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554 Mr. Petersen had also provided a memorandum dated September 19, 2011 addressed to members of the 555 GLWMO Board and entitled, "Highlights /Paraphrase Summary of the April 2009 BARR Lake Owasso 556 Use Attainability Analysis (UAA) Report. 557 558 Ms. Correll noted that to -date they had received 434 individual comments, with 199 submitted by state 559 agencies, member cities and/or Ramsey County; and the remaining 135 had been received from the Lake 560 Owasso Association and /or residents of the watershed, resulting in 69 pages of comments. Ms. Correll 561 advised that, even though their firm had written a number of plans to -date, this represented the most 562 comments ever received by FOR to a Water Management Plan. 563 564 Ms. Correll opined that it was great that there was such interest in the Plan, and that many of the 565 comments were very well- thought -out and provided constructive criticism; but for tonight's discussion, 566 asked that the GLWMO Board focus on the summary of EOR's discussion with representatives of the 567 BWSR and Metropolitan Council as summarized in EOR's September 12, 2011 memorandum to the 568 GLWMO Board. 569 570 Ms. Correll noted that both BWSR and the Metropolitan Council seemed to be seeking significant 571 assurance about the GLWMO's future governance and financing structure to ensure that Plan goals could 572 be accomplished. Ms. Correll noted that this may be based, in part, on the GLWMO's past lack of 573 activities and accomplishments; and their desire to have clearly defined implementation activities and 574 outcomes. Ms. Correll noted that the GLWMO didn't currently have a lot of programs; and 575 recommended that the Board add a technical assistance program addressing how the GLWMO will hire 576 technical staff to implement projects in the future. Ms. Correll noted that this requirement had been a 577 surprise to EOR, and included a lot more detail than what BWSR normally requires of WMO's. 578 579 Mr. Petersen questioned the statutory authority for those requirements; concurring that, based on his 580 experience in the field, he had never known BWSR to require a detailing of how a WMO purchases 581 technical services. 582 583 Ms. Correll introduced Mr. Pat Conrad, with EOR, attending tonight's meeting with her, noting that his 584 credentials included serving as the primary author of the Capitol Region Water Management Plan, among 585 other Watershed organization Plans. 586 587 Mr. Conrad opined that BWSR was seeking assurances that the GLWMO had a process in place to "get 588 things done ", with some sort of part- or full -time professional service /staffing budgeted for and available 589 for implementation. 590 591 At the request of Member Von De Linde as to the comments received from other agencies, Ms. Correll 592 admitted that she was most surprised by the requirements of the MPCA and the DNR related to a 593 monitoring plan and documentation. Ms. Correll advised that, according to a phone conversation with 594 BWSR's , Melissa Lewis earlier today, there was new management at both agencies and new rules that 595 were starting to be enforced. 596 597 Chair Eckman opined that there seemed to be a change in scope since initial conversations and direction 598 was addressed with Ms. Lewis at BWSR and their response to the Plan. 599 600 Ms. Correll concurred, noting that such a change had not been published on their website or those 601 additional requirements known; nor had there been anything mentioned in the Stakeholder input process 602 to -date, causing further surprise on the part of FOR to the new Plan requirements of BWSR, Metro 603 Council, DNR and MPCA. 604 12