded borough will be used

2745
03:56:46,270 --> 03:56:48,850
from Chale for the new setback levee.

2746
03:56:51,210 --> 03:56:53,210
So two offers were provided to the property owner.

2747
03:56:54,010 --> 03:56:57,330
The first one was on July 23rd, 2019

2748
03:56:58,290 --> 03:57:01,690
and the second offer was on November 13th, 2019

2749
03:57:02,670 --> 03:57:04,850
and I'll get into a little bit more specifics

2750
03:57:04,850 --> 03:57:07,330
about why there were two offers when we address

2751
03:57:07,950 --> 03:57:09,510
the property owner's concerns.

2752
03:57:10,530 --> 03:57:19,490
So, with that, we're going to get into the letter that was submitted for objections that the

2753
03:57:19,490 --> 03:57:24,510
profineer has and Joe's going to come up using address the first two of them, namely that

2754
03:57:24,510 --> 03:57:30,070
the public interest in necessity do not require the proposed project and also that the proposed

2755
03:57:30,070 --> 03:57:34,430
project was not planned in a manner that will be most compatible with the greatest public

2756
03:57:34,430 --> 03:57:38,490
good and least private injury. So just going to come and speak to them.

2757
03:57:48,500 --> 03:57:50,380
So I'm still

2758
03:57:50,380 --> 03:57:52,700
Joe Bartlin. I still work for DWR for the record.

2759
03:57:55,000 --> 03:57:57,540
So the first comment and I'm not going

2760
03:57:57,540 --> 03:58:01,360
to read the entire thing. I know the board does have the letter in the pocket, but speaking

2761
03:58:01,360 --> 03:58:08,500
to the public interest and necessity do not require the project comment. I think there's no

2762
03:58:08,500 --> 03:58:14,060
doubt that, you know, the increased capacity of the, of the alibi-pass, the second

2763
03:58:14,060 --> 03:58:20,320
and bypassed you, you know, from just a flood risk reduction point alone, do serve the

2764
03:58:20,320 --> 03:58:26,060
public interest, but it's also the multi-manifit nature is very much in line with the public

2765
03:58:26,060 --> 03:58:26,620
interest also.

2766
03:58:27,020 --> 03:58:32,540
But from a technical standpoint, there were some mentions of free war concerns on the

2767
03:58:32,540 --> 03:58:40,040
side of the bypass, and while we do recognize that there are free board deficiencies in other

2768
03:58:40,040 --> 03:58:45,440
deficiencies throughout the bypass, we do not believe that this project impacts that in

2769
03:58:45,440 --> 03:58:51,580
any way, and in fact, as Kyle mentioned earlier, we do see state reductions throughout the

2770
03:58:51,580 --> 03:58:51,980
system.

2771
03:58:52,260 --> 03:58:58,880
In fact, we see state reductions from just above the ridge cut all the way down to essentially

2772
03:58:58,880 --> 03:59:11,800
The causeway, or it starts to see a very slight increase, where essentially we have a contraction of the fledway and we see a little bump because we have a part of vision and that's kind of a nerdy engineering thing.

2773
03:59:12,320 --> 03:59:24,300
But what we are seeing is 0.71 feet in the 100 year at essentially at the i5 crossing, which is adjacent or it's roughly the same latitude as woodland.

2774
03:59:24,300 --> 03:59:30,880
And just south of that, 0.6, so as we go downstream and get close to that construction,

2775
03:59:31,120 --> 03:59:36,480
we see less of less benefit, but directly across from the bypass, we are seeing still

2776
03:59:36,480 --> 03:59:40,420
a quarter-foot of drop in stage for the 100-year.

2777
03:59:42,100 --> 03:59:44,280
What does that mean in terms of flood detection?

2778
03:59:45,840 --> 03:59:49,600
I wrote down, I just pulled one of the numbers off of that previous slide,

2779
03:59:52,120 --> 03:59:52,720
and it's actually

2780
03:59:52,720 --> 03:59:59,320
out of the flood frequency curve, but when we look at the 57 plus 6 which is kind of the prescribed freeboard in this area.

2781
04:00:00,000 --> 04:00:07,660
The existing annual seedless probability, and this is pretty nerdy, but I'm going to try to clear it up as I go through.

2782
04:00:08,480 --> 04:00:18,980
It goes from 0.003 to 0.001. So there are already pretty small numbers when we talk about actual overtopion exceedants.

2783
04:00:19,880 --> 04:00:21,980
And then kind of more common terms,

2784
04:00:22,120 --> 04:00:23,840
we usually take the inverse of that number

2785
04:00:23,840 --> 04:00:27,160
and then we change that to a year.

2786
04:00:27,440 --> 04:00:30,040
And it's basically the exceedance

2787
04:00:30,040 --> 04:00:31,440
that we would annual exceedance.

2788
04:00:31,880 --> 04:00:34,860
So how often do we think that's possible in a year?

2789
04:00:35,300 --> 04:00:38,460
So we refer to level of protection usually like the 100 year

2790
04:00:38,460 --> 04:00:39,460
or the 200 year.

2791
04:00:40,180 --> 04:00:43,320
So if you were looking at these events in that terminology,

2792
04:00:43,940 --> 04:00:45,880
we're talking about changing an over-topping event

2793
04:00:45,880 --> 04:00:51,340
from the 333-year event to the 5,000-year event.

2794
04:00:51,920 --> 04:00:57,220
So overtopping is not a very likely scenario

2795
04:00:57,220 --> 04:00:59,000
in the bypass to start off with.

2796
04:00:59,980 --> 04:01:01,360
So why does that matter?

2797
04:01:01,740 --> 04:01:06,980
Well, I think the point about freeboard is the excessive amount

2798
04:01:06,980 --> 04:01:08,860
of freeboard or some people's mind

2799
04:01:08,860 --> 04:01:13,500
that the large numbers in terms of freeboard are really

2800
04:01:13,500 --> 04:01:19,500
more for wind wave run up so we have waves that drive up this really long fetches because

2801
04:01:19,500 --> 04:01:25,580
the bypass is so wide and we can see waves up for feet is what we see in some of these larger

2802
04:01:25,580 --> 04:01:33,900
events. So by us reducing stages even though it doesn't really change probability that much especially

2803
04:01:33,900 --> 04:01:41,300
when you're talking about 3,000 year events to 5,000, those probabilities that are really not

2804
04:01:41,300 --> 04:01:45,420
meaningful. But when we start talking about reducing stages of seven

2805
04:01:45,420 --> 04:01:49,220
tenths and you have a four foot wave, we're actually talking about increasing

2806
04:01:49,220 --> 04:01:53,600
flow protection. If we were to do a lot of analysis and really look at

2807
04:01:53,600 --> 04:01:58,060
how head is affecting seed vision, other things, we would similarly see

2808
04:01:58,060 --> 04:02:03,960
reductions in, you know, in the frequency of exceeding the

2809
04:02:03,960 --> 04:02:06,780
design allowances. So we would actually see improvements in

2810
04:02:06,780 --> 04:02:13,180
protection but we definitely don't see any impacts. So, secondly, moving to the

2811
04:02:13,180 --> 04:02:16,960
comment regarding the proposed project was not planned in a manner. It will be

2812
04:02:16,960 --> 04:02:21,580
most compatible with the greatest public good in least private injury. I just want

2813
04:02:21,580 --> 04:02:26,380
to reiterate some of the points I made on the earlier slide that we have, I'm

2814
04:02:26,380 --> 04:02:33,220
spent a lot of time working with stakeholders and with agencies, with the board

2815
04:02:33,220 --> 04:02:39,820
staff and just generally all around the property owners on the ground to really plan out

2816
04:02:39,820 --> 04:02:44,660
a multi-benefit project that serves the public interest in the best way possible.

2817
04:02:45,040 --> 04:02:51,780
We've made adjustments to the project all along the way to try to reduce impacts to

2818
04:02:51,780 --> 04:02:57,180
folks on the ground's operations and we continue to work with the property owners, including

2819
04:02:57,180 --> 04:02:59,980
in the Conway Preservation Group to find ways

2820
04:02:59,980 --> 04:03:02,160
where we can minimize those impacts,

2821
04:03:02,780 --> 04:03:04,880
but the project without sacrificing

2822
04:03:04,880 --> 04:03:06,940
the project's purpose, which is in the public interest.

2823
04:03:07,660 --> 04:03:09,220
So with that, I'd like to, and let's first question,

2824
04:03:09,540 --> 04:03:10,980
and there may be, because some of that stuff

2825
04:03:10,980 --> 04:03:13,020
was a pretty number centric.

2826
04:03:14,020 --> 04:03:15,800
I'll take questions and I'll give it back to.

2827
04:03:16,820 --> 04:03:21,570
OK, any questions for DWR?

2828
04:03:31,100 --> 04:03:35,060
There's no agriculture activity going on on that level.

2829
04:03:35,060 --> 04:03:43,800
is there? No sir, so currently the levy does have SJDD

2830
04:03:43,800 --> 04:03:49,320
easements on it for levy purposes and for flood control purposes or I believe there's

2831
04:03:49,320 --> 04:03:57,380
two easements already on the subject property. So it is used as a levy right now and as we

2832
04:03:57,380 --> 04:04:04,240
are moving the levy obviously we need to degrade the levy to allow water into the new flood

2833
04:04:04,240 --> 04:04:12,260
plane. So yeah, it's not easy. It's our cultural currently. Thank you. Okay. Thanks, Joe.

2834
04:04:18,810 --> 04:04:19,630
Also, still mat.

2835
04:04:22,000 --> 04:04:30,520
So to address a point number three, the objection to the finding that the property proposed to take in is on this sort for the project.

2836
04:04:31,720 --> 04:04:36,140
The location of the property is right for the project is as Joe mentioned.

2837
04:04:36,140 --> 04:04:40,340
And it is the underneath the levy and the levy will be degraded for the project.

2838
04:04:41,620 --> 04:04:47,880
But more pointed, the letter states that the property doesn't believe that fee take

2839
04:04:47,880 --> 04:04:49,360
is necessary for the project.

2840
04:04:52,600 --> 04:04:58,180
So the levy is, or the property is underneath the de-existing levy.

2841
04:04:58,280 --> 04:05:00,740
It is heavily encumbered already as it is.

2842
04:05:02,020 --> 04:05:04,720
We are going to further encumber that.

2843
04:05:04,860 --> 04:05:09,240
We're going to be removing the grading portions of the levee.

2844
04:05:09,380 --> 04:05:17,100
There will be permanent portions that were remain that will be used for special species habitat for the giant coder snake.

2845
04:05:19,380 --> 04:05:21,780
The currently there's an already road on there.

2846
04:05:21,780 --> 04:05:24,780
That will no longer be available to the property owner.

2847
04:05:25,120 --> 04:05:26,920
There will be no utility left on this area.

2848
04:05:26,920 --> 04:05:30,380
will be completely encountered when the project is done.

2849
04:05:31,740 --> 04:05:36,400
So that alone, an RBVVVVV is a reasonable for a FETAic fiat

2850
04:05:36,400 --> 04:05:36,940
position.

2851
04:05:38,940 --> 04:05:42,680
So currently, they do have limit utility

2852
04:05:42,680 --> 04:05:46,480
to that level, to patrol their property in the yield

2853
04:05:46,480 --> 04:05:48,700
bypass from an elevated vantage point.

2854
04:05:48,720 --> 04:05:51,160
So that's how they currently use it.

2855
04:05:51,520 --> 04:05:54,880
The department has committed to working with the new RG

2856
04:05:54,880 --> 04:05:58,660
and the property owner to coordinate access to the new setback

2857
04:05:58,660 --> 04:06:02,780
level so they will have access to that as well to use that as a similar

2858
04:06:02,780 --> 04:06:05,100
vantage point to viewing the property in the bypass.

2859
04:06:10,730 --> 04:06:15,890
So just the actual construction features of the project are going to take

2860
04:06:15,890 --> 04:06:17,770
away all utility of the property.

2861
04:06:19,150 --> 04:06:24,410
We in addition have to place perpetual mitigation easements over that for

2862
04:06:24,410 --> 04:06:29,610
the Triangars Naked Habitat that the department is responsible for and will be in perpetuity.

