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August 18, 2005
Public Overwhelmingly Opposes New
Oil Drilling in National Forest
Legislators and Local
Newspapers Also Oppose
Decision to Allow New Drilling on 52,000
Acres
Ojai, CA - A
recent review of government records here shows that the public is
overwhelmingly opposed to any expansion of oil drilling in the
Los Padres National Forest.
The U.S. Forest Service
received 7,830 letters from concerned citizens during the
official comment period. A full 99.9% of these letters opposed any
new oil drilling in the national forest.
Despite this
overwhelming public opposition, the Forest Service last month
approved a plan that will expand oil drilling across 52,075
acres of the Los Padres National Forest. The plan allows surface
drilling next to some of the most sensitive areas of the forest,
including three wilderness areas, the Sespe Condor Sanctuary,
and the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge.
After the agency
released its decision, three local newspapers printed editorials
criticizing the agency's move. The Ventura County Star, the
Santa Barbara News-Press, and the Santa Maria Times all oppose
additional oil drilling on our national forest.
A coalition of
local, state, and national legislators also voiced their
opposition to expanded oil drilling. On August 4, Congresswoman
Lois Capps led a press conference on the steps of the Santa
Barbara County Courthouse. Also speaking at the event were
California Senator Pedro Nava, Santa Barbara County Supervisors
Salud Carbajal and Susan Rose, Santa Paula business owner and
fisherman Gary Bulla, and Michael Crooke, CEO of Patagonia,
Inc., a Ventura-based outdoor clothing company.
The U.S. Forest
Service received comments from people across the country
concerned about the impacts of oil drilling on our
national forest. Citizens from as far north as Homer, Alaska, as
far south as San Diego, California, and as far east as
Levittown, Pennsylvania
all voiced their opposition to new oil drilling in the Los
Padres.
Those opposed to
new oil drilling included long-time forest visitors,
schoolkids, business owners, former Forest Service employees, hunters, anglers, scientists,
and local residents concerned about the impacts of oil drilling
on scenic vistas, clean water supplies, and recreation
opportunities.
Letters supporting
more oil drilling came from the oil and gas industry, including
the Independent Oil Producers Agency, the California Independent
Petroleum Association, and the California Natural Gas Producers
Association.
July 31, 2005
Forest drilling
is a bad idea
The Star is
disappointed in last week's decision by U.S. Forest Supervisor
Gloria Brown to lease 52,075 acres of Los Padres National Forest
to oil and gas companies for drilling.
We support
legislation by Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, to ban new oil
and gas development in Los Padres. Besides the fact we agree
with her, it makes more sense for decisions of this magnitude
about the public's land to be made by more than one person and
by someone accountable to the electorate.
Los Padres
National Forest encompasses 1.76 million acres over six
counties. It is the third-largest national forest in California,
with some of the most rugged land in the state. The vast
majority of oil and gas in the forest is estimated to be in
Ventura County.
As disappointing
as Thursday's announcement was, it could have been worse. A
total of 766,867 acres was considered in the Forest Service's
decade-long study of the feasibility of drilling. By opening up
52,075 acres for oil and gas leases, Ms. Brown also prohibited
drilling on the remaining 714,792 acres.
Also, of the
52.075 acres open for lease, land surfaces on 47,798 acres must
not be disturbed, meaning they can only be developed with slant
drilling from adjacent wells. That leaves 4,277 acres available
for surface development.
A total of 3,056
of those acres of north of Piru, and north and west of Fillmore.
Also in Ventura
County, 29,546 acres of the forest are available for lease with
no surface development and 17,698 acres cannot be leased.
As California and
the entire United States become more populated, our fragile
wilderness areas become even more important to protect. Los
Padres National Forest is a refuge for about 20 endangered and
threatened plants, animals and birds, most famously the
California condor.
It also contains
native American archaeological sites, rock art, cemeteries, not
to mention Santa Barbara's watershed.
These are all
negatively affected by urbanization of the forest with more
roads, drilling equipment, traffic and the potential for oil
spills.
Over a period of
19 years, from 1979 to 1998, Los Padres National Forest lost
more than 130,000 acres of roadless land to development,
according to the California Wilderness Coalition. Already, 180
oil and gas wells are operating in the forest, producing about
700,000 barrels of oil annually. There should be no more.
