Information

Type: Deliberation

Department: BOCC - Board of County Commissioners

Directors' Update: March 9, 2022

Business Meeting: March 15, 2022

Summary:

Appoint Commissioner F. Lee Grose and Chehalis resident Marylynne Kostick to the Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board.

Commissioner Grose will fill the seat vacated by the untimely death of Commissioner Stamper.

Marylynne Kostick will fill the seat vacated by F. Lee Grose, who is filling Commissioner Stamper's unexpired term as a commissioner and also will fill Commissioner Stamper's seat on the LCFRB.

(Both of the prior appointments had been ratified via Resolution 15-095.)

Publications:

Cover Letter To: Lorie Clark: lclark@lcfrb.gen.wa.us Marylynne Kostick: mlkostick@hotmail.com

Additional Copies To:

Resolution

WHEREAS, the Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board (LCFRB) is a 15-member board that works with technical experts to help develop habitat recovery plans for salmon determined to be at risk of extinction; and

WHEREAS, the board includes individuals who represent local governments, the state Legislature, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, a hydropower company, environmental interests, landowner interests and the public; and

WHEREAS, the Lewis County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) appoints two individuals to the LCFRB: one is a commissioner who represents the BOCC, and the other is Lewis County citizen who represents the public; and

WHEREAS, the BOCC seat held by Commissioner Gary Stamper is vacant following his untimely death; and

WHEREAS, Commissioner F. Lee Grose, who had served as the citizen representative on the LCFRB as per Resolution 15-095, has been appointed to fill the remainder of Commissioner Stamper's unexpired term on the BOCC and has also expressed a willingness to represent the BOCC on the LCFRB, leaving the citizen seat vacant; and

WHEREAS, Chehalis resident Marylynne Kostick have expressed an interest and willingness to fill the vacant citizen seat on the LCFRB; and

WHEREAS, it is in the best public interest to fill the two positions.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the BOCC hereby appoints Lewis County Commissioner F. Lee Grose to represent the BOCC on the LCFRB, effective immediately, for a term ending Dec. 31, 2026; and

NOW THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the BOCC hereby appoints Marylynne Kostick to represent the public on the LCFRB, effective immediately, for a four-year term ending Dec. 31, 2026.

DONE IN OPEN SESSION this 15th day of March, 2022.