2863
04:06:31,210 --> 04:06:40,930
So in order to live up to that obligation, a fee acquisition is also the most appropriate

2864
04:06:41,930 --> 04:06:47,650
property right to have and it should also be noted that it is the department's standard

2865
04:06:47,650 --> 04:06:52,930
process that whenever we acquire property for mitigation purposes we do acquire it in

2866
04:06:52,930 --> 04:07:00,590
So, for all those reasons, we do believe that fee acquisition of this 21 acres is reasonable and appropriate.

2867
04:07:01,730 --> 04:07:08,330
What would you say would be the differential and price between an easement and a fee title?

2868
04:07:11,630 --> 04:07:18,550
Well, for typically for a levy is usually 5% for how heavily we encumber.

2869
04:07:18,550 --> 04:07:20,550
But it would be 5% less.

2870
04:07:21,750 --> 04:07:21,950
Yes.

2871
04:07:22,530 --> 04:07:22,650
Yes.

2872
04:07:22,910 --> 04:07:24,490
That's typically how.

2873
04:07:24,650 --> 04:07:25,870
How heavy.

2874
04:07:26,050 --> 04:07:27,190
And come to survive.

2875
04:07:27,670 --> 04:07:29,590
They're 95%.

2876
04:07:29,590 --> 04:07:32,550
So it kind of leads into the.

2877
04:07:33,290 --> 04:07:36,070
The next point to property on this object to that.

2878
04:07:36,350 --> 04:07:39,050
We have failed to comply with the government code.

2879
04:07:39,550 --> 04:07:42,830
Um, 72, 67.2 or more.

2880
04:07:42,830 --> 04:07:45,950
Namely, that our offer has that did include all the required elements.

2881
04:07:46,790 --> 04:07:53,310
So, the required elements are that it is written, that it contained a summary or a basis for

2882
04:07:53,310 --> 04:07:59,030
how the property was evaluated, and that the just compensation is included, and also

2883
04:07:59,030 --> 04:08:04,310
included, but not limited to, or the data evaluation, the highest and best use, the property

2884
04:08:04,310 --> 04:08:11,090
zoning, many comparable fails, if that's how the property was valued, and if appropriate

2885
04:08:11,090 --> 04:08:12,710
get severed damages.

2886
04:08:14,410 --> 04:08:16,130
So all of our standard offer packages,

2887
04:08:16,250 --> 04:08:18,530
that is included in all of our offer packages,

2888
04:08:19,170 --> 04:08:20,910
and it was included in the offer packages

2889
04:08:20,910 --> 04:08:22,750
so this property owner as well.

2890
04:08:23,550 --> 04:08:25,610
Now, what's the objection to the property owner?

2891
04:08:26,970 --> 04:08:29,770
That we didn't meet all the requirements

2892
04:08:29,770 --> 04:08:31,110
and all those elements.

2893
04:08:31,530 --> 04:08:33,150
Yeah, what requirements did we meet?

2894
04:08:34,110 --> 04:08:38,770
I believe they think they're asserting that

2895
04:08:38,770 --> 04:08:44,990
Not enough information was included in the offer, namely that the full appraisal wasn't included,

2896
04:08:46,170 --> 04:08:51,390
but we were only required to produce a summary in the offer and not the full appraisal.

2897
04:08:52,390 --> 04:08:59,730
So we have since had meetings with the property owner and they've expressed desire to see the full appraisal so they can have more information.

2898
04:09:00,610 --> 04:09:05,490
We're not opposed to that.

2899
04:09:05,490 --> 04:09:10,950
to them. So we are going to be working with them to provide them the more information so they can better understand

2900
04:09:10,950 --> 04:09:14,550
how we came to the just conversation in our offer.

2901
04:09:15,130 --> 04:09:20,850
We can understand that even the adoption of the resolution doesn't prevent them from continuing to

2902
04:09:20,850 --> 04:09:24,430
negotiate. Yes. We understand that. Yes.

2903
04:09:24,690 --> 04:09:31,350
We understand that. Yes. This is only because of the time constraints that we face with this project.

2904
04:09:31,350 --> 04:09:39,950
we have to move this project along and we're establishing a valuation date by adopting this

2905
04:09:39,950 --> 04:09:40,330
resolution.

2906
04:09:41,010 --> 04:09:44,150
That's the only thing we're doing, they can negotiate and deliver blue in the face.

2907
04:09:44,410 --> 04:09:44,570
Is that right?

2908
04:09:48,070 --> 04:09:54,550
So there were actually two objections in the into under this and funding number four.

2909
04:09:54,650 --> 04:09:58,690
So that was the first that everything that we didn't provide sufficient information in the

2910
04:09:58,690 --> 04:10:03,690
second, is that, namely that the seven damages were not addressed in our offer.

2911
04:10:05,670 --> 04:10:11,070
So, the seven damages, any seven damages that they may be entitled to?

2912
04:10:11,070 --> 04:10:12,370
Oh, seven damages.

2913
04:10:14,270 --> 04:10:18,610
So, this is why there are actually two offers we provided them.

2914
04:10:18,850 --> 04:10:24,690
So, initially, we provided an offer, an initial offer on July 23rd.

2915
04:10:24,690 --> 04:10:29,250
we received a letter back from the landowner with some concerns.

2916
04:10:29,870 --> 04:10:33,090
And one of those concerns was that they didn't believe

2917
04:10:33,090 --> 04:10:36,430
seven damages were appropriately analyzed.

2918
04:10:38,110 --> 04:10:39,470
So we take those concerns seriously.

2919
04:10:40,850 --> 04:10:44,790
We decided to do another appraisal of the property.

2920
04:10:45,930 --> 04:10:50,170
We provided that appraisal with the letter that they provided us.

2921
04:10:50,270 --> 04:10:52,610
So the appraisal had in hand their concerns

2922
04:10:52,610 --> 04:10:59,190
about the seven damages and the president went out and repraises the property and he found

2923
04:10:59,190 --> 04:11:02,410
that seven damages were not appropriate in this instance.

2924
04:11:04,150 --> 04:11:10,910
So our second offer on November 13th, there were no seven damages in there, however, the second

2925
04:11:10,910 --> 04:11:14,610
appraisal did establish a new just compensation.

2926
04:11:16,150 --> 04:11:21,470
So it is that offer that we are using to establish the value of the property moving forward.

2927
04:11:21,470 --> 04:11:25,490
And that does not include severance damages.

2928
04:11:26,930 --> 04:11:31,050
That's based upon two views by the appraiser.

2929
04:11:31,330 --> 04:11:31,890
That is correct.

2930
04:11:33,490 --> 04:11:40,770
And willing to share all the back information full appraisal with the property of.

2931
04:11:40,810 --> 04:11:42,650
Yeah, we don't have a problem with that.

2932
04:11:42,770 --> 04:11:42,930
Okay.

2933
04:11:44,270 --> 04:11:48,550
And then I just, I'll just finish by saying that, you know, we're moving down this process

2934
04:11:48,550 --> 04:11:56,710
because we feel we need to, for the success of the project and this very, you know, procedural

2935
04:11:56,710 --> 04:12:02,730
process and that by submitting this statement to you on the property owner by making

2936
04:12:02,730 --> 04:12:09,130
the objections, they are also following what they need to do, procedurally, so should this be

2937
04:12:09,130 --> 04:12:15,630
adopted this resolution by submitting this, the property owner has preserved their right to contest

2938
04:12:15,630 --> 04:12:17,910
this action moving forward a trial.

2939
04:12:18,410 --> 04:12:20,530
So they've done that.

2940
04:12:22,510 --> 04:12:25,930
When do we have to actually post the money with the court?

2941
04:12:27,310 --> 04:12:31,350
We have to do that before we file any proceedings with the court.

2942
04:12:31,570 --> 04:12:34,750
OK, so when would that be after the board's action?

2943
04:12:37,250 --> 04:12:39,310
We're working to streamline that process.

2944
04:12:40,870 --> 04:12:44,630
This one will probably move along faster than the other ones since we now

2945
04:12:44,630 --> 04:12:48,430
have the procedure down, so I imagine I'll probably take a few weeks.

2946
04:12:49,210 --> 04:12:56,530
Okay, all right, so there's only a couple of weeks, a few weeks with the filing in the court.

2947
04:12:57,110 --> 04:12:58,250
You've given them money also.

2948
04:12:58,810 --> 04:13:00,570
Yeah, they've been titled to withdrawing that money.

2949
04:13:00,690 --> 04:13:01,630
Yeah, that's interesting.

2950
04:13:01,930 --> 04:13:02,270
All right.

2951
04:13:03,770 --> 04:13:04,390
Thank you.

2952
04:13:04,670 --> 04:13:06,550
Any questions for Matt?

2953
04:13:07,610 --> 04:13:08,990
And I believe the property owner is here.

2954
04:13:09,270 --> 04:13:09,490
Yes.

2955
04:13:10,350 --> 04:13:11,010
Excuse me.

2956
04:13:15,440 --> 04:13:17,480
So that's all I have.

2957
04:13:17,480 --> 04:13:18,560
I'll wait for the proper.

2958
04:13:19,440 --> 04:13:20,820
Oh, Tim, do you want a question?

2959
04:13:21,540 --> 04:13:22,400
We just have to confirm.

2960
04:13:22,440 --> 04:13:24,380
I think the answer to my question is part of the presentation.

2961
04:13:26,040 --> 04:13:28,000
The roads on the levy.

2962
04:13:28,240 --> 04:13:29,600
Levy's going to be gone.

2963
04:13:29,820 --> 04:13:31,380
But I have access to the new road and the new levy.

2964
04:13:33,060 --> 04:13:35,520
We are committing to helping coordinate that.

2965
04:13:35,900 --> 04:13:35,940
Okay.

2966
04:13:36,220 --> 04:13:37,120
And then the new R.D.

2967
04:13:37,260 --> 04:13:39,880
And you also said there's going to be an ease in place on that.

2968
04:13:39,900 --> 04:13:43,340
Same property for the mitigation, which is presumably in perpetuity.

2969
04:13:43,340 --> 04:13:54,700
Yes, on the same 20 plus papers. Yes, a little bit of that easement. Well, it would be the department. Well

2970
04:13:54,700 --> 04:14:02,140
It would be purchasing fee under the board at that so the board would own it in fee right and then the easement

2971
04:14:02,140 --> 04:14:07,460
We're still working through those details, but it is the department who has the obligation to

2972
04:14:08,580 --> 04:14:13,320
Right for the terms of the permit for mitigation to have the easement. Yeah, okay. Thank you

2973
04:14:15,220 --> 04:14:18,900
Any other questions before we, okay? Thank you, Madam.

2974
04:14:18,920 --> 04:14:20,340
I would like to.

2975
04:14:25,530 --> 04:14:29,470
As I understand that this, please correct me if I don't have a correct right.

2976
04:14:30,310 --> 04:14:33,930
The acquisition is not of the entire assessor parcels.

2977
04:14:34,190 --> 04:14:36,190
It's of a portion of each of them.

2978
04:14:36,190 --> 04:14:36,790
That's correct.

2979
04:14:37,210 --> 04:14:42,750
Then I would suggest our resolution say that rather than say we are acquiring assessor parcel.

2980
04:14:42,750 --> 04:14:45,550
Oh number and it's a personal number.

2981
04:14:45,550 --> 04:14:45,750
Okay.

2982
04:14:45,870 --> 04:14:45,930
Okay.

2983
04:14:45,930 --> 04:14:47,450
portion of that we're leaving it.

2984
04:14:47,490 --> 04:14:54,230
You stated that it's 20 something acres of 90 something acre total of two assessor parcels.

2985
04:14:54,930 --> 04:14:59,670
And we all notice that the parcels are not a legal definition of land.

2986
04:14:59,670 --> 04:14:59,930
So

2987
04:15:00,000 --> 04:15:09,000
I hope perhaps saying legal description is attached. It is, but resolution needs to say it's attached, because that's really what it is being acquired.

2988
04:15:09,760 --> 04:15:12,060
Okay, understood. Thank you.

2989
04:15:12,860 --> 04:15:14,000
Thank you.

2990
04:15:16,000 --> 04:15:18,120
Mr. Garry, little Vosit.

