2009 Meeting dates for CHNEP Committees

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• Policy Committee

• Management Committee

• Citizens Advisory Committee

  • CAC Reservoir Subcommittee

  • CAC Environmental Progress Subcommittee

• Technical Advisory Committee

  • Committee to Review MFLs (PDF @ 77 KB): September 24 from 9:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Charlotte County Eastport Office

• Science Forum

Subcommittee meetings:

• CHNEP Project and Publication Peer Review Subcommittee: September 29

• CAC Grants Committee: October 2

• Reservoir Subcommittee

• CAC Environmental Progress Subcommittee: This subcommittee will likely continue to meet the afternoons of many of the regularly scheduled CAC meetings.

Policy Committee

• Monday, March 16, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 at South Florida Community College 92968 US 17 North: Agenda packet (PDF @ 2,786 KB) , Item 10: Draft workplan (PDF @ 458 KB)
• Monday, May 18, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 at Charlotte County Cultural Center (2280 Aaron St, Port Charlotte, 941/625-4175): Agenda packet (PDF @ 2,721 KB)
• Monday, August 17, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 at the South Florida Community College in Arcadia:
  • Agenda packet (PDF @ 6,533 KB)
  • Agenda packet without the appendix of agenda item 6: Seagrass Target Development Report (pages 124-149, PDF @ 3,213 KB)
  • Pages 124-149 of packet (PDF @ 3,364 KB)
  • Revised Agenda Item #6 (PDF @ 5,334 KB)
  • Presentation Agenda Item #6 Water Quality Targets Refinement Seagrass Targets (PDF @ 260 KB)
• Monday, November 16, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 at the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council in Fort Myers: Agenda packet (PDF @ 2,498 KB)

Management Committee

• Monday, March 2, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 at South Florida Community College 92968 US 17 North (changed 12/29 from February 27): Agenda packet (PDF 2 2.6 MG)
• Friday, May 1, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 at Charlotte County Cultural Center (2280 Aaron St, Port Charlotte, 941/625-4175): Agenda packet (PDF @ 1,109 KB)
• Friday, July 31, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 at the South Florida Community College in Arcadia: Agenda packet (PDF @ 3,522 KB)
  • There will be an optional overview of the CHNEP at 9:00 for those who wish to attend.
• Friday, October 30, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 at the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council in Fort Myers: Agenda packet (PDF @ 2018, KB)

Citizens Advisory Committee

• Wednesday, February 18, 2009 from 10 to noon at South Florida Community College in Bowling Green. The CAC Nominating Committee will meet at 9:45. The CAC Environmental Progress Committee will meet immediately following the CAC meeting.
  • CAC agenda with select attachments (PDF @ 720 KB)
  • 3b: CHEVWQMN Citizen Summary (PDF @ 1,521 KB)
  • 3c: Evaluating the Risks of Pharmaceuticals to Caloosahatchee River Wildlife: Observations of Bull Sharks (PDF @ 583 KB)
  • 7b: CHNEP FY10 Workplan (PDF @ 785 KB)
  • 7l: CHEVEWQMN, CCHM and Seagrass Monitoring Program with Estuary Specific Optical Models (PDF @ 5,125 KB)
• Wednesday, April 22, 2009i(changed 2/20 from April 15) from 10 to noon at Charlotte County Cultural Center (2280 Aaron St, Port Charlotte, 941/625-4175): Agenda packet (PDF @ 567 KB), 3b: FY10 Workplan (PDF @ 530 KB),
  • Applications for voting status: Al Yeno, Cliff Fredrickson, John Phillips
• Wednesday, July 15, 2009 from 9:30 to 3:00 (meeting will be from 10 to noon and post-meeting session will be from 1:30 to 3) at the South Florida Community College in Arcadia: Agenda (PDF @ 53 KB) Agenda packet (PDF @ 3,082 KB)
  • 3b: Water Quality Targets Refinement Project Seagrass Targets (PDF @ 4,581 KB)

  • 3c Charlotte Harbor Aquatic Preserve Water Quality and Seagrass Comparison Report (PDF @ 5,109 KB)

  • 11: Southwest Florida/Charlotte Harbor Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (PDF @ 6,997 KB)
  • 11: Presentation (PDF @ 3,776 KB)
• Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council in Fort Myers (to develop the 2010 calendar)
• Wednesday, October 21, 2009 from 9 to 12:30 at Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve: Agenda packet (2,814 KB)

Technical Advisory Committee

• Wednesday, January 14, 2009 in Myakka City. This meeting was cancelled as of October 28, 2008.
• Wednesday, February 11, 2009 from 1:30 to 4:30 at South Florida Community College in Bowling Green: Agenda with Summaries (210 KB) and Agenda packet (8 MG)

  • 7: Presentation for comparison of CHEVWQMN, CCHM and Seagrass Monitoring Programs with Estuary Specific Optical Models (PDF @ 930 KB)

