BRENTWOOD – Contra Costa County Supervisor Diane Burgis was sworn in recently as the newest member of the Delta Stewardship Council, the seven-member California state agency tasked with advancing California’s water supply reliability and the Delta’s ecosystem resiliency.
Burgis joins the Stewardship Council in the seat reserved for the Chair of the Delta Protection Commission, after she received a unanimous board vote on the Commission on November 17, 2022. The Chair had previously been held by former Sacramento County Supervisor Don Nottoli, who retired at the end of 2022.
Burgis, whose district includes the East Contra Costa County Delta communities of Antioch, Oakley, Discovery Bay and Bethel Island, has served on the Delta Protection Commission continuously since 2017 and previously represented Contra Costa and Solano County cities on the Commission as an Oakley city councilmember. She will serve as Chair of the Delta Protection Commission and as a member of the Delta Stewardship Council through 2024.
“It is an honor to serve on the Delta Protection Commission and the Delta Stewardship Council.” Burgis said. “As a longtime resident of the Delta and East Contra Costa County, I’ve seen how crucial the Delta and its natural resources are, not only to our region but to the entire state.”
The Delta Stewardship Council was created in November 2009 by the California Legislature in order to advance the State’s coequal goals for the Delta—a more reliable statewide water supply and a healthy and protected ecosystem. Of its seven members, four are appointed by the Governor, one is appointed by the Senate, one is appointed by the Assembly, and one seat is reserved for the chair of the Delta Protection Commission.
More information is available at: https://deltacouncil.ca.gov/about
The Delta Protection Commission is a 15-member body that promotes the health of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta at the state level. Burgis will also be the Commission’s representative on the Delta Stewardship Council, the state agency that implements the Delta Plan, an enforceable long-term sustainable management plan to ensure coordinated action in the Delta at the federal, state and local levels.
More information is available at: https://delta.ca.gov
Contra Costa County Supervisor Diane Burgis has represented District 3 on the Board of Supervisors since her election in 2016. Prior to being elected, Burgis served as a trustee on the East Bay Regional Parks District Board, a member of the Oakley City Council, and the Executive Director of Friends of the Marsh Creek Watershed.
The Delta is a crucial natural resource for the region and the state, with 27 million Californians relying on it for a portion of their drinking water, according to the Delta Stewardship Council. More than 627,000 people call the Delta home, along with more than 750 plant and animal species.
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If rural east county roads becoming dumps is an indication of Burgis work then the Delta is screwed!
Has anyone bothered to ask why there is a need for both a Delta Protection Commission AND a Stewardship Council- if indeed there is any useful purpose to either? The mere fact that they were both created by the state legislature is powerful evidence that they serve no useful purpose.
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