DATE: Friday February 23, 2001
TIME: 9:00 to 11:30 AM
LOCATION: Bingo Room, Chehalis Tribe Lucky Eagle Casino
| General Partnership Business | 9:00 a.m. | |
| Welcome, introduce members and new visitors | ( 5) | Chair |
| Identify special issues of concern and adjust agenda | ( 5) | Members/Chair |
| Committee Reports | ||
| Citizen's Advisory Committee – Public Outreach Plan | (15) | Committee Chair |
| By-laws Review/Update Committee | ( 5) | Lee Hansmann |
| Other Business | ||
| Temperature TMDL highlights | (20) | Kahle Jennings |
| State Water Quality Funding Local Prioritization | (10) | Kahle Jennings |
ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN AT THIS MEETING:
Appoint committee to set up local review process for water quality funding applications
Reminder of public comment period on the Upper Chehalis River Temperature TMDL
| Special Project Status Reports, Budget Updates and Committee Reports | 10:00 a.m. | |
| Watershed Planning Project (RCW 90.82) | (10) | Lead Agency |
| Salmon Recovery Project (RCW 77.85) | (10) | Lead Entity |
| Limiting Factors Analysis update | ||
| Flood Control Projects | (10) | |
| Centralia Flood Damage Reduction Project (sponsored by Lewis County) | ||
| Chehalis Basin Study (sponsored by Grays Harbor County) | ||
| Special Presentation | 10:30 a.m. | |
| Salmon Recovery Funding Board | (45) | William Ruckelshaus |
| Open Comment | 11:15 a.m. | |
| (15) | Audience | |
| Chair Adjourns Meeting | 11:30 a.m. |
ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN AT THIS MEETING:
None known at the time the agenda was prepared
The 1999, the Washington State Legislature created and authorized the Salmon Recovery Funding (SRF) Board. The Mission of the SRF Board is to support salmon recovery by funding habitat protection and restoration projects, and related programs and activities that produce sustainable and measurable benefit for the fish and their habitat.
Mr. William D. Ruckelshaus of Seattle serves as the Chair of the SRF Board. Mr. Ruckelshaus is a principal in the Madrona Investment Group, L.L.C. (MIG), a Seattle based investment company. In 1999, Governor Gary Locke appointed him to serve a four-year term as the chairman of the Salmon Recovery Funding Board.
A native of Indiana, Ruckelshaus obtained an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from Harvard University. He practiced law for several years, and also served in the Indiana House of Representatives, where he was Majority Leader (1967-69). He received presidential appointments as first and fifth Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (1970 and 1985), Acting Director Federal Bureau of Investigation and as Deputy Attorney General, US Department of Justice (1973). After 1974, Ruckelshaus worked with the Weyerhaeuser Company as Senior Vice President. He was Chairman/CEO of Browning-Ferris Industries from 1988 to 1995 and Chairman from 1995 to 1999. Currently, Mr. Ruckelshaus serves as a director of several corporations, including Cummins Engine Company, Pharmacia Corporation, Solutia, Inc., Coinstar, Inc., Nordstrom, Inc., and Weyerhaeuser Company. In July 1997, President Clinton appointed him as the U.S. envoy for the Pacific Salmon Treaty negotiations. He chairs the U. of Wyoming's Institute for Environment & Natural Resources, the World Resources Institute, and serves on the boards of numerous other nonprofit organizations. Mr. Ruckelshaus resides in Seattle, Washington.
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