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Home My WebLink About2008-05-08 KRSMA Board Minutes%. Call to Order .~. Members Present: Joe Connors, Ted Wellman, Brenda Trefon, Curt Shuey, Richard Dykema., George I-Ieim, Richard flahn, James Czarneski, Bruce King, Gary Knopp, David Carey, Tom Vania, Jack Sinclair, Tim Stevens. %I. Public Comment Adam Reirner thanked the KRS~/IA board for the jcb it was doing. III. Agency 12eports A. Jack Sinclair, State Parks stated field operations are ramping up for state parks and th.e river is open. The River Center is busy as well. Legislature has adjourned and our budget is yet to be signed by the Governor, however all signs point to a very good budget for state parks, the largest increase in 23 years. We will be getting an additional maintenance person to help with our staff. It will be another busy year for capital improvement projects; Big Eddy and Morgan's Landing will be getting new latrines. Next year, we will have the new waterfront access at Morgan's Landing and possihty some work at Funny River and Slikok Creek. Briefed the River Use committee on the work that we are doing on the Public Use Study, trying to get an RFP that will be awarded by July ls~. This work will continue until fall of 200y. B. Tim Stevens, DEC spoke regarding the three grants they selected that would have direct or indirect implementation on the Kenai River. The grants were all issued to the Kenai Watershed Forum. One grant was to look at turbidity assessment starting in the month of July, the second was to finish the storm water mapping for the City of Kenai, and the third was toevaluate the Kenai Peninsula Borough's 50 ft habitat ordinance. In addition, we let out a contract last week to do some turbidity testing in May and June. C. Tom Vania, ADF'8aG reported that they are in the middle of the rainbow trout spawning closure until June 1 1~', 2008. New regulations state that from the outlet of Skilak to the Upper Killey is closed to all fishing. D. Igobiaa West, I{1VWI2 was not present. E. Jeni Evans, dJSF`S was not present. President's Report Dave Carey attended ~KPB Planning and Zoning meeting in. Homer and testified on a conditional use permit. The individual that wanted the conditional use permit didn't foiloa~through and did not own the property yet. Even if the property changes hands, it is not expected. that the P ~ Z will grant the CUP. Has worked on but not yet sent letter dealing with the hydrocarbon testing at mile 1.4 and 4.7 to request if possible aerial boat counts. Committee Reports a. Guide Advisory 1 p.m. I~RC Regular KRAB. Laid not meet today and will not meet during the summer. b. Eiabitat Committee. Met today and had a quorum. Prioritized. a list and scaled it out for a yearlong plan. The committee will take one issue, for example hydrocarbons testing and turbidity results and a presenter wiil come to the committee meeting and give updates. If we follow our schedule we will be able to cover all of our topics by the April 2009 meeting. Some of the other topics are watershed planning and borough land use regulations. The committee will review the habitat issues in the comprehensive plan, which is scheduled over 3 months, November, December, and January. The committee will look at road and culvert issues. Also, habitat education, with a plan to host one of the tables at next years Salmon Celebration. Tn April, mining issues will be looked at. This summer, the committee plans to keep in touch by email and meet as necessary. c. Recreation/River Use Committee Met today at 2:30. Had an opportunity for public members to introduce themselves. Update on RFP process and the scope. Discussed public boat launch at The Pillars. Discussed. the potential of trying to bring in other unregulated commercial users of the resource. Decided to have another meeting between May and June to discuss the scope of the recreational river use study and provide some advice to DNR about what should be in the scope. d. Permits Committee did not meet. Will meet on an as needed basis. e. Legisiative/Government Activities -not available f. Poard I3eve1®pmexxt Committee worked using email since our last meeting to develop Resolution 2008-12 regarding nomination policy and procedures. Meeting was planned today at 4 p.m. rather than 3 p.m. today, but did not meet. I{enai River Special Management Area Advisory Board Minutes -May 8, 200 'Page 2 of 5 ~. Agenda/Board Structure JFIouselgeeping Committee. The committee's purpose is to put items on the agenda, not to approve or disapprove of anything. Recommended that we add a Presidents Report as part of the agency reports. We agreed with the action items and we have numbered them to resolve that portion of the house cleaning process. Tne committee plans to meet during the summer as needed. Asked that Gary Knop~p be the vice chair. IV. Approval of Agenda and Consent Agenda KRSMA Advisory Board Minutes from 4-10-08, Joe Connors moved to approve the minutes. A. Committee Changes -River Use-Dave Erkhardt off, Ror. Rainey on. The motion to accept the agenda and the consent agenda with the amendment was passed. V. Cld Business and Action Items A. Resolution 2f5®S-I2 Domination Process-Curt Shuey Curt S. moved to approve Resolution 2008-12 Nomination Policy and Procedures, and was seconded. Curt moved to amend resolution 2008-12 proposed nomination process. Amendments to proposal included the following: Under Timeline, #5 now reads: 5. Hold a special Nomination meeting in late August for the purpose of developing a list of applicants. Under Timeline, #6 now reads: 6. Submit a list to the DNR Commissioner by September 1 (strive for at least 3 names per open seat). Under Nomination meeting, #2 now reads: 2. Incumbents of seats coming open will fully participate in the process. Under Nomination meeting, #4 remove everything beginning with "The Board will create". Keabai 12iver Special Management Area Advisory Board Minutes - iViay 8, 2008 Page 3 of 5 Amendment to resolution 2008-12 passed without audible opposition. Resolution 2008-12 amended passed unanimously without audible opposition. VI. I~esoflution ~®~~-c~4 amending tlxe resolution to combine IdegislatiVe Committee witkx 6lgenda/Board .~itructure/housekeeping. Joe Connors moved that resolution 2008-04 amended be brought before the board. Resolution 2008-04 amended passed unanimously withotitt audible opposition. VII. New Business Dick Hahn stated that he has been an advocate of broadening the board's voice in the community. Jack Sinclair stated that any member of the public could have their name added to the email distribution list. VYII. Correspondence .~. Update on letter sent to the Borough- Dave Carey reported that the Borough responded by sending a letter to the KRSMA board, as well as the Commissioner, of DIvR. In the letter, the Borough Mayor stated that information would be part of a study requested through a stewardship action grant working with the Kenai Watershed Forum and once the grant is completed, they could provide the information. B. Update on hydrocarhern totter -Dave Carey said the letter would be sent within the week. C. fn-Season Guide I~eplaeement Policy -Jack Sinclair stated Director James King would be here in two weeks for the Kasilof meeting and at that time they would discuss the In-Season Guide Replacement Policy. IX, Pulslic Comment Dwight Kramer thanked the board for keeping an open mind to change direction on an issue when it recognizes the right thing to do. X. Board Comments Curt asked for people to send an email about any concerns or questions about the nomination policy and procedures. Kenai River Special l~fa~~agement Area Advisory Board i4inutes-May b, 200 rage 4 of 5 Dick asked if we should incorporate the procedural changes on the board be put into the bylaws. Dave C. stated that a request was made to put comments back into the minutes for comments made by the public. XI. Adjournment A. DateJAgenda of Next Meetflng August 28, 2008 5:30 P.m. I{euai River Special Management Area Advisory hoard Minutes -May 8, 2008 Page 5 of 5