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BWSR Meeting Minutes January 23, 2002 Page Nine ** oz-os discusses the five ways PCA is meeting reductions. 1) Water Quality Fee Increase, 2) Shift Household Hazardous Waste Program from the general fund to the Solid Waste fund, 3) One-time savings, 4) Reduce Clean Water, and 5) Administrative Reductions. Discussion followed regarding the Hazardous Waste Program. The Governor agreed that PCA would not have additional. position reductions because of the 70 positions eliminated last year. Ron Harnack reported that one hundred percent of BWSR's budget is General Fund. We do have a ten percent reduction that is recommended. Principals that would guide our discussions:. 1) commitment to ongoing capacity of local governmental units, that is part of our role to help local governments do an enhanced effort in managing there water resources; 2) maintain ongoing technical and financial support to local units of government, 3) preserve funding; 4) focus on the outcomes for natural resources; and 5) commitment to mandates. Ron reported that BWSR has a number of programs that are mandates and if we are unable to maintain our commitment to those mandates then we have an obligation to be able to adjust the mandates. We also have to continue a commitment to reform for efficiency. We need to keep an open mind, be innovative and creative as we look to the future. Improve the way we deliver our programs. We will see over a $500,000 reduction administratively, at least four to five maybe more staffing reductions. We are not going to be able to accommodate that through vacancies. The majority of it will have to be through layoffs. We don't have a turnover rate that allows us to absorb it over time. We will be looking critically at how we address this. We are also looking at some field positions and doing some restructuring in St. Paul. Important to local units of governments at this time is the impacts on the grant reductions. Most of our grants have gone out for the first year of the biennium. Therefore, trying to realize a ten percent reduction in this biennium means the majority of those reductions are going to have to occur in the. second year. He stated that we don't have a lot of choices on where to take our reductions. The Administrative Advisory Committee felt this was a way to serve the principles set forth. Moved by Jerome Deal, seconded by JoAnn Coover, to adopt this paper as the principal guideline for the Board's recommendations for 2003 reduction of allocations. Motion passed on voice vote. Committee Recommendations Metro Water Planning Subcommittee Chair Coe suggested we put Items 1 & 2 together to vote on the committee recommendations. This would be the Order Withdrawal of Territory in the Comfort. Lake Forest Lake Watershed District and the Black Dog Watershed Management Organization Plan.