WASHINGTON STATE WATER
RESOURCES ASSOCIATION 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND MEMBERSHIP MEETING WSWRA 69th ANNUAL CONFERENCE DECEMBER 3-­‐5, 2014 THE DAVENPORT HOTEL SPOKANE, WA WSWRA 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM December 3-­‐5, 2014 The Davenport Hotel, Spokane, WA Wednesday, December 3 10:00 am to 12:00 pm WSWRA Legislative Meeting – Davenport Board Room 1:30 to 4:00 pm Yakima Basin Integrated Plan Briefing – Grand Pennington Ballroom C Better Managing Our Water Resources While Protecting Historical Values and Cultural Resources - Grand Pennington Ballroom A Warren Hurley, Area Archeologist, US Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Columbia Area Office, Yakima, WA Russell Holter, Washington State Department of Archeology and Historical Preservation, Yakima, WA
Ron Cowin, Engineer, Sunnyside Valley Irrigation District, Sunnyside, WA Emerging Technology and Application to Water Resources in Irrigation Management -­‐ Jared Abraham – Senior Research Geophysicist and Jim Cannia – Senior Geologist, XRI, Inc., Golden, CO – Grand Pennington Ballroom A Thursday, December 4 7:00 to 8:00 am Conference Registration – Hall of Doges Foyer 7:30 to 9:00 am Headliner Breakfast – Grand Pennington Ballroom A Lowell Pimley, Acting Commissioner, US Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, DC Lorri Lee, Pacific Northwest Regional Director, United States Bureau of Reclamation, Boise, ID OPENING GENERAL SESSION – Grand Pennington Ballrooms A & B 9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks: Justin Harter, WSWRA President 9:00 to 9:45 am Water Project Funding through the Ecology’s Office of Columbia River Derek Sandison, Derek Sandison, Director, WA Dept of Ecology, Wenatchee, WA 9:45 to 10:30 am 10:30 to 11:00 am 11:00 to 11: 45 am Building the Wasteway 5 Re-­‐regulation Reservoir on the Roza -­‐ Wayne Sonnichsen, Engineer, Roza Irrigation District, Sunnyside, WA Community Perceptions and Regulatory Conflicts: Telling the Story of an Urban Irrigation Drain -­‐ Chuck Freeman, Manager, Kennewick Irrigation District and Seth Defoe, Assistant Manager, Kennewick Irrigation District, Kennewick, WA Break – Flower Fields Room Building an Irrigation District from Scratch – The Whatcom County Experience. Bill Clarke, Attorney at Law, Clarke Law office, Olympia, WA WSWRA 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM December 3-­‐5, 2014 The Davenport Hotel, Spokane, WA 12:00 to 1:30 pm WSWRA AWARDS LUNCHEON – Grand Pennington Ballroom C WSWRA Water Resources Leadership Award: Presented by Tom Myrum, WSWRA Executive Director. WSWRA Legacy Award: Presented by Merle Gibbens, WSWRA Awards Committee Luncheon Speaker: Gary Chandler, Vice President for Government Affairs, Washington Association of Businesses, Olympia, WA AFTERNOON GENERAL SESSION – Grand Pennington Ballrooms A & B 1:45 to 3:15 pm Human Resources – A Checklist Mylan Muhlstein, Human Resources Manager, South Columbia Basin ID Elected Official Training: the Open Public Meetings Act and the Public Records Act. Anna Franz, Esq., Lemargie, Kennison, Wyman and Whitaker, Ephrata, WA 3:15 to 3:45 pm Break – Flower Fields Room 3:45 to 4:15 pm WSWRA Membership Meeting – President Justin Harter presiding NWRA National Director’s Report – Jim Trull State of the Association Address – Tom Myrum Nominating Committee Report – Craig Simpson Dinner on Own Friday, December 5 7:00 to 8:00 am Registration – Hall of Doges Foyer 7:30 to 7:45 am WSWRA Board of Directors Meeting – Davenport Boardroom 7:30 to 9:15 am Headliner Breakfast – Grand Pennington Ballroom C Sen. Mark Schoesler, Majority Leader, WA State Senate, Ritzville, WA WSWRA 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM December 3-­‐5, 2014 The Davenport Hotel, Spokane, WA CLOSING GENERAL SESSION – Grand Pennington Ballroom A & B 9:45 to 10:15 am Keynote: Heather Bartlett, Water Quality Program Manager, WA Dept of Ecology 10:15 to 10:45 am Washington Water Law Update Steven North, Assistant Attorney General, Ecology Division, Washington Attorney General’s Office, Olympia, WA 10:45 to 11:15 am Break – Flower Fields Room 11:15 am to 12:00 pm Columbia River Treaty – A Path Forward – Tim Culbertson, Manager, Grand Coulee Project Hydroelectric Authority, Ephrata, WA 12:00 pm Adjourn See you next year at the Davenport Hotel, December 2-­‐4, 2015 

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