Stakeholder Forum - Archive of Meetings (2007–2017)

Here you can access records from Stakeholder Forum and early Project planning meetings, from 2003 to 2017. The Stakeholder Forum is the principal public advisory body to the Restoration Project.

Stakeholder Forum Meetings 2007–2017

AUGUST 15, 2017

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Final Agenda (PDF)
• Main Presentation (PDF)
• Handout - Eden (PDF)
• Handout - Alviso (PDF)
• Handout - Ravenswood (PDF)

AUGUST 4, 2015

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Final Agenda (PDF)
• Main Presentation (PDF)
• Forum Charter (PDF)

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

• Final Agenda (PDF)
• Main Presentation (PDF)
• Science Update (PDF)
• Meeting Summary (PDF)

NOVEMBER 15, 2012 MEETING

• Final Agenda (PDF)
• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Main Presentation (PDF)
• Handout - Eden (PDF)
• Handout - Alviso (PDF)
• Handout - Ravenswood (PDF)
• Science Update (PDF)
• CCCR 1974 Charleston Slough Photo (JPG)

October 20, 2011 Meeting

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Main Presentation (PDF)
• Science Presentation (PDF)
• Phase 2 Options (PDF)
• Science Symposium Highlights (PDF)
• Key Uncertainties - condensed (PDF)
• Shoreline Study Update (PDF)
• Flyer (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)

October 28, 2010 Meeting

• Summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Main Presentation (PDF)
• Phase 2 Preliminary Options Working Draft (PDF)
• Science Program Key Uncertainties Handout (PDF)

September 16, 2009 Meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Meeting Presentation (PDF)
• Status Report (PDF); cover letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein (PDF)
• Managing Salt Ponds to Increase Waterbird Nesting Habitat While Minimizing Methyl Mercury Biomagnification: Implications for the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project (PDF)
• Letitia Grenier Mercury Presentation (PDF)

November 20, 2008 Meeting

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• San Jose City Water Treatment Plant Master Plan Update (PDF)
• Stakeholder Forum Meeting Presentation (PDF)

December 14, 2007 Meeting

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Initial Restoration Actions Map (PDF)
• ISP Update (PDF) - Clyde Morris & John Krause
• Presentation (PDF)
• Greening the Bay: Financing Wetland Restoration
  in San Francisco Bay (PDF) - Felicia Madsen

Stakeholder Forum Meetings 2003–2006

November 29, 2006 Meeting

• Meeting Summary (PDF)

October 4, 2006 Meeting

Topics included:

• Project governance, institutional structure and decision-making
• Adaptive management decision-making
• Updates on project schedule, funding, ISP and Shoreline Study

• Final Forum Summary (PDF)
• Long-Term Project Governance, Institutional Structure and Decision-Making - Amy Hutzel (PDF)
• Adaptive management and decision-making - Dr. Lynne Trulio (PDF)
• Initial Stewardship Plan Update - Clyde Morris & John Krause (PDF)
• Shoreline Study Update - Ann Draper (PDF)
• Public Outreach Opportunities - Tracy Grubbs (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)

July 13, 2006 Meeting

Topics included:

• Preliminary Phase I public access actions
• Phase I applied studies and performance measures
• A draft proposal for Project implementation and governance
• ISP Update (including status of the Island Ponds)
• Science Team update (including development of Monitoring Plan and Performance Measures)
• Update on Project timeline to Draft EIR

• Final Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Science Program Activities presentation (PDF)
  by Lynne Trulio
• Preliminary Phase I Public Access Actions (PDF)
• South San Francisco Shoreline Study Status Report (PDF)
  by Beth Dyer
• Draft Proposal for Project Implementation and Governance (PDF)
  by Amy Hutzel
• Initial Stewardship Update (PDF)
  by Clyde Morris and John Krause
• Agenda (PDF)

January 12, 2006 Meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Alternatives Report—Public Draft

The purpose of this Stakeholder Forum meeting was to seek consensus on the range of alternatives to be analyzed in the forthcoming EIS/R document. The Local Government Forum meeting being held on 1/4/06 was to provide local government officials and staff an opportunity to review and comment on the proposed project alternatives that would be further discussed at the Stakeholder Forum meeting held the following week. A concise description and maps of the proposed alternatives were available for review.

November 17, 2005 Workshop

• Agenda (PDF)
• Presentation (PDF)

The purpose of this workshop was to review the technical rating of the restoration alternatives.

