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Joint Board Meeting: March 25-28, 2024

On-time comments due: Thursday, March 11, 2024

Location: Anchorage

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Meeting Documents

• Call for Proposals (PDF 290 kB)

Full 2023-2024 Joint Board Proposal Book (PDF 1,994 kB)

2023-2024 Joint Board Proposals

Advisory Committees - Uniform Rules of Operation (PDF 248 kB)

• Proposal 1 - Require one-month public notice for advisory committee election meetings and 14 days-notice for regular meetings (PDF 104 kB)
• Proposal 2 - Require all advisory committee meetings be accessible via call-in option (PDF 104 kB)
• Proposal 3 - Reduce the terms for advisory committee officers from two years to one (PDF 105 kB)
• Proposal 4 - Clarify the responsibilities for advisory committee chairs (PDF 106 kB)
• Proposal 5 - Clarify the responsibilities for the officer position of secretary/recorder (PDF 124 kB)
• Proposal 6 - Allow advisory committees with community designated seats to appoint alternates for those communities (PDF 106 kB)
• Proposal 7 - Clarify the process for appointing advisory committee alternates, allow alternates for communities having more than one designated seat, and establish one year term limits for alternates (PDF 128 kB)
• Proposal 8 - Allow advisory committees the discretion to set membership term dates (PDF 105 kB)
• Proposal 9 - Limit the number of consecutive terms advisory committee members can serve (PDF 104 kB)
• Proposal 10 - Designate one seat on each advisory committee for non-consumptive representation (PDF 132 kB)
• Proposal 11 - Designate non-consumptive user seats for the Anchorage, Cooper Landing, Fairbanks, Homer, and Matanuska Valley advisory committees (PDF 107 kB)
• Proposal 12 - Clarify the provision that advisory committees may not reject a nomination for an undesignated seat when membership is less than the number of members authorized (PDF 107 kB)
• Proposal 13 - Clarify the process for declaring vacancies and filling expired seats (PDF 148 kB)
• Proposal 14 - Adopt an absence policy allowing advisory committees to remove members who miss more than 50% of meetings without reasonable justification (PDF 104 kB)

Administration of Advisory Committees (PDF 121 kB)

• Proposal 15 - Allow advisory committees to provide additional recommendations (PDF 104 kB)
• Proposal 16 - Dissolve seven advisory committees in the Southeast Region due to inactive status (PDF 112 kB)

Board Process for Developing Regulations (PDF 149 kB)

• Proposal 17 - Establish a process in regulation for developing board proposals (PDF 109 kB)
• Proposal 18 - Adopt a regulation or a Joint Board policy to limit certain types of amendments (PDF 137 kB)

Subsistence Uses - Nonsubsistence Areas (PDF 127 kB)

• Proposal 19 - Redefine the boundaries for the Fairbanks Nonsubsistence Area (PDF 119 kB)

More information will be posted here as it becomes available.