Meeting Summary Little Spokane River Management Plan Meeting 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Riverside Fire Station Meeting Room 3818 E Deer Park Milan Chattaroy, WA 99003 Chair: Rick Noll, Spokane County Conservation District (SCCD) Present: Dale Gill Stan Grant Mary Sterling Lindell Haggin Bart Haggin Bill Gilmour, Spokane County Lloyd Brewer, City of Spokane Ann Zaren Chris DeChenne, Newport Bob Wirtz, Whitworth Water District Paul Turner, Department of Ecology Kathleen Werr Dr. Bruce Lang, Eastern Washington University Amy Voeller, SCCD Jennifer Grimm, SCCD Jilla Harmon, SCCD Guest(s): Dr. Shulin Chen and Dr. Michael Barber from WSU Water Research Center Meeting was called to order at 10:08am. A meeting agenda with copies of the January 6, 2004 meeting minutes had been distributed earlier. Rick asked for any comments or corrections Motion was made to approve the minutes as is by Stan Grant and was seconded by Chris DeChenne. Motion carried. February 3, 2004
Meeting Minutes
Open Discussion/Public Comment
Dale Gill introduced Dr. Bruce Lang and explained that he asked Dr. Lang to attend the meeting and afterward they are going to check the water on Dale’s property for some organisim’s.
TMDL Presentation
Paul Turner from the Department of Ecology provided handouts for the Planning Committee on what he would be talking about today.
§Guidance Document for Developing Total Maximum Daily
Loads (TMDLs)
o Design & Carry out the TMDL Study – Years 2 & 3
§Memorandum of Agreement Between The United State Department of Ecology Regarding The Implementation of Section 303(d) of the Federal Clean Water Act – October 29, 1997
Paul then introduced Dr. Michael Barber and Dr. Shulin Chen who will lead the WSU TMDL Team for the Little Spokane TMDL Project. Dr. Barber provided copies for the Planning Committee of the Phase I - Scope of Work. He also explained that they would be doing trend analysis, collect and organize existing data, and then write up the QAPP for future samplings to be done.
Dr. Barber and Dr. Shulin expressed interest in receiving any issues and concerns that this Planning Committee has regarding the Little Spokane River. The Committee discussed this and decided to have a special meeting in February to work up a document with the issues & concerns bulleted that can be sent to the TMDL team. The meeting will be February 13th at 10:00 am.
Old Business
Acronym & Term List
Rick continued working through the list of Acronyms and Terms. The updated document will be e-mailed to the Planning Committee for those wanting to print out and updated copy.
Watershed Field Trip Update
Ideas and information are still being collected for a possible field trip within the next few months.
Watershed Characterization and the Social Structure Committees Update
Rick reported that the Economic and Recreation committees met for their first meeting prior to today’s Planning Committee meeting and the Historical Committee will meet after the meeting today. The Politics and Jurisdiction Committee will meet before the next Planning meeting in March.
New Business
Rick said that he received an e-mail from Chuck Gruenfelder saying that he wouldn’t be able to regularly attend the meetings and asked to be removed from the Voting Member list.
Motion was made to remove Chuck Gruenfelder from the Voting Member list by Dale Gill and was seconded by Ann Zaren. Motion carried.
Kathleen Werr will check with Joy Hart to see if she is still interested in participating with the Planning Committee. Joy is part of the Politics and Jurisdictions committee and Kathleen will be contacting her regarding a time to meet. She will let the Committee know at the next meeting what Joy would like to do.
Dr. Bruce Lang asked to be put on the e-mail list to receive the meeting agenda’s and minutes. Rick will make sure that he is added
Copies of the Non-Employee Monthly Time Sheet were distributed to the Committee and Rick explained that each Committee member needs to complete a Time Sheet for January as well as start keeping one for February. These can be turned in the following meeting. Be sure to sign and date the form before turning it in.
The question came up about marking down travel time or turning in mileage. Rick will check with the Operations Manager at the Spokane Conservation District and have an answer at the March meeting.
Rick also explained that any of the Committee members that need to make copies of documents can either give the documents to Jilla and she will make the copies at the SCCD offices and return them to you, or you can pay to have them done and turn in the receipt to Rick for reimbursement.
Any costs associated with the LSR Planning committee must have a receipt for reimbursement and be turned into Rick.
Rick will be checking with Paul Dorning at NRCS to set up a possible presentation for the March or April meeting.
Homework
Characterization & Social Structure Committees need to continue to meet.
- The Economic committee will meet at 9:15 am prior to the March 2nd meeting.
- The Historical committee will meet after the March 2nd meeting at Noon.
Next Meeting
A special meeting to work up a list of issues for the WSU TMDL team is scheduled for February 13, 2004 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. The next regular monthly meeting will be March 2, 2004 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Both meetings will be held at the Riverside Fire Station #46 Meeting Room.
The meeting adjourned at 12:02pm