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Council Climate Action and Natural Resources Committee
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
311 Grand Avenue, Ste #105
Bellingham, WA 98225-4038
(360) 778-5010
Committee Minutes - Final
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
10:15 AM
Hybrid Meeting
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COUNCILMEMBERS
Todd Donovan
Ben Elenbaas
Kaylee Galloway
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
Dana Brown -Davis, C.M.C.
Council Climate Action and Natural Committee Minutes - Final September 13, 2022
Resources Committee
Council staff announced that the Executive Session would be extended and that this meeting would begin at 10:30
a.m.
Call To Order
Roll Call
Committee Chair Kaylee Galloway called the meeting to order at 10:30
a.m. in a hybrid meeting.
Present: 3 - Todd Donovan, Ben Elenbaas, and Kaylee Galloway
Absent: None
Also Present: Barry Buchanan, Tyler Byrd, Carol Frazey, and Kathy Kershner
Announcements
Special Presentation
1. AB2022-474 Presentation from Portage Bay Shellfish Protection District Advisory Committee and
Public Works staff regarding status of shellfish recovery plan
Erika Douglas, Public Works Department, gave a presentation (on file) and
answered what the time scale was for the improvements in water quality at
76 percent of the fresh water stations, whether the County has a partnership
with Blaine for working with stormwater as it does with Ferndale and
Lynden, whether there was any discussion about merging the shellfish
advisory committees (Portage Bay and Drayton Harbor) with Birch Bay
Watershed and Aquatic Resources Management (BBWARM) so there is
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will sunset at the same time as the Portage Bay Shellfish Protection
District, whether other types of closures (like biotoxin closures) were
included in the closure data presented or whether those types of closures
are separate, whether there could be overlap between the fecal closures and
the biotoxin closures in the data, and whether our detection is getting better
to be able to tell human fecal matter from cow fecal matter.
This agenda item was PRESENTED.
Items Added by Revision
There were no agenda items added by revision.
Other Business
There was no other business.
Adiournment
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Resources Committee
The meeting adjourned at 11:03 a.m.
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