[Draft] Agenda

Savannah Harbor Improvement Project

Stakeholders' Evaluation Group (SEG) Meeting

November 14, 2000—9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Mighty 8^th Air Force Heritage Museum

(High Wycombe Room on the 2^nd floor)

175 Bourne Avenue, Pooler, Georgia

I:  Introductions of SEG Members

·         (To be repeated for late-comers)

II:  Facilitator’s Comments/Any Initial Exercise to Focus the Day on SEG’s “Mission”

III: Approve Agenda for November 2000 Meeting—the 23^rd Month of SEG Operation

• Additions

• Items

• Order

• Time

IV:  Approve September 2000 Meeting Transcript

·         Also any others from back-log that are now ready for SEG action 

V:  Old Business

·         (Items added by SEG Members to draft agenda in advance of meeting or during agenda-approval in Item III above and accepted by SEG Membership)

·         “MTRG findings regarding the long-awaited Data Report” including “conclusions of the MTRG regarding the report and the adequacy of the data to perform the modeling work”—presentation by MTRG “modeling experts” 

VI:  Committee Reports—All Active Working Committees

• Communications—Ben Brewton

• Economics Working Group—Judy Jennings

• Operating Guidelines—Morgan Rees

Scientific-studies-specifying Working Committees

•  Striped Bass—Ted Will

• Modeling Technical Review Group—Bo Ellis

• Fisheries and Aquatic Resources—Bill Bailey & Press Brownell

• Dredging and Disposal—Fred Beason

• Beach Erosion—Bill Farmer

• Aquifer Impacts (last science committee report)—Chris Schuberth

 VII:  New Business

• (Items added by SEG Members to draft agenda in advance of meeting or during agenda-approval in Item III above and accepted by SEG Membership)

• Presentation by Erik Olsen, the City of Tybee Island's Coastal Engineering Consultant, on the subject of "The Wilmington NC Harbor Deepening Project Overview"with emphasis on the beneficial use of dredged materials from the project, and similarities between the Wilmington Project and the planned Savannah River Harbor Expansion Project—recommended by the Tybee Island Beach Task Force and requested by the City of Tybee Island; estimated 30 minutes and some additional time for questions; preference would be to have the presentation be scheduled for 10:30 or 11:00 a.m. (Bill Farmer)

VIII: Prepare Next SEG Meeting's Agenda—if desired by SEG ad hoc Agenda Committee

IX:  Next Meeting Date

• December 5^th (24^th month of SEG effort), January 9^th (25^th month), February 6^th (26^th month), 9:00 a.m., Mighty 8^th Air Force Heritage Museum

• All day or half a day?

X: Adjourn prior to 4:30