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South Coast
Central Coast
SF Bay Area
North Coast
In 2000 the Coastal Conservancy worked to use effectively and quickly the $254 million appropriated for the Conservancy by the State legislature and Governor for the 2000/2001 budget year. Most of those funds were made available through Proposition 12, the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000, passed by the State's voters in March. The Conservancy also worked to apply the funds remaining from its 1999/2000 appropriation of $80 million.
Authorizations included over $80 million for property acquisitions to protect wildlife habitat and open space and add to parks and recreational lands. About $10 million was authorized for projects to benefit the natural environment and over $20 million for trails and other recreational improvements.
To expend its available funds, the Conservancy made use of program and project planning conducted during the 1990's, when there was relatively little funding available for projects. The Conservancy also made good use of its many partnerships with nonprofit organizations and local governments that it has developed since 1977, the year it was established.
Notable funding authorizations include:
South Coast Region
- Property Acquisitions: $2.7 million for the purchase of wildlife habitat and parklands in the Otay River Valley, $4.2 million for habitat on Carmel Mountain in San Diego County, $400,000 for habitat along the Los Angeles River in Paramount, $10 million for Lechuza Beach in Malibu, $17 million for Southern California Edison properties at Ormond Beach in Ventura County and elsewhere, and $4.8 million to initiate the Santa Clara River Parkway program in Ventura County
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Environmental Enhancements: $300,000 for Los Angeles River environmental studies, and $2 million for studies on the possible removal of Matilija Dam in Ventura County.
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Public Access: $450,000 for the Dana Point Marine Life Refuge in Orange County, $665,000 for the Los Angeles River Parkway, $525,000 for Belmont Pier in Long Beach, and $250,000 for Surfer's Point in Ventura.
Central Coast Region
- Property Acquisitions: $4 million for an 800-acre ranch on the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County, $3.5 million for East-West Ranch in Cambria, $1 million for the City of Monterey’s Window-on-the-Bay, $450,000 for an addition to Salinas River State Beach, and $1 million for Mori Point in Pacifica.
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Environmental Enhancements: $500,000 for Santa Rosa Creek in Santa Barbara County, and $88,000 for environmental planning for the Irish Hills in San Luis Obispo County.
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Public Access: $55,000 for the Avila Beach Marine Research and Education Center in San Luis Obispo County, $3 million to purchase trail and conservation easements at Purisima Farms in coastal San Mateo County, and $300,000 to extend the California Coastal Trail in Pacifica.
San Francsico Bay Region
- Property Acquisitions: $500,000 to purchase parkland next to Alum Rock Park in San Jose, $415,000 to acquire property for Union Point Park in Oakland, $300,000 for expansion of Brushy Peak Regional Preserve in Alameda County, $400,000 for an addition to Mount Diablo State Park, $1.7 million for properties along the Napa River, $330 for additions to Quail Ridge Reserve in Napa County, $340,000 to expand Deer Island Preserve in Marin County, $600,000 for an addition to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Marin County, and $16 million for purchase of the Bel Marin Keys property in Novato.
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Environmental Enhancements: $550,000 for San Francisco's Lake Merced, $45,000 for Baxter Creek in Richmond, and $160,000 for Sonoma Creek near Schellville.
- Public Access: $7.4 million for the San Francisco Bay Trail, $3.4 million for the Bay Area Ridge Trail, $1 million for the Crissy Field Community Environmental Center in San Francisco, $100,000 for San Francisco's Brannan Street Wharf, $270,000 for Oakland's Temescal Beach House, $330,000 for Oakland's Union Point Park, $492,000 for Richmond's Ferry Point Pier, $118,000 for River Park in Vallejo, $350,000 for trails along Petaluma Marsh, and $217,000 for Hood Mountain Regional Park in Sonoma County.
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San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Grant Program: In the fall the Conservancy solicited applications for grants to use about $15 million of the $34.5 million appropriated for the San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Program in FY 2000/2001. (The remainder of available funds were either earmarked by the State legislature for specific projects or assigned by the Conservancy to ongoing work.) The Conservancy received over 60 applications and reserved funding for over 30 priority projects that may be implemented in the coming year. The Conservancy also tentatively assigned funding currently available or possibly available in the future for over 20 projects that may commence within the next two or three years.
North Coast Region
- Property Acquisitions: $500,000 for the Val Alstyne Redwood Grove in Sonoma County, $1.5 million for the Caspar Headlands near Fort Bragg, and $727,000 for the Westport Headlands in northern Mendocino County.
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Environmental Enhancements: $400,000 for the Russian River's Fish-Friendly Farming program, $100,000 for the Humboldt Bay Management Plan, and $85,000 to protect and restore a portion of Indian Island in Eureka.
- Public Access: $425,000 for improvements to the Point Cabrillo Preserve and light station north of the town of Mendocino, $120,000 for Gobbi Street Park in Ukiah, $107,000 for the Humboldt Bay Trail, and $500,000 for the Eureka Boardwalk.
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