Candidate for
Supervisor; County of Monterey; District 5

Resume and Biography of MARC JEFFREY DEL PIERO

Marc Jeffrey Del Piero Del Piero for Supervisor P.O. Box 470 Monterey, CA.

Bankruptcy Trustee: 831-644-0602 (office)

831-261-0718 (cell)
e-mail: mdptrustee@att.net

Law Office: 831-626-4666

e-mail: mjdelpiero@aol.com

Current Position

Marc Del Piero, the son of a farming family and a lifetime resident of Monterey County, has been licensed to practice law in California (State Bar No. 91644) since 1980.

His private practice involves advising public and private entities with significant water rights and water quality issues, agri-business enterprises, public utilities and retail water agencies. He has broad and extensive quasi-judicial experience as a hearing officer for the State Water Resources Control Board, as a federal bankruptcy trustee, and as a judge pro tem for the Monterey County Superior Court. Additionally, he has extensive senior managerial experience with a number of public agencies. His legal practice consists of providing legal services and business advice to: local governmental/water agencies; farming enterprises and retail commercial businesses, and non-profit, environmental protection organizations.

Mr. Del Piero also serves on the panel as a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee for the Office of the United States Trustee (U.S. Department of Justice) in the Northern District of California (San Jose). He hears and administers between 60-80 bankruptcy cases per month in Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Clara Counties. He was appointed to the panel in November, 2008. Further, he advises upon and mediates business disputes as well as real estate and land use development disputes related to development impacts, environmental protection, natural resources, and agricultural land use issues. Mr. Del Piero has broad experience in real estate development issues and in agricultural commodities issues. He is currently a consultant for the California Strawberry Commission on water quality issues.

Mr. Del Piero is currently chief counsel for the Mendocino County Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation District. He is responsible for over sixty water supply contracts with the majority of all vintners and agri-business companies in the Ukiah Valley, the center of grape and wine production in Mendocino County. He actively works to preserve the District's water rights for its urban, residential, and agricultural constituencies. Additionally, he is actively involved in protecting the anadromous fisheries and water quality of the Russian River. Marc Del Piero has developed major public utility and water development projects for his other public agency clients. He has experience in public and private financing of utilities projects, government contracting requirements, and project management. From 2000 until early 2010, he served as the Chief Counsel for the Pajaro-Sunny Mesa Community Services District (PSMCSD) and provided services to that agency to complete a $4.7 million dollar pipeline construction project and the acquisition of 15 separate private water systems into the PSMCSD service area. He also wrote grants for over $30 million dollars in funding from the State of California for new utilities development projects for PSMCSD.

Since 1992 and currently, Mr. Del Piero serves as an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Santa Clara University School of Law, and teaches water law with David Sandino, Former Chief Counsel for the California Department of Water Resources. . Additionally, he is recognized for his expertise in the "Public Trust Doctrine", groundwater rights and water quality laws, and farmland conservation. He has significant experience in the mediation of land use and natural resources disputes.

Throughout 2003, Mr. Del Piero was engaged by Interstate Technology and Resources Council (ITRC), a nationwide environmental affairs agency representing 47 state governments, to oversee the preparation of uniform protocols addressing the rehabilitation and redevelopment of previously contaminated "brownfields" sites.

Experience

January 1992 + April 1999 MEMBER, CALIFORNIA STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD Marc Del Piero served for over seven years as the attorney member of the California State Water Resources Control Board. The Board is the five member, full-time statutory agency charged with protecting all of California's water supplies, the quality of its waters, and environmental resources. The Board, which implements and enforces both the federal Clean Water Act and California's Porter-Cologne Act, also allocates surface water supplies for fishery, agricultural, development, and environmental purposes throughout the state.

Twice appointed by Governor Pete Wilson and confirmed unanimously by the California State Senate, Mr. Del Piero individually conducted extensive and numerous water rights and water quality hearings affecting the federally owned Central Valley Project (CVP) and the State Water Project, federal and state endangered species and fisheries issues, urban water quality and supply demands, groundwater contamination and underground tank issues, agricultural irrigation water issues, Delta water quality requirements, and "public trust" issues. He is best known for Decision 1631, the "Mono Lake Decision". That hearing lasted for 44 days, involved 14 parties and 19 attorneys, and ended twenty years of litigation and controversy between the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Committee to Save Mono Lake/National Audubon Society. Mr. Del Piero was the sole hearing officer for this matter. This decision, which required the City of Los Angeles to restore the lake, set the precedent for the protection and restoration of public trust resources in California streams. It also guaranteed a sustainable water supply for the City of Los Angeles. None of the litigants appealed the decision. In 1999, Marc was recognized and honored for his impressive work with the "Outstanding Conservationist" award by the international "Living Lakes" network of the Global Nature Fund, which is headquartered in Germany. . Mr. Del Piero was asked to author the introduction to the Mono Lake Committee's 2004 calendar, a remarkable recognition of the Committee's respect for his fairness, knowledge, and commitment to balancing the needs of both the environment and urban water use.

