FYI, this e-mail notice did go out to Advisors and staff 5 days prior to the original meeting...

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to give folks and update on some scheduling changes to upcoming advisory meetings for the Willapa Bay Policy review. We have a meeting scheduled for this upcoming Saturday, December 15. The Fish and Wildlife Commission will also be meeting this weekend and have scheduled the Columbia River Salmon Management Policy review for Saturday. In order to not have advisors have to choose between providing input on Columbia River policy and/or attending the Willapa Bay Advisory meeting, this Saturdays meeting has been cancelled. I will be providing a briefing to the Fish Committee on Wednesday at 3pm in the Director’s conference room. This briefing will focus on the metrics that have been utilized to review the performance of the policy previously and asking for commissioner’s feedback and additional metrics to include in the review. I have attached a link to that information below. Also, the WBSAG meetings scheduled for January 8 and January 22 will be moved back by one day. Those meetings will now occur on January 9 and January 23, the meeting location and times have not changed.
https://wdfw.wa.gov/commission/meetings/2018/12/agenda_dec1418.html

Thanks,


Chad Herring

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Rescheduling the meeting gave me and another WB Advisor the opportunity to attend the CR public hearing in Olympia. Unfortunately, the general public interested in WB was NOT given notice of the schedule change.