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<br />001924 <br /> <br />. Make sure cultural and recreational are part of the priorities. <br /> <br />. Need to be able to interact and clarify with AMWG outside of meetings. <br /> <br />. AMWG give direction, GCMRC and TWG makes workplan, then approve or change, <br />recommend to the SOT!. <br /> <br />. Walk-down table of each item and amount for priorities from TWG, based on guidance from <br />AMWG. Give AMWG something to shoot at (straw dog). <br /> <br />. Not sufficient to have simply annual budget. Need to do two-year and five-year planning <br />process. <br /> <br />Steps towards improvement: <br /> <br />. Clear direction from AMWG before development of workplan on priorities for the <br />future. <br /> <br />. Based on that clear direction from AMWG, the team to work on workplan development <br />includes GCMRC, PA, TWG, and BOR (for its piece of the budget). May have to include <br />AMWG as well. <br /> <br />2. Work with GCMRCand Science Advisors to ensure best science is incorporated into <br />recommendations. <br /> <br />What's working well? <br /> <br />,'-...'" <br /> <br />What needs improvement? <br /> <br />. Science needs to be separate from politics. If they are together, science is usually compromised. <br />AMWG needs to decide on experimental flows. <br /> <br />. Increased emphasis in socio-ecosystem - human-dominated ecosystem. <br /> <br />. Far less micro-management of the science. Science can be compromised by people getting too <br />deep into our business. Allow us to disengage from business activities of TWG and AMWG. <br />Including whether we contract out or do science in house, and how many computers we have. If <br />our products are meeting our needs, these shouldn't be discussed. <br /> <br />. Right balance between doing the science and coordinating the science isn't micro-management. <br /> <br />. Micromanaging budget process may be because priorities aren't set. <br /> <br />. That's the purpose of the AMWG - to ensure that w provide the best type of adaptive <br />management, oversee all the bodies that report to us. I don't know what GCMRC is all comprised <br />of, the products, next steps - I see a lot of things that come up on short turn-around basis that we <br />have to respond to. At that point, we do have to make decisions, and we may not make the best <br />decisions based on inadequate information. How do you create that balance? That management <br />of these things? We need to decide the best way to proceed. Compliance issues should be what <br />drives the recommendations. Trout removal was almost a done deal until tribes said they had <br />concerns - no consultation before that. Could set back the whole EA process. Need to make the <br />process work. GCMRC has to show us what they are doing, have to report to AMWG. <br /> <br />. Agree that TWG shouldn't micromanage, but competitive outsourcing ensures independent <br />science - not micromanaging. <br /> <br />. Separating science from politics - what does this mean? Don't know how you separate politics <br />and science. Schmidt et al 1998 - managers need to provide value judgment, scientists tell you <br />what the trade-offs are - cannot separate them. <br />