October 21, 2005 Meeting

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Presentation (PDF)
• Alternatives and Action Maps

The purpose of this meeting was to review the revised draft alternatives, dialogue on implications for the adaptive management plan, and seek consensus on the approach for finalizing the alternatives in preparation for EIR/EIS analysis.

September 8, 2005 Work Session

The comments received on the Draft Plan were reviewed and participants were asked to put the Draft Plan into “action” by applying adaptive management concepts to a series of hypothetical scenarios of actual situations that the Project Management Team may face as restoration is undertaken.

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Work Session Introduction Letter (with directions) / Agenda (PDF)
• Adaptive Management Hypothetical Scenarios (PDF)
• Draft Adaptive Management Plan (PDF)

July 13, 2005 Meeting

Topics discussed included the Project's draft Adaptive Management Plan, a status report on the long-term funding strategy, and expanded South Bay outreach, along with a brief refresher on the draft project alternatives.

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Agenda
• Meeting Presentation (PDF)
  By Steve Ritchie, Clyde Morris, and John Krause
• Draft Adaptive Management Plan Presentation (PDF)
  By Dr. Lynne Trulio
• Revised Maps of Restoration Alternatives
  • Figures 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4a, 4b, 4c, 5a, 5b, 5c (numbering corresponds to the Alternatives Memorandum)
• Draft Adaptive Management Plan—June ’05 edition Plan (June 3, 2005)

May 25, 2005 Meeting

The purpose of the meeting was to review the Landscape Assessment, outcomes from recently held Work Groups, and review new data

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Agenda—Presentation (PDF)
• Science Program Update—Presentation (PDF)
• Restoration Effects on Birds—Presentation (PDF)
• Progress on Landscape Scale Assessment—Presentation (PDF)
• Landscape-scale Assessment—progress update (May 18, 2005)
• Work Groups Overview Summary (PDF)
• Pond A-8 Workshop Summary (PDF)
• Sediment Workshop Summaries Meeting 1 & Meeting 2
• Birds and Habitat Workshop Summary (PDF)
• Island Ponds Adaptive Management Workshop Summary (PDF)
• See also: Workshop synopses (more comprehensive than summaries)
• DRAFT Proposed Criteria for Selecting Phase 1 Actions (May 13, 2005; PDF)

  This DRAFT of Proposed Criteria can be used to help the Project Management Team select specific Phase I actions for the long-term restoration project.

December 15, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Agenda and overview (presentation) (PDF)
• Preliminary program alternatives (presentation) (PDF)
  By Michelle Orr, Philip Williams & Associates
  • See also the final memorandum
• Science program update (presentation) (PDF)
  By Dr. Lynne Trulio
• Integration of Army Corps’ Shoreline Study and the Restoration Project (presentation) (PDF)
  By Steve Ritchie

July 29th, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Opportunities & Constraints Summary (PDF)
  Presented by Michelle Orr, Phil Williams & Associates
• Meeting Agenda Presentation (PDF)
• Meeting Agenda (PDF)

June 24th, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Meeting Presentation (PDF)
• Description of Record of Decision (PDF)
  Presented by Steve Ritchie, Executive Project Manager

April 15th, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Opportunities for Public Input (PDF [updated June 22, 2004])
• Presentation: Alternatives Formulation and Evaluation Methodology (PDF)
  Presented by Michelle Orr, Phil Williams & Associates, and David Blau, EDAW
• Presentation: The Conceptual Models and Science Strategy (PDF)
  Presented by Lynne Trulio, Lead Scientist

February 18th, 2004 Meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Presentation: Phil Williams & Associates Consultant Team Scope of Services and Opportunities for Public Input (PDF)
  Presented by Michelle Orr, PE, Phil Williams & Associates
• Presentation: Collaborative Skills Training II (PDF)
  Presented by the Center for Collaborative Policy

January 21st, 2004 Meeting

• Written agenda (PDF)
• Agenda presentation (PowerPoint)
• Presentation: Collaborative Skills Training I (PowerPoint)
  Presented by the Center for Collaborative Policy
• Presentation: Initial Stewardship Update (PowerPoint)
  Marge Kolar, US Fish and Wildlife Service
• Presentation: South Bay Salt Pond Restoration—Challenges to Ecological Restoration (Part 2) (PowerPoint)
  Dr. Lynne Trulio, Lead Scientist
• Meeting Summary (PDF)

