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To: Plan Reviewers From:. Karen Chandler, on Behalf of Grass Lake WMO Board Subject: Grass Lake WMO Board Responses to Comments on Draft Watershed Management Plan Date: December 26, 2000 c: Grass Lake WMO Board and Staff Page: 3 GLWMO Response to Comments: In general, the GLWMO plan summarizes the GLWMO activities in Table 6-1 and presents the city activities in various location in Section 5 (summarized u1 Section S.l 0). Section 5.2 and associated tables present the respective GLWMO and city responsibilities regarding lake and pond water quality. Section 5.10 of the GLWMO plan discusses how the GLWMO will evaluate the member cities' and the GLWMO's progress toward agreed upon goals. The list of implementation tasks in Section 5.10, policy 4(b) of the GLWMO plan (pages 5-27 and 5-28), is a listing of all the tasks the member cities are expected to complete. The GLWMO will use all or parts of this list to develop the city part of the "report card"/checklist mentioned in Section 5.1.0, policy 3. Table 6-l will be one basis for developing the WMO part of the report card/checklist. The GLWMO appreciates BWSR's suggested additional evaluation standards and will take them into consjderation. Tabte 5-10 is a listing of the various requirements that are to be incorporated into city policies and/or ordinances, so this is a smaller list than that shown in policy 4(b) of Section 5.10. Table 5-10 is not the evaluation checklist; rather, it is a listing of all the "official controls" that cities will need to develop and/or revise to comply with the GLWMO plan. Items in Table 5-10 will likely become part of the report card/checklist. The GLWMO will be developing the evaluation checklist as one of its first implementation tasks; this task will be added to Table 6-1. Some of the city implementation tasks have deadlines, either director through the preparation of local plans; other° tasks do not have deadlines. hi either case, the member cities' progress on these implementation tasks will be monitored as part of the evaluation process. The GLWMO Board is counting on the continued cooperation of the member cities, which has worked well in the past. The GLWMO Board believes this cooperation, coupled. with the proposed evaluation process, will provide enough. oversight such that a GLWMO permit or review program wiCl be unnecessary (see additional comments below regarding permitting). Past GLWMO and applicable city accomplishments are discussed in Sections 4.1, 4.2 and 4.5 of the GLWMO plan. Significant GLWMO accomplishments include completion and implementation of the diagnostic feasibility studies for Lake Owasso, Lake Wabasso, and Snajl Lake, and completion and implementation of the level control plan. Future GLWMO annual newsletters will provide information about the GLWMO and member cities' accomplishments. The GLWMO Board will be reviewing its implementation tasks annually, as part of the annual GLWMO budgeting process.