The United States
is not going to satisfy its tremendous energy needs by drilling
for more of the minimal oil and gas reserves in Ventura County's
forest.
The cost to
another increasingly scarce resource - unspoiled forest - is too
high.
August 1, 2005
Little reason
to disturb forest habitat
Los Padres
National Forest officials have decided to open about 52,000
acres of forest land in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties to
more oil drilling, and at first glance the plan doesn't look so
bad.
There are 1.76 million acres in the National Forest, so 52,000
is only a small portion of the total. Forest Service officials
also are restricting the use of surface drills and rigs to just
4,277 acres. If oil companies want to drill for oil on the
remainder, they'll have to use slant-drilling technology from
adjacent private land, or land that already is open to oil
development.
The rationale for allowing more
drilling on these public lands is that America needs oil, and
there is oil in the ground below the National Forest.
The land also is the natural habitat for the California condor,
of which there are only a few dozen left. The flock was further
reduced last year when a condor chick died after its mother
accidentally dipped her head into a pool of oil at a drilling
site, then came in contact with the baby.
Should America's transportation needs to trumped by the desire
to protect birds, no matter how grand or endangered they may be?
You decide.
Oil industry experts estimate that the total oil yield from Los
Padres, if all the allowable land is leased and developed, would
be about 17 million barrels. That's the total available crude
from the ground.
American drivers consume just more than 178 million gallons of
gasoline a day, which works out to about 20 million barrels of
oil. In other words, all the oil that could possibly be
extracted from leases in Los Padres National Forest would not
meet the needs of U.S. motorists for even one 24-hour period.
OK, so a day of fuel is a day of fuel. But is it really worth
the cost? More oil development will further diminish public
property - National Forest land that we pay for with our taxes -
not only for humans but for the many creatures for whom that
forest is home.
Instead of destroying public property in the search for
minuscule amounts of oil, why don't we just use less oil? The
concept is not as complicated as many of our lawmakers and oil
industry officials suggest.
Americans drive more than 2.5 trillion miles a year, the
equivalent of 14,000 round trips to the sun. We drive nearly
twice as many miles a year as we did in 1980, when oil prices
were at their highest when adjusted for inflation. We're using
about 65 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel a year, and
the rate of consumption is going up nearly 3 percent a year.
Sounds like a recipe for disaster, and it is. Fossil fuels are a
finite resource, and although experts say there's still plenty
of oil left in the ground, there will come a time when we've
pumped all of it that's useful out of the ground.
We need to find alternative sources of energy. The energy bill
approved by Congress last week pays some attention to the
development of those alternative sources - wind, solar and
ethanol - but not as much as those potential energy providers
deserve.
Congressional negotiators also had an
opportunity to write vehicle fuel economy standards into the
energy bill but declined to do so. The mileage requirement for
passenger cars is 27.5 mpg, which is the same as it was three
decades ago. Adding just 2 or 3 mpg to the requirement would
save more oil than is thought to be available in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge.
Automakers recoil in horror at the thought of being required by
the government to produce more fuel-efficient cars and trucks,
in large part because doing so would add a couple of thousand
dollars to the sticker price. That attitude and the buying
public's resistance to higher sticker prices were understandable
when gasoline was a dollar a gallon. Now that's more than one
and a half times that, attitudes are changing.
President Bush could and should order higher fuel-efficiency
standards for SUVs and pickups, which in a traditional sense are
not really trucks, and should be held to passenger car
standards.
Opening Los Padres National Forest to more oil drilling really
doesn't make a lot of sense, when you consider the potential
damage to wildlife, and the fact that we can slake our thirst
for energy in other ways.
August 7, 2005
No more
drilling in Los Padres
The Forest Service
has announced plans to allow oil and gas leasing on 52,000 acres
in the Santa Barbara and Ventura backcountry.
The foothills are
close to two sanctuaries for the California condor, an
endangered species that's been the subject of a
multimillion-dollar effort to help these birds' recovery.
Los Padres
National Forest Supervisor Gloria Brown has tried to put a
positive gloss on her anti-environmental decision. She says that
4,000 acres will be open to oil and gas development, including
wells, pipelines, power lines, and roads. The other 48,000 acres
would just be open to slant drilling from existing wells.
