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Meeting
Minutes 2nd
General Meeting – Quarterly Program Status Thursday,
August 22, 2002 – 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friant
Learning Academy, Town of Friant 1.
Welcome and Introductions Steve Haze,
Coordinator called the meeting to order at 6:10 pm and welcomed everyone. The
Steering and Technical Advisory Committee members introduced themselves.
Steve introduced Karla Fullerton as the new Chairperson.
Jeff Roberts was introduced as the new Vice-Chairperson.
Others present introduced themselves as well. Handouts for the meeting were provided. 2.
Organizational Accomplishments and Activities Karla gave a report
on what the current accomplishments and major activities had been to-date.
This included:
A.
Major Milestones of the program B.
Visioning Workshop Results C.
Organizational and Procedural Reviews Ground Rules
– These were reviewed and adopted by the Steering Committee Decision Making
– “Consensus when possible” – “’Vote’ if necessary” was reviewed
and adopted by the Steering Committee Record Keeping
– The Coordinator will be responsible for keeping minutes.
Draft version will be sent to Chair and Vice Chair for review and
approval. Minutes revised as
necessary – and then sent out to Steering Committee members in advance of next
meeting. Taking Positions or Endorsements –
After discussion it was decided that the Steering Committee should not take any
positions or make endorsements. Collaboration, association &
interactions with other groups –
The group discussed what types of activities may occur. The Coordinator will provide a list of meetings with other
groups to the Steering Committee with a short paragraph of the activity.
The San Joaquin River Task Force meeting for 9/5 was brought up as
another one to possibly attend. Sponsoring of activities or events –
Discussion revolved around examples of activities or events.
The Coordinator indicated the FARM program for students, the CAST fishing
day at Millerton Lake in October for disadvantaged children, Highway 168 Fire
Safe Festival in Auberry in June and other activities of goodwill.
The San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust is having their
River Fest on 9/21. The Steering
Committee requested that activities be brought before them on a case by case
basis before official participation takes place. Possible Subcommittees –
The group talked about possible subcommittees beyond the Assessment committee.
An Education committee was discussed.
Those interested would have to form it.
No other committees were identified as being required at this time. 3.
Assessment Team Accomplishments and Activities Steve gave a report on what the current accomplishments and major activities had been to-date. This included:
The
Steering committee reviewed the worksheet to determine what should be included
or excluded for assessment purposes. It
was decided that nothing would be excluded at this time and that the Steering
Committee is to be notified in advance of future meetings.
The following actions were requested – §
The worksheet section on
Groundwater (Fractured Rock) will include water quality §
The Worksheet section on
Biodiversity will include Habitat – and that the Sierra Foothill Conservancy
will be a resource §
The Steering Committee is to be
notified in advance of future Assessment meetings, (also, the intent is to have
these sessions every other week) §
There should be a ranking – or
prioritization of which elements of the assessment are most important to be
performed 4.
Mission Statement Jeff Roberts and Chuck Peck
presented the proposed Mission Statement for review. The Steering Committee agreed that the following is to be
adopted: The Millerton Area
Watershed Coalition will conduct a comprehensive assessment of our watershed to
provide information to promote the protection and enhancement of the watershed
including the economic and environmental well being of the communities within it
and of the downstream users 5.
Upper San Joaquin River Basin Storage Investigation (USJRBSI), CALFED –
Stephen Osgood, Senior
Planner for MWH (Montgomery Watson Harza) and Coral Cavanagh of CDM were in
attendance. Both are consulting
firms under contract with the US Bureau of Reclamation. Steve gave an overview of the storage investigation program.
He indicated that they are in Phase I of a two phase process.
Phase I is determining whether there is enough potential to conduct a
feasibility study by enlisting local stakeholders in the process.
He also indicated that there may be benefits in working with MAWC which
is also under a CALFED grant in the same geographical location of their
investigation area. Jeff Roberts requested that
they send a map identifying the various sites under consideration.
The Steering Committee thanked them for attending the meeting and for
providing a brief presentation. Both
Steve and Coral offered to give a formal presentation to the group at a future
date, (maintain this item for future discussion under Other Business) 6.
Educational Workshop – There
was no discussion. Deferred to next meeting 7.
Other Business – There was a request to have the Watershed Program Proposal as
approved by CALFED made available.
The Coordinator will send out an email to the Steering Committee
with CALFED’s link to the approved proposal. 8.
Announcements – None 9.
Adjournment – The meeting
was adjourned at approximately 8:20 pm. Next Steering
Committee meeting: Thursday,
September 26, 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Friant
Learning Academy, Town of Friant Tentative Agenda
10.
Others in Attendance –
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