Action and Decision Items

May 24,  2020, RWMG Meeting

  • DECISION ITEM:  Approval of January 27, 2021, meeting notes
  • DECISION ITEM: Approve Eastern California Water Association as grant applicant for Prop. 1 Round 2 Implementation Grant
  • ACTION ITEM: After this meeting, Program Office will examine what signatories should be asked to reconsider their status. DONE:  will report out at annual meeting in January
  • ACTION ITEM: Send reminder to RWMG about Admin. Committee meeting in case anyone else wants to attend. DONE
  • ACTION ITEM: Program Office will send out a fundraising letter to RWMG. PENDING discussion in Item 8 of this agenda
  • ACTION ITEM: – Program Office will follow up with Jake about posting Inyo County Master Plans to RWMG library on website. DONE (https://inyo-monowater.org/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Master-Plan-Town-Water-Systems-Final-1.pdf)
  • ACTION ITEM: Program Office will schedule more trainings in conjunction with CRWA staff. Held Well Diagnostics (January), Emergency Response Preparedness (March), and Board Ethics (April) trainings.  Will try to hold 1-2 more before the end of the grant.
  • ACTION ITEM: Program Office will put (SGMA) outreach flyers on website and distribute to RWMG list. DONE
  • ACTION ITEM: Program Office will schedule a mapping tool demonstration workshop.  In progress
  • ACTION ITEM: All projects that wish to go forward for Round 2 Implementation funding that are not already in the IRWM Plan (and any project that wishes to be considered for the IRWM Plan regardless of funding) must be submitted via the online submission form by April 1, 2021.  Link:  https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/cf74b63e4dc842eb8eab3dd78a03728f Deadline reached.
  • ACTION ITEM: Program Office will circulate the Round 1 PSP as an example of what the grant application process entails.  DONE
  • ACTION ITEM: Program Office will circulate the grantee scope of services and application to the RWMG, with applications to be due March 1, 2021. DONE
  • ACTION ITEM: Program Office will post (Peter Bernasconi’s) presentation on the website Done (https://inyo-monowater.org/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IRWM-Project-2-BriefingReport-1.pdf)

January 22, 2020, RWMG Meeting

  • DECISION ITEM: Approve Administrative Committee composition and terms for 2020
    • Don Zdeba offers to continue, Aaron Steinwand (Inyo County Water Department) volunteers, Lia Webb (California Trout) volunteers
    • Pete Pumphrey makes motion to approve Don, Aaron, and Lia as Admin. Committee Members, Malcolm Clark seconds, All approve
  • ACTION ITEM: Holly will meet with Lia and Linda
      • DONE; met in February
  • DECISION ITEM: Larry Freilich volunteers as second signatory for ECWA invoices. Pete Pumphrey volunteers as back up (and Linda volunteers as his backup).
  • DECISION ITEM; to be added to section 2.15 of the MOU; If a Member has not attended a RWMG meeting or otherwise participated in the IRWMP process in 12 months or more, the Member will be asked to consider its signatory status and withdraw from the MOU if the Member is not able to commit to attending meetings or otherwise participating.  If no response from the Member is received within 30 days, that Member will be unilaterally withdrawn from the MOU.  Written records documenting the process will be maintained.A withdrawn Member can any time re-sign the MOU to be reinstated as a Member and is encouraged to do so.  As all meetings are open to the public, withdrawn Members can still attend meetings and participate in discussions but cannot vote.  If a member requests that it not be withdrawn but then fails to attend the next scheduled meeting, a proposal shall be made to withdraw that party by the IRWM members. Members that have been removed will be put on the agenda of the next meeting as an information item.
    • Motion to approve language – Bruce Woodward. Second Aaron Steinwand – All in favor
  • ACTION ITEM: Holly will re-contact lapsed MOU signatories to re-start 30-day clock
      • DONE in February; clock expired 3/16/2020
  • ACTION: Program Office will develop a case statement. Larry will help with the writing.
      • There was already a case statement attached to previous fundraising solicitation. Larry helped extensively with writing the letter
  • ACTION: Program Office will draft and circulate a fundraising letter.
      • Done in early March
  • ACTION ITEM: Program Office will circulate TA applications after the January 31 deadline. They will give the Admin. Committee an idea of what money we have available and whether the applicant could live with a partial funding award.
      • DONE
  • Peter Bernasconi mentioned a project need to analyze pumping rate. Program Office will re-send a TA application to Peter.
      • Status?
  • ACTION ITEM: Program Office will request language to be included in the IRWM Program letter and will also provide a letter template if individual stakeholders would like to submit comment letters.
      • DONE

