Capital funding update: Cost-share round opening this fall
There will be a VSP capital cost-share funding round this fall.
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Revisit the Program Funding Guidelines (beginning on pg. 7) to see capital cost-share requirements, criteria, and review timing.
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Project proposals are due into CPDS on Oct. 29. It is helpful to contact Sarah Wilcox if you have submitted a project into CPDS.
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Projects must be completed by June 30, 2025.
Do you have awarded projects that will not be able to be completed?
Please submit all returned funds forms for any cancelled projects and completed projects with unused funds. We want to get funding back out to be used if possible. Questions about returned funds? Please contact Nicole Boyes.
Sign up for a VSP Task Force: Development of 5-year reporting template
One outcome of the VSP stakeholder meeting on Feb. 6 was to form a working group to share feedback and help inform program development and changes. We will refer to this group as a VSP task force (since "workgroup" is already in use for VSP). There will be two groups actually, one to focus on program updates as needed and another to focus on monitoring, in coordination with SCC's Science Hub (details to be determined).
In July, SCC convened two meetings of the program update Task Force to help shape the state budget decision package.
The next focus area for this group will be the development of an updated VSP 5-year reporting template. Please sign up if you are interested. This group will be asked to share feedback on tools and insight into needs for VSP reporting. We will hold 1-2 meetings this fall and into winter as needed. Meetings will be 1-2 hrs.
Friendly reminder: Monitoring Plans will be shared Jan. 1, 2025
All VSP counties required to submit Monitoring Plans by July 1 have done so. Thank you all for your efforts to accomplish this milestone.
SCC will post monitoring plans in each county’s Box folder with work plans and reports linked to their SCC VSP county webpage on Jan. 1. 2025, six months after the due date. This six-month period gives counties the time necessary to respond to requests for clarification or additional information from SCC, if requesting review.
To request review, please email Levi Keesecker | Lkeesecker@scc.wa.gov and Sarah Wilcox | swilcox@scc.wa.gov. Comments will be shared back by late fall.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has a new resource available to assist VSP participating counties with critical area monitoring. The Monitoring Resources for Fish and Wildlife Habitat Conservation Areas guide draws upon examples from the VSP community to showcase the monitoring tools available to track impacts to Fish and Wildlife Habitat Conservation Areas.
The guide includes a list of monitoring indicators, methodologies, and resources to help users monitor different types of fish and wildlife. For assistance with this guide, please contact your local WDFW Habitat Biologist or WDFW VSP Coordinator (sean.williams@dfw.wa.gov).
VSP meetings and symposium recordings available online
Thank you to all those who joined us in person and online for the Aug. 13 Joint meeting in Walla Walla. If you missed it, you may view the recording on the VSP meetings webpage, under meeting archive.
Recordings of monitoring symposiums and past VSP trainings are also available on the website.
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