Bolinas Civic Group

Communication Collaboration Community

Mission

The mission of the Bolinas Civic Group is to focus on communication, engagement, and support for the citizens of Bolinas who wish to collaborate in an open or closed forum. The Bolinas Civic Group is a platform for all citizens and has no membership requirements, or dues, or opinions.  It is simply a way for us to work together. The Bolinas Civic Group takes no stance on any project and encourages everyone in the community to dream, plan, create , and promote community focused projects. 

Community Announcements  

We are constantly updating this web page with new projects and initiatives, but these recently added items reflect time sensitive and important community announcements directly related to civic endeavors and activities.  If you would like to  have your announcement promoted here, please fill out the Announcement Form.

Sign up for our mailing list to be informed of BCG events.

Join us for the August Community Meeting!

Civic Summer

Howdy Neighbors!

We are excited to welcome you back to the August Community Meeting! This month we'll be touching base with the community and the county on a number of topics. Kicking off the meeting we'll have a number of announcements of upcoming events for Bolinas keeping folks informed, inspired, and up to date with all that is happening.

Next, we are excited to have folks from the county join us, to discuss various countywide initiatives and the recently passed budget and how it relates to West Marin and Bolinas. We are greatly appreciative of their work and look forward to sharing it with the greater Bolinas community.

A number of our community groups are very active right now, and we are pleased to bring back Jon Cozzi and the Bolinas Eucalyptus Project to discuss the current status of the project. We also have some Bolinas Civic Group supported projects to discuss, including updates regarding the Post Office and some follow-up to the Bolinas Sea Rise Initiative, showing off some new data and tools coming soon to the community.

Through our Community Talks, we have had engaging discussions, and the May meeting brought a conversation about traffic. I am excited to share some updates on the traffic counting data as we look to quantify the needs of our community to address visitors and visitor traffic.

Thanks so much for being a part of civics, and caring about communicating and engaging with the community. We look forward to seeing you on August 14th at 6pm at the Bolinas Community Center and online.

In Service,

Will Bartlett

Executive Director 

Bolinas Civic Group

June Community Meeting

Bolinas a Float


Hello Neighbors, 

At this month's community meeting we are going to take a look at all the things that keep us afloat. In our efforts to keep our community up to date and aware of efforts, and engaged in what's next, we'll be revisiting a bunch of topics from the last few months.

First, let's revisit the Wye project. Veronica from the County will update the conversation on the Wye project that is rebuilding the intersection into town. Get updates on the project timelines, what to expect, and when to expect it. We'll then dip into the Bolinas Sea Rise Initiative, with new designs, new data, and some tools to visualize what the rising seas will do to our downtown - and when. 

Coming back around to the topic of aging in our community, Marin Health and Human Services and local engaged citizens will be presenting some ideas to the question of "how do we thrive as a community as we age?" and what resources and things are in place for us. 

And speaking of services, we'll have Marin Transit provide an update on the new shuttle service between Point Reyes Station, Olema, and Bolinas. We'll also have a quick update on the efforts to track the visitors into town during these busy summer months.

And lastly, in the spirit of keeping things afloat, we'll have some announcements and sign up opportunities for the Briones Lion's 4th of July Parade.

If you would like to make an announcement at the meeting please sign up here!

So please join us on June 12th, at 7pm at the Bolinas Community Center and online, for an informative evening of community engagement.

See you then, 

Will Bartlett

Executive Director

Bolinas Civic Group

May Community Meeting

Stewards of the land and sea? Let's talk about it. 

And let's also hear some super local speakers talk about projects and prgorams that are happening!

Survey on Aging in Bolinas 

The Bolinas Civic Group is working on collecting information from the community about its needs wants and desires for itself and the community as it ages. This information will be shared with local and County groups, to help determine the existing resources and potentially new avenues the community can take to help itself and each other as we get older. Take the Survey!

Thanks to everyone who joined in the meeting yesterday!  Here are some links:

PROJECTS

SPEAKERS

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

TALKS


Civic Soup - Bolinas Sea Rise Initiative

Thanks Everyone for coming out!

