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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither man’s identity was released pending notification of family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deaths were reported as another round of showers began to soak the Bay Area on Thursday, raising the risk of further flooding and landslides, particularly in the North Bay, where all schools in the Guerneville School District remained closed, and some homes in Santa Rosa and nearby areas were evacuated Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Russian River and a few central Sonoma County creeks reached moderate flood levels on Wednesday morning, the Russian River at Guerneville had receded to the lower end of the minor flood zone when the rain began around 7 a.m. Thursday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11723283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-631415386-e1549313950719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive on a flooded road in Guerneville in January 2017. The Russian River town is just downstream from Venado, a site in the northern Sonoma County hills that is one of the rainiest locations in California. On Tuesday, at least one school in Guerneville closed because of the storm, and Sonoma County alerted residents in multiple RV parks along the Russian River and creeks that flow into the waterway that flooding may occur. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Water levels are expected to continue to decrease throughout the day since the North Bay — which was hit hardest by the previous two storms — is expected to get just about an inch of rain while the East Bay and San Francisco pick up about a half-inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm won’t rival those \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025572/storm-stalls-over-bay-area-raising-risk-flooding-potential-tornado-warning\">earlier in the week\u003c/a>, but it could bring another inch or a few of rainfall and gusty winds up to 55 miles per hour as it sweeps over Northern California throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:16 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian River and other North Bay waterways have reached flood stages after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025572/storm-stalls-over-bay-area-raising-risk-flooding-potential-tornado-warning\">Tuesday’s atmospheric river-fueled storm\u003c/a>, prompting evacuation orders and threatening many low-lying areas of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Wednesday will bring a break from the rain, the rivers have been swollen after hours of downpour. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/national-weather-service\">National Weather Service\u003c/a>, another wave of showers on Thursday could worsen the flooding and mudslide risk as days of wet weather wear on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is a lull or a break in the rainfall,” said Crystal Oudit, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office. “The concern is that Thursday going into Friday, we’re going to get another push for rain, and because the soil’s already saturated, that can increase the risk of floods again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday morning, the Russian River at Guerneville had reached moderate flood levels, cresting at just over 36 feet around 8 a.m. It is expected to recede out of flood stage by the evening, but Oudit said a flood warning will remain in effect until Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood risk spurred evacuations of many trailer park communities along the banks of the lower Russian River near Guerneville and Healdsburg on Tuesday night. Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins said the trailer parks and some apartments on both sides of the river around the unincorporated community can flood when the river hits 32 to 34 feet and was caught somewhat off guard by the evacuation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11723283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-631415386-e1549313950719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive on a flooded road in Guerneville in January 2017. The Russian River town is just downstream from Venado, a site in the northern Sonoma County hills that is one of the rainiest locations in California. On Tuesday, at least one school in Guerneville closed because of the storm, and Sonoma County alerted residents in multiple RV parks along the Russian River and creeks that flow into the waterway that flooding may occur. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said historically, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration overestimates flood risk and then reduces down, but has done the opposite before Sonoma’s last few major storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was, unfortunately, what happened yesterday was what [was expected to be] barely a flood actually wound up being a moderate flood stage for us in the lower Russian River,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Osborne, who lives off of residential Drake Road in Guerneville, said that even though houses in his area aren’t taking on water, they have been trapped by floodwaters since late Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that when there’s a storm, it’s not uncommon for everyone who lives along the dead-end residential street, which has about a dozen offshoots, to get stuck because of an especially low spot as the road hits the on-ramp to the bridge that crosses the Russian River. It was sitting in about four feet of water midday Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025572 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Russian-River-flooding-15_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the only road out from all of the homes out here,” Osborne told KQED. He said that there isn’t much he thinks can be done to alleviate the issue, since it would require a lot of real estate and expensive renovation to lift the low-lying part of the road enough to avoid flood risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when Guerneville itself isn’t impacted, this road will close because [it’s] at such a low point,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osborne expects the flooding to go down enough to cross the road by Wednesday night, but if there are any showers in the afternoon, it could mean at least another day of being flooded in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creeks throughout central Sonoma County also reached moderate flood levels early Wednesday. Green Valley Creek at Martinelli Road and Colgan Creek near Sebastopol are both expected to follow a similar receding trend as the Russian River, but the risk remains high at Mark West Creek near Mirabel Heights, which is projected to crest above major flood levels. It had reached 65 feet as of 7:45 a.m., according to NWS observations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa, flood risk downtown at the Napa River was downgraded Wednesday morning after an earlier forecast projected major flooding risk. It hovered around 23.5 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flood gates on McKinstry Street near downtown’s Oxbow Market were closed by the Napa County Flood District and the city on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County spokesperson Linda Weinreich said that street teams were assessing mudslides that began overnight near Moore Creek Park in St. Helena and on Redwood Road near Oak Knoll and were trying to clear downed trees while there’s a break in the rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the forecast “shows that the rains are returning tomorrow — things, of course, could change — but it’s a good time to get sandbags,” she said. “And we want people also to sign up for emergency notifications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The return of rain on Thursday could bring downtown 1.5 inches more rainfall to Sonoma and Napa counties, according to Oudit. Gusty winds could knock down more trees and power lines, and more showers could exacerbate current road flooding and ponding near buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge is that there’s not enough time to actually do anything,” Hopkins said. “I think that we’re all going to be waiting on pins and needles to see if that damage spreads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resources for Sonoma County evacuees and people who experienced flooding will be available at the West County Services Center, known to locals as the Bank of America building in downtown Guerneville, in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the storm clears later this week, Hopkins said the county will look at how to better prepare for future storms. Her office has been working on safety and evacuation procedures with parks, trying to secure contracts with towing companies ahead of time, and looking for ways to give people longer warning windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forestville Youth Park, where many evacuees fled Tuesday, quickly reached capacity, so the county also opened its Guerneville park-and-ride for trailers. Hopkins said during greater floods, though, that location would be underwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We also have to be careful if suddenly flood estimates are jumping up by a number of feet, then we run the risk of putting people in a place that could actually flood as well,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mudslides, like a large one that damaged roads and carried an unoccupied home into the river in Forestville on Tuesday afternoon, are more challenging to prepare for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that we have a lot of homes that were built along old logging roads on extraordinarily steep slopes right next to the Russian River, which is one of the most powerful, sort of flashiest rivers,” Hopkins said. “When all of that water starts coming down, it can rise very, very quickly and have a tremendous amount of force. 