October 2014 Board Meeting Minutes – Washington Recreational River Runners

In person meeting at Round Table Pizza in Renton

Call to order @ 7:09
1. Board present: David Elliott, Jason Cohen, Brenan Filippini, Nancy Douty,
2. Directors present: Adam Schierenbeck, Rebecca Post, Chris Herman, Jim Johnson (phone), Mary Koncikowski (late)
3. Members present: Brian Vogt, Jared, Paul
4. Guest: Phil Kincaire
Review minutes and approve – David motion to approve, Rebecca 2nd, approved!
Review agenda – done
Officer
1. Chairperson/President – David Elliott
  1. Membership 136 (last month 139)
    1. Down a little, it’s that time of year
2. VP River Ops – Brenan Filippini
  1. Gear swap coming up, will talk about that later.
3. VP Business – Jason Cohen
  1. Nothing to report
4. VP Finance – Nancy Douty
  1. Don’t have the balance, but plenty of money.
Standing Committee Reports
1. Waterlog – Brian Vogt
  1. Would be cool to have designated photographer for Waterlog. Jared really likes to take pictures. Could just coordinate with people that are taking pictures. If they get posted full size on Facebook, that would work too.
2. River Watch – Brenan Filippini
  1. Phil Kincaire from forest service – Wild and Scenic manager for the forest service. Does ops and planning. Tries to come annually to let us know what we are doing.
    1. North fork Nooksack – grant for improvements on the 542 corridor. Used to do emergency closers for salmon spawning, but have relaxed that for private boaters. Grant used to improve the access to eddy behind bedrock. Plenty of room off 542 for parking. Still need to put up railings, but about 85% done. Working with Tom on safety.
    2. Sauk – Bachman. Seattle City Light money. Had met with Snohomish County parks about what they wanted, but never went anywhere. Finally had Tom talk to them. September, dropped 14-16 trees on lower terrace. Rented excavator, county cleaned up the wood and graded. Gravel was supposed to delivered this week. Can get trailers down to the river now.
    3. Index-Galena road, recreation access should still be part of this road package. Not expected till 2016. Howard Creek (tributary to north fork) bridge is also messed up, going to try and do them at the same time.
    4. Lower Stahikan – park service wants to improve road for takeout (put in for lake). Seeking grants, confident they will get it but will be a couple years.
    5. Cable Drop (south fork Sky) – difference of opinion if rails are needed. Paul says they are absolutely not needed. The upper rails are installed according to Brenan’s specs. Trail crew is going to install the rest of the rails on the 27th. Don’t have to finish them if we think they are not needed. Will dragging the boats over the stairs cause problems? If anyone has a chance to get out there before the 27th, we can call off the rest of the rails. Parking is often full from hikers.
    6. Lower Nooksack – creating recreation plan. Public wants access to the rivers. Looking at 3 acre DNR piece by Maple Falls for access by mile 26.5. DNR reconveyance was an issue before with Watcom county. Watcom land trust by definition is public access, just not always trail or parking.
    7. Cable Drop – Left with $4500 (out of 33k budget) plus some money from AWA. We provided labor. WRRR Presented with certificate of appreciation for help and thanks. Brennan also provided one for his help and donation of materials.
3. Safety and Education – Jason Cohen
  1. Funds for other things (prizes or subsidize gear),
  2. Rescue three international
4. Communications – Adam Schierenbeck
  1. Nothing new
5. Membership – Mary Koncikowski
  1. Nothing new
  2. Will send photos to David and Brian
6. Programs/Volunteers – Jim Johnson
  1. Getting the glue to Brenan.
7. WRRR Wear – Nate Dickison
  1. Not present
Old Business
1. Tieton roundup
  1. Mary says breakfast potluck was a bust. Brenan motion that Mary be in charge next year. Rebecca 2nd. Motion approved.
  2. 5 Toilets worked well (3 us, 1 OWA, 1 BWD). Were getting a bit full by the end. Can get extra cleaning at $95 an hour from Yakima, but only would work well if done on Saturday because they were clean Friday morning.
  3. Should get a dumpster next year (have in a past), there are some public ones on highway 12. Could dump when running shuttle.
2. Gear Swap and Repair Clinic status
  1. Jim getting glue to Brenan
  2. David doing some door prize.
3. Sauktoberfest status
  1. Playing it by ear, flow dependent.
4. Halloween party status
  1. What about food. Mary says no breakfast potluck. Mary volunteers to do main dish and everyone potluck sides. Saturday pancake feed (bring your own meat). River ops taps out for dinner, vote to allow Mary to take on Saturday night pot luck dinner. Motion passed to approve budget of $300 for dinner.
New Business
1. Tilton Trek discussion
  1. Presidents Day weekend.
  2. Cabins are probably all gone already.
  3. Low club footprint, reuse article from last year.
2. Ballot
  1. Thanks Rebecca for doing the work. Yeah!
  2. Thanks Jared for volunteering (also Matt).
  3. Brian is the election committee, Chris can also help remotely. Brian will need help getting the paper ballots from the mail (Nancy will do that).
Waterlog articles needed by 10/20
1. None needed.
2. New Year’s float can be done in November.
Announcements and good of the order
1. Brian and Joe wondering why we don’t do something online for WRRR gear. Can setup account with online company to print on demand. Less profits, but can offer broader set of gear. Could still stock the basics (t-shirts).
2. Rebecca went to Washington Wild Rivers presentation. There were a bunch of booths for non-profits. They sold sili-pints with logos for $10, you got beer/wine and the organization got the money. Suggest that WRRR to a booth next year. They also have a silent auction. Lots of fun stuff. Have done that in the past, but had trouble getting people to man the booth. Rebecca will try to remember next year. Can also look for other events we can do.
3. Should consider doing another Elwah trip now that there is more river to do. Rebecca will look into it. Jim has orchard we can probably camp in.
4. If there are trips posted, Brenan says we should put them on the calendar.
  1. Wenatchee River thing.
Adjourn @ 8:24