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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLand & Water 11-07-06 NOTICE OF MEETING AND AGENDA ST. CROIX COUNTY LAND & WATER CONSERVATION COMMITTEE November 7, 2006 —10:40 a.m. Agricultural Service & Education Center 19608 th Avenue, Baldwin, WI CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING — December 5, 2006 PARKS DEPARTMENT NEW BUSINESS: Director's Report Bills /vouchers 2007 Budget OLD BUSINESS: Bicycle /pedestrian traiV"P Pine Lake Park improvements Nelson easement/Apple River property LAND & WATER CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT Agency reports FSA NRCS DNR RC &D West Central Area NEW BUSINESS: Director's Report Subdivision update Board of Adjustment update/NR- 151 /Shoreland zoning — stormwater criteria WLWCA - Draft Strategic Plan - Annual conference - Auction items Wildlife Damage Program - Cooperative Service Agreement/Work Plan — Black Bear Town of St. Joseph — Discontinuing portion of Rail Drive UNOFFICAL Convened: 11:11 a.m. Recessed: 11:50 a.m. Reconvened: 12:40 p.m. Adjourned: 2:42 p.m. ST. CROIX COUNTY LAND & WATER CONSERVATION COMMITTEE Agricultural Service & Education Center, Baldwin, WI November 7, 2006 Members Present: Lois Burri, Sharon Norton- Bauman, Bill Peavey, Ron Raymond, Gene Ruetz Members Absent: None Staff Present: Director -Bob Heise, Operations Manager -Dave Larson, Administrative Assistant - Arlene Lier Others Present: None Adoption of Agenda: Burri made motion to adopt the agenda, seconded by Ruetz. Carried. Action on Previous Minutes: Motion by Raymond, seconded by Ruetz, to approve the October 3, 2006 meeting minutes with the addition of Ruetz to the members present for the Land & Water Conservation portion. Carried. Date of Next Meeting: December 5, 2006 PARKS DEPARTMENT NEW BUSINESS Director's Report Heise reported: • Glen Hills Fishing pier — The retaining wall has been completed, as far as we can get this fall. Next year we will do some seeding on the embankment. • The guard rail at Troy Beach has been installed. • The fence at Homestead Park (neighbor is putting in beef cattle) is nearly complete. The upper twisted wire has to be installed yet. The landowner will install his fence about 3 or 4 feet from our fence. • Discussed the "tree- thinning" article which was published in the New Richmond News. It was a phone call interview and it gave us publicity. Dave Larson reported: • Handed out the "Park user fees report as of 11/7/06" which showed increased 2006 revenues vs. 2005 revenues. • Directional signs have been installed at Bass Lake and Troy Beach. • He reported that the Parks truck (damaged by an accident) has been repaired. • Cedar Lake — This is a joint project with Parks and LWCD. County is the grant sponsor for the Land Trust project and no county dollars are involved. The parking lot (southwest corner of Cedar Lake) will be completed next week. • Wildwood Trail — Culverts have been cleaned up. Bills /Vouchers The November bills list was presented. Motion by Ruetz, seconded by Burri, to approve the Parks account bills ($18,445.39). Carried. 2007 Budget Heise stated that the budget has not changed since the October County Board meeting. OLD BITSINESS Bicycle /pedestrian trail/RFP Heise reported on the "draft" Parks Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan/Request for Proposal. We have been working with the Planning Department and the Procurement agent on development of this RFP (request for proposal). County Highway Department has reviewed the draft. Everyone has signed off as a complete final draft. Highway Department brought up the issue of discussing it with the Regional Planning office in Eau Claire. Staff contacted the Regional Planning office to determine if there is an interest to assist the Parks Department with the development of the plan. Raymond suggested that staff contact Linda Luckey so she can discuss it at their November 9` meeting. There are two sources of funding that we may have available for plan development (monies from park dedication fees and Stillwater bridge mitigation dollars which are for planning purposes). A letter was sent to each of the towns and municipalities to delegate one of the members of their boards to participate as a citizen committee member. Heise will e -mail Linda Luckey on the committee's interest in working with Regional Planning. Pine Lake Park improvements Heise reported that staff has discussed with the WDNR (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources) the possibility of a heavy equipment crew from Black River Falls to work on the Pine Lake Park improvements. DNR- Madison was not interested in having their crew work on our project. Local WDNR staff has not given up on the idea. If details cannot be worked out with WDNR, we will be bidding out that entire project and finding a different contractor to do the work. Nelson easement /Apple River property Heise stated that he had $8,000 in the budget for an assessor's plat to have our Apple River property surveyed. Part of our goal is to get connectivity from our Apple River property to another property (McMurtrie property) just north about a mile. We want to make this connection (even a walk way). The Nelson family sold their property in that area. Vern Nelson wanted a conservation easement on a portion of his property. He developed the conservation easement with a 15 -foot walking corridor along the east property line. Our goal is to make that connection up to the McMurtrie property. In the future there may be a learning reception center in that area built by the Star Prairie Land Preservation Trust with