Environmental Advisory Committee

Baldwin County

Staff - Ashley Campbell

EAC Member - Brett Gaar

City of Daphne

Staff - Jesi Ward

EAC Member - Catherine Barnett

City of Fairhope

Staff - Nicole Love

EAB Member - Amy Paulson

EAB Member - Gary Gover

Mission: The Mission of the Joint EAC/EAB partnership is to provide unified template environmental ordinances for Baldwin County entities.

Goals: The Joint EAC/EAB partnership goals include the following:

1.  Template Ordinances
   1. Stream and Wetland Protection
   2. Red Clay
   3. Nature Based Solutions
   4. Gully Protections
   5. Farmland Protections
   6. Environmental Advisory Committee/Boards Establishment Resolutions
2. Food Production through Community Gardens in Urban Areas
3. Membership Coordination with an annual meeting.
4. Template Websites for EAC/EAB

Members

Brett Gaar

Tim Mullek

Tommy Schmitz

Mission: The Dirt Road Sub-committees mission is to improve water quality in Baldwin County by identifying the most environmentally damaging roads and recommending best management practices to resolve the potential for water quality impacts from the roads.

Goals: To review and update the 25 Most Environmentally Damaging Dirt Roads Report every five to ten years.

Members

Blain Chastang

Tommy Cleverdon

Wayne Dyess

Brett Gaar

Joey Koptis

Tim Mullek

Dick Sute

Mission: Protection and Preservation of Baldwin farming heritage while balancing the economic growth and development within our community.

Goals: 

1. Seeking to achieve protection through creating landscape buffers between new construction and prime farmland.

2. Preservation to be achieved through a voluntary conservation easement program to keep prime agricultural land in production. 

Members

Brett Gaar

Leslie Gahagan

Dick Sute

Mission: To assist Baldwin County in creation and review of environmental ordinances.

Goals: To review and comment on updates of the Baldwin County Zoning Ordinance. 

Members

Glenda Dean

Leslie Gahagan

Vaughn Millner

Mission: The Water Quality Sub-Committee’s mission is to implement the Baldwin County Commission Strategic Plan Goal that the community will experience increased transparency and accountability for watershed quality through regular testing and reporting of water quality and the ongoing development of partnerships with citizens and groups interested in the environment.

Goals: The Water Quality’s goal is to establish a County wide water quality monitoring program that will serve as a demonstration for other Counties and Cities.

Expert Advisors

Gena Todia

 Ashley Campbell

Citizens Needed

Titi Swamp Committee

Mission: To preserve the indispensable and fragile wetlands of Planning District 26 that provide habitat for fish and wildlife; contribute to water quality and pollution control, and flooding.

Goals: To search for grant funding to preserve and protect the wetlands in Planning District 26.