New River Roundtable Steering Committee Meeting

January 4, 2005

New River Valley PDC

 

Members Attending:

Ron Powers                             Jerry Moles                  Kelly Miller

Darla Tucker                            Charlie Maus                Rick Roth

Cynthia Hancock                      Patrick Burton              Neal Kilgore-phone

Rachel Havens              Mike Harvey

 

Ron Powers called the meeting to order and welcomed those in attendance.

 

Mike Harvey made a motion to approve the minutes of the December 1, 2004 meeting.  Darla Tucker second.  Motion carried. 

 

Conference Call

Neal Kilgore, DCR Watershed Manager in the Abingdon Office and a member of the Upper TN River Roundtable joined the group by conference call. 

  • Neal informed the group of Senate Bill 523 if passed will be significant to Roundtables to provide a mechanism for funding.
  • Will be sending a copy of the Upper TN and Big Sandy Roundtable 501c3 paperwork for the group to review.  This may aid in the process of the NRR 501c3 applying for this status.
  • Will contact Dr. Davis and Don Gowan about speaking at the January 22 conference.
  • Discussed the procedures the Upper TN River Roundtable used to secure their Board of Directors.  They provided individual training (Director Orientation) for each member and a handbook for reference.
  •  Discussed the Environment Va Conference to be held at VMI on April 10.

 

Focus Group Reports

The Forestry Focus Group met on December 15, 2004.  The group discussed the following:

  • Discussed hosting a Spring Quail Workshop in the Skyline SWCD area in March.  Consensus of the group was to approve hosting the workshop.
  • Composed a Riparian Forest Buffer Tax Credit worksheet.  Rick Roth made a motion to accept.  Patrick Burton second.  Motion carried.  Will be publishing in newspapers in the near future. 
  • In the process of writing an article on tree planting.  When complete Kelly Miller will email to group for approval.
  • Comments from the SWCD survey passed out at the 2004 Area IV meeting will be compiled into a powerpoint presentation and given at the 2005 Area IV meeting.
  • Upper TN River Roundtable will be sponsoring a Grant Writing Workshop on January 20.  Kelly Miller and Darla Tucker may attend.

 

New River Land Trust

Landowner Meeting will be held, Tuesday, January 11th, from 7-9 p.m. in the Historic 1908 Grayson County Courthouse on U.S. 58. Suggestion was made for NRR to hand out information at the meeting.

 

January 22 Conference

  • Reviewed agenda.
  • Discussed the invitation list.  Who will be attending? How will decisions be made on who will serve?
  • Discussed covering positions that no one shows up for.  Steering Committee and Board of Directors will work together to find representative.
  • Kelly Miller will make sign-up sheets for groups of those who will be serving and those who participated in each group.
  • Discussed on where agency members will stand.  Decision was made for them to be on a technical advisory committee.
  • Steering Committee agreed to stay with Board for 1 year as the executive committee.  After the Board begins to function on their own, we will phase out.
  • Decided to wait until new Board of Directors gets familiar with the functions of the Roundtable then let them sign the Articles of Incorporation.
  • Decided to hold a meeting on January 11 to finalize the January 22 conference.

 

New River Community Foundation Grant

Final report will be reviewed at next weeks meeting.  Kelly will email copies for review.

 

The next meeting will be January 22, 2005 at the NRV Planning District Commission at 8:45 AM.