Monterey County Grand Jury

2026-2027

2 reports

Additional Recommendations 7

Not linked to specific findings.

R1: MCWRA and SLO County Public Works to collaborate on a grant to fund a watershed coordinator.
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R2: Current watershed group to draft a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) of potentially involved parties and identify roles and responsibilities of involvement. MOA could be structured to include public agency, local non-governmental organization (NGO), and local sponsoring agency (existing water quality interests) for each county. MOA could be structured to include local, regional, state and federal organizations and agencies that hold a stake in the health of the watersheds. MOA could be structured with signatories’ agreement to financially contribute to support a scope of work derived from the MOA.
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R3: Configuring a Watersheds Advisory Committee (WAC) which would shepherd the plan forward until such time as a staff position is identified and funded to work with the WAC to support water protection efforts in the Nacitone watersheds.
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R4: Distributing this plan in coordination with the Monterey County Water Resources Agency
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R5: Consideration of a user-friendly format for the plan to encourage wider public appeal
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R6: Facilitating the prioritization and forward momentum of implementation actions. Determining which of the implementations to facilitate and/or implement.
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R7: Choose a date for the next stakeholders meeting to be convened by the WAC Method for Plan Distribution Public Outreach To the extent possible, Steering Committee members may ‘shop the plan around’ to groups and associations whose missions have a nexus with the plan. The Steering Committee has been contacting those identified as potential partners for implementation recommendation and will continue to solicit participation in the form of idea exchange and generation of next steps to kick off implementation recommendations. Targeted Entities The following groups will receive copies of the plan. (cid:131) Technical Advisory Committee members representing jurisdictional agencies in the watersheds (cid:131) Representatives of jurisdictional agencies identified in the jurisdictional section of the plan (cid:131) Chairpersons of each County Board of Supervisors 133 (cid:131) Specific staff members of each County such as Public Works Directors, Planning and Building Department Directors, Reservoir Operations Committee of MCWRA (cid:131) People providing public comment (cid:131) Steering Committee members (cid:131) Members of the public upon request In addition, the following electronic venues will be used to distribute the plan. (cid:131) Nacitone Watershed Group website (cid:131) Monterey County Water Resources Agency web site (cid:131) Request links on jurisdictional web sites Strategic Planning The goals and objectives of this plan may be beneficial starting places for both Counties when they pursue up-dates of General Plan elements relative to these watersheds. Future groups should refer to County General Plans for policies that may support or prevent implementing the Plan’s goals and objectives. Future of the Nacitone Watershed Group Funding The following is a list of potential strategies for consideration.
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