MEMO TO: Members of the City Council
FROM: Mayor John Marchione
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Adoption of a Resolution for the Ratification of the Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish (WRIA 8) Chinook Conservation Plan 10-Year Update
a. RESOLUTION NO. 1487: A Resolution Ratifying the 2017 Update to the Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed [Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 8)] Chinook Conservation Plan
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION
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Adopt the resolution ratifying updates to Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish (WRIA 8) Chinook Conservation Plan 10-Year Update.
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II. DEPARTMENT CONTACTS
Linda De Boldt, Public Works Director, 425-556-2733
Gary Schimek, Natural Resources Division Manager, 425-556-2742
Peter Holte, Senior Planner, 425-556-2822
III. DESCRIPTION/BACKGROUND
In 1999, the Federal Government listed Puget Sound Chinook Salmon as a threatened species under the Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). In response, the City of Redmond and 27 other jurisdictions within Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (WRIA 8) entered into an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) to collectively take action to conserve Chinook populations.
The Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Chinook Conservation Plan recommends restoration projects and programmatic actions that ILA members should take to help conserve and restore Chinook salmon habitat. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service has accepted this plan, combined with other similar plans prepared throughout the Puget Sound Region, as the legal, official response to the ESA listing of Puget Sound Chinook.
The conservation plan is updated every 10 years. An addendum containing the 10-year updates was completed earlier this year (Attachment A), and was adopted by the Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Salmon Recovery Council, the entity responsible with oversight of implementation of the WRIA 8 ILA, on September 21, 2017.
By ratifying this plan, the City is stating that it agrees wit...
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