Good News for the Delta: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) issued notice to advise Federal, State and local governmental agencies and the public that USACE is terminating the San Francisco Bay to Stockton, California Navigation Study and withdrawing its Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for said study.
Comments on the DEIR sent by email to jcashman@stocktonport.com or by mail to Jason Cashman, Environmental Manager, Port of Stockton, 2201 West Washington Street, Stockton, California 95203. Emails must be received by July 6, 2020. Comment letters must be postmarked by July 6, 2020. Received after the close of comment period: Contanda FEIR and DEIR relied upon for Lehigh environmental analysis
May 2020 Central Valley Ag Group Bulk Whole Cottonseed Transload Facility Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Central Valley Ag Group Bulk Whole Cottonseed Transload Facility at the Port of Stockton Comments due June 15, 2020
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12/21/2020 |
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12/07/2020 Agenda Presentation Comments to the Port of Stockton submitted 16:05 on 12.7.2020 |
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11/16/2020 Agenda revised presentation Comments to the Port of Stockton submitted 11:51 on 11.16.2020 Consent Agenda 11.16.2020 5. CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF THE AMENDMENT TO THE Non Agenda Items |
Minutes Image of the improvement to see presentations and the meeting |
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11/02/2020 Agenda Presentation as of 10,29.2020 17:32 and Comments submitted by email 14:49 11.2.2020: Consent Agenda 3B. Consideration and approval of the 2019 Port of Stockton Power Content Label (PCL) and PCL Customer Letter for submittal to the Port’s customers and the California Energy Commission. No information regarding this letter was posted in the presentations neither the presentation posted on the Port website on 10.30.2020 15:32 or more recently uploaded presentation as accessed today. This renewable energy item is important to the community and should be available to the public with other agenda presentations prior to the Commissioners vote. This lack of transparency and governmental openness is concerning. I believe that the Port Commissioners can do better. Non Agenda Items We continue to request increased public outreach efforts, including the posting of the Commission meeting minutes and information about the planned Port of Stockton Environmental Justice Task Force. We request that community outreach be a part of any project consideration. When will the outreach plan be available for public review? When will this Environmental Justice Task Force begin meeting? What are the purpose and responsibilities for Task Force Members? Commentary while Commissioners are in closed meetings. Here is what the people see during the meeting. The public see this
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10/19/2020 Agenda Presentation DSG Comments submitted by M.Elizabeth email prior to the 10.19.2020. Combined comments less than 250 words for reading. DSG Comments submitted D.Abrood DSG Comments submitted M.Praus Categorical Exemption Educational Information- Any project in the Regional Transportation Plan - More projects to review and comment on all over our community The meeting on utube ended before the meeting was adjuourned. |
Audio recording from Port via public information request |
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10/05/2020 Agenda Presentation Public Information Request on 10.5.2020 DSG Comments submitted by email prior to the 10.5.2020 Meeting. Each comment regarding three agenda items are less than 250 words. Consent Item: Comments on 8.17.2020 Minutes approved 9.21.2020: The Port of Stockton "Commissioner Duffy shared that the Port should look to upgrade the Commission meeting capabilities for those that attend/view the meetings off-site. Commissioner Barkett seconded those comments." Yet meeting audio is only available online with no call in audio which creates a barrier to disadvantaged community members without internet access. Agenda Item 5 Comments: The Strategic Plan information referenced the Basic Data for the Port’s Strategic Plan presented May 2020 to the Commission as a background to the current proposed action: possible approval authorizing the Port Director to select the Tioga Group, Inc. for consulting services for the creation of the Port’s Strategic Plan. The information does not specifically include a community outreach effort since stakeholders are not defined and may be limited to financial stakeholders the focus of the Strategic Plan. Every Port Planning effort should involve the community. Will the Port include the community as a stakeholder in the Strategic Plan development process? Public Comments on Items Not included on the Agenda Notice of Amendment to Lease Terms for BEST Logistics, Inc located at 340 Port Road 22, Stockton CA on 26 acres with 3 warehouses total 530,752 sq feet did not disclose whether or not any of the CARB lease modification requests that will improve community air quality has been included for the Commissioner’s consideration. The DSG and other community partners are eagerly awaiting the disclosure of the Port’s plan for improving community outreach efforts. According to the Port of Stockton’s 9.15.2020 letter in response to CARB’s 8.24.2020 letter, the Port has implemented the community outreach plan with the formation of an internal group comprised of the Port’s community outreach experts, environmental managers and tenants to improve communication between the Port, business partners, and tenants. A second engagement group, the Environmental Justice Task Force, is currently being formed. The DSG requests to be a part of the Environmental Justice Task Force as we have long been requesting that community outreach be a part of any project consideration. When will the outreach plan be available for public review? When will this Environmental Justice Task Force begin meeting? What is the purpose and responsibilities for Task Force Members? |
