Defining CBFWA’s FY09 Workplan Members January 15, 2009

1. Defining CBFWA’s FY09 Workplan Members January 15, 2009

2. New Directions Work Plan • Support and Information Transfer • Funding Diversity • Project Review and Management Decisions • Develop and Adopt a Decision and Policy Framework • Monitoring and Evaluation • Public Relations

3. New Directions Work Plan Products • Support and Information Transfer • Consensus amendment recommendations • Funding Diversity • HEP contract, NOAA contract • Project Review and Management Decisions • Long term work plans, Basinwide work plan • Develop and Adopt a Decision and Policy Framework • Adaptive Management Framework (amendments, long term work plans) • Monitoring and Evaluation • SOTR, coordinated M&E • Public Relations • SOTR, Message to new Administration

4. Financial Director Executive Assistant Administrative & Accounting Asst. Clerical Specialist CBFWA Organizational Chart Members Members Advisory Group Manager Executive Director (Policy Coordinator) Fish Passage Center Anadromous Fish Advisory Committee Fish and Wildlife Program and Budget Coordinator Anadromous Fish Mgmt Coordinator Assistant Director Resident Fish Advisory Committee Resident Fish and SOTR Coordinator Wildlife Advisory Committee IT/Web Services Wildlife Mitigation and RME Coordinator Fish Passage Advisory Committee Directly supported by CBFWA contract

5. Plan Adaptive Management Framework Implement Evaluate FY2009Adaptive Management Activities • Coordinated LTWP recommendations and analysis • Coordinated Monitoring and Evaluation Plan • Coordinated integration of Program and ESA/BiOp monitoring • Coordinated decision criteria for project/Program evaluation • Coordinated recommendations on loss assessment protocols • Program Effectiveness • SOTR • Project Effectiveness • Project reviews/reporting • Program implementation tracking • Programmatic issues (committees) • Wildlife crediting • Resident fish substitution • Anadromous objectives • Ad-hoc workgroups, etc. • Coordination between and among projects and programs

6. Plan Adaptive Management Framework Implement Evaluate FY2009Adaptive Management Activities • Coordinated LTWP recommendations and analysis • Coordinated Monitoring and Evaluation Plan • Coordinated integration of Program and ESA/BiOp monitoring • Coordinated decision criteria for project/Program evaluation • Coordinated recommendations on loss assessment protocols 2.3 FTE 3.4 FTE 3.7 FTE • Program Effectiveness • SOTR • Project Effectiveness • Project reviews/reporting • Program implementation tracking • Programmatic issues (committees) • Wildlife crediting • Resident fish substitution • Anadromous objectives • Ad-hoc workgroups, etc. • Coordination between and among projects and programs 1.6 FTE

7. Program Implementation Schedule FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 Coordinate LTWPs Coordinated Program/ ESA/BiOp Monitoring Basinwide Management Plan Monitoring and Evaluation Plan Programmatic issues addressed in ongoing forums Anad. Fish Biological Objectives Res. Fish Loss Assess. Protocols Wildlife Crediting Forum, Wildlife M&E Council Rolling Project Review Process Status of the Resource Report and Website

8. Foundation for Coordination • Maintain CBFWA website (directory, calendar, databases, etc.) • Maintain CBFWA committee web pages and management committee documents • Tribal coordination and outreach • CBFWA public relations and outreach • Fish and Wildlife manager participation support (CBFWF)

9. Planning Deliverables • Coordinated long term work plans (framework, analyses, definitions, etc.) • Coordinated monitoring and evaluation plan for the Fish and Wildlife Program • Coordinated FY10 monitoring for Program/ESA/BiOp • Coordinated Basinwide Management Plan (coordination, lamprey, sturgeon, hatcheries, research, etc.) • Coordinated recommendations on loss assessment protocols • operational losses for wildlife • resident fish losses

10. Implementation Deliverables • Participate in Budget Oversight Group website and databases (transition to Taurus, link proposals to SOTR) • Coordination between among projects and programs (i.e., coordinated monitoring) • Anadromous fish biological objectives • Coordinated strategies and policies regarding lamprey • Coordinated resident fish loss assessment protocols • Coordinated wildlife monitoring and evaluation • Coordinated issue definition, white papers, analyses, work shops and conferences on Programmatic issues

11. Evaluation Deliverables • Coordinated review and evaluation of ongoing projects and programs within the Fish and Wildlife Program • Coordinated reporting of status and trends of fish and wildlife populations via the Status of the Resource report and website • Coordinated project and Program recommendations to Council and BPA

12. CBFWA Staff Requirements • CBFWA staff = 8 FTE equivalents • Executive Director (policy coordinator) • Program and Budget Coordinator • Anadromous Fish Management Coordinator • Resident Fish and SOTR Coordinator • Wildlife and M&E Coordinator • IT/Web support • Administrative support (2) • CBFWF staff = 3 FTE equivalents (supported through IDC) • Human resources • Accounting/project budgeting • Administrative support (1)

13. Funding • The proposed FY08 funding was $2,071,447 • FY08 Actual funding, after Council deliberation, was $1,869,651 (reduction of $202,165) • Reduced 1 FTE, staff travel, PR contract, IT support • BPA target funding level for all coordination projects for FY09 is $2,400,000

14. Distributed Services Model • The Colville Tribe requested that CBFWA investigate providing staff/services in Boise and Spokane • The CBFWA Members developed several alternatives: • Adjust duties of existing staff • Add one staff member as Member liason • Provide an office and staff in Spokane or Boise • Provide an office and staff in Spokane and Boise • The CBFWA Members chose the most cost effective alternative, which is to adjust existing staff responsibilities and providing increased travel budgets for staff to enhance outreach

15. Distributed Funding Model • The Upper Columbia United Tribe members of CBFWA requested that CBFWA consider a distributed funding model • The distributed funding model was best articulated by the Kalispel Tribe in their funding allocation strategy – the total coordination funding would be divided equally by all F&W Managers and then reallocated to the membership organizations • The CBFWA Members discussed this proposal at length and chose to submit their coordination needs based on needs (statements of work)

16. Funding • CBFWA’s funding level for FY2007 was $1,901,449 • CBFWA’s funding level for FY2008 was $1,869,650 • CBFWA’s proposed funding level for FY2009 is $1,891,253

17. Member Participation