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HomeMy WebLinkAboutREDvarious4b3From :Don Green [mailto :dgreen@floorconnection .com ] Sent :Monday, August 16, 2010 1 :58 P M To :Lynch, Barbar a Subject :RE : Laguna Lake RECEIVE D AUG17201 0 SLO CITY CLER K Thanks Barbara. I read your report and, as usual, found it to be very informative . The information from the dredging company was very interesting, though it is like the old saw about asking a surgeon for medical advice . The information on sedimentation rates, while I coul d follow how you made your calculations, is based on so few correlative points o f measurement (which you carefully alluded to) as to be only suggestive of how muc h material is being captured by the Lake on a yearly basis . That's one area, along wit h flow rates, that needs to be monitored more methodically to make any plans for lake maintenance . Is any of that, particularly the flow rate meters, part of your work for th e report to the regional water board ? I will speak at the meeting tomorrow and ask the council to follow some of your advic e from the previous meeting in December and for City sponsorship in creating a Lagun a Lake Commission of volunteers . The group would take your ideas, and others that ma y be around, and, rather than just study the issues, formulate and carry out a plan fo r generating public interest and participation, identify grants and write proposals, and create a focused plan of action . Then it would be up to that group to promote the pla n with city residents prior to presenting it to the City Council . Part of my request to th e Council will be for some portion of the $30,000 you mention in your report to be spent for city staff liaison time and clerical supplies . It wasn't clear if that was some of wha t you had in mind for it . I've done this before with Human Relations projects . It's a royal pain, but sometimes i t works out, like the SLO Americorps program . I'm like most folks, I'd like to be part o f the group, but not lead the group . Regard s Don 'COUNCIL ET-CDD DI R G`1 ['FIN DI R 3:A-GAO FIRE CHE F[ATTORNEY 3 PW DI RLJ CLERK/CRIG 21-POLICE CH F RED FIL E MEETING AGENDA DATE 14(7//t.ITEM #54 3 Floor Connection, Inc . P . 805 .781 .0767 F . 805 .781 .0783 EJ CREC DI R 712_±_k4a k- C 1UTILDI R C'HR DI R NEyv IMO.5 ' ceu UCt- 5L ~'~ Nett )5 pie ~~ Don Gree n Sales Manager Floor Connection, Inc . P . 805 .781 .0767 F . 805 .781 .0783 From :Kalbus, Kurt[SMTP :KURT .KALBUS@COBHAM .COM] Sent :Tuesday, August 17, 2010 12 :15 :50 P M To :Council, SloCity Subject :Laguna Lake dredgin g Auto forwarded by a Rul e I know that the expense of dumping the material is a problem . Why don't you just dump in alon g the shoreline? I don't think anyone would object to increasing the size of their lot a little . Half m y lot has been eroded into the lake anyway, I wouldn't mind getting it back . I don't think that i t would decrease the size of the lake significantly and anyway a slightly smaller nice lake is bette r than a bigger crappy one. Thanks , Kurt Kalbu s 1314 Oceanaire