About us
The Natural Resources Planning Division of the Community Development Services Department was created by the Board of Supervisors in October 2005.
The purpose of this division is to provide staff support to the board on a wide range of natural resource issues including water, species conservation, land protection, and regulatory policy. The division is primarily grant funded and conducts its work through discrete water, agriculture, forestry, environmental restoration and habitat conservation projects.
The Natural Resources Planning Division is staffed by a Supervising Planner and an Administrative Analyst that manage all day to day activities of the division under the supervision of the Community Development Services Director.
The division budget unit was formed to allow for separate accounting of funds and personnel. The need for this budget is a testimony to the success of working regionally and acquiring grant funds. The Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Act of 2002 has funded the first three projects for this division. Currently, this division is entirely funded through grants and receives no allocation from the General Fund for its activities.
