0:00 → 2:30(2m 30s)
Meeting opened March 12, 2026; organizers explained simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation and named interpreters Mar Gutierrez and Leticia Reena, instructing attendees how to select language channels.
The State Water Resources Control Board's Safer Advisory Group met virtually March 12, 2026 to review development of the annual fund-expenditure plan, program progress and funding updates for the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water (SAFER) program, and to gather advisory input on targets, tracking, and pilot ideas. Members pressed staff on looming cuts to the greenhouse-gas-linked revenue stream, the distribution of operation-and-maintenance and domestic-well funds, and affordability implications for consolidated systems.
