GC 2010 PRRIP

• Description: Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎ Governance Committee ‎(GC)‎ Meeting agendas, contracts, emails, budgets, related reports, minutes, notes, etc. 2010
• State: CO
• State: NE
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/2010
• Author: Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎
• Title: Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎ Governance Committee ‎(GC)‎ Meeting documents for 2010
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Meeting

PRRIP — ED OFFICE DRAFT 04/0612010
87 At the March 3 meeting, the TAC approved revisions to the tern and plover and water quality
88 monitoring protocols. The TAC discussed and recommended the FC approve the Cottonwood
89 Ranch OCSW & Flow Consolidation Conceptual Design RFP. Chad Smith provided a
90 presentation on AMP implementation activities and next steps on prioritizing and sequencing
91 hypotheses. The TAC then held a long conversation on wet meadows and agreed to do an
92 information review on wet meadows without refinement of the wet meadows Conceptual
93 Ecological Model (CEM). The RFP focuses on gathering wet meadows information and the
94 TACT will work on taking that information and using it to help establish next steps on wet
95 meadows.
96
97 Kraus asked if wet meadows would be discussed during the GC meeting. Kenny said the only
98 item on the agenda relates to approval of the RFP Proposal Selection Panel. Kraus asked about
99 the discussion at the TAC regarding the Program's McCormick Tract. Besson said the focus was
100 on whether to clear trees on the parcel, if that land could be restored to wet meadows, and how it
101 relates to other surrounding properties.
102
103 Finance Committee (FQ
104 Purcell provided an update on the latest FC activities. The FC met on February 10 and approved
105 the next phase of the J -2 reservoir geotechnical contract and the Sediment Augmentation
106 Feasibility Analysis contract amendment. The FC recommended spending Program funds on the
107 geomorphology /in- channel vegetation monitoring atlas if the funds could be moved from another
108 existing Program budget line item. The FC approved the Directed Vegetation Research RFP.
109
110 The FC met again the morning of March 9 to discuss the indexing of Program funds. The FC
111 approved the recommendations from Lawson and seeks support of the GC at the meeting today.
112 The FC also approved the Cottonwood Ranch OCSW RFP. The ED Office will work with the
113 FC to develop standard consultant contract language.
114
115 Program Outreach Update
116 Presentations
117 • Bruce Sackett and Tim Tunnell hosted an appreciation with the landowners that were
118 kind enough to help us this year at river Anchor Points on December 10, 2009 at the
119 Kearney office. The Program's geomorphology and vegetation contractors gave a
120 presentation to the landowners on the years activities.
121 • Justin Brei presented on GIS and the Program to the Holdrege Rotary Club on January
122 28, 2010.
123 • Jerry Kenny and Beorn Courtney presented on the Program's Water Plan at Colorado
124 Water Congress on January 29, 2010.
125 • Bruce Sackett and Jason Farnsworth presented on the Program's Land Plan at the
126 Holdrege Water Conference on February 4, 2010.
127 • Chad Smith and David Baasch presented on the Adaptive Management Plan at the Tern
128 & Plover Annual Meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska on February 23, 2010.
This document is a draft based on one person's notes of the meeting. The official meeting minutes may be different if corrections are
made by the Governance Committee before approval.
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