Meeting Notes Little Spokane River Management Plan Meeting 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Riverside Fire Station Meeting Room 3818 E Deer Park Milan Chattaroy, WA 99003 Chair: Shallan Dawson, Spokane County Conservation District (SCCD) Present: Jeanne Dammarell Chris DeChenne Bill Gilmour, Spokane County Dale Gill Lindell Haggin Jon Jones, Ecology Rico Reed Mary Sterling Kathleen Werr Ann Zaren Jilla Harmon, SCCD Meeting was called to order at 9:39 am, followed by self-introductions. A meeting agenda with copies of the June 7, 2005 meeting minutes had been distributed previously. Bill Gilmour motioned to approve the minutes as is. Motion was seconded by Chris DeChenne. Motion Carried. Jon Jones distributed documents regarding beavers and talked to the Planning Committee regarding the different issues that have been brought up previously in the LSR meetings. Jon and Chris lead a question and answer session with the Committee members. Announcements/Public Comment/Old Business Shallan announced that a LSR section is up on the SCCD website and encouraged the Committee members to check it out. Meeting Agenda’s, and the meeting minutes since the Committee was formed, will be posted to the website along with the Management Plan document. Ann Zaren made the motion that letters should be written for the open comment periods for the River Springs Estate Project and the Timber Harvest Permit with the concerns listed on how these developments will affect the water quality of the Little Spokane River. Bill Gilmour seconded the motion. Motion carried. A copy of The Management Plan outline was distributed to the Planning Committee for review. Shallan stated that she and Jon Jones, DOE, had worked on the outline format that was distributed. Shallan asked the Committee if they were in agreement that this format would be workable. The Committee was in agreement and felt the format would be helpful in working on the different sections of the Management Plan and it would also let the Committee know the progress of the Management Plan. A document with a list of sections for the Plan was distributed to the Committee for them to volunteer to be responsible for that section. It was decided that an outline should be done for each section and ready to discuss at the August meeting. The outline would also make sure that everyone is on the same page prior to having a draft by the September meeting. A copy of the 303d list was distributed to the Committee along with the PFC & landuse maps that the Committee had requested last month. Shallan reviewed the BMP document with the Committee. A copy was emailed to the Committee members prior to the meeting and they were asked to review the document to see if they saw a BMP that was missing or any BMP listed in the document that wouldn’t be appropriate for the LSR issues. It was noted that this BMP listing would be in the final Management Plan document. It was reported that the Elk Days event went well. There was a lot of interest in the float. It was suggested that a step stool for the younger children might be helpful so that they would be able to see the float. Photos of the Bird Fair were available for the Committee to review. The Pend Oreille Fair is August 17 – 21 and will be the last community event for this year. Next Meeting The next meeting will be August 2, 2005 at the Riverside Fire Station. Meeting will be from 9:30 am to 11:30 am. The meeting was adjourned at 12:00 pm.July 7, 2005
Shallan has received a couple of phone calls in the last few days concerning two developments going in on the LSR watershed and Walt said that Shallan should bring this to the Committee to see what they wanted to do. The people who have called are asking for comment letters. The deadlines are within the next two weeks. Lindell Haggin attended the meeting last night regarding the DNS for Timber Harvest Permit #05004426. After some discussion , the Committee agreed that a letter, from the Committee, should be written for both issues. Lindell Haggin said she would write the letters for the Committee to review before they are sent out.
Dale Gill showed the Committee a copy of a the Pend Oreille Homeowners Guide that is in the Streamside Homeowners Packet. Shallan said that she would get a sample of the same type of packet that Walt has been working on for the Shoreline Inventory & Assessment Committee for the Committee to review.
Outreach Events update, progress and future plans