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Consider potential options to accommodate California Department of Fish and Wildlife habitat requirements, and adopt a Resolution:
a. Authorizing the Director of Resource Management Agency, in consultation with the Director of Parks, to prepare documents for conserving 7.68 acres of Toro Park as habitat mitigation for the Blackie Road Safety Improvement Project; and
b. Directing the Resource Management Agency Director to coordinate with the Parks Department and the CAO Budget and Analysis division to identify appropriate staffing and fiscal resources for ongoing habitat maintenance, and to reflect related expenditures as a line item in the County's annual budget.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors: consider potential options to accommodate California Department of Fish and Wildlife habitat requirements, and adopt a Resolution:
a. Authorizing the Director of Resource Management Agency, in consultation with the Director of Parks, to prepare documents for conserving 7.68 acres of Toro Park as habitat mitigation for the Blackie Road Safety Improvement Project; and
b. Directing the Resource Management Agency Director to coordinate with the Parks Department and the CAO Budget and Analysis division to identify appropriate staffing and fiscal resources for ongoing habitat maintenance, and to reflect related expenditures as a line item in the County's annual budget.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Blackie Road Safety Improvement Project (Project) consists of making public safety improvements to a segment of Blackie Road that ranks over twenty times the statewide average for accidents. The County of Monterey Resource Management Agency - Public Works (RMA-PW) successfully competed for State Grants to reconstruct the roadway, provide shoulders, and rehabilitate existing road side drainage ditches within the roadway right of way. The roadway alignment has had minimal adjustment from the original configuration of Blackie...
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