Lake Davis Fisheries Management

To: Lake Davis Steering Committee

From: Leslie Tigan, Secretary

Re: Draft Notes from the July 18, 2005 Lake Davis Steering Committee meeting held at Portola City Hall

Voting Members Present: John Ball (Rotary), Jim Murphy (City of Portola), Bill Powers (Plumas County Supervisor, District 1), Fran Roudebush (Lake Davis Coalition), Steve Clifton (Leonard’s)

Agency Representatives Present: Julie Cunningham (Fish & Game), Judy Shabert (USFS) By Phone: Dave Spath (DHS), Ralph Hinton (CDWR), Mike McNamara (DHS)

Introductions: The following guests were acknowledged; Jerry Sipe (Plumas County Environmental Health), Terry Bergstrand (Plumas County Sheriff), Bob Orange (DFG), Lisa Stone (DFG), Sam Castillo (DFG).

Minutes: The committee discussed the need to have a quorum of voting members present in order to take action at the meetings. The proposed procedures call for nine voting members, with five constituting a quorum. It was determined that there could be no minutes from the two previous meetings since there had not been a quorum in attendance. The notes from the meetings would be accepted as notes and could be placed on the web site.

Procedures Manual: John Ball explained that the Procedures Manual had been placed on the last agenda for adoption but since there had not been a quorum in attendance it there had been no vote. It was then moved by John Ball, seconded by Steve Clifton to approve and adopt the Procedures Manual. Ball, Murphy, Powers, Roudebush and Clifton voted in favor.

Law Enforcement Report: DFG Law Enforcement representatives, Bob Orange, Lisa Stone and Sam Castillo along with Plumas County Sheriff Terry Bergstrand discussed the need for coordination between all Law Enforcement agencies. They discussed forming a unified command to facilitate communication between DFG, Plumas County Sheriff and CHP.

Environmental Health Report: Jerry Sipe (Plumas County Environmental Health) provided an update on the well sampling program. He also discussed available funding for continuation of the program through the next four years.

Agency Reports:

DFG – Julie Cunningham reported that the project proposal would be completed soon and they would like to announce the project at a special meeting of the Steering Committee. She also reported that they had been working with two economists, Bill Powers had met with Helen Birss and the economic study will follow the same time line as the environmental process. She also not that they would work on periodic outreach to property and well owners.

USFS - Judy Shabert reported that funding for the spawning signage was being provided by the Outdoor Sportsman Coalition and Trout Unlimited.

DWR – Ralph Hinton reported that the lake is currently at 5765.55 elevation, 57,230 acre feet, 2.9 feet higher than last year at this time.

City of Portola – Jim Murphy reported that the City and the County were still working on funding for the treatment plant, he explained that the difficulty in coming to an agreement on funding had put the project behind schedule. He also reported that Senator Doolittle was still trying to find a source of federal funds for the treatment plant.

Other items and agenda items for August meeting

Bill Powers reported that he had met with Ed Pert but had nothing additional to report.

Set next meeting date: The next meeting was scheduled for 1-3 pm on August 15 at City Hall.

Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 2:22 p.m.