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The policy is also gaining traction nationally, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/housing/365063/kamala-harris-housing-rent-control-landlords\">President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris embracing\u003c/a> it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russell Lowery, executive director of the California Rental Housing Association, said Prop 33’s apparent defeat reflected the No campaign’s successful messaging. “We’re glad and relieved that the voters of California have not made our housing crisis worse,” he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group raised about $3 million to support the No campaign, according to Lowery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters also appear to be narrowly supporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-34\">Proposition 34\u003c/a>, which on its face, has nothing to do with rent control. But really, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/prop34-aids-healthcare-foundation-rent-control\">all about the politics\u003c/a> of this controversial policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure asks voters to decide whether the state should restrict how certain health care providers can spend revenue from prescription drug sales. But the stipulations mean it would likely only apply to a single organization: the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a major force in state and local housing policies and the group bankrolling Prop. 33 and the last two attempts to roll back Costa-Hawkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rent control appears to be faring somewhat better in the Bay Area, at least in Berkeley. Preliminary tallies show 51.79% of Berkeley voters narrowly supporting Measure BB, which would expand rent control and renter protections and 62.45 % shutting down Measure CC, which would rein in rent regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“That’s really reassuring,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, chair of the Berkeley Rent Board. “I think the trend will continue to go that way as we know the even in Berkeley the early voters are more conservative.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County voters are a different story and appear to be pushing back on a range of rent control measures. Larkspur’s Measure K, a bid to expand rent control, is losing by 64% to 35.9%. An effort to repeal Fairfax’s rent cap, Measure I, is ahead 68% to 31.9%, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-n-tab\">Measure N\u003c/a>, a referendum on local rent control, is down 65.9% to 34 %, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a>, to create new tenant protections, is down 69.3% to 30.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results,Follow results for every Bay Area race in the 2024 general election.' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-California-2024-General-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 34, whose primary sponsor is the California Apartment Association, is aimed at kneecapping the health care foundation’s political spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would work like this: Federal law allows health providers that serve lower-income patients to buy prescription drugs at a discount, sell them at retail rates and use the profits to expand services. Proposition 34 would require some providers to spend 98% of that net revenue on direct patient care or risk losing their licenses or tax-exempt status. It would only apply to health care providers who’ve spent at least $100 million on things other than patient care in the past decade and own apartment buildings that have been slapped with 500 or more health and safety violations. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is believed to be the only organization that fits the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='election-2024'] \u003c/span>Propositions 33 and 34 are the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/california-rent-control-propositions-campaign-money/\">most expensive measures on this year’s ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, rent control is on ballots in Berkeley and Marin County’s Larkspur, Fairfax and San Anselmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/10/18/berkeley-ballot-measures-2024-bb-cc-rent-stabilization-ordinance\">Berkeley’s competing measures\u003c/a> would overhaul the city’s rent regulations in different ways. Measure BB, put forward by renters’ advocates, would lower the city’s rent cap, make more units subject to rent control and add new restrictions on evictions, among other tenant protections. Measure CC, championed by property owners’ advocates, would raise the rent cap marginally, exempt more properties from rent control, significantly curtail the rent board’s power, and make other changes to the city’s Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, the rent-related measures are also split on whether they would protect tenants or landlords. On the side of supporting tenants, Larkspur’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-k-tab\">Measure K\u003c/a> would lower the city’s rent cap from 7% to 3% and add new eviction protections, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a> would strengthen tenant protections. Meanwhile, voters in San Anselmo will also decide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-n-tab\">Measure N\u003c/a>, a referendum on a rent control ordinance city leaders passed this spring. And Fairfax’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-i-tab\">Measure I\u003c/a> would repeal the city’s rent control and just cause eviction ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/span>Propositions 33 and 34 are the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/10/california-rent-control-propositions-campaign-money/\">most expensive measures on this year’s ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, rent control is on ballots in Berkeley and Marin County’s Larkspur, Fairfax and San Anselmo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/10/18/berkeley-ballot-measures-2024-bb-cc-rent-stabilization-ordinance\">Berkeley’s competing measures\u003c/a> would overhaul the city’s rent regulations in different ways. Measure BB, put forward by renters’ advocates, would lower the city’s rent cap, make more units subject to rent control and add new restrictions on evictions, among other tenant protections. Measure CC, championed by property owners’ advocates, would raise the rent cap marginally, exempt more properties from rent control, significantly curtail the rent board’s power, and make other changes to the city’s Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, the rent-related measures are also split on whether they would protect tenants or landlords. On the side of supporting tenants, Larkspur’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-k-tab\">Measure K\u003c/a> would lower the city’s rent cap from 7% to 3% and add new eviction protections, and San Anselmo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-o-tab\">Measure O\u003c/a> would strengthen tenant protections. Meanwhile, voters in San Anselmo will also decide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-n-tab\">Measure N\u003c/a>, a referendum on a rent control ordinance city leaders passed this spring. And Fairfax’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/november-5-2024/page-data/tabs-collection/measures/measure-tab/measure-i-tab\">Measure I\u003c/a> would repeal the city’s rent control and just cause eviction ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area election offices are fully staffed in advance of Election Day, elections registrars from nearly all of the region’s nine counties told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election, we had just an overwhelming amount of applications,” said Clint Wolfrom, manager of the poll worker division at the San Francisco Department of Elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several counties — including Contra Costa, Sonoma and San Francisco — report receiving a surplus of applicants from people wanting to be poll workers. County elections offices recruit these temporary workers and volunteers to pull off essential election-related tasks, like picking up ballots from drop boxes, scanning ballots and verifying signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employees help voters at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Wolfrom, this year, San Francisco County saw the most applications to be poll workers since at least the 2016 general election — over 6,000 applications to fill nearly 3,000 positions. Wolfrom added that much like voter turnout, interest in working the polls typically spikes for presidential elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa and Solano county officials told KQED that they are training around 1,000 workers each to staff polling places in the days before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties with fewer registered voters, like Napa and Marin, have fewer election workers — approximately 70 and 175 poll workers recruited for the November election, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out multiple times to Alameda County’s Registrar of Voters about their poll worker hiring efforts this election but did not receive a response.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nIn San Mateo County, the work of training its more than 500 temporary election workers falls to people like Kevin Ashley. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, he led a poll worker training in the basement of the county’s elections headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my twelfth election, my seventh as a trainer,” Ashley said, pointing to the pins he wears on his nametag, commemorating each election he has worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011338\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election trainer Kevin Ashley wears pins he received from working prior elections at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regardless of folks’ prior experience, the class is mandatory because the processes and rules around voting often change between elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pay for this job in San Mateo County is $22 an hour, and in order to qualify, workers need to complete an online class and pass a background check and a skills test. In total, it’s about 11 hours of training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley said it’s all in the service of making sure things go smoothly once they start working the vote center floor. At the training itself, workers learn the ins and outs of voting, from how to look up a voter’s registration to how to clear a paper jam out of a printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bring them in here, and we let them have hands-on experience, so they go, ‘Oh, is that the button I should press? Oh, is that what a seal looks like?’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011334\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election trainees Ken Einstein (left) and Chihying Wu practice setting up voting machines at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ken Einstein, a 75-year-old semi-retired software design consultant from San Mateo, attended Ashley’s training. Einstein is among those who will be working the polls for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, I’m very impressed with how complete and thorough the training has been,” Einstein said. “It’s a lot of work!