Mineral County RC&D

Meeting Minutes

6-2-03

The monthly meeting of the Mineral County RC&D convened at 10:00 a.m. on June 2, 2003 with Chairperson Kevin Chamberlain presiding. The following were in attendance:

Jim DeBree

Kit Sutherland, Bitterroot RC&D

Garry Edson, Ninemile USFS

Pay Hayes, MCCF

Kevin Chamberlain, Extension

James Warnken, County Commissioner

B. J. McComb, County Commissioner

Judy Stang, County Commissioner

Bill Woodford, Supt. Superior School District

Sharon Patterson, Extension

There was no planned presentation for this meeting; the following reports were given:

Extension – Kevin Chamberlain

• Larry Burton, Pioneer Weed Control is currently doing the spraying for DOT
• Mineral County 4-H is sending 5 delegates to 4-H Congress held in Bozeman
• Two RCA Grants were awarded to entities within the County, Bailey’s Post and Pole received a $20,000.00 to purchase materials and equipment and Mineral County Community Foundation received a $5,000.00 to update the Mineral County Economic Development Plan

Ninemile Ranger District – Garry Edson

• 400 acres will be aerial sprayed within the burned area
• working on Ninemile Watershed TMDL

RAC and MCCF– Pat Hayes

• The RAC will meet on June 3, 2003
• The RAC is currently looking at awarding Title III monies. Solicitation for applications will begin immediately. The deadline will be July 8, 2003
• There is approximately $135,000.00 to be awarded in grant funds
• Jim DeBree and Pat Hayes attended the Stewardship Conference in Whitefish May 31, 2003.
• There is a bike riding field trip on the Hiawatha Trail on Tuesday
• MCCF is looking at sponsoring a stewardship sale bidding workshop for potential contractors. This workshop will be held sometime this fall.
• One June 5, 2003 the stewardship committee will be monitoring the Knox Brooks Stewardship sale.

USFS-Superior Ranger District

· There will be Hiawatha Trail Bike Ride on Tuesday, June 3, 2003.

· Appeal on the Post Burn has been filed with 9^th District Circuit Court of Appeals

Superior Schools – Supt Bill Woodford

• The Senior Class graduated on June 1, 2003
• The 8^th Grade class will be promoted on June 4,2 003
• The Carl Perkins reserve fund will be used to fund the HARK program.
• St. Regis School, Superior School along with the U of M received a grant fro $250,000 for Technology grant for far behind needs school.
• Enrollment is up approximately 6.5 students
• Transient population is still at 37%

RC&D – Kit Sutherland

• Seventeen people attended the meeting with Mary Anne Roos.
• NRCS will loose approximately 33% of their employees due to outsourcing.
• Western Governors Conference is June 17-20
• Mark Lewing has retired as RC&D forester
• National Carbon Offset Coalition is moving ahead
• The low bidder for the Fuels for Schools was Vantage Construction. There may be a conflict of interest with regards to this bid as the owner of the construction firm is also on the Darby School Board.

County Commissioners

• The airport project is on hold until they sell the parcel of land that has the contaminated soil from the Superior School track buried on it.

With no other business to come before this group the meeting adjourned at 12:00 p.m. The next meeting will be July 7, 2003.