PCSGA Tidings

Dear Friends:

As you know, over the last few months the Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources has been involved in a con­certed process to develop our strate­gic plan.  In Novem­ber, we shared draft ele­ments of the plan and asked for your review and com­ments.  The response from that request has been remark­able.  Thank you for your thought­ful review and com­ments.  Your par­tic­i­pa­tion and ideas thus far have been the foun­da­tion for what I know will be a suc­cess­ful prod­uct that we all can use to achieve our impor­tant mission.

I want to take the oppor­tu­nity to update you about where we’ve been, where we’re going and what still lies ahead.  The end of 2009 was spent review­ing count­less com­ments gen­er­ated from meet­ings with DNR staff and more than 600 responses to an on-line sur­vey.  While the sheer vol­ume of this input was a bit intim­i­dat­ing, it has been crit­i­cally impor­tant in how the mis­sion, vision and goals have evolved.

We are still on tar­get to release the draft strate­gic plan on Jan­u­ary 25.  We’ll post it on our web­site and will begin a pub­lic com­ment period that will go through Feb­ru­ary 19.  We’ll also host a series of pub­lic meet­ings in early Feb­ru­ary (see below) and issue an addi­tional sur­vey.  I hope to have a final plan issued by mid-March.  You can get more infor­ma­tion about the pub­lic meet­ing dates, times  and loca­tions, as well as down­load the plan and link to the sur­vey at: http://​www​.dnr​.wa​.gov/​B​u​s​i​n​e​s​s​P​e​r​m​i​t​s​/​T​o​p​i​c​s​/​O​t​h​e​r​I​n​t​e​r​a​g​e​n​c​y​I​n​f​o​r​m​a​t​i​o​n​/​P​a​g​e​s​/​e​m​_​d​n​r​_​s​t​r​a​t​e​g​i​c​_​p​l​a​n​.​a​spx.

I am pleased with the progress we have made so far in iden­ti­fy­ing and pri­or­i­tiz­ing activ­i­ties for the next five years.  I share the con­cerns expressed by many regard­ing the eco­nomic sit­u­a­tion that cur­rently faces the state of Wash­ing­ton.  How­ever, I feel that if we plan now for bet­ter times, we’ll be ready to move for­ward in a much more suc­cess­ful manner.

Again, I appre­ci­ate your com­ments and encour­age you to remain engaged in this process.

Pub­lic Meet­ing Dates

Date City Loca­tion
Mon­day 2/1      Seat­tle Seat­tle Pub­lic Library – Green­lake
Tues­day 2/2     Belling­ham      Belling­ham Pub­lic Library
Wednes­day 2/3   Spokane Spokane Pub­lic Library
Thurs­day 2/4    Tacoma  Foss Water­front Museum
Tues­day 2/9     Port Ange­les    PA Senior Com­mu­nity Cen­ter
Wednes­day 2/10  Longview        Cowlitz PUD
Thurs­day 2/11
Ellens­burg      Hal Holms Com­mu­nity Center

Peter Gold­mark
Com­mis­sioner of Pub­lic Lands

WA State Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources (DNR)
(360) 902‑1004

www​.dnr​.wa​.gov

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