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Home My WebLink About2008-10-09 KRSMA Board PacketNI IEIt Special Management Area "Working together...for the river" Kenai River Special Management Area Advisorq Board *** Meeting Agenda*** Thursday, October 9, 2008 5:30 p.m. Kenai River Center Y. CALL TO ORDER A. Roll Call; B. Minutes Approval C. Agenda Changes and Approval II. PUBLIC COMMENT Special reports/presentations: A. Ellen Mailing, Campfire USA IIY. REPORTS A. Agency Reports a. State Parks -Sinclair, Kosto b. DEC- Stevens c. ADF8vG- Vania d. USF8i;WS- West e. USFS/Chugach- Eavis B. Committ ee Reports a. Guide Advisory b. Habitat c. River Use d. Permits e. Legislative/Government Activities f. Board Development g. Agenda/Board Structure/Housekeeping p.C~i~IJ OCT - 6 2~0~ FfEt~A~ ~I Ci,gK IV. OLD BUSINESS ACTION ITEMS A. Guide Replacement Resolution Response Letter from Division- Discussion/Connors B. Report on The Pillars and Bings Landing Parking concerns -Sinclair C. Legislative Briefing Proposal, November 13 -Sinclair V. NEW BUSINESS Kenai Area Office, PO Box 1247, Soldotna, AK 99669, 907-262-5581 "~ ^' ` ~~"" Kenai Peninsula Borough, 144 N. Binkley, Soldotna, AK 99669 907-262-4441 ~ '`~ Kenai River Center 514 Funny River Road, Soldotna, AK 99669, 907-260-4882 Alaska Division of Parks antl Outtloor Recreation, Departm~e~nt~ofiCiatural Rel~sources, in cooperation wish the Kenai Peninsula eorou9h C L ~ Y K IL A. Request assigning regulation review for discharge of firearms for the purpose of legal hunting on the KR Flats to committee- Sinclair VI. VII. PUBLIC COMMENT r. VIII. ADJOURNMENT A. Board Comments B. Date/Agenda of Next Meeting November 13, 2008 5:30 p.m. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board Minutes Kenai River Center Thursday September 11, 2008 5:30 p.m. I. Call to Order A. Members Present: Joe Connors, Ted Wellman, Brenda Trefon, Curt Shuey, Richard Dykema, James Czarnezki, David Carey, Jack Sinclair, Tim Stevens, Bruce King, Gary Knopp, Tom Vania. B. The Minutes for August 28, 2008 were approved as written. C. Agenda Changes and Approval included the additian of item C, Discussion of Director's Response to Resolution 2008-08. II. Public Comment The following made public comment: Adam Reimer: Regarding Pillars parking and the DNR regulation process Dwight Kramer: Regarding Pillars parking plus Bings Landing. Also regarding nomination selection process for the board. Those who commented concerning the duck blinds on the Kenai Flats included: Steve Meyer Jess Richardson Rod Nelson Bill Sleasman Rick Richardson Others present for duck blind concern were: Adrian Zimmer and Christine Cunningham. III. Old Business A. Committee Reports Guide Advisory 9/ 11/08, committee did not meet. Joe Connors reported on two new items to be aware of: the first is TWIC, (Transportation Worker Identification Credential) which involves licensing of guides. Per the Coast Guard all guides will need to get one of these before they can guide next year. The second is the Department of Fish and Game has just released a draft document dealing with the creation of a Sport Fish Guide Services Board. It is a working document, 16 pages long and is on their website. The draft document includes authorizing the proposed Sport Fish Guide Services Board to establish as necessary a maximum number of SF Guides that could operate within a Sport Fish Guide Use Unit (limited entry). Habitat 9/11/08, committee did not meet. Recreation/River Use 9/ 11/®8, committee did not meet. Waiting on the award of the Recreation Use Survey contract. Permit 9/ 11/08, committee did not meet. The permit committee commented on one conditional use permit application in late May, early June, which was in Castaway Cove. The planning commission did not issue the conditional use permit. Legislative/Government Activities 9/ 11/08, committee did not meet. Board Development 9/ 11/08, 3 p.m. KRC -Curt Suuey reported two items the committee discussed. The first was a follow up to this year's board development workshop, possibly scheduling it for early December. The second -item, was reviewing, he nomination process, which was used in last, month's meeting. The committee reviewed several suggestions for the nomination process. One was to move the date back a month and have the names to the commissioner by October 1St rather than September 1St. Another suggestion was considering a different method for the nomination process. Both items will be action items at the next board meeting. Agenda/Board Structure/Housekeeping 9/ 11/08, committee did not meet. A. Kenai River Center /State Parks Report Jack Sinclair, ADNR/Parks, reported