SECOND MEETING @
CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY

EEPOC Meeting
Minutes
July 20, 1999

Present: Jim, Tee-Ann, Jerry, Deb

Guest: Bobby Cochran

1. Guest Bobby Cochran working with Center for Environment on a study on environmental coalitions and local government units. They are using Cayuga and Canandaigua watersheds as case studies.
2. Mini-grant - Deb Grantham reviewed who WQCC’s are and the importance of involving them. Deb will incorporate comments into a new draft, circulate it to EPPOC for a last round of comments before we ask Sylvia to review the letter to WQCC’s Sharon will follow up the letter with a phone call. Send to Cayuga, Tompkins & Seneca. Cortland, Schuyler and Tioga have only small acreage in the watershed.
3. Time Line - While winter may provide some challenges due to potential bad weather, the committee will take advantage of the extra time to do better outreach.
   

Lake Fest

• Suggest IO workshop at the Lake Fest, cover not only the planning process but also talk about why the chapters within the watershed characterization are important
• Several municipal reps talk about the history of the IO, focus on your town and county are involved. If your municipality isn’t, encourage them to become involved.
• Focus on assets of the watershed & lake, the role of municipalities
• First cover the IP, it’s formation, role of local government -20

than the watershed characterization -20
5 of public participation opportunities; Q&A - 15
Deb will review list of elected officials and provide suggestions of people to invite from the west side of the lake. Deb will be a speaker if she is available. Suggested handouts: Membership forms and watershed map, names, contact information, updated schedule

Display watershed map - CNC watershed display

Quantity if possible, if not 3 copies

Skaneateles - Russ Nemecek - Dept of Heath; Keuka Lake - Peter Landre; Canandaigua - Steve L, Soil & Water Ontario County - sample of products from other groups. Copies of what other lakes have

Sharon will re-send time line.

 

Update on tasks

Deb - David Kay re: Planning Federation

Jim - network statement to go on publicity to go with

Mailing list: how to pare it down

EMC - is there a directory of Env. Organizations from other

Suggestions:

1. cull duplicates
2. key groups newsletter
3. sort by address so get names but one label, over the next so name shows, one address "householding"
4. pull every 5^th label

Post card for names off tax roles

• invitation to attend public meetings; including time, date, place
• how to get copy of the characterization & executive summary
• contact info person

IO - Deb will give report to the IO

Remind them of questionnaire and request before they leave, ask for Lake Fest speakers

Press packet: watershed flyers

Tee Ann will contact local media and request individual conferences with editors to go over the press packet as soon as the schedule is available.

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