Lake Davis Fisheries Management

To:      Lake Davis Steering Committee

From:  Leslie Tigan, Secretary

Re:      Draft Notes from the March 20, 2006 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), Dennis Alexander (Grizzly Ranch)  

Agency Representatives Present: Julie Cunningham, (DFG), Ivan Paulsen (DFG), Lynne Ingram (USFS), George Ozanvich (Air Quality) By Phone: Ed Pert (DFG), Ralph Hinton (DWR), Doug Rischbieter (DWR)

Acknowledged Guests: Bob Baiocchi

Public Comment: None

Minutes: It was moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the February 27, 2006 meeting.  All voting members present voted in favor.

Project Directors Report: Ed Pert thanked Fran Roudebush for bringing up the issue of miscommunication at the last meeting and noted that the issue had been worked out.  He explained that everyone should try to keep the lines of communication open and if someone did not feel like they were getting the necessary information they should contract him directly.

Mr. Pert continued to explain that the newsletter was being prepared and should be ready for mailing in early to mid April.  He explained that the public meetings would be scheduled a little later that first planed, sometime in May, so they would fall closer to the time the draft EIR/EIS would be out.  He suggested that the Steering Committee should meet prior to the workshops to receive briefings on the workshop contents.

Bob Baiocchi commented on the need to have all the meetings public.  He noted that the meeting with Entrix was not public.

Mr. Pert explained that Entrix had been contracted with by Fish & Game to complete the environmental document and that all the meetings would not be public.  He suggested that Julie Cunningham should be the public’s contact and she could provide updates on the EIR/EIS. 

Mr. Powers suggested a separate meeting be scheduled to discuss each of the five alternatives and the alternative of no action.

Ms. Cunningham explained that the draft EIR/EIS would list the alternatives derived from the scoping process.

DWR Report on Grizzly Creek: Ms. Roudebush requested a copy of the study that was completed in October and questioned why it wasn’t done at a more appropriate time of the year to get baseline populations.  It was explained that the study was not conducted for baseline figures, it was purely investigative.

Agency Reports:

USFS – Ms. Ingram reported that Angie Dillingham would be working full time on the Northern Pike issue and that the Forest Services was providing information to Entrix and DFG.

DWR – Current lake levels were reported at 5768.52 elevation, 60,000 acre feet, much higher than last year. 

City of Portola:  Mr. Murphy reported that a settlement agreement for construction of the treatment plant had been reached between the agencies, but that due to the inclusion of the Army Corp of Engineers for federal funding there would be a delay.  The City would be considering drilling wells to meet additional water supply demands.

Other items and agenda items for April meeting

Fran Roudebush commented that the letter sent to DFG by the Steering Committee didn’t say “eradicate” the pike it state that Lake Davis should be “rid” of Northern Pike.

Set next meeting date:  The next meeting was scheduled for 1-3 pm on April 17 at City Hall.

Adjournment:  The meeting was adjourned at 1:55 p.m.