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Saint Mary’s College
1928 St. Mary’s Road
Moraga, CA 94556
Soda Activity Center
November 12, 2014
Moraga Turns 40 – Today
Happy Birthday
Moraga Valley
Yesterday and Today
Administration
First Town Council in 1974
Mike Cory, Sue McNulty, Merle
Gilliland and Barry Gross, Bill
Combs (not pictured), with
Governor Ronald Reagan
Current Town Council in 2014
Roger Wykle, Ken Chew, Phil Arth,
Dave Trotter and Mike Metcalf,
with Saint Mary’s Rugby
Championship team
Several Years (or 40) of ‘Firsts’
 First Revenue Measure
First time Neighborhood
Roads Resurfaced
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After the 1st year of a 3-year intensive pavement
repair program, the Town’s Pavement Condition
Index (PCI) increased dramatically from 49 to 58
First Climate
Action Plan
Prepared
First Full-Time Town Engineer
hired in 2005
First Integrated Pest
Management program after
Moraga School District
First time named 5th Safest City
If you’re thinking about moving to the Golden State, take a look at this list of
California’s 10 safest places (movoto.com):
#5 Town of Moraga
Known throughout the state for its stellar
school district, this Bay Area town is also
one of the state’s safest, with a reported
total of just 963 crimes per 100,000
in 2012.*
* Source: http://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/safest-places-in-california/
First 5-year
financial plan,
CAFR and
GFOA Award
Town Clerk
Marty McInturf keeping us all in
line and official,
minute by minute
Prudent
Fiscal
Management
Moraga has always done its
best to stretch the dollar
Historically Lean Staffing
Employees (FTE) - Then and Now
40
35
Number of FTE
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
FY 1976-77
FY 1983-84
FY 1993-94
FY 2003-04
FY 2013-14
Revenues Outweigh Expenses
Then and Now
Operating Surplus
FY 1978/79
FY 2013/14
$243,000
$263,000
Balancing
Conservation and
Development
through the years
Housing Units
Built, By
Decade
Quality Residential and
Commercial Design
Thoughtful Planning
Building
Neighborhoods,
Protecting Open
Space
Open Space Preservation
Project
Acres of Protected,
Publicly-Accessible
Open Space
Palos Colorados
365
Hetfield Estates/Los
Encinos
54
Rancho Laguna II
164
Camino Ricardo
Total
8
591 Acres
Moraga on the Move
New Community Meeting Room
with video access and high-tech viewing/hearing assistance
Improving our Streets One
Golden Shovel at a Time
2013
2014
Total
% of
% of
% of
SF
Network Network
Network
Collector
22%
32%
1,497,815
54%
Residential
41%
8%
2,118,870
50%
Measure K Paving the Way
Warfield Drive
Oxford Drive
$7.7M of leveraged Measure K sales tax to address
$25M of deferred maintenance needs
Public Works/Engineering
Then
Now
St. Mary’s Road
looking towards Moraga
Country Club Drive looking towards Moraga Road
St. Mary’s Road looking towards Moraga
Learning from the Past and
Looking to Challenges Ahead
Rheem Boulevard Sinkhole
Storm Drain Master Plan
being developed to determine
storm drain infrastructural
needs to identify sinkholes
Pavilion Flooding
Exploring grant opportunities
to restore portion of culverted
Laguna Creek to minimize
flooding at Pavilion
Moraga Police Through the Years
1979
1993
Last Man
Standing
1999
2014
Moraga Police – Part of the
Town
Your Moraga Police Officers
and Reserves
“Retired”
EBRPD Police
Car
Police
“New” Public
Works/Parks
Superintendent’s Car
“Future” Car for
Parks and Recreation?
Parks and Recreation
Parks and Recreation
Creating Community…
Creating Community…
Shop Moraga
First
Moraga Shopping Center
Rheem Valley Shopping Center
Moraga Beautiful/Arbor Day
Yesterday and Today!
Arbor Day continues annually
to make Moraga ‘Tree City USA’
Saint Mary’s College
1927-2014
Town and Gown
2014
SMC serves on the Joint Facilities Planning Subcommittee
Town Parks and Recreation offers tot soccer on the front fields at
the College
SMC and Town agree in concept for shared facilities use with the
Town Parks and Recreation Department on an interim basis, before
the College conducts their Campus Master Plan
Moraga Ranch
Moraga Bar(n) 1912 - 2014
Moraga Country Club 1927-2014
Thank You
To the Local Volunteer Organizations
• Moraga Service League
• All the Local Cub Scout and
Boy Scout Troops
• Moraga Valley Kiwanis
• Moraga Rotary
• All Local Girl Scout Troops
• Moraga Lions
• Moraga Youth Involvement
Committee
• Moraga Women’s Society
• Moraga Junior Women’s Club • Moraga Historical Society
• American Association of
• Moraga Garden Club
University Women
• Moraga Park Foundation
• Hacienda Foundation of
Moraga
• Rescue One Foundation
• Friends of Moraga Library
• Moraga Citizens Network
Photo Credit: Carlos Carapito Photography
Thank You to Staff and the
Dedicated Boards,
Commissions and
Committees.