April 7, 2005 Meeting Minutes

Black Butte Elementary, Shingletown
Present: Glen Aldridge, Foster Brovan , Larry & Pat Brown, George & Mary Eichelberger, Ray &Alice Gomez, Maxine Holder , Carl & Marti Weidert, Stan Weidert , Ron & Bea Nevins, Tricia Bratcher , Shiloe Braxton-WSRCD, Bear Creek Watershed Assessment project coordinator.

Shiloe Braxton called the meeting to order at 6:35PM .

Project Coordinator Report:

The Project coordinator gave a report on the status of the watershed assessment. Currently, ENPLAN has produced a quality pre-administrative draft of the assessment for TAC review. On May 3 rd the ENPLAN and the TAC will meet for a detailed discussion to determine what is good in the assessment, what has problems and if the current direction, the assessment is taking, will lead to a quality watershed assessment.

Watershed Coordinator Report:

Project coordinator informed the group of Watershed Coordinator James Moller ’s meetings attended: SRWP Board meeting, Cow Creek Ecosystem improvement projects TAC meeting, Bear creek TAC meeting, Shasta County Cattlemen’s association meeting, NRCS Equip tour.

Marketing the Watershed Group:

Foster Brovan has provided the access statistics for the Goshingletown.com web site.

Access Statistics - Bear Creek Watershed Shingletown
Time Period
Duration	743:44:28 mins
	(31 Days)
Date From	Mar 01 2005 00:10:02
Date To	Mar 31 2005 23:54:30

Hits
Total Hits	4,307
Total Cached Hits	1,630
Total Failed Hits	n/a
Invalid Log Entries	n/a
Average Daily Hits	138
Average Hits/Hour	5

Sessions Info
Total Sessions	1,050
Total Unique Visitors	689
Total Repeat Visitors	159
Total One-Time Visitors	530
Average Daily Sessions	33
Average Session Length	01:20
Average Pages/Session	0.56
Average Hits/Session	4.10

New Business:

In absence of Fraser Sime from the DWR, Tricia Bratcher informed the group of the methodology used for the Deer Creek watershed group formation. The Deer Creek group formed in 1997 in an effort to help with the changing environmental problems and identify strategies to tackle the problems in the Deer Creek watershed.
In developing leadership for the group, Deer Creek formed a “steering committee” that worked on developing a “mission statement” and a “charter” for the group. For Deer Creek it took 2 years to work through the process to get where they wanted to be as a watershed group.
The First and foremost issue with the Bear Creek Watershed Group was identified as water rights issues and the possibilities of adjudication of water rights in the watershed.
In response to Tricia’s information the BCWG would like more information on watershed groups and the various types of groups such as CRMP’s, 501 C (3) ect.
It was discussed by the BCWG that in order to attract membership from lower in the watershed it may be useful to have some watershed group meetings lower in the watershed.
Bee Nevins informed the BCWG that Dusty Gerbing has resigned from the Shingletown Fire Safe counsel.

Next Meeting Agenda Items:

Due to the absence of the watershed coordinator and the in depth discussion of watershed group organizations, future agenda items were not formally identified. The WSRCD project coordinator identified the following items that could be listed on the agenda.
Water adjudication processes and discussions
Shingletown Fire Safe Coordinator invite to the BCWG
Possible ‘steering committee’ formation
Identification of future speakers to inform the BCWG

Meeting adjourned 8:05 PM

The next meeting will be May 5 th, 2005 at 6:30 PM .