Management Board

Reaching 2025 Report

In October 2022, the Chesapeake Executive Council charged the Principals’ Staff Committee with recommending a critical path forward that prioritized and outlined the next steps for meeting the goals and outcomes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement leading up to and beyond 2025. The result is Charting a Course to 2025: A Report and Recommendations for the Chesapeake Executive Council on How to Best Address and Integrate New Science and Restoration Strategies Leading Up To 2025. The first version of the report was published on July 22, 2023 and received nearly 200 comments from 19 organizations. The second version was published on November 22, 2023 and the final version was posted on January 17, 2024.

• Charting a Course to 2025 Report FINAL [PDF, 2.3 MB]
• Reaching 2025 (All Comments) [PDF, 4.9 MB]
• Reaching 2025 Report (Redlined V1) [PDF, 2.3 MB]
• Reaching 2025 Report (Redlined V2) [PDF, 2.6 MB]

Priority Project Submissions

To align the Beyond 2025 Steering Committee’s recommendations with the Chesapeake Bay Program’s long-term goals, the Management Board has asked Goal Implementation Teams and Workgroups to translate these recommendations into separate projects that will advance their focus areas. The Management Board discussed the project proposals that were submitted by GITs and Workgroups at their January 16, 2025, meeting. The Management Board will consider these projects a draft list and expects additional projects to be identified and reviewed over time.

• Priority Project Submission Template [DOCX, 25.9 KB]
• Draft Priority Projects List as of January 16 2025 [PDF, 510.2 KB]

Strategy Review System

The Strategy Review System (SRS) helps the partnership consistently apply adaptive management to its work toward achieving the outcomes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. ChesapeakeDecisions is a tool that promotes transparency and guides the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Goal Implementation Teams and Management Board members through the Strategy Review System.

Management Strategies

Guiding documents for the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership's work to develop, update and adaptively manage the Management Strategies to achieve the outcomes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

• Ms git lead contact matrix 08 11 20 [PDF, 195.2 KB]
• Key elements revised per 9 11 mb discussion final 10 23 14 pdf [PDF, 288.7 KB]
• Attachment ii a management strategies overview 9 3 14 revised pdf [PDF, 423.5 KB]
• Attachment ii i org structure with outcome lead placement 9 15 14 pdf [PDF, 573.2 KB]

Indicators Framework and Management Process

• Approved CBP Indicators Framework and Management Process pdf [PDF, 286.0 KB]