– Meeting Notice –

Meeting of the DELTA VISION BLUE RIBBON TASK FORCE
Thursday July 19, and Friday July 20, 2007
Humphrey’s on the Delta
One Marina Plaza
Antioch, CA

AGENDA

DAY 1: Thursday, July 19 [view webcast]

1. Introductions and Opening Remarks
2. Legal and Administrative Update
   

   HANDOUTS
   Handout 1: Pending Legislation of Interest

3. Review and Discussion Concerning Delta Vision Stakeholder Coordination Group Work Products
   

   HANDOUTS
   Handout 1: Flexible Delta Map
   Handout 2: Flexible Delta Key
   Handout 3: Fortified Delta Map
   Handout 4: Fortified Delta Key
   Handout 5: Similarities Among Visions
   Handout 6: Operations and Upstream Management Workgroup

4. Panel Discussion with Selected Members of the Delta Protection Commission
   Attachment 1: Biographies of Panel Members

Attachment 2: Suggested Questions for the Panel Discussion
5. Overview of Delta-Suisun Ecosystem Issues
   

   HANDOUTS
   Handout 1: Ecosystem Principles Presentation
   Handout 2: Ecosystem Principles Context Memorandum

6. Task Force Discussion on Ideas to Improve Valued Ecosystem Functions
   

   HANDOUTS
   Handout 1: Delta Vision Ecosystem Design Team Short-Term Work Plan

7. Public Comment

5:00 p.m. Adjourn

5:30 p.m. - Boat Tour to Lower Sherman Island for Members of the Blue Ribbon Task Force

8:00 p.m. - Task Force Dinner at Humphrey’s

DAY 2: Friday, July 20 [view webcast]

1. Opening Remarks
2. Task Force Discussion on Water Uses, Water Quality, Conveyance, Floods and Levees
   Attachment 1: White Paper: Water Desalination in California

Attachment 2: Context Memorandum – Water Supply and Water Quality
Attachment 3: Context Memorandum – Flooding and Delta Levees

HANDOUTS
Handout 1: Water Panel Supplemental Handout

3. Overview of Analysis of Economic Impacts
   Attachment 1: Context Memorandum – Local and State Economics
4. Administrative Report
   Attachment 1: Work Flow Spreadsheet

Attachment 2: Work Products Spreadsheet
5. Task Force Discussion on the Elements of a Vision
   

   HANDOUTS
   Handout 1: Questions To Be Answered by DWR and Experts

6. Public Comment

3:30 p.m. Adjourn

Other Attachments

Testimony of Phillip L. Isenberg Before the Subcommittee on Water and Power Committee on Natural Resources

Context Memorandum – Learning From Others

Context Memorandum – Transportation

Context Memorandum – Utilities

Correspondence and Information from the Contra Costa Council and the Delta Levee Coalition