Mr. Del Piero was appointed by Secretary James Strock as the California Environmental Protection Agency's Dredging Coordinator for all dredging and related water quality and port issues in the State. A significant portion of this additional assignment included particular emphasis on the protection of the San Francisco Bay and the Delta of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers. He served on the 20-member group with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that prepared the Long Term Dredging Disposal Plan for all harbors in San Francisco Bay. Further, Mr. Del Piero led three separate training task forces to Chile between 1995 and 1998 at the invitation of US EPA and the Chilean National Commission on the Environment. He conducted numerous classes on the development of water quality regulations and enforcement strategies. These regulatory and environmental protection programs were precedent to the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Chile executed by President George Bush in September, 2003.

Additionally, Mr. Del Piero represented the California Environmental Protection Agency for seven years on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. This Council provided guidance to the U.S. Department of Commerce on the operation of our nation's largest marine sanctuaries.

Del Piero represented the State Water Board on Governor's Interagency Task Force on Wetlands that developed mitigation and restoration policies for wetlands lost due to development. For six years, he chaired the SWRCB statewide task force that established health and use standards for the use of desalinated and reclaimed waste water. Mr. Del Piero regularly dealt with both urban runoff regulations and toxic cleanup standards. Additionally, the State Water Resources Control Board operates California's underground storage tank cleanup program and he represented the Board on the state task force on clean-up strategies for the gasoline additive MTBE in 1999 due to his extensive experience in both water quality and air pollution issues.

January 1981 + January 1992 COUNTY SUPERVISOR, MONTEREY COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Marc Del Piero served for three consecutive terms on the five-member Monterey County Board of Supervisors, and served as Chair in both 1982 and 1988. Elected in 1981 at the age of 27 to represent Northern Monterey County, the City of Marina, and the City of Salinas, he is recognized as a specialist in coastal resources management and planning. He helped to write, voted for, and implemented the four Local Coastal Plans that today protect the resources of the unincorporated coastal areas of Big Sur, Carmel, North County, and the Del Monte Forest. As a Board member, he voted for a mandatory maximum "C" level of traffic service on Carmel Valley Road and embodied that requirement in the Carmel Valley Master Plan. He also helped to write the resource preservation policies that stopped the commercial mining of Pico Blanco on the Big Sur Coast. Supervisor Del Piero was responsible for the development of five public sanitary sewer systems, four public water systems, three congregate nutrition and service centers for senior citizens, two flood control districts, and a daycare facility for the children of migrant workers. His district encompassed large agricultural areas and significant wetlands and environmental resources.

With then Carmel Mayor Clint Eastwood and Supervisor Sam Karas, Supervisor Del Piero raised significant funds to develop a replacement housing program for homeless migrant farm workers after the Loma Prieta earthquake. He has also participated in writing numerous general plans and local coastal plans for Monterey County, and was the founder and Monterey County representative on the Central Coast Regional Studies Program, a four-year, three-million dollar effort by six coastal counties to develop environmental and economic studies to block the potential impacts of the Interior Department's then proposed off-shore oil lease plans. Del Piero was appointed by then Congressman Leon Panetta and served on the founding committee that developed the plan for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the largest marine sanctuary in the United States. President George Bush created this sanctuary in 1992.

Additionally, Mr. Del Piero served on the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District, a multi-county air pollution control agency, for eleven years. During his tenure as chair, the District adopted the first local air toxics rule in California and adopted the first air pollution regulation requiring coordination of urban growth with air emission goals.

Mr. Del Piero also served for six years on the Board of Directors of the San Felipe Division of the Central Valley Project. This water system is operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and serves four counties and the Silicon Valley area.

In 1984, Mr. Del Piero founded the Board of Directors of the Monterey County Agricultural Land Conservancy (The Ag Land Trust), a large farmland preservation trust. The conservancy has permanently protected and preserved (with conservation easements) over 25,000 acres of Monterey County farmland and open space from the threat of urban sprawl and development. The Conservancy continues to work cooperatively with virtually all of the largest landowners and farming companies in the Salinas Valley, the Pajaro Valley, and in San Mateo County to economically enhance the viability of agriculture while preserving our state's open space areas.

January 1978 + 1981 MONTEREY COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION

Appointed at the age of 24, Marc Del Piero served for three years on the Monterey County Planning Commission. During that time, he helped prepare and gained certification for the North Monterey County Local Coastal Plan that developed regulations to preserve and protect the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Reserve, and participated in the drafting and approval of the Big Sur Local Coastal Plan that guaranteed the preservation of over 70 miles of one of the most ecologically significant coastal areas on the Pacific Rim. Education 1978 Santa Clara University School of Law-Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) 1975 Santa Clara University-Bachelor of Arts in History (BA) Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, Army ROTC 1979 U.S. Army Armor School-Certificate of Completion, Armor Officer Basic Course, Fort Knox, Kentucky

Background

A native of Monterey County, Marc Del Piero is an attorney who resides on the Monterey Peninsula. The son of a farming family that for four generations has been actively involved in California agriculture, Mr. Del Piero served for over ten years and attained the rank of Captain in the California Army National Guard. He originally received his commission from the Santa Clara University Army ROTC program.

Marc Del Piero is married to Tina Tomlinson Del Piero, and has two sons, Paul, a law student at the University of Southern California (and who serves on the South Robertson Neighborhood Council in Los Angeles), and John who graduated from Vanderbilt University with a double degree in Engineering and Economics..

Professional Organizations and Memberships

California Bar Association, 1980-present Monterey County Agricultural and Historical Land Conservancy, 1984-present

Vice-Chair - current

Vice Chair, 2000-2006