Meetings
Below are documents from the Coalition meetings held to date. They include meeting agendas and summaries as well as pdf files of power point presentations given at the meetings.
November 30, 2007
The first meeting of what would become the Coalition was held in conjunction with the Michigan Boating Industries Association annual Fall Education Conference in Acme, Michigan on November 30, 2007. The meeting was attended by 22 individuals including representatives from several harbor commissions and/or municipal/county governments responsible for harbors, the state Waterways Commission, US Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Salmon and Steelheaders’ Association, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the convening organizations, the Great Lakes Commission, Michigan Boating Industries Association and Michigan Sea Grant. The group agreed to meeting again early in 2008.
February 6, 2008
The Coalition’s second meeting, held in Lansing on February 6, 2008, was only partially dampened by a blizzard. Thirty-five attendees discussed the challenges faced by Michigan’s small harbors – those that are either federally authorized at 14 feet and/or are primarily used by recreational boaters and as harbors of refuge. Attendees agreed that collective action was the correct approach and agreed to meet again in April 2008. Chuck May the Coalition’s chairman pro tem, recruited a steering committee that worked tirelessly between the two meetings to engage all of Michigan’s 51 federally authorized harbors.
April 29, 2008
The Coalition’s third meeting was again held in Lansing on April 29, 2008. Sixty people attended this meeting, including representatives of 31 of Michigan’s harbors. Attendees approved a vision, mission and goal statement for the Coalition as well as a draft resolution for harbor communities to express their support for and membership in the Coalition. Attendees agreed that perhaps two or three regional meetings (with priority on the upper peninsula) over the summer, with a full Coalition meeting toward the end of September 2008, was the best way forward. They were asked to energize their communities and organizations in support of the coalition and in appointing a delegate to represent them in the coalition.
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