TOWN OF MORAGA
CITY OF LAFAYETTE AND CITY OF ORINDA
SPECIAL JOINT MEETING
Rovember, 197% March 21, 2022
MINUTES
As prepared by the City of Orinda
7:00 P.M. Special Meeting
TELECONFERENCED MEETING LOCATION ONLY
HOSTED BY THE CITY OF ORINDA
*COVID-19 NOTICE*
THIS MEETING WAS CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 54953 (AS AMENDED BY AB 361), WHICH AUTHORIZED
TELECONFERENCED MEETINGS UNDER THE BROWN ACT, DURING CERTAIN PROCLAIMED STATES OF EMERGENCY. THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA PROCLAIMED A STATE OF EMERGENCY RELATED TO COVID-19 ON MARCH 4, 2020.
THIS TELECONFERENCED MEETING WAS NECESSARY SO THAT THE TOWN AND
CITIES COULD CONDUCT ESSENTIAL BUSINESS AND WAS PERMITTED UNDER GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 54953 IN ORDER TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE SAFETY OF ATTENDEES.
Consistent with Government Code Section 54953, this meeting was held via teleconference only, and was not physically open to the public. Lafayette and Orinda City Councilmembers and Moraga Town Councilmembers and staff teleconferenced into the meeting by audio and/or video. The meeting was conducted via Zoom Webinar.
Note: Written communications received from the public prior to the start of this meeting can be viewed at: http://orindaca.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail Meeting.aspx?ID=2210. They are also kept in the Orinda City Clerk's Office as part of the public record and available upon request.
A. CALL TO ORDER / ROLL CALL
The special meeting was called to order at approximately 7:00 p.m. by Orinda Mayor Dennis Orinda Councilmembers present: Mayor Dennis Fay, Vice Mayor Inga Miller, and Councilmembers Darlene Gee, Nick Kosla and Amy Worth
Lafayette Councilmembers present: Mayor Teresa Gerringer, Vice Mayor Carl Anduri, and Councilmembers Susan Candell, Gina Dawson and Wei-Tai
Kwok
Moraga Councilmembers present: Mayor Renata Sos, Vice Mayor Steve Woehleke and Councilmembers Sona Makker, Mike McCluer and Teresa
Onoda
B. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Moraga Mayor Sos led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting March 21, 2022 C. ADOPTION OF AGENDA
ACTION: It was M/S (Anduri/Gerringer) to adopt the Meeting Agenda, as shown. Roll Call Vote: 15-0.
D. PUBLIC FORUM
Supervisor Candace Andersen voiced her excitement to be present for the meeting and looked forward to listening to the presentation.
E. POLICY MATTERS
E.1. Presentation by John Hoang, Director of Planning at Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA) on the Lamorinda Action Plan Update. Councilmember Discussion and Direction, if any.
John Hoang, Director of Planning, CCTA, introduced Matt Kelly, CCTA's Senior Transportation Planner and consultants David Early and Terina Wilson from PlaceWorks who were assisting CCTA on updating the Action Plans and Countywide Transportation Plan (CTP).
Mr. Hoang gave background of the item, described the meetings held with the Lamorinda Program Management Committee (LPMC), the LPMC Technical Group and the LMPC Board, provided an update of current efforts relating to update of the Lamorinda Action Plan, which was last amended June 2021, and looked forward to hearing from Councilmembers. He then introduced CCTA's Senior Planner Matt Kelley.
Matt Kelly, CCTA, Senior Transportation Planner, gave a PowerPoint presentation regarding their update of the Action Plans and the Countywide Transportation Plan. He gave a background of CCTA, the sales tax authority and congestion management agency for the County, stating the original transportation sales tax Measure C was passed in 1988 which was superseded by Measure J with an over 75% countywide vote in 2004, implemented in 2009, and that was when they made some major changes to the Growth Management Program (GMP). Measure J sought to manage the impacts of land use decisions on the transportation system among other efforts and it required compliance for all 19 local jurisdictions and the County through the submittal of a biannual checklist in order to receive 18% in return to source funds.
One of the major parts of the GMP is the voter-approved Urban Limit Line, to focus new residential and commercial development within urban growth boundaries, thus precluding the need to build on green fields and agricultural lands and reduce the need for new infrastructure to be extended beyond their current limits.
Another major part of the GMP was Action Plans for Routes of Regional Significance. The plans sought to allow the Regional Transportation Planning Committees (RTPC) or subareas to apply goals, objectives, and performance measures to routes deemed as major regional routes. The GMP sought to ensure mitigation of negative impacts on new land use developments with objectives set for each route.
