Environment & Natural Resources Committee

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Vision

The Environment & Natural Resource Vision for CMAP is to:

• promote ecological awareness and stewardship of environmental resources,
• support regional collaboration and support adoption of best practices

 

Committee Charge

The charge to this committee is to provide advisory input to the CMAP board on proposed regional plans, projects, and policies by:

• Providing the Board with guidance that conveys an environment and natural resource based perspective,
• Provide environment and natural resource expertise and input to conduct effective land use and transportation planning, and
• Prioritize environment and natural resource projects, identify and understand regional needs, challenges and solutions.

 

2007 Meeting Schedule

The Environment and Natural Resources Committee 2007 meeting schedule is below:

DATE	TIME
Wednesday February 7th	9:30 am
Wednesday March 7th	10 am
Wednesday April 4th	10 am
Wednesday May 2nd	10 am
Wednesday June 6th	10 am
July no meeting	----
Wednesday August 1st	10 am
Wednesday September 5th	10 am
Wednesday October 5th	10 am
Wednesday November7th	10 am
December no meeting	----

 

Committee Makeup

The current make up of the committee includes representatives from academia; federal; state and local resource and regulatory agencies; local land management agencies; stormwater, watershed, and wastewater planning agencies; local municipal and county government representatives; and environmental advocacy and policy agencies.

	Name	Organization	Position
Academia
	Dr. Martin Jaffe	University of Illinois at Chicago	Professor
Alternate	Dr. Moira Zellner		Assistant Professor
Resource Agencies
Federal/Local	Karla Kramer	US Fish & Wildlife
Alternate	John Rogner
State	Pete Harmet	IDOT District 1, Environmental Unit	Bureau Chief, Bureau of Programming
Alternate	John Baczek	Acting Project & Environmental Studies Section Chief	Bureau of Programming
State	Lynn Boerman	IDNR-Ecosystem Partnership	Regional Coordinator
Alternate	Debra Stone		Deputy Director
State	Mike Rogers	IEPA Bureau of Air	Environmental Protection Specialist
State	Amy Walkenbach	IEPA Bureau of Water
Federal	Jim Vanderkloot	USEPA, Region 5
Land Management Agencies
Regional	Melinda Pruett-Jones	Chicago Wilderness	Executive Director
Alternate	John Oldenburg	Forest Preserve District of DuPage County	Director, Office of Natural Resources
Regional	Bonnie Thomson-Carter	Illinois Association of Conservation and Forest Preserve Districts	President, Lake County Forest Preserve District
Alternate	John Oldenburg	Forest Preserve District of DuPage County	Director, Office of Natural Resources
Stormwater/Watershed
County	Mike Warner	Lake County Storwater Management Commission	Executive Director
Alternate	Patricia Werner		Watershed Coordinator
County	Patricia Young	Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of GC	Commissioner
Alternate	Joe Schuessler		Principal Civil Engineer
Alternate	Maureen Dukin		Principal Engineer
Local Government
City of Chicago	Sadhu Johnston	City of Chicago Department of the Environment	Commissioner
Alternate	Joyce Coffee
Municipal	Thomas Murawski	Municipal Representative, Village of Midlothian	President
Alternate	Kate Agasie	Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, Environmental Initiatives	Director
County	Ken Anderson	County Representative, Kane County	Project Manager, Department of Environmental Concerns
Environmental Advocacy
Regional	Lenore Beyer-Clow	Openlands	Policy Director
Alternate	Stacy Meyers-Glen		Policy Coordinator
National/Local	Jack Darin	Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter	Director
Alternate	Cynthia Skrukrud
Environmental Policy
Regional	Howard Learner	Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest	Director
Alternate	Ricca Slone		Policy Consultant
Water Agencies
State	Wallace Van Buren	Illinois Association of Wastewater Agencies
Regional	Ingrid Ruttendjie	Fox Waterway Agency	Executive Director
Governor's Appointment
TBA
Committee Liaison	Harry Solomon	Citizens Advisory Committee	Committee Liaison to the Environmental and Natural Resources Committee