Memorandum
Date: December 16, 2025
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Bruno Sabatier, District 2 Supervisor
Subject: Consideration of a Letter of Support for the "Advancing Community Wildfire Resilience: Capacity Building & Local Leadership Development, Phase II" Project of the Lake County Resource Conservation District - Coalitions & Collaboratives, Inc. Action, Implementation, & Mitigation Grant Program
Executive Summary:
The Lake County Resource Conservation District (LCRCD), as administrator of the Lake County Fire Safe Council, is submitting a grant application to the Coalitions & Collaboratives (CoCo), Inc. Action, Implementation, & Mitigation (AIM) Grant Program for the "Advancing Community Wildfire Resilience: Capacity Building & Local Leadership Development, Phase II" project.
When funded, this project will:
* Expand LCFSC's existing Mobile Tool Cache Program to enhance its utilization and build community-level capacity for fuels reduction and maintenance activities across Lake County;
* Collaborate closely with the emergent Redbud Fire Safe Council (RFSC) and the Firewise Communities that comprise it to foster enduring local capacity in Clearlake, including the following activities: work directly with community leaders to form and nurture Firewise Communities, equip those Firewise Communities and RFSC with the basic materials they need to be visible and effective entities, educate Clearlake residents in both English and Spanish, and empower residents to host neighborhood-level work days; and
* Connect the dots between upcoming hazardous fuels reduction work, including federally funded evacuation route clearing led by the Clear Lake Environmental Research Center (CLERC) and (anticipated) state-funded defensible space implementation led by LCRCD, to build community awareness of and engagement with these important initiatives.
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