PEI Watershed Alliance Board Meeting
Thursday, July 9th, 2020
3 – 5pm
Teleconference
In attendance: Mary Finch, Angela Banks, Karen Rank, Rebecca Ramos, Johanna Kelly, Fred Cheverie, Dale Cameron, Scott Roloson, Jason Campbell
Regards: Emilie Morell, Jim Jenkins
Call to order: 3:07pm
Approval of Minutes from June 10th
- Minutes were approved as read by Mike, seconded by Johanna
Financial Update:
- Further specification on office supply category
Ecologist Update:
See attached
Project Manager Update:
See attached
Sustainable water extraction research / High Capacity Wells:
- Board has agreed to meet with Mike Van Den Heuvel
- The alliance is interested in seeing 2 years of baseline data before the drilling of any new wells can begin
- Believe Mike Van Den Heuvel began collecting baseline data in fall 2019
- Mike will respond to Robert about the board’s interest to discuss the alliance’s role in this project further before there can be a consensus to support this project
Ag-Watershed Partnership:
- A position has opened up to join this committee as Dale will be stepping down from his role
- Angela is interested in sitting on the committee, the board is in agreement Angela would be a good fit to represent the alliance
- Mike will meet with Angela to give update on the committee’s activities to date
- Before bringing more information to watershed members, more consideration/response from growers will be sought out
- As of now, two pilot projects have been selected from locations in
- Kinross
- Souris
WMF:
- There will be a vote regarding removing the land cap
- Presently the original design of formula will be implemented
- A meeting has been organized with western groups for tomorrow to seek WMF input from groups, and another meeting will be held on Monday for central groups – eastern groups are welcome to organize a meeting if need be
- Mike will attend both western and central meetings, and will provide feedback from groups to the board
- The alliance feels all concerns from members should be sent directly to the board in letter format, so the alliance can keep proper documentation of suggestions brought in by groups
- Mary will locate distributions from 2011 and previous years and make available for board and group members to fully interpret changes
- Mike suggests welcoming one representative from each region to oversee alliance board meetings
- By-laws amended
- Kate is looking to alliance to provide leadership on land boundary, allocation disputes, etc as determined in by-laws
AGM:
- Mary has received quotes from different vendors for sometime early/mid August
- A larger venue than usual will be needed due to covid distance restrictions
- 50 person gathering cap – can provide option to have members call in as well, if interested
- Elections and financial review
- Central groups will discuss this on Monday, Johanna will provide an agenda
- Western groups have organized a separate meeting to review before AGM and help shorten meeting time
- The eastern region is encouraged to organize a meeting as well
- According to by-laws, elections cannot take place until AGM but nominations can be made before-hand
Meeting adjourned: 5:01pm