cooperation from Star Prairie Fish & Game. Recessed: 11:50 a.m. Reconvened: 12:40 p.m. LAND & WATER CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT Members Present: Lois Burri, Jim Cody, Sharon Norton- Bauman, Bill Peavey, Ron Raymond, Gene Ruetz Members Absent: None Staff Present: Director -Bob Heise; Land Specialists -Steve Olson, Tammy Wittmer; Administrative Assistant - Arlene Lier Others Present: Bob Hendrickson -FSA, Jennie Shillcox- County Zoning FARM SERVICE AGENCY (FSA) Robert Hendrickson - County Executive Director reported for FSA: • Payments for DCP (Direct and Cyclical Program) were made amounting to $2,598,628.64. This was a combination of final DCP 2006 payments and advanced Counter Cyclical payments for 2005. • Annual CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) payments were made for fiscal year 2006 amounting to $1,655,336.38. • Milk Income Loss Contract Program (MILCX) payments are up to date. • The most recent administrative issue arising in our office is something called Improper Signature findings. This is where FSA, nation wide, has to review "ALL" folders to make sure that we have the proof in the folders that proper signatures on documents are correct. NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE (MRCS) No report. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (DNR) No report. RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT (RC &D) • Ruetz reported that he attended a meeting on November 2 which followed the Board of Directors meeting. Several grants ($12,500) have been awarded. An audit was conducted and a CPA recommended committees: Finance /Personnel committee, committee for coordination of programs /projects, and a fund raising committee. Ruetz (only member) was appointed to meet with Pam Herdrich (RC &D Coordinator) on November 8 to set up committees. • In February there will be a 3 -day leadership training conference in Washington D.C. • The annual RC &D meeting has been cancelled. • Want to activate the ad hoc recruitment group to start recruiting industries and businesses as members. • Rotational grazing is making a come back in hill country areas of the state. WEST CENTRAL AREA Chair Raymond reported on the October 26` meeting: • The new WLWCA Executive Director (Julian Zelazny) was introduced. • Featured speaker was Richard Gauger- Executive Director from the West Wisconsin Land Trust. • Speech contest, lunch and awards program went well. • Next meeting will be held on February 21, 2007 at the Dunn County Ag Building, Menomonie. NEW BUSINESS Director's Report Heise stated that Kim Reaman —UW- Extension talked to him about purchasing a copy machine to be shared with LWCD. It will be an item on our December meeting agenda. Subdivision Update Tammy Wittmer provided an update on all active subdivisions. Many sites have been completed and are in compliance. For the active subdivisions, spring priority status has been assigned to them. The high priorities at this time are for those sites that have letters of credit due to expire. With those developments, inspection letters and reports with deadlines have been set and follow up is happening. A full status report will be given at the December meeting. Wittmer further reported that two projects have started construction and will be active until weather changes. She is working with them to ensure winter cessation plans and best management practices are being followed. Board of Adjustment Undate/NR- 151 /Shoreland zoning — storm water criteria The LWCC discussed sending a memo to the Board of Adjustment recommending that the board require applicants applying for special exception permits to implement the stormwater standards and erosion control standards consistent with those found in the St. Croix Riverway overlay district ordinance. Chair Raymond made motion to approve the memo (with amendments) directed to the Board of Adjustment, copy to St. Croix County Planning & Zoning Committee, Burri seconded. Carried. Peavey voted "no ". WISCONSIN LAND & WATER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ( WLWCA) Draft Strategic Plan — Heise reported that he has sent our comments for the WLWCA requested survey (which were sent earlier this summer) to Julian Zelazny, Executive Director, as our comments to the "Draft" strategic plan. Annual Conference — Heise and Burri plan to attend the conference at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel, Appleton, on December 6 -8. Auction items — Burri will bring an item for the auction. Wildlife Damage Program Cooperative Service Agreement/Work Plan — Black bear - Heise presented the annual agreement that we sign with the Federal — Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for Wildlife Damage Management services, specifically nuisance black bear issues. The dollars are a direct reimbursement from the State Wildlife Damage program. Ruetz made motion for Chair Raymond to sign the agreement, seconded by Peavey. Carried. Town of St. Joseph — Discontinuing portion of Rail Drive Heise reviewed the request with the committee. Staff has no objections. Vouchers Reviewed vouchers. Peavey made motion, seconded by Ruetz, to approve Chair Raymond's signature on the November LWCD voucher list in the total amount of $49,392.40. Carried. OLD BUSINESS Priority Watersheds No report. Miscellaneous Chair Raymond reported that he received a notice from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Intent to Re- issue a Wisconsin Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit to Jon D Farms, Baldwin. Chair Raymond adjourned the meeting at 2:42 p.m. Gene Ruetz Secretary Arlene Lier Recording Secretary