Commission Meetings and Actions

Missouri Conservation Commission October Meeting Tentative Agenda

Thursday, Oct. 22, at 10 a.m. – Closed Executive Session at Duck Creek Conservation Area, 365 State Hwy 51 in Puxico

Friday, Oct. 23, at 8 a.m. – Regular Open Meeting at Cape Girardeau Nature Center, 2289 County Park Drive in Cape Girardeau

Background documents related to open meeting agenda items are available for public viewing at Conservation Department Headquarters, Jefferson City, for eight calendar days prior to the meeting. Any person who would like to comment to the Commission about a specific agenda item must make a written request to the Director at least four calendar days prior to the meeting. The time allotted for public comment and the number of speakers will be at the Commission’s discretion. Recording the open meeting is permissible, pursuant to any guidelines established by the Commission to minimize disruption to the meeting. Individuals wishing to record the open meeting by audiotape, videotape, or other electronic means should notify the Director at least four calendar days prior to the meeting so accommodations for such recording can be made.

Oct. 22 at 10 a.m. – Closed Executive Session

• Vote to close meeting.
• 1 – Approval of minutes of previous executive session(s) (610.021 RSMo).
• 2 – Consideration of supporting documentation related to recommendations to suspend or revoke hunting, fishing, and trapping privileges (621.021(1), 610.021(14), 454.440.9, 211.321 RSMo).
• 3 – Consideration of confidential or privileged communications between the Commission and its Internal Auditor regarding work product (610.021(18) RSMo).
• 4 – Consideration of negotiated contracts (610.021(12) RSMo).
• 5 - Consideration of legal actions, causes of action, or litigation and attorney-client privileged communications as provided for in 610.021(1) RSMo.
• 6 – Consideration of potential real estate transactions/negotiations (610.021(2) RSMo).
• 7 – Consideration of recommendations relating to the hiring/firing/disciplining/promoting of personnel (610.021(3), 610.021(13) RSMo).

Oct. 23 at 8 a.m. -- Regular Open Meeting

Call to order -- Raymond T. Wagner, Jr., Chair

Administration:

1. Director’s Comments -- Jason Sumners, Director
2. Presentation: Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation -- Executive Director Tricia Burkhardt
3. Presentation: Southeast Region Update -- Matt Bowyer, Regional Administrator
4. Presentation: Invasive Fish -- Joe McMullen, Scientist, and Taylor Bookout, Fisheries Biologist
5. Public comments by individuals who submitted written requests prior to the meeting
6. Action Item: Consideration of items on the Consent Calendar (to be approved with a single action unless any Commission member requests an item be removed and taken up separately). Items removed will be addressed as the last action item on the meeting agenda.

Regulations Committee:  Laura Conlee, Deputy Director and Chair, Regulations Committee

7. Action Item: Recommendations for Commission Consideration

      7a) Presentation: Commercialization of Wildlife -- Matt Spurgeon, Statewide Investigations Supervisor

Administration – Budget:  Andrew Bond, Deputy Director – Business & Operations

8. Presentation: Financial Report.

Realty Committee:  Aaron Jeffries, Deputy Director and Chair, Realty Committee

9. Action Item: Recommendation for approval to purchase approximately 128.59 acres in Dade County as an addition to Stony Point Prairie Conservation Area to be named the Ida Lorene Higgins Tract of Stony Point Conservation Area.
10. Action Item: Donation of approximately 2.82 acres from the Neosho District Headquarters to Newton County for the construction of an emergency communication tower and facility.

Science and Management Branch:  Michael Bill, Natural Communities Section Chief

11. Action Item: Recommendation for approval to advertise and sell an estimated 2,067,044 board feet of timber from 702 acres of compartment 12 of Logan Creek Conservation Area in Reynolds and Shannon counties.

Administration:

12. Action Item: Consideration of items removed from the Consent Calendar, if any.

• Other matters of interest
• Adjourn

FUTURE MEETING DATES

• December 10-11, 2026
• February 3-4, 2027
• March 31 – April 1, 2027
• May 20-21, 2027
• June 29-30, 2027
• August 26-27, 2027
• October 21-22, 2027
• December 9-10, 202

CONSENT CALENDAR

Items on the following Consent Calendar either require Commission Action (if noted) or may be written reports presented for Commission information only.

The Consent Calendar covers routine items to be taken up by the Commission as the first order of business and approved with a single action.  Any Commission member may request an item be removed from the Consent Calendar to be addressed individually.  Any Commission member may abstain from voting on an item without removing it by specifying the item number and his/her desire to abstain prior to the vote.  Items removed from the Consent Calendar are taken up in numerical order as called for by the Commission Chair or as listed on the regular meeting agenda.

C.1 Action Item: Approval of minutes of previous open meeting(s)

C.2 Action Item: Recommendation for approval to suspend or revoke one or more hunting, fishing, or trapping privileges of individuals for cause -- Melissa Davison, Internal Auditor

C.3 Quarterly Permit Suspensions/Revocations Report – Melissa Davison, Internal Auditor

C.4 Quarterly Personnel Report -- Tom Neubauer, Human Resources Branch Chief

C.5 Infrastructure Management Quarterly Construction Project Status Report -- Jacob Careaga, Infrastructure Management Branch Chief

C.6 Information Technology Quarterly Project Status Report -- Ritchie Jenkins, Information Technology Branch Chief