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09/21/2020 Agenda Comments Submitted by email in advance of the meeting: Thank you for trying a new way to make available the meeting to the public. As a public agency this is of utmost importance. When will the Port make available the Lehigh HRA that the Port indicated they would be preparing, when will the Cottonseed and Lehigh projects be moving on to the next stage of review, and when will the Port conduct a traffic study to help with idling trucks and traffic in the residential neighborhoods related to Port operations or the operations of their leaseholders? Audio Live on YouTube but not available following the meeting without a public information request. In closed session the Port Commissioners approved an additional incentive pay - bonus - for the Director of $50,000 and will begin negotiating another 18 month contract for the Director's position. |
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09/08/2020* Cancelled |
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08/17/2020 Agenda Presentation Non-agenda public comment submitted by email 8.17.2020 prior to start of meeting: |
Approved 9.21.2020 Received 9.30.2020 |
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August 13 9:00 Tariff Public Hearing Agenda Presentation 08/03/2020 Cancellation notice |
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07/20/2020 Agenda - No presentation as of 7.20.200924; telephone call in only Comments submitted before the meeting: Public comments become public when they are read or otherwise become part of the Port Commission’s administrative record. There were electronic comments between Port staff and the public regarding the ability of the members of public to hear the audio feed during the May 6, 2020 Commission meeting. These records are not summarized or provided in total in the minutes of the May 4, 2020 meeting which were recently distributed. Comments submitted after the meeting started: Impossible to hear. Port staff moved the telephone and checked if it was better. Comment submitted: No, only the port director mostly. |
Minutes approved 8.17.2020 Distributed 9.16.2020 |
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07/06/2020 Cancellation notice |
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06/15/2020 Agenda Presentaton posted on website not distributed to interested partieis; impossible to hear all commissioner and staff words. No comments that were submitted were read: comments |
Minutes released with August 17, 2020 agenda and approved at July 20, 2020 meeting. |
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06/01/2020 Cancellation notice |
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05/18/2020 Cancellation notice 5/13/2020 Tariffic Hearing Notice |
None Minutes released with 8.12.2020 Public Hearing Agenda by email 7.31.2020 |
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05/04/2020 Agenda Meeting on Zoom difficult to hear - multiple requests made in chat which was the only way to communicate other than email. Confusion when public comments came because option to unmute still not allowed. |
Minutes 5.4.2020 approved on 6.15.2020 and distributed on 7/15/2020 10:50 AM |
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04/20/2020 Cancelled meeting |
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04/06/2020 Meeting Agenda Presentation Request for public information made to obtain the Final EIR for the Nustar Terminal by form and by phone 4.3.2020 Port CEQA document page 4.3.2020 Compalint made to the State of California Attorney General's Office 4.3.2020 I was directed by the public inquiry unit to complete this form. The port of Stockton is planning on certifying a final EIR on the Nustar Terminal Project without making the final available on the ceqa net - I have a pdf of their project page on ceqa net, as well as their transparency page (I made a public information requiest for the the final EIR), and their CEQA documents webpage which did not include the document they plan on certifying on Monday 4.6.2020. The mitigation proposed in the DEIR and notifying the nearby disadvantaged community was inadequate. Comments were submitted. I am trying to provide a record for port of Stockton documents on the local Delta Sierra Group webpage under conservation. The Port does not post minutes of meetings even after they have been approved and do not release draft minutes but do send the minutes to me with the current agenda. Please Help! |
Minutes 4.6.2020 obtained by public information request |
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3/16/2020 Meeting Agenda - Revised |
Minutes of the 3.16.2020 Meeting distributed 4.30.2020 approx. |
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03/02/2020 Meeting Agenda |
3.2.2020 Minutes distibuted 4.2.2020 - Note I read the comments adjacent into the record. I will make request for amendment of the 3.2.2020 minutes to reflect the text read into the record. |
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02/18/2020*Tuesday Meeting Agenda Port of Stockton CEQA webpage copies distributed to Commissioners and Staff Sierra Club Comments; Today I would like to provide all commissioners copies of the current Port of Stockton CEQA webpage. At your December 16, 2019 meeting which I did not attend, the Targo lease update was discussed and a mitigated negative declaration was referenced. Written comments about that lease update was submitted by a Sacramento legal firm claiming that CEQA was violated. CEQA is intended to provide and disclose potential and actual environmental impacts associated with a project. Rather than stating that saff interpreted that CEQA requirements were met, staff should have disclosed whether the mitigations that were approved in the Determination were met. All referenced documents should be posted on the Port CEQA website. |
Minutes 2.18.2020 approved at the March 2, 2020 meeting and distriubed 3.11.2020 |
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02/03/2020** Board Reorganization Meeting |
