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<h1><span style='color:black'>New state agency tries to revive delta<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=byline><span class=fn><span style='color:black'>Wyatt Buchanan,
Chronicle Sacramento Bureau</span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=org><span style='color:black;display:none'>San
Francisco Chronicle</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span
class=updated><b><span style='display:none'>June 27, 2010 04:00 AM</span></b></span></span><b><span
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<p class=date><span style='color:black'>Sunday, June 27, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style='color:black'>(06-27) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -</span></strong><span
style='color:black'> -- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Over the past 10 years, California spent more
than $3.5 billion on an agency that failed to solve the water crisis in the
Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Now, the state is trying again - with a newly
formed agency.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>This new agency is much like the old one with a
different set of rules: It has the same staff of about 50 employees who were
transferred over from the failed organization, and it has hired the same
consulting firm to do much of the ground work, raising questions of whether it
will succeed where its predecessor failed or whether it will be another
expensive boondoggle.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The stakes are enormous: the ecosystem of the
delta - which provides water for 25 million Californians and millions of acres
of farmland - is on the verge of collapsing, water users have seen their yearly
allotments slashed, and a major earthquake could destroy the levee system
protecting islands, communities and farmland in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, author of the
bill that created the new agency - the Delta Stewardship Council - said there
is no guarantee the council will succeed where the old agency, CalFed, failed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>But something needs to be done. Decades of
"benign neglect and ineffective governance have not served the state
well," Simitian said. "There's always some risk with a new direction,
but I think the old model was a proven failure." <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h3><span style='color:black'>CalFed's failure<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>CalFed began in 1994 as an agreement between
the federal and state governments to work together on delta water issues. But
the pact proved ineffective almost from the start. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>In 2000, the state and federal governments
created a more formal process that was supposed to fix the delta for everyone -
its motto was "everyone gets better together." They pledged to
improve water supply and quality and strengthen the ecosystem and levees.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Ultimately, CalFed became an amalgamation of 25
local, state and federal agencies and other organizations with disparate
interests in the delta. The idea was to unite - and spend big - for a common
cause. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>But, created under the Clinton administration,
interest in CalFed waned during the Bush years. To worsen matters, CalFed was
enormous, with so many agencies involved that it struggled under its own weight
to create a structure to make decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>In 2002, the Legislature created a new
governing board to oversee CalFed: the Bay-Delta Authority. But the authority
stopped meeting in the past few years because not enough members showed up for
the scheduled sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h3><span style='color:black'>No consistent funding<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Perhaps contributing most significantly to
CalFed's failure is that it lacked the force of law in its decisions and did
not have a consistent source of funding to operate. An audit of the program
determined that the state spent $217 million in general fund dollars from 2000
to 2004, along with $813 million in bond funds. The federal government was
supposed to contribute significant money, too, but in the same period spent
just $242 million.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Later in 2004, the program released a
controversial 10-year financing plan totaling $8 billion, which drew wide
criticism and led the Legislature to slash its budget. Then, in early 2007, the
Public Policy Institute of California concluded in a report on the delta that
CalFed "is now widely perceived as having failed to meet its
objectives."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The Delta Stewardship Council was created via a
bill the Legislature approved as part of last fall's comprehensive package of
legislation to overhaul California's water infrastructure. Among the other
bills that passed was one for an $11 billion water bond that voters will decide
in November. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>In crafting the stewardship council, lawmakers
sought to avoid the pitfalls that doomed CalFed. They made the council small
and powerful - a panel of only seven individuals - as opposed to the more than
two dozen agencies that made up CalFed. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>This group, appointed largely by the governor,
is charged with creating a comprehensive plan to revive the delta - with the
"co-equal goals" of restoring the ecosystem and ensuring water supply
reliability for the state - by Jan. 1, 2012, an extremely tight deadline by
government bureaucracy standards</span></b><span style='color:black'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><span style='color:black'>Final plan will become law<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>One key difference from CalFed is that the
council's final plan will actually be state law.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Simitian said some lawmakers were wary about
how much power to give the council, as it would limit the Legislature's
authority. But he said he believes giving it real legal teeth is essential for
success.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"I would suggest to you that if everyone
is a bit nervous, that is a good thing," Simitian said.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The council first met in April and has had four
meetings since, including last week. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"This is a bigger step than the kind of
limping along of the last 30 or 40 years," said Phil Isenberg, the
chairman of the stewardship council who is a well-regarded former mayor of
Sacramento and a former state assemblyman.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>As for the similarities to CalFed, Isenberg
defended the decision to transfer the staff and said it is important to retain
