The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission is hereby created. The commission shall consist of 27 members, as follows:
(a) One member appointed by the Division Engineer, United States Army Engineers, South Pacific Division, from his or her staff.
(b) One member appointed by the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, from his or her staff.
(c) One member appointed by the Secretary of Transportation from his or her staff.
(d) One member appointed by the Director of Finance, from his or her staff.
(e) One member appointed by the Secretary of Resources, from his or her staff.
(f) One member appointed by the State Lands Commission, who shall be a member of that commission or from its staff.
(g) One member appointed by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, who shall be a member of that board.
(h) Nine county representatives consisting of one member of the board of supervisors representative of each of the nine San Francisco Bay area counties, appointed by the board of supervisors in each county. Each county representative shall be a supervisor representing a supervisorial district which includes within its boundaries lands lying within San Francisco Bay.
(i) Four
city representatives appointed by the Association of Bay Area Governments from among the residents of the bayside cities in each of the following areas:
(1) North Bay—Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Solano Counties;
(2) East Bay—Contra Costa County (west of Pittsburg) and Alameda County north of the southern boundary of Hayward;
(3) South Bay—Alameda County south of the southern boundary of Hayward, Santa Clara County, and San Mateo County south of the northern boundary of Redwood City;
(4) West Bay—San Mateo County north of the northern boundary of Redwood City, and the City and County of San
Francisco.
Each city representative shall be an elected city official.
(j) Seven representatives of the public, who shall be residents of the San Francisco Bay area. Five of the representatives shall be appointed by the Governor and their appointments shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate. One of the representatives shall be appointed by the Committee on Rules of the Senate, and one by the Speaker of the Assembly.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 401, Sec. 47. (AB 2763) Effective January 1, 2015.)
(a) One Member of the Senate, appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, and one Member of the Assembly, appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, shall meet with, and participate in the activities of, the commission to the extent that the participation is not incompatible with their respective positions as Members of the Legislature. For the purposes of this title, the Members of the Legislature, or their alternates if the alternates are Members of the Legislature, shall constitute a joint interim investigating committee on the subject of this title, and as such shall have the powers and duties imposed upon those committees by the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly.
(b) The Member of the Senate and the Member of the Assembly may appoint any person as an alternate for the member whom the member deems qualified.
(Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 682, Sec. 6. Effective October 10, 1995.)
The members of the commission shall serve at the pleasure of their respective appointing powers. The members shall serve without compensation, but each of the members shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of the member’s duties. However, in lieu of reimbursement for attendance at commission or committee meetings, or at meetings in an official capacity as a commissioner, each member of the commission or alternate who is not a state or federal employee shall receive a per diem of one hundred dollars ($100) per day, not to exceed a combined total of four days in any one calendar month. No member of the commission who receives a per diem from any other source for attending a meeting shall receive a per diem under this section for attending the same meeting.
A member, subject to confirmation by the member’s appointing power, may authorize an alternate for attendance at meetings and voting in the member’s absence. Each alternate shall be designated in a written instrument which shall include evidence of the confirmation by the appointing power and the alternate’s name shall be kept on file with the commission. Each member may change the member’s alternate from time to time, with the confirmation of the appointing power, but shall have only one alternate at a time. Each alternate shall have the same qualifications as are required for the member who appointed the alternate, except that each county representative may designate as an alternate a public official whom the appointing power deems qualified to represent the county.
(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 519, Sec. 1.)