The destructive
activities that Ms. Brown has signed off on, such as building
roads through the forest, will alter Los Padres' ecosystem and
harm nature. The last things Los Padres should have are more
roads.
Ms. Brown says,
"I've been trying to work with all my constituencies. I knew
people's values and opinions were strong. That was the hardest
part with getting to a position I could be comfortable with. If
I had not gotten the overwhelming response from the public, who
did not want to see any leasing at all on Los Padres, then I
very likely would have made a different decision."
It's a statement
that, once again, demonstrates a federal disregard for the
environment. The unspoiled portions of Los Padres, already under
pressure, need further protection rather than an influx of oil
crews.
It's also a
statement that, once again, shows the lack of concern for the
wishes of residents of the Central Coast, who oppose more oil
and gas development in the forest.
CONGRESSWOMAN
LOIS CAPPS' REMARKS
LPNF OIL DRILLING
PRESS CONFERENCE
August 4, 2005
We're here to discuss an extremely
important issue to all of us on the Central Coast: the Forest
Service's recent decision to open the Los Padres to oil and gas
companies for more drilling.
This is a bad idea.
We've been told the solution to
our energy problems is increased production of domestic energy.
And for that, we're asked to make a trade-off of environmental
desecration in one of California's most pristine and wild
places. This is not a
trade-off any of us are willing to make. It's morally wrong to
destroy the wilderness of the Los Padres for less than a day's
supply of oil. We need to
reevaluate our use, not our access. It's tragic that this
decision does nothing to accomplish that task. Instead, it
offers an unpopular solution that only diverts our attention
from the real problem. We
should be focusing more on energy conservation, efficiency and
technology in order to achieve energy independence.
New drilling offers more
destruction than production. It will have a catastrophic effect
on the landscape and environment, water and air quality,
recreation in the area, and the tourism that's so vital to our
region's economy. And, it
will cause severe damage to the fragile habitat for the
California condor and other precious endangered and threatened
species. The Los Padres
is an unspoiled wilderness area, not a drilling site. The people
on the Central Coast have made it very clear that we don't want
any more drilling. The Forest Service should respect our wishes.
I have introduced legislation -
the Los Padres National Forest Conservation Act - that will slam
the door shut on new drilling in our forest. The time has come
to remove the threat of new drilling once and for all.
When I get back to Washington,
D.C., I'll be asking my colleagues to support my legislation, so
that I can say to my grandchildren that we had the good sense to
protect a few very special places in America from commercial
exploitation and preserve them.
The Los Padres National Forest is
a wilderness gem - a treasure to be protected. Together, we'll
keep it that way.
ASSEMBLYMEMBER PEDRO NAVA'S
REMARKS
LPNF OIL DRILLING PRESS
CONFERENCE
August, 4, 2005
I would like to first thank
Congresswoman Lois Capps and the Coalition to Save Los Padres
for inviting me today to participate in today’s important event.
As a past Coastal Commissioner and
the current Assemblymember of the 35th District, I
believe that we must protect our public lands and rivers for
gateway communities.
I commend Congresswoman Capps for introducing a bill that would
“withdraw the Los Padres National Forest in California from
location, entry and patent under mining laws, and for other
purposes”.
Los Padres is home to 56 California condors and I have
introduced, and will continue to fight for condor protection
through Assembly Bill
1002. This bill will save one of California’s most
recognizable symbols, the endangered California condor, from
poisoning and death due to lead ammunition in critical condor
habitats.
The condor is an important symbol of the precious and fragile
natural environment that makes Santa Barbara an amazing place to
live and enjoy.
We are fortunate to live in a region that, according to the
Santa Barbara Conference & Visitors Bureau, attracted 10.5
million visitors last year to enjoy our scenic landscapes and
wild treasures.
However, with that privilege and tourism revenue comes the
responsibility to protect those treasures for generations to
come.
The group of speakers and community leaders who are assembled
today demonstrates the importance that the people of Santa
Barbara place on preserving our local environmental treasures.
I would like to introduce Supervisors Susan Rose and Salud
Carbajal to share their county perspective on the need for
preservation.
Thank you, Congresswoman Capps, for bringing us together today.