One of the main reasons LMPC was formed was to administer Lamorinda Fee and Finance Authority (LFFA) where fees and taxes were collected from developers which then may be spent on local or regional improvements.
Due to changes in SB 43, this caused them to take a new look at Action Plans which would be discussed by the PlaceWorks team as to what they had been doing.
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting 2 March 21, 2022 David Early, PlaceWorks, described each of the following successes of the Action Plans in the past and said he would be talking about what the updates would entail:
• Caldecott Tunnel 4th Bore
• Moraga Way Multimodal Improvements
• Lamorinda School Bus Program
• Transportation for Livable Communities Project Grants • Livable Moraga Way
• Canyon Road Bridge Improvements
• Countywide: GoMentum Autonomous Vehicle Testing Facility • Countywide: Local Streets Maintenance and Improvements • Countywide: Charge Up Contra Costa
• Countywide: BART Parking and Access Improvements
The project was an update of all five Action Plans, Lamorinda being one of them. There was a second update in Southwest Area Transportation (SWAT) and those in East, Central and Wes! County. Once that was over, they would begin an update to the Countywide Transportation Plan which would roll up the results of the Action Plans into a single Countywide Plan.
Both of those efforts would contain bold ideas to enhance Contra Costa's transportation network with emphasis on reducing vehicle miles traveled, on multi-modal transportation and key over- arching issues that included equity and transportation, safety and transportation, and addressed climate change as it affected the transportation network.
Efforts would also build on three concepts that came forward in the 2020 Transportation Expenditure Plan: the high use of innovation and new technology, a holistic multi-modal approach and an integrated approach to corridor management.
The Action Plan would:
• Address transportation issues of today
• Establish quantitative service objectives
• Identify Regional Routes
• Provide Growth Management Program compliance metrics
• Expand Multimodal Transportation Service Objectives (MTSOs) to become Regional Transportation Objectives (RTOs) for:
Roadway Safety
Transit Climate Change
Bike/Pedestrian Equity
Technology
Mr. Early said they were working with the three cities' staff and held four workshops to establish regional transportation objectives in all seven areas and to identify important regional facilities.
He then presented a slide on the project schedule milestones and dates, noting that they would be wrapping up and presenting the Action Plans in October with an interim check-in in June, and then moving into the Countywide Transportation Plan update starting in July with preparation and adoption by the end of 2023.
Mr. Early then described how the Action Plans might mesh with local growth policies, and with the Housing and Safety Element updates underway which were required by law.
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting 3 March 21, 2022 • Action Plans and CTP would account for growth foreseen in Housing Elements (as assigned by Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)). • Action Plans and CTP had a horizon of 2050, while Housing Elements were only for eight years so total development numbers were different.
• Lack of roadway capacity would no longer be a viable reason to disapprove of residential growth projects foreseen in a Housing Element.
He then presented graphs and stated they were identifying additionally important potential roadway routes, potential transit routes, and potential bike/pedestrian routes. All routes that may be put into the Action Plans did not become a subject of that compliance effort. He emphasized that cities did need to be in compliance with the GMP to receive return to source funds. It may be that cities set an objective for one of the facilities and may not be able to comply with that due to growth beyond their control, but that did not put cities out of compliance with an Action Plan.
What planning for routes allowed them to do was to make commitments from one jurisdiction to the other about an effort for regional planning. He congratulated all cities for the fact that the County had a framework for regional planning that did not exist almost anywhere else in the entire State of California.
Regarding next steps:
Policy Board and TACs help promote public outreach
Future TAC and Policy Board Meetings:
February 2022 - TAC Round 3:
Introduce the new preliminary goals, projects, programs, RTOs, and Regional Routes for comment and refinement
Late March/April 2022 - TAC Round 4:
Review 2050 RTO projections and implications for travel in 2050 with recommended projects and programs for comment and refinement June - October 2022
Policy Board Review of Action Plan Components
TAC Review of Draft Action Plan
TAC Review of Final Action Plan
Policy Board Adoption
Regarding public outreach:
• Project webpage: ccta.net/ctp
• Countywide Public Polling
• 11 Public Workshops and 21 Pop-Ups
• Two rounds of five separate workshops (one for each planning area. • One extra workshop for Lamorinda area.
