Buffer Soils and Drainage Committee Meeting

Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: BWSR Conference Room 101, 520 Lafayette Road North, St. Paul, MN 55155

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Call In (audio only):  651-395-7448

            Conference ID: 509 510 091#

Agenda:

• Review of Agenda
• Public Comment Period
• Approve December 3, 2025, Meeting Minutes
• Buffer Law Procedures Update
• Next meetings

Contact: Tom Gile, Resource Conservation Manager, 507-696-1974, tom.gile@state.mn.us

Water Management and Strategic Planning Committee Meeting

Date: Monday, January 12, 2026

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Location: BWSR Conference Room 101, 520 Lafayette Road North, St. Paul, MN 55155

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            Conference ID: 569 775 340#

Agenda:

• Review of Agenda
• Public Comment Period
• Soil and Conservation District Comprehensive Plans

Contact:  Marcey Westrick, Central Region Manager, 651-284-4153, marcey.westrick@state.mn.us

RIM Reserve Committee Meeting

Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: BWSR Conference Room, 520 Lafayette Road North, St. Paul, MN 55155

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             Conference ID:  405 688 894#

Agenda:

• Review of Agenda
• Approve December 8, 2025, meeting minutes
• Public Comment Period
• Alteration request for 65-08-02-01 (Renville County)

Contact:  Sharon Doucette, Easement Section Manager, 651-539-2567, sharon.doucette@state.mn.us

Grant Program and Policy Committee Meeting

Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Time: 9:00 p.m.

Location: Room 102, 520 Lafayette Road North, St. Paul, MN 55155

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            Conference ID: 300 714 738#

Agenda:

• Review of Agenda
• Public Comment Period
• Approval of December 18, 2025, meeting minutes
• Clean Water Fund Competitive Grants (Projects and Practices)
• Bridging Conservation Grants
• Clean Water Legacy Partner Grants
• Red River Basin Commision Grant

Contact:  Marcey Westrick, Central Region Manager, 651-284-4153, marcey.westrick@state.mn.us

Audit and Oversight Committee Meeting

Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Location: BWSR Conference Room, 520 Lafayette Road North, St. Paul, MN 55155

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            Conference ID: 109 574 844#

Agenda:

• Approve January 15, 2025, Meeting Minutes
• Public Comment Period
• 2025 Performance Review and Assistance Program (PRAP) Report

Contact: Andrea Fish, Assistant Director, 612-616-5112, andrea.fish@state.mn.us

Committee Roster

December 2025

ADMINISTRATIVE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (AAC)

Responsibility: The AAC consists of the Board’s chair and vice-chair and the chairs of the Board’s standing committees. The AAC may make evaluations and recommendations to the Board on various Board issues including ethics; expenses/per diem; bylaws; and implementing legislation and budgets. The AAC will act as the personnel committee for personnel actions relating to the Board’s executive director. The chair may include additional members ad hoc to address special or unique topics or issues.

Meetings: The committee will meet at the call of the chair.

AUDIT & OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (A&O)

Responsibility: The Committee consists of the Board’s chair, vice-chair, and appointed at-large members. It appraises the effectiveness of the agency’s internal controls and risk assessment and provides an avenue of communication between BWSR’s internal audit function and external auditors, management, and the Board. In addition, the A&O is also responsible for the Performance Review and Assistance Program (PRAP) oversight and receives reports on BWSR and Local Government Unit program evaluations and fiscal compliance matters.

Meetings: The Committee will meet at least once during the year or at the call of the chair or a majority of the members.

BUFFERS, SOILS & DRAINAGE COMMITTEE (BSDC)

Responsibility: The Committee is responsible for reviewing buffer, drainage and soil conservation statutes, rules, policies, guidelines, programs and special projects and related plans, operational partnerships, and opportunities to enhance the agency’s implementation of programs; and for making the resulting recommendations to the Board.

Meetings: The Committee will meet as determined by the Committee chair in consultation with the Board Chair or staff.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION COMMITTEE (DRC)

Responsibility: The Committee is responsible for hearing appeals, including those related to the Wetland Conservation Act, watershed district rule and permit decision appeals, and, under MS103A.301, determinations of water law and policy. The authority of the DRC is established in statute and assigned to the DRC by the Board. Under current guidelines the DRC hears the appeals and makes recommendations to the Board.

Per M.S. 103B.101, Subd.10, the committee is appointed by the board chair.

Meetings: The Committee will meet as needed to process appeals that have been filed with the Board.

Responsibility: The Committee is responsible for reviewing grant allocations, policies, and related procedures and making recommendations to the Board.

Meetings: The Committee will meet as determined by the Committee chair in consultation with Board Chair or staff.

RIM RESERVE COMMITTEE (RRC)

Responsibility: The Committee is responsible for reviewing RIM Reserve Program statutes, rules, policies, guidelines, rates and for considering strategic plans, operational partnerships, and opportunities to enhance the agency’s conservation easements programs; and for making the resulting recommendations to the Board.

Meetings: The Committee will meet as determined by the Committee chair in consultation with the Board Chair or staff.

WATER MANAGEMENT & STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE (WMSPC)

Responsibility: The Committee is responsible for the development of strategic plans for the Board including identification of key outcomes, partnerships and opportunities. The WMSPC is also responsible for the development of program and policy to guide and direct implementation of local water and watershed management plans, including the One Watershed - One Plan program.

Meetings: The Committee will meet as determined by the Committee chair in consultation with the Board Chair or staff.

WETLAND CONSERVATION COMMITTEE (WCC)

Responsibility: The Committee is responsible for reviewing Wetland Conservation Act (WCA) and wetland banking rules, policies, guidelines and plans.

Meetings: The Committee will meet as determined by the Committee chair in consultation with the Board Chair or staff.

DRAINAGE WORK GROUP (DWG)

Responsibility: The Drainage Work Group is responsible for developing recommendations for drainage system management and related water management, including recommendations for updating Minnesota Statutes Chapter 103E Drainage and related provisions.

Meetings:  The work group will meet as determined by the staff.