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Home My WebLink AboutM081501 Leslie Locke From: Sent: To: Subject: Richard Wojt Tuesday, September 04,2001 10:30 AM Leslie Locke FW: Minutes ~ EJ . August 16, 2001 MRC,rtf ATT00246,txt >---------- >From: Joanna Sanders[SMTP:SANDERS@WAYPT.COM] >Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:28:36 AM >To: mrcmembers@onenw.org >Subject: Minutes >Auto forwarded by a Rule > Attached to this message are minutes of our last meeting. If you have any corrections, please let me know. Action items were noted as follows. If you have any agenda items for our next meeting (Wed., September 19), please submit them to me or Andy Palmer by Friday, September 7. Thanks. ---~----------------- ACTION ITEMS FROM MRC AUGUST 15, 2001 MEETING: MPA Committee: Focus groups will begin in September and October and a schedule will be forwarded to the MRC. Northwest Straits: Members were encouraged to register for the October 26-27 MRC training. Year 3 Action Grant: A meeting was scheduled for Wednesday, August 29 at 7:00 p.m. at the Health Department Conference Room to brainstorm ideas. Anne Murphy will contact the Training/Public Outreach committee to schedule a meeting date. The MRC's long-range planning retreat will be held Saturday, October 20 from 10-3 at Fort Worden. All members were encouraged to attend this meeting and confirm their attendance with Jeff Gallant. Library Committee: Larry Lawson agreed to contact Deb Siefert to see if she would remain as chair of this committee. The Executive Committee agreed to take the initiative to recruit individuals for the vacant District 2 and Marine Science Practitioner positions. Names of potential candidates should be forwarded to Jeff Gallant for consideration by the Executive Committee. Dave Christensen agreed to work with the Commissioner's office on advertising and screening of applicants. 1 ~ Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee Minutes Wednesday, August 15, 2001 Present: Dave Christensen, Jefferson County Natural Resources Judy Damore, District 1 Jeff Gallant, District 1 (Vice Chair) Larry Lawson, Commercial Fishing Anne Murphy, District 2 Barbara Nightingale, Citizen Judy Surber, City of Port Townsend Richard Wojt, Jefferson County Commissioner Guests: Barbara Bowen, Jefferson County Natural Resources Neil Harrington, NOSe Harriet Beale, Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team Shelby Smith, Intern People for Puget Sound Steve Hamm, Jefferson County Green Party Jim Todd, Citizen Absent: Larry Crockett, ex-officio, Port of Port Townsend Excused Spike Hall, Citizen Bill Kalina, ex-officio, U.S. Navy, Indian Island Excused Sydney Lipton, Local Government, City Excused Linda Newberry, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe Andrew Palmer, District 3 (Chair) Excused Rex Rice, Environment Excused The meeting was called to order at 6:05 PM in the Commissioner's Chambers of the Jefferson County Courthouse Port Townsend, Washington. PRESENTATION - SHORELINE GEOLOGY: Guest speaker, Harriet Beale of the Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team (PSAT) whose graduate degree is in shoreline geology, discussed the history of shoreline land uses and shoreline management in areas of erosion and drainage problems. The discussion included shoreline management measures to protect nearshore habitat for salmon, eelgrass and other resources. The Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team has identified nearshore habitat as a priority for protection of the Puget Sound ecosystem. She provided the MRC a video on nearshore processes to show to anyone interested in the problem of bulkheading and hard armoring. Commissioner Wojt asked whether the Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team was involved in the major shoreline restoration project which will be presented to the Commissioners and public on Friday, September 7. Ms. Beale mentioned two projects: the Shared Salmon Strategy or restoration project through the Army Corp of Engineers federal funding to which he might be referring. She noted that PSAT's website includes an inventory of current and near· term studies of the nearshore. OPENING BUSINESS Vice Chair Jeff Gallant called the regular business meeting to order at 7:10 PM. A sign~in sheet was circulated. The minutes of the July meeting were approved with one correction to the spelling of Megan Dethier's name on pages 1 and 2. The agenda was approved with the addition of Old Business item Jefferson County Fair Report and New Business Item Next Round of Action Grants from the Northwest Straits Commission. Vice Chair Gallant announced that the City has requested that Judy Surber be appointed as the new MRC representative from the City of Port Townsend with Sydney Lipton remaining as alternate. Barbara Nightingale and Dave Christensen agreed to meet with Ms. Surber to provide an orientation to the MRC. Linda Newberry has notified the MRC that she will no longer be able to serve. She and her husband are moving out of state. She asked that Sandy Johnson of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe be informed of meetings. Marine Resources Committee - August 15, 2001 Page: 2 OLD BUSINESS - REPORTS JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR: Barbara Nightingale, Anne Murphy, Larry Lawson, Rex Rice, Dave Christensen, and partners from NOSC including Neil Harrington staffed the MRC booth. Visitors to the booth who expressed interest in learning more about the MRC will be forwarded meeting notices. There was a suggestion that the booth may be able to be improved to be more visually appealing. DNR SHORELINE FLYOVER VIDEOS: Related to last month's presentation, Barbara Nightingale distributed the Keuler Map showing coastal erosion. A larger version of this map will be placed in the MRC library. OBSERVER COMMENT Harriet Beale announced she will be moving to Olympia and taking a new job with an action team. Tim Ranson will soon be covering the Jefferson County area on behalf of the Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team (PSAT). Jeff Gallant thanked Harriet for her significant contributions to the MRC's public outreach committee. Steve Hamm of the Green Party said, aside from being a political party, they are a grassroots organization of local citizens looking for ways to involve themselves in community projects. They