To: Board of Supervisors
From: John Kopchik, Director, Conservation and Development
Report Title: Establishing Two Community Task Forces to Provide Ideas and Input on the Expenditure of the Community Benefit Funds
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
ACKNOWLEDGE the Conservation and Development Director's establishment of two community task forces to provide ideas and input to the Department on the expenditure of funds being generated by the community benefits agreements for the Phillips 66 Rodeo Renewed Project and the Marathon Project.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No impact to the General Fund. Staff costs to coordinate the task forces will be covered by funds from the two community benefit agreements.
BACKGROUND:
In 2022, the Board of Supervisors (Board) approved the Phillips 66 Company land use permit (LUP) for the Phillips 66 Rodeo Renewed Project (Phillips 66 Project) and the Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company LLC LUP for the Martinez Renewable Fuels Project (Marathon Project)1. The Phillips 66 and Marathon Projects are unique land uses with unique impacts on the Rodeo and Crockett communities and Pacheco and Clyde communities, respectively. Each LUP contained a condition of approval (Phillips 66 Project Condition #10 and Marathon Project Condition #38), which provides that Contra Costa County and the applicant enter into a Community Benefits Agreement providing for certain payments to Contra Costa County upon certain conditions being satisfied relating to the respective Project. Both agreements were entered into on May 3, 2022.
The CBA with Phillips 66 requires Phillips 66 to pay a total of $10,000,000 to the County according to the milestones and time intervals set forth in the CBA over the course of approximately 13 years. The CBA with Marathon requires Marathon to pay a total of $10,000,000 to the County according to the milestones and time intervals set forth in the CBA over the course of approximatel...
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