Coyote Point windsurf access repair [Please Help]

mogunn · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 1307 Location: SF Bay

The San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Commission will be meeting on Thursday, March 6th at 2:30 p.m. to review and approve the preferred repair alternative for the Coyote Point Recreation Area Promenade.
The meeting is open to the public and all interested parties are encouraged to attend. Please show up and support this plan to fix the windsurf beach access at Coyote.

Board of Supervisors' Chambers
400 County Center,
Redwood City, CA

From the SFBA site:
"The San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation has provided a grant to the San Mateo County Department of Parks to study the hydrological conditions that led to the erosion and design a new trail for the park. The study is complete and a design that includes allowing a more natural shoreline and placing the new trail further upland is proposed. The path will still be adjacent to the shoreline and provide access to the beach and Bay. This permanent repair is a few years off because it needs permits and is anticipated to cost at least $1 million.
However, permits were recently granted for a temporary access and can begin this spring, if we raise the remaining $10,000 to cover the costs of this much needed project. $25,000 has already been raised.
The SFBA has created a $1,000 matching fund for the Temporary Repairs at Coyote Point. Please check out the special donations page
Or, you can donate directly to the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation, and specify this project for your donation from their donation page ... remember to specify the Coyote project."

Please join us by donating what you can to support this important repair project.

geohaye · Joined: 03 Apr 2000 Posts: 1437

Mo, thank you for your leadership on this issue. If everyone chips in, we can get a County-approved contractor to make the access repairs within the next 2 months, apparently.

These 2 ramps will be installed in April 2008 only if we can raise the needed funds.

TO DONATE, please go to the following webpage (link at the bottom of this message) and either:

(1.) Click on the green "Donate Now" button toward the bottom. Then after you enter your donation amount (example 20.00 or 50.00), instead of logging in to your PayPal account, below where it says "Don't have a PayPal account?", click 'CONTINUE' to pay by credit card.

This is the definitely the easiest & fastest way to make sure that the Parks get the funds quickly and earmark it for the needed ramp repairs. Important: Use 'billing address line 2' to indicate that you are "Donating to Coyote Point Promenade repair fund."

*OR*

(2.) Click on the green "Donate Now" button toward the bottom, then enter the amount you want to donate, and then LOG IN to your PayPal account.

If you want your $ to go toward the Coyote Point repairs, after you pay via PayPal you must send an email to Julia Bott at the San Mateo County Parks Foundation: julia@supportparks.org. Tell her your name and the date and amount of your donation, and that you want it to be applied specifically to the Coyote Point Promenade repair fund.

*OR*

(3.) Download, print, and fill out the form to donate by credit card or check through the mail. Please write boldly and clearly on the form: "Donating to Coyote Point Promenade repair fund."

http://www.supportparks.org/donor.html

geohaye · Joined: 03 Apr 2000 Posts: 1437

I just donated $100, and it went smoothly.

Very Happy

I did option (2.) which means I logged in to my PayPal account.

I of course failed to fill out the "coupon" field to specify "Coyote Point Promenade repairs"...so I had to email Julia Bott. Otherwise this $ would probably have just gone to the Parks' general fund for road repairs or who knows what.

mogunn · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 1307 Location: SF Bay

carl · Joined: 25 Feb 1997 Posts: 2674 Location: SF bay area

Mo
Good job getting this out.

Did they say what the contractors were going to do for the $35K?
I got an estimate for a really nice driveway for $5K, I guess a "temporary fix" to the ramp is much more involved than that though.

mogunn · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 1307 Location: SF Bay

geohaye · Joined: 03 Apr 2000 Posts: 1437

Feel free to donate. It all works. Julia Bott at the County Parks Foundation is on it. After I screwed up and didn't leave a note anywhere during the payment process that I wanted the $$ to go to the Coyote Point repairs, I emailed Ms. Bott to clarify (gave her my name, date, amount).

She wrote back this AM:

Subject: Re: PayPal donation for Coyote Point Promenade repair fund

I had a suspicion this was a CP Promenade fund gift. Will do. You
will get an official thank you later, suitable for the IRS, this week.
Thanks JB

sergem · Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 398

Just donated $120. I figure I save more than that on park pass each year Smile

Come on guys, a dinged board would cost more to fix!

markpaine · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 90 Location: San Francisco, CA

Transaction ID: 9DM86580HN310810R Placed on Mar. 5, 2008
Payment For Quantity Price
San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation
Item #SMCPR Foundation 1 $121.00 USD

markpaine · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 90 Location: San Francisco, CA

By the way, in my excitement to see Sergey's $120.00 and raise him $1.00, I also pulled a George Haye and forgot to indicate that I wanted my $121.00 to be applied toward the ramp replacement (but yes, I sent email to Julia).

I think this means I get dibs on the northwestern-most parking spot unless someone raises me. Here me Mo? Smile

-Mark