Meeting of the Contra Costa Watershed Forum
Wednesday July 11, 2007

(Mingle over coffee, juice and bagels 9:00 – 9:30)
City of San Pablo Civic Center
One Alvarado Square, 13831 San Pablo Avenue
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Agenda

9:00 Coffee, juice and bagels.  The County Community Development Department will bring food, coffee and juice; donations are accepted (please bring a mug to minimize our use of paper or plastic cups).

9:30 Roundtable news/updates, including, but not limited to, the following items:
     Welcome from the City of San Pablo (Karineh Samkian, Clean Water Program)
     Watershed Roundtable (all). 
     Committee and Project Updates
     Executive Committee Report.  Consider changing the time and/or location to meet.  
     Historical Ecology Project Update (John Kopchik, CCC Community Development Dept).
     Update on the Volunteer Creek Monitoring Program (Michelle Luebke, CCC Community Development Dept.)

10:05 Update on the Third Quadrennial Creek and Watershed Symposium to be held on Thursday November 15, 2007 in Walnut Creek (Kae Ono, CCC Community Development Dept).

10:20 Rheem Creek and Breuner Marsh – a Promised Land (Rich Walkling, Natural Heritage Institute).

10:55 Final Report on the Creek Trust Project, funded by the CCC Community Watershed Stewardship Grant Program(Linda Ballentine, Ag-Natural Resources Trust of Contra Costa County).

11:05 Update on the 2006/2007 Contra Costa Watershed Awards.  Ceremony will be a part of the Symposium in November 2007 (Kae Ono, CCC Community Development Dept).

11:10 Wildfire in My Watershed (Maria Morales, Diablo Firesafe Council).

11:30 Adjourn to the September 12, 2007 Contra Costa Watershed Forum meeting (location pending).