are interested in doing reciprocal outreach with other organizations ~- working in concert to take care of the environment. Jeff Gallant volunteered to provide more MRC background information to Mr. Hamm if desired. NEW BUSINESS & REPORTS MPA COMMITTEE REPORT: Committee minutes were distributed. The committee has completed their contractor hiring process and is pleased that Sue Latham of Thinkedge will be facilitating the focus groups. One method of recruitment will be visiting service groups to reach boaters, landowners, sport fishers and divers. Non- governmental organizations were defined as those concerned with restoration, protection or conservation. They include North Olympic Salmon Coalition, Jefferson Land Trust, Jefferson County Conservation District, Discovery Baywatchers, Trout Unlimited, and Puget Sound Anglers. Focus groups will begin in September and October and a schedule will be forwarded to the MRC. The purpose of the focus groups are to open up dialogue for participation and discussion. Larry Lawson suggested that the tribes be the first group approached. There was some discussion about how best to approach the tribes. NORmWEST STRAITS COMMISSION: Minutes were provided with the agenda. Anne Murphy noted that as a part of Clallam County forage fish project a new spawning beach adjacent to the John Wayne Marina was discovered. Clallam Commissioner Joe Schmidt expressed concern that Jefferson County was not including western Jefferson County in its outreach efforts. Tribes are working on their co-management recovery plan, one goal of which may be to recover salmon at 80% of historical numbers. Buying back riparian areas is one of their strategies. Tribal liaison Chad Bowechop (Makaw) spoke at the last meeting. He will be assessing the tribes reaction to the Northwest Straits Initiative. Ms. Murphy has his contact information for the MPA group. She noted that two Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission members are working on the tribal policy on MP As. Terry Williams suggested MRCs look for good opportunities for cooperative nearshore projects. Members were encouraged to register for the October 26-27 MRC training. There was more discussion about the timing of working with the tribes on the MP A project. Suggestions were to ask how the MRC might work with them to protect resources and to consider cooperative projects. It was noted that tribes are a government with sovereign treaty rights. Participation of County Commissioners in meetings will be important. Anne Murphy suggested the MP A Committee first contact the NWSC tribal liaison. YEAR 3 ACTION GRANT·· NORTHWEST STRAITS COMMISSION: Pre-proposals for the next round of Northwest Straits grants are due September 28. There was MRC interest in setting up a special meeting to begin brainstonning ideas. A meeting was scheduled for Wednesday, August 29 at 7:00 p.m. at the Health Department Conference Room. Marine Resources Committee - August 15, 2001 Page: 3 FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE REPORT: No report. LIBRARY COMMITIEE REPORT: Deb Siefert, although no longer an MRC member, has agreed to continue working with the committee. The website is still being updated. Larry Lawson agreed to contact Deb Siefert to see if she would remain as chair of this committee. Judy Surber reported that the City received a CZM grant to do a shorelines inventory for their shorelines master program update. Barbara Nightingale may be hired as a consultant. The City hopes to build on the work the MRC has already done. Ms. Surber mentioned that the City will also be applying for a Pie grant for the City inventory project. Judy Damore mentioned she is working with Jim Norris to continue the high school water quality monitoring project in Port Townsend Bay using paying tourists as assistants. Data will be combined with the City's shoreline inventory project. There was some concern whether a standard data format is being used to ensure the usefulness of the data collected by different groups. Harriet Beale suggested contacting Maureen Singleton through the Governor's Salmon Office or Anchor Environmental because they are mapping a Northwest Straits Commission study. It was mentioned that a MRC technical subcommittee may be needed. FORAGE FISH REPORT: Neil Harrington reported that the forage fish training held August 7~8 was well attended. After receiving equipment, trained volunteers will practice sampling methods with the first sampling occurring in the next several weeks. They will also be collecting data on bulkheads and where they are placed on the tideline, which Dan Pentilla is not currently collecting. The brochure to shoreline landowners is finished. NOSC will forward a draft cover letter to Forage Fish committee to review. Jeff Gallant noted that a map of survey sites and list of volunteers are deliverables due to the MRC by September 29. TRAINING/PUBLIC OUTREACH: Anne Murphy will contact the committee to schedule a meeting date. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: The long-range planning retreat will be held Saturday, October 20 from 10-3 at Fort Worden. All members were encouraged to attend this meeting and confirm their attendance with JefT Gallant. A goal will be to get new member appointments before the planning retreat. The Executive Committee agreed to take the initiative to recruit individuals for the vacant District 2 and Marine Science Practitioner positions. Names of potential candidates should be forwarded to Jeff Gallant for consideration by the Executive Committee. Dave Christensen agreed to work with the Commissioner's office on advertising and screening of applicants. Larry Lawson inquired whether youth representatives might be appropriate on the MRC. OTHER/ADMINISTRATIVE Dave Christensen introduced new Department of Natural Resources staff Barbara Bowen. He and Barbara will begin contacting each MRC member to get ideas on how best to support the MRC in its mission and goals. OBSERVER COMMENT Steve Hamm said he was impressed with the number of issues discussed. He sees in the MRC an experienced and dedicated group of individuals. PREPARE AGENDA / ADJOURN The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 7:00 PM in the Jefferson County Health Department conference room, Port Townsend, Washington. The meeting adjourned at 8:50 PM. MARINE RESOURCES COMMITIEE Jeff Gallant, Vice Chair