SANTA
BARBARA COUNTY SUPERVISOR SUSAN ROSE'S REMARKS AT LPNF OIL DRILLING PRESS CONFERENCE
August 4, 2005
It is extremely disheartening to
hear that this Federal Administration is yet again pushing to
open pristine national forests and wildlife areas to additional
oil drilling.
The massive public outcry over
drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge should have been
a clue that the American public does not favor despoiling its
natural lands in dubious pursuit of limited amounts of oil.
The particularly painful part of
this decision to open up the Los Padres Forest to additional
drilling is that, even at the most optimistic levels, the amount
of oil extracted would provide no more than a day’s worth of oil
for this country, yet the Forest would be despoiled forever.
The environmental movement in this
country was born right here in Santa Barbara and the issue then
was oil. We are no less committed today to protecting our
environment from the demonstrated and devastating effects of oil
development.
This community has fought long and
hard to limit oil development off the coast and along the coast,
and now we must extend this concern and activism to protecting
our forest lands as well.
Thankfully Lois has introduced a
bill to remove the Los Padres Forest from eligibility for any
additional mining or drilling, and we will do what we can to
support her efforts.
The community needs to let the
administration know that we do not appreciate the permanent
degradation of our forest lands for a miniscule amount of fuel.
We MUST be the stewards of our natural lands now and for the
future.
Our efforts MUST be directed
toward reducing our consumption of fossil fuels and developing
renewable resources, not towards selling our forest lands for
extremely short-sighted ends.
We will continue to work with Lois
and Pedro and all the others who understand the need for
long-term environmental stewardship, and I urge all of you to
join us.
SANTA
BARBARA COUNTY SUPERVISOR SALUD CARBAJAL'S REMARKS AT LPNF OIL DRILLING PRESS CONFERENCE
August 4, 2005
The recently released proposal to
allow additional oil development in
the Los Padres National Forest is a direct assault on the
precious
natural resources which make Santa Barbara County the special
place that it is.
More than ever, the release of
this proposal illustrates the
critical need for Congresswoman Capps' legislation that seeks to
protect the environmental and recreational resources within the
forest from unnecessary and dangerous oil development.
PATAGONIA CEO MICHAEL CROOKE'S
REMARKS
LPNF OIL DRILLING PRESS
CONFERENCE
August 4, 2005
As one of the largest employers in
Ventura County and maker of products for active use in the
outdoors, Patagonia witnesses on a daily basis the economic
value of our wild lands and rivers in the Los Padres National
Forest.
Simply put, our public lands are
worth more for their recreation and habitat values than for a
one-time, short-term gain from oil and gas drilling. Our local
economy is increasingly dependent on tourism and quality of life
issues here along the Central Coast. Because the Los Padres
National Forest is a place of spectacular beauty, visitors to
the area spend money in adjacent communities.
Our customers, and the 350 people
who work at Patagonia in Ventura, cherish the Los Padres for its
hiking, biking, and fishing opportunities; for its cool streams
and intact habitat.
People come to the Los Padres
National Forest to see the rare California condor soaring over
these rugged mountains, not to see giant drilling platforms
corrupting and tainting the wild landscape.
An intact, protected Los Padres is
one of our most valuable economic assets.
Outdoor recreation is on the rise,
and people need places to go to hike, climb, fish, bike, and
paddle. Fortunately, we have a wonderful supply of spectacular
public lands that can support a long-term and sustainable source
of income for companies like ours, and for the local hotels, gas
stations, restaurants, and other businesses that service the
visitors and residents that enjoy the Los Padres.
Our community has fought offshore
drilling since the disasterous oil spill that blanketed our
coastline 35 years ago. Our predecessors decided that a
protected scenic coastline was more important than a few more
barrels of low-grade oil.
Today, we face the same question.
It is my hope that 35 years from now, people will look back on
us and thank us for having the foresight to say no to oil and
gas drilling in the Los Padres National Forest.
Local citizens and businesses
should emphatically fight the proposal to open up the Los Padres
to oil and gas drilling. These lands should be protected for
their wilderness qualities.
A protected Los Padres, free of
oil and gas drilling, is good for local citizens and good for
local business.
FLYFISHERMAN & BUSINESS OWNER
GARY BULLA'S REMARKS
LPNF OIL DRILLING PRESS
CONFERENCE
August 4, 2005
The Los Padres National Forest is
an extremely vital piece of the natural world. Within it is our
clean water supply, forests that filter our air, wildlife
habitat, and recreational areas that help keep us sane in this
civilized world.
