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OWEB staff preview partnership technical assistance awards and recommend funding line increase
Summary
OWEB staff told the Partnerships & Capacity Committee that 16 Partnership TA applications requested over $1.9 million; the TRT recommended 11 projects and staff recommended increasing this cycle's funding line (initially $500,000) to roughly $590,000 to allow funding an additional project.
Denise Hoffert, OWEB partnerships coordinator, told the committee that the Partnership Technical Assistance offering received 16 applications totaling more than $1,900,000 in requests and that the technical review team (TRT) recommended 11 of those projects for funding. Under the board’s biennial spending plan, the offering has a $1,200,000 line: staff anticipated $1,000,000 for partnership TA cycles and $200,000 for onboarding new FIP partnerships in the next cycle.
Hoffert said the TRT prioritized recommended projects and staff had initially expected to use a $500,000 funding line for this cycle. Because staff now anticipate spending less of the $200,000 onboarding set-aside, they recommended increasing this cycle’s TA funding line to about $590,000 so an additional project could be funded. She listed the top-ranked recommended recipients and specific requests: South Fork John Day Watershed Council (FIP cohort 2) seeking $79,005.85 to support completing awarded projects and updating monitoring protocols; Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative (SOWREC) (resubmitted and improved application); Partnership for Umpqua Rivers (new strategic action plan in a priority coho area); The Nature Conservancy’s Tri Corner Community Collaborative; and Institute of Applied Ecology for the Willamette Valley Oak and Prairie collaborative.
Hoffert said staff will bring the formal recommendation to the full Board in April, and board members will receive full evaluations and TRT scoring in their board packet in advance of that meeting.
