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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>The King Conservation District Board of Supervisors needs
your help!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In
March, you helped hand the Sims’/Phillips’ candidate his hat and
retained local farmer Bobbi Lindemulder on the KCD Board of Supervisors. Some
of you testified at the hearings when KCD solicited input while working on
their 2007 budget.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The
supervisors listened and have proposed a major change in the way they put
together their budget. Last year the county forced KCD to earmark $6 out of the
$10 fee to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">county</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">WRIA</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> groups. The supervisors
were forced to just hand over a set amount to the county, the cities, and the
WRIAs to do with as they pleased, while KCD was unable to keep enough to do
their own work. The Critical Areas Ordinance requires KCD to be the lead agency
in helping landowners put together CAO acceptable farm plans and they do 70 to
100 plans each year. The King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks
(DNRP) has the same responsibility to help landowners with rural stewardship
plans and have done a whopping one plan in the last 18 months.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Buoyed
by the Attorney General’s opinion that the King County Council only
controls the assessment, not the budget, the supervisors have put together a
proposal designating the funds for specific types of work and projects instead
of allocating them to specific entities. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The KCD
draft proposal is for:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
$10 per parcel annual tax<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
$3,910,661 to "Salmon Recovery Initiatives"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
$1,293,969 to "Landowner Assistance & BMP Implementation"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
$ 373,813 to "Sustainable Agriculture Initiatives"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>
$ 172,529 to "Natural Resources Monitoring & Evaluation"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>CAPR
leadership feels this represents a start toward reasonable priorities, with a
share for landowners and agriculture, not just fish, and has endorsed this
budget. The WRIAs will still get funding if their projects demonstrate they are
the best use of the money. <u>Sims’ office has told KCD that this budget
will be “Dead on Arrival” and implied that KCD will get nothing if
they stick with this new budget method.<o:p></o:p></u></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>Please participate in the public comments/hearings being held
this month and encourage the supervisors to stick with their proposal so that
KCD doesn’t become just another <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">King</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
money pit like DNRP.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The
schedule for comments/hearings is as follows.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>June 19 – July 3. </span></font></b><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Written comments to King CD, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street
w:st="on">935 Powell Ave SW</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">Renton</st1:City>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">98055</st1:PostalCode></st1:address>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Or
email district@kingcd.org<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Wed, June 28. </span></font></b><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="18"
w:st="on"><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>6 – 8 p.m.</span></font></st1:time><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>, Green <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Library</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, <st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">7364 Green Lake Dr. N.</st1:Street>, <st1:City
w:st="on">Seattle</st1:City></st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Wed, June 28. </span></font></b><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="18"
w:st="on"><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>6 – 8 p.m.</span></font></st1:time><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>, Preston Community Ctr., <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">8625 310<sup>th</sup> Ave SE</st1:address></st1:Street>, <st1:place
w:st="on">Preston</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Mon, July 10. </span></font></b><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="18"
w:st="on"><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>6 – 8 p.m.</span></font></st1:time><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>, King County DDES hearing rm, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street
w:st="on">900 Oaksdale Ave SW</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">Renton</st1:City></st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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