December 4, 2003 Meeting

• Agenda (PDF)
• Press release (PDF)
• Presentation: South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project
  Marge Kolar, US Fish and Wildlife Service (PowerPoint)
• Presentation: Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
  Clyde Morris, US Fish and Wildlife Service (PowerPoint)
• Presentation: Factors Guiding Planning for Fish and Game Lands
  Carl Wilcox, California Department of Fish and Game (PowerPoint)
• Presentation: South Bay Salt Pond Restoration—Challenges to Ecological Restoration (Part 1)
  Dr. Lynne Trulio, Lead Scientist (PowerPoint)
• Meeting Notes (PDF)

Stakeholder Habitat Work Group

May 25, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Overview presentation (PDF)
• Draft Detailed Objectives (PDF)
• Alternative Development Framework flowchart diagram (PDF)

April 15, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)

March 26, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Meeting presentation (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• “South Bay Restoration: What We Can Learn From History” by Robin Grossinger, San Francisco Estuary Institute (PDF)

February 18, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)

Stakeholder Public Access & Recreation Work Group

May 25, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Overview presentation (PDF)
• Draft Detailed Objectives (PDF)
• Alternative Development Framework flowchart diagram (PDF)

April 15, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)

April 1, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Agenda/Objectives/Project Overview Presentation (PDF)
• USFWS Missions, Mandates, and Constraints for Refuge Planning by Clyde Morris (PDF)
• Factors Guiding the Restoration, Planning and Management of California Department of Fish and Game Lands by John Krause (PDF)
• Work Plan Outline/Data Collection Summary (PDF)
• Public Access & Recreation Draft Detailed Project Objectives (PDF)

February 18, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)

Stakeholder Flood Management Work Group

May 25, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Agenda (PDF)
• Overview presentation (PDF)
• Draft Detailed Objectives (PDF)
• Alternative Development Framework flowchart diagram (PDF)
• “Flood Management Opportunities & Constraints” by Jeff Haltiner, Phil Williams & Associates (PDF)

April 15, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Agenda

March 29, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting Summary (PDF)
• Agenda/Meeting Objectives/Future Meeting Dates Presentation (PDF)
• Geographic/Institutional Framework for Flood Management (PDF)
• Flood Management Planning Overview by Phil Williams & Associates (PDF)
• Status of Data Acquisition by Phil Williams & Associates (PDF)
• Detailed Project Objectives by Phil Williams & Associates (PDF)

February 18, 2004 Meeting

• Meeting summary (PDF)
• Overview of Flood Management Task Presented by Bob Battalio, PWA (PDF)

Initial ideas for restoration: Pond Cluster Options workshops

• Further information on all workshops (PDF)
• Preliminary Options Considerations

  This document presents the preliminary pond complex options, integrating habitat restoration, flood management, and public access. The options were developed by applying a set of criteria, referred to as “considerations‚” to the project area. The considerations take into account the project objectives, evaluation criteria, and guiding principles, as well as opportunities and constraints and conceptual models of habitat restoration (in progress). The Alternatives Development Framework (ADF) lists the project objectives and evaluation criteria and describes how the options fit within the overall alternatives development process.

  • Main document (PDF)
  • Figure 1. Historic Slough Overlay (PDF)
  • Figure 2. Adjacent Habitats (PDF)
  • Figure 3. Eden Landing Option 0: No Project / ISP (PDF)
  • Figure 4. Eden Landing Option 1: Managed Pond Emphasis (PDF)
  • Figure 5. Eden Landing Option 2: Mix of Tidal and Managed Ponds (PDF)
  • Figure 6. Eden Landing Option 3: Tidal Emphasis (PDF)
  • Figure 7. Alviso Option 0: No Project / ISP (PDF)
  • Figure 8. Alviso Option 1: Managed Pond Emphasis (PDF)
  • Figure 9. Alviso Option 2: Mix of Tidal and Managed Ponds (PDF)
  • Figure 10. Alviso Option 3: Tidal Emphasis (PDF)
  • Figure 11. Ravenswood Option 0: No Project / ISP (PDF)
  • Figure 12. Ravenswood Option 1: Managed Pond Emphasis (PDF)
  • Figure 13. Ravenswood Option 2: Mix of Tidal and Managed Ponds (PDF)
  • Figure 14. Ravenswood Option 3: Tidal Emphasis (PDF)

October 27, 2004: Entire Project area

• Agenda (PDF, revised 10/25)
• Summary (PDF)

September 29 & 30, 2004: Eden Landing and Alviso/Ravenswood ponds

• Agenda (PDF)
• Preliminary Options for Restoration Presentation (PDF)
• Workshops summary (PDF)