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Town of Truckee TOWN COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING MINUTES April 3, 1997, 6:00 P.M. Truckee Donner Public Utility District Board Room 11570 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA CALL TO ORDER -Mayor Drake called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. ROLL CALL PRESENT: Council Members Carpenter, Florian, McCormack, Susman, and Mayor Drake ALSO PRESENT: Stephen L. Wright, Town Manager; Dennis Crabb, Town Attorney; and Vicki Soderquist, Deputy Town Clerk PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE was led by Jim Carney. PUBLIC COMMENT PRESENTATIONS 5.1 Update on Negotiations - Truckee River Operating Agreement (TROA). Recommendation: Council receive update, make comments as desired, and approve letter to California Department of Fish and Game regarding the necessity for a Truckee River biologist to represent the upstream interests. Kathleen Eagan gave an update regarding the Truckee River Operating Agreement (TROA). The The draft TROA would be available for a 60 day public comment period. Six outreach sessions would also be held at the beginning of the 60 day comment period and one of those would be held in Truckee. The final draft EIS was scheduled to be released in April 1998 and shortly thereafter the TROA would be ready to sign. She encouraged Council to attend the meeting held in Truckee and continue on-going representation in regional and bi-state water issues. Councilmember Carpenter questioned if the Truckee River Basin Water Group dealt with California internal issues. Ms. Eagan replied that the first internal issue would be to deal with the water allocation and it was being discussed. Councilmember Susman questioned if golf courses and their impacts had been included. Ms. Eagan stated that golf courses were not addressed in the TROA. Ms. Eagan stated an additional issue had arose, i.e. circumstances that occurred on the river in which the Federal Watermaster began the process of flow reductions from Lake Tahoe in mid- March. The flow reductions were to be in three stages over a 24 hour period. Due to significant citizen intervention the Watermaster changed the flow reduction to seven stages over a 40 hour period. Ramping of flows was an issue that the State of California, the region, and Truckee had been discussing in conjunction with the TROA relating to the health of the river. The issue was presently included in the TROA Guidelines, i.e. things that CA would like and, if the Federal Watermaster could do, would do. There was a need for better focus, consistency, coordination, and representation on the Truckee River regarding the health of the ecosystem. She then reviewed the draft letter to