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Date: 9/28/2024
Subject: Important Upcoming Climate and Water Committee Meetings
From: Marian Vega Clancy


 
IMPORTANT REMINDER
Two important Environmental events are taking place this week!
 
Please read on!
The Climate Interest Group is meeting on Monday Sept 30 at 3 pm.
We will have a guest speaker, Mary O’Kicki, who will discuss how Prop 4 will affect the environment and why LWVC is supporting it. This meeting will NOT be recorded, so if you are interested please attend.

Mary O’Kicki is a member of LWV Palo Alto. She is a member of the LWVC Natural Resources team and the LWVC Legislative Analysis team. She did part of the analysis of Prop 4, looking at both the DEI and the Natural Resources angles, that the LWVC board used in its decision to support this proposition.

 

Everyone is invited. Contact Carol Parker at secretary@lwvncsd.org if you have any questions.
Special Guest Speaker - Chair of SD Water Quality Control Board

Tuesday October 1 on Zoom
 
Our very special speaker will be the Chair of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, Celeste Cantu.  This state agency is required to enforce state laws related to water of all kinds.  Celeste will explain what powers and duties are the responsibility of this agency.  It has recently taken action related to the Tijuana River pollution crisis, and we will learn about that and other water quality issues.

Contact co-chair Anne Omsted, daomsted@gmail.com, if you have any questions.
Cantu Celeste Water
Celeste Cantú chairs the following boards:
  • The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board
  • The Water Foundation
  • Water Policy Center Advisory Council, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)
Cantú serves on the boards of Sustainable Conservation, the Water Solutions Network Advisory Council, and the University of California President’s Advisory Council for Agriculture and Natural Resources.
 
Cantú is a Master Gardener in Riverside County focusing on drought tolerant landscaping.

Ms. Cantú previously served as general manager of the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA). While there, she led the award winning Crest to Coast, Corner to Corner Integrated Regional Watershed Management Plan called One Water, One Watershed (OWOW) that addressed all water-related issues and joined  hundreds of stakeholders. 

Prior to her tenure at SAWPA, Ms. Cantú served as the executive director for the California State Water Resources Control Board.

During the Clinton Administration, she served as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development State Director for California. She served as planning director for the city of Calexico and later as executive director for the Imperial Valley Housing Authority. She has a bachelor’s degree from Yale in urban planning and policy and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
 
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