Council Meeting September 26th, 2016 Sandy Watershed Learning - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Council Meeting September 26th, 2016 Sandy Watershed Learning Center

Council Development — Review/adopt minutes — Finances and Budget — YTD Financials — 2016 Projections — Funder Updates — Board Elections — SRBWC Committees & Board Engagement — Equity Update

2016 YTD Financials Private Administrati Funding on, 5% 5% Direct Public Support 15% Human Resources, 39% Program/ Project Expenses, 56% Government Grants 80% YTD Income: $413,637.15 YTD Expenses: $436,987.57

2016 Projections Administrati Private on Funding 4% 3% Direct Public Human Support Resources 18% 25% Program/ Project Government Expenses Grants 71% 79% Projected Income $749,758.64 Projected Expenses $744,108.69

Funder Update: MHCC Retrofit Planning — October 3 Metro capital site visit — DEQ 319 funding secured — Opportunity analysis 95% complete — Metro joining Retrofit MOU

Committees and Board Engagement — Council Elections – bi- — Committees: annual; 2 year terms — Personnel — Restoration — Proposed even month — Events/Fundraising committee meetings (alternate months from bi- — Equity/Diversity/Inclusion monthly Council business meetings)

Equity Update — Non-Profit Association of Oregon cohort completed — Additional coaching included Source: Systems Thinking and Race

Equity Next Steps — Self-assessment, diversity focus for OWEB biennial process — Build toward late winter retreat — Align diversity/equity/ inclusion goals with 5- year Council Vision

Floodplain Reconnection Project: 90% completed!! • Remove 300’ of post-1964 Flood levee/ embankment • Construct three engineered log jams • Activate 2,900’ of side channel; • Reconnect back- channel (‘Beaver Pond’), ~10 months per year

Engineered Log Jams • Bring flow into side channel • Deflect some erosive force • Fish habitat: pools, feeding, rearing

Off Channel Habitat • “Coho Heaven” - not just for beavers and ducks

Next Steps: Covering our tracks — Access roads re-naturalized — Fall, Spring re-plantings to restore forest and understory

Floodplain Reconnection By the Numbers • 153 logs • 5 log jams created • 4,500+ cubic yards of rock and sand excavated, removed • 8 tours totaling 75 visitors • 4 temporary straw erosion control dams built, removed and distributed as mulch • 2 key wildlife sightings • 1 recurring mascot

Smackdown Wrap Up — 68 properties surveyed — 15 had Policeman’s Helmet — Many more observations, totaling ~3.8 acres — 40 Properties treated total area ~1.7 acres — Challenges: gaining property owner permission for infected sites — Next year, we will start treating large known infestations first

Lower Sandy Floating Cleanup — 15 Volunteers — 600 lb of trash including: — 3 tires — Umbrella stand — Half-burned bra — Donations from: — Voodoo Donuts — Extracto Coffee — Fish from Todd A. — Key Bank

Salmon Headwaters Cleanup @ Timberline Weather: Sideways Rain Volunteers: — Portland Mtn Rescue: 10 — Snow Rider Project: 5 — Community: 5 Trash: — 1.5 dumpsters — Sleds, snow gear, signs — $20 –one lucky volunteer got paid! ~1500 lb total

Walkin’ Wy’East — 43 miles in 73 hours — 2 nights of rain, 1 of frost — 16 donors, over $1,000 raised, more pending — Finally saw the mountain in the last mile The raven that inspired my hike 8/1 And possibly followed me around the Mountain

Emerging Opportunities: ‘Award Winning Restoration’

Emerging Opportunities — Win 100 underway — 1935 Here we come

Other Business — Public Comment — Upcoming Events — Next SRBWC meeting – November 28 — January 23 — 2017 Free Sandyversary / SRBWC 20 th Anniversary — Self assessment / diversity/equity retreat TBD