- Governor’s Office Appointments
- Jared Blumenfeld – appointed Secretary of CalEPA
- Wade Crowfoot – appointed Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency
- Christine Hironaka – appointed Deputy Cabinet Secretary on water & related issues
- Karen Ross – reappointed to the California Department of Food and Agriculture
- January Budget
- Priorities include significant investment in health care, housing and a safe and affordable drinking water fund
- Proposes $4.9M for safe and affordable drinking water
- Proposes $168M from Prop 68 for improvements for drinking water supply, particularly for disadvantaged communities
- AB 72 amends the 2018-19 budget to include an additional $20M for emergency drinking water funding and technical assistance that is available upon passage
- Drafting a budget trailer bill for Safe and Affordable Drinking Water – will be posted February 1st on the Department of Finance budget website
- 2019 Five-Year Infrastructure Plan
- In preparation as part of the annual budget as required under the California Infrastructure Planning Act.
- Legislature
- SGMA
- In January 2019, DWR released the final basin prioritization for 458 of the 517 basins. The remaining 59 basins were affected by 43 basin boundary modification requests that were submitted between January and September 2018. The final basin prioritization for the remaining 59 basins will be released after basin boundaries are finalized.
- Final basin boundary modifications are scheduled to be released in February 2019.
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