2991
04:15:20,500 --> 04:15:21,680
Something like that.

2992
04:15:26,290 --> 04:15:29,730
Thank you. Garry Leviager, presenting kind of a preservation group.

2993
04:15:30,870 --> 04:15:36,550
First, I would like to emphasize that we are working with staff and have been working with staff

2994
04:15:36,550 --> 04:15:42,370
and will continue to work with staff both the right away and the engineering to try

2995
04:15:42,370 --> 04:15:47,470
and resolve the problems that we have or that will be created by your project.

2996
04:15:48,650 --> 04:15:54,850
We have worked tirelessly on the design of the decommissioned levy because commonly

2997
04:15:54,850 --> 04:16:01,030
The President-President group is currently actively participating in a salmon restoration project

2998
04:16:01,030 --> 04:16:08,810
with another part of DWR that goes hand-to-hand with the recommissioning of the Fremont

2999
04:16:08,810 --> 04:16:16,890
Weir and the Natch, that are built being built north of this, but as Matt indicated today

3000
04:16:16,890 --> 04:16:22,630
is the day where you're considering adopting a resolution necessity and representing landowners

3001
04:16:22,630 --> 04:16:28,810
I have to make sure that our administrative record is established and all defenses that we have

3002
04:16:28,810 --> 04:16:35,730
available to us are preserved for the eminent domain suit that will follow if you do adopt

3003
04:16:35,730 --> 04:16:37,490
the resolution today.

3004
04:16:39,590 --> 04:16:46,750
We do believe that the greatest public good and least private injury has not been sustained

3005
04:16:47,650 --> 04:16:54,730
to date, fee versus easement. That's the big issue. It's a big issue not only with this

3006
04:16:54,730 --> 04:17:02,550
property but with the property further to the north, the Wilson Ranch, the buzz oats,

3007
04:17:03,310 --> 04:17:04,530
Dan Ramos property,

3008
04:17:06,790 --> 04:17:11,930
that the least private harm would be accomplished if an easement was

3009
04:17:11,930 --> 04:17:20,950
and not fee. I've heard from the presentation of staff that this is a 90 sum acre parcel

3010
04:17:20,950 --> 04:17:29,990
of property, 21 acres below the levy and that's the take. Well, the larger parcel from our

3011
04:17:29,990 --> 04:17:41,450
perspective is not just 97 acres. Conway Ranch is approximately 17,243 acres with 8,000 acres

3012
04:17:41,450 --> 04:17:49,190
is so of it located in the bypass, and although that this 21 acres that is proposed to be taken

3013
04:17:49,190 --> 04:17:54,610
is currently under the levy, it is owned in fee by Conway, and it is an integral part

3014
04:17:54,610 --> 04:17:59,830
of the farming operation and other business enterprises that are conducted on Conway Ranch.

3015
04:18:00,510 --> 04:18:07,150
It is an effective portion of the east boundary of Conway Ranch, and Conway Ranch owners

3016
04:18:07,150 --> 04:18:13,990
do have access, and they patrol it, and they police it because there are a lot of things

3017
04:18:13,990 --> 04:18:20,370
that go on out there, including farming, hunting, et cetera, and there are folks that

3018
04:18:20,370 --> 04:18:21,890
come in that aren't invited.

3019
04:18:23,590 --> 04:18:29,190
And we have heard earlier comments today as we were shooting through with homeless and whatnot.

3020
04:18:29,770 --> 04:18:33,910
Those aren't the concerns, but there are hunters, there are fishermen, there are folks

3021
04:18:33,910 --> 04:18:37,250
that want to do vandalism and or acquire farm property,

3022
04:18:37,610 --> 04:18:40,350
the farm equipment that they don't want to buy.

3023
04:18:41,230 --> 04:18:43,810
And these do create significant problems.

3024
04:18:44,810 --> 04:18:51,070
So what this 21 acre take in feed does is punch a hole

3025
04:18:51,950 --> 04:18:58,330
in portion of Conway Ranch, that does, in fact, affect our security.

3026
04:18:59,050 --> 04:19:01,130
And when you look at that larger parcel,

3027
04:19:01,130 --> 04:19:08,150
instead of a larger parcel of 97 acres, you can get an idea that there may be significant

3028
04:19:08,150 --> 04:19:17,190
severance damages that are created by this take. And that's what we wanted you to consider.

3029
04:19:17,990 --> 04:19:21,850
If an easement is taken, that goes away. This,

3030
04:19:24,050 --> 04:19:27,670
I will remind some people that have been around

3031
04:19:27,670 --> 04:19:32,490
have institutional knowledge that I think the project, the flight control project was

3032
04:19:32,490 --> 04:19:36,830
formally called the Sacramento River Flight Control Project and I believe it was adopted

3033
04:19:36,830 --> 04:19:41,630
in 1913 officially when your predecessor board was created by special session.

3034
04:19:43,170 --> 04:19:48,130
And that project has been built over this hundred plus years on easements.

3035
04:19:49,290 --> 04:19:53,670
The greatest majority of this project is built on easements.

3036
04:19:54,390 --> 04:19:58,430
Levy Footprints are on easements held by SSJDD.

3037
04:19:59,230 --> 04:20:03,030
The bypass is controlled by flood easements.

3038
04:20:03,730 --> 04:20:09,710
In fact, there's very few components of this project that are owned in fee by the state.

3039
04:20:10,370 --> 04:20:21,770
And I think that the fact that the state has been required to provide necessary lands easements in rights away for its federal partner for this project for over 100 years.

3040
04:20:21,770 --> 04:20:28,450
and has consistently found that the necessary lands are easement interests and not fee

3041
04:20:28,450 --> 04:20:34,710
go a long way and that's part of what I wanted to say to help you understand what

3042
04:20:34,710 --> 04:20:41,170
the breadth of our objection is and what may be the basis of a right take objection as we

3043
04:20:41,170 --> 04:20:41,970
move forward.

3044
04:20:45,580 --> 04:20:52,360
There has was some comment somewhere that without the fee there would not be

3045
04:20:52,360 --> 04:20:56,300
control. Well, I don't think that's true.

3046
04:20:56,640 --> 04:21:05,160
easements be it they be flood control easements, wildlife habitat and mitigation easements,

3047
04:21:05,460 --> 04:21:11,100
enhancement easements over the years have proven that the easement holder does have the

3048
04:21:11,100 --> 04:21:17,840
control. And the right to use the property for those specific uses. And the landowner

3049
04:21:17,840 --> 04:21:21,780
can do nothing to interfere with those uses, nothing.

3050
04:21:22,920 --> 04:21:24,680
So what we're talking about is something

3051
04:21:24,680 --> 04:21:28,400
where this can go hand in hand, the uses of the property,

3052
04:21:28,500 --> 04:21:32,860
owner, the uses of the public without feetaking.

3053
04:21:37,560 --> 04:21:41,520
We do submit that the offer did not comply with government code

3054
04:21:41,520 --> 04:21:43,780
section 7267.2.

3055
04:21:44,380 --> 04:21:47,820
There were two offers that were submitted, both times

3056
04:21:47,820 --> 04:21:50,600
the land owner objected, asking for more information.

3057
04:21:50,600 --> 04:21:53,940
and we did not get it.

3058
04:21:54,540 --> 04:21:59,620
There was some comment that the second appraisal did have some information concerning

3059
04:21:59,620 --> 04:22:02,960
severance damages, but that's not how we read the government code.

3060
04:22:03,380 --> 04:22:07,140
We read it to say that there has to be a discussion regarding severance damages.

3061
04:22:07,500 --> 04:22:08,480
There has to be a narrative.

3062
04:22:08,480 --> 04:22:09,820
There has to be some analysis.

3063
04:22:10,300 --> 04:22:17,320
And here what we have is a summary chart, summary base of appraisal, and where it says severance

3064
04:22:17,320 --> 04:22:26,060
is just as zero. Now that doesn't give us enough information to adequately assess, and that's

3065
04:22:26,060 --> 04:22:33,720
where we think that has been deficient. We do want to resolve this matter, but before I get

3066
04:22:33,720 --> 04:22:41,500
there again to perfect my administrative record, I've got a great report earlier on the update

3067
04:22:41,500 --> 04:22:43,340
of the levy setback project.

3068
04:22:43,960 --> 04:22:47,240
We know that almost all the resolutions in necessity

3069
04:22:47,240 --> 04:22:50,660
have here to four been adopted.

3070
04:22:52,160 --> 04:22:59,380
So a very aggressive timeline that is in place for this project.

3071
04:23:00,160 --> 04:23:03,840
And I do want to make sure that my records clear

3072
04:23:03,840 --> 04:23:08,440
that it seems as though this hearing has a predetermined outcome.

3073
04:23:08,440 --> 04:23:15,060
And I just want to state that for the record, again, preserving a legal defense that we may

3074
04:23:15,060 --> 04:23:16,920
have if this case is not resolved.

3075
04:23:17,420 --> 04:23:20,400
But back to it, we know you have a tight timeline.

3076
04:23:20,780 --> 04:23:22,840
We do want to resolve this matter.

3077
04:23:23,460 --> 04:23:28,980
We're working hard with staff on the decommissioned levy, what that's going to look like.

3078
04:23:29,100 --> 04:23:38,420
We're working hard with staff and the reclamation board, the new, our excuse me, reclamation

3079
04:23:38,420 --> 04:23:43,080
So we're doing these things in trying to resolve it.

3080
04:23:43,260 --> 04:23:47,680
I want to also represent to the board that we're working with adjacent landowners.

3081
04:23:48,260 --> 04:23:51,160
We're working with Wilson Farms.

3082
04:23:51,960 --> 04:23:55,660
We're in contact with and working with Lexington.

3083
04:23:56,860 --> 04:24:03,240
We are hopeful to try and put something together for a global resolution that would help

3084
04:24:03,240 --> 04:24:04,520
you meet your timelines.

3085
04:24:05,200 --> 04:24:08,500
I want to make sure that the board understands that.

3086
04:24:08,860 --> 04:24:22,820
I want to further make sure that the board understands that if that isn't done, the resolutions adopted, the amount of domain lawsuit is filed, which sets the date of value.

3087
04:24:23,100 --> 04:24:30,220
The filing of the amount of domain case, and the or the deposit of probably just compensation, not the adoption of the resolution necessity.

3088
04:24:31,640 --> 04:24:40,580
But if that happens, the case is filed, motion for possession is filed, we're now in litigation.

3089
04:24:42,860 --> 04:24:47,320
And sometimes things go a lot slower in litigation that we want them to.

3090
04:24:48,360 --> 04:24:54,040
There's oppositions for motion for possession, which creates a whole different timeline.

3091
04:24:55,000 --> 04:24:57,880
there's right to take trials, which are illegal,

3092
04:24:58,840 --> 04:25:00,360
excuse me, decided by the court,

3093
04:25:00,820 --> 04:25:03,460
but those take time to get scheduled and whatnot.

3094
04:25:07,960 --> 04:25:10,060
It makes your timeline much more difficult.

3095
04:25:11,640 --> 04:25:14,180
So again, I want to emphasize to you.

3096
04:25:14,400 --> 04:25:16,480
We're trying to resolve this.

3097
04:25:16,940 --> 04:25:20,700
We think we're making progress resolving it,

3098
04:25:20,880 --> 04:25:24,480
but of the three issues that we have significantly

3099
04:25:24,480 --> 04:25:31,360
before us as landowners, the decommission, engineering, criteria of the

3100
04:25:31,360 --> 04:25:35,780
levy, the decommission levy, we think we're real close there. The access

3101
04:25:35,780 --> 04:25:40,040
issues, we think we're real close there. The biggest one, the biggest hurdle is

3102
04:25:40,040 --> 04:25:46,600
going to be fever's assessment and we're talking to staff and I don't think we've

3103
04:25:46,600 --> 04:25:51,180
been foreclosed on that. If that could be resolved, we could have something done

3104
04:25:52,520 --> 04:25:55,560
And with that, if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them.

3105
04:25:55,580 --> 04:26:02,080
If not, it's been a long day, I've been

3106
04:26:04,480 --> 04:26:06,740
waiting years to get Gary where I could

3107
04:26:06,740 --> 04:26:07,900
question him.