• Three Stakeholder Workshops
• Oversight Committee
Jurisdiction and Outside Agency Coordination
• Lamorinda Round 1 Outreach:
• Lafayette BART Pop-Up 3/8 from 4 to 6 PM
• Orinda Farmers Market 3/12 from 9 to 1 PM
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting 4 March 21, 2022 He concluded the presentation and thanked the Councils and stated the team was available to answer questions regarding the overall process.
Lafayette Councilmember Candell asked and confirmed with Mr. Early that the public meetings were focused on two-way interactions to educate people about the Action Plan process, what they were, why they were important, why the work of CCTA was so important and how sales tax dollars were being put to work.
At the same time, they were asking people for their comments about what they believed were the most important initiatives that could be undertaken for transportation over the next 25 years. In some cases, they were hearing specific comments about road repairs, traffic signals, bikeways, and in other cases, comments were broad about people wanting to see more autonomous vehicles, more ride-sharing, an overall better bikeway network, expansion of transit, etc. They had structured exercises at the workshops and online on the website for members of the public to provide feedback.
Lafayette Councilmember Candell asked if they would have another round in the process, and Mr. Early stated they would have two more rounds with both popups and interactive workshops.
Lamorinda residents wanted additional opportunities for input, and they were doing three rounds of workshops in Lamorinda.
Moraga Councilmember McCluer said he thought the presentation would cover an update on the Lamorinda Action Plans and where they stood on each one. Mr. Early noted that was not on the agenda this evening and explained CCTA does do a biannual assessment of compliance with the objectives and some of that information was available, and some was being compiled by the consultant team now. Hopefully, the information would be made available to the TAC at the April meeting.
Their work was not only to assess how the cities were today in achieving the existing objectives but also helping to set new objectives that were realistic and those assumed to be achieved over the next 10-25 year planning horizon.
Mr. Kelly stated the way they tracked current objectives was through the checklist reporting of each town every two years and they reported back to CCTA about what they had done in terms of implementing the actions in their Action Plan. However, they could always get a city or town that information.
With the pandemic and fewer people using the roadways, roads had been operating relatively well with high compliance with existing objectives. Existing objectives were almost exclusively oriented towards roadways. There was one objective about seating capacity on BART and there were many seats available there. They were not completely in compliance before the pandemic and would be working on new objectives for assessing transit, bike and pedestrians moving forward.
Orinda Vice Mayor Miller asked that as projects were approved, would there be programs that compliant communities could apply for to seek funding for roadway enhancements such as Moraga Way, St. Mary's Road and Acalanes/Glorietta as an example. If they were adding car trips to those areas and adding population, she wondered if it was appropriate to use this current plan and if so, how they would go about that to address multi-jurisdictional issues they would be facing together as part of the housing cycle.
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting 5 March 21, 2022 Mr. Early agreed that questions of how to design roadways to have regional connections was fundamental to the process and future planning. It was the case that there were parts of those roadways where it may be possible to add facilities. Some might move additional cars, some might enhance bike safety, and there were other places like Moraga Way where the right-of-way was so constrained it was not possible to make many changes. This may take planning to get people out of their cars and enhance transit service. Perhaps there was also a way for carpool, Lyft and Uber use so multiple people could share rides in one vehicle.
There was funding through CCTA and Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) over the next years to make additional improvements. The big question would be to achieve consensus in Lamorinda about what those improvements might look like, and collaboration would be needed.
Moraga Vice Mayor Woehleke asked how this interfaced with the Plan Bay Area 2050 which was broad in scope and had a projected price of over $850 billion.
Mr. Kelly said Plan Bay Area was, to some degree, a parallel or similar effort to the Countywide Transportation Plan being conducted for the entire nine county Bay Area. It had just recently been adopted by the MTC Board and ABAG Board as the blueprint for growth for the Bay Area through 2050, contained a host of programs and cities could think about the Action Plan and the CP as steps towards implementing Plan Bay Area 2050.
Growth projections were taken from Plan Bay Area 2050 growth projections, retooled by all staff members to ensure they were up-to-date and were using those refined 2050 projections for the new transportation planning currently ongoing for the Action Plans and the CTP. Those things would be rolled up and resubmitted to MTC three to five years from now for the next Regional Transportation Plan which would roll up all of these CTPs.
Moraga Vice Mayor Woehleke asked if there were funding opportunities from the $850 billion or was it an unknown. Mr. Kelly said to a fair degree, it was an unknown. Either eight or nine counties were sales tax counties to make transportation improvements. Those monies sunset at various times and it would be important to consider whether those measures should be renewed.
