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Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap county residents to hear and talk about Puget Sound Press release from Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team
The Puget Sound Council’s regional meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 26th, at Washington State University Cooperative Extension -- Jefferson County’s office, 201 West Patison St., in Port Hadlock, from 10 a.m. to approximately 3 p.m. “This is the first of several meetings the Council is planning around the Sound,” said Scott Redman, acting chair for the Action Team. “We want to hear directly from people living and working in these communities about what they are doing to improve Puget Sound and what they need from the Council and Action Team to continue their work.” Speakers at the Council meeting will include representatives from the following organizations: · Dungeness River Management Team, a long-standing watershed planning body on the North Olympic Peninsula; · Point No Point Treaty Council, an organization which supports the work of the Skokomish, Port Gamble, Lower Elwha Klallam, and Jamestown S’Klallam tribes; · Kitsap County Stormwater Management Program; and the · Hood Canal Coordinating Council, a council of governments that includes Jefferson, Kitsap and Mason counties, Port Gamble S’Klallam and Skokomish tribes, Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups and various state and federal agencies. The Council will also hear about the progress being made by recent Public Involvement and Education Fund (PIE) contractors in the region. The PIE program provides funding to local communities to help motivate environmental stewardship and empower people to solve local pollution problems. The Council is made up of representatives from business, agriculture, the shellfish industry, environmental organizations, local and tribal governments and the legislature, and it advises the Action Team, a state organization charged with developing and carrying out activities for the Sound. ### For more information visit www.wa.gov/puget _sound or call (800) 54-SOUND Broadcast Version The Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team’s Council will host a regional meeting in Port Hadlock on Thursday, September 26th, to talk with Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap county residents about protecting and improving the health of Puget Sound. The meeting is scheduled at Washington State University Cooperative Extension -- Jefferson County’s office from 10 a.m. to approximately 3 p.m. The Council is made up of representatives from business, agriculture, the shellfish industry, environmental organizations, local and tribal governments and the legislature, and it advises the Action Team, a state organization charged with developing and carrying out activities for the Sound. Agenda: STATE OF WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
News Release:
Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:00 AM – 3:10 PM WSU Cooperative Extension – Jefferson County 201 West Patison Street Spruce Room Port Hadlock, Washington 98339 (360) 379-5610
AGENDA 10:00 AM Introductions & Announcements
10:10 AM Dungeness River Management Team · Ann Seiter, Natural Resource Director, Jamestown S’klallam Tribe · Val Wilson, Watershed Planner, Clallam County
11:00 AM Point No Point Treaty Council (Steve Todd, Habitat Biologist) and Suquamish Tribe (Richard Brooks, Environmental Program Director)
11:50 AM Working Lunch
12:00 PM Round 13 PIE Contractors · Pacific Woodrush (Mary Peck, Chair) · Port Townsend Marine Science Center (Judy D'Amore) · WSU Cooperative Extension (Katherine Baril, County Chair)
12:50 PM Kitsap County – Stormwater Management Program · Dave Dickson, Program Director
1:40 PM Break
1:50 PM Hood Canal Coordinating Council (Richard Brocksmith, Habitat Program Manager), Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group (To Be Determined), & North Olympic Salmon Coalition (Paula Mackrow, Executive Director) 2:50 PM Public Comment
3:05 PM Wrap-up and Closing Comments from the Council
3:10 PM Adjourn
Directions to meeting are below
Members of the media are invited to call Mary Getchell at (360) 407-7312. If you have special accommodation needs, please call Kim Haggard (360) 407-7329 one week prior to the meeting date. TDD: 1-800-833-6388. For more information about the meeting agenda, please contact Kim Haggard.
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