3108
04:26:09,220 --> 04:26:10,340
The tables are turned.

3109
04:26:12,200 --> 04:26:12,820
The tables are turned.

3110
04:26:12,820 --> 04:26:18,880
Gary was a attorney in the Mary'sville, Levy, the paternal case, or paternal case.

3111
04:26:20,660 --> 04:26:25,280
Is it possible that you could take a easement?

3112
04:26:26,560 --> 04:26:30,180
In other words, we take it in fee and give you an easement for access.

3113
04:26:31,180 --> 04:26:41,660
Well, not over the decommissioned levy because access would not be really possible there.

3114
04:26:41,940 --> 04:26:48,860
But what we're talking about is the setback area that is not being taken from us at this point.

3115
04:26:48,860 --> 04:26:52,340
but we're working with other landowners to determine

3116
04:26:52,340 --> 04:26:55,500
how that's going to look in relationship

3117
04:26:55,500 --> 04:26:59,140
to private ownership in the after condition

3118
04:26:59,140 --> 04:27:02,860
so that the agricultural uses can be preserved.

3119
04:27:03,820 --> 04:27:05,980
But if you're asking about that area,

3120
04:27:06,440 --> 04:27:07,740
it might happen.

3121
04:27:09,100 --> 04:27:14,400
Well, I know that you're a warrior for protection of people.

3122
04:27:15,060 --> 04:27:17,680
And I hope that we're able to resolve this

3123
04:27:17,680 --> 04:27:21,900
have this project move forward because there is a lot of stake, so there is.

3124
04:27:22,240 --> 04:27:22,920
Thank you.

3125
04:27:35,560 --> 04:27:36,320
Any other questions?

3126
04:27:41,870 --> 04:27:42,550
Okay, thank you.

3127
04:27:45,620 --> 04:27:46,880
Any other comments?

3128
04:27:48,220 --> 04:27:53,940
I still matter to grow. Yes, I did not formally request you got the board take the action

3129
04:27:53,940 --> 04:28:02,900
yet, so at this point to circle back and close the loop, we request that the board adopt

3130
04:28:02,900 --> 04:28:06,600
This resolution, with the edits requested by

3131
04:28:06,600 --> 04:28:12,700
for Memondol and for resolution number, 2020, 0-1.

3132
04:28:13,500 --> 04:28:14,500
Thank you, Matt.

3133
04:28:15,240 --> 04:28:21,300
We're not prepared to do that until we make sure that everybody in the audience

3134
04:28:21,300 --> 04:28:22,640
has had a chance to speak.

3135
04:28:22,880 --> 04:28:25,220
Is there anybody else that wants to speak on this item?

3136
04:28:29,210 --> 04:28:34,170
Okay, seeing none, I'm going to bring this back to the board for discussion and action.

3137
04:28:35,540 --> 04:28:39,060
So, be it. What's the pleasure of the board?

3138
04:28:52,650 --> 04:28:53,390
The resolution?

3139
04:28:56,530 --> 04:28:56,910
Okay.

3140
04:28:57,570 --> 04:28:59,690
Move by country men's second up by

3141
04:28:59,690 --> 04:29:01,710
Romeras, I think, going first, quiet.

3142
04:29:04,850 --> 04:29:07,490
That the staff report be approved.

3143
04:29:09,890 --> 04:29:10,570
Any discussion?

3144
04:29:13,210 --> 04:29:16,710
Mr. President, I would just like to make a minor amendment to that request.

3145
04:29:16,710 --> 04:29:28,630
that I suggest is as Mr. DeGrew mentioned that the adoption of the resolution with the amendments proposed by Vice President Dolan,

3146
04:29:31,050 --> 04:29:32,530
regarding the APN numbers.

3147
04:29:32,810 --> 04:29:33,910
That okay, Tim.

3148
04:29:34,250 --> 04:29:34,910
That up to second.

3149
04:29:36,550 --> 04:29:45,530
Well, the amendments over what's actually being acquired. So we're adopting the resolution, not the staff report.

3150
04:29:55,020 --> 04:29:56,240
Okay, any other questions?

3151
04:29:57,380 --> 04:29:59,380
Okay, we'll call the raw on this.

3152
04:30:04,050 --> 04:30:13,110
Board Member Ramirez, Board Member Velines, Board Member Countryman, Board Member McDonald, Vice President

3153
04:30:13,110 --> 04:30:15,350
Dolan, President Edgar.

3154
04:30:17,290 --> 04:30:19,490
Motion passes unanimously.

3155
04:30:20,750 --> 04:30:24,990
Gary, thank you. We'll continue to try to work on this.

3156
04:30:27,480 --> 04:30:35,320
All right, we're on to item C, 10, C, and this is the last item for this afternoon.

3157
04:30:37,440 --> 04:30:43,580
And Connie Perkins has this item, it's an informational briefing on the Goldfield Slevy Project.

3158
04:30:44,360 --> 04:30:46,100
Is Paul here today?

3159
04:30:46,120 --> 04:30:46,940
Yes, he's right here.

3160
04:30:46,940 --> 04:30:47,680
Oh, there he is.

3161
04:30:48,720 --> 04:30:51,020
Okay, Connie and Paul have this report.

3162
04:30:51,480 --> 04:30:56,080
Okay, President Eger, and members of the board, I'm Connie Perkins, board staff.

3163
04:30:56,080 --> 04:31:01,040
Today, I'm going to introduce Paul Brunner, the Executive Director for three Rivers,

3164
04:31:01,120 --> 04:31:03,620
Levy Improvement Authority, or Trilia.

3165
04:31:04,220 --> 04:31:08,940
He'll be giving an overview of the post-200-Year Goldfield's Levy Project in New

3166
04:31:08,940 --> 04:31:09,440
Accounting.

3167
04:31:10,460 --> 04:31:17,120
This project was federally authorized by Section 1305 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2018

3168
04:31:17,730 --> 04:31:22,680
for non-federal interests to construct a new levy to connect to the existing levy with

3169
04:31:22,680 --> 04:31:23,260
high ground.

3170
04:31:23,760 --> 04:31:29,560
We will be requesting approval of an encroachment permit for this project at the February board meeting.

3171
04:31:30,900 --> 04:31:34,700
Eventually, the goal is to make the proposed new levy part of the State Plan of Floor Control,

3172
04:31:35,300 --> 04:31:37,440
in the Sacramento River Floor Control project.

3173
04:31:38,220 --> 04:31:42,660
The 1953 MOU between the core and the board will need to be amended.

3174
04:31:43,020 --> 04:31:44,080
So now we'll turn it to Paul.

3175
04:31:52,660 --> 04:31:57,340
Well, hello, President Eger and members of the board,

3176
04:31:57,440 --> 04:31:58,120
good afternoon.

3177
04:31:58,940 --> 04:32:02,340
It's been an interesting day going through the discussions.

3178
04:32:03,860 --> 04:32:05,160
The last one was fascinating.

3179
04:32:06,080 --> 04:32:07,580
I mean, I personally, at three rivers,

3180
04:32:08,160 --> 04:32:10,420
had the experience of going through, like probably

3181
04:32:10,420 --> 04:32:14,680
in excess of 50 runs, and that, in the various cases

3182
04:32:14,680 --> 04:32:15,680
that we've gone through.

3183
04:32:17,920 --> 04:32:19,920
So, it's interesting perspective.

3184
04:32:19,920 --> 04:32:27,720
In the goalfield's presentation, if there's, I do have a land section that of what we're doing,

3185
04:32:28,260 --> 04:32:30,240
so I'm going to make a couple of comments there.

3186
04:32:31,420 --> 04:32:36,700
This is not the first time that I've come before the board to talk about the goalfields.

3187
04:32:37,160 --> 04:32:41,620
So in this particular case, what I'm going to do is I really try to consolidate my briefing

3188
04:32:41,620 --> 04:32:43,780
down to 12 flights.

3189
04:32:46,770 --> 04:32:50,850
Yeah, you've seen a lot before, yeah, I think that's right, Joe.

3190
04:32:51,710 --> 04:32:56,750
But the last time I was here was May 19th, 2017 on the goalfills.

3191
04:32:57,350 --> 04:33:00,030
We talked about the two-end year project somewhat there.

3192
04:33:01,330 --> 04:33:07,310
April 24th, I was here on 2015 and really talking about the 100 year project that we did

3193
04:33:07,310 --> 04:33:09,350
and even many times before that.

3194
04:33:09,350 --> 04:33:16,070
So, you've heard a lot, and I chose not to try to repeat all the slides, and I presume

3195
04:33:16,070 --> 04:33:19,110
you understand why we're out there.

3196
04:33:19,270 --> 04:33:20,470
Which button do I push?

3197
04:33:23,460 --> 04:33:23,720
Okay.

3198
04:33:25,300 --> 04:33:25,380
Good.

3199
04:33:25,640 --> 04:33:32,300
On this one here, I am going to talk about each one of these slides, some very briefly.

3200
04:33:33,200 --> 04:33:39,000
I really just chose to pull off the slides in your presentation for this presentation to

3201
04:33:39,000 --> 04:33:40,220
talk to key issues.

3202
04:33:40,220 --> 04:33:48,320
But I think the board wants to know about things like OMR and R, things about land, as to what we're doing.

3203
04:33:49,460 --> 04:33:56,240
And in our case here, some of the fascinating slides, I think, will be on the state plan of flight control.

3204
04:33:57,060 --> 04:34:04,000
And in the Sacramento River of flight control project and how do we actually attach what we're doing to those plans to those projects?

3205
04:34:04,860 --> 04:34:08,480
We do have a solution that I can share with you.

3206
04:34:10,500 --> 04:34:17,760
Okay, and this one briefly, the location, the red line that you see on there, well first

3207
04:34:17,760 --> 04:34:26,260
this is in Ube County, the black outline, a little hard to see, but it's the city of

3208
04:34:26,260 --> 04:34:30,000
Mary'sville, and that's the Ringlevy around the city of Mary'sville.

3209
04:34:30,500 --> 04:34:35,140
The Ube River is coming from the top of the screen down to the feather, and then the feather

3210
04:34:35,140 --> 04:34:39,140
heads on down towards Sacramento on it as such.

3211
04:34:39,820 --> 04:34:43,580
The end of the state plan of flight control in this area

3212
04:34:43,580 --> 04:34:48,700
is where the yellow line essentially hits the red line.

3213
04:34:49,440 --> 04:34:52,620
Endot right there is the state plan of flight control

3214
04:34:52,620 --> 04:34:54,460
that becomes critical for our project

3215
04:34:54,460 --> 04:34:58,460
where we struggled with in how we move forward on the project.

3216
04:35:00,280 --> 04:35:07,600
The on the little black dash lines that you see just at the end of the red line is the

3217
04:35:07,600 --> 04:35:08,520
goldfield area.

3218
04:35:09,420 --> 04:35:15,560
As I related to before, it's a 10,000 acre approximately, it's a mining area that was from the

3219
04:35:15,560 --> 04:35:22,160
dredged trailing that came before the U.V. river got moved to the north on it and as such.

3220
04:35:22,160 --> 04:35:39,600
That orange line isn't somewhat important in that I'll reference it in the future and one of the next slides, it's the 100 year interim solution that we put in to retain our FEMA accreditation and that's the location of that.

3221
04:35:39,740 --> 04:35:43,860
We built that within the goldfield area itself, per se.

3222
04:35:47,450 --> 04:35:49,370
Okay, just very briefly on background.

3223
04:35:49,870 --> 04:35:55,970
going to cover a lot of years on this. In 2010, not in this building, but in your other

3224
04:35:55,970 --> 04:36:02,130
building, resource building, I came. I listened to a core briefing on their GRR finding at

3225
04:36:02,130 --> 04:36:07,770
that time there was a lot of residents that were really kind of, now positive about what

3226
04:36:07,770 --> 04:36:12,730
we were trying to do for a flight control. And they really talked about the goalfields area

3227
04:36:12,730 --> 04:36:19,350
and having some issues with that. On it, the core did do some studies originally in the

3228
04:36:21,070 --> 04:36:28,430
GRR that went through, they ended up coming forward to the request, your previous board to

3229
04:36:28,430 --> 04:36:29,610
the court to give a briefing.

