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Conservation Futures advisory board asks commissioners to restore three-year terms to prevent loss of institutional knowledge
Summary
A member of the Conservation Futures Program Systems Advisory Board told Island County commissioners that multiple advisory-board terms expire during the 2026 funding review and requested reinstatement of three-year terms required by a county resolution.
Clay Thompson, a member of the Conservation Futures Program Systems Advisory Board (the CAB), told the Board of Island County Commissioners on Aug. 12 that the CAB faces concentrated turnover that could undermine the 2026 funding-review process.
Thompson said the CAB currently has eight appointed members and that four of those eight will reach the end of their terms during the 2026 funding-review window, which spans roughly January through June. He told commissioners the CAB's governing…
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