Meeting Minutes

In an effort to get caught up with the publication of meeting minutes from our chapter meetings, I have published our January and February 2011 meeting minutes to our Goolgle docs library. You will now find Jan and Feb meeting minutes and meeting minutes from several past meetings. I will try to do a better job of regulary publishing the minutes for all to see. If you ever find an error in the minutes please email me, Eric Waterkotte, at ewaterkotte@gmail.com for corrections.

Here is the link to the meeting minutes library: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G7jvqfShrpDihjGNJzqqPGu2NZT9ButOsy3uj9tFuns/edit?hl=en

Thanks,
Eric Waterkotte
OPC Secretary

December Meeting Minutes

We had a nice meeting in December. It was our final meeting at The Wheeler's house and the chapter would like to once again thank Mike, Lindsey, Conner and Ethan for hosting the chapter meetings for the past year.

Meeting minutes are available by clicking here. If you have any comments or corrections for the meeting minutes please email the chapter secretary (ewaterkotte "at" gmail dot com)

We will be meeting at Westside Pizza on January 5th for our first meeting of 2011. Please join us.

Sincerely,
Eric Waterkotte

January 2010 - Meeting Minutes

The Olympic Peninsula Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation held its January 2010 meeting last night on 1.6.2010. We had a great turnout and even welcomed a new member. Chapter elections were held and we are proud to announce our new Chapter Chair Mike Wheeler and Co-Chair Darryl Wood.

There are several important upcoming events including HAZWOPER training and a call to action to support the "Working for Clean Water" bill. All of this an more is in this month's meeting minutes.

Our next meeting will be on February 3rd at Mike and Lindsey Wheeler's House so see you then.

Eric Waterkotte
OPC Secretary

December 4th Meeting

We will be meeting on December 4th at Dave Parks house for the December meeting. This will be a Mexican pot luck gathering so bring your favorite Mexican dish and thoughts of warm waves.

November Meeting Minutes

At our November meeting we discussed the upcoming Winterfest event at the Vern Burton Center in Port Angeles on Friday November 20th.

Treasurer's Report

• $ 3937.59 (October Balance)
• - 1192.00 (Sanikans and Makah Project)
• 2745.59 Current Balance
  

New Business

We discussed the coming year's events including:

• LaFarge Monitoring in (December)
  
• Chapter Elections in (January)
• Movie Night in (February)
• Twins Planting and Bird Box work (March)
• Coastal Cleanup, Neah Bay (April)
• Cleanwater Classic, Westport (May)
• International Surfing Day (June 20th)
• Surfing and Traditions (July 4th weekend)

Next meeting will be held on December 4th at Dave's house. See more information above.

April Meeting Minutes

Here are the meeting minutes from our April 1st, 2009 meeting. We will be changing the location of the upcoming May meeting so stay tuned.

April 09 Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes - March 2009

We had a mellow March meeting with lots of news and ideas to dicuss. Our next meeting will be held on April 1 at the current location provided by Arnold at 1210 East Front Street, Port Angeles, WA If you would like to view the meeting minutes from the March 2009 Olympic Peninsula Chapter meeting click here

Meeting Minutes - February 2009

We had another active meeting at another new location in February. Thanks to Arnold, we will be meeting at the same spot for our next meeting, March 4th 2009. If you would like to see the full minutes from our February 2009 meeting please click on the link below.

Surfrider Foundation, Olympic Peninsula Chapter Meeting Minutes: February 2009

Meeting Minutes: January 2009

We had a great meeting to start off 2009. Brian Winter from Olympic National Park gave a great presentation on the Elwha River Restoration project. Here is a link to the meeting minutes and presentation notes for those who could not attend.

Click to see the January 2009 meeting minutes

OPC Surfrider Minutes: November 2008

Meeting minutes: 11.5.2008

Attendees

Dave Parks, Mike, Lindsey and Conner Wheeler, Arnold Shouten, Sarah Waterkotte, Eric Waterkotte, Jody Kennedy

Treasurers Report

Balance from last month: 3132.60
Monthly Expenses: - 91.38 (Elwha Sani can)
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Current Balance: $ 3041.22

Secretary Report

Minutes were finalized by the members.