3230
04:36:30,570 --> 04:36:34,470
I mean, we're sitting in the audience listening to the briefing and hearing really for

3231
04:36:34,470 --> 04:36:40,630
the first time that our project was broken, that we had spent a whole bunch of money on to

3232
04:36:40,630 --> 04:36:46,590
put in the setback levies and everything else that we've done on it and at that point we ended

3233
04:36:46,590 --> 04:36:50,450
that starting this long saga of going forward.

3234
04:36:50,990 --> 04:36:57,510
So from 2010 to 2016 about we worked on feasibility studies.

3235
04:36:57,570 --> 04:37:03,770
I show you the various models and how we got there on the training walls he wrote

3236
04:37:03,770 --> 04:37:06,350
and breaking before in previous briefings.

3237
04:37:06,890 --> 04:37:14,110
We built a hundred year project to preserve the hundred year FEMA accreditation that we have.

3238
04:37:14,110 --> 04:37:24,250
And then we moved on to the 200-year project to put that project in, and that was that yellow line that you saw on it, that we have.

3239
04:37:25,110 --> 04:37:32,410
So the key for the 200-year project became not about trying to build levees or going forward with that.

3240
04:37:32,410 --> 04:37:40,810
I mean, we've done that a lot on it, and it re-prepared in Levy's two, and that it was really

3241
04:37:41,370 --> 04:37:47,990
that the location where we were was not within the state plan of flight control.

3242
04:37:49,190 --> 04:37:55,090
And that really presented a problem in that prop one of the funds that we were doing the project

3243
04:37:55,090 --> 04:38:01,130
under, and it's nice how funds, but we needed the way that legislation was written required

3244
04:38:01,130 --> 04:38:06,730
to step a path to put the project into the state plan of light control.

3245
04:38:07,870 --> 04:38:14,210
And that became really the nexus we had to overcome and work through how we're going to

3246
04:38:14,210 --> 04:38:14,930
do that.

3247
04:38:15,250 --> 04:38:18,830
And that really led down many different paths that we went through.

3248
04:38:19,590 --> 04:38:25,050
But we actually came to a solution and we're here now moving forward.

3249
04:38:25,870 --> 04:38:38,370
This slide shows you the project itself, that we have, up in the top left corner of the slide is where that red and yellow line hit before.

3250
04:38:38,830 --> 04:38:40,470
That's the end of the state plan of flight control.

3251
04:38:41,410 --> 04:38:44,030
We pivot from the end of the state right there.

3252
04:38:44,530 --> 04:38:50,630
The goalfield's project itself, just on the upper screen, going up, was always considered high ground.

3253
04:38:51,880 --> 04:39:04,420
And when the core did their hydraulic briefing in 2010, they established that it wasn't high ground that we had breakage and we're going to be flanked by flood flows.

3254
04:39:05,320 --> 04:39:07,880
So we've been working on to solve the problem.

3255
04:39:09,420 --> 04:39:14,880
So from that top left-hand corner you'll see the green line coming down.

3256
04:39:14,880 --> 04:39:26,500
It runs across property lines and then pivots on Hamilton Sparsville Road and goes up to a couple of miles to the end of the purple.

3257
04:39:26,880 --> 04:39:32,040
There is 2.6 miles of new levee that we're adding.

3258
04:39:32,580 --> 04:39:37,480
We have 2.2 miles of cutoff wall, 1.7 acres of seepage burns.

3259
04:39:37,480 --> 04:39:44,580
A thousand, we're going to degrade up in the top left-hand corner a little bit of the existing

3260
04:39:45,320 --> 04:39:52,320
levee that was built before for hydraulic reasons, we do that.

3261
04:39:52,980 --> 04:39:56,860
We have an interior drainage system that was built.

3262
04:39:57,600 --> 04:40:03,060
The low spot is in the lower corner and the screen where the two green lines come down

3263
04:40:03,060 --> 04:40:05,940
together and meet at the bottom of the screen.

3264
04:40:07,180 --> 04:40:13,540
That's a low spot where we need to have the new setback area be able to drain out.

3265
04:40:13,780 --> 04:40:20,500
So this blue area that you see behind, a series of 2D tension basins that were established

3266
04:40:20,500 --> 04:40:25,800
of which we will connect, we call it a causeway, a little small causeway.

3267
04:40:26,440 --> 04:40:32,400
Between the two, to allow the water to drain out, there will be an exit pipe that will come

3268
04:40:32,400 --> 04:40:37,240
I need the levy that's gated flat and controlled to allow the excess to come out.

3269
04:40:37,380 --> 04:40:42,260
I already 74 will maintain that and maintain the detention basis.

3270
04:40:43,940 --> 04:40:47,500
The levy is about 16 feet high, maximum height.

3271
04:40:48,020 --> 04:40:50,660
It has 20 foot crowns.

3272
04:40:51,360 --> 04:40:55,660
It's designed to ULDC criteria for 10200-year criteria.

3273
04:40:56,660 --> 04:41:01,780
It has the setback areas or the water side and landslide.

3274
04:41:01,780 --> 04:41:09,920
access quarters. And really importantly on the design that comes up is that we have this review

3275
04:41:09,920 --> 04:41:16,320
of the project goes to the state review. We have our independent review panel reviewing the project

3276
04:41:17,280 --> 04:41:30,100
and it's approved from their area access on it. I'll reference that point in the next slide coming

3277
04:41:30,100 --> 04:41:35,140
when I talk about how do we get to the state plan of flight control and what's happening

3278
04:41:35,140 --> 04:41:36,160
on that?

3279
04:41:39,940 --> 04:41:46,420
Let's go to land rights, the land that we're acquiring and then rights away.

3280
04:41:48,440 --> 04:41:58,760
This project acquires approximately 111 acres of property. We're acquiring all that property

3281
04:41:58,760 --> 04:42:09,080
in feet. Our funding agreement that we have with the state under Uber requires us to really acquire

3282
04:42:09,080 --> 04:42:16,480
in feet. And from our purpose, in all the time, I've gone through resolutions and working with people,

3283
04:42:18,220 --> 04:42:26,460
we've acquired our property with the prop one E funds in feet. The I have personally engaged in every

3284
04:42:26,460 --> 04:42:32,840
negotiation that we have, the tool of boarding delegates to me, the authority, the board has

3285
04:42:32,840 --> 04:42:38,300
a final authority, but I do engage with that with the people directly to try to work

3286
04:42:38,300 --> 04:42:44,780
through that and try to meet their needs and work through that on the property, but we have

3287
04:42:44,780 --> 04:42:47,560
acquired in feet on it.

3288
04:42:47,580 --> 04:42:53,500
So you won't be the first time, and not a surprise, you adopted the resolution, but we do

3289
04:42:53,500 --> 04:43:04,740
choir in fee. One of the prime reasons why we acquire in fee is that the property owners

3290
04:43:04,740 --> 04:43:10,920
have changed for us over time. They haven't always been the nice neighbors that you got

3291
04:43:10,920 --> 04:43:16,840
that you're working with on it. And in the future, the levees are going to be a little long time.

3292
04:43:17,820 --> 04:43:22,900
And as they go forward, there's an issue that's there that came up and we have dealt with those

3293
04:43:22,900 --> 04:43:28,000
before, where we couldn't get back on the wedding, even though we had an easement.

3294
04:43:28,920 --> 04:43:32,540
There was issues, and you don't really want that in that case.

3295
04:43:33,580 --> 04:43:36,960
So there are examples that would support that.

3296
04:43:37,320 --> 04:43:43,220
And we have built already an access easement for security reasons, allowing people to go back

3297
04:43:43,220 --> 04:43:49,460
to the properties that DWR did approve for us, where we had people that, along the western

3298
04:43:49,460 --> 04:43:56,000
of the Interceptor Canal had various similar issues about looking down and where the water was flowing

3299
04:43:56,000 --> 04:44:02,040
and having hundreds come in, where they can secure and monitor and patrol the road that they

3300
04:44:02,040 --> 04:44:10,480
want under that easement on it. And so I think there's a way to solve the problem as you work

3301
04:44:10,480 --> 04:44:14,360
through this. Now that the next bullet,

3302
04:44:16,400 --> 04:44:20,860
I think is important because this is something

3303
04:44:20,860 --> 04:44:28,980
that we, we looked at really hard, we're, it says, truly is not acquiring the flowage

3304
04:44:28,980 --> 04:44:36,940
easements for water side lands. We are acquiring the water side access quarter easements

3305
04:44:36,940 --> 04:44:41,320
and easements for that caused way in the detention basins.

3306
04:44:42,760 --> 04:44:47,160
But the land beyond that, behind the new levy that we're building,

3307
04:44:48,620 --> 04:44:53,520
up through the area behind on that previous map that you saw all the way to the river,

3308
04:44:54,920 --> 04:44:56,680
we're not putting a flowage he's went on.

3309
04:44:58,440 --> 04:44:59,980
And our ration...

3310
04:45:00,000 --> 04:45:21,140
Now for that, it's really kind of summarizing these five bullets that you see here is one of which is that there's already this huge mass of land between the levy that we've got the high ground that is currently being mined. It does breach, but it has to breach to do that.

3311
04:45:21,140 --> 04:45:26,260
Not a mile away, that's a lot of land-to-puted flowages, but I'm

3312
04:45:26,260 --> 04:45:28,740
plus you're putting it on paying for a flowage

3313
04:45:28,740 --> 04:45:31,680
management for all that land that's there.

3314
04:45:32,720 --> 04:45:36,860
The ground is already highly saturated during what weather.

3315
04:45:37,260 --> 04:45:40,300
There's studies out there that the crops that are growing, the roots

3316
04:45:40,300 --> 04:45:44,240
already are damaged from crops and orchards that are out there.

3317
04:45:45,160 --> 04:45:49,020
The other area that's being used behind the levy is a mining area.

3318
04:45:49,020 --> 04:45:51,420
and they basically stopped their operations

3319
04:45:51,420 --> 04:45:53,080
and then was high water conditions.

3320
04:45:54,600 --> 04:45:55,840
So we elected that.

3321
04:45:56,000 --> 04:45:58,980
Licked at the cost is there really need

3322
04:45:58,980 --> 04:46:01,020
to put a flowage he's went back there.

3323
04:46:01,680 --> 04:46:02,860
We prepared a tech memo.

3324
04:46:03,120 --> 04:46:07,000
We had legal, a pracer, and technical input

3325
04:46:07,000 --> 04:46:08,280
into the tech memo.

3326
04:46:08,420 --> 04:46:09,340
We have submitted it.

3327
04:46:09,340 --> 04:46:12,220
We provided it to the various reviewers.

3328
04:46:13,020 --> 04:46:16,620
DWR has responded back to us.

3329
04:46:16,620 --> 04:46:22,560
And they concurred with our conclusion, recognizing that you guys have control with your permits in that.

3330
04:46:22,600 --> 04:46:30,160
But that we have concurred by DWR because of funding requirements as to where they are on our project.

3331
04:46:30,900 --> 04:46:33,060
They thought our logic was pretty good.

3332
04:46:33,600 --> 04:46:41,040
When you issue us our permit, our recommendation is you don't require a flow of Gs1.

3333
04:46:41,700 --> 04:46:51,520
And this is an informational briefing that we have, you have the check memo, I think it's kind of not a well spent money.

3334
04:46:52,100 --> 04:47:08,360
Plus I do not know how to define that area that a flowage management would go on other than the entire area out there and that's literally thousands of acres that I don't know what the benefit would be to put a flowage management.

3335
04:47:08,360 --> 04:47:12,020
How do you define it as we go forward?

3336
04:47:15,360 --> 04:47:15,900
Okay, funding.

3337
04:47:17,620 --> 04:47:18,960
We are fully funded.

3338
04:47:20,220 --> 04:47:23,080
The funds from the state are prop 1E.

3339
04:47:23,920 --> 04:47:27,220
Right now our estimate is around 53 million,

3340
04:47:27,860 --> 04:47:28,760
million dollars.

3341
04:47:29,080 --> 04:47:33,700
And we have from state funding somewhere around 42 million

3342
04:47:33,700 --> 04:47:35,760
the less is the rest is local.

