TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Steven Lederer, Director of Public Works
REPORT BY: Leigh Sears, Lake Berryessa Concessions Manager
SUBJECT: 2025 Lake Berryessa Concessions Update
RECOMMENDATION
title
Receive update on the status of Lake Berryessa Concessions and the new Mussel Program at Lake Berryessa; and approve and authorize Amendment No. 1 to Agreement No. 8671B with WhiTim Napa LLC (in conjunction with Camp Margaritaville Resorts). (No Fiscal Impact; Discretionary)
body
BACKGROUND
In 1957, the Federal Bureau of Recreation (BOR) completed the Monticello Dam. The BOR shortly thereafter signed 50 year contracts with several operators to develop resorts around the Lake. Those contracts expired, and the BOR required that all infrastructure related to the then existing resorts by completely removed. The BOR then made several attempts to contract with new operators, but ultimately were not successful. Without the resorts operating, this area's economy suffered dramatically. To help revitalize the local economy, Napa County volunteered to take over the process of finding concessionaires to redevelop and operate some of the resort areas. Napa County signed a 55-year Managing Partnership Agreement (MPA) with the BOR in 2020, allowing the County to proceed to find concessionaires to develop and operate the sites. The MPA covered a total of 7 sites, 4 of which came under Napa County's control immediately. The remaining sites could come under the County's control later. The status of each site is provided below.
Steele Canyon and Proposed Amendment
Napa County is under an Exclusive Negotiating Agreement (ENA) with a local developer (Tim Wilkens) who submitted a comprehensive response to the County's original RFP in collaboration with Camp Margaritaville. The development team is in the design/environmental phase. Projected groundbreaking is scheduled for 2027. During its investigation of the site, the developer discovered that the site boundaries ident...
Click here for full text