It was thought there might be a regional measure for all nine counties or a subset, and he then described other funding sources available from the State surplus, SB 1, SB 2, federal government and the Biden Administration for infrastructure and housing improvements. However, those did not amount to $850 billion so it would be important to continue to look at additional funding sources the region could agree on.
Mr. Hoang added that CCTA worked with MTC on their project list for consideration and also programmatic projects which included bike and pedestrian projects, etc. so all projects identified in the Action Plans and the CTP all get uploaded to MTC.
Moraga Councilmember Makker asked what tools CCTA had for transportation regarding fire.
Mr. Hoang said in their forecasting they focused on the transportation aspect, but climate change and fire were important to this region. He thought they could incorporate evacuation scenarios as far as roadways were concerned, using models relating to fire which could be determined and further studied.
Mr. Kelly commented that they did not per se have a countywide plan for evacuation from the transportation side but that was the conversation they were having at the TAC level with staffs.
They were attempting to find a way to fit that into the action planning process. It was about what each city's vision was and what they could incorporate into the plans.
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting 6 March 21, 2022 Mr. Early noted that PlaceWorks had begun work on a project for the City of Orinda to try and quantify evacuation capacity through GIS analysis of the individual roadways. While specific to Orinda, this might be a model project other cities might want to look at and see if they could implement something similar or whether this was an effort CCTA might take on over the next several years to look at subregion-wide or countywide.
Moraga Mayor Sos asked and confirmed that one of the threshold tasks was for the three jurisdictions in the Lamorinda Action Plan to agree on routes of regional significance.
Mr. Early noted they were still working at the staff and consultant level to understand exactly how those would be defined. He referred to the three maps and said there had been some discussion of trying to merge those into corridors, as there were five to six transportation facilities in the one corridor that served a variety of modes. They were looking at that, one mode at a time, and may merge the maps together into a single map of key corridors within the subregion. Coming to consensus on what those corridors were would be an important aspect of this process.
Moraga Mayor Sos said Mr. Early had stated earlier that if something was designated as a route of regional significance, it did not commit that route to being widened or subject to particular metrics or performance expectations. Rather, it was up to the three jurisdictions to define what the parameters were and what the metrics might be and that there was no risk to any of them of non-compliance just because they had a route of regional significance going through their jurisdiction.
Mr. Early confirmed that was correct. He underscored that the non-risk was two-fold; 1) a region would agree on the objectives for those facilities and no one was going to impose them on the region; and 2) beyond that, non-achievement of an objective was not one of the things that would make the region non-compliant from the growth management perspective. CCTA wanted to encourage cities to set robust objectives but did not want to penalize cities for non-attainment of the objectives.
Moraga Mayor Sos asked and confirmed that the potential benefits, in addition to the commitment of the three jurisdictions to coordinate, also included potential funding advantages to have a route of regional significance, which he described.
Orinda Councilmember Worth cited the substantial changes in terms of housing development projects being required to pay for, relative to traffic improvements, and said it would be helpful if CCTA could provide additional information on what were the requirements of a route of regional significance versus intra-jurisdictional routes.
She was attempting to understand the impact of funding, given she did not recall seeing routes of regional significance identified in the One Bay Area Grant (OBAG) programs and other regional criteria identified for the future. Most were active transportation programs, and they typically did not see monies for single occupancy vehicle widening, which was included in their Action Plan as one of the goals.
Mr. Early said the concept of a route of regional significance at all was unique to Contra Costa County, so they would not find in MT's guidance the designation as a reason that MTC would fund a project. If a city wrote a grant application, it could explain a route of regional significance and what that meant locally and why it was important, and that did provide an extra boost.
The Lamorinda Action Plan was only one action plan among five, but of those five, the Lamorinda plan was the only one that had an intra-regional route of significance which was different from a regional route of significance. That was applied in particular to Moraga Way and Moraga Road and did not exist elsewhere.
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting 7 March 21, 2022 He was not in the process when this was done earlier and Councilmember Worth most likely was, but one of his goals had been to streamline those five documents to bring them more into compliance with each other to make it possible to cross reference them and simplify them. From his reading, it did not seem clear what the differences were from being an intra-regional route or a regional route. It was the case that Moraga Way and Moraga Road did cross jurisdictional boundaries, and in that sense, did meet the definition of a route of regional significance as they were the only two ways in and out for those living in Moraga. In that sense, they were important to designate as routes of regional significance, and he had not come to understand what difference it made to call them by a different sub-designation.