3343
04:47:36,360 --> 04:47:40,320
We'll do our best to try to make that a smaller number

3344
04:47:40,320 --> 04:47:42,600
as we go forward and we can serve money.

3345
04:47:44,400 --> 04:47:47,020
The funding is that it comes from the

3346
04:47:47,020 --> 04:47:49,220
Oofur funding agreement that we have,

3347
04:47:49,240 --> 04:47:51,980
and there's two key things in that Oofur funding agreement.

3348
04:47:52,700 --> 04:47:58,660
One is that we identify a path for the project to be added to the state plan of

3349
04:47:58,660 --> 04:48:01,060
flight control, and we've done that and I'll explain that.

3350
04:48:01,380 --> 04:48:04,120
It also requires an OMR and R agreement,

3351
04:48:04,560 --> 04:48:08,680
and we're in the process of going through those steps too.

3352
04:48:10,960 --> 04:48:12,960
On OMR and R,

3353
04:48:16,760 --> 04:48:26,120
the Rd704 is the main LOMA in the area that does the service for this area that we've been maintaining and proving.

3354
04:48:27,440 --> 04:48:31,120
The district recently has expanded their district.

3355
04:48:31,940 --> 04:48:39,660
They went through a benefit assessment election and they've expanded.

3356
04:48:39,660 --> 04:48:44,200
So they now included the goals area into their district.

3357
04:48:45,400 --> 04:48:49,060
They also, same time, expanded their district to match the

3358
04:48:49,060 --> 04:48:54,920
trilla zone that we've had, of area that we've protected and how we've

3359
04:48:54,920 --> 04:48:56,940
collected resources in the past.

3360
04:48:57,520 --> 04:49:02,420
We've actually put our trilla assessment in a bans, because the

3361
04:49:02,420 --> 04:49:07,680
RD-74 assessment is now in place, that covers the same area that we have on

3362
04:49:07,680 --> 04:49:31,680
And now, a large part of the 74 system, I mentioned this, because this is kind of the connection to our project and what we're talking about here is last meeting, you all talked about our own M system and the core did approve or delegate to

3363
04:49:31,680 --> 04:49:37,740
to RD-7-84, or back to the federal system on the O&M.

3364
04:49:38,660 --> 04:49:40,900
And Rick Ryan Hart was here and he gave you a talk,

3365
04:49:41,640 --> 04:49:43,400
and that was good.

3366
04:49:43,720 --> 04:49:46,260
And that was a significant thing that happened.

3367
04:49:47,560 --> 04:49:50,760
So really, most of our system is already in the system.

3368
04:49:51,860 --> 04:49:53,900
Now it's actually in the federal system.

3369
04:49:54,740 --> 04:49:59,100
I mentioned to the board on a third bullet, which is really key,

3370
04:49:59,100 --> 04:50:03,300
is that Trilla and Artis 74 and the Board of Art

3371
04:50:03,300 --> 04:50:06,580
entered into at least a couple OMR and Artigreements.

3372
04:50:07,980 --> 04:50:10,120
There's one because the first one got combined

3373
04:50:10,120 --> 04:50:14,380
in the second one in 2011, that entire red area

3374
04:50:14,380 --> 04:50:18,340
that you saw last meeting and went through the 29 miles

3375
04:50:18,340 --> 04:50:21,020
except for the goals field, it already has an agreement

3376
04:50:22,160 --> 04:50:25,640
that we said that we do OMR and Art on.

3377
04:50:25,640 --> 04:50:35,440
So we're there, we submitted a draft for this next area to go forward and we plan to

3378
04:50:35,440 --> 04:50:41,440
finalize and execute that agreement when the construction is done.

3379
04:50:41,660 --> 04:50:46,720
That's when we actually know what the project is and what we'll put into the agreement.

3380
04:50:47,540 --> 04:50:48,840
And that's our timing for that.

3381
04:50:48,840 --> 04:50:53,120
But I think our commitment to doing the OMR and our

3382
04:50:53,120 --> 04:50:57,280
and agreeing to it is well-established and in place.

3383
04:51:02,170 --> 04:51:02,170
OK,

3384
04:51:04,430 --> 04:51:06,910
state plan, flood control, and the Sacramento River

3385
04:51:06,910 --> 04:51:08,490
flood control project.

3386
04:51:10,870 --> 04:51:15,110
I mentioned earlier, we liked that a whole bunch of different options.

3387
04:51:16,430 --> 04:51:19,330
Along the way of looking at all those options,

3388
04:51:19,330 --> 04:51:26,970
Three rivers did take the step to go and work on what we call it the time plan B.

3389
04:51:28,330 --> 04:51:36,670
We acquired a lobbyist and we went to work with the folks and we're able to get

3390
04:51:36,670 --> 04:51:44,510
within Word of 2018 words that say that the work that we're doing on this new

3391
04:51:47,030 --> 04:51:48,110
is authorized.

3392
04:51:49,570 --> 04:51:59,710
And so it's section 1305 and Word allows us to go and build the project and be authorized.

3393
04:52:00,190 --> 04:52:01,570
Now that's really good.

3394
04:52:01,690 --> 04:52:05,810
I mean, it allowed us to go to high ground to fix the problem.

3395
04:52:05,930 --> 04:52:07,190
That's what we wanted to do.

3396
04:52:07,390 --> 04:52:11,010
We didn't ask for any money at all.

3397
04:52:11,010 --> 04:52:16,330
on it, we just needed to be able to go and fix it.

3398
04:52:16,790 --> 04:52:20,550
And that's all it says, really, essentially on it.

3399
04:52:20,790 --> 04:52:27,430
But I did present some really odd things,

3400
04:52:28,470 --> 04:52:32,590
because having the endpoint kind of already established,

3401
04:52:33,090 --> 04:52:36,610
being okay, how do we get there?

3402
04:52:37,310 --> 04:52:40,070
On it, it became really the difficulty,

3403
04:52:40,070 --> 04:52:41,870
and we work through that.

3404
04:52:42,690 --> 04:52:44,870
It was a difficulty from a board.

3405
04:52:45,350 --> 04:52:47,310
How do you add it to the state plan?

3406
04:52:47,490 --> 04:52:48,890
What happens to the SRCP?

3407
04:52:50,610 --> 04:52:55,250
Since there was no 408, we're already authorized.

3408
04:52:57,750 --> 04:53:03,210
Then what happens to that process in this as we move forward?

3409
04:53:04,370 --> 04:53:06,850
And there was no typical partnering agreement

3410
04:53:06,850 --> 04:53:15,990
between us and the core, that presented a problem for us because we couldn't actually transfer

3411
04:53:17,070 --> 04:53:21,270
money on it to engage with them on the project.

3412
04:53:21,870 --> 04:53:25,170
Meanwhile, we're moving on, building trying to get the project built.

3413
04:53:27,410 --> 04:53:31,670
So the core involvement has been limited, not that we haven't talked to them, but it's

3414
04:53:31,670 --> 04:53:33,490
been limited on the project.

3415
04:53:33,490 --> 04:53:39,510
And that's why I really gave an emphasis before about the design review of what we had on our project today.

3416
04:53:40,950 --> 04:53:48,950
With our independent review team, our various engineers and what we're doing in the state and the state engineers looking at it.

3417
04:53:48,950 --> 04:53:50,510
I think we're ready to go.

3418
04:53:53,090 --> 04:53:54,110
This is a solution.

3419
04:54:03,310 --> 04:54:05,430
We have word of 2018 in place.

3420
04:54:06,530 --> 04:54:09,450
It's an already establishes that we're authorized.

3421
04:54:09,450 --> 04:54:18,970
We have met with the core, we have met with DWR in your board staff and talk through this as to how do we go through.

3422
04:54:19,610 --> 04:54:25,130
So these five steps in very simplistic terms is how we get to the end.

3423
04:54:26,130 --> 04:54:30,150
First, you guys issue the permit to us to construct.

3424
04:54:31,030 --> 04:54:35,030
When you're issuing the permit, we think that you'll send your letter to the core.

3425
04:54:35,030 --> 04:54:40,020
The court's already Ryan is here, and he can talk to it from the court too, is that

3426
04:54:41,150 --> 04:54:46,930
undoubtedly, you'll send you a 408 or some letter to the court, they'll respond saying 408's

3427
04:54:46,930 --> 04:54:54,630
not needed on it to go forward. But you issue your permit, I think you need to do that because of the

3428
04:54:54,630 --> 04:55:01,690
state requirements, and we really want to be able to follow the plan and the rules and have you

3429
04:55:01,690 --> 04:55:06,770
engage with that same construction and over to see the project with us. As we go forward.

3430
04:55:07,970 --> 04:55:16,250
We'll construct the project and start to build it. Later on I have a schedule for you to go forward.

3431
04:55:18,210 --> 04:55:24,170
Concernantly, Trilla enters into a cost sharing agreement and we're doing that right now. We got

3432
04:55:24,170 --> 04:55:31,070
a template. The core did respond to say use 1305, some template, so we created the template with them.

3433
04:55:31,690 --> 04:55:39,310
and how that is. And we have several drafts, and we'll be providing them some money to be able to participate with us.

3434
04:55:40,190 --> 04:55:46,530
But concurrently, we'll enter into a cost sharing agreement with the core for review of the project

3435
04:55:46,530 --> 04:55:57,550
and processing of the amendment to the 1953 MOU. That's important on it. Now, that is going to happen.

3436
04:55:57,550 --> 04:56:04,910
We'll sign the agreement, hopefully, in coming months on it, but it's not critical to building the project.

3437
04:56:05,370 --> 04:56:12,010
It's not a critical for you to go forward and not issue the permit, but do issue that our encroachment permit.

3438
04:56:14,320 --> 04:56:15,440
Following construction,

3439
04:56:18,240 --> 04:56:23,720
we will complete a construction report and a draft federal O&M manual.

3440
04:56:23,720 --> 04:56:31,000
revisions will be sent out just like before when the core got their manuals before and then they

3441
04:56:31,000 --> 04:56:35,400
sent it back and and said that the Rd704 will take over on the system.

3442
04:56:37,740 --> 04:56:39,220
The final bullet is where

3443
04:56:39,220 --> 04:56:47,120
you give your assurances and is added to the state plan. Is the levies built, the core will have done

3444
04:56:47,120 --> 04:56:52,680
their review when they see RCCR. If we get the documents done sooner with the funding agreement,

3445
04:56:52,680 --> 04:56:55,800
and they can participate, that's great on it.

3446
04:56:56,000 --> 04:56:58,800
But we will build the levee, we'll go through,

3447
04:56:59,020 --> 04:57:03,200
we'll give them the manuals, the core or review,

3448
04:57:03,360 --> 04:57:04,900
the post-construction information,

3449
04:57:05,520 --> 04:57:07,220
and works for the Central Life Flood Board

3450
04:57:07,220 --> 04:57:10,200
to execute an amendment to the 1953 MOU.

3451
04:57:12,380 --> 04:57:14,900
1305, that section says that's one of the things

3452
04:57:14,900 --> 04:57:18,620
that we need to do in that legislation

3453
04:57:18,620 --> 04:57:22,360
was to amend the 1953 MLU.

3454
04:57:24,440 --> 04:57:29,180
And that's where the board provides your assurances in that amendment.

3455
04:57:30,760 --> 04:57:35,280
And issues revised unit 145 O&M manual.

3456
04:57:35,600 --> 04:57:37,340
That's what you dealt with last meeting.

3457
04:57:37,620 --> 04:57:41,800
The O&M manual supplement officially accepting

3458
04:57:41,800 --> 04:57:44,540
the work into the state plan of flight control

3459
04:57:44,540 --> 04:57:47,860
and the Sacramento River flood control project.

3460
04:57:50,820 --> 04:57:56,860
So it's unusual, but I think it works on it.

3461
04:57:57,720 --> 04:58:00,060
And that's what we're proceeding with.

3462
04:58:00,580 --> 04:58:02,000
And on our project.

3463
04:58:02,720 --> 04:58:04,700
I have one question. Sorry.

3464
04:58:04,920 --> 04:58:05,280
Can I have a present?

3465
04:58:05,780 --> 04:58:05,860
Yeah.

