Ms. Julia Bott This is Me

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1. 1. www.rethinkwaste.com

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   Published on: 7/4/2008   Last Visited: 7/4/2008

   Julia Bott of the San Mateo County Parks & Recreation Foundation stands on an Edgewood Park bridge made from sustainably harvested wood.
   
   When you lace up your hiking boots this spring, you can thank Julia Bott in part for the beautiful scenery in your local parks.
   
   Nine years ago the one-time Sierra Club activist helped found the San Mateo County Parks & Recreation Foundation.Now as executive director, she guides the non-profit, which raises supplemental funding for maintaining and improving the county's seven parks.
   
   Armed with a B.A. in environmental studies and planning, Bott made sure porous pavement was used in the Edgewood Park and Nature Preserve parking lot to reduce oily runoff into Cordilleras Creek.On the drawing board is Edgewood's first nature center, which includes recycled-plastic decking and 70-year-old solid-oak doors saved from San Mateo County's old courthouse annex.
   
   Despite receiving a San Mateo County Jefferson Award for Public Service in 2005, Bott remains modest: "I just hope that park visitors who see the effort that goes into open spaces will go home and try to apply the same environmental principles in their own lives.

2. 2. www.sanmateodailynews.com

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   Published on: 5/30/2008   Last Visited: 5/30/2008

   Julia Bott, executive director of the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation, was not deterred by the failure of Measure A in November 2006, an identical measure that fell short by a fairly wide margin.She blamed the outcome on a long, tiresome ballot with many state bond measures and a poorly organized grass-roots campaign.
   
   This year, hundreds of people have endorsed Measure O. A large contingent of volunteers has spent weekends staffing information tables at public events and giving presentations to small community groups.
   
   Bott acknowledged that residents might already be suffering from tax fatigue this year considering the fragile economy, but said those concerns might actually work in favor of passing the measure.
   
   "We do have a very weak economic situation, and that's affecting people.What that does mean is that having parks closer to home is important to people.Those parks are reflected in the value of your home," Bott said.

3. 3. lomaprieta.sierraclub.org

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   Published on: 5/23/2008   Last Visited: 7/24/2008

   The award was accepted by Julia Bott, the Director of San Mateo County Park Foundation, on behalf of his family.