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the passage of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/voters-choice-act\">Voters Choice Act\u003c/a> in California in 2016, the roles of poll workers have expanded. The law allows counties to opt in to a model where voters can cast a ballot at any vote center within their county instead of at their assigned precinct. These vote centers also provide more services and are open days earlier than precinct polling places. (Of the nine Bay Area counties, only San Francisco, Contra Costa and Solano counties have not opted in.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011336\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poll worker trains for the upcoming election at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jim Irizarry, the assistant chief elections officer for San Mateo County, said that poll workers have many different duties they perform, but election security is among the top priorities — in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011743/a-far-right-california-county-appointed-him-registrar-now-his-election-views-have-changed\">increasingly contentious\u003c/a> climate related to elections in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Election workers are trained to be vigilant for threats on-site that could disrupt voting,” Irizarry said. “These workers are the eyes and ears of the elections department at the field level. Their job is to make sure things are safe and secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means maintaining a safe, apolitical environment for people to cast their ballot, but it also means ensuring timely pickup of ballots from drop boxes and verifying all voter information with the state’s online database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Einstein said he was motivated to get involved because he was fed up with hearing reports of people spreading misinformation and expressing mistrust about the process. He said he wanted to do what he could to help out locally and make sure the election ran smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many people have said, the system is only as strong as the people who are making it run and maintaining it,” Einstein said. “That meant a lot to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employee Lynn Khor (right) works with Gail Bennett at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 2018, Lynn Khor, a 60-year-old retired chemical engineer from Belmont, has worked seasonally as a vote center representative. She immigrated to the U.S. from Malaysia decades ago as a student and eventually became a naturalized citizen. She said being someone who had to earn the right to vote in this country gives her a different perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing how involved the voting process is, you will see how serious this country takes democracy,” she said. “You go through so much work in order to preserve that democracy, and that’s why you gotta have the deepest appreciation for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area election offices are fully staffed in advance of Election Day, elections registrars from nearly all of the region’s nine counties told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election, we had just an overwhelming amount of applications,” said Clint Wolfrom, manager of the poll worker division at the San Francisco Department of Elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several counties — including Contra Costa, Sonoma and San Francisco — report receiving a surplus of applicants from people wanting to be poll workers. County elections offices recruit these temporary workers and volunteers to pull off essential election-related tasks, like picking up ballots from drop boxes, scanning ballots and verifying signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011333\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-08-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election employees help voters at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Wolfrom, this year, San Francisco County saw the most applications to be poll workers since at least the 2016 general election — over 6,000 applications to fill nearly 3,000 positions. Wolfrom added that much like voter turnout, interest in working the polls typically spikes for presidential elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa and Solano county officials told KQED that they are training around 1,000 workers each to staff polling places in the days before Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties with fewer registered voters, like Napa and Marin, have fewer election workers — approximately 70 and 175 poll workers recruited for the November election, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out multiple times to Alameda County’s Registrar of Voters about their poll worker hiring efforts this election but did not receive a response.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIn San Mateo County, the work of training its more than 500 temporary election workers falls to people like Kevin Ashley. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, he led a poll worker training in the basement of the county’s elections headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my twelfth election, my seventh as a trainer,” Ashley said, pointing to the pins he wears on his nametag, commemorating each election he has worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011338\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-21-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election trainer Kevin Ashley wears pins he received from working prior elections at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Regardless of folks’ prior experience, the class is mandatory because the processes and rules around voting often change between elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pay for this job in San Mateo County is $22 an hour, and in order to qualify, workers need to complete an online class and pass a background check and a skills test. In total, it’s about 11 hours of training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley said it’s all in the service of making sure things go smoothly once they start working the vote center floor. At the training itself, workers learn the ins and outs of voting, from how to look up a voter’s registration to how to clear a paper jam out of a printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We bring them in here, and we let them have hands-on experience, so they go, ‘Oh, is that the button I should press? Oh, is that what a seal looks like?’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011334\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election trainees Ken Einstein (left) and Chihying Wu practice setting up voting machines at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ken Einstein, a 75-year-old semi-retired software design consultant from San Mateo, attended Ashley’s training. Einstein is among those who will be working the polls for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, I’m very impressed with how complete and thorough the training has been,” Einstein said. “It’s a lot of work!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the passage of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/voters-choice-act\">Voters Choice Act\u003c/a> in California in 2016, the roles of poll workers have expanded. The law allows counties to opt in to a model where voters can cast a ballot at any vote center within their county instead of at their assigned precinct. These vote centers also provide more services and are open days earlier than precinct polling places. (Of the nine Bay Area counties, only San Francisco, Contra Costa and Solano counties have not opted in.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011336\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241023-POLLWORKERS-18-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poll worker trains for the upcoming election at the San Mateo County voter registration office on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jim Irizarry, the assistant chief elections officer for San Mateo County, said that poll workers have many different duties they perform, but election security is among the top priorities — in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011743/a-far-right-california-county-appointed-him-registrar-now-his-election-views-have-changed\">increasingly contentious\u003c/a> climate related to elections in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Election workers are trained to be vigilant for threats on-site that could disrupt voting,” Irizarry said. “These workers are the eyes and ears of the elections department at the field level. Their job is to make sure things are safe and secure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means maintaining a safe, apolitical environment for people to cast their ballot, but it also means ensuring timely pickup of ballots from drop boxes and verifying all voter information with the state’s online database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Einstein said he was motivated to get involved because he was fed up with hearing reports of people spreading misinformation and expressing mistrust about the process. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 8 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years after state officials announced an ambitious plan to conserve 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030, the state is already close to reaching that goal, Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>’s office said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.californianature.ca.gov/\">30×30 initiative\u003c/a>, California has added nearly 1.5 million acres, or about 2,350 square miles, of conserved land, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/83b5c08cae8b47d3b7c623f2de1f0dcc\">dashboard from the California Natural Resources Agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of June 2024, 25.2% of California’s lands and 16.2% of its coastal waters are already under long-term conservation and care — with six years until the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2020, I signed an executive order to conserve 30% of lands and 30% of coastal waters in California by 2030,” Newsom said in a video announcement. “And four years into this effort, we’re on track to achieve this target, with over a quarter of our lands protected. We won’t stop working to protect California’s unparalleled natural beauty for generations to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond conservation, the initiative also aims to protect biodiversity, expand public access to nature and build statewide resilience to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative kicked off in 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://ago-item-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/8da9faef231c4e31b651ae6dff95254e/Final_Pathwaysto30x30_042022_508.pdf?X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEPj%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQCOLOlGhR9v60LQI2gDZvCLelD7ElwDRNcARxqEesHbrAIgaOX5FN7I45%2BgW5LXwpzYUlfZeSatA994i3BF1bGFjUUqtAUIIRAAGgw2MDQ3NTgxMDI2NjUiDFxtI8eoCHUUSPCuySqRBVJFD2SoDMsSumPUt9qotmVpvta73tSJX50lqYF4qVXlvrWp14UgkG2Fi7AuO9%2BKD%2FbvRsU2s%2FN2BgfRyO4%2FuWi4MVHbppS3gnu%2BLGl8RtyCwWHSQkjdRkM5roHQ%2BkhOcJ3RNzSi1UPZSnnfDtVRUbLojfc9Skf%2Bwa9kzixflO3Zwu%2BHsBZmkDhfuPyGDrrJXsb4gEPmHzkfEHQMmmP2agKdLZ5jbRiBWTTOBr4QYspYdJTS2f1ir%2FA%2BWFktn82oXudEsLUIrbSKZmOGYQ8FVNnR%2BUO1hGlKhjWaTkHRxl5mPXsObEnsROJT6l%2Fyl0qLuenyqliIBIdWpD3Uqv9L3B5YxHYd2CxzJ%2FFW9BKfQ3L8Bu%2FB7UOXeNG65UwyHZvxh8%2Bu9mhzIOqa8H60evFUxXiotq%2Bgs9VcV2yPDx6ULg95Edl1jahZDLG4X%2F6pNBGmcqfZYteE43ws5OhmrjZ%2BtHFlcWo7M2ZQOi7m6kZMwPArFI15az68GfJMEV7k6kHqrQn8mAe0Qx0LoabUUxQU1kaSH5myG1BblbPr4q1zg3Hd5mdVVcj%2FGvQN7cUBVbQ1573sjshhQzwlAIjUs6M8d1zzzBu4VG7R29nrjW1Fr1r1hPlEKIc0%2F8pZxca4L8IsEVVM9Hw94CCFT6IYDqF1mu8tV7nz%2BPLba1ttQkSpDXaq%2B1b5M9PiQQo7iFChDp8e5%2FOJ%2BzTClIKnPOzZ1OlCK3c2naWw%2Bud9aY2fima3NuvPfDC%2BvzJ0UCsfiJMhaB2g7jQbXbXjgg3qnUAaGDI0JSSL19qs4yJol9XtkD9RhyhhqcgmSA%2Fev9qY%2BuJWOoNXVeTPep5nSJPHbo1MPqtvOBRNWa%2FcW95TI6L9%2Bka6BsoiXDCKru62BjqxAQgb71%2BGCUuvcV5Xh5MV%2FR6J%2F%2B7WPE3iGRcOp4FaCsKj28KeXUgEA0WK678eKW7ECxULlZMLPzZoX21LDicmsGVkwCIMCtY88G1%2BuGZj3Hf7WeCJMi1OilkkbNViYh3xf%2FSShOo74Y3sUfdRhlObpTgT006kkNwEtuV0JnKUZcjVgi3ik8qIZ6un5dDneGtEAdnNvKCIIRdRSNj6T6ANyXWK3pzcDRnCd5OA5sbTxDUgKw%3D%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20240907T014004Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAYZTTEKKE36ILQKXV%2F20240907%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=41636e7563ba5076febae07f5092c23a7504e8efa43dc6a14a2e3c5c24f7aa4b\">when officials released a detailed road map\u003c/a> for the plan. The state had 631,000 acres conserved between April of that year and May 2023 and has added 861,000 acres since then, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dillon Beach Ranch area, including the 1.5-mile Estero de San Antonio, are within the ancestral homelands of the Coast Miwok, and their descendants are still present there today. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Dines/Western Rivers Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the increase includes acres that are newly conserved, it also includes land where the state previously lacked data about levels of protection and management for biodiversity. Through “painstaking and ongoing work,” officials tracked down conserved and protected land across 52 counties to show that these areas meet California’s 30×30 definition, according to the progress report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the biggest recent gains were the expansion of two national monuments — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984763/biden-expands-2-national-monuments-in-california-significant-to-tribal-nations\">San Gabriel Mountains National Monument\u003c/a> in Southern California and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/107169/berryessa-snow-mountain-becomes-californias-newest-national-monument\">Bay Area’s Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument\u003c/a> — which enhanced protections for about 120,000 acres of federal lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12003399 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/DillonBeach1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also made progress toward the goal through its first-ever \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/Initiatives/Tribalaffairs/Tribal-Nature-Based-Solutions-Program\">ancestral land return effort\u003c/a>, which provided $100 million in grant funding for the return of roughly 38,950 acres to Indigenous communities. Among the recent recipients were the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, who received funding to help reacquire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003399/lush-marin-county-coastal-land-returned-to-graton-rancheria\">466 acres of their lands\u003c/a> in the North Bay that were privately owned until 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As community leaders globally look for ways to increase biodiversity conservation, California’s plan is paving the way for similar efforts at the national level, with states such as Nevada, South Carolina, Hawaii, Maine and New York now working toward their own 30×30 goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2021, the Biden administration issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/27/executive-order-on-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad/\">executive order\u003c/a> to tackle the climate crisis and committed the United States to 30×30 through its America the Beautiful initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, California Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot sat down with KQED to explain the state’s goal to transform more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992481/californias-plans-for-slowing-climate-change-through-nature-based-solutions\">half of its land acres\u003c/a> to sequester carbon and fight climate change. This effort will help reach the 30×30 goal, Crawfoot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those targets, known as nature-based solutions, include millions of acres that will be managed to reduce wildfire risk, protect water supplies and enhance biodiversity, among other outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conservation activists have celebrated the gains as positive progress, some have responded to the state’s announcement with calls for even greater investment and action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.iucncongress2020.org/motion/101\">Scientists worldwide agre\u003c/a>e that in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change on people and help protect wildlife at risk of extinction, we must — at a minimum — protect 30% of our lands and coastal waters by 2030,” Juan Altamirano, director of government affairs at the Trust for Public Land, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is making progress towards 30×30, but there is much work remaining. Nearly five million acres of lands and coastal waters still must be conserved in less than six years. To meet this moment, we are calling for accelerated action, the designation of three national monuments, and the passage of Proposition 4 in November,” Altamirano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2024/prop4-110524.pdf\">Proposition 4\u003c/a> would authorize a $10 billion bond to spend on environmental and climate projects, with the biggest chunk, $1.9 billion, for drinking water improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups and renewable energy advocates have been clamoring for increased spending on climate change and the environment in recent years, particularly after Newsom and the Legislature approved a $54.3 billion spending package called the California Climate Commitment in 2022, only to scale it back to $44.6 billion this budget-plagued year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The state had 631,000 acres conserved between April of that year and May 2023 and has added 861,000 acres since then, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dillon Beach Ranch area, including the 1.5-mile Estero de San Antonio, are within the ancestral homelands of the Coast Miwok, and their descendants are still present there today. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Dines/Western Rivers Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the increase includes acres that are newly conserved, it also includes land where the state previously lacked data about levels of protection and management for biodiversity. Through “painstaking and ongoing work,” officials tracked down conserved and protected land across 52 counties to show that these areas meet California’s 30×30 definition, according to the progress report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the biggest recent gains were the expansion of two national monuments — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984763/biden-expands-2-national-monuments-in-california-significant-to-tribal-nations\">San Gabriel Mountains National Monument\u003c/a> in Southern California and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/107169/berryessa-snow-mountain-becomes-californias-newest-national-monument\">Bay Area’s Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument\u003c/a> — which enhanced protections for about 120,000 acres of federal lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also made progress toward the goal through its first-ever \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/Initiatives/Tribalaffairs/Tribal-Nature-Based-Solutions-Program\">ancestral land return effort\u003c/a>, which provided $100 million in grant funding for the return of roughly 38,950 acres to Indigenous communities. Among the recent recipients were the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, who received funding to help reacquire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003399/lush-marin-county-coastal-land-returned-to-graton-rancheria\">466 acres of their lands\u003c/a> in the North Bay that were privately owned until 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As community leaders globally look for ways to increase biodiversity conservation, California’s plan is paving the way for similar efforts at the national level, with states such as Nevada, South Carolina, Hawaii, Maine and New York now working toward their own 30×30 goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2021, the Biden administration issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/27/executive-order-on-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad/\">executive order\u003c/a> to tackle the climate crisis and committed the United States to 30×30 through its America the Beautiful initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, California Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot sat down with KQED to explain the state’s goal to transform more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992481/californias-plans-for-slowing-climate-change-through-nature-based-solutions\">half of its land acres\u003c/a> to sequester carbon and fight climate change. This effort will help reach the 30×30 goal, Crawfoot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those targets, known as nature-based solutions, include millions of acres that will be managed to reduce wildfire risk, protect water supplies and enhance biodiversity, among other outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conservation activists