3466
04:58:07,200 --> 04:58:08,100
The first bullet?

3467
04:58:09,160 --> 04:58:11,280
Where you encroaching upon?

3468
04:58:13,730 --> 04:58:14,970
There's no state plan of flood control.

3469
04:58:20,770 --> 04:58:27,470
I hope you're asking someone else to.

3470
04:58:28,030 --> 04:58:30,390
Anybody who would like to answer would be welcome.

3471
04:58:31,990 --> 04:58:36,210
There was a discussion internally as we went through

3472
04:58:36,210 --> 04:58:42,390
as does the board need to issue a permit on it.

3473
04:58:42,390 --> 04:58:50,970
And I think as we go forward, and the mechanism moving forward in establishing your criteria,

3474
04:58:53,410 --> 04:58:58,250
your encroachment permit is the vehicle that you use for levee construction.

3475
04:58:59,130 --> 04:59:00,550
You call it encroachment permit.

3476
04:59:00,890 --> 04:59:07,350
So in this aspect, maybe the tie in the connection, you have to connect to the levee is probably

3477
04:59:07,350 --> 04:59:08,190
the closest thing.

3478
04:59:08,390 --> 04:59:08,590
That?

3479
04:59:08,910 --> 04:59:09,270
I get that.

3480
04:59:09,470 --> 04:59:09,670
Okay.

3481
04:59:09,670 --> 04:59:14,650
Thank you. Thank you, Joe. Sure. That's Joe. I think you answer my second question, which is the

3482
04:59:14,650 --> 04:59:19,410
kosher agreement. I wasn't sure how that link was. Maybe you said that language is in the

3483
04:59:19,410 --> 04:59:28,230
federal authorization. It says the link to the 1953 agreement. You said that's in the federal

3484
04:59:28,230 --> 04:59:33,470
authorization. It says that we need to modify the 1953 which is my second question which is

3485
04:59:33,470 --> 04:59:38,310
the other bullet about how you guys are doing the kosher agreement. So that explains there is no kosher

3486
04:59:38,310 --> 04:59:47,390
Right, but in that federal authorization language, the core has a connection and you're paying them to review it for the legislation.

3487
04:59:49,530 --> 04:59:50,130
Essentially.

3488
04:59:50,570 --> 04:59:51,630
Okay, that's good enough.

3489
04:59:52,070 --> 04:59:52,370
Thank you.

3490
04:59:53,150 --> 04:59:53,450
Thank you.

3491
04:59:53,450 --> 04:59:59,110
Follow us that payment to have the core do work on it as part of the local share.

3492
05:00:01,420 --> 05:00:08,400
Or is that an addition just money to get them started and has nothing to do with the cost share?

3493
05:00:08,800 --> 05:00:18,420
You know, I, you know, I haven't actually thought about that so much. As to as a part of the local share, I don't think it will be huge. I was just cutting a check and sending it.

3494
05:00:19,020 --> 05:00:27,460
You know, when the agreement was done and I'll sit down and talk to the DWR folks about where it is. I'm, I'm just really happy that we have a path.

3495
05:00:27,460 --> 05:00:35,220
No, no, that's is that I was just wondering whether you know what that total local cost is going to be

3496
05:00:36,620 --> 05:00:47,480
And if that's part of it because you're going to have to put up some money for the court or even start work on it, right?

3497
05:00:47,820 --> 05:00:55,720
Well, yeah, I would imagine when we finally work through this agreement

3498
05:00:56,500 --> 05:01:02,880
for the court to be involved, it'll be a cost share, or a cost that we'll put into that.

3499
05:01:02,900 --> 05:01:07,840
Not as that cost share start off and I know it's different depending on land season.

3500
05:01:08,020 --> 05:01:08,640
It's a very choice.

3501
05:01:09,080 --> 05:01:12,340
But does that start off the usual 65?

3502
05:01:13,840 --> 05:01:14,080
No.

3503
05:01:14,460 --> 05:01:14,680
No.

3504
05:01:15,380 --> 05:01:16,160
That's right.

3505
05:01:16,200 --> 05:01:16,840
That's okay.

3506
05:01:17,160 --> 05:01:17,380
No.

3507
05:01:17,500 --> 05:01:19,440
I think this is a direct cost.

3508
05:01:19,920 --> 05:01:21,120
Not a cost sharing.

3509
05:01:21,120 --> 05:01:28,360
It's really word-grying that we want the core to be involved and they'll provide a number.

3510
05:01:29,480 --> 05:01:34,260
And we'll look at that and agree with it, Ryan, what do you want to talk about?

3511
05:01:34,440 --> 05:01:39,260
This is, no, I was just going to say, this is what we did on the Stockton Project.

3512
05:01:39,760 --> 05:01:46,780
Back in the day, when the San Joaquin County flood district went ahead with improving

3513
05:01:46,780 --> 05:01:50,520
and the Mormons flew and Bear Creek and all of that.

3514
05:01:51,260 --> 05:01:54,260
They went ahead without any federal money

3515
05:01:55,020 --> 05:01:58,700
and paid the core to review the plans and specs

3516
05:01:58,700 --> 05:02:01,260
to the extent their federal requirements.

3517
05:02:01,740 --> 05:02:03,060
And that was just local money

3518
05:02:03,060 --> 05:02:04,820
had nothing to do with the cost share.

3519
05:02:05,220 --> 05:02:07,180
Because I think eventually later,

3520
05:02:07,380 --> 05:02:10,400
they went and got authorization to try to get some reimbursement.

3521
05:02:10,620 --> 05:02:12,220
But initially for the construction,

3522
05:02:12,920 --> 05:02:15,540
they went ahead with local and state money.

3523
05:02:15,540 --> 05:02:20,160
Okay. So then is there a cost share between the state and the local?

3524
05:02:21,180 --> 05:02:26,820
Yeah, it's like an EIP. Yeah, we have the U for funding agreement. Yeah, okay. So the

3525
05:02:27,380 --> 05:02:33,860
I would imagine that the whatever we have the cost that we provide for that review for

3526
05:02:33,860 --> 05:02:38,940
participation would probably be cost shared. But I haven't had that direct discussion with them.

3527
05:02:38,940 --> 05:02:42,900
Okay, that would be with DWR. Yes. Okay. So the

3528
05:02:43,480 --> 05:02:54,260
So, the cost share agreement, then the normal thing that we look at is between you, it'd be like an EIP agreement, right?

3529
05:02:54,660 --> 05:02:55,600
Because there isn't any.

3530
05:02:56,520 --> 05:02:56,640
Yeah.

3531
05:02:57,200 --> 05:02:57,440
Yeah.

3532
05:02:57,600 --> 05:02:57,780
Yeah.

3533
05:02:57,780 --> 05:02:58,120
Yeah.

3534
05:02:58,400 --> 05:02:58,480
Yeah.

3535
05:02:58,480 --> 05:02:58,520
Yeah.

3536
05:02:59,040 --> 05:02:59,160
Yeah.

3537
05:02:59,160 --> 05:03:06,740
In us in DWR, our previous work, up to this project, was done under those early implementation

3538
05:03:06,740 --> 05:03:07,340
projects.

3539
05:03:08,460 --> 05:03:16,420
The goal-fills project is one of these UFER urban funding agreements that transcended EIP.

3540
05:03:17,120 --> 05:03:27,780
That was a different, so is that a different, original number then, is that a new

3541
05:03:27,780 --> 05:03:33,120
for project is separate and completely apart from the OBIP.

3542
05:03:33,740 --> 05:03:35,500
Yeah, it's a stand alone.

3543
05:03:35,520 --> 05:03:36,320
Stand alone.

3544
05:03:36,860 --> 05:03:42,440
Yeah, it's my earlier slide when I gave the funding,

3545
05:03:43,340 --> 05:03:49,060
DWR, participate with us, a card dot, and dedicated X amount of money.

3546
05:03:49,180 --> 05:03:53,600
I think it's the 42 million that I showed on the slide for the project,

3547
05:03:54,260 --> 05:03:59,480
based upon our project costs, and it's all prop one E, but it's under that funding agreement

3548
05:03:59,480 --> 05:04:04,600
has nothing to do with the EIP projects that we have.

3549
05:04:04,940 --> 05:04:06,840
Okay, any other questions for Paul?

3550
05:04:07,220 --> 05:04:08,500
Well, I got two more slides.

3551
05:04:09,680 --> 05:04:10,400
This is our schedule.

3552
05:04:13,900 --> 05:04:14,760
On it.

3553
05:04:15,780 --> 05:04:22,100
And we plan to, I mean, we're moving.

3554
05:04:22,100 --> 05:04:45,440
I mean, a lot of this is based upon property funds on it and the to do and I mean the shelf life of property funds are running out on it and the so we've been pressing really hard to to move forward on the real estate acquisitions we were moving.

3555
05:04:45,440 --> 05:04:52,620
We have like 12 properties, we're relocating nine of the people that have lived there long

3556
05:04:52,620 --> 05:05:00,420
long time, probably over 40 years on it, and that's difficult to do, but we're working

3557
05:05:00,420 --> 05:05:01,320
with them.

3558
05:05:01,540 --> 05:05:10,660
One more to do, and to finalize for the deal, and that'll happen, and we'll consummate

3559
05:05:10,660 --> 05:05:14,340
all those escrow deals, get the people relocated out.

3560
05:05:14,980 --> 05:05:18,160
We anticipate the bulldozers hit the ground in May.

3561
05:05:18,400 --> 05:05:18,780
Oh, wait.

3562
05:05:20,800 --> 05:05:24,360
And one of the things we need to do is the encroachment permit.

3563
05:05:24,460 --> 05:05:28,520
And I think we worked out the details to do that.

3564
05:05:30,080 --> 05:05:32,060
And we're ready to go.

3565
05:05:32,360 --> 05:05:33,500
Seek was done.

3566
05:05:34,280 --> 05:05:36,260
We went through one lawsuit before.

3567
05:05:36,420 --> 05:05:38,100
We had that long thing going through

3568
05:05:38,100 --> 05:05:44,660
about going straight through a mining area and then we had to re-kink the levee or redo the levee.

3569
05:05:44,700 --> 05:05:47,420
That's one of the briefings to show that I talked about before.

3570
05:05:48,760 --> 05:05:50,480
But we've done all that.

3571
05:05:50,560 --> 05:05:55,160
We have 100% design drawings out for finalization for review.

3572
05:05:56,780 --> 05:06:03,260
And we plan to go out, go to my full board on February 18th,

3573
05:06:03,300 --> 05:06:04,920
ask for authorization to go to bed.

3574
05:06:04,920 --> 05:06:10,580
But we'll plan to send them out the next day and open it in early April.

3575
05:06:11,540 --> 05:06:17,120
Depending upon what the bid say, hopefully we have good bids on it, we'll let you notice

3576
05:06:17,120 --> 05:06:18,660
the proceed and press.

3577
05:06:19,500 --> 05:06:25,480
We expected to be a one-year construction zone, a time period, on it, I might slide somewhat

3578
05:06:26,180 --> 05:06:27,140
hopefully not.

3579
05:06:28,060 --> 05:06:33,640
And then that'll mark a really major milestones for at least Trilla and Rd-7A4.

3580
05:06:34,920 --> 05:06:48,460
This project is the final project for the RD704 improvements that we needed to do to get to 200 year and 100 year improvements for the entire system.

3581
05:06:50,200 --> 05:06:53,380
That doesn't mean that Trilla goes away or wherever you are.

3582
05:06:53,640 --> 05:06:57,500
I probably will be back talking to you about other things that we're doing.

3583
05:06:57,500 --> 05:07:10,720
You would county and others have asked us to go work in other parts of you, but county on different types of efforts for flight control, so we'll most likely be back in other projects to talk to you about them.

3584
05:07:11,140 --> 05:07:14,860
But with that, that's the end.

3585
05:07:16,100 --> 05:07:20,500
Thank you, Paul. That's creative, Clyde.

3586
05:07:25,880 --> 05:07:38,040
I have one concern and I think it's in its its the liability issue kind of of, you know, does the state take additional liability in.

3587
05:07:39,120 --> 05:07:41,160
And that's always been a worry of mine.

