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COUNTY QF BUTTIw, STATE. OF CALIF(3RNIA
',,~;.•~ Resolution No.
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE WATERSHED AND CRITICAL
HABITAT ASSESSMENT STUDY FOR THE COUNTY OF BUTTE AND
ADJACENT COUNTIES
07-152
WHEREAS, the Legislature and the Governor of the State of California have
provided funds through Proposition 84, the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and
Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 to the Sierra
Nevada Conservancy for programs that improve the environmental, economic and social
well-being of the Sierra Nevada Region; and
WHEREAS, the Butte County Department of Development Services and
Department of Water and Resource Conservation staff have worked with the California
Department of Fish and Game and Gallaway Consulting, lnc. to develop a grant
application package entitled Watershed and Critical Habitat Assessment Study; and
WHEREAS, this study evaluates the health of the watersheds through the use of
migratory deer as an indicator species; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors is currently reviewing and updating the
General Plan and Zoning Ordinance (Butte County General Plan 2030); and
WHEREAS, data regarding the migratory patterns of the deer herds will provide
important information needed for the General Plan 2030 process; and
WHEREAS, data from this project will further refine the migratory deer herd
mapping currently under contract with Gallaway Consulting and associated with the
General Plan 2030 process;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Butte support the Watershed and Critical Habitat Assessment Study and
authorize the submittal of the application package to the Sierra Nevada Conservancy by
the Department of Development Services in cooperation with the Department of Water
and Resource Conservation, California Department of Fish and Game and Gallaway
Consulting, Inc. to obtain funding provided under Proposition 84.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Supervisors this 25tH
day of September, 2007 by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Connelly, Kirk, Josiassen, Yamaguchi, and Chair Dolan
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
NOT VOTING: None
Jae Dohdn, Chair of the
But a County Board of Supervisors
ATTEST:
STARLYN B -P~l,
Clerk of t e ~o Supervisors
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