September 25, 2019, RWMG meeting

  • DECISION ITEM: Approve May 29, 2019 meeting summary
  • DECISION ITEM: Approve and adopt 2019 Update of IRWM Plan
  • DECISION ITEM: Recruit and approve 1-2 new admin committee members
  • ACTION ITEM: Add Robert Winzenread (ESCSD) to May 29 agenda
      • DONE; did we get the name spelled correctly?
  • ACTION ITEM: Ask Jessica Arm to be on phone in January to talk through amendment process
      • Don’t think amendment is necessary at this time
  • ACTION ITEM: Contact Ruby to discuss November (and beyond) trainings
      • Allison working on it with Ruby
  • ACTION ITEM: Make sure TA information is online
      • Information sent to RWMG via email
  • ACTION ITEM: Admin Committee will hash out language for MOU regarding membership
      • DONE; discussed during meeting
  • ACTION ITEM: Holly will contact those entities that have not attended a meeting in a year to learn intentions regarding membership
      • DONE; discussed during meeting
  • ACTION ITEM:  RWMG requesting DWR to move grant admin to Program Office and away from Desert Mountain RC&D if this is not cleared up by November 1.
      • DONE
  • ACTION ITEM: Holly will go to a DMRC&D board meeting (if they have one in October) and warn them that we will send a statement to DWR regarding a request to pass the grant requirements to program office
      • No board meeting available
  • ACTION ITEM: Call project proponents and talk over idea of ECWA as grantee
      • DONE
  • ACTION ITEM: Have ECWA write out a list of qualifications and description of how they will do business
        • DONE and sent to RWMG with meeting information

May 29, 2019, RWMG meeting

  • DECISION ITEM:  Approve January 30, 2019, meeting summary
  • DECISION ITEM: Approve Administrative Committee
  • DECISION ITEM: Irene makes motion to move forward on Big Pine Paiute Generator, Amargosa Opera House Project, Big Pine CSD Project.
  • ACTION: update website with table of updates on IRWM Plan and possibly put updates on Google Docs – Updates prepared by May 1
      • Completed as part of Plan update process
  • ACTION: add all projects to website – update to project list in plan
      • Completed as part of Plan Update
  • ACTION- do a summary of five TA requests so far and email to group
      • Circulated early June 2019 to RWMG
  • ACTION – Allison will follow up with Kate to talk about specifics with committee.
      • Allison has been working with Kate

January 30, 2019, RWMG meeting

  • DECISION ITEM:  Approve October 24, 2018, meeting summary – Approved
  • DECISION ITEM: Approve Desert Mountain RC&D as grantee for Prop1 Round1 Implementation Grant – Approved
  • ACTION: Contact Cathy Goss for Darwin (China garden) regarding the spring.
    • Holly talked to Cathy who doesn’t think there’s a problem there. She suggested asking Matt Kingsley, who is familiar with it.
  • ACTION:  look into outreach in Inyokern
    • Held community outreach meeting in Inyokern in February
  • ACTION: get a survey out for trainings we offer to different water systems
    • Circulated survey in March; received six responses
  • ACTION: create a new letter to solicit money. Ask boards to create a line item in budget. Don Dzeba agrees to co-sign a letter.
    • Fundraising request circulated in early March
  • ACTION: come to GSA meeting in Ridgecrest Feb 21 -holly may be able to present
    • Presented on IRWMP at Feb. 21 IWVGA meeting
  • ACTION: update website with table of updates on IRWM Plan and possibly put updates on Google Docs – (Updates prepared by May 1.)
    • Not complete; will report on later
  • ACTION: Revisit criteria used in past rounds. Get something out to group. Look at project proponents. Get together with Alan.
    • Have not circulated proposed criteria. Project presentations happening at this meeting.  Aaron and Alan talked, and radius of influence study has been withdrawn.
  • ACTION: add all projects to website – update to project list in plan
    • Not complete yet – part of Plan update process