July 16 TRLOC meeting to be held via teleconference
July 8, 2020
Isaac Estes-Jones
The US Army Corps of Engineers has announced that the upcoming third meeting of the Table Rock Lake Oversight Committee (TRLOC) will be held via teleconference in lieu of a physical meeting. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. and last until 5 p.m. at the latest.
The conference line will open at 7:30 a.m. on July 16. Members of the public that want to listen to the committee meeting should to call 844-291-4185 or 409-207-6997 and when asked use access code 6899777. Once you dial in the operator will ask you for your name. You will then be put on hold and muted until the meeting begins at 8 a.m.
Members of the public will be allowed to make verbal comments for a portion of this meeting, a three hour period sometime early in the meeting after the call to order. In the interest of time and to give everyone a chance to be heard, each person who wants to comment will be given a maximum of two minutes to address their comments to the TRLOC. You will not be allowed to transfer time to other individuals.
Once the verbal comment period opens, the operator will ask the individuals wishing to speak to type a specific code on their phone and they will be put in a public comment queue. When it is time for the individual to make their comments, the operator will again ask for their name and unmute their line so they can make their comments. Once their two minutes are up they will be put on mute and the next caller will be identified. Anyone who’s comments are “unruly” will be immediately muted and possibly removed from the call, warns the Corps.
Following the public comments, several presentations are scheduled. These include material the committee requested about the draft master and shoreline management plans, a presentation from the Corps on the review of permit and finally several discussions amongst the committee and the Corps staff about the Table Rock lake master plan, shoreline management plan and the review of permit.
All materials, powerpoints, etc. related to these presentations will be available online prior to the start of the meeting on the TRLOC website. To access the site, visit https://go.usa.gov/xfcmr.
The Corps notes that all public comments, written or verbal, are considered a public record and will be available online sometime after the end of the meeting.
As of this publication, no more written public comments are being accepted. The final day for delivery of those comments to the Corps in Little Rock was today, July 9.
At the end of this meeting, the committee will give their final recommendations to the Corps about the draft plans. The finalized plans will be released during a fourth meeting scheduled later this summer.
The TRLOC is an independent Federal advisory committee established as directed by Section 1185(c) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016. The committee is advisory in nature only with duties to include providing information and recommendations to the Little Rock District commander on revisions to the Table Rock Lake Master Plan and Shoreline Management Plan.
The US Army Corps of Engineers has announced that the upcoming third meeting of the Table Rock Lake Oversight Committee (TRLOC) will be held via teleconference in lieu of a physical meeting. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. and last until 5 p.m. at the latest.
The conference line will open at 7:30 a.m. on July 16. Members of the public that want to listen to the committee meeting should to call 844-291-4185 or 409-207-6997 and when asked use access code 6899777. Once you dial in the operator will ask you for your name. You will then be put on hold and muted until the meeting begins at 8 a.m.
Members of the public will be allowed to make verbal comments for a portion of this meeting, a three hour period sometime early in the meeting after the call to order. In the interest of time and to give everyone a chance to be heard, each person who wants to comment will be given a maximum of two minutes to address their comments to the TRLOC. You will not be allowed to transfer time to other individuals.
Once the verbal comment period opens, the operator will ask the individuals wishing to speak to type a specific code on their phone and they will be put in a public comment queue. When it is time for the individual to make their comments, the operator will again ask for their name and unmute their line so they can make their comments. Once their two minutes are up they will be put on mute and the next caller will be identified. Anyone who’s comments are “unruly” will be immediately muted and possibly removed from the call, warns the Corps.
Following the public comments, several presentations are scheduled. These include material the committee requested about the draft master and shoreline management plans, a presentation from the Corps on the review of permit and finally several discussions amongst the committee and the Corps staff about the Table Rock lake master plan, shoreline management plan and the review of permit.
All materials, powerpoints, etc. related to these presentations will be available online prior to the start of the meeting on the TRLOC website. To access the site, visit https://go.usa.gov/xfcmr.
The Corps notes that all public comments, written or verbal, are considered a public record and will be available online sometime after the end of the meeting.
As of this publication, no more written public comments are being accepted. The final day for delivery of those comments to the Corps in Little Rock was today, July 9.
At the end of this meeting, the committee will give their final recommendations to the Corps about the draft plans. The finalized plans will be released during a fourth meeting scheduled later this summer.
The TRLOC is an independent Federal advisory committee established as directed by Section 1185(c) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016. The committee is advisory in nature only with duties to include providing information and recommendations to the Little Rock District commander on revisions to the Table Rock Lake Master Plan and Shoreline Management Plan.
