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August 1 Meeting Minutes |
Minutes
Island County MRC meeting 3-6 PM August 1, 2001
Monroe Landing Firehouse, Oak Harbor
(There are NO recorded minutes of this meeting)
Meeting convened at 3PM
Members Present - Chair-Tom Campbell, Marty Behr, Sayed El Sayed, Dick
Toft, Hi Bronson, Executive Director Gary Wood, County Lead Don Meehan, Roger
Sherman, Matt Klope. Excused members were Mike Gallion and Tom Roehl. Missing
- Jeff Tate
Guests Present - Shala Richesky, Sam Tanaguchi (camano), Joan Drinkwin (PSAT), Julie Buktenica (ICPW), Mike Sato, guest speaker Duane Fagergren (PSAT), Phil Cohen (IC Surface Water Manager), Michael Kyte, and guest speakers Keith Higman and Kathleen Parvin of IC Health.
Shellfish Resource Management - Island County - 2hrs approx.
Keith Higman, Is. Co. Environmental Health Director and Kathleen Parvin, Shellfish Program manager, addressed the health department's shellfish program that focuses on the health aspects of the program . In addition, Duane Fagergren, Puget Sound Action Team Assistant Director and shellfish producer will addressed shellfish on a more regional basis and talked about it from a grower perspective.
An addendum to the minutes is added covering some of the basic points of the presentation.
5:15
*NWSC Report -Gary Wood- Gary reported on Grants submitted
MEHP submitted
NFWF submitted
Derelict Gear grant for NWSC (Is. Co. MRC would provide some volunteer
services, but would not receive funding through it. Gary is looking at writing
other grants that would conceivably fund outreach and monitoring efforts)
Annual Training for MRCs is slated for Oct 26 & 27 - location undetermined-
program will be combination of Getting the Message out to the Public and some
high level science presentations about the marine resources.
NWSC - now has a tribal representative, Chad Bauchop (who resigned
9/4/01). Wood noted that Chad is from the Makah tribe and seems to be a good
person for the job of liasoning between tribes and MRC's. The job is a difficult
one in part due to the lack of a unified position by the tribes and the MRC's.
Wood anticipates Chad will be coming to our meetings.
Wood/Penttila meeting with Salmon Recovery Funding Board in Olympia
7/30 - Went very well. Focus was on the nearshore and allowed discussion to
proceed for 3hrs on it when only 2hrs had been slated. SRFBrd is excited about
the nearshore work. They also learned about the Website concepts of sharing
data via a BIGMIND MEDIA website project. They may want to share the costs
of it. Wood also reported that San Juan Co. MRC is now partnering on the website.
Submerged Lands Conference - Near end of Sept in Seattle - PSAT will
be providing one scholarship to each MRC to attend. - approx cost of registration
is 400 dollars. No decision made as to who will be given the scholarship.
Eelgrass Phase II - Nearshore Prj- approximately 8-9 bid packages have
been sent out. Due date is August 20th for Bids.
Admin Grant - NWSC is using last year's funding to provide-limited
to 10K, Wood is hopeful that they will allow another 10K to be submitted in
about six months when they get the new federal dollars.
50K available to MRC for next NWSC Projects - Wood will be writing proposals
for that money. Meehan suggested that we use some of that money to support
the website since that takes a fair amount of time. Letter of intent is due
in Sept.-full proposal due in Dec.
*Committee vacancies-Meehan
Vacancies -Meehan reported there are 3 names that
have been submitted to the BOCC for filling the vacancy. BOCC will appoint
someone next Monday.
Benchmarks -Meehan handed out a hard copy of the benchmark report
submitted to NWSC. He thanked all of the member contributing to it and felt
is was a Great start to developing a good product. He wanted all members who
contributed to review the whole document and to note the variations in reporting
methods. Then come back to a future meeting and help decide on a standard
format that works best.
Contracts - Meehan gave a brief summary of contracts and billings..noting
that the contract with Intertidal has already begun and money has been paid
as to contract, but not funding or billings have been processed on any of
the other contracts, but that it is early in the game yet.
Camano Island - Meehan hired a Beach Watcher Coordinator for Camano to manage
the nearshore project. He is excited about this new talent and noted that
Commission Bill Thorn was very pleased to have someone actually working on
Camano…and living there.
*Meeting process-Campbell
Member Tardiness - Campbell and Meehan both raised the issue that they
felt it was important that all MRC members be present and on time when we
have speakers.
Meeting Management - Meehan raised his frustrations with the last meeting
where the Chair was absent and there appeared to be no one in control at the
beginning of the mtg and following the presentation. He felt it was his own
fault since the issue of the role of the Exec Director was not clear to him.
A discussion followed that reinforced the concept that the chain of command
is -Chair-V. Chair-County Lead. Exec Director has no role in managing the
meeting.
Meeting Times/Date - A good discussion was held on this issue. Everyone
present was poled and all indicated satisfaction with dates and times historically
set for the meetings and all but one did NOT want them changed. Most regretted
the loss of Roehl.'s meeting input if that would impact him to the point he
would not be able to attend.
Meeting Minutes - discussion was held about minutes alterations and
detail.
Motion made by Meehan - All changes to the minutes shall be made at the
following meeting of the MRC and that a draft version shall be sent to all
member via email well in advance of the upcoming MRC mtg. That all notes related
to presentations shall be added to the minutes at the end in an attachment.
Such notes shall reflect the key points made by speakers and may include digital
versions of materials they offer. ---2nd by Bronson -Vote Unanimous
Sherman noted he planned to attend the White Rock Conference in Canada on MPA's and wanted to know if others planned to attend. Campbell and Wood indicated they wanted to attend. Conference.
Next Meeting - Sept 5 followed by Sept 19th - MRC goes back to 1st
and 3rd Wednesdays with mtgs starting at 4PM and ending at 6PM.
Sept 19th mtg will be a tour of Oak Harbor Marina followed by presentations by the two Ports. So. Whidbey Port has not responded to the call to speak. Meeting location is tentatively planned to be at the Yacht club, but is NOT confirmed at this point.
Meeting Adjourned at 6:30PM
