Protecting Marin Since 1934 2 015 ANNUAL REPORT The mission of the Marin Conservation League is to preserve, protect and enhance the natural assets of Marin County MARIN CONSERVATION LEAGUE 2 015 PRESIDENT’S LETTER AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT I’m proud to STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES present Marin JANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 2015 (PREPARED FROM MCL RECORDS) Conservation League’s 2015 Unrestricted Temp. Restricted Board Restricted TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE Operations Special Projects & Legacy of the Land Annual Report. In Dedicated Funds Endowment (LOL) it you’ll find our Support financial results, Membership $95,661 $95,661 a compilation of Contributions $47,367 $6,253 $500 $54,121 our actions and Grants Received $0 $5,100 $5,100 Special Events & Miscellaneous $19,260 $19,260 activities, and a list Total Support $162,288 $11,353 $500 $174,142 of MCL’s supporters. (We wish we had Revenue room to include Interest & Dividend Income $19,133 $33,308 $52,442 Sales of Inventory less costs $27 $27 everyone who contributed in 2015.) Miscellaneous Income $956 $956 Total Revenue $20,116 $0 $33,308 $53,425 Throughout the year, in the effort to fulfill MCL’s mission to preserve and protect Transfers Marin’s natural assets and to impact local LOL Support for Operations $76,173 ($76,173) $0 Net Assets Released from Restrictions $29,316 ($29,316) $0 $0 outcomes, we’ve advocated at stakeholder Total Transfers $105,489 ($29,316) ($76,173) $0 meetings, studied local issues, and tracked and commented on local plans, applications, Total Support, Revenue & Transfers $287,894 ($17,963) ($42,365) $227,566 MEMBERSHIP 95661 33.23% proposed projects, and environmental impact CONTRIBUTIONS 47637 16.54% reports. An equally important purpose of MCL EXPENSES Program Services SPECIAL EVENTS$201,021 19260 $201,021 6.69% is to provide conservation education to our Management & General INVEST. REVENUE$22,042 20116 $22,042 6.99% members and the public. This is accomplished, Fundraising TRANSFERS$51,094 105489 $51,094 36.55% in part, through our Water and Watershed Total Expenses $274,157 $ $0 288,163.00 $0 $274,157 100.00% speaker program. Last year’s topics ranged from water storage to planning for sea level Results from Operations $13,737 ($17,963) ($42,365) ($46,591) rise. At MCL’s Business and Environment Investment Gain, Realized & UnrealizedInstructions: ($17,779) $0 ($37,796) ($55,575) Breakfasts we hosted compelling presentations Select column B and C (not including the total) and Insert Pie Chart. by pesticide research scientist Dr. Susan Kegley, Change in Equity Can grab ($4,043) each piece of ($17,963) pie and move in or out. ($80,160) ($102,166) and by our legislators State Senator Mike Total Equity, Year End 2014 Go to $410,176 Chart Layout and $62,099 select $1,658,241 the first one that has the title and $2,130,516 the percentages McGuire and Congressman Jared Huffman. (or copy the 2014 one) Total Equity, Year End 2015 $406,134 $44,136 $1,578,080 $2,028,350 2015 also included a continuation of MCL’s Walks into Conservation History­­­—hikes in he above Statement of Activities local landscapes accompanied by the stories 2015 Income—Operations of human persistence and funding needed to summarizes MCL’s 2015 financial results 2015 Income - Operations conserve the once privately-owned properties for MCL as a whole and for each of the separate funds maintained by MCL. The as public lands. In 2015, MCL adapted this popular series to add a Senior Walks into figures are from MCL’s books and records MEMBERSHIP History program, similarly designed to foster and are not audited. TRANSFERS 33% 36% environmental awareness while serving TMCL maintains three funds: The Unrestricted the needs of Marin’s older population. MCL Fund supports MCL’s operations, environmental regularly continues to offer a variety of advocacy and education programs. The INVEST. SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS educational opportunities. REVENUE EVENTS 17% Temporarily Restricted Fund records MCL’s 7% 7% MCL’s best-kept secrets, though, were the management of funds dedicated to specific engaging presentations and collaboration that projects. Finally, the Board Restricted Fund typically occur at our committee meetings. records the income and expenditures of the In an effort to break down silos and foster Legacy of the Land (LOL) endowment. The income communication, MCL committee chairs actively from the LOL provides ongoing support for MCL’s seek and bring together environmental leaders, operations. 2015 Expenses—Operations scientists, and directors from local government Exclusive of changes in value of its and public agencies. To view future committee investments, MCL’s operating revenue agendas, minutes from previous meetings, or MCL’s communications, positions, and policies, exceeded the cost of MCL’s operations during the year. However, the Temporarily Restricted PROGRAM visit marinconservationleague.org. SERVICES Fund, the LOL and MCL had a loss because 73% MCL’s mix of veteran and new Board the payments from these funds and MCL as a MGMT members kept, and continues to keep, the whole exceeded their receipts and investment income and gains during the year. Over half FUNDRAISING SERVICES organization anchored, vibrant, and strong. But 19% 8% Marin Conservation League would not thrive of the loss was due solely to a decline in the without the support and participation of its market value of MCL’s investments. partners and all of its contributors. Thank you! In 2015, as in prior years, MCL relied importantly on the continued support of its Kate Powers members. We thank you for this support. Program Services$201,021 Management & General$22,042 Fundraising $51,094 2 Marin Conservation League 2015 Annual Report Total Expenses $274,157 MARIN CONSERVATION LEAGUE 2 015 ACTIONS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS position of Urban Streams Coordinator in the ANUARY ARCH J M County’s FY 2015-2016 budget. U Participated in stakeholder meetings con- U Developed a applicable MCL Trail Policy U Celebrated 81 years at MCL’s Annual Dinner vened by Congressman Jared Huffman to to all public lands and open spaces in Marin and heard keynote speaker Debbie Raphael, consider solutions to crowded and hazardous that would minimize the adverse impacts of Director of San Francisco Department of the visitor parking outside Muir Woods National recreation, protect the natural environment Environment, (dubbed the “Architect of San and the resulting impacts on and wildlife habitat, and assure visitors of their Monument Francisco’s Precautionary Principle”) espouse salmonid habitat in Redwood Creek. safety and well-being. the importance of partnerships in successful U Recommended that the scope of the U Submitted a letter to California Coastal local sustainable practices. upcoming Draft EIR for the Corte Madera Commission staff with suggested revisions of MAY Inn Rebuild Project analyze impacts on pond the staff’s changes to Marin’s proposed Local habitat, storm water management and flood Coastal Program Update. U Sent a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service control, and traffic. advocating for its support in acquiring land to U Urged San Rafael Parks and Recreation expand the Corte Madera Ecological Reserve U Convened a stakeholder meeting of Commission to use a portion of Measure A’s (also known as Madera Bay Park). environmental and agricultural interests with funding for local parks to control invasive Coastal Commission staff in an attempt to weeds in San Rafael Open Space lands. U Endorsed Congressman Jared Huffman’s resolve outstanding agricultural issues in the Draft MOU between the National Parks Service U Hosted MMWD Director Armando Quintero, Marin Local Coastal Program Update. and County of Marin to ease parking outside representing the California Water Commission, Muir Woods and thereby protect the Redwood U In MCL’s Water Program Series, hosted in a MCL Water Program Seriestalk on the Creek habitat. speaker Scott Callow, Marin County Commission’s role in ensuring that Proposition Environmental Health Service Officer, who 1 Water Bond funds for water storage projects U In a letter to Marin County Community outlined the health-related regulatory and fulfill public benefits. Development Agency concerning amendments permitting process for existing and new well to the Binford Road Development Plan, voiced U Led a Walk into Conservation History at Rush development in Marin County. concerns over possible runoff of fluids from Creek Open Space Preserve and Rush Creek stored vehicles into the adjacent wetlands. FEBRUARY Marsh, relating the history of local activists who prevented development from covering U At a Business-Environment Breakfast, U In a letter to Marin Clean Energy (MCE), uplands and saved the adjoining marsh from featured State Senator Mike McGuire, who recommended that MCE’s Draft 2016 Energy being filled. gave a wide-ranging overview of his work in build wider Efficiency Program Designs the legislature on environmental issues in his community support to encourage energy PRIL A district. efficiency projects and measures. U Submitted a letter to Congressman Jared U In a letter to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Huffman supporting his efforts to transfer regarding Larkspur Marina maintenance former Coast Guard residential property in dredging, advocated that dredged material be Point Reyes Station to the County of Marin for applied for beneficial use in upland or marsh affordable housing (HR 1402). restoration rather than disposed of at the U In a letter to the CPUC Energy Division, Alcatraz Island Disposal Site. urged denial of applications by PG&E and other U Presented Dr. Susan Kegley, Director of utilities to install, own, and operate electric Pesticide Research Institute (PRI) in Berkeley, vehicle charging stations in California. at a Business-Environment Breakfast, who U Recommended that the Marin County described PRI’s research into the role of Community Development Agency include the neonicontinoid pesticides in the die-off of bee colonies.