The Sespe Wilderness and Ventura
watershed is where I learned to flyfish. Over a million people
visit it every year. One can hike, camp, bird watch, fish, hunt
or just get away to find solace. But this unique area is being
put at risk.
Despite overwhelming public
resistance, drilling sites and access roads bordering areas of
critical habitat are about to be leased to the oil and gas
companies. The Forest Service's calculations claim that this new
oil drilling will produce less than a day's worth of petroleum.
It is not much, they say, but it is our mandate.
We know about mandates:
Oil and gas exploration has
damaged thousands of acres without forethought of the costs to
future generations. Poorly designed projects have polluted air
and water supplies resulting in habitat loss and the near
extinction of the California condor and southern steelhead,
among other plant and animal species.
We are spending millions to try to
correct some of these past mistakes. One oil spill, one broken
pipe, one tanker off the road sending its cargo into a streambed
or igniting a fire could deal another huge setback to all our
efforts.
Perhaps most disturbing is the
current administration’s incessant desire to scrape the last
drops of petroleum from our national barrel. The sad truth is
that at our current rate of consumption, 20 million barrels a
day and rising, there’s absolutely no way we will ever begin to
make a dent in our consumption, regardless of whether we exploit
the grand tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, develop
the entire Front Range, or drill the last wild places of the Los
Padres National Forest.
Our great nation has access to
groundbreaking technology, yet we cling to the past instead of
looking forward to solve our contemporary dilemmas. Congress
just passed an energy bill that once again does not require
automakers to raise their miles per gallon standards. Just 2
miles per gallon would eliminate the need to drill in these
regions. Instead of subsidizing expensive extraction methods the
imperative should be to promote conservation and create
incentives to develop alternative energies
Are we so shortsighted that we
will trade our wild areas and our restoration efforts for just a
few days’ supply of oil and gas? The answer, unfortunately, is
yes. At $1.50 an acre the Forest Service is finalizing it’s
plans to lease more of our local forest to oil exploration and
drilling.
We must
permanently safeguard this precious land before it is traded for
short-term gain. A legislative solution – the Los Padres
National Forest Conservation Act – has been introduced by
Congress members Capps and Farr in the House of Representatives
and both Senators Feinstein and Boxer. Let’s give our leaders
the support they need to pass this important bill and protect
the last wild places of our Los Padres.
SENATOR
BARBARA BOXER'S REMARKS
September 8, 2005
Los Padres National Forest
stretches from Monterey County to the edge of Los Angeles
County, encompassing about 1.75 million acres of central
California's most scenic areas. Residents of Monterey, San Luis
Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Kern counties can all easily
enjoy this wonderful natural area, and people come from all
across the nation to enjoy the hiking, fishing, camping and
other activities it offers. Besides first-class recreation, the
Los Padres watershed also helps to provide California with rich,
pure water resources.
I am pleased to let you know that I have joined forces with
Congressmembers Lois Capps and Sam Farr and Senator Dianne
Feinstein in introducing legislation to protect Los Padres
National Forest from damage that would result from mining and
oil and gas drilling and development. A proposal was recently
announced that would open new sections of Los Padres to oil and
gas drilling.
The expansion of oil and gas claims or mining in Los Padres
would result in limited supplies of natural gas or gasoline
while causing permanent damage in pristine, wild areas. And the
damage does not end with environmental degradation because there
would also be a loss to the economic vitality of this region
that depends on tourism and fishing. Our bill would ban further
development of mining and oil and gas claims in all of Los
Padres National Forest.
Los Padres National Forest provides diverse wildlife habitat,
rich water resources and priceless recreation and wilderness
experiences. I am pleased to work for its protection from the
damage that oil and gas drilling and mining would bring.
EXCERPT FROM
ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL LOCKYER'S
APPEAL OF THE OIL & GAS LEASING
DECISION
September 13, 2005
Oil and gas development in the Los
Padres National Forest makes little sense for several reasons.
