American River Watershed Group

Monthly Meeting

Thursday, Aug. 17, 2006

10:00 A.M. to 12 noon

http://arwg.net

Canyon View Community Center

471 Maidu Dr., Auburn, CA 95603

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10:00 a.m. – Call to Order Meeting

1. Check In (Name, How you are, Time Constraints, Who’s Missing? Elephants? Expectations?)

2. Review and Approval of Minutes from last meeting & Additions to the Agenda?

10:15 a.m. Discussion Leader, Bill Templin, “What do we mean by Collaboration and Capacity Building?”

11:00 a.m. Status Updates on Active Projects :(hopefully representatives of each project can be present to update us on the current status of each of these projects, or send an email update that we can share):

1. Sediment Dynamics Study (Results of Aug. 10 Tour, Plans for Tour to Star Fire, To Be announced…)
2. CABY (proposals due Sept. 15, 2006)
3. PCWA Middle Fork Project (Tours planned on Aug. 30 and Sept. 27, 2006
4. Auburn State Recreation Area General Plan Update
5. SEDD Wastewater Forum and Biomass Generation study
6. Upper American River Foundation & Granite Bay Flycasters partnership
7. ARWI Colfax Fuel Reduction Project and beyond
8. Colfax WWTP/Fuel Reduction/Biomass Generation collaborative (Mayor Joshua Alpine, Sept. 21 Speaker)
9. Implementation of the North Fork American River Watershed Plan & Stewardship Strategy
10. Others?

11:45: What’s on Your Mind? (ARWG Updates on Current Priority Watershed Issues):

11:55 a.m. NEXT MEETING (September 21, 2006, our speaker is Joshua Alpine, Colfax Mayor)

• Please RSVP if you are interested so we can arrange carpools and logistics

12:00 ADJOUN

Bill Templin, Watershed Coordinator, wtemplin@surewest.net 916-601-9954

You Should Visit Our Website http://arwg.net and Regional Web Portal: http://www.americanriverwatershed.net/ , our online repository for reports and resources of value to understanding the “State of Our Watershed”. Please add your valuable work to this site for us all to use!