HomeMy Public PortalAboutPleasant Bay Alliance -- 2007-06-05 MinutesPleasant Bay Resource Management Alliance Steering Committee
Meeting Minutes -June 5, 2007, 4:00 pm., Harwich Town Hall
In attendance: Members: Allin Thompson, Chuck Bartlett, Judith Bruce, Jane Harris; Coordinator: Carole Ridley.
Allin convened the meeting at 4:00 p.m.
Reorganization -
The committee established the June meeting as the annual re-organization meeting. Officers were voted as
follows:
Allin Thompson, Chair
Judith Bruce, Vice Chair
Jane Harris, Treasurer
Minutes of the May 1s` meeting were approved unanimously.
The Coordinator made the following report:
1. FY 08 budget contributions were approved at Town meetings. This includes an additional $11,175 from
the Town of Brewster that needs to be budgeted. The Steering committee voted to increase the
Coordinator's compensation to $4200 per month, and to allocate the remaining amount ($361 ~) to
watershed TMDL implementation projects.
2. The Steering Committee voted to notify the Chatham Town Manager of its desire to exercise the first of
two one year options to extend the coordinator's contract with the new compensation amount. The
motion was voted unanimously.
3. Plans for the inlet forum on June 7~' are moving along. Strong attendance is anticipated. Carole has been
in touch with representatives of DEP and the CCNSC. The members agreed that the Shoreline work group
would discuss the forum results at its next meeting on June 13~', and the Steering Committee will meet to
discuss an Alliance position on June 19~' at 4 pm. Jane shared wetlands resource maps that will be
important to the development of the Alliance's position.
4. Carole has been in touch with Brewster officials regarding appointments to the Steering and Technical
Resource Committee. Revisions to the MoA are being processed through the Town Boards of Selectmen
5. The wetlands work group will present freshwater dock and pier guidelines to the TRC at the June 22"d
meeting. Also, that work group is ready to set up transects for salt marsh monitoring.
6. The watershed work group met and heard an update on monitoring and compliance issues from Brian
Dudley. Brian indicated that DEP is moving toward a CWMP milestone approach to determine
compliance, rather than measures of resource restoration. It was noted that the public would be looking
for evidence of improvement, which should be considered in developing ongoing monitoring efforts.
The next meeting of the Steering Committee will be held on Tuesday, June 19`~ at 4 pm.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:0 0 p.m.
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