First, the Forest Service proposes to designate specific lands
available for leasing prior to completion of a comprehensive
forest plan revision that will involve balancing all competing
uses of forest land for the maximum benefit to the public. In
this sense, the FEIS puts the “cart before the horse,” both
legally and in terms of rational forest planning. The agency has
not adequately described the cost/benefit of proceeding with oil
leasing, nor has it described the need or purpose in proceeding
with oil leasing when the projected return is so low compared to
the environmental impact. At best, it seems wasteful to approve
an oil drilling plan when the Forest Service is in the process
of preparing a comprehensive forest management plan; more
likely,
however, approval of the leases prior to preparation of the
"plan" suggests that it would not be a plan at all, but rather a
post hoc rationalization for a current decision to allow oil and
gas leasing
at these locations.
Second, this project presents
significant potential risks to the viability of the California
Condor, a species that just two decades ago hovered on the brink
of extinction and is now making a recovery within Los Padres.
Any plan for the best uses of the forest must have, at its
forefront, the impacts on the Condor recovery project. Third,
the miles of new oil and gas pipelines and new access roads that
will be required present human health and environmental
impacts that have not been adequately analyzed. Balanced against
these significant environmental impacts is the minimal benefit
of producing relatively small amounts of gas and oil. There does
not appear to be a pressing demand by bidders for leases in Los
Padres and the amount of oil estimated to be present by the
Forest Service is quite small.
The Attorney General’s Office has a long history of
participation in national forest planning in California that
reflects the importance of national forests and forest resources
to the people of this State. We have consistently supported
comprehensive, regional planning
approaches designed to protect and preserve all the values of
the national forest resources within the State. Indeed, it may
be that an ecosystem-based approach is the only one that would
enable the Forest Service to comply with all applicable
environmental laws.
In determining that it must proceed with this leasing decision
in advance of completion of the forest plan amendment process
already underway, the Forest Service is not complying with
applicable legal authority. Proceeding in this fashion is
inconsistent with the purpose and requirements of the NFMA and
the regulations adopted pursuant to the Federal Onshore Oil and
Gas Leasing Reform Act of 1987.
In addition, this FEIS fails to adequately analyze a number of
potential impacts of the leasing proposal, including the impacts
of constructing new oil and gas pipelines (including the
possibility of catastrophic spills) and building new access
roads, as well as the effects of additional drilling in the
Sespe High Oil and Gas Potential Area (“HOGPA”) on the
California Condor, in violation of the National Environmental
Policy Act.
Since 1999, the Forest Service has
been working to prepare an update to the Los Padres Forest Plan
that not only seeks to fill some key gaps in the existing plan,
but also seeks to achieve consistent management direction across
several southern California forests in order to protect and
sustain particularly vulnerable and unique ecological
communities. The government has also undertaken superhuman
efforts to attempt to save the critically endangered California
Condor. The proposal to lease specific lands for oil and gas
development now, without the benefit of the planning process
required under the NFMA and without the full information
required under NEPA, threatens to seriously jeopardize these
ongoing efforts. Because the limited amount of oil and gas that
is, theoretically, obtainable from the Los Padres does not and
cannot justify action in contravention of applicable
environmental laws, we request that the
Forest Service withdraw the ROD and its supporting FEIS, and
address the issues of oil and gas leasing in the Forest
Management Plan for Los Padres, where it can properly balance
the competing interests in forest lands.
VENTURA
COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
September 20, 2005
The Los Padres National Forest
provides the greatest benefit to our county, citizens, and
posterity as a natural preserve. Maintaining the LPNF in a
natural state maximizes its value for recreation, watershed
protection, and fish and wildlife habitat. Development for oil
and gas production, particularly given the absence of county
land use permit authority on federal lands, poses undue risks to
forest ecology, endangered species, and our countywide air and
water resources.
Ventura County already makes an
ample contribution to the nation's energy sources without
developing those lands set aside in public ownership as a
National Forest. The meager amount of oil to be gained from new
leases, less than a 1-day supply for the nation from 15 years of
oil production, would be far more easily gained through
conservation. Opening the LPNF to new leasing will further serve
to distract the U.S. from the need to pursue conservation and
renewable energy.
written by Steve Bennett,
Supervisor, 1st District
approved by Linda Parks,
Supervisor, 2nd District;
Kathy Long, Chair, Supervisor, 3rd
District; and
John Flynn, Supervisor, 5th
District
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