Document Actions
Committee Tasks and Next Actions (Summer 2007)
| Creeks Committee Meetings |
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| Determine upcoming meeting date(s) | July 13, Sept ??, November ?? |
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| Choose Conference Call service |
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Consider Long-Distance, Toll-Free, and Skype / Wengo call-in options
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HighSpeedConferencing.com offers long-distance, toll-free, and Skype-based options HSC was chosen for July meeting to test service |
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| Find central meeting location(s) with Conference Call ability | |
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Consider 1330 Broadway via SCC? |
State Coastal Conservancy's 11th Floor conference room was chose for July meeting |
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Consider Oakland State Building via SFEP? |
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Consider other locations? |
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| Online Committee Listserv | |
| Convert YahooGroups listervs to Plone Listen mailing list | |
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SFBJV Creeks Announce |
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SFBJV Creeks Discuss |
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SFBJV Riparian Buffers |
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SFBJV Infrastructure Barriers |
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| Infrastructure Barriers Working Group | |
| Infrastructure Barriers White Paper | |
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Complete final edits to draft white paper |
Final edits were made to summary white paper and distributed to SFBJV Management Board for approval |
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Identify lead partners for implementation of tasks that have been identified |
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| Union Pacific Railroad Crossing at Pinole Creek | |
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Contact Jennifer Robinson (Friends of Pinole Creek) for additional info |
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Contact Drew Goetting (Restoration Design Group) for additional info |
Phil Stevens (Urban Creeks Council) has followed up with Drew and will report at the July meeting |
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Contact Cece Sellgren (Contra Costa County Public Works Department) for more information on potential U.S. Coast Guard regulations |
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Contact Brenda Buxton (State Coastal Conservancy) for information railroad crossing issues in the South Bay Salt Pond |
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| CalFish.org Barrier Tracking Database | |
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Contact Michael Bowen (State Coastal Conservancy) regarding Bay Area efforts |
Phil Stevens (Urban Creeks Council) has followed up with Michael and will report at the July meeting |
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Contact Paul Atwood (Water Resources Center Archive) regarding UC Berkeley's catalog of dam removal projects |
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Determine how committee members can best use the existing tools available |
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| Operation and Maintenance Manuals (OMMs) | |
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Determine specific concerns from committee members with existing OOMs |
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Contact Thomas Kendall (U.S. Army Corps) regarding meeting to discuss OMMs |
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Contact Sandra Finnegan (CalTrans) regarding OMMs and other potential collaborations
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| Riparian Buffers Working Group | |
| Riparin Buffers Fact Sheets | |
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Develop a dissemination plan for the fact sheets to help focus outreach efforts to specific audiences
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Develop a flowchart showing the relationships between various agencies to help guide outreach |
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Compile draft factsheets using simple language that avoids jargon and provide easy-to-understand definitions and simple explanatory diagrams |
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Examples: Use "Neighborhood" instead of "watershed" and "Polluted urban runoff" instead of "nonpoint source pollution" |
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Contact Clark Anderson (Local Government Commission) re: collaboration with the Ahwahnee Water Principles Guidebook and factsheets |
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Contact Sarah Puckett (Natural Heritage Institute) re: riparian buffer projects in East Contra Costa |
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| Factsheet 1: Riparian Buffer Backgrounder | |
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Focus short-term efforts on the first introductory sheet and allow the others to become inserts to this more general backgrounder |
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| Factsheet 2: Essential Elements of Successful Riparian Ordinances | |
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Identify good examples of the watershed ordinances from the SF Bay Area, CA, and/or US |
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| Factsheet 3: Riparian Buffers and Private Property - Protecting Your Land from Erosion, Flooding, and Degradation (working title only) | |
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Investigate Contra Costa projects from Urban Creeks Council for good Urban Examples |
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Investigate RCD projects and/or Defenders of Wildlife for good suburban examples |
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Investigate PRBO Conservation Science projects from Marin for good rural examples |
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| Factsheet 4: Economic and Community Benefits of Riparian Buffers and Watershed Restoration | |
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Compile information on the beneficial economic and community impacts of riparian buffers |