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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2010-02-11 KRSMA Board MinutesKENAI RIVER Special Management Area "Working together...for the river" CALL TO ORDER A. Roll Call B. Minutes Approval C. Agenda Changes and Approval II. Public Comments /Presentations Speaker Series Presentations: Warren Finley- KPB Ordinance Enforcement Officer John Czarnezki- KPB Planner- HPO 21.18 Ordinance Review III. REPORTS A. Agency and Government Reports a. State Parks Sinclair, Russell b. DEC- Stevens c. ADF &G- Vania/ Begich d. USF &WS- Schmidt e. USFS /Chugach- Skibo f. City of Kenai- Ogle g. City of Soldotna- Micciche h. Kenai Peninsula Borough- Carey B. Committee Reports a. President's Report b. Guide Advisory c. Habitat d. River II e. Permits 1. Legislative /Government Activities g. Board Development h. Agenda /Board Structure /Housekeeping IV. OLD BUSINESS ACTION ITEMS A. B. C. V. NEW BUSINESS A. B. VI. CORRESPONDENCE VII. PUBLIC COMMENT Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board Meeting Agenda Thursday, February 11,2010 5:30 p.m. Gilman River Center VIII. ADJOURNMENT A. Board Comments B. Date /Agenda of Next Meeting March 11, 2010 5:30 p.m. C N RECEIVED F EB -.6 2010 1 E CITY Y CLERK Kenai Area Office, PO Box 1247, Soldotna, AK 99669, 907 262 -5581 Kenai Peninsula Borough, 144 N. Binkley, Soldotna, AK 99669 907 262 -4441 Gilman River Center 514 Funny River Road, Soldotna, AK 99669, 907- 260 -4882 Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, Oepartmentatural Resources, in cooperation with the Kenai Peninsula Borough KEN A1ER Call to Order 9. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board Minutes Gilman River Center Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:30 p.m. A. Members Present: Joe Connors, Brenda Trefon, Carol Padgett, George Heim, Adam Reimer, James Czarnezki, Bruce King, Terri Carter, David Carey, Peter Micciche, Wayne Ogle, Val Urban, Tom Vania, Jack Sinclair, Tim Stevens. B. The Minutes for December 10, 2009, Dave Carey asked that minutes be changed under number V New Business, Item B to add in the words "on the west" before Cook Inlet. Minutes were approved. C. Agenda Changes and Approval: Joe McCullough was added to the Public Comment /Presentation; Added a discussion of the upper Kenai River Guide Association under New Business Item B; Under Reports, Item A, sub item D, Robin West will be replaced with Janet Schmidt or Val Urban for USF Removed Item A on Old Business, II. Public Comments /Presentations Speaker Series Presentations: Brad Zubeck Gave an update on the Kenai Hydro project at Grant Lake. Joe McCullough Spoke regarding boating safety program. III. Reports A. Agency and Government Reports a. State Parks, Jack Sinclair, stated parks is working on finalizing plans for Morgan's Landing construction of platforms, walkways, and stairs. Funny River will get new platforms, floating dock, and gangway. Pillars will get 13 planks added to the boat launch, starting mid -April 2010. Pam Russell, stated guide packets are going out in the mail this week. Jacques Kosto, gave a report on the 2009 Kenai River Field Operations. b. DEC, Tim Stevens, stated the AWCA grant solicitation has gone out for public notice on January 4 and it will be open and accepting applications through February 19` Work would begin for those selected projects starting July 1 2010. There are 3 proposals for the Kenai River; one is to solicit a hydrocarbon sampling on a watershed wide basis, similar to what the Kenai Watershed Forum has been doing for the past 10 years. The second is turbidity testing in July. Last is an education campaign for property owners along the Kenai River for storm water management. There is also a stewardship action that deals with storm water management, mostly for local governments, thought we would try to get some input for No- Name Creek, Soldotna Creek, and Slikok Creek. c. ADF &G, Tom Vania, nothing to report. d. USF &WS, Val Urban, nothing to report. e. USFS /Chugach, Bobbi Jo Skibo, was not present. f. City of Kenai, Wayne Ogle, stated the Beluga Whale presentation is also being held at Kenai Central High School tonight; there is a lot of interest in what is being said as far as our bluff erosion project and our discharge permit for wastewater treatment plant is of keen interest. The effort is to extend the public hearing process longer than the end of January. City of Soldotna, Mayor Peter Micciche, no Kenai River property within Soldotna City Limits exchanged hands in 2009 and no building permits until Tate fall. It seems that riverbank activity has slowed down. A couple of things are coming up: the agency folks wit be hearing from the Watershed Forum for our vision 2030 new Comp Plan. We plan to have a short afternoon meeting and create a top 10 list of what agencies with jurisdiction in Soldotna think would be important for consideration to put in the Comp Plan. Hopefully we can get a representative from each agency for this meeting. Working on new parking ordinance that we are going to be bringing to City Parks and Recreation to reduce parking requirements in the City of Soldotna. