Mountain Accord Stakeholders Council
The Stakeholders Council is comprised of community members, representing the diverse interests in the Central Wasatch Mountains, including community organizations, environmental groups, ski resorts, residents and property owners, and the general public.
What is the Job of the Stakeholder?
The job of the stakeholder is to assist the board in implementing the Mountain Accord. Stakeholders represent their own interests and learn about fellow stakeholders’ interests while working to find solutions that work for everyone.
Stakeholders may gather information, conduct fact-finding, provide analysis, conduct feasibility studies, and otherwise collaborate with broader constituencies with interests in the Project Area in order to make suggestions, recommendations and proposals to the CWC Board and the Commission’s staff and consultants. Council members serve four-year terms.
The Mountain Accord Stakeholders Council, mandated by the CWC Interlocal Agreement, acts in an advisory capacity to the CWC board. It is currently led by Chair John Knoblock and Co-Chair Tom Diegel, and it includes 35 members and five sub-committees.
What are the Stakeholders Council Committees?
Inspired by the Mountain Accord system groups, the Stakeholders Council operates with a Systems Committee model. There are the four Systems Committees and one non-system committee dedicated to Millcreek Canyon.
- Environment System Committee, which meets publicly on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 3:00 p.m., discusses matters regarding environmental protection throughout the Central Wasatch Range.
- Recreation System Committee, which meets publicly on the 2nd Thursday of every other month at 2:00 p.m., discusses recreation improvements throughout the Central Wasatch Range.
- Transportation System Committee, which meets publicly on the 2nd Monday of each month at 3:30 p.m., discusses canyon transportation issues and improvements.
- Economy System Committee, which meets publicly on the second Thursday of each month at 3:30 p.m., discusses the economic matters pertinent to the canyons in the Central Wasatch.
- Millcreek Canyon Committee is not a System Committee, but meets publicly on the 3rd Monday of each month at 1:30 p.m., discusses matters pertinent to Mill Creek Canyon.
What are the Jobs of the System Committees?
- Operating within the Mountain Accord framework, the System Committees maintain an understanding, through collaboration with other stakeholders and system groups, of the interdependence of the systems and impacts that decisions made by one system may have on
the other systems and fit into the larger system. - Use that understanding to inform their decisions.
- Promote and provide a special focus on their respective area of interest.
Committees and the Council Work Together
It is the ethos of the Mountain Accord and the CWC to bring varied interests together to collaborate and learn from one another, and to not focus on any system group in isolation. The larger Stakeholders Council is the natural forum for these system groups to come together, but this will not preclude committee members from having their viewpoints heard and considered, and thinking systematically and beyond one’s own interests should be encouraged at all levels of the organization.
