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COMMITTEE FOR A SUSTAINABLE TREASURE COAST TO MEET AT HARBOR BRANCH

FT. PIERCE -- On July 14th and 15th, the Committee for a Sustainable Treasure Coast (www.sustainableTC.org) will hold its fourth meeting at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution. The committee was formed by executive order of Governor Jeb Bush at the request of Sen. Ken Pruitt (Port St. Lucie). Its mission is to evaluate and make recommendations on a wide range of issues related to long-range planning with the goal of assuring sustainable growth and development in Indian River, Martin, and St. Lucie counties. The committee, which began meeting monthly in April of this year, is scheduled to deliver an interim report to the governor and the legislature in January 2005, and a final report in September 2005.

This month's meeting will focus on natural resources, and Harbor Branch was chosen as the location in part because of its extensive work on related issues. The executive order for the committee notes the importance of marine research to the region and calls specifically for the group to recommend "ecologically sound actions to conserve the environmental resources in the three-county area."

The meeting is open to the public, and will include several opportunities for public comment. An agenda is listed below.

For a copy of the executive order that established the committee, please see: http://www.sustainabletc.org/about/Executive_Order.htm For a list of committee members, please see: http://www.sustainabletc.org/about/members.htm

For more information about the committee and its activities, please contact Jim Murley, committee facilitator and director of Florida Atlantic University's Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions, at (954)762-5255, jmurley@fau.edu. For information about Harbor Branch, please contact Mark Schrope at (772) 216-0390, or schrope@hboi.edu.

COMMITTEE FOR A SUSTAINABLE TREASURE COAST (CSTC)
July 14-15, 2004 - Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution - 4th Meeting Objectives

To review the Committee's work plan and meeting schedule through December, 2004
To review and adopt the draft Chair's final mission statement, understandings and principles
To hear presentations on environmental resources and initiatives in the Treasure Coast
To develop key outcomes and objectives for each of the natural system goals related to ecosystems and water sheds, water quality and supply, land use, private property rights, and regional collaboration to guide a member drafting group.
To appoint and charge a member and TAC drafting group on natural system vision goals and objectives
To review and agree on the August me eting agenda and next steps.
Draft Meeting Agenda

DAY ONE - Wednesday, July 14, 2004
8:00 a.m Coffee
8:30 Welcome, Guidelines, Adoption of June 16, 2004 Meeting Summary and Agenda Review
8:45 Review and Adoption of Draft Mission/Principles
9:30 Review of Workplan
9:45 Review of the Natural System Vision Goals
10:00 Break
10:15 Community Foundation Video on CERP and IRL South
10:35 Overview of Natural Resources/Land Acquisition - DEP/FWCC
11:00 St. Lucie River Issue Team - Kathy LaMartino, SFWMD
11:30 Citrus BMPs - Doug Bournique, IR Citrus League
12:20 Working Lunch - Current Land Use Decisions based on Natural Resources Panel discussion (on site for committee & staff)
1:30 Upper East Coast Water Supply Plan - Mark Elsner/SFWMD
2:15 FDEP Water Quality Programs - Kim Shugar/FDEP
3:00 Break
3:15 1 st Round Small Groups - Development of Initial Objectives/Outcomes for Natural System Goals
1. Water Quality and Supply-Water Bodies and Ecosystems
2. Balancing Water with Land Use and Property Rights
3. Intergovernmental Planning and Coordination
4:45 Small Group Reports on Initial Objectives/Outcomes will present and ask for comments on the draft statements
5:30 Review of Day Two Agenda
5:35 Public Comment
6:00 Recess (to casual dinner at Pineapple Joe's)

DAY TWO - Thursday, July 15, 2004
8:00 a.m Coffee
8:30 Introduction and Agenda Review
8:35 Overview of Initial Natural System Goals and Objectives/Outcomes
8:50 2nd Round Small Groups - Linkages with other Vision Goals
What are the key linkages between the natural system goals and objectives and other vision goals?
How should these be addressed?
1. Built Environment and Natural System
2. Economic Diversity and Natural System
3. Social Needs and the Natural System
9:30 Small Group Highlights Reports on Linkages
10:00 Plenary Ranking, Review and Discussion of Natural System Draft Objectives/Outcomes (from Day One)
10:30 Break
10:45 Continue Review of Draft Objectives/Outcomes
11:45 Drafting Group Charge and Appointment
12:00 Proposed Committee Work Plan and Meeting Schedule and Next Steps
12:15 Public Comment
12:30 Working Lunch and Presentation by HBOI
1:30 Tour of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution

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HARBOR BRANCH Oceanographic Institution was founded in Ft. Pierce, Fla., in 1971 to support the exploration and conservation of the world's oceans. The institution has held to this mission and grown into one of the world's leading oceanographic institutions with a 500-acre campus, over 200 personnel, and a fleet of sophisticated research ships and submersibles.