Meeting date - December 14, 2005

Meeting time - 7:00 PM

Meeting place - Chimacum Grange Hall

We will be asking for your thoughts on what you feel the Olympic Water Users

Association should focus on and achieve to support your needs.  We will

provide time during the meeting for you to share your thoughts and ideas

with everyone, and we use these to help build the OWUA into the most

effective and responsive organization possible.

It would be great if you could bring your thoughts and ideas in writing with

you to the meeting, so that we can have the full benefit of your thinking.

(Bringing up things in a room full of other people is not an easy thing to

do, and it's easy to skip over important details, so the written versions

will help make sure we have your most complete version.)

No idea or comment is too trivial to offer.  Even if something seems too

minor to mention, it might trigger other people to "put some meat on the

bones" and arrive at something really important that we need to be doing.

As we get all the pieces in place for the formal structure of the Olympic

Water Users Association, it will soon be time for us to elect the first

annual Board of Directors.  Those who stepped up as the Interim Board of

Directors to do the work of formalizing our gathering as an incorporated

organization would like you to start thinking about who would be the best

fit as the Directors to carry us forward.

Although we are into the holiday season, and so are the rest of the people

who will be working on the instream flow process for
WRIA 17, we are not

waiting for the Department of Ecology to set the stage.  We've been doing
a

lot of research and are preparing for the next meeting with Ecology and

other players in January.

The real work will begin shortly after that meeting, and that's when we are

all going to have to really pitch in and build an instream
flow management

system that will serve all of us well.  You know what your water needs
are,

how you have been using water over the years, and what you would like to

have in terms of support for more efficient use of water.  This is all

information that we need to know if we are to bring your individual needs

and ideas to the table.  Your participation is going to be very important
in

helping us to build the system that best fits your needs.

Please come meet with us Wednesday evening.
We're building the OWUA, and we

need your help.

Norm

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Please visit our blog at http://wria17.blogspot.com/ for

articles and more information about the WRIA process.

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