It had been his advice they should have one classification instead and that it did not create any punitive measures but just an opportunity for inter-regional cooperation. Therefore, moving away from having two classes to just having one class would be more streamlined.
Mr. Kelly added that there was a push from the CCTA side to get Lamorinda to add more routes of regional significance, namely the Moraga Roads and Moraga Ways, and there was resistance at the staff level around 2014. They came to an agreement that they would include these routes in the action plan, but they would not have the full significance of a route of regional significance and would not be subject to the land use development review that the full routes had. When they were talking about doing the plans again, they thought it did not make sense to include routes that did not fit into the countywide framework.
He also noted that in their local OBAG guidelines, they did include routes of regional significance so when CCTA provided funds they brought in that route of regional significance as criteria, but he agreed, it was not at the regional level.
Mr. Early added that the current signal technology project was being focused at least on the routes of regional significance, so designating Moraga Way and Moraga Road as routes of regional significance would qualify them for the signal interconnection project which should make traffic flow much more smoothly through all three communities and may not be available if those remain outside the realm of the full routes of regional significance.
Mr. Hoang stated going forward, they were trying to transition away from routes of regional significance to corridors and were trying to come up with a systematic way to explain that.
Ironically, back in 1995 it was corridor at one point.
Orinda Councilmember Worth said she thought the idea of corridors made sense because they looked at multi-modal corridors, which she described.
Orinda Mayor Fay cited the changes in travel behaviors from the pandemic as well as behaviors from the last 30 years. He asked if CCTA had some way of dealing with that as part of the Action Plans and the overall County Transportation Plan.
Mr. Early said that everyone who worked in planning was at a critical juncture to figure out what the post-pandemic future would look like. He had colleagues that said things would go back to the way they were and within two to five years they would see just as many people commuting as before, and there were other colleagues who thought there had been a permanent change and that 30% to 50% of workers would continue to work at home. His sense was that planners needed to plan for a variety of outcomes where a worst case outcome was that trips go back to where they were or even expanding incrementally, so they would have to wait and see.
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting 8 March 21, 2022 Mr. Kelly said CCTA was trying to figure out what people would do in the future. They had begun a travel behavior survey around the County starting with the I-680 corridor and spoke to thousands of people and learned about their current behavior, what they thought their future travel behavior would be, when they would get on a train, what would get them on a bike, etc. They had done two surveys in two different corridors and planned on getting the Highway 4 and Highway 24 corridors done in the next several months. A majority of people agreed to provide on-going feedback into the future so as to track what people were doing a year or two from now.
Mr. Hoang added that they could possibly do alternative forecasts and see what the differences were.
Lafayette Mayor Gerringer confirmed with Mr. Early that it had not been the practice in the past for City Councils to formally vote on the Action Plans; that it was presumed that representatives from each city and county who sat on the LPMC Policy Board and ultimately on the SWAT Board were representing their agencies.
Lafayette Mayor Gerringer said a couple of communities were also working on Local Road Safety Plans and Lafayette had committed to Vision Zero. She asked if staff was providing that input or what should Councilmembers know moving forward.
Mr. Early stated that staff had made them aware of the Local Road Safety Plans and the Vision Zero planning. One of the issues for which they were setting objectives was safety, and they were trying to dovetail with the plans and Vision Zero plan so those outcomes would be reflected in the Action Plans and the CTP as well.
Mr. Hoang said different cities were at different points with their road safety plans and Lafayette's was in a good position to be incorporated into the Action Plans.
Orinda Councilmember Worth was aware that all three communities were concerned about bike/pedestrian safety, and she confirmed that whatever progress was made, that traffic safety plans would be included in the Action Plans.
Orinda Councilmember Worth stated that Orinda had a committee called Bay Area Collaborative and they were working on their draft Joint Work Plan with MTC, Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), ABAG and San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC). What originally began as sea level rise had now evolved into multi-risk strategies which included things like fire risk. Her sense was there were more conversations about all impacts to communities, transportation, etc.
Moraga Councilmember McCluer confirmed with Mr. Early that they would like to hear from Lamorinda over the next one to two months regarding its new Action Plan with new ideas, projects and improvements.
Moraga Councilmember Makker asked what the source data was and questioned if there were new sources that could inform this.
Mr. Early said much of the data they were currently using was old school data, traffic counts, the traffic model that had existed for some years which helped them to know pre-pandemic levels of traffic volumes as measured and ensuring the model could replicate existing patterns.
