Drafter
Clerk 06/30/2025
Title
A MOTION acknowledging receipt of a Critical Areas Monitoring and Adaptive Management Program plan, in response to the 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19861, Section 16, Proviso P1.
Body
WHEREAS, the 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19861, Section 16, Proviso P1, states that $100,000 of the appropriation "shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive transmits a Critical Areas Monitoring and Adaptive Management Program plan and a motion that should acknowledge receipt of the plan, and a motion acknowledging receipt of a plan is passed by the council. The motion should reference the subject matter, the proviso's ordinance, ordinance section, and proviso number in both the title and body of the motion.
The plan shall include, but not be limited to, discussion and analysis of what would be needed to develop and implement a critical areas monitoring and adaptive management program consistent with guidance from Washington State Department of Commerce in chapter 7 of the critical areas ordinance handbook. Accordingly, the plan should address three types of monitoring: permit implementation, effectiveness, and ecological validation. Specifically, the plan shall include:
A. An analysis of the one-time monetary and staffing resources needed to develop the program;
B. An analysis of the ongoing monetary and staffing resources needed to implement the program;
C. Based on the needs analysis completed in response to subsections A. and B. of this proviso, a detailed timeline for developing and implementing the program;
D. An analysis of whether all permits and critical areas or a subset of permits and critical areas should be monitored through the program; and
E. An analysis of how phasing implementation of the program, such as applying it to streams and wetlands first, and to other types of critical areas later, would impact the needed resources and the timeline, as well as any impacts to the environment...
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