AGENDA
Semi-Monthly Meeting – Full Council
Tuesday, February 23, 2016; 6:00 p.m.
Administration Building, Conference Room A
One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting – February 9, 2016
Subcommittee Reports
Staff Reports

Report – Deepwater Wind, LLC: update from Ted Hofbauer, CVA presentation and Review and Approval of FIR 2015 and FDR 2016

Applications which have been Out-To-Notice and are before the Full Council for Decision:

2015-03-028 HARBOR VIEW HOLDING CO, LLC & HARBOR LIGHT MARINA (Phil Noel) -- Establish and maintain: A limited view restoration project. The project proposes to restore a view from an existing clubhouse building associated with a country club which originally opened in 1967. To restore the view, the applicant proposes to remove trees and prune shrubs to a maintained height of 4-5 feet within 77,706 square feet (SF) of coastal (forested freshwater) wetland and 9,787 S.F. of wetland buffer zone. Invasive species management will be performed throughout the managed area and within a portion of the adjacent brackish marsh which is dominated by Phragmites. As compensation, 394,969 S.F. of wetland and adjacent upland areas will be placed within a Conservation Easement and public access will be provided to consist of six (6) public parking spaces and a kayak launching facility. The area managed for a view will be maintained primarily as shrub swamp consisting of native wetland shrubs, a salt marsh fringe bordering Warwick Cove and a native shrub upland buffer bordering the country club. Located at plat 378, lot 14- 16; 200 Gray Street, Warwick, RI.

Coastal Habitat Restoration Trust Fund Applications before the Council for Review and Decision:

The projects recommended for full funding are:

1. RIDEM Excavator Purchase ($5,000)
2. Grinnell's Beach Coastal Adaptation Project ($3,750)
3. Oyster Monitoring, Assessment, and Development of a RI Oyster Restoration Guidance Document ($25,377)
4. Manton Pond Dam Nature-Like Fishway ($110,873)
5. Improving Fish Passage at Bradford Dam ($70,000)

The project recommended for partial funding is:

1. Taylor Point Restoration Project ($10,000)

The projects not recommended for funding are:

1. Cocumscussoc Brook and Meadow Brook Wetlands Restoration
2. Experimental removal of upland buffer vegetation to facilitate salt marsh migration
3. Barrier Beach Protection and Plant Community Restoration on Social Trails at Napatree Point
4. Restoration of Diamondback Terrapin Nesting Habitat on the Potowomut River
5. Build-out of intensive Tier 3 monitoring in RI

In addition, the committee has created a contingency list of projects to be funded in the event that a project recommended for funding is unable to go forward or the requested funds are not needed due to unforeseen circumstances.

2015-2016 Contingency List:

1. Experimental removal of upland buffer vegetation to facilitate salt marsh migration ($20,308)
2. Barrier Beach Protection and Plant Community Restoration on Social Trails at Napatree Point ($23,800)
3. Build-out of intensive Tier 3 monitoring in RI ($18,000)
4. Improving Fish Passage at Bradford dam (remainder needed for construction)

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