  • 8: Presentation on water quality targets refinement segmentation scheme (PDF @ 895 KB)

• Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at Charlotte County Cultural Center (2280 Aaron St, Port Charlotte, 941/625-4175): Agenda (PDF @ 146 KB), Agenda packet (PDF @ 15,399 KB)
  • Draft minutes of the February 2009 meeting (added 4/6)
  • Agenda item 5: Science Forum summary (PDF @ 38 KB)
  • Agenda item 6: workshop on watershed reservoirs update (PDF @ 231 KB)
  • Agenda item 7: Comparison of CHEVWQMN, CCHMN and Seagrass Monitoring Programs, a project funded as a technical project in FY08 (PDF @ 9165 KB)
  • Agenda item 8: Water qualtiy targets refinement: Draft seagrass targets for Charlotte Harbor, a project funded as a technical project in FY09 (PDF @ 5,895 KB)
  • Agenda item 9: Fate and transport of Caloosahatchee ETM sediment, a reserach and restoration partner grant project funded in FY07 (PDF @ 2,496 KB)
  • Agenda item 10: Impaired waters update - draft verified list for group 2 and Charlotte Harbor (PDF @ 1,997 KB)
  • Agenda item 11: FY10 workplan (PDF @ 375 KB)
  • Agenda item 12: Advocacy and review update (PDF @ 25 KB)
  • Agenda item 13 and 14: Estero Bay ABM and NEP program reports (PDF @ 13 KB)
• Wednesday, June 10, 2009: cancelled as of March 23
• Wednesday, July 8, 2009 from 1:30 to 4:00 at the South Florida Community College in Arcadia: Agenda with directions (PDF @ 71 KB) Agenda packet (PDF @ 1,1997 KB) except:
  • 5: Peace River MFL presentation (PDF @ 1,747 KB)
  • 6: Southwest Florida/Charlotte Harbor Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (PDF @ 6,997 KB)
  • 6: Presentation (PDF @ 3,776 KB)

  • 8: Water Quality Targets Refinement Project Seagrass Targets (PDF @ 4,581 KB)

  • 9: Charlotte Harbor Aquatic Preserve Water Quality and Seagrass Comparison Report (PDF @ 5,109 KB)

• Wednesday, September 9, 2009 in Punta Gorda. Cancelled in February.
• Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council in Fort Myers: Agenda (PDF @ 1,968 KB)
  • 6: Mapping Predevelopment Land Cover and Surface Waters in the CHNEP in Charlotte and Manatee Counties by Barry Wharton, HDR
  • 7: FDEP Phosphate Mining Permitting and Reclamation Research by Michelle Hameling, FDEP

Science Forum

• Wednesday, February 11, 2009 from 8:30 to 11:50 at South Florida Community College in Bowling Green: Agenda
  • Presentation on SCCF's river, estuary and coastal observing network (RECON) and related water quality and SAV research (PDF @ 6,515 KB)
  • Presentation on Wulfert Flats Pole and Troll Zone in the Pine Island Sound Aquatic Preserve (PDF @ 1,112 KB)
  • Presentation on smalltooth sawfish research in Florida: Overview of what we've learned since ESA listing (PDF @ 4,757 KB)
  • Presentation on proposed critical habitat designation for the endangered smalltooth sawfish (PDF @ 353 KB)
• Wednesday, April 8, 2009 from 8:30 to noon at Charlotte County Cultural Center (2280 Aaron St, Port Charlotte, 941/625-4175): Agenda (PDF @ 137 KB)
• Wednesday, June 10, 2009 in Lakeland at the Polk Nature Discovery Center at Circle B Bar Reserve (located changed 3/23) from 9:30 to 2:30: Agenda
  • Presentation on Winter Haven's Restoration Planning (PDF @ 6,776 KB) by Mike Britt, Winter Haven
  • Presentation on Polk Count Water Quality Improvement Projects (PDF @ 6,403 KB) by Bob Kollinger, Polk County
  • Presentation on Proposed Minimum Flows (MFL) Estuarine Reaches of Lower Peace River and Shell Creek (PDF @ 1,753 KB) by Marti Kelly, SWFWMD
• Wednesday, July 8, 2009 from 9:30 to 11:30 at the South Florida Community College in Arcadia: Agenda
  • Feasiblity of Widgeon (Ruppia) Grass Retoration in the Caloosahatchee River by SCCF (PDF @ 3,521 KB)
  • Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Consortium TMDL and Reasonable Assurance Overview by Tampa Bay Estuary Program (PDF @ 6,259 KB)
  • Lemon Bay Watershed Management Plan by Sarasota County (PDF @ 2,998 KB)
• Wednesday, September 9, 2009 in Punta Gorda.
• Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council in Fort Myers. Cancelled on October 2.