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board Minutes January 14, 2010 Page 1 of 3 B. Committee Reports VI. CORRESPONDENCE h. Kenai Peninsula Borough, Mayor Dave Carey, commented on three items. First, received a 30 -day time extension for comments on Beluga Whale Critical Habitat; Second item, the assembly agreed to an exchange of and at the Gilman River Center, the City of Soldotna is re- aligning Funny River Road, by taking out the s -curve by the airport and making it a much more casual and allow for additional airplane parking and additional parking at the Gilman River Center. The Gilman River Center is trading the same square footage with the City of Soldotna. Third item, pleased with response for the re -write of ordinance 21.18 on habitat protection on rivers and streams of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, 34 people have volunteered to be part of the working group. a. President's Report, was pleased with the amount of participation in committee meetings today. b. Guide Advisory, had a meeting today and worked on several issues. Discussed changes in traditional behavior on the river in terms of fishing methods, because there was some conflict this past year. Worked with State Parks in adding an insert to the guide mailing, regarding this type of behavior. The other issue discussed was anchoring. c. Habitat, met a couple times since last KRSMA meeting. One item discussed was the symposium. Second item discussed was how the habitat committee and KRSMA board is going to interact with the borough and the mayor in the 21.18 review. The committee is going to prepare a letter outlining ideas on how that can be accomplished and some of the things the committee thinks would help aid the process, for consideration by the board as a whole to be submitted to Mayor Carey. d. River Use, the river use committee met today and had Joe McCullough brief committee on boating safety program and current available information. e. Permits, did not meet. f. Legislative /Government Activities, Dave Carey asked that all Committee chairs look over the "Pre Filed" bills to see if any topics before the Legislature that concerns KRSMA. Also, yes, I will be in Juneau for the Alaska Conference of Mayor's meeting and the Alaska Municipal League meetings the first few days of February and if there are requests for information or comments regarding KRSMA topics, I would be glad to be of assistance as the Borough's rep on the KRSMA Board. 9. IV. OLD BUSINESS ACTION ITEMS Board Development, met briefly to discuss board officer election process. h. Agenda /Board Structure /Housekeeping did not meet. A. Steering Committee for the Watershed Symposium, Bruce King, habitat committee sponsoring a two -day symposium on Watershed Planning and Quality in 2011. Made a motion that the board authorizes the formation of a steering committee to plan a 2 day symposium in the fall of 2011 on the subject of Watershed Planning. Jim C. seconded. Motion passed unanimously. V. NEW BUSINESS A. Board Officer Elections Joe Connors was elected President; Jim Czarnezki was elected Vice President. B. Upper Kenai River Guide Association George Heim- Despite a press release to the contrary, there is no Upper Kenai River Professional Guide Association. There was an organizational meeting in Cooper Landing in December but it was the consensus of the group of approximately 12 individuals present that there was no need to form an Association but rather that we should meet informally for the time being. However, the individual who called the meeting to explore the idea went ahead on his own after the meeting and issued a press release stating that 50 guides had formed an association and also outlined the mission of the association. Since this has caused a lot of negative feedback in the press, George wanted to make the board aware of the actual nature of the meeting Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board Minutes January 14, 2010 Page 2 of 3 Outgoing: DEC thanks for HPO study funding Pam Russell included an email in the KRSMA packets, regarding the Kenai Hydro Project from the Friends of Cooper Landing, Inc. VII. PUBLIC COMMENT None VIII. ADJOURNMENT A. Board Comments Tim Stevens stated he missed an item on the grant solicitation, which are stewardship items were they would ask local governments to look at habitat those local ordinances that deal with water quality. Jim Czarnezki commented the permit committee and board development committees need more membership if anyone is interested. B. Date /Agenda of Next Meeting February 11, 2010 5:30 p.m. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board Minutes January 14, 2010 Page 3 of 3