3588
05:07:42,560 --> 05:08:08,160
Anyway, but specifically for this, for your project, so you're going to build, you've got the gold fields kind of out there, and you're going to build this wall like this, and you're acknowledging that if a big flood comes, you could be flooding a very large area, and you're not buying flood easements for.

3589
05:08:09,560 --> 05:08:15,820
So those people then could come back and say, well, you, you know, you flooded me.

3590
05:08:15,980 --> 05:08:17,360
I didn't flood before.

3591
05:08:17,480 --> 05:08:26,040
Now you flooded me and somebody has to, somebody has to pick up that, that lawsuit and

3592
05:08:26,040 --> 05:08:33,160
the state under your proposal will have given assurances to the core.

3593
05:08:33,960 --> 05:08:34,340
Is that right?

3594
05:08:34,880 --> 05:08:36,500
We're giving assurances to the core.

3595
05:08:36,500 --> 05:08:43,860
You're giving a sure, I mean just standard thing, you give assurances to us, we give assurances to the core, or are there no assurances?

3596
05:08:45,640 --> 05:08:55,080
Well, you're giving assurances to the core on the lobby system that is typical, I mean that's, I mean nothing's changed.

3597
05:08:55,080 --> 05:09:07,360
The point, I put this map back up on the screen here, is the on the flowagesman on the land or water side of the levee.

3598
05:09:07,460 --> 05:09:17,120
The area that's behind that yellow line looking to the top of the screen to the north is really uninhabited.

3599
05:09:17,120 --> 05:09:21,220
There aren't homes in that there's mining companies that are mining.

3600
05:09:22,560 --> 05:09:27,620
There's a large area in that dashed area that you see that is actively,

3601
05:09:28,380 --> 05:09:32,760
you would goal fields that are people are dredging.

3602
05:09:33,220 --> 05:09:34,240
They still can dredge.

3603
05:09:34,380 --> 05:09:35,740
They can do various things.

3604
05:09:36,300 --> 05:09:37,740
They're like temporary facilities.

3605
05:09:39,000 --> 05:09:42,760
The couple homes, there's nine locations.

3606
05:09:42,760 --> 05:09:55,960
most of them are clustered along Hamilton Smart's full road that we're relocating out from that and on the map that we had, I'm going to turn to the project map here real quick.

3607
05:09:57,480 --> 05:10:09,200
The one detention, it's a triangle to the right of the screen, that blue area. That's where about eight of the homes are that we're relocating.

3608
05:10:09,200 --> 05:10:15,340
That becomes a detention basin that we dig out and we're going to use the dirt for the

3609
05:10:15,340 --> 05:10:16,180
levee.

3610
05:10:16,880 --> 05:10:18,780
So we're relocating them.

3611
05:10:18,980 --> 05:10:20,700
No one's going to live behind the levee.

3612
05:10:20,820 --> 05:10:26,900
There's another resident that lives on Brophy Road by the other detention basin that we're

3613
05:10:26,900 --> 05:10:28,560
relocating out of the area too.

3614
05:10:28,840 --> 05:10:30,580
So no one will live there.

3615
05:10:31,820 --> 05:10:37,740
The threat to the people behind the levee is really a mining operation.

3616
05:10:38,720 --> 05:10:53,800
And some orchards that are there in the orchards that are behind the levy today already are impacted, even without the levy being built by high groundwater.

3617
05:10:55,040 --> 05:11:01,320
When the Uba River comes up, the top soil up to ground level is saturated.

3618
05:11:02,140 --> 05:11:08,100
It's, and sometimes in historical studies comes out of the ground and causes like a foot

3619
05:11:08,100 --> 05:11:13,660
ponds that are sitting out there, just from high groundwater for the U.V. river influencing

3620
05:11:13,660 --> 05:11:15,560
this very porous soil.

3621
05:11:16,420 --> 05:11:21,000
So it already impacts, and there's been lots, lots, it's about impacts of orchards and

3622
05:11:21,000 --> 05:11:27,700
damages to them already and on it, and so we looked at that and concluded, why would we

3623
05:11:27,700 --> 05:11:36,200
give a flow of achievement over this area and pay the additional money for the Kizia and a

3624
05:11:36,200 --> 05:11:43,380
flow of achievement in this case. The discussion that you had last discussion, it most likely

3625
05:11:43,380 --> 05:11:50,640
will rain somewhere around maybe 80 to 95 percent of the property. If the person's already damaged

3626
05:11:50,640 --> 05:11:57,200
on an orchard and you're going to pay them 95% of that property value to keep on farming

3627
05:11:58,300 --> 05:12:03,880
additional and he's already damaged anymore. Why would you do that? That was our conclusion.

3628
05:12:05,280 --> 05:12:08,560
So we put together the memo and it's turning it in. I don't think you have additional

3629
05:12:08,560 --> 05:12:17,100
liability on it and as such and so within your staff review and you look at our permit

3630
05:12:17,100 --> 05:12:21,540
to issue, that's your question, you know, one of the questions that comes that we raise.

3631
05:12:21,700 --> 05:12:22,740
We don't think you need it.

3632
05:12:22,740 --> 05:12:29,340
And I pointed out here is that as you put together our permit, then you should consider

3633
05:12:29,340 --> 05:12:29,900
that.

3634
05:12:30,260 --> 05:12:31,720
We don't think you need it.

3635
05:12:38,730 --> 05:12:42,010
The liability issues and talk with DWR.

3636
05:12:42,470 --> 05:12:43,330
Yeah, absolutely.

3637
05:12:43,850 --> 05:12:51,110
But I think they have our check memo already on it and our explanation where we had and we sat down

3638
05:12:51,110 --> 05:12:59,030
through it with them. But it's just a night in that you need to consider. And if you do

3639
05:12:59,030 --> 05:13:03,970
end up putting it there, then that does have a cost consequence. And where do we put

3640
05:13:03,970 --> 05:13:09,610
it consequence? Because I don't know where to put it. One could lay it out over thousands of

3641
05:13:09,610 --> 05:13:15,130
it. I don't know where to get the money to do that. And then it drives the conclusion if you

3642
05:13:15,130 --> 05:13:25,290
need it. Be really need it. As we go forward. Additional questions? Anything else from board?

3643
05:13:25,830 --> 05:13:31,910
Okay, thanks Paul. How come the levees are 16 feet high?

3644
05:13:34,580 --> 05:13:36,940
Well, I'll try to make it really.

3645
05:13:36,940 --> 05:13:44,060
Well, when we connect to the existing levy, it's almost 16 feet there on the upper

3646
05:13:44,060 --> 05:13:44,900
U.B.

3647
05:13:45,100 --> 05:13:57,020
There's also, as we look to the water levels and that we, with the un, there's a lot of uncertainty

3648
05:13:57,020 --> 05:13:58,520
with the goal fields.

3649
05:13:59,480 --> 05:14:03,940
As to where we are, so as we went through our hydraulic modeling and all that,

3650
05:14:03,940 --> 05:14:09,880
M. B. K. did do a conservative analysis as to what that water surface level should be.

3651
05:14:10,280 --> 05:14:15,800
And they came up with a 200 year level and then placed a conservative nature into that.

3652
05:14:16,240 --> 05:14:21,500
That gave us an additional buffer in case something happens within the goal pills that we can adjust.

3653
05:14:22,200 --> 05:14:25,440
Which then added up to the 16 feet with the free board.

3654
05:14:28,640 --> 05:14:29,820
It seems very high.

3655
05:14:31,440 --> 05:14:32,380
All right. Thank you.

3656
05:14:32,560 --> 05:14:33,260
Thank you, Paul.

3657
05:14:34,760 --> 05:14:38,660
Okay, let's move on and finish this up.

3658
05:14:40,410 --> 05:14:42,190
Executive officers report.

3659
05:14:42,510 --> 05:14:46,230
We have the usual update reports on administration,

3660
05:14:46,870 --> 05:14:51,650
so on Leslie's executive officers report you want to.

3661
05:14:51,730 --> 05:14:55,190
I just have one thing to add that came into late to make it to the report,

3662
05:14:55,370 --> 05:14:59,990
and I want to give Kudos to Greg, who's sitting in the audience for making it.

3663
05:15:00,000 --> 05:15:09,440
I think this happened. Michael, do you want to do the honors? I can just tell you. We had our

3664
05:15:09,440 --> 05:15:15,300
damn emergency action plan approved. I think it might be the first one in the nation or whatever,

3665
05:15:15,380 --> 05:15:21,720
at least in California, but is it? Yes. So, through diligence and returning it multiple times,

3666
05:15:21,920 --> 05:15:28,260
through multiple people making thousands of comments, he was able to get it through, and we just

3667
05:15:28,260 --> 05:15:30,480
and have an opportunity to put it in the end.

3668
05:15:30,640 --> 05:15:30,960
Report.

3669
05:15:31,360 --> 05:15:32,360
Nice job, great.

3670
05:15:34,060 --> 05:15:34,320
OK.

3671
05:15:36,100 --> 05:15:40,040
OK, thanks to the staff for those reports.

3672
05:15:40,640 --> 05:15:41,840
They're very helpful.

3673
05:15:42,260 --> 05:15:43,960
Any comments from the board?

3674
05:15:44,580 --> 05:15:44,760
Tim?

3675
05:15:45,700 --> 05:15:46,220
Go.

3676
05:15:47,920 --> 05:15:49,120
The Clyde?

3677
05:15:49,520 --> 05:15:49,560
Jay?

3678
05:15:51,200 --> 05:15:51,680
Yes.

3679
05:15:52,380 --> 05:15:54,280
Board member McDonald and I.

3680
05:15:54,520 --> 05:15:57,420
That was a big sigh, because it's a real big sigh.

3681
05:15:58,280 --> 05:16:05,720
We're working with our board staff and others who have a lot of opinions about how the advisory committee should move forward, too.

3682
05:16:06,220 --> 05:16:06,920
Just a minute.

3683
05:16:07,240 --> 05:16:17,020
As sure that number one, it goes forward because it will be helpful and it was very helpful with both the original plan and the second.

3684
05:16:17,980 --> 05:16:20,940
But to do it in a way that has a bit more focus.

3685
05:16:22,980 --> 05:16:25,940
So we're going to need to take a little bit of time on that.

3686
05:16:25,940 --> 05:16:35,500
The only other thing, I would say is, lastly, we need to gear up our LMA visits again.

3687
05:16:36,220 --> 05:16:41,160
Accordinate those with Andrew and Preston or whoever.

3688
05:16:42,260 --> 05:16:44,380
I guess we've been doing those mostly with Ruth.

3689
05:16:44,880 --> 05:16:47,440
Ruth and yeah, we'll continue with that.

3690
05:16:47,520 --> 05:16:53,040
I just want to mention, I also am on top already of the designated floodway request that you had made.

3691
05:16:53,040 --> 05:16:58,740
That was one of the priorities I turned into the Secretary's office last year, so we're working

3692
05:16:58,740 --> 05:17:06,420
on making sure that in all of the requisite needs for all of the agencies so that we'll

3693
05:17:06,420 --> 05:17:12,340
be eligible for funding for that program to improve and expand it.

3694
05:17:12,720 --> 05:17:14,100
So we're on top of that.

3695
05:17:14,820 --> 05:17:20,240
Okay, anything on upcoming meetings and topics other than what's on the agenda?

3696
05:17:20,240 --> 05:17:24,980
We have a topic in February, which we'll talk about.

3697
05:17:25,220 --> 05:17:25,880
We do.

3698
05:17:26,100 --> 05:17:30,880
It's going to be a scoping for the plan for the San Joaquin specifically and some of the

3699
05:17:30,880 --> 05:17:31,440
climate change.

3700
05:17:32,280 --> 05:17:38,180
I think Mary is in the audience now waiting to do a little pre-brief on that, so we'll have

3701
05:17:38,180 --> 05:17:42,260
some more info after that, but it should be a good workshop.

3702
05:17:42,940 --> 05:17:43,100
Okay.

3703
05:17:43,660 --> 05:17:44,080
Great.

3704
05:17:45,020 --> 05:17:51,660
We have no closed session and therefore no closed session report, and so at the

3705
05:17:55,020 --> 05:17:59,140
we'll, without objection, say it this meeting's adjourned. Thank you.