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Council Natural Resources Committee
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
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Bellingham, WA 98225-4038
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Committee Minutes - Final
VIRTUAL MEETING - VIEW ONLINE; ENDS NO LATER THAN 9:15 A.M.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
8:45 AM
Virtual Meeting
COUNCILMEMBERS
Todd Donovan
Ben Elenbaas
Carol Frazey
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
Dana Brown -Davis, C.M.C.
Council Natural Resources Committee Committee Minutes - Final November 10, 2020
Call To Order
Roll Call
Committee Chair Todd Donovan called the meeting to order at 8:46 a.m. in
a virtual meeting.
Present: 3 - Todd Donovan, Ben Elenbaas and Carol Frazey
Absent: None
Also present: Rud Browne, Barry Buchanan, Tyler Byrd, and Kathy Kershner
Committee Discussion and Recommendation to Council
1. AB2020-497 Public Works staff will provide an update to Council on the discussion at the WRIA1
Watershed Management Board meeting on October 29, 2020 of the County
Executive's Comprehensive Water Settlement concept and request that Council make
a motion to proceed with the settlement concept
Gary Stoyka, Public Works Department, briefed the Councilmembers.
The following people also spoke:
• Henry Bierlink
• Satpal Sidhu, County Executive
Councilmembers and the speakers discussed bringing in a facilitator early
on and for the whole settlement process, potential facilitators, making sure
the facilitator does not have an agenda or a history with any of the parties
involved, how to move this forward if they do not know whether the Tribes
are nn hnarrl whether the Tribes need to express rf they are on board before
asking the Watershed Management Board to approve the "white paper" for a
local settlement process, engaging in a community discussion whether
there is an adjudication or not, asking the State for additional money to
facilitate a parallel process, whether a decision needs to be made today
before hearing from the Tribal Councils, gathering more technical
information about groundwater modeling before a process begins, and not
sending a signal that this process is in lieu of adjudication
Frazey moved to recommend approval of bringing the framework forward
and starting to work on it.
Donovan restated the motion and asked if it includes recognizing that it is
not exclusive to adjudication.
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Frazey accepted the friendly amendment in her motion to recommend
approval of bringing the framework forward and starting to work on it,
recognizing that it is not exclusive to adjudication.
The motion carried by the following vote:
Aye: 2 - Frazey and Donovan
Nay: 0
Abstain: 1 - Elenbaas
This agenda item was FORWARDED TO COUNCIL WITH
RECOMMENDED MOTION(S).
Items Added by Revision
Other Business
Adiournment
There were no agenda items added by revision.
There was no other business.
The meeting adjourned at 9:17 a.m.
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WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WHATCOM COUNTY, WA
Todd Donovan -via email 12/1/2020
Todd Donovan, Committee Chair