THE WEEKLY BUZZ MAIL!

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• Contest starts March 16. Entries must be submitted by 5 pm on March 30.
• Open to young people ages 10-18, who live on the Coast between Pescadero and Pacifica.
• Two winners will be chosen. Each winner will receive $100 and their design printed on a white tshirt.

PHOTO-ESSAY. I caught Eel Man Dave (aka David Bloom) putting The Zero into the water this morning. He built the boat 20 years ago with his own hands for $720. He had brought it out to make a few modifications here and there.

He is a true mariner and mechanical genius. As you walk the docks look for his boat. He is specializes in rock cod. He designed the storage hatch so oxygenated sea water flushes gently through the catch so that he returned to the dock with 85% live fish.

While CERT is not officially activated, we are initiating use of our most powerful communications tool – the Coastside CERT roster of contacts and grassroots neighborhood networks – to serve as a phone tree to reach out to all of you to check-in with you.

Our neighborhood leads, zone leads, block leads and data managers are receiving their contact lists to call you. If we don’t have a phone number we will check-in by email. If you would prefer a human to human phone call just provide a phone number in your reply to them.

The relationships we have built at the neighborhood level are invaluable and if leads become aware of issues beyond what can be solved in a simple conversation they will forward them on and we will address them as a community.

Core facts:

• Water use is going down. Currently, sewer rates are based on water consumption.
• Sewers costs are going up due to modern environmental requirements.
• Nationwide, all infrastructure is 80-40 years old and needs to be replaced.

Rates are currently based on water consumption. Because water consumption is going down, Public Works is suggesting the City of HMB go to flat rates for sewer billing. The flat rate will be connected to the actual cost of sewer infrastructure operations and maintenance, resulting is less stagnation of rates, followed by sharp increases; a more even flow ;-).

Newly added to the rate structure are rates created for deed restricted senior apartments, mobile homes and ADU’s which will result in a reduction for many.

VIDEO. Midcoast Community Council 3/11/2020 Meeting.

1st Priority ~ Affordable Housing like deed/rent restricted ADU subsidies.

2nd Priority ~ Get rid of Single Use Plastic in Half Moon Bay. No plastic water bottles at Safeway?

3rd Priority ~ Revitalize Downtown Half Moon Bay like “Green up” Mac Dutra Plaza

4th Priority ~ Emergency Preparedness and Resiliency like micro grids and batteries.
 

ARTICLE. Within a week, countries around the world have gone from: “This coronavirus thing is not a big deal” to declaring the state of emergency. Yet many countries are still not doing much. Why?  ~ Via Medium written by Thomas Pueyo
 

Larry Brilliant says he doesn’t have a crystal ball. But 14 years ago, Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, spoke to a TED audience and described what the next pandemic would look like. At the time, it sounded almost too horrible to take seriously. “A billion people would get sick,” he said. “As many as 165 million people would die. There would be a global recession and depression, and the cost to our economy of $1 to $3 trillion would be far worse for everyone than merely 100 million people dying, because so many more people would lose their jobs and their health care benefits, that the consequences are almost unthinkable.”
 

ARTICLE / MAP. Following Governor Newsom’s closure of parking lots at State of California beaches and parks, the City of Half Moon Bay has closed its parking lots at three beach access points – Poplar Beach, Redondo Beach, and Miramontes Point Road. Social / physical distancing is necessary to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Over the past weekend, coastal beaches saw an influx of visitors creating an environment not conducive to virus mitigation. Everyone should stay close to home and avoid any crowded areas.

Learn to sail! This is a safe and fun way for youth ages 8-16 to learn how to sail in either an Optimist (Opti) or Laser. Both boats are extremely popular recreational dinghies that also feature prominently in competition. Most certainly STEM! (science, technology, engineering, and math).