Committee
| Role
| Membership
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| Sponsors |
- Expedite action by addressing institutional arrangements and
resource/funding issues
| Senior decision-makers and influential public representatives
who represent a broad base of interests, including:
- Provincial and municipal representatives
- Aboriginal First Nations
- Public-at-large.
|
| Coordinating
Committee |
- Coordinate and integrate the activities of the Working
Groups to produce an integrated watershed management
plan.
- Provide opportunities for public participation.
- Prepare annual watershed reports.
|
- Senior (regional/field) staff of the participating
agencies, provincial ministries, and municipalities,
- The aboriginal First Nations and
- public representatives
|
| Technical Working
Groups |
- Determine information requirements, gaps and the condition
of the resource
- Develop specific projects or action plans dealing with
watershed resources
- Deal with details of how specific projects or activities should
be carried out.
|
- Senior technical staff of participating ministries,
agencies, municipalities,
- First Nations and
- Public representatives with technical expertise
|
| Community
Working Groups |
- Provide a forum for people with varying backgrounds and
interests to discuss and define local issues and priorities.
- Gather local knowledge.
- Define what the community would like to see addressed in
the annual State of the Watershed Report.
- Organize and host opportunities for local participation.
- Raise questions regarding local resource and community
issues to appropriate technical working groups.
- Sponsor, instigate and/or take responsibility for local
resource management actions.
- Monitor the condition of local resources.
| Local representation from a broad base of community
perspectives including:
- industry, business, agriculture
- education, health, labour
- naturalist, environmental
- municipal councillors, staff
- agency and government staff
- aboriginal First Nations
- service clubs
- social services
- heritage, tourism, arts, recreation, religious
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