主页My WebLink关于01-25-16 WRC Draft Minutes Final 1 January 25, 2016 2 Draft Meeting Minutes 3 4 Members Attending: 5 Name Representation Lynn Leopold P Municipal Jim McGarry P EMC Liaison Jon Negley E Soil & Water Frank Proto P At-Large Elaine Quaroni P At-Large Marjorie Rinaldo-Lee P Environment Michael Thorne P At-Large Michelle Henry P Associate Member Roxy Johnston P Associate Member Jose Lozano P Associate Member John Mawdsley A Associate Member Todd Miller P Associate Member Steve Penningroth P Associate Member Tom Vawter P Associate Member Linda Wagenet P Associate Member Jennifer Turner P TC Planning 7 Guests: Nicole Henry, Nosheen Fazal, Joanne Trutko 8 9 Chairman Frank Proto opened the meeting at approximately 4:20 PM. 10 11 Agenda Review and Approval of Minutes –Moved by John Andersson, seconded by Barry Goodrich, 12 to approve the minutes from December 21, 2015 meeting minutes were approved by unanimous vote. 13 Final WRC minutes are posted on the webpage: http://tompkinscountyny.gov/planning under Advisory 14 Boards. 15 16 Nominating Committee – Elaine Quaroni, on behalf of the Nominating Committee, made the motion to 17 nominate Joanne Trutko to an Associate member seat, seconded by Chris Bordlemay, and approved by 18 unanimous vote by present members. 19 20 Election of Officers – Elaine Quaroni made the recommendation to appoint Darby Kiley as Chair, Frank 21 Proto as first Vice-Chair and Liz Cameron as second Vice-Chair on behalf of the Nominating Committee. 22 Moved by Jim McGarry, seconded by Lynn Leopold to accept the slate the Nominating Committee 23 presented for 2016. Hearing no nominations from the floor, the 2016 slate was approved by all members, 24 with no opposition. 25 26 WRC 2016 Work Plan – Joan Jurkowich presented a summary and reported on the nine priority 27 strategies of the Water Quality Strategy, noting the tentative schedule that focuses on the work of the 28 Council over the next three years. Members were asked to suggest other work items for 2016. After 29 Name Representation Sharon Anderson E Cooperative Extension John Andersson P At-Large Fay Benson P Agriculture James Balyszak E At-Large Chris Bordlemay P Water Purveyor Cynthia Brock E Recreation Ed Bugliosi P USGS ex officio Liz Cameron P T C Environmental Health Sarah Dwyer P At-Large Bill George E Municipal Barry Goodrich P Watershed Organization Joan Jurkowich P TC Planning Dooley Kiefer P Associate Member Darby Kiley P Municipal TOMPKINS COUNTY WATER RESOURCES COUNCIL 2 discussion of all items, the WRC agreed to work on the following priority action items from the Water 30 Quality Strategy: 31 32 Participate in the update of the NYS Section 303(d) List of Impaired/TMDL Waters. 33 Keep municipal and county officials informed of existing federal/state/local wetland regulations 34 and changes to those regulations. 35 Provide comment on the High Hazard Pipeline Inventory. 36 Encourage completion of watershed assessments on remaining watersheds and disseminate 37 resulting information. 38 Continue participation in DEC’s Modeling Study/TMDL development activities. 39 Develop a systematic approach to data collection and analysis for potential pollutants. 40 Review existing watershed rules and recommend appropriate changes. 41 42 In addition, the WRC identified the following additional activity: Soil Health. 43 44 Members submitted a list of committees they would be interested in serving on. 45 46 Members discussed their concerns with manure being dumped near Ellis Hollow Creek Road. 47 Suggestions were made to call the Health Department. 48 49 Committee Reports - Wetlands – Darby Kiley reported that the Wetlands mapping has been completed 50 and an update will be provided by Nick Hollingshead at the next Water Resources Council meeting on 51 February 22. Grants – The Grants Committee did not meet. 52 53 Announcements – Members thanked Frank Proto for his many years’ service as Chair on the Water 54 Resources Council. It was announced that Liz Moran will be giving a presentation on the Cayuga Lake 55 Modeling Project at the Water Resources Council meeting February 22. Darby Kiley announced that 56 committee annual reports are due February 1st. Lynn Leopold announced that the next City of Ithaca 57 Recreation Committee meeting will be held at the Ithaca Youth Bureau on January 28th at 3 PM, and will 58 be discussing the possibility of renting power boats. Members discussed the possibility of making 59 comments on the clean boating regulations. John Andersson announced a stormwater management 60 training that will take place Dryden Fire Hall on February 17. Roxy Johnston announced the City of 61 Ithaca will hold a meeting on the stormwater issues on January 27, and later that same day the Cayuga 62 Lake Watershed Intermunicipal Organization will have a meeting. 63 64 Adjournment -- The meeting adjourned at 5:35 PM. 65 66 Respectfully submitted, 67 Jennifer Turner, Administrative Assistant 68 Tompkins County Planning Department 69 Approved by Council on February 22, 2016 70 71 72 73 74 75