have celebrated the gains as positive progress, some have responded to the state’s announcement with calls for even greater investment and action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.iucncongress2020.org/motion/101\">Scientists worldwide agre\u003c/a>e that in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change on people and help protect wildlife at risk of extinction, we must — at a minimum — protect 30% of our lands and coastal waters by 2030,” Juan Altamirano, director of government affairs at the Trust for Public Land, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is making progress towards 30×30, but there is much work remaining. Nearly five million acres of lands and coastal waters still must be conserved in less than six years. To meet this moment, we are calling for accelerated action, the designation of three national monuments, and the passage of Proposition 4 in November,” Altamirano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2024/prop4-110524.pdf\">Proposition 4\u003c/a> would authorize a $10 billion bond to spend on environmental and climate projects, with the biggest chunk, $1.9 billion, for drinking water improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups and renewable energy advocates have been clamoring for increased spending on climate change and the environment in recent years, particularly after Newsom and the Legislature approved a $54.3 billion spending package called the California Climate Commitment in 2022, only to scale it back to $44.6 billion this budget-plagued year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">52 Bay Area public schools are already at risk of being inundated with ocean and groundwater, according to a new analysis by KQED and Climate Central. KQED’s Ezra David Romero tells us how the threat of sea level rise has already ignited a debate over rebuilding a middle school in Marin County.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1063445518&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1993783/schools-in-deep-water-bay-area-faces-uphill-battle-against-climate-change\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schools in Deep Water: Bay Area Faces Uphill Battle Against Climate Change\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. A new analysis from KQED and Climate Central found that more than 50 public schools around the Bay Area are already at risk of sea level rise thanks to human caused climate change. And that includes a middle school in Marin County, where rising water is already at the school’s doorstep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>When we drive here or the kids ride their bikes on the bike path here, it is pretty often flooded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The high tide line in the San Francisco Bay has risen by eight inches over the last century, and much of the bay shoreline has more flooding in its future. Today we go to one school in Mill Valley that’s already feeling the impact of sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I went to Mill Valley in Marin County. It’s this town at the end of Richardson Bay. You know, there’s San Francisco Bay and then there’s Richardson Bay. And this is the very end of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Ezra David Romero is a climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It’s a more affluent community, just like Marin County is. And it’s a beautiful place. It’s like kind of this like little mountain valley next to the bay. It’s quite cute. And they have a cute downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know you went to a public school there. Can you tell me what what school you went to exactly, And what did it look like when you arrived?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I went to Mill Valley Middle School. It’s this school literally, like ten, 15, 20ft away from the bay itself. It’s quite beautiful, right? There’s Mt. Tam in the distance. There’s the bay right there. There’s a cute little park in front of the school. It kind of looks just like a regular school to me, right? But just in this serene location right next to the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>Is it? And I think. Yeah. Miranda, Pleasure for having.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Me. I met up with Juliette Hart and Miranda O’Connell. They both have sixth graders going to the school and both had kids who left the school recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>So this is in addition to kind of the bike path and the safe routes to school, the community center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>We met up at the school because they are quite concerned about this school district wanting to rebuild that school right in the same place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You went to this school because of your sort of broader reporting on sea level rise. But what exactly is happening at Mill Valley Middle School when it comes to sea level rise and how is it affecting people there? Now, what did Miranda and Juliet tell you about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Well, this is a place that floods, you know, when we have high tides or extremely high tides because it’s so close to the bay. So basically, the school has a creek that runs on one side. There’s a little marsh, and then there’s like some human made channels. So when there’s a high tide, that water comes up and like floods the road that the one road in and out of campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So the main drop off area is in one of the spots that routinely gets flooded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Miranda showed me the outside of Mill Valley Middle School where it floods. There’s basically one road in and out of campus that ends kind of in this cul de sac. She basically said that, like this area floods multiple times a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>And so it just causes a huge safety mass because there’s you can’t drop off the kids there. And so they end up kind of jumping out at random spots on a very busy road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>You know, it creates this like traffic chaos and a quite difficult way to just start your day when you just want to drop off your kids and get to work. And so they’re worried that the school, because the school wants to rebuild there, that they’re just going to put kids in danger in the future and then they’re not actually fixing the problem. There’s been this long debate over whether the school should be rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, I mean, it sounds like the threat of sea level rise is very present for parents and families at Mill Valley Middle. But how does this problem go beyond Mill Valley, this problem of sea level rise affecting schools in the Bay Area specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So this school is like a case example of all the schools around the Bay Area where this could happen. We have 400 plus miles of shoreline. There’s many, many schools in that area. We’ve only had about like eight inches of sea level rise since the industrial revolution. And that’s supposed to speed up as human caused climate change exacerbates and seas rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>We found that 52 schools around the Bay Area already are at risk of flooding from sea level rise. Whether that’s like groundwater being pushed up or like water actually coming over the shores like we see here at Mill Valley. And that just gets worse as it goes into the future. I linked up with this group called Climate Central. They’re a non advocacy news group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>They have a data journalist named Katie Worth, and we worked on this together. We looked at USGS data around where groundwater is and how it’s going to rise in different places. And then we basically superimposed all that information onto a map. And then we saw all the schools that were at risk. And so what we found, though, is that there’s 52 schools already at risk of groundwater floods linked to sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And seven of them also carry the risk of coastal floods, compounding the likelihood that they could be inundated. And by 2050, 16 will have both risks. And the bulk of these schools are pretty much in San Mateo, Alameda and Marin counties, you know, all low lying places, places where there’s like fill. That’s where we like filled in part of the bay. And some of it’s like actually below sea level or just right above it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. And so and you’re talking not just about the threat of the bay sort of rising, but also groundwater rising as well. Right. Can you talk about that and kind of explain what experts say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So when we think about sea level rise, we’re often thinking about like, say, the Marshall Islands or somewhere out in the water where the actual ocean. Right. Is like covering land, Right. But groundwater is a phenomenon that scientists are talking about right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>For the past like five, ten years, that could happen before we see so much water coming over the shore. When you think of the ocean or the bay, you know that water is above ground. Right. But it also saturates the ground underneath the land. So what happens is the seas rise. That water also rises in that ground, that saturated soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And we also have groundwater in there, right? Like natural groundwater, shallow groundwater. And so the idea is as seas rise, it can push that groundwater up, become more saturated and eventually become emergent or right flooding inland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know you also talked with some experts for this story. What do experts say about how they see the threat of sea level rise potentially impacting schools?