A special Environmental Oversight Committee (EOC) meeting will be taking place on Tuesday, March 30 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at OCTA. The EOC will be given a virtual tour of all properties within Groups 1 and 2. We will be using interactive geographic information software to view each property and present the property’s attributes. The regular EOC meeting will still be taking place on Wednesday, April 7 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at OCTA.
Freeway Mitigation Materials
In October 2007, the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Board of Directors
approved the selection of 12 members for the Environmental Mitigation and Resource
Protection Oversight Committee.
The Measure M2 Early Action Plan calls for the Environmental Freeway Mitigation
Program to be launched within the next five years. At least 5 percent of the total M2 freeway budget will be allocated to the freeway mitigation program.
The Environmental Oversight Committee will make recommendations on the allocation
of environmental freeway mitigation funds and will monitor the execution of a master
agreement between OCTA and state and federal resource agencies.
The 12 members of the Environmental Oversight Committee include:
- Patricia Bates, OCTA Director, Chair
- Melanie Schlotterbeck, Vice Chair
- Gregory T. Winterbottom, OCTA Director
- Nancy Jimeno, Cal State Fullerton Political Science Professor
- Mark Cohen, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Rose Coffin, Measure M Taxpayers Oversight Committee
- Adam Probolsky, Probolsky Research
- Dan Silver, Endangered Habitats League
- Jonathan Snyder, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Debbie Townsend, California Wildlife Conservation Board
- Sylvia Vega, Caltrans
- Erinn Wilson, California Department of Fish and Game
Committee members will serve three-year terms with no term limits.