them to meet the new timelines. "I think they are competent, and I don't
think there is any way the state deadlines would be met without" them, he
said.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>State water experts agree that California
needed a new direction for the delta and that putting decisions into the hands
of a limited council is a better process.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"The way it has been set up, the decision
will come to seven people working on a council rather than getting a bunch of
agencies to form a consensus," said Ellen Hanak, director of research for
the Public Policy Institute of California, adding, "You have more of a
sense of who is in charge."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>And even though it ultimately failed to solve
the crisis in the delta, CalFed did fund a lot of research about the delta
estuary that gives the council a better starting point for making decisions
than its predecessor, Hanak said.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>What is yet to be resolved, however, is how the
council will fund its ongoing operations - a key reason CalFed failed. The
governor's proposed budget for the year beginning July 1 sets aside nearly $50
million to fund the stewardship council, money that previously was budgeted for
CalFed. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h3><span style='color:black'>Long-term finance plan<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>But future funding was not specified in the
water legislation, Simitian said, because determining who would pay and how
much they would pay probably would have overwhelmed and doomed the debate over
the package of water bills.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Last week, a Senate committee approved a bill
by Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, to require the Delta Stewardship
Council to create a long-term finance plan with fees assessed to the
beneficiaries of the council's delta plan. The fee plan would need approval by
the Legislature.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Huffman called his legislation "a critical
missing piece" of the water legislation and the lack of funding a
"critical flaw" in CalFed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Whether the council succeeds where CalFed failed
will depend largely on the members of the council, said James Mayer, executive
director of California Forward and former executive director of the Little
Hoover Commission, a state body that investigates state operations.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>That commission published a damaging assessment
of CalFed in 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h3><span style='color:black'>People key to success<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Mayer said he believes the ultimate success of
the council could have more to do with who is on the panel than the law
creating it, and predicted the council would be successful if its members take
action that "represents the long-term public interest."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"Regardless of what's in the law, the
question is whether the stewardship council will develop the political
authority to compel cooperation and alignment of otherwise competing public
agencies," Mayer said.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Environmental organizations themselves were
split on whether they supported the legislation creating the council and that
divide has continued in predictions of the council's success.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"We felt that this was CalFed redux,"
said Jim Metropulos, senior advocate for the Sierra Club California. "I
just think the council is not really empowered to make wholesale changes to the
delta and improve water supply reliability." <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>Cynthia Koehler, California water legislative
director at the Environmental Defense Fund, said she is optimistic about the
council's prospects.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>"This is clearly a time-will-tell kind of
thing," she said. "This is the next experiment."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h3><span style='color:black'>Delta Stewardship Council members <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><span style='color:black'>-- <strong>Phil Isenberg, </strong><b>chairman, is
a former state assemblyman and mayor of Sacramento. He is a lawyer and, until
recently, a registered lobbyist. He also chaired the Delta Blue Ribbon Task
Force, which called for creating an independent body to oversee the delta.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:black'>-- <strong>Randy Fiorini </strong><b>of Turlock
(Stanislaus County)is the managing partner of Fiorini Ranch and managing
partner of FarmCo. He is the past president and board member of the Association
of California Water Agencies.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:black'>-- <strong>Gloria Gray </strong><b>of Inglewood
(Los Angeles County) is a member of the board of directors of the West Basin
Municipal Water District. She previously spent 36 years at the Los Angeles
County departments of Human Services and Health Services.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:black'>-- <strong>Patrick Johnston </strong><b>of
Stockton is president of the California Association of Health Plans and spent
20 years in the Legislature. He is a former member of the Bay-Delta Authority
and the Delta Protection Commission.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:black'>-- <strong>Hank Nordhoff </strong><b>of Del Mar
(San Diego County) is chairman of Gen-Probe Inc., a biotechnology company.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:black'>-- <strong>Don Nottoli </strong><b>of Galt is a
member of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and is chairman of the
Delta Protection Commission.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='color:black'>-- <strong>Richard Roos-Collins </strong><b>of
Berkeley is director of legal services for the Natural Heritage Institute. He
is co-chair of the Agricultural Water Management Council and was a member of
the Bay Delta Conservation Plan Steering Committee.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><strong><span style='color:black'>West Coast's largest estuary </span></strong><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p><b><span style='color:black'>The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is home
to more than 750 animal and plant species. More than 500,000 people call it
home, and it is a recreation and tourist destination. The delta is the hub of
state, federal and local water systems providing at least some of the water
needs for two-thirds of Californians. It is formed by the confluence of the
state's two largest rivers: the Sacramento and the San Joaquin. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style='color:black'>Source: Delta Stewardship Council <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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