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CA Marine Life Protection Act Initiative  |
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KEY DATES
for 2010 LEGISLATION
(Source: Environment California)
7/2/10-8/1/10
Summer Recess for CA Legislature
8/13/10
Last
day to get bills from fiscal committee to floor of second house
8/31/10
Last
day to send bills to the Governor's desk
9/30/10
Last day for the Governor to sign or veto bills |
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Members of Senate Appropriations Committee
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CALCOAST
Board of Directors
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Chair:
Supervisor
Pam Slater-Price
3rd
District,
San Diego County
Vice
Chair: Honorable
Ann Kulchin
City of
Carlsbad
Supervisor
Patricia Bates
5th
District
Orange
County
Supervisor
Don Knabe
4th
Dist. LA County
Councilmember
Brian Brennan
City of
Ventura
Councilmember
Ted Ehring
City of
Pismo Beach
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State Employees Avoid Pay
Cut: 
Guv says, "I'll be Back!" |
Last Friday, Gov. Schwarzenegger was rebuffed in his effort to obtain a
tempaorary
restraining order (TRO), compelling state Controller John Chiang to begin
paying state employees minimum wage ($7.25/hr.), but the judge is allowing
the administration's lawsuit to proceed so the issue of whether or not
the controller must pay minimum wage in the future can be decided once and
for all after a two-year battle. A full hearing will be set for late August.
In the meantime, state workers will continue to receive full pay.
If
the administration eventually prevails in the lawsuit, the pay cut
would
affect roughly 200,000 state employees. Salaried managers
would incur a pay cut to $455 a week. The ruling, however, would not
apply to employees covered by unions that recently reached labor
agreements with the governor. Doctors and lawyers employed by the
state would not receive any pay because minimum wage laws do not apply to those
professions.
LINK to Yahoo News
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Schwarzenegger taps veteran GOP strategist
to head FPPC
| Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger has appointed Dan Schnur as chairman of the Fair Political
Practices Commission, California's political watchdog agency. Schnur,
the director of University
of Southern California's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of
Politics, is a veteran Republican strategist who served as communications
director for former Gov.
Pete Wilson and for Sen.
John McCain's 2000 presidential bid.LINK to Sacramento Bee |
MLPA Initiative
(North Coast Region)
Announces Meetings
| Who: MLPA Initiative groups
What
: Upcoming meetings
When
: July through October (see below for specific dates)
Where
: Various locations (see below)
Note that public participation
locations will also be available
for the meetings; details will be provided in upcoming draft agendas,
but generally
they are offered in Crescent City, Eureka and Fort Bragg.
July 28
Master Plan Science Advisory Team
Via teleconference/webinar
July 29-30 (note both days are a meeting; no
work session)
North Coast Regional Stakeholder
Group
C.V. Starr Community Center
300 South Lincoln Street
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
August 30-31
North Coast Regional Stakeholder
Group
Eureka area
October 13-14
Master Plan Science Advisory Team
Red Lion Hotel
1929 Fourth Street
Eureka, CA 95501
October 25-27 (note change of dates!)
Blue Ribbon Task Force
Eureka area
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MLPA Initiative
(South Coast Region)
Changes Location of 7/23 Meeting
| Meeting Location Change for South Coast MPAs Scoping
Meeting
Contacts: Adrianna Shea, California Fish and Game
Commission,
(916)
653-4899; Thomas Napoli, Department of
Fish and Game,
(562) 342-7164;
Kirsten Macintyre, Department of Fish and Game,
(916) 322-8988.
There has been a venue
change for the MLPA South Coast Draft Environmental Impact Report
Scoping Meeting on July 23.
The meeting
will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at:
Hyatt Regency Long Beach
200 South Pine Avenue
Long Beach CA, 90802
At
this meeting interested members of the public are invited to provide
input
on the scope of the analysis to be conducted and included in the Draft Environmental
Impact Report.
For more information about the upcoming meeting
and other ways the public can submit comments (through August 3, 2010) on the
scope of the Draft Environmental Impact Report, please read the July
6, 2010 DFG News Release at http://www.dfg.ca.gov/news/news10/2010070601-Environmental-Quality-MPA.html.
More information about this new scoping meeting venue may be found online or
by calling (562)
491-1234.
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AB 1998 (Brownley) Faces Important Vote in August
| The Legislature is on summer recess until August 1. When
lawmakers return to Sacramento, they'll have only have four weeks to push
roughly 1200 bills through the legislative process. AB 1998 (plastic bag ban),
like other bills in Senate Appropriations and bills in Assembly Approps, need
to be out of committee and onto the floor by August 13.
CalCoast has been working with the Clean Seas Coalition, Environment
California, Heal the Bay, Surfrider Foundation, Coastkeeper and others to make
sure AB 1998 is voted out of Senate Approps and moved to the Senate floor.
WE NEED
YOUR HELP! Please send a letter of support to members of Senate Approps (see committee
member list in left margin). If you would like to receive a model letter of
support to work from, please email CalCoast at steveaceti@calcoast.org. Time is of
the essence on this one!
We wish to thank everyone who has supported the bill
to date, but we will need a broader base of support to move AB 1998 to the
governor's desk.
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CWO Conference 2010
| THANK YOU SPONSORS!
Each CWO registrant will receive a re-usable shopping bag
manufactured by ChicoBag. The bags have
been made available through sponsorships (see logos below) and we
want to thank each of the sponsors for making this offer possible.
A special
thank you to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and Chairwoman Pam
Slater-Price for a major grant to help underwrite the cost of the bags.
By displaying
their logos on a re-usable shopping bag, the sponsors are showing their
commitment to reduce marine debris and trash caused by single-use plastic
shopping bags and we appreciate their support of our efforts on this issue.
For more information about the CWO Conference 2010
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Activist
Loses Job, But Wins Battle to Restore
LA River |
Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruled the Los Angeles River
"traditional navigable waters," entitled to the protections of the Clean Water Act. It was a
huge victory for the legions of activists who have worked for
decades to protect the river from developers and polluters.
In what can only be called a true, selfless profile in courage, LA River
activist
Heather Wylie was a key organizer of what turned out to be the most important
boating expedition ever undertaken on the Los Angeles River.
With other
activists in kayaks and canoes, Wylie navigated the LA River's
shallow
waters in response to a court decision, declaring that the waterway wasn't
"navigable" under federal law. Her quest to save the river cost Wylie her
job with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But it helped save the L.A. River.
In a recent decision that declared the river is "navigable"
(and, thus,
eligible for federal funds) the EPA mentioned the
activists' 2008 flotilla
among its official findings. The LA River,
its fragile ecosystem, and the
communities along its banks from
inland to Long Beach are the beneficiaries of Wylie's efforts and we
tip our hats to Heather, her fellow explorers and the stakeholder
groups that were intrumenatl in over-turning a bad decision.
LINK to LA Times
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counties; AMBAG, BEACON, SANDAG and SCAG; private sector partners and NGO's
committed to restoring California's shoreline through sand replenishment,
increasing the flow of natural sediment, wetlands recovery, improved
water quality and abatement of marine debris.
Steven Aceti, JD
Executive Director
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