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BWSR Meeting Minutes September 28, 2000 Page Four *~ 00-72 ~* 00-73 Jim Anderson, Minnesota Extension Service, reported that the U of M is not involved in the competitive pool. Jim reported that the College of Agriculture, Food, Science, and MES, submitted to the U of M's President, a water resource piece for a bioengineering faculty position to establish and enhance educational partnerships around the state. MES and BWSR have three partnership education positions, Kamal Alsharif in Duluth, Derek Fisher in New Ulm, and Ron Struss in St. Paul. Jim views this as a very positive issue. Consent Agenda ® Benton County Request for Comprehensive Local Water Plan Extension ® Kittson County Request for Comprehensive Local Water Plan Extension ® St. Louis County Request for Comprehensive Local Water Plan Extension • High Island Watershed District Watershed Management Plan Extension St. Louis County was encouraged to work with and become involved with townships and the cities, particularly the City of Duluth and adjoining cities. Ron Harnack reported that it's BWSR's policy for cities to become involved with counties in the water plan process. Doug Thomas stated that a formal set of updates and guidance has been available and is being delivered to counties as they move into the third generation water plans. Moved by Jack Frost, seconded by Lee Coe, to approve the requests for extension of the Comprehensive Local Water Plans for Benton County, Kittson County, and St. Louis County, and to approve the request for extension of the High Island Watershed District Watershed Management Plan. Motion passed on a voice vote. Committee Recommendations Minnehaha. Creek Watershed District and Richfield-Bloomington Watershed Management Organization Boundary Change -Jack Frost reported that the Metro Sub- committee approved the boundary change. Moved by Jack Frost, seconded by Jerome Deal, to accept the committee recommendation to approve the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District and Richfield-Bloomington Watershed Management Organization boundary change. Motion passed on a voice vote. Old Business Review of Retreat -Update of BWSR's Stategic Plan -Ron Harnack encouraged board members to review the informational material distributed from the BWSR retreat. Ron suggested moving forward on Marybeth Black's proposal to update the BWSR Strategic Plan. Ginny Imholte stated that we need to recognize that BWSR is a service agency, electronic outgoing information needs to be provided as well as incoming electronically from clientele. Ron stated that some units of government are not able to be at the level of capacity as others and this will be considered as we move forward on the strategic plan. Ginny complimented Marybeth on her facilitation skills. Ginny felt that it was most