Sani-Can updates

There is some interest from the Alaskan Brew Company's Coastal Code initiative to fund projects protecting our beaches. We are looking into ways to open up a fund for donations directly to the sani-can operations. December 1st is the deadline for Coastal Code grants.

The landowners at Twins have approved the location and we have started prepping the site at Twin's for the Sani-Can. Dave has an official sign made up to mark the site. We will have a work session Saturday November 15th to help finish prepping the site.

Address for OPC

We voted on changing the official chapter address so that it will now be Dave Parker, chapter chair's address.

P.O. Box 2263
Port Angeles, WA 98362

Twin River Land Exchange with County

There is a group of landowners which owns the strip of land surfers park on at Twin Rivers as well as the fenced campground. The group would like to exchange the land with the county in exchange for some county land in an adjacent area. The deal would be between the County and the land owner group but it would benefit our interests and so the chapter agreed to support the idea. Arnold will follow up with the group.

Access Issues

Dry Creek - Arnold attended the Dry Creek Coalition meeting and represented our interests in public access to the beach. We can write a letter to the city to request that the road from the P.A. landfill down to the beach. We need to consider writting a letter to the city proposing after hours access to the road which leads down to the beach.

WA Policy Events

The WA Wildlife & Rec Program - WWRC washington wildlife and recreation coalition
State funding agency which funds things like The Olympic Discovery Trail. The fund was created in the early 90s with around 100 million in funding. The budget is going to be reduced but the legislative campaign during the next session might provide an opportunity to express interest in retaining the funding. We should write letters/call Kessler to express our concerns with the money going away.

Coastal MRC

Conference this weekend. Friday will be an open session for Northwest Straits at 3:30 at the Red Lion. Saturday there will be other events open to the public. Grey's Harbor county is the furthest along. Each county will receive 10,000 for "scoping". The State has put together a working group to establish goals and a process for delivering funds.

OCNMS - Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

OCNMS is updating their management plan. They are open for comments which are due November 14th.

NW Chapter Conference

Jody Kennedy provided an update on what went down at the NW Chapter Conference in Seaside Oregon. There was a solid turnout in general accept for our chapter.

2009 Event Planning

• Winterfest - Friday November 21st @ 5pm Vern Burton $30 and two auction items. Saturday is a ski swap.


• Coastal Cleanup in Neah Bay - April 18th, 2009 Mike Wheeler will be the chairman.


• Cleanwater Classic - Westport - May 15th - 17th, 2009


• Surfing and Traditions - July 3rd and 4th


• Beach Cleanups - Elwha, Twin Rivers, Wedge, Dump, Debob Bay

Next Meeting

December 3, 2008 - Location TBD

For a printable copy of these minutes click here.

October Meeting Minutes Posted

Last night, 10.1.2008, we held our October OPC Surfrider meeting, our first at the Port Angeles Library. We had a great turnout and are making progress on some important local issues. Thanks to Shannon as usual for making the trek out to P.A. The meeting minutes have been published but may change slightly if any revisions or additional comments are made. Check out the meeting minutes here.

October 2008 OPC Meeting Minutes

Thanks,
OPC Surfrider

September Meeting

The OPC held it's September 08 meeting this past wendesday at Gordy's Pizza where we had a larger than normal group of participants. You can get the September 2008 meeting minutes by going to the following URL (http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dct5rctg_4zp7cb3g4&hl=en).

Check out the updated calendar of events for all the up and coming dates this month.

Call to action!
There are several opportunities to get involved and take action this month. There is the Outer Coast Marine Sanctuary Management Review meetings coming up on September 29th in Port Angeles and 30th in Neah Bay. The Puget Sound Partnership needs to hear from you regarding access to our public beaches along the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Grab a postcard, give some to friends and bring the filled out postcards to the next meeting.

Location Change for our next meeting
Our next meeting will be held on October 1st at the Port Angeles Library in the Ramond Carver room. at 6:30