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Council Meeting March 28, 2016 Sandy Watershed Learning Center

Council Development

— Review/adopt minutes — Finances and Budget

— YTD Financials — 2016 Projections — Board fundraising — Funding Diversification

— Staff transition

2016 YTD Financials

Government Grants, $24,000.00 Foundation & Trust Grants, $500.00 Corporate Conributions, $8,160.04 Private Funding, $8,150.62

YTD Income: $40,432.78 YTD Expenses: $100,796.69

2016 Projections

Updates on submitted grants between Nov and Jan: ~$400K over 3 years NOTIFICATION OF THESE GRANTS: March 31st - May

NEWLY submitted grants since January meeting: Captain Planet, Oregon Parks Foundation, City of Sandy CPP , OWEB Small Grant, US Endowments Fund Healthy Watersheds, Clackamas SWCD $250,000 over 4 years

2016 Projections

Committed funding since January meeting: ~$5500 Anticipated committed funding since January meeting: ~$23,000 (CSWCD & OWEB Small Grant)

Funding Diversification

2016 BOARD FUNDRASING GOALS:

• 100% participation:
• Financial contribution
• Fundraising committee participation

2016 $???

Funding Diversification

— Subcommittee — Business/Individual Contributions:

— Agricultural — Forestry — Recreation

— 2016 Fundraiser Event: TBD — 2017 Fundraiser Event:

— Celebration of Marmot Dam removal anniversary

OWEB Updates

— Small Grant Approved -

Sandy Watershed Learning Center naturescaping project

— Outreach Rankings: Re-

branding/basinwide

• utreach not-to-fund

— April Applications:

— Metro Oxbow Restoration

Phase III

— Henry and Clear Creek

passage design Technical Assistance

SRBWC Committee Structure

— Executive Committee — Restoration (RFP Review) Committee — Fundraising Committee (formerly Events) — Equity Committee — What else….?

Equity Updates

— Non-Profit Association of Oregon Executive

Director’s Equity Cohort

— Network of Oregon Watersheds CONNECT

Conference

— Next steps: SRBWC equity self-assessment

Via Meyer Memorial Trust

Learning Moment:

Sandy Fisheries Update

— Todd Alsbury, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500 5,000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Adult Chinook Run Year Clackamas wild Sandy Wild Sandy Hatchery

Marmot Dam Removed

Delta Update

— Native American

Youth and Family Association

— Student Planting

Day March 31st

— Friends of Trees,

Daimler, Blazers (no fooling) April 1st

April 2016 Events

May 2016 Events

CLT Floodplain Reconnection

— “Triangle Offense”

Permit revisions in progress

— Staging area

established; Log acquisition begun

— RFP released;

Contractor field review Tuesday April 5, 9 a.m.

AmeriCorps Program Update

— Year 2 Application

Submitted

— Beaver Creek Interpretive

Sign & Educational Brochure

— Delta Eco-Blitz

SBVRC

— Smackdown funding received — Public presentations:

— 4-County CWMA — Urban Ecology Research

Conference

— Society of Ecological Restoration

NW

— Up next: tracking phenology &

partner coordination

MHCC Retrofit Kick-Off

— March 30th meeting

— Herrera contractors — Salmon Safe

Certification

Emerging Opportunities

— Beaver Creek Outreach

— Troutdale’s First Friday — Gresham Saturday Market

— EPA cold water refugia study:

Sandy is ~3 degrees cooler than the Columbia according to available data

Emerging Opportunities:

State of the Sandy

Thanks to Christina Shintani

Other Business

— Public Comment — Upcoming Events

— April 3rd- Naturescaping Basics Workshop (full) — April 13th- Native Plants Workshop — April 23rd- Delta Eco-Blitz — May 14th- Rain Gardens Workshop — May 23rd- Council Meeting

— April 12th, 4pm- Corinne’s Send-off @ Tippy Canoe