The Watershed Action Plan Chapter 10: Realizing the WMI Vision August Draft.

The Watershed Action Plan

Chapter 10: Realizing the WMI Vision

August Draft

Today’s Presentation

Project Status & Schedule

Chapter 10 Contents

Completing and Selling the Action Plan

Milestones

JanuaryRetreat

FebruaryGeneralFeatures

MarchOutline

JuneDraft

Ch. 1-9

AugustDraftCh. 10

OctoberComplete

Draft

DecemberCore Group

Approval

ProcessActions

WMIGoals Retreat

DraftChapters

1 - 9Comments

DraftCh. 10 Draft

WAP

FinalWAP

WMIVision

We are here

WAPTAGCOS

Chapter 10

Realizing the WMI Vision

Chapter 10 Contents

Why the Santa Clara Basin needs the WMI

The WMI’s Strengths and Key Functions

The WMI’s Nine Strategic Policy Objectives

Implementation

Conclusion

Why the Basin needs the WMI

Increase in mandated & voluntary programs

Programs interact and overlap

Potential for confusion and conflict

Need to align, coordinate and integrateStreamline regulations

Accelerate preservation and enhancement

Economic benefit

The WMI’s StrengthsWhat we’ve achieved

Common vision, goals, and objectives

Consensus on a balanced approach

Recognize each other’s legitimate interests

Track record of successes

What we do bestArticulate & communicate a vision of the future

Facilitate exchange of ideas & perspectives

Achieve consensus among different interests

Prioritizing Actions & Tasks

ActionWorksheets

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Actions & Tasks

Stream Stewardship

HCPs/NCCPs

Floodplain Mgt.

General Plans

TMDLs

Chapters 1 - 9Policies & Programs

PolicyObjectives

WMI Role

Chapter 10

Future Functions Facilitate stakeholder groups

Add fresh technical & policy perspectives

Recommend solutions to policy-makersBring consensus to boards, managers, & funders

Educate and involve the publicDevelop indicatorsIssue reports

Nine Policy Objectives1. Stream Stewardship Planning2. Floodplains & Riparian Corridors3. Habitat Conservation Planning4. Expanding the National Wildlife Refuge5. General Plans & Specific Area Plans6. Drainage Systems that Retain or Detain Runoff7. Better Assessments, TMDLs, & Permits8. Integrated Water Resources Planning9. Coordinating Outreach

1. Stream Stewardship Planning Objectives• Integrate Restoration & Flood Protection • Use a Floodplain Management Approach• Remove Barriers to Fish• Restore Stream Beds and Banks• Restore Shaded Riparian Aquatic Habitat• Coordinate FAHCE, SMP, SPP, Sediment TMDLs• Commit to Long-term Adaptive Management

2. Floodplain & Riparian Planning ObjectivesCoordinate & Integrate: • National Flood Insurance Program• Countywide Trail Master Plan & Guidelines• Recreational Facilities• Protected Habitat Areas• Regional Stormwater Facilities

• Shared sense of place

3. Habitat Conservation Planning Objectives• Adaptive management – specific, measurable• Update and improve habitat surveys• Incorporate existing refuges and public lands • Acquire new land for critical habitat• Restore native plants & animals• Coordinate with strategic plans & General Plans

4. National Wildlife Refuge Expansion• Comprehensive planning process• Issue permits timely to allow restoration • Plan for levee maintenance & flood protection• Apply Bay Ecosystem Habitat Goals• Preserve & expand contiguous critical habitat

5. General Plans & Specific Area Plans• Detailed maps of habitat corridors• Coordinate acquisition & mgt. of open space • Assess cumulative impacts at appropriate scale• Encourage smart growth

6. Site Development & Drainage • Implement C.3. provisions• Develop public works specifications and details • Coordinate hydromodification management

planning with stream stewardship planning

#7. Objectives for Better Assessments, TMDLs & Permits

Coordinate monitoring & assessmentAcknowledge different objectives & methodology

Test problem statements & conceptual models

Coordinate investigations to optimize support for listing decisions and TMDLs

Build on successes with POTW permits and site-specific objectives

#8. Integrated Water Resources Planning Objectives

Develop broad representation in the IWRP process

Gauge & build public support for conservation & recycling

Integrate conservation & recycling with objectives for stream stewardship & habitat conservation

#9. Objectives for OutreachAlign & coordinate messages around the vision.

Stream functions; effects of urbanization; Multiple uses of floodplains in urban areas; Smart Growth; Importance of imperviousness; Water conservation, recycling & stream habitat; Habitat reserves; Pollution Prevention

Inform public & stakeholders about public policies & investment needed to achieve our vision.

Annual report updating key indicators of watershed health and WMI achievements and successes

Chapter 10 Contents (Review) Why the Santa Clara Basin needs the WMI The WMI’s Strengths and Key Functions The WMI’s Nine Strategic Policy Objectives

Implementation

Conclusion

Needs for Implementation

Commitments from Signatories

Process to prioritize future actions

CapacityStructure for decision-making

Staff

WMI will ask signatories to:

Adopt policy objectives

Assign stakeholder processes to WMI

Provide resources to make process workCu/Ni Technical Working Group is a model

Provide resources to support integration

Prioritize Future ActionsWMI is a clearinghouse for new actionsFacilitate consensus on how and where new actions can be implementedPrioritize by:

Relevance to WMI policy objectivesEffectiveness in attaining the objectivesTimelinessUse of WMI resources

WMI Needs Capacity to:

Facilitate stakeholder processes

Bring consensus recommendations to decision-makers

Formulate, refine, disseminate the WMI message

Capacity

WMI StructureRetain existing WMI decision-making structure (with minor changes)

Expand WMI executive capabilities & authority

WMI StaffLeadership

Enough staff to fulfill WMI role

Action Plan Conclusion

Ten years from now, the need for a WMI will be obvious.

The Basin has a WMI now.

The WMI has an Action Plan now.

Stakeholders have the opportunity to strengthen the WMI & entrust with the challenges that lie ahead.

Completing & Selling the Action Plan

Product Development Sales

Signatories’ Decisions to “Buy-in”Adopt Policy Objectives in Chapter 10

Assign stakeholder processes to WMIIntegrated Stream Stewardship Planning

Sediment TMDLs, Stream Protection Policy

Floodplain & Riparian Planning/Mapping

National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Planning

Habitat Conservation Planning

General Plans & Specific Plans

Provide additional resources to WMI

Signatories’ Steps to Decision

Acknowledge the problem

Accept the value of aligning, coordinating, & integrating plans and policies

Believe that WMI can add value to process

Commit “in concept” to WMI role

Negotiate specific agreements

Schedule

August 2: COS group reviews objectives

August 19: Core Group comments on Ch. 10

August 20: WAPTAG discusses comments

August 23: “Dry run” of presentation to REF

September 4: Regulatory Executive Forum

September 5: Report back to Core Group

September 24: Complete draft distributed

Schedule

October 3: Presentation of Complete Draft

October: Core Group comments on draft

December 5: Core Group approval of Watershed Action Plan

Core Group members will take Action Plan back to their agencies with expectation that it will be approved

In 2003…

Agency Staff Reports to Boards & CouncilsAction Plan is attachment or reference

Agencies adopt policies to:Approve WMI policy objectives

Engage in WMI stakeholder processes

Provide WMI with funding and resources

Coordinate outreach on WMI issues

In 2003, WMI will need to:

Lead and facilitate discussions with agency managers and department heads

Coordinate and assist with staff reports and council/board meetings

Convene & facilitate initial meetings for stakeholder groups

Discussion