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Befus: \u003c/strong>Schools haven’t dealt with this issue before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I talked to Kevin Befus a lot about this. You know, he’s an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas Department of Geosciences, and he studied the hydrology of the Bay Area lot, specifically for USGS, creating the maps that we used for our story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Befus: \u003c/strong>Do you get a storm, a 20 year storm, So it has a 5% chance of happening in any given year. A 5% chance storm in a year could make the school an island almost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>When I talked to Kevin about how schools are going to be impacted by this, he thought about like high water days, kind of like foggy day schedules or snow days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Befus: \u003c/strong>Those sort of events, I think will become more and more common for these schools along the coast. The administrators will have to be keeping track of tides, the king tides and the size of storms coming through and be ready to to have a high water day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>He sees this as an imminent threat to schools, to businesses, to highways all around the Bay Area, because as seas rise. Right, it’s going to affect everything around that lap of the bay. For example, at Mill Valley, they want to raise the school five feet above the 100 year storm level where it can be put in flood really bad. But he is saying like the school can raise it. But what about everything around it, like the roads, the community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Befus: \u003c/strong>I think the cost will be astronomical no matter what. A lot of this happens so slowly that I think that’s why people don’t necessarily think of that right away. It’s not on the front of their mind until it’s their house. It’s their car. It’s their school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, the plan to rebuild Mill Valley Middle School. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I want to come back, Ezra, to where we started in this story. Mill Valley. You already described the threat of sea level rise being imminent for parents and the students at that school. So what exactly is being done to address that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah, well, the community in Mill Valley voted on a bond measure called Measure G back in 2022, and it was for like $194 million to modernize and beautify schools in Mill Valley. So the school district decided they wanted to use a portion of that money. $130 million would go to rebuilding Mill Valley Middle School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sharon Nakatani: \u003c/strong>It’s very, very expensive, too. So we are taking it very seriously. We are a medical share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I met up with Sharon Nakatania. She’s the board president for the Mill Valley School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sharon Nakatani: \u003c/strong>And this is our, you know, it’s a really large library, actually, for a middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>We are we toured the campus and, you know, she showed me the area that floods. We thought we had like the cool library they have. And she talked about their plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sharon Nakatani: \u003c/strong>Now we have deemed the school is has reached its age and it will be demolished and rebuilt in the same spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>What they want to do is they want to raise that school about five feet above the 100 year storm. That’s basically like a historic big storm, you know, that could flood the area. So they believe that they’re raising the school out of the risk from future sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sharon Nakatani: \u003c/strong>I think there’s a plan to for what we can demolish from this building. We will use this film to to raise the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Sharon told me that, like, you know, there are other sites, but there’s like an existing school there. So they’d have to like, figure out what to do with this elementary school. And then there could be uproar from parents about like, you’re moving our kids. And so they felt like this site is still the best site even with future sea level rise because point blank, they just didn’t feel like they had the land and or the money to like go buy some new land and also have the money to rebuild this school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sharon Nakatani: \u003c/strong>To do a new middle school in Mill Valley. Again, 10 to 12 acres. So there’s no available flat land. That’s 10 to 12 acres. There might be hills that are really accessible. But when you look at the larger picture of Mill Valley, this school is really right in the middle, which is why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So when I asked her about, you know, what about the road that that currently floods or, you know, the community around it. Her answer was like, it’s not in the school’s purview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sharon Nakatani: \u003c/strong>The sea level rise is everyone’s issue, frankly, and it’s up to us to do what we can for our school and our students. And it’s also up to the city to do what we can for the residents and for the county Marin to do and say to California, etc., etc..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>But I know it’s very contentious among parents. Right. What do you what do they say about the decision to build on this same spot? And what are the parents you spoke with want to see instead?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah, the parents I spoke to, you know, Juliet and Miranda, they were quite angry that this school district still wants to build on this site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>These are long lived assets that we built. So why are we building something that we know in 20 years will be vulnerable, will be have standing water surrounding it? Why aren’t we thinking about places that don’t have that risk?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So a few months ago when I interviewed Miranda, you know, she had an eighth grader at the school and she was just quite tired of seeing the flooding happening. Right. She was living through it multiple times a year. And so she was really worried about the future. Right. She has another sixth grader coming into the campus this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>So I have one that’s leaving and then I have one that’s starting this coming school year for the three year period and another one starting in two years for an additional three year period. Yeah, you’re.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Going to deal with this for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>For the next six years. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>She was worried about like the kids having to be at the school as they rebuild this site and into the future as as. CS Right. So she had like concerns about right now and into the future. And when I interviewed Juliet Harte the same day, you know, she has a sixth grader coming into the school. Her concern was really about sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>I look at this site and think sea level rise because that’s what I do. But it’s not surprising to me that people haven’t thought of that. What’s surprising to me is that now that they know they’re still moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Professionally, she’s actually like an oceanographer, so she knows how much sea level rise is going to impact the school. She knows how many feet and by what year and what time. So she was just really worried about the future because, you know, when you think about climate change all day and what’s it going to do to the Bay Area, then your kids go to a school right next to the bay. I mean, I think those two things coincide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right? And her her sixth grader who’s starting there this year is going to have a couple more years at that school. So, I mean, it sounds like these parents basically want the district to find somewhere else to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah, they want the school district or build the school somewhere else. But the school district, when I talked to Sharon Nakatani, she basically said it’s a done deal. Like this is where we’re rebuilding the school. We’ve look, we’ve exhausted all of our other options. We’ve been in many meetings about this, but I think the last thing that’s might determine what happens there is in this environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So, you know, every building project, you know, in in the state has to go through environmental review when you know, when it’s in the process and that they look at everything from like sea level rise to flooding to storms to what’s a site like? 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That are built to last 50 years, what should be done in order to really address and and adapt to. The threat of sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>A lot of my reporting, we look at like an individual cases like this in Mill Valley. But really solutions for sea level rise are regional, right? Or citywide, Right. Like in San Francisco, we’re thinking about a whole waterfront sea level rise plan for seven and a half miles of the of the bay. And then there’s other plans for other areas, Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It’s like this huge thing. So something for Mill Valley or another part of the bay. They need to think about this regionally. Well, when it comes to schools, they can do whatever is in their purview, like how much money they have and they can raise the school. But, you know, not all schools have that luxury, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It costs a lot of money to build a school or in this case, they’re going to spend $130 million to rebuild this school, which is a lot of money. Right. For especially for community that doesn’t have that kind of funds or maybe isn’t in an affluent area where they can pass a bond measure to do that. And Kevin Befus from the University of Arkansas talked about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Befus: \u003c/strong>It ends up being for those who can afford to protect themselves well, and those who can’t, you know, end up with the extra water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I mean, I think what our reporting does right, we’re like we lay out what schools are at risk. Right? We found these 52 schools. There’s of each has a varying level of risk. But when you think of a school, they’re really like a community center, right. If this school is in danger from sea features, sea level rise or current sea level rise or current flooding, then the entire community or large portions of it might be. In some way. Our analysis is like a red flag for these communities to pay attention about what’s to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Ezra, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Hey, thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Ezra David Romero, a climate reporter for KQED. We’re going to leave you a link to Ezra’s story in our shownotes, which includes graphics of where schools will be impacted by sea level rise. This 30 minute conversation with Ezra was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. It was produced and scored by me. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. A new analysis from KQED and Climate Central found that more than 50 public schools around the Bay Area are already at risk of sea level rise thanks to human caused climate change. And that includes a middle school in Marin County, where rising water is already at the school’s doorstep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>When we drive here or the kids ride their bikes on the bike path here, it is pretty often flooded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The high tide line in the San Francisco Bay has risen by eight inches over the last century, and much of the bay shoreline has more flooding in its future. Today we go to one school in Mill Valley that’s already feeling the impact of sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I went to Mill Valley in Marin County. It’s this town at the end of Richardson Bay. You know, there’s San Francisco Bay and then there’s Richardson Bay. And this is the very end of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Ezra David Romero is a climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It’s a more affluent community, just like Marin County is. And it’s a beautiful place. It’s like kind of this like little mountain valley next to the bay. It’s quite cute. And they have a cute downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know you went to a public school there. Can you tell me what what school you went to exactly, And what did it look like when you arrived?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I went to Mill Valley Middle School. It’s this school literally, like ten, 15, 20ft away from the bay itself. It’s quite beautiful, right? There’s Mt. Tam in the distance. There’s the bay right there. There’s a cute little park in front of the school. It kind of looks just like a regular school to me, right? But just in this serene location right next to the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>Is it? And I think. Yeah. Miranda, Pleasure for having.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Me. I met up with Juliette Hart and Miranda O’Connell. They both have sixth graders going to the school and both had kids who left the school recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>So this is in addition to kind of the bike path and the safe routes to school, the community center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>We met up at the school because they are quite concerned about this school district wanting to rebuild that school right in the same place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You went to this school because of your sort of broader reporting on sea level rise. But what exactly is happening at Mill Valley Middle School when it comes to sea level rise and how is it affecting people there? Now, what did Miranda and Juliet tell you about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Well, this is a place that floods, you know, when we have high tides or extremely high tides because it’s so close to the bay. So basically, the school has a creek that runs on one side. There’s a little marsh, and then there’s like some human made channels. So when there’s a high tide, that water comes up and like floods the road that the one road in and out of campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So the main drop off area is in one of the spots that routinely gets flooded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Miranda showed me the outside of Mill Valley Middle School where it floods. There’s basically one road in and out of campus that ends kind of in this cul de sac. She basically said that, like this area floods multiple times a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miranda O’Connell: \u003c/strong>And so it just causes a huge safety mass because there’s you can’t drop off the kids there. And so they end up kind of jumping out at random spots on a very busy road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>You know, it creates this like traffic chaos and a quite difficult way to just start your day when you just want to drop off your kids and get to work. And so they’re worried that the school, because the school wants to rebuild there, that they’re just going to put kids in danger in the future and then they’re not actually fixing the problem. There’s been this long debate over whether the school should be rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, I mean, it sounds like the threat of sea level rise is very present for parents and families at Mill Valley Middle. But how does this problem go beyond Mill Valley, this problem of sea level rise affecting schools in the Bay Area specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So this school is like a case example of all the schools around the Bay Area where this could happen. We have 400 plus miles of shoreline. There’s many, many schools in that area. We’ve only had about like eight inches of sea level rise since the industrial revolution. And that’s supposed to speed up as human caused climate change exacerbates and seas rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>We found that 52 schools around the Bay Area already are at risk of flooding from sea level rise. Whether that’s like groundwater being pushed up or like water actually coming over the shores like we see here at Mill Valley. And that just gets worse as it goes into the future. I linked up with this group called Climate Central. They’re a non advocacy news group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>They have a data journalist named Katie Worth, and we worked on this together. We looked at USGS data around where groundwater is and how it’s going to rise in different places. And then we basically superimposed all that information onto a map. And then we saw all the schools that were at risk. And so what we found, though, is that there’s 52 schools already at risk of groundwater floods linked to sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And seven of them also carry the risk of coastal floods, compounding the likelihood that they could be inundated. And by 2050, 16 will have both risks. And the bulk of these schools are pretty much in San Mateo, Alameda and Marin counties, you know, all low lying places, places where there’s like fill. That’s where we like filled in part of the bay. And some of it’s like actually below sea level or just right above it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. And so and you’re talking not just about the threat of the bay sort of rising, but also groundwater rising as well. Right. Can you talk about that and kind of explain what experts say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So when we think about sea level rise, we’re often thinking about like, say, the Marshall Islands or somewhere out in the water where the actual ocean. Right. Is like covering land, Right. But groundwater is a phenomenon that scientists are talking about right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>For the past like five, ten years, that could happen before we see so much water coming over the shore. When you think of the ocean or the bay, you know that water is above ground. Right. But it also saturates the ground underneath the land. 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You know, he’s an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas Department of Geosciences, and he studied the hydrology of the Bay Area lot, specifically for USGS, creating the maps that we used for our story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Befus: \u003c/strong>Do you get a storm, a 20 year storm, So it has a 5% chance of happening in any given year. A 5% chance storm in a year could make the school an island almost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>When I talked to Kevin about how schools are going to be impacted by this, he thought about like high water days, kind of like foggy day schedules or snow days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Befus: \u003c/strong>Those sort of events, I think will become more and more common for these schools along the coast. 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That are built to last 50 years, what should be done in order to really address and and adapt to. The threat of sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>A lot of my reporting, we look at like an individual cases like this in Mill Valley. But really solutions for sea level rise are regional, right? Or citywide, Right. Like in San Francisco, we’re thinking about a whole waterfront sea level rise plan for seven and a half miles of the of the bay. And then there’s other plans for other areas, Right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It’s like this huge thing. So something for Mill Valley or another part of the bay. They need to think about this regionally. Well, when it comes to schools, they can do whatever is in their purview, like how much money they have and they can raise the school. But, you know, not all schools have that luxury, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It costs a lot of money to build a school or in this case, they’re going to spend $130 million to rebuild this school, which is a lot of money. Right. For especially for community that doesn’t have that kind of funds or maybe isn’t in an affluent area where they can pass a bond measure to do that. And Kevin Befus from the University of Arkansas talked about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin Befus: \u003c/strong>It ends up being for those who can afford to protect themselves well, and those who can’t, you know, end up with the extra water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I mean, I think what our reporting does right, we’re like we lay out what schools are at risk. Right? We found these 52 schools. There’s of each has a varying level of risk. But when you think of a school, they’re really like a community center, right. If this school is in danger from sea features, sea level rise or current sea level rise or current flooding, then the entire community or large portions of it might be. In some way. Our analysis is like a red flag for these communities to pay attention about what’s to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Ezra, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Hey, thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Ezra David Romero, a climate reporter for KQED. We’re going to leave you a link to Ezra’s story in our shownotes, which includes graphics of where schools will be impacted by sea level rise. This 30 minute conversation with Ezra was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. It was produced and scored by me. Music Courtesy of Audio Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED Public Media. If you liked this episode or you learn something new, consider sharing it with a friend. Word of mouth is one of the best ways that you can support our show. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>As a social worker connecting residents to public assistance programs in Marin County, Amy Gramajo frequently helps families apply for free or low-cost child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those families typically qualify for subsidized child care, but they wind up waiting for months, or even years before they land an open spot at a child care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Amy Gramajo, social worker, Marin County\"]‘I don’t have any close family nearby to help me. If the center closes I don’t think I can maintain a full-time job or continue paying for an apartment here.’[/pullquote]The shortage of affordable child care in one of the most expensive counties in the Bay Area is weighing heavily on Gramajo. A center where she sends her 5- and 8-year-old daughters for child care is at risk of closing after losing its lease last month, putting dozens of working parents like her on edge about whether they’ll be able to find alternative care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any close family nearby to help me. If the center closes I don’t think I can maintain a full-time job or continue paying for an apartment here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For five decades, the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center has played a vital role in the lives of hundreds of lower-income families who rely on its early education and after-school programs. It’s one of just a few subsidized child care centers in Marin. Parents and students cherish the close-knit community and the fact that it’s located in a county park at the foot of Mount Tamalpais, giving children ample space to play outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re surrounded by all these amazing trees and hiking trails, just being so close to nature is such an important part of any human’s development,” said Vesta Torres, 29, one of several teachers who started coming to the center as babies and who now work there to raise the next generation of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For single or working parents with school-age kids, the center crucially fills in the gap during the afternoon hours or periods when school is out. Eva Polony said the center helped her get through the pandemic by providing a place for her teenage sons to go. The center also supervised her sons’ online learning while she was at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of children on mats watch an adult in front of them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Hanna teaches a yoga class for children at the Fairfax San Anselmo Children’s Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are here for the essential workers and then some,” she said. “They’re just the foundation for families to keep working and to be able to feel secure. You know your kids’ needs are gonna be met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the center’s future is uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eva Polony, resident, Marin County\"]‘They are here for the essential workers and then some. They’re just the foundation for families to keep working and to be able to feel secure. You know your kids’ needs are gonna be met.’[/pullquote]Its aging buildings have structural issues that led the Ross Valley School District, which owns the campus, to terminate the center’s lease on Aug. 31. The school board president, Shelley Hamilton, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2mxmguLyVw&t=1457s\">at a recent hearing\u003c/a> that there were no immediate plans to evict the nonprofit organization that runs the center, but by operating without a lease, the group was exposing itself to increased safety and liability risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center was holding out hope that the county Office of Education would buy the property and lease it back to the center. The office scrapped its plan, however, after a building inspection report concluded it might cost at least $14 million to bring the property up to current safety standards — an amount that John Carroll, the superintendent of Marin County schools, said his office doesn’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Tomsky, the center’s executive director, disputes the findings of the report. She said inspectors were holding the buildings to more stringent standards reserved for schools, rather than for a licensed child care program like the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961416 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair interacts with two children in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Director Heidi Tomsky works with children on an art project at the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center. The center is one of the few to offer low-cost, subsidized child care in Marin County and is facing eviction after losing its lease on Aug. 31. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under state law, child care centers undergo random inspections by the Department of Social Services’ Community Care Licensing division to ensure they meet all health and safety requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the buildings need renovations. I’m not quite sure or convinced yet that they’re unsafe to the standard that some people believe they are,” Tomsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that closing the center would create a ripple effect for the parents who send their kids there, many of whom are gardeners, house cleaners and restaurant and grocery store workers in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Heidi Tomsky, executive director, Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center\"]‘Losing child care means likely that a family will lose their job, which will impact their housing, which will impact their food, which will impact their … whole entire economic security.’[/pullquote]“Losing child care means likely that a family will lose their job, which will impact their housing, which will impact their food, which will impact their … whole entire economic security,” Tomsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County is already one of the most expensive places to live in California, so the cost of child care is just as high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://unitedwaysca.org/realcost/\">A recent report by the United Ways of California\u003c/a> found that nearly a quarter of households in Marin don’t earn enough to meet basic needs, including housing, food, transportation and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, the average price for preschool in Marin has gone up nearly 40% to $2,315 a month, and up to $2,600 per month for infant care, according to Aideen Gaidmore, executive director of the Marin Child Care Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high cost of child care is why more than 900 children are on a waitlist her agency maintains for subsidized child care, Gaidmore said. That means they qualify for low-cost or free child care, but there’s no guarantee they’ll get it because of insufficient funding, staffing or facilities to serve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11961417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A building and play area with children and adults in it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play at the Fairfax San Anselmo Children’s Center in the Deer Park area of Fairfax. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are families who are eligible, but will never be pulled off that list for whatever reason,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased state funding and federal pandemic aid for child care have helped her agency to serve hundreds more families in the last two years, Gaidmore said, but the number of available slots hasn’t kept pace with demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Aideen Gaidmore, executive director, Marin Child Care Council\"]‘There are families who are eligible, but will never be pulled off that list for whatever reason.’[/pullquote]There have been attempts locally to boost access to early education for Marin’s underserved children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, a proposal \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/past-elections/page-data/tabs-collection/past2016/nov-8/measure/measurea\">to raise the local sales tax by a \u003c/a>quarter-cent to raise about $12 million per year for the cause received 63% of votes, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass. (A local taxpayer group \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/past-elections/page-data/tabs-collection/past2016/nov-8/measure/measurea\">argued in voters’ pamphlets \u003c/a>that if the measure passed “many will flock to Marin for free child care.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left with limited resources, local nonprofits such as the Marin Community Foundation instead focused on \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincf.org/buck-family-fund-grants/economic-opportunity/access-to-quality-child-care\">funding $1.5 million each year on financial assistance, particularly for single, working parents and training early educators\u003c/a> in subsidized programs. The philanthropic organization will phase out the program so it can develop and implement a strategic plan to expand access to child care in Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on Bay Area Child Care' tag='child-care']Gaidmore said her agency used \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/21/fact-sheet-american-rescue-plan-funds-provided-a-critical-lifeline-to-200000-child-care-providers-helping-millions-of-families-to-work/\">federal pandemic aid\u003c/a> to help family child care homes get properly licensed to increase the kind of facilities set up for infant care. It’s also administering a guaranteed income program for 21 entry-level early educators, giving them $8,000 in stipends per year over a three-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to focus on teachers who were just coming into the field and how we could encourage them to stay there,” Gaidmore said. “We know that they’re the lowest paid. So it made more sense to bring that in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the nearly 90 families enrolled at the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center, Gaidmore said she’s trying to secure funding to minimize potential child care disruption for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our concern is really supporting those families in any way we can, and obviously the teachers and staff of the center,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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