I wonder if this was a public meeting |
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01/21/2020* Tuesday Meeting Agenda DSG comment: When the Wilfire Mitigation Plan indpendent audit would be complete - March 2020 the basis for the Port eliminating the 60 day independent review was that their Sacramento representative told the Port that there was no time limit for the review. Subsequently, I recontacted the CPUC but hav received no response. DSG Public Comment regarding the NuStar Project: The June 25, 2019 Notice of Preparation was not posted on the Port of Stockton website nor was the comment period ending on July 24, 2019 announced during the Port of Stockton Commission meeting which is a public meeting held by the lead agency decision makers. The December 2019 Draft Environmental Impact report was not located on the Port’s website nor was the DEIR’s circulation and comment period announced during the December 2, 2019 Port of Stockton Commission meeting. The adoption of the City of Stockton Envision 2040 General Plan calls for increased outreach efforts at the urging of community organizations. As a City, we have recognized that certain members of our community do not have the same level of services and accommodations, Boggs Tract is one of those communities. Boggs Tract is the residential area adjacent to the Port of Stockton. A workshop should be held to hear the concerns of the community before the final EIR is prepared and briefing notices provided so that the community can be informed and knowledgeable when reviewing the final EIR. A workshop should be held to ensures that interested persons are informed about discretionary decisions and have the opportunity to provide input. |
Minutes approved 2.18.19 and distributed 2.26.2020 Note link to Wildfire Mitigation Plan requirements |
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01/06/2020 Notice of Cancellation |
Cancelled |
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December 16, 2019 Agenda Sierra Club not in attendance |
Minutes approved 1.21.2020 and distributed 2.12.2020 |
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December 2, 2019 Sierra Club In Attendance - requested posting of outside third party review of the CPUC Wildfire Plan |
Minutes approved 12.16.19 and distributed 1,15,2020 |
| November 18, 2019 Meeting Cancelled (Port Policies Discussion) | Meeting Cancelled - port policy discussion included in December 2, 2019 minutes - Sierra Club requested that policies be posted on the website |
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A colleague of mine came across this CEQA notice on a proposed Port of Stockton terminal expansion (https://ceqanet.opr.ca.gov/2019100510/2) and wanted to make sure the Sierra Club was informed. The Notice of Preparation (NOP) is available here: https://ceqanet.opr.ca.gov/2019100510/2/Attachment/UUnFxR. The Notice of Preparation indicated potentially significant impacts associated with the following resource areas: aesthetics, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology and water quality, noise, transportation, and tribal cultural resources. Any resource area that was found to have at least one impact that is potentially significant as indicated by the checklist will be included for full analysis in the DEIR. The Delta-Sierra Group of the Sierra Club requests that notices be provided whenever a CEQA document is available for review. You have my contact information and I am also requesting that Jonathan Pruitt with Catholic Charties an organization with whom we collaborate also receive CEQA notices 1106 N ElDorado St. Stockton CA 95202, jpruit@ccstockton.org. |
Minutes approved 12.2.19 and distributed 12.11.19 |
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October 21, 2019 approved at the 11.4.19 meeting released November 25, 2019 |
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October 7, 2019 – Sierra Club representative in attendance |
October 7, 2019 Minutes approved at the October 21, meeting released October 30, 2019 |
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September 25, 2019 Public Hearing - no Sierra Club representative in attendance |
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September 16, 2019 – Sierra Club representative in attendance - invitation to September 23, 2019 General meeting when the Coal Campaign will be discussed. |
September 16, 2019 – approved October 7, 2019 released October 16, 2019 |
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August 19, 2019 – Sierra Club representative in attendance - comment made to ammend minutes indicating that the Delta Sierra Club did not ask solely for copies of minutes after approval but that the minutes be posted on the Port website so that all can see and that there be consideration to revlease draft minutes. |
August 19, 2018 – approved September 16, 2018 released October 2, 2019 |
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July 15, 2019 – Sierra Club representative in attendance - comment made regarding public release of consent item minutes for review before the Commissioners vote to approve |
July 15, 2019 – approved at August 19, 2019 meeting – Obtained amended testimony September 16, 2019 after public release of approved minutes |
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June 17, 2019 approved at July 2019 meeting without public input and obtained August 14, 2019 |
in the Bay Area and Stockton. Up until 2012 shipments of coal from the port were negligible. From 2013 onward shipments have been massive. Thus far, 2014 saw the greatest amount shipped from the Port of Stockton - 2,109,932,704 metric tons. (A metric ton is 2204.62 pounds. Think of it as about 10% more than a ton.) This computes to about 2.326 million tons. In 2018 slightly more than 1,767 million metric tons were shipped. Coal shipments are estimated to have increased more than 80% in 2019. Health professionals and doctors around the world know that coal dust, specially fine coal dust, causes a range of diseases and health problems. Examples include an increased incidence of respiratory diseases like asthma and lung cancer.