Water, Energy, & Environment Task Force
Name:
Water, Energy, & Environment Task Force
Date:
June 20, 2023
Time:
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Registration:
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Event Description:
Join the East Bay Leadership Council’s Water Energy & Environment Task Force as we discuss wildfire prevention and vegetation management in the East Bay. Our speakers will address current efforts to coordinate our East Bay communities and answer questions related to the management of high and very high fire hazard severity zones. As California grapples with changes in the insurance market and the long-term impacts of wildfires throughout the state, this conversation will help us better understand what is happening locally to prepare for wildfires and mitigate risk.
About Our Speakers:
Jon Kaufman is President of the Claremont Canyon Conservancy, a 500-member organization in the Berkeley-Oakland area of the East Bay Hills. It works to protect and enhance the natural beauty of Claremont Canyon, the largest remaining open space on the western slope of the East Bay Hills. For the past three years he has co-chaired an effort to build first a joint powers agency and now a Memorandum of Understanding among the cities, the two counties, and the fire districts in the high fire risk zone of the East Bay hills to prevent wildfires (learn more here).
Mike Roemer is Moraga-Orinda Fire District's Division 4 Director. Mike is a retired prosecutor having served as an Alameda County Deputy District Attorney in its Homicide, Sexual Assault, Gang, and Environmental units. He has also served on the Board of Directors of a Delta area community agricultural bank. Mike earned a B.A. degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Mike was elected to the MOFD Board in 2022. He has also completed training as a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteer, Lamorinda Area Radio Interest Group HAM/GMRS Radio operator, and Moraga-Orinda Fire District Communications Support Team volunteer. Mike is also an associate member of the American Geophysical Union and its Natural Hazards section, and has a special interest in prevention, planning, and response to natural disasters and evacuation strategies.
About Our Speakers:
Jon Kaufman is President of the Claremont Canyon Conservancy, a 500-member organization in the Berkeley-Oakland area of the East Bay Hills. It works to protect and enhance the natural beauty of Claremont Canyon, the largest remaining open space on the western slope of the East Bay Hills. For the past three years he has co-chaired an effort to build first a joint powers agency and now a Memorandum of Understanding among the cities, the two counties, and the fire districts in the high fire risk zone of the East Bay hills to prevent wildfires (learn more here).
Mike Roemer is Moraga-Orinda Fire District's Division 4 Director. Mike is a retired prosecutor having served as an Alameda County Deputy District Attorney in its Homicide, Sexual Assault, Gang, and Environmental units. He has also served on the Board of Directors of a Delta area community agricultural bank. Mike earned a B.A. degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Mike was elected to the MOFD Board in 2022. He has also completed training as a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteer, Lamorinda Area Radio Interest Group HAM/GMRS Radio operator, and Moraga-Orinda Fire District Communications Support Team volunteer. Mike is also an associate member of the American Geophysical Union and its Natural Hazards section, and has a special interest in prevention, planning, and response to natural disasters and evacuation strategies.
