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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021 11 22 CFFCOC Special Meeting Final Summary  * Decisions and action items are indicated in bold font. Members Present: Phil Andrus, District 2; Mary Biskup, District 1; Scott Brinton, Interest – Agriculture; Guy Dobyns, District 3; Rob Harbour, Interest – Working Lands; Richard Jahnke, Interest – Coastal Areas; Joanne Pontrello, Chair, District 2; Ron Rempel, Interest – Wildlife Conservation Biology; Craig Schrader, Interest – Climate Change; Dave Seabrook, Vice Chair, Interest – Food Security; Lorna Smith, Interest – Ecotourism; Dave Wilkinson, District 1 Members Absent: None County Staff Present: Tami Pokorny, Environmental Public Health Rebekah Brooks, Recorder (Rebekah Brooks Contracting) I. Call to Order: Chair Joanne Pontrello called the meeting to order at 4:04 PM. II. Welcome and Introductions III. Approval of Minutes: Dave Seabrook moved to approve the October 4, 2021 CFCOC Meeting minutes as written; Phil Andrus seconded. The motion was approved unanimously. The July 12, 2021 CFCOC Meeting minutes were accepted unanimously. IV. Guest Observer comments: None V. Old Business Funding Round Calendar Tami Pokorny displayed the CFCOC Funding Round Calendar. The next scheduled event is to submit the revised Committee materials to the Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) on December 6, 2021, but the County attorney has not yet responded with legal approval of the revised Bylaws. The group discussed whether to postpone the meeting with the BoCC in order to wait to hear back from the County attorney, but that would push back the project proposal schedule. The attorney has advised the Committee to relax the stringent protocol for Appearance of Fairness in the Bylaws, but without final approval, the Committee cannot go forward with the new protocol. The Committee agreed that in the absence of hearing back from the County attorney, they would proceed under the old Bylaws protocol, and would submit their revised materials to the BoCC at the scheduled meeting with the caveat that the Committee is waiting for final attorney approval. That way the BoCC can have the opportunity to approve the other CFCOC materials and the funding cycle can move forward as scheduled. Lorna Smith moved to adopt the Funding Round Calendar as proposed; Dave Seabrook seconded. The motion passed with all in favor. Application Process The Committee reviewed the edits made to the CFCOC Application from several Committee members. Ron Rempel made some changes to question 8, which the Committee approved of. Richard Jahnke made minor edits to the language and format for consistency. The Committee reviewed the Application questions. Manual, Application, and Score Sheet The CFCOC went through the Application and Score Sheet together in detail. Issues corrected included making the questions consistent between the two documents; changing sub-numbers to bullet points in cases where only a single score was used for a question; making minor formatting edits for clarity; making the numbering consistent between the two documents; and revising question 15 on Operations & Maintenance projects and changing it to a stand-alone question with a 0-100 sliding scale. The Committee agreed with the new framework for the Application, and the alignment of the Score Sheet with the Application. The agreed upon changes were later made by Tami Pokorny and Rebekah Brooks, with more in-depth inconsistencies noted for Joanne Pontrello and the Committee to go over in more detail. The Committee reviewed minor edits to the Manual and accepted Richard Jahnke’s suggestion to add the site visit or equivalent to the list of required meetings for Committee members. Mary Biskup moved to accept the Manual, Application, and Score Sheet as revised today; Rob Harbour seconded. The motion passed with all in favor. Sub-committee Reports There were no reports. VI. New Business Bylaws The CFCOC reviewed the Bylaws with the edits from the Bylaws Sub-committee (Phil Andrus, Dave Seabrook, Rob Harbour, and Ron Rempel), and approved of the changes. Richard Jahnke added an update to Section 4.h. on the required meeting list for Committee members, in order to make it consistent with the Manual: members are required to attend the site visit or equivalent. VII. Announcements/Administrative Staff Update Tami Pokorny announced that the Arlandia Project is in closing right now. The Quimper Wildlife Corridor 2021 Project is complete and being invoiced. The Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group is closing one of the Moon Valley properties. Tami mentioned that better communication is needed to make sure that sponsors understand that the match requirements must be satisfied at the closing of the invoice; future work cannot be considered as match. Annual reports are due at the end of December, so *Tami will send out a reminder to project sponsors about that. Joanne Pontrello asked about another CFCOC meeting over the winter to do project updates and decisions and to finalize the Bylaws. The date for that is to be determined. Another Committee member is still needed from District 3, if anyone knows any interested colleagues. Next Meeting A potential winter meeting may be scheduled; the date is still to be determined. VIII. Guest Observer Comments None IX. Adjournment Scott Brinton said that he missed long-time CFCOC member JD Gallant, who passed away recently, and the group all agreed. Thanks and appreciation were expressed all around. Chair Joanne Pontrello adjourned the meeting at 5:43 PM. Action Items: *Tami Pokorny will send out a reminder to project sponsors about annual reports.