From: Bruce Beyaert
To: Soheila Bana; Claudia Jimenez; Eduardo Martinez; Gayle McLaughlin; Doria Robinson; Melvin Willis; Cesar Zepeda; City Clerk Dept User
Cc: Daniel Chavarria; Robert Armijo; Ken Cheng; Bruce Brubaker Subject: Public Comment Agenda Item O.9.d. - Cutting Boulevard and Harbour Way South Bikeways Project Date: Sunday, May 19, 2024 8:56:23 AM
Attachments: RichmondBayTrailMap_042423.pdf
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Mayor Martinez and City Councillors,
TRAC, the Trails for Richmond Action Committee supports approval of Consent Calendar item O.9.d resolution authorizing amendment of the construction agreement with W.R. Forde Associates, Inc. to complete the protected bikeway on Harbour Way South, Cutting & Hoffman Boulevards. This is a priority project implementing the award-winning Ferry to Bridge to Greenway Complete Streets Plan approved by the
Council in 2021. Installation of the protected bikeway on the dangerous stretch of Hoffman Blvd. is especially important, as is installation of the safety and way finding signs needed along the entire 2.25-miles of bikeway.
These streets are part of the San Francisco Bay Trail as shown by the attached Bay Trail map for Richmond. The ideal Bay Trail alignment follows the Bay shoreline as a two-way, multi-use trail separated from roadways, as it does from Richmond’s border with Albany to Harbour Way South. However, due to the presence of working port and boatyard facilities, the Bay Trail must detour inland along Harbour Way South, Hoffman Blvd. and Cutting Blvd. as sidewalks for pedestrians while bicyclists ride on the street. As a result, these streets see very heavy use by cyclists from Oakland, Berkeley and other cities, as well as Richmond residents, traveling to/from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Trail, the Shipyard 3 Trail and the Ferry Point Loop encircling Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline.
Please pass this resolution Tuesday night as recommended on the Consent Calendar.
Bruce
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Bruce Beyaert, TRAC Chair
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tel. 510-235-2835
http://www.pointrichmond.com/baytrail/
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From: Robert Prinz
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: Richmond City Council 5/21/24 meeting - public comments agenda item # O.9.d Date: Monday, May 20, 2024 10:55:35 AM
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Hello, this is a public comment on behalf of Bike East Bay for the Richmond City Council meeting on May 21, 2024, agenda item # O.9.d "Construction Contract Amendment No. 2 for W.R. Forde Associates, Inc for the Cutting Boulevard and Harbour Way South Bikeways Project".
We support the resolution authorizing a construction contract amendment with W.R. Forde Associates, Inc for the bikeway on Harbour Way South, Cutting, and Hoffman Boulevards.
As noted in the staff report, Richmond has already secured significant regional and state funding for this project, which will complete gaps in the city's multimodal transportation network connecting the Richmond Greenway, ferry landing, and Richmond-San Rafael Bridge trail.
This work was originally expected to be completed by now, but experienced delays due to railroad coordination issues. Approving the construction amendment will allow this long- awaited project to move forward, enabling Richmond to make further progress on achieving its goals around traffic safety and sustainable transportation.
Thank you for your support, and for receiving our comments.
Robert Prinz | Advocacy Director
Pronouns: he/him
Mail: PO Box 1736 Oakland, CA 94604
Office: 466 Water Street Oakland, CA 94607
P: (510) 845-7433 x5 | E: [email protected]
From: Alice LoCicero
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: public comments agenda item Q1
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 11:53:31 AM
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Dear City Clerk and Council Members,
I am writing to comment on Agenda Item Q1, refining tax. I am very strongly in favor of having a refining tax in the city of Richmond. The refinery owes compensation to the city of Richmond for many problems caused by pollution and its detrimental effects. The privilege of using land and resources in Richmond should be taxed in accordance with the profits of the company.
Thank you.
Alice LoCicero
47 Sandpoint Dr
Richmond, CA 94804
From: Deb Rollfs
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: Public Comment Agenda item #Q1
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2024 3:47:13 PM
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To the Richmond City Council,
I am a constituent and resident of Richmond and I am in favor of a Richmond Refining Tax Act ballot measure.
Deborah Rollfs
Sent from my iPhone
From: [email protected]
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: Public Comment Agenda Item #Q1
Date: Monday, May 20, 2024 8:18:14 AM
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> To the Richmond City Council,
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> I am a constituent and resident of Richmond and I am in favor of a Richmond Refining Tax Act ballot measure.
Jeff Wizig
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From: Richard Kamp
To: City Clerk Dept User
Subject: Richard Kamp Public comment agenda item Q. NEW BUSINESS Q.1 Richmond Refining Tax Act Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 10:50:27 AM
Attachments: 5 21 24 city council.pdf
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Comments on Regular Richmond City Council agenda item Q, New Business Richmond Refining Tax Act 5 21 24 From Ecuador to Richmond, technical analysis comes first.
My name is Richard Kamp, testifying as an individual residing at 610 Pebble Drive, El Sobrante.
