Joint Fuels Management (Fuels) & NFP Grants Working Teams
Meeting Minutes
10/29/09
glonning note taker, 10/30/09
In attendance:
Pam Ensley, FWS, Fuels WT Liaison (Grants also?)
Fuels:
Leanne Mruzik, BLM, Chair
Darrel Johnston, WDNR (also Grants)
Gene Lonning, BIA
MIA: Cyndi Sidles, FWS
Bill Aney, FS
Dee Townsend (sp?), NPS
Laura Mayer (sp?), FS
Grants:
Lauren Maloney, BLM, Chair *
Rico George, FWS
Jenn Warren, ODF**
Len Diaz, BIA
MIA: Bob Appling (retired – no replacement assigned)
Ron Saranich (sp?), FS, (biomass related issues)
*Taking new job, but will continue with grants for the time being
**Need full time ODF assigned member – Jenn will continue for now.
Agenda:
1. Intros
2. Discuss merging Fuels & Grants – background, charters, membership, shared
goals, future meeting dates, chair
3. 2011 Grant Cycle – Process
4. Communication Strategy for today’s decisions back to PNWCG
5. Interactions with GIS
6. West Side Risk Assessment
2. Membership:
 Grants would be a sub-committee to Fuels
 Fuels membership: FS, BLM, BIA, NPS, FWS, WDNR, ODF – 1 each
o Grants membership: FS, BLM, ODF, WDNR – 1 each (could be same
person as on Fuels)
o Grants would process and prioritize the NFP grants solicited to R6 & then
take to Fuels for approval to carry forward to PNWCG
 Total Fuels membership: could be 7 up to 11 members

Working Teams, i.e. GIS, Prevention + specialists would be brought in as needed
in a support role to Fuels.
2. Charters: reworked the Grants charter into the Fuels charter – Leanne to work up for
approval at next Fuels meeting; then carry forward to PNWCG Meeting.
 Discussion on quorum for making decisions:
o Adopting the snooze you lose approach; depending on the issue before
the group, 1. decisions will be made with group present or 2. if mutually
agreed upon, will be carried forward in minutes or via other contact, for
group concensus.
o Members should delegate a stand in where possible.
2. Future Meeting Dates: Tuesday, 15 Dec, 09, 0900 at PNWCG
 Invite Dale from GIS WT
 Bring munchies if ya wanna
2. Chair: (After much arm twisting), Leanne Mruzik agreed to remain chair for 1 more
year.
2. Tabled discussion on different pots of monies where fuels work is being done (TARP,
HFI, NFP Grants for R6, Western States Grants, ARRA, ???). Goal would be to map
and portray where all the pots of $ are going that treat fuels (& meet NFP goals) and be
able to influence and show how prioritized.
3. Grant cycles:
 Grants sub-committee (Grants SC) will consist of Darrel, Jenn & Lauren (all 3
probably short term & moving on) + FS rep for now.
 Grants SC will set up a conference call to discuss how to handle the 2011 Grant
Cycle process & scheduling.
 FY2010 Grants already selected.
 Grants SC will update the calendar scheduling & implementation mechanics
under new SC.
 Block Grants – some discussion (ODF would coordinate at state level, but
wouldn’t coordinate at CWPP level), but no consensus or recommendations.
 WDNR prioritizes grants submitted thru the R6 NFP process by region, then at
state level & then put forward list to Grants thru PNWCG.
 ODF collects all proposals from throughout state & has a panel do a state wide
prioritization.
4. Communication strategy: Pam Ensley got what she wanted to take back to the
next PNWCG meeting: #2 Membership & #2 Next Fuels meeting date (scheduled
prior to PNWCG meeting so that results can be passed forward to PNWCG.
5. Interactions with GIS: Invite Dale from GIS WT
6. West Side RA – to discuss at next meeting under Agenda #4. Agency process
implementation of fuels projects.
Next meeting agenda:
1. Finalize Charter
2. Make 2010 meeting schedule
3. ID membership (see below)
4. Agency Process implementation of fuels projects, discuss:
a. Pots of $ that treat fuels – draft chart to portray.
b. Schedules for different programs/pots of $.
5. R6 Grant Schedule
Note taker: Lauren Maloney
Assignment: Bring back names of Fuels team members to next meeting.
 BLM: Mruzik & Maloney – Grants (for now)
 FS: Bill Aney & Barb Kennedy? - Grants
 BIA: Gene Lonning
 NPS: Dee Townsend?
 FWS: Cyndi Sidles
 WDNR: Darrel Johnston (for now) – both Fuels & Grants
 ODF: Jenn Warren (for now) – will most likely be 2 people