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Moratorium Support Committee Meeting 5.31.06
Attendees: Darlene Beckman, Marv Beckman, Richard Koehler, Eric Hauptman, John Stead, Gerry Wasserburg, Karen Peck, Susie Navetta, Johan Hogervorst, Dave Davis, Jim Rassmann, Peter Howison, Ralph Farnsworth, Audrey Farnsworth 2.
Action items from last meeting: Johan – Sent grant info to Karen Peck and mentioned that DEQ 319 grant money won’t be available till next year. –
Reported on a phone conversation with Gary Darnielle and
Denise Kalakay at LCOG about several aspects of the ordinance revision.
Arranged for them and Denise Walters to meet with us at our June 7th
MSC meeting. They will not
charge us for this time given that we are still trying to figure out how
we will be doing the work and what the roles are for volunteers and LCOG
staff. Gerry brought up the
fact that it needs to be clearly understood that we will be working with
the existing ordinances and not the last revision.
Johan mentioned that –
DEQ Certification list – Johan had a conversation with
Mike Kucinski in – Johan failed to call Liz Purtell, and Margaret Hammer concerning their interest to serve on the MSC. Action: Susie will call them instead. Susie - She shared five items with the Water Quality Committee regarding implementation of the Septic Maintenance Ordinance. There were some comments and changes suggested, but there was uncertainty as to whether the WQC was going to pursue things from here on. Action: pass these 5 items on to the staff. Also, make clear at next Council Meeting that the staff needs some direction to make these items a priority. -
Susie called -
Report from the Educational Outreach Subcommittee – Susie
along with committee members Linda Lauck, Christine May, and Carol Retzer,
have been working on the planning for Priority #4.
They are looking how best we can get LCOG’s spiral septic books
to all citizens. They are
working on a newsletter to help communicate the most important issues of
the moratorium. There is a
desire to reinitiate the selling of advertising to help sustain this
newsletter. The subcommittee
wanted to send out its newsletter independent of the city’s newsletter,
but MSC members urged the subcommittee to use the city’s newsletter
format. Action:
Before July 26th, the education subcommittee will draft a
newsletter and will submit it to staff to put in the city’s format.
Susie also informed us that they are planning a Water Quality Fair
with booths, speakers, music and food for a date before Karen -
Reviewed and handed out more information on Gerry -
Called Mark Chernaik and he responded in an e-mail to Chair
Hogervorst, outlining what he could do to fulfill Priority #3, writing
standards for new septic systems in - During our discussion of the standards for new systems, Darlene Beckman brought up the fact that it makes very little sense to talk about new septic system standards if we are not thinking about how to identify current systems that are not only failing, but near failure. Others agreed. There was concern from the chair about taking on yet another task, but there was acknowledgement that this was one of the biggest priorities for water quality. The financial aspect to this issue also makes it tough to deal with since many of the failing or near failing systems will belong to older individuals who will struggle to pay for improvements. Action: A subcommittee was formed to explore this issue: Gerry Wasserburg, Eric Hauptman, Darlene Beckman and Marv Beckman - Gerry was eventually going to talk with Mark Chernaik about a contact at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. Richard - Richard will report back on a nation-wide search of fertilizer ordinances. - He discussed the importance of an enforcement officer of some sort to police the ordinances that we are drafting. - He discussed the database considerations and encouraged us to get started with our septic maintenance tracking database in Excel because it could easily be incorporated into any database the city adopts. - Richard asked Johan to get a copy of the headings of the current database from the staff. Action: Johan talk to staff about headings in our current database -
In conversations with George Ehlers, it has become apparent
that if we want records on existing septic systems and their inspections,
we will have to record, photograph or scan information from files at
George’s office. Action: A power subcommittee of Ralph Farnsworth and Richard Koehler
was designated to begin the task of scanning file documents for the 800
homes now existing in John -
In reviewing statutes on vegetative stabilization, Oregon
Department of Forestry is the only other agency with jurisdiction in
cooperation with - John handed out a draft opening statement for BMPs and how they will be used. Gerry also reinforced the need for clarity as to what BMPs are and how they will be used to assure water quality. Action: Hand this opening statement to LCOG and make it clear that we want to define what our BMPs are and how they will be enforced, not just suggested. Ralph - Handed out several examples of septic systems he had researched and talked about each. Action: transfer this information to Mark Chernaik, who will be researching and writing something up on new systems. -
Johan shared that he had just submitted the Coastal Planning
Grant application to DLCD. Although
there were some mixed feelings from Amanda Punton to Denise Kalakay of
LCOG, Johan had followed up with Diana Evans, the coordinator for the
grant program and she had indicated that good applications would receive
at least some funding. She
made it clear that her folks were aware of - Johan agreed to send out a tickler list of questions and concerns that people could add to if they so desired. This will also include a list of resources that we would hand to them to get started.
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