I direct a nonprofit, E-Tech International (etechinternational.org) that provides technical consultation upon explicit request from largely indigenous communities in third world countries that face potential and actual environmental and environmental health impacts from large-scale extractive industries. Our main projects currently are in Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico. We do not work in the U.S. except for tribes. Historically we provided technical consulting to plaintiffs in Ecuador 2005-7 in what was known as the Texaco Case and in the U.S. as the contentious Chevron case addressing environmental and health impacts from Texaco legacy pollution in Lago Agrio, Ecuador . Texaco was later purchased by Chevron who resisted further attempts to cleanup pollution left from 1967-92. E-Tech’s modus operandi is to focus only on technical facts to identify how to prevent, mitigate, remediate and rehabilitate areas impacted by a specific source. We do not ordinarily take an advocacy stand; we try to protect people and the environment through technical means and that is what I would like to discuss tonight as a neighbor to the Chevron refinery.
I support a refinery tax in theory (and as a ballot measure in practice) that can legally provide revenue to effectively address environmental-health impacts from the 122 year old refinery.
Question is, how will money be used and what revenue streams exist to implement some of the following suggestions? For example, can Richmond address air quality monitoring and community protection with the $20 million funds from the BAAQMD February compliance and enforcement settlement with Chevron that requires catalytic conversion technology on the refinery fluidized catalytic cracking process? Here are some basic observations related to air pollution, emergency response, water quality and health provision. Monitoring must lead to control, emergency response is impossible without addressing the causes of the emergency and establishing effective transparent response mechanisms, water quality issues from the refinery may be legacy or current but treating groundwater as a resource is a lacking area.
Health protection means removing your vector population from exposure by reducing the exposure---and ensuring that effective treatment is available to all permanently.
Air monitoring can be broken into ambient mouth level monitoring where people will breathe and CEM-Continuous Emission Monitoring. It is CEMs that actually measure released pollution effectively; all data needs to be public and accessible on a continuous basis and not just averaged. This can allow a correlation between pollution out the stacks and so-called ambient pollution that often, for good reason, nearby residents say is not properly measured in a town with 3 times the average California asthma attacks (presuming no wildfires but normal urban pollution). Richmond needs funding for independent consultants that can work with the BAAQMD and directly with Chevron-- which requires transparency by the company-- to ensure that they can effectively analyze what the numbers mean? Funding should allow for independent ambient monitoring at locations where emissions and meteorological models and where local citizens suspect there is heavy unmeasured pollution. This is difficult because pollution does not land at ambient mouth level equally at all times of the day and lacking wind or even with it, emissions at night may stay several hundred feet in the air and because many emissions at a refinery are volatile they may be difficut to monitor when they are their strongest and change characterization later. But we do not know where they could go based on topography of Richmond and surrounding areas. Refinery pollution is toxic and can be carcinogenic. Dilution is not supposed to be the solution to pollution. At the bottom of this page is a list of what you want to monitor in an independent study.* In general you are trying to monitor air as part of a comprehensive plan to protect health impacted victims from emergency discharges, so-called pressure build up flaring, and general emissions of metals, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen sulfide, 16 carcinogenic Polycyclical Aromatic Hydrocarbons along with other Hazardous Air Pollutants that constitute components of particulate PM 2.5. You need to know more than that you have high levels of PM 2.5; you need to know what is being breathed.
Emergency Planning and Response. There is never a legitimate reason to not be totally transparent with municipal, county, and state emergency response personnel to have been oriented by the refinery and to have knowledgeable access to potential sources hazardous materials. This means also that the refinery needs to replace all sources such as old pipelines and ductwork that can cause another 2014 disaster and to protect neighbors and employees.
Hazmat response training planning for refinery-caused or natural disasters should take place throughout the refinery. Funding should come from Chevron for this whether through a tax or otherwise and provide inspections of all pipelines that extend outside of the refinery grounds and throughout Richmond and El Sobrante owned by Kinder Morgan and others.
Water quality issues: These will have been legacy and current water pollution; any viable tax should be used to prepare an independent analysis of all data on historical and current discharges, infrastructure that requires constant inspection and or upgrading and prevention of spills as well as histories of spills into the Bay. Groundwater monitoring and description of plumes of contamination should be identified, modeled and potential remediation plans characterized.
Health Protection: Tax revenues could provide financial and direct medical assistance for those suffering asthma attacks long term cancer or other illnesses is a real priority in this city.
Earlier measures mentioned are designed to reduce exposure; community epidemiological studies of hair, blood, and urine can help to identify vulnerable populations---reducing and eliminating exposure by ending pollution should be a top priority. Ending carbon emissions will come later and we can expect Chevron to propose non-petroleum fuel refining at this sight but for now the priority is protect the population. Thank you, Richard *Commonly accepted pollutants to be monitored
• acetaldehyde*
• ammonia*
• benzene*
• 1,3-butadiene*
• cadmium*
• diethanolamine*
• formaldehyde*
• hydrogen fluoride
• hydrogen sulfide*
• manganese*
• naphthalene*
• nickel*
• nitrogen oxide
• polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAH)*
• particulate matter (PM)
• sulfur dioxide
• sulfuric acid
• toluene
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Richard Kamp Director E-Tech International