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

YTD Income: $413,637.15 YTD Expenses: $436,987.57

Program/ Project Expenses, 56% Human Resources, 39% Administrati

• n, 5%

Government Grants 80% Direct Public Support 15% Private Funding 5%

2016 Projections

Government Grants 79% Direct Public Support 18% Private Funding 3% Program/ Project Expenses 71% Human Resources 25% Administrati

• n

4%

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-

annual; 2 year terms

— Proposed even month

committee meetings (alternate months from bi- monthly Council business meetings)

— Committees:

— Personnel — Restoration — Events/Fundraising — Equity/Diversity/Inclusion

Equity Update

— Non-Profit Association

• f 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

• 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

Floodplain Reconnection Project: 90% completed!!

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 20th Anniversary — Self assessment / diversity/equity retreat TBD