New River Watershed Roundtable, Inc.

P.O. Box 1506Dublin, VA • 24084 • phone 540-643-2590


shared calendar at <http://calendar.yahoo.com/newriverwatershedroundtable>

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Friday, January 6, 2006, 9:00-12:00

Wytheville Community College, 220 Carroll Hall


Board Meeting Agenda

 

 

INTRODUCTIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Welcome;  list of expected guests, sign in sheet

Events of Interest coming up (also see webcalendar)

 

REPORTS

NRWR Committee Reports

Executive Committee, Ron Powers

501(c)3 status, Ron Powers

            conflict of interest statement

            financial plan

“State of the River” Project, Rick Roth

Focus Groups Committee

            Forestry Focus Group, David Richert

            River Cleanup Focus Group, Mike Smith

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Cynthia Hancock, Skyline SWCD

 

TMDL program for water quality improvement in the New River basin, Jason Hill, DEQ

 

 

OLD BUSINESS

Minutes of October 05 meeting (motion to approve)

WQIF proposals submitted from New River watershed, Tim Ott

 

 

 

NEW BUSINESS

Foundation for Virginia’s Natural Resources, Bob Denton

 

New River Highlands Resource Conservation & Development, Gary Boring

 

Motion to expand the Board by 2 seats to include institutions of higher education [bylaws Article VI, Section 1]

Motion to appoint Darla Jennings to the Executive Committee [bylaws VII, 1]

Motion to appoint Tamim Younos to the Board as a representative from Virginia Tech for a 2 year term, January 2006-January 2008 [bylaws VI,4]  see bio provided

NEW BUSINESS, continued

 

Motion to appoint NRWR representative and alternate to the Virginia Watersheds Alliance.  VaWA plans to meet from 1:00-4:00 pm on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at the Environment Virginia Conference in Lexington.  They also meet by teleconference calls.

 

Officers for Jan 1-Dec 31, 2006 [bylaws IV, 2]

            need vice-chair

 

Committee Structure and Membership

            sign up sheets

 

Citizen Monitoring and K-12 support, Llyn Sharp

 

OTHER

 

 

 

NEXT MEETINGS

Board Meetings

Friday, April 7, 2006, WCC Grayson Commons

Friday, July 7, 2006, WCC Grayson Commons

Friday, October 6, 2006, WCC Grayson Commons

Friday, January 5, 2007, TBA

 

ExComm Thurs, Feb. 2, 9:30-11:30, NRVCC Conference Room (to be confirmed)

ExComm Thurs, Mar 2, 9:30-11:30 NRVCC Conference room (to be confirmed)

 

Forestry Focus Group February 6, 2006

 

ACTION ITEMS

 

 

 

 

 


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