Proposed Agenda

Washington Forum on Monitoring Salmon Recovery and Watershed Health

Regular Meeting

December 3, 2008

NRB 175 A & B, Olympia, Washington

Note: Opening sessions will commence as shown; all other times are approximate. If you need special accommodations to participate in this meeting, please notify us by November 20, 2008 at 360/902-3000 or TDD 360/902-1996.

9:00 am	Item#	1	Call to Order · Introductions · Review and approval of agenda · Correspondence sent or received	Chair
9:15 9:20	Item# Item#	2 3	Approval of September Minutes Announce 2009 Salmon Conference	Chair  Kaleen Cottingham
9:30	Item#	4	Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s 2009 Fish and Wildlife Program:  Adaptive Management Through Research, Monitoring and Evaluation What is the scope of NPCC’s involvement in monitoring? Where are the opportunities to align NPCC and Forum goals? Can the Forum and NPCC add value to each other’s efforts? What are the funding opportunities through with NPCC?	Dick Wallace  Tony Grover  Nancy Leonard
11:00			Break
11:15	Item#	5	Puget Sound Partnership Action Agenda and Science Plan Overview of new Action Agenda and Science Plan Implications for Monitoring Relationship between Forum and Partnership – how do we best support each other’s objectives?	Jim Cahill  Joel Baker
12:00			Lunch on your own
1:00 pm	Item#	6	Puget Sound Monitoring Consortium Presentation of final recommendations What is the relationship between the Partnership, the Consortium, and the Forum?	Karen Dinicola  Scott Redman
1:30	Item#	7	Ecology / Partnership Status and Trends Monitoring Update Coordination and progress to-date What is the pathway and impediments to implementation?	Bob Cusimano
2:00 2:45 3:00 3:45	Item# Item# Item #	8 9 10	Salmon Recovery Funding Board Monitoring Strategy The SRFB is interested in having the Forum review and validate its allocation of monitoring funds.  How should the Forum respond to SRFB’s interest?  Break How do we forge a statewide perspective on monitoring and related data management issues? Should we participate individually, or under one banner, at the Northwest Environmental Information Sharing Executive Summit (NWEIS)? Unified role during the legislative session?  (How do we respond to monitoring questions posed by the legislature?) Should the Forum endorse or facilitate joint monitoring grants? (Do we need business rules to guide how we do this?) Aligning Regional and Statewide Monitoring Priorities Update on process and proposed deliverables for March Forum meeting. Forum feedback	Kaleen Cottingham  RCO Staff  All  Jeff Breckel  Julie Morgan
4:00			ADJOURN Next Meeting: March 18, 2009 Topics for March 18, 2009 Meeting Legislative update Regional input to state agency budget development process Schedule for reviewing state agency monitoring proposals ??	Chair