Meetings/20190116

Wednesday, January 16 2019 Casey & SMRDC's Cleo

January 16, 2019 Casey hosted an SMRDC staffer, Cleopatra Tuday, in a tour of our community. She is a botanist by training and is Kelly's point person for community work on CalFire grants

The goal was to provide background context for upcoming work on a CalFire grant, and to show her how we're currently handling tree trimming / green fall waste.

We discussed ( as it poured and we dodged falling tree branches )

1. taking advantage of a current grant they have for wildfire fuel reduction, resulting in ramping up our green waste bin program by adding chipping. This would include a paid crew to load and operate the chipper. I'm working with the Water Company and Road Don on the details.
2. writing a grant for next year's application window. As I currently see it that would be a big ass ( omnibus ) grant proposal to cover:
   1. mapping and exit route planning and community outreach
   2. exit route maintenance / logging / trimming
   3. development of Community Fire Plan
   4. development of Community Timber Harvest / Fuel Reduction plan

which SMRCD would help administer

She is invited to our next BCERT meeting