Sections
This page contains several sections:
- Section 1: Committee meetings
- Section 2: Resolutions as assigned to WACD Committees
- Section 3: Current status of 2022 resolutions
- Section 4: Bylaws changes
- Section 5: Other business brought from the floor
1 – Committee meetings
WACD committees will review assigned resolutions and present one of three recommendations to the membership:
- Vote to recommend passage
- Vote to recommend passage with amendments; or,
- Recommend Do-Not-Pass
On Monday, November 7th, the Natural Resources Policy Committee will meet at 6:00 pm and the Legislative, Bylaws, and District Policies Committee will meet at 7:00 pm. The two committees will hear testimony from the original sponsor district and ask questions. Other interested parties are invited to provide their comments at this time as well.
Policy Committee Hearing Zoom Information available – HERE
Meeting ID: 845 3330 5592
Zoom Number – 253-215-8782
On Thursday, November 17th, the two committees will meet again at 6:00 pm (Natural Resources) and at 7:00 pm (Legislative, Bylaws, and District Policies) to offer amendments and adopt their recommendations to the remaining resolutions pending. Committee votes are conducted by the committee members present and recommendations require a simple majority vote.
Policy Committee Voting Zoom Information available – HERE
Meeting ID: 871 3770 0601
Zoom Number – 253-215-8782
Committees may prepare an original Committee Resolution on a motion from a committee member, seconded by another committee member.
If you have comments on any resolution, please send them to oly@wacd.org.
2 – Resolution assignments to WACD Committees
The WACD Executive Committee assigned resolutions to committees on Friday, October 28th.
Natural Resources Committee
- 2022 - 2022-01 WACD HAB Resolution (Whidbey Island CD) (1472 downloads )
- 2022-02 Ecology Stock Water Policy (Okanogan CD) (1278 downloads )
- 2022-03 Stock Water Rights (Stevens County CD) (1291 downloads )
Legislative, Bylaws, and District Policies Committee
- 2022-04 Good Faith Contracts (Whitman CD) (1308 downloads )
- 2022-05 Streamlining Permitting Process (Stevens County CD) (1560 downloads )
- 2022-06 Cost-Share Rates on Public Lands (Okanogan CD) (1455 downloads )
- 2022-07 Ecology Water Bank Program (Okanogan CD) (1317 downloads )
- 2022-08 Shared Conservation District Resources (Clark CD) (1398 downloads )
- 2022-09 Removing population criteria and per parcel maximum annual rate (Pierce CD) (2316 downloads )
- 2022-10 Removing population criteria and per parcel maximum annual rate (Thurston CD) (2571 downloads )
- 2022-11 Review of FSA practice standards (Foster Creek CD) (1705 downloads )
- 2022-12 NRCS Easements and easement programming recommended areas of improvement (Skagit CD) (3287 downloads )
- 2022-13 CD Elections (Palouse CD) (928 downloads )
3 – 2022 resolutions
These are the 2022 Adopted Resolutions, as approved by the association at the 2022 Annual Business Meeting.
4 – Bylaws changes
The WACD Board of Directors will consider possible changes to the bylaws at their November 21st regular business meeting. Currently, only one proposal has been presented at area meetings, and that is to allow one of the two area director positions in each area to be filled by a conservation district manager/executive director.
5 – Other business brought from the floor
Since the 2022 WACD annual business meeting has not yet occurred, there is no information available for this topic at this time.