Memorandum
Date: October 22, 2024
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Pawan Upadhyay, Water Resources Director and Angela De Palma-Dow, Program Coordinator, Water Resources
Subject: (Sitting as the Lake County Watershed Protection District, Board of Directors) Adopt Resolution to Approve the Memorandum of Understanding between Lake County Watershed Protection District, Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, and Robinson Rancheria to Execute the USEPA 2024-2027 Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant
Executive Summary:
Staff is requesting the Board of Directors (BOD) of the Lake County Watershed Protection District (District), adopt the Resolution approving the Memo of Understanding (MOU) between the Lake County Watershed Protection District (District), Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, and Robinson Rancheria (jointly referred to as “Tribes” herein) to execute the awarded US EPA 2024 Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant (NEIEN). The BOD approved Phase I of this grant program in 2020 and this MOU will continue the grant program into Phase 2 of the Lake County Water Quality Data Exchange Program, under a second awarded NEIEN grant, in the amount not to exceed a grant total of $499,604 with an allocated District portion of $170,031.
The goal of this grant is to collect, discover, organize, store, manage, and analyze past, current, and future lake and stream water and hitch quality and quantity data and make this data publicly accessible. The District is excited to continue this collaborative program with several of the Lake County tribes that are active and focused on aquatic resources science, management, and conservation.
Attached to this memo package:
1) The Resolution authorizing the NEIEN MOU
2) The MOU between the District and the Tribes
3) Attachment A includes the awarded grant narrative
4) Attachment B is the awarded grant budget and table of deliverables
This item is not anticipated to be controversial; therefore, staff are requesting this item to be placed on the consent agenda, however staff can be present and prepared should any questions from the public or the BOD arise.
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Recommended Action:
(Sitting as the Lake County Watershed Protection District, Board of Directors) Adopt Resolution to Approve the Memorandum of Understanding between Lake County Watershed Protection District, Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, and Robinson Rancheria to Execute the USEPA 2024-2027 Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant.