What you can do

The County responds to organized, informed residents. Here are four things that take ten minutes or less.

1. Join the email list

This is the single most useful thing you can do. When 600 households can be reached in one email, the neighborhood speaks with one voice at every hearing and every comment deadline. Sign up here

2. Write to Supervisor Sackett

Santa Venetia is in District 1, represented by Supervisor Mary Sackett. A short, polite email in your own words is more effective than a form letter. The points that matter:

• You live in the flood zone and want the wall built as fast as possible.
• After five years there is still no schedule and no finance plan — ask for both, in writing, with dates.
• Before any Prop 218 vote, ask the County to commission an independent third-party engineering review of the easement requirement and the design alternatives.

Contact information for the Board of Supervisors is on the County website: marincounty.gov (search "Board of Supervisors District 1").

3. Show up

Board of Supervisors and Flood Zone 7 Advisory Board meetings are public, and public comment is your right. Two minutes at a microphone from a resident carries weight. Meeting schedules are posted on the County website; the email list will flag the ones that matter.

4. Talk to your neighbors

Most affected homeowners don't know the project's history — that it was a buildable $6 million project in 2021, or that the assessment could run $100–150 per month for 30 years. Forward this site. If you live along the levee alignment, the easement question affects you directly: make sure your neighbors know what's being asked of them, and what the alternative would ask instead.

For homeowners along the levee alignment

If your parcel is one of the 111 where an easement is requested, you have the most at stake and the most leverage. Before signing anything, you are entitled to understand exactly what a permanent easement allows on your property, forever. If you have questions about what the easement documents mean in practical terms, email wmta@wmta.com — a resident engineer who has reviewed the project documents will answer plainly and without charge. (This is neighbor-to-neighbor information, not legal advice — consult your own attorney before signing an easement.)