Toby Nixon, President of the Washington Coalition For Open Government, has suggested that the DFW Commissioners need only to vote on, approve and WRITE INTO THEIR THEIR BY-LAWS the Open Meeting Principle(s) for all interactive functions--that move would bring about some much-needed change. Pursuing that path and completing that simple action would then put them in compliance with the recent Sunshine Laws and the Open Public Meetings Act.

The recent formulation of the Ten Year Puget Sound Management Plan was done without the inclusion of the nine DFW Commissioners' participation, perspective or oversight--which are primary facets within their administrative duties. The Director and his Fish Managers took that task on alone.

Looks to me like the Board of Commissioners need the Transparency guarantees of the Open Public Meetings Act just as much as we Rec stakeholders do...