WRIA 14 PLANNING UNIT MEETING

 

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Shelton Civic Center

Shelton, WA

 

Meeting Summary

 

Attendance:

Government Members Present:

Theresa Parsons, City of Shelton

Pam Bennett-Cumming, Mason County

Jeanne Kinney, Thurston County

Phil Wiatrak,  Dept. of Ecology

Al Frey, Port of Shelton

Ron Gold, Mason County PUD # 1

Government Members Absent:

Squaxin Island Tribe

 

 

Other Planning Unit Members Present:

 

Drew Noble, Water Purveyors

Bob Simmons, WSU Extension

Harry Paul, Thurston PUD

Warren Dawes, SWPSWC

 

Others Present:

 

Jeff Morgan, Parametrix

Gary Yando, Regional Project

Susan Gulick, Technical Project Mgr/Facilitator

Chad Stussy, WDFW

 

 

1.      Watershed Plan

q       Comments on the watershed plan are due to Susan by October 26th (the next Planning Unit meeting). It is very important that Planning Unit members carefully review and comment on the draft plan.

q       Susan, Phil and Pam briefed the Mason BOCC on the status of the WRIA 14 and 16 Watershed plan on October 10th.  The Board gave some general guidance that was shared with the Planning Unit.  This will be formally communicated in a letter from the Board in the near future. 

q       The Planning Unit reviewed and revised draft recommendations for the watershed plan.  The revisions are included as a separate document.  The recommendations reviewed or revised by the Planning Unit are in blue.

 

2.      Storage Report 

q       Comments on the draft storage report are due to Susan by Friday, October 28th.

 

3.      Instream Flow Grant

q       Jim Mathieu of NW Land and Water is working on a scope of work and budget for Step C of the instream flow grant.

 

4.      Upcoming Meetings 

q       The time for Planning Unit meetings has been changed to 9-12 (rather than 10-12) to allow more time to work on recommendations. 

q       The next Planning Unit meeting will be on Wednesday, October 26th from 9-12 at the Shelton Civic Center.

q       There will also be a Planning Unit meeting on Wednesday, November 9th from 9-12 at the Shelton Civic Center.

q       The second meeting in November has been moved from November 23rd (Thanksgiving Eve) to November 30th.