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting 9 March 21, 2022 Then they looked at changes of land use and modeled future patterns, and this was a model that used the most recent modeling technology, and then gave projections of the levels of service that would exist for vehicles on facilities throughout the sub-region. Additionally, they were looking at safety information such as collisions and hot spots and also looking at Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) and from the model were able to calculate how many trips were being made, and their length per person within each region.
They augmented some of that with 'big data' from cell phones and that was added into the data.
They were also using census data to analyze how equity issues were coming forward, trying to understand racial and economic makeup of various census tracts and understand how commute trips differ from one to another, commute patterns of higher income versus lower income individuals, modeling transit usage and ridership on transit, and mode share on transit bikes, etc.
They would be bringing that altogether over the next month or two and then use that to set goals for how they might see positive change.
Lafayette Councilmember Dawson asked if cities would have access to that data as they did their land use planning. Mr. Kelly said it was a lot of output that they tried to summarize in the plans themselves, but they could provide access to the raw or summarized data to staff.
Mr. Kelly added that when a traffic consultant did an analysis of an individual project, that consultant used the same model they were using for this effort, so the data was in the model.
Orinda Mayor Fay opened the Public Comment.
Sora O'Doherty, Lamorinda Weekly, commented on getting people out of their cars, onto bicycles, public transit, and in the event of evacuation from a wildfire she asked if people would use their bicycles or carpool, or did they need to have capacity for everyone to get out of these areas in the event of a fire.
Mr. Early stated that in an emergency, most people would evacuate the area in a car. It would be a very different circumstance than normal trip-making, and most roadways would be managed to move in one direction only. They would also presumably have multiple people in one vehicle and have people wanting to cooperate with public safety managing traffic.
Moraga Vice Mayor Woehleke noted a correction of his previous comments, stating that the Plan Bay Area 2050 was actually $580 billion and not $850 billion. In reviewing the Action Plan for Lamorinda, he was trying to understand what was in scope. He understood that regional planning was being done as part of that effort, then managing Measure J funding, as well as advocacy and facilitation related to traffic issues. He suggested that in the updated plan, they might consider having a succinct description of what was in scope and what was out of scope. It was hard for him to see where it ended as it covered a broad area, and it might help readers if this could be further defined.
Moraga Mayor Sos thanked the team for the presentation, acknowledged the incredible amount of work of respective jurisdictions, CCTA and consultants had put into this and getting public input, and other Councilmembers echoed these sentiments.
Orinda Mayor Fay concluded the item, thanked representatives for the presentation, Councilmembers for their questions, and for providing clarity.
E.2 Possible Items for Future Joint Meeting
Orinda Mayor Fay stated wildfire risk was very high on the Orinda priority list and had recently been added for Lafayette, so he assumed this would be a candidate topic for a future meeting.
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting 10 March 21, 2022 Lafayette Councilmember Kwok questioned if there was an interest in looking at drought resilience in terms of potentially bringing recycled and reclaimed water to communities from Central Sanitary District.
Orinda Mayor Fay believed another closely related issue was climate change which was driving wildfire problems.
Orinda Councilmember Gee suggested an item that had a lot of public commentary through social media and rose to high levels of concern was crime and policing services and neighborhood activities to deter crime and further public safety.
Lafayette Councilmember Dawson said in terms of wildfire preparations, how they could look at the overlap of evacuation routes and make that clear as they impacted all three communities.
Moraga Vice Mayor Woehleke commented that they should not wait for the next joint meeting.
He knew police departments were responsible for that and was confident that Moraga might have input on that.
Moraga Police Chief Jon King noted that later in the week there would be a meeting of all involved public safety agencies in Lamorinda specifically to address that issue. Also, Contra Costa County just completed adoption of the Zone Haven Evacuation Zones through a grant which was coordinated by MOFD. This was a meeting they held at the beginning of every fire season.
They were also working on a reissue of the Residential Guide for evacuation and emergencies.
They were hoping to have that guide out in June with some revisions. Lastly, they would conduct a couple of virtual evacuation drills to acclimate residents to what they needed to do.
F. ADJOURNMENT
ACTION: It was M/S to adjourn the Town Council meeting at 8:46 p.m. Roll Call Vote: 15-0.
Respectfully submitted by:
Marta, C.
Marty C. Mcinturf, Town Clerk/
Approved by the Town Council:
Steve Woehleke, Mayor
Lamorinda Joint Councils Special Meeting 11 March 21, 2022