(Contact us if you are driving up Friday night or are not driving back until Sunday: a group dinner can be arranged.)

Agenda:

1. Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV)
___a. Nat Gillespie- CIS and GIS. Demonstration and hands on workshop.
___b. Bryan Moore - Funding (grants), and the new Service Learning Program in the EBTJV.

2. Legislative Action - Kirt Mayland
___a. How councils can position themselves on water policy items, and other conservation issues.
___b. What TU can and cannot do.
___c. A dry run on legislative action. How councils can set up the legislative coordinators and key council leaders to best respond
___d. Council Legislative Committees - coordinating and supporting Kirt's work.

3. Youth Education:
___a. Greg Ponte -Youth Camps - what is needed to set one up.
___b. Bryan Moore - Tie in with the EBTJV's new Service Learning Program.
___c. Trout In the Classroom

4. Strategic planning for New England - open discussion.
· Review of NE Meetings 2004 To 2008
· Understanding each council's objective
· What does New England leadership see the Brook Trout program looking like in the Northeast in five years, and building to that vision.

___i. Laying out the road map for a successful regional campaign.

___ii. Discussion of key regional items; water policy and the brook trout campaign. Overlapping the items.

___iii. CIS overlap with Brook Trout, and other key chapter initiatives (TIC/Youth). Plot them on the map.

___ iv. Targeting the projects for success, and connecting the projects and the states for recognition beyond TU.
_____Building momentum for brook trout.

We will keep the meeting very focused, thus allowing more workshop and discussion time.

Please RSVP to TU CT State Council Chair Bill Blaufuss (prosit67@hotmail.com) and cc to Jan Allardt (Jcfa_mayfly@hotmail.com)

(Your response gives us a head count for lunch and beverages).