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Fort Ord Environmental Justice Network
Awarded New Grant

CAL-EPA recently awarded the Fort Ord Environmental Justice Network (FOEJN) a Small Environmental Justice grant. The grant is intended to support community outreach efforts. Specifically, the grant will enable FOEJN to produce a quarterly newsletter for its membership as well as for other Monterey County residents concerned about cleanup of the former Fort Ord and other environmental issues. The grant will also enable FOEJN to convene a meeting on environmental and related public health issues of concern to local residents. LeVonne Stone, president of FOEJN, applied for the grant at the suggestion of TOSC staff who forwarded the grant announcement and encouraged her to apply.

FOEJN was formed in 1995 and grew out of concerns for the ability of disenfranchised communities to participate in cleanup and reuse decisions affecting the former Fort Ord. Since that time FOEJN has striven to involve local residents in economic development and facility reuse planning. TOSC has worked with FOEJN since 2000 when we gave a presentation on the site cleanup process to the group. TOSC has provided various forms of assistance such as preparing fact sheets on chemical contaminants, reviewing cleanup project documents, and helping FOEJN prepare for community meetings. FOEJN has experienced many changes during this time, most notably the loss of its office space on the former Fort Ord, relocation to its present quarters in Marina , and receipt of an EPA technical assistance grant in 2004.

Stone published the first issue of the newsletter in March to publicize the March 22, 2006 Town Hall meeting FOEJN hosted. FOEJN discussed the Army's proposal to discontinue its voluntary relocation plan instituted to protect residents who feel their health may be compromised by exposure to smoke from prescribed burns at the former Fort Ord. FOEJN opposes the Army's proposal and is working to preserve this program.

Stone anticipates that the newsletter will regularly contain articles about health and well-being, pressing social issues for local residents, cleanup and reuse of the former Fort Ord , and other issues of concern to FOEJN and its members.

For more information about this TOSC community, contact Michael Fernandez at 541-737-4023.

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