on activity on the Kenai River. As of September 4th there were 30 written warnings for 2-strokes given out on the river. There were 25 warnings for over 50-hp, below the bridge. Total citations for the river to date are 272 citations. Of which, 94 were fishing (7 written warnings), 68 park violations (51 were written warnings), 43 boating violations (39 written warnings), 57 traffic violations in the parks (4 written warnings), 10 guide violations (five were for false statements). New concrete toilets were installed at Big Eddy, Slikok Creek, and Morgan's Landing. State Parks was involved with a project with Kenai Watershed Forum at Bing's Landing, which involves the eradication of reed-canary grass. The RFP for the public use study for the Kenai River was released on July 24, 2008. Evaluations will be completed on 9/22/08, a notice of intent to award will be issued on the following day 9/23/08. By October 13, 2008 the contract should be officially issued and the contract starts immediately. On November 1St, 2008 the plan is to finalize a mutually agreeable study plan. The next task will be to complete focus groups and past analysis. Then conducting field operations and surveys from May 15tt', 2009 to September 1, 2009. The initial report will be due back October 15th, 2009 and final report due on March 1St, 2010. This winter driving piles for new walkways at Morgan's Landing and Funny River will commence. Pam Russell, ADNR/Parks, reported on the Commercial Operator Trends and Statistics. Attached. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board -Minutes September 11, 2008 Page 2 of 4 Tom Vania, ADF&G, said that the document on the Fish and Game website is draft language from the Guide Services board. It is not draft legislative language at this time. It was put out there for comments, which you can post and read. The department will be visiting communities all over the state in October and November to present this information for gathering additional comments for changes, modifications, and review of the language. He will let us know when the Soldotna meeting will be. Tim Stevens, DEC, reported their contractors did two types of water sampling on the Kenai River this summer. Information is currently preliminary. Water sampling was done on July 19'h, 20~, and 22nd for hydrocarbons on river mile 10, 5, and 1.5. Approximately 300 samples were collected. The two highest samples collected had hydrocarbons roughly at 7 parts per billion (2 out of the 300 samples) at the river mile 1.5. At river mile 5, hydrocarbons were slightly aver 5 parts per billion, and at river mile 20~ slightly under5 parts per biilion. Most of the samples were collected at a time when boats were on the river. On the average, there was around 4 parts per billion or less. One year ago at River mile 1.5, it was 23 ppb BTX. We've reduced by two-thirds the amount of the hydrocarbons that go into the river at this time of year. Boat numbers were less this year -around 600, last year there were around 700 boats counted on the busiest day in July. The other type of study was turbidity testing. A certain number of samples need to be gathered at different seasons to establish a variance for a natural background. This may take 2 years or longer. B. Discussion of Director's Resgonse Dave Carey stated that director James King was open to discussion of the Guide Replacement Resolution #2008-08' Three board members had concerns that the response did little to help the guide replacement issue. Since the response document was only given to most of the board at the beginning of the meeting it was decided to table the discussion until the board had time to read and digest the response. A more full discussion is planned for the October meeting. IV. 1Vew Business No new business V. Action Items No new business VI. Public Comment Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board -Minutes September 12, 2008 Page 3 of 4 The following made public comment, Dwight Kramer asked for clarification on boundaries for state park and city Land on the Kenai Flats. VII. Adjournment A. Board Comments Ted commented that he would like to address the Pillars parking issue, the lower Kenai River boat launch proposal by the City of Kenai, and duck blinds within State Parks at the next meeting. He asked that a representative from the City of Kenai be requested to attend. Joe Connors asked that everyone look through the notes on the Guide Replacement resolution for next months meeting. ~. Date/Agenda of Next Meeting October 9, ~®0$, 5>3® p.m. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board -Minutes September ll, 2008 Page 4 off 4