Michael F. Magliari papers
Finding aid prepared by Randal Brandt, WRCA Technical Services Librarian, and
Vanessa Yan.
Special Collections & University Archives
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Michael F. Magliari papers
Date (inclusive): 1980-1994
Collection Number: WRCA 053
Creator:
Magliari, Michael F.
Extent:
0.42 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Abstract: Papers in the collection originated
from Magliari's involvement with the Mono Lake Committee (Magliari has been a member since
1977). Most of the collection involves Magliari's work on the state capitol office staff of
California State Senator John Garamendi (Thirteenth District).
Languages: The collection is in English.
Access
The collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[identification of item], [date if possible]. Michael F. Magliari papers (WRCA 053). Water
Resources Collections and Archives. Special Collections & University Archives,
University of California, Riverside.
Acquisition Information
Provenance unknown.
Processing History
Processed by Randal Brandt, WRCA Technical Services Librarian, and Vanessa Yan, 1999.
Collection Number
Collection number updated February 2019. Legacy collection number was MAGLIARI. This change
was part of a project in 2018/2019 to update the collection numbers for collections in the
Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Biographical Note
Michael Magliari is an Associate Professor of History at California State University,
Chico. Formerly, he served as press secretary to California State Senator John Garamendi. He
is the author of Senate Concurrent Resolution 79 and Senate Bill 83.
Collection Scope and Contents
Papers in the collection originated from Magliari's involvement with the Mono Lake
Committee (Magliari has been a member since 1977). Most of the collection involves
Magliari's work on the state capitol office staff of California State Senator John Garamendi
(Thirteenth District). In April 1980, Magliari took a leave of absence from his graduate
studies in History at the University of California, Davis, and joined Garamendi's staff as
his Field Representative and press secretary. His chief duties included the drafting and
management of Garamendi's Mono Lake legislation. In January 1981, Magliari resumed his
graduate education, but remained on Garamendi's staff as a student intern and volunteer
consultant on Mono Lake until December 1981.
During the critical early period in the campaign to save Mono Lake, Garamendi introduced
three pieces of legislation on behalf of the Mono Lake Committee:
- Senate Bill 1617, which would have restored Mono Lake's water level at an elevation of
6,388 feet.
- Senate Concurrent Resolution 79, which would have placed the state legislature on
record in favor of halting Los Angeles's water diversions and restoring Mono Lake at the
6,388-foot level.
- Senate Bill 83, which established the Mono Lake Tufa Reserve as a unit of the
California State Parks system. SB 83, Mono Lake's first major victory in Sacramento, was
passed overwhelmingly by both houses of the legislature and signed into law by Governor
Edmund J. Brown, Jr. on September 23, 1981.
Magliari wrote both SCR 79 and SB 83, and managed all three pieces of legislation through
the various stages of the legislative process. During this time, he worked very closely with
Mono Lake Committee President David Gaines and committee lobbyists Tom Cassidy and Tim
Such.
Along with copies of the above legislation, the collection also includes: Senate Bill
1120; notes, drafts, correspondence, press releases, legislative histories, etc., pertaining
to these and other Mono Lake legislation
Collection Arrangement
The collection is arranged topically.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
California. Legislature. Senate
Garamendi, John Raymond, 1945-
Lake conservation -- Law and legislation -- California
Mono Lake (Calif.) -- Water rights
Mono Lake-Tufa State Reserve (Calif.)
Senate Bill no. 1120
Senate Bill no. 1617
Senate Bill no. 83
Senate Concurrent Resolution no. 79
Genres and Forms of Materials
Correspondence
Legislation
(legal concepts)
Notes
Box 1, Folder 1
Magliari, Michael. "Crisis Threatens Gulls."
May 27, 1977
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Article on Mono Lake in UC Davis'
Cal Aggie.
Box 1, Folder 2
Announcements of Michael Magliari's appointment to Senator John Garamendi's
staff
March 1980
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Includes
Tahoe Daily Tribune news brief, Garamendi press release and
business cards.
Box 1, Folder 3
Senate Bill 1617. Copy of bill and related materials
1980
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Includes Garamendi's press release.
Box 1, Folder 4
Senate Concurrent Resolution 79. Copy of resolution and related
materials
1980
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes, articles, Mono Lake pamphlet, and an air quality
study.
Box 1, Folder 5
Senator John Garamendi's appearance before Los Angeles City Council with David
Gaines on behalf of Mono Lake and Senate Concurrent Resolution 79
June 1980
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes and articles.
Box 1, Folder 6
Senate Bill 83. Notes and correspondence relating to initial drafting and
planning
1980-1981
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 7
Senate Bill 83. Background material on Tufa and Mono Lake
1974-1981
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Partial contents: Los Angeles Aqueduct operations water year 1980 / by Peter T. Vorster
-- Geothermal energy potential / by State Lands Commission -- Thermal probe study / by
Edward E. Welday -- Man vs. nature at Mono Lake / by Preston Cloud -- Report to the
California State Legislature in response to Assembly Concurrent Resolution no. 99 / by
the State Lands Commission -- Calcite-impregnated defluidization structures in littoral
sands of Mono Lake / by Preston Cloud and Kenneth R. LaJoie (In
Science, v.
210, no. 4473 (November 28, 1980)). Includes 7 photographs, bibliography, and map.
Box 1, Folder 8
Senate Bill 83. Bill, lobby file, notes and correspondence, assembly committee
analysis, etc
1981
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 9
Senate Bill 83. Press releases
1980
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 10
Senate Bill 83. Third Reading (floor vote) packet prepared for Senator John
Garamendi
1981
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Includes
Los Angeles Times article and photographs of Mono Lake Tufa.
Box 1, Folder 11
Senate Bill 83. Copies of bill (original, amended, and final
versions)
1981
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 12
Senate Bill 83. Draft of Senator John Garamendi's letter to Governor Brown
requesting the Governor's signature on SB 83
November 1981
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 13
Senate Bill 83. Legislative histories of SB 83 written for Political Science
internships at UC Davis, Winter and Spring quarters
1981
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 14
Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve
1981-1992
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Articles from the Mono Lake Newsletter and correspondence tracing history and
development of the reserve from 1981 through 1992.
Box 1, Folder 15
Senate Bill 1120. A bill by Senator John Garamendi to amend SB 83 to prevent
sheep grazing within the reserve that was damaging tufa formations and other
resources
1985
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of the bill and a letter from Mono Lake Committee Executive Director
Martha Davis
Box 1, Folder 16
Mono Lake correspondence
1978-1997
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from David Gaines (3), Sally Judy Gaines, and Martha Davis.
Box 1, Folder 17
Materials and correspondence relating to Mono Lake legislation introduced by
state Assemblymen Norman Waters, Michael Roos, Philip Isenberg, and William
Baker
1979-1989
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 18
Materials relating to Mono Lake National Monument proposal of 1980
1980
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Includes draft of Senator John Garamendi's letter of support to Secretary of the
Interior Cecil Andrus.
Box 1, Folder 19
HR 5424, by Congressman Norman Shumway to establish the Mono Lake National
Monument
1982
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Robert Franzoia of Senator John Garamendi's staff, and
copies of Garamendi's letter of support to Congressman John Seiberling.
Box 1, Folder 20
Magliari, Michael. Letters to the State Water Resources Control Board in 1993
on behalf of saving Mono Lake
1993
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1, Folder 21
Miscellaneous articles and news clippings on Mono Lake
1980-1994
Physical Description:
1 folder