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Outreach + Engagement in the Cosumnes Subbasin

Prepared by Julia Golomb, CBI July 2018

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Topics

• 1. DWR Best Practices
• 2. Cosumnes Outreach To-Date

What’s worked well? What could be improved?

• 3. How Are Other Subbasins Approaching Outreach + Engagement?
• 4. Developing a Roadmap for SGMA Engagement in the Cosumnes

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DWR Describes 7 Steps of Community Engagement

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Cosumnes Outreach To-Date

March 2017 – First Public Workshop > Direct mailings to uncovered areas July 2017 – Launched Website (cosumnes.waterforum.org) October 2017 – Outreach and Public Engagement Plan October 2017 – Developed Fact Sheet + Press Release October 2017 – Three Public Workshops (Jackson, Wilson, Galt) > Range of attendance (1 to 80 attendees) > Powerful role of social media

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What’s Happening In Other Basins?

Ø Media + Social Media Ø Public Workshops Ø Website Ø Fact Sheet Ø Advisory Committee [examples: Salinas Valley, Merced, ESJ]

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Ad Advisory Committee

Purpose: To incorporate community and stakeholder interests into consensus recommendations on SGMA implementation in the Salinas Valley Basin for the Board to consider in its decision-making process. To inform the Board’s decision-making, the Advisory Committee provides written recommendations

• n subjects that the Board assigns to the Advisory Committee. The

recommendations identify areas of agreement and disagreement`. Criteria for Advisory Committee members:

• Serve as a strong effective advocate
• Work collaboratively with others
• Commit time needed for ongoing discussions
• Collectively reflect diversity of interests
• Maintain Committee size to support focused deliberations

There is no set limit on membership on the Committee, and the Agency Board

• f Directors may make appointments from time-to-time after receiving

applications from interested parties.

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Stakeholder Committee

The Stakeholder Committee will serve as community representatives to review groundwater conditions, management issues and needs, and projects and management actions to improve sustainability in the basin.

• Input + engagement from diverse stakeholders to guide plan development
• Multi-disciplinary group composed of organizations that represent interested

parties

• 24-member forum for testing ideas and providing information
• Responsible for providing feedback and communicating to their constituencies
• Recommendations considered by Coordinating Committee and GSA Leadership
• Periodic in-person meetings (every one to two months) open to the public

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St Stakeholder Co Committee Roster

• 2Q Farming
• Calaveras County Resource

Conservation District

• Catholic Charities of the Diocese of

Stockton

• The Hartmann Law Firm/Advisory

Water Commission

• San Joaquin Audubon
• Sierra Club
• San Joaquin Farm Bureau Federation
• Trinchero Family Estates and Sutter

Home Winery

• South Delta Water Agency
• San Joaquin County Environmental

Health Department

• Manufacturers Council of the Central

Valley

• The Wine Group
• J.R. Simplot Co.
• Lima Ranch
• University of the Pacific
• Sequoia ForestKeeper
• Ag Business – Farmer
• The Environmental Justice Coalition

for Water

• Spring Creek Golf & Country Club
• Machado Family Farms
• California Sportfishing Protection

Alliance

• Restore the Delta
• PUENTES

Total number of participants: 23

CBI Recommendation: Assessment Interviews

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Di Discussion - Ke Key Qu Questions:

• Who are the core groups we need to be reaching out to? Who

should be aware of or involved in the process who may not yet be?

• What are important milestones needing outreach in

the Cosumnes Subbasin (near-term, medium-term, longer-term)?

• What are different options for engaging water users/uses? What

are the strengths and drawbacks of the different approaches?

• Consider the focus and timing for a rapid, focused stakeholder

assessment beyond the white spaces?

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