10:00 - 12:00 Tour of Projects with Literacy for Environmental Justice

Meeting Agenda

San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority Governing Board Tour of  Projects with Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ)

Special Meeting Agenda

DATE: May 29, 2026
TIME: 10:00AM – 12:00PM (approx)
LOCATION: Meet at LEJ nursery (1150 Carroll Ave., San Francisco)  https://maps.app.goo.gl/9D685kDW5XhfntFR7 Travel from there. Participants are responsible for their own transportation. 

Special Meeting Agenda

10:00 - Meet at LEJ nursery (1150 Carroll Ave., San Francisco)  https://maps.app.goo.gl/9D685kDW5XhfntFR7 (Information)

11:15 – Drive to Candlestick Point State Recreation Area https://maps.app.goo.gl/YAv6KTAr7BzBWtGA8, and walk to Jack Rabbit beach and Sunrise Point. (Information)

~12:00– Return to cars, close out.

This tour is open to the public. Members of the public will be permitted to address the Board Members on the items on the agenda. No other business shall be considered at this special meeting.

Important to know

  • Participants are responsible for their own transportation.
  • The tour will be mostly outdoors; please dress for the weather.
  • There will be a shoe wash before entering the nursery, so please wear shoes with bottoms that can be hosed off.
  • The walk to Sunrise Point and back is about a mile, mostly level.
  • PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE ANY VALUABLES IN YOUR CAR. WE CANNOT PROVIDE SECURITY FOR PARKED VEHICLES. 

About Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ)

LEJ was founded in 1998 to provide education, leadership, and park stewardship for youth and young adults in Bayview Hunters Point.  They were one of the Restoration Authority’s first Community Grant recipients.  

In 2021, the Restoration Authority awarded them a $100,000 Community Grant for the Candlestick Point Stewardship Project, Phase 1, which revegetated approximately 2 acres of upland habitat adjacent at Sunrise Point led by participants of the Eco-Apprentice Program, LEJ’s workforce development program that trained and pay about 12 low-income transitional age (18-25-year-old) youth to gain experience in the fields of natural resource management, environmental education, and native plant nurseries. In 2023, we awarded a grant of $200,000 for Phase 2 of this project, which expanded the restoration footprint and funded another cohort of Eco-Apprentices.

In 2025, the Authority awarded them $300,000 for the Southeast San Francisco Shoreline Stewards Project consisting of shoreline stewardship capacity building, habitat enhancement, climate adaptation planning, and workforce development at project areas spanning the southeast San Francisco Shoreline from the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area’s Last Port to the south to Pier 94 wetlands to the north.

 

For planning purposes, if you intend to join the tour, please let us know by emailing taylor.samuelson@scc.ca.gov. Any person who has a disability and requires reasonable accommodation to participate in this public meeting should contact taylor.samuelson@scc.ca.gov no later than five days prior to meeting. 

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