Governance
Composition and Decision-Making Process of the StreamWatch Steering and Technical Advisory Committees
The StreamWatch steering committee is composed of representatives of partner organizations. The steering committee is the program’s ultimate decision-making body.
Partner organizations endorse the StreamWatch Principles and Objectives, and contribute in-kind and/or financial resources to the program.
The technical advisory committee is composed of members of partner organizations and other organizations in the environmental management and conservation community. Partners may seat representatives on both the steering committee and the advisory committee, but steering committee representation is limited to one representative per partner.
Substantive decisions require the approval of the steering committee. Before decisions are made, information and opinion must be shared through both the technical advisory committee and the steering committee.
Decisions will be made by the consensus method whenever possible and practical. Consensus procedure demands a high level of respect for unique perspectives, and, simultaneously, a high level of cooperation. Consensus aspires to generate decisions that the group supports enthusiastically. Approval of decisions should be neither spuriously acquiesced to nor spuriously blocked by members. If consensus is impractical or appears to be unreachable after due effort, a steering committee member may move to abandon consensus. This motion, and all voting decisions, must be approved by a 2/3 majority vote.
StreamWatch Steering Committee
| name | organization |
|---|---|
| Scott Clark | Albemarle County |
| Kate Cooper | Fluvanna County |
| Dan Frisbee | City of Charlottesville |
| Rochelle Garwood | Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission |
| Angus Murdoch | Rivanna Conservation Society |
| Alyson Sappington | Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District |
| Ridge Schuyler | The Nature Conservancy |
| Andrea Terry | Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority |
StreamWatch Technical Advisory Committee
| name | organization |
|---|---|
| Tamara Ambler | Albemarle County |
| Samuel Austin | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Stephen Bowler | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| George Constantz | Canaan Valley Institute |
| Diane Frisbee | The Nature Conservancy/Rivanna Conservation Society |
| Greg Harper | Albemarle County |
| David Hirschman | Center for Watershed Protection |
| John Kauffman | Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries |
| Karen McGlathery | University of Virginia Department of Environmental Sciences |
| Rick Odom | Ecologist, GIS specialist |
| Brian Richter | The Nature Conservancy’s Freshwater Initiative |
| William Van Wart | Virginia Department of Environmental Quality |