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Coordinating group votes to recommend sunsetting after years of service

Habitat and Recreation Lands Coordinating Group · April 30, 2026 · Compliments of TVW.org
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Summary

At its spring meeting, the Habitat and Recreation Lands Coordinating Group voted to recommend that the formal group be allowed to sunset no later than July 31, 2027; staff will send a director’s letter and brief the Recreation and Conservation Funding Board and legislative committees on next steps.

Nick Norton, policy and planning specialist at the Recreation and Conservation Office, opened the Habitat and Recreation Lands Coordinating Group’s spring meeting and framed a formal decision on whether the group should be recommended to sunset.

At SEG 313, Nikki Fields, planning and real estate program manager for Washington State Parks, moved “to approve a formal recommendation to the Recreation and Conservation Funding Board and the appropriate committees of the legislature that the existence of the Habitat and Recreation Lands Coordinating Group not be continued beyond 07/31/2027 and be allowed to sunset in accordance with RCW.” The motion was seconded and, after discussion, the group…

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