Wednesday,  March 27th 5-8pm Coast Cafe

The Bolinas Civic Group will be hosting a Civic Soup event on Wednesday March 27th from 5-8pm at the Coast Cafe. Civic Soup events are hosted quarterly and are an opportunity to dig deeper in projects and initiatives and directly connect, converse and collaborate with community members working on shared objectives.

This month the Civic Soup will be focused on the Bolinas Sea Rise Initiative, created by Steve Matson to take a look at the impacts of climate change on downtown Bolinas, and what might be done to address the rising seas, and the tasks and effort required to achieve this objective. This is a bold and complex project, and will require a host of skills and talents. The community is invited to soup, and bring their capacity to be involved. 

Spring Forward! March Community Meeting!

Hello Everyone!

It's that time of the year, when things start blooming and blossoming and this months community meeting is a testament to that! So much going on, so much to be informed about, so much is popping off! Join us on March 13th at 6pm, at the Bolinas Community Center and online on Zoom. 

We have some great announcements from the community about Earth Day festivities, some new county initiatives that could use your input as a community and some larger ideas and plans being driven from inside our community about what to do next. 

We'll hear updates and announcements from BCLT, The Lions Club, West Marin Rotary. Community members speaking to matters of thoughtful civics. Happenings in the Post Office and a followup on the impacts of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. 

Following this month's meeting KWMR will be hosting a focus group, and we are hoping that this after-meeting-gathering can be the start of more Q/A and meet and greet types of interactions, to increase the civic discourse!

Don't forget about our upcoming Civic Soup on March 27th from 5-8 in which Steve Matson and others will be hosting a deeper conversation about Sea Level Rise and the impact to Bolinas, with participants from various entities, and how we as a community might be able to begin moving forward on addressing this  issue. 

Spring forward indeed. 

- Will Bartlett

Executive Director

Bolinas Civic Group

Bolinas Social and Civic Calendar

There is a new community maintained social and civic calendar now on the website that hosts various social gatherings and civic related events. If you are interested in having your social event listed or have a group that would like to meet, or even board meeting for various entities, please contact us.  This calendar is open to the public and is for everyone in the community to know what is happening!

Ongoing Active Projects

Bolinas Sea Rise Initiative 

A group has formed to find out what the Waterhouse Complex could become. Check out the project page to find out what is going on. Send an email to get involved.

Save the Post Office

In the beginning of March , 2023 the USPS closed the Bolinas Post Office.  

A group of individuals is working to Save the Bolinas Post Office and keep the 94924 Post Office in Bolinas forever.

Get involved in the effort to keep the Bolinas Post Office in Bolinas. Go to the project page to find details on letter writing and upcoming events. 

West Marin Community Pool

There are a number of individuals working to build a community pool in Bolinas and would love for people to get involved. Find out how to get connected to them by checking out the project page below. 

Eucalyptus Project

Bolinas Eucalyptus Project (BEP) is working to address the problem of hazardous trees. Recognizing the need to take action against the dangerous conditions associated with the massive roadside eucalyptus stands

Projects

The Bolinas Civic Group provides resources for community members  to promote and communicate their projects to the greater community and general public. We also provide ways for community members to connect and engage with various community led projects. 

Learn more and find ways to connect on the Projects page. 

Potential Projects List

Get Involved

If you have an idea for a project, or something you would like help in promoting, or ideas about what the Bolinas Civic Group could do or do better, send an email to ideas@bolinascivicgroup.org and we'll connect with you directly. 

If you want to join the effort in promoting communication in via the Bolinas Civic Group, or if you have any questions about what we do,  please reach out via email to  information@bolinascivicgroup.org 

This website was started by Will Bartlett, with input from other community members, as a tool to bridge the gaps in the way that projects in Bolinas get started, collaborate, share, and promote themselves. The goal is to provide resources such as email groups, information storage, and scheduling to help groups collaborate and communicate with the communty and the public. 

You can contact Will directly at will@bolinascivicgroup.org