Board of Directors
The North Coast Resource Conservation & Development Council
Board of Directors is comprised of the following officers and members:
Officers:
| President | Vacant |
| Vice-President | John Black |
John has been on the Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District Board for over 22 years. He owned a nursery growing seedlings for reforestation, contracting with timber companies. The last 20 years, John has been in the Financial Planning and Insurance area. He is a graduate of Oregon State University with degrees in Forestry and Business Administration, with a Master's degree in Forestry from Yale University. John resides in Sebastopol, Sonoma County.
| Treasurer | Susan Warner |
Susan retired from the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board where she served as their Executive Officer, culminating over 25 years of Board experience in both the Central Valley and the North Coast. Susan was responsible for protecting water quality in the streams and groundwaters of the North Coast through regulatory, planning, monitoring, cleanup, and enforcement actions relating to both point source and non-point source discharges including pollution from timber harvesting, dairies, construction projects, vineyards, municipal or community wastewater treatment plants, solid waste disposal sites, industrial sites, and similar facilities. Prior to her water quality career, Susan also taught agricultural science courses at San Joaquin Delta College and worked for the Agricultural Chemicals Division of Shell Chemical Company. Susan is a registered civil engineer, with a Master's degree in forest soil science from Oregon State University and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of the Pacific. She has lived and worked in Mendocino and Sonoma County for nearly 30 years, and currently resides on the coast near the village of Mendocino, Mendocino County.
| Secretary | Ron Rolleri |
Ron was involved in the formation and development of the North Coast Resource Conservation & Development Council. He has lived in Sonoma County since 1971. After working in the high-tech industry for 12 years, Ron began a landscaping contracting business specializing in natural landscapes and efficient irrigation. Ron has managed vineyards, apple orchards, and planted his own vineyard in 1989. He has served on the Sonoma County Vineyard Technical Group as Director and President. He is currently president of the Sotoyome Resource Conservation District where he has been a Director since 1998. Ron resides in Sebastopol, Sonoma County.
Members:
Jan Olave
Jan is currently the Executive Director of the Mendocino County Resource Conservation District, which has been actively involved in stream restoration projects since the 1980s. She served as president of the NCRCDC from 2006-2007, and resides in Ukiah.
Richard Smith
Richard grew up on the farm in Kelseyville, and manages the Bartlett pears, walnuts, wine grapes, and time. He is the Chairman of the West Lake RCD, a position which he has held for the past 28byears. Richard is currently the Vice Chair of the Water and Land subcommittee for the Lake County Board of Supervisors. He is also the Vice Chair of the Big Valley groundwater Management Zone Commission for the Lake County Board of Supervisors. Richard has bee a Boy Scout Leader for the past 5o years. He has been treasurer of the Kelseyville Presbyterian Church for the past 20 years, as well as deacon and on the Board of Trustees. Richard is a founding Council member of the North Coast Resource Conservation & Development Council. Richard resides near Kelseyville, Lake County.
J. David Colfax
David is a teacher turned rancher, and now supervisor for the 5th District of Mendocino County. He and his wife Micki homeschooled their four sons in the 1970s and '80s, schooling three of them into Harvard. Colfax and his wife authored Homeschooling for Excellence (1987) and Hard Times in Paradise: An American Family's Struggle to Carve Out a Homesteads in California's Redwood Mountains (1992).
Nancy Scolari
Nancy currently serves as the Executive Director of the Marin Resource Conservation District, which has been active in erosion control and watershed restoration efforts for many years. Nancy received a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Planning at Sonoma State University before enlisting in the U.S Department of Agriculture's AmeriCorps program. It was during this time she assisted landowners with the development, implementation and monitoring of their ranch conservation plans. She then went on to work for the Southern Sonoma RCD, assisting in the development and implementation of the Stemple and Sonoma Creek Watershed Enhancement Plans. She has been with the Marin RCD for 9 years, during which time she has facilitated the implementation of over 80 on-the-ground conservation projects, based on watershed-wide plans and assessments.