[Partners-IMCWMA] CDFA proposal

[Mendocino County Fire Safe Council]

Hi, Tara.

Wanted to let you know that I'm going to be on vacation already this
Wednesday, so won't be able to participate in the IMCWMA meeting that
afternoon.  Forge ahead!

Thanks for all your good work.

Julie Rogers
Executive Director
Mendocino County Fire Safe Council
firesafe at pacific.net
(707) 462-3662
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: partners-bounces at imcwma.org [mailto:partners-bounces at imcwma.org] On
Behalf Of Tara Athan
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 5:32 PM
To: IMCWMA partners
Subject: [Partners-IMCWMA] CDFA proposal

From: WMA Planning Committees

Dear WMA Partners-

I will be attending the Lakeport meeting about the CDFA RFP tomorrow 
(Tuesday, July 24).
The RFP is available at 
http://www.alt2is.com/imcwma/documents_external/CDFA_RFP_2007/
 >From the WMA meetings earlier in the month, we formulated a set of 
questions to ask for clarification - see below.

Also, it was proposed that each WMA be eligible to apply for 50% of the 
Mendocino County eligibility, and to prepare 1 or 2 projects from each 
WMA. (5 projects is the maximum, 3 is recommended).

Some possible projects that have been put forward are:
Coast WMA: eradicate gorse at the Caspar transfer station, eradicate 
giant knotweed, resubmit a scaled-down version of last years gorse 
containment proposal.

Inland WMA: red Sesbania eradication, Arundo donax eradication, invasive 
water-primrose eradication, Weed Prevention Areas

The Lakeport meeting ends early on Tuesday, so when I get back in the 
afternoon, I will send out the replies and a summary of the eligible 
projects proposed so far. I would like to use our Partners e-mail lists 
to hold the discussion as we flesh out these projects. I have the 
mailing list set up as a forum so that replying to a message from the 
list sends it to all subscribers on the list.  Please do NOT reply-all 
or add other recipients to the address list- reply only to the Partners 
mailing list. Attachments of up to 1MB are allowed- lets keep the draft 
proposal as a text file to keep it small.  It can be formatted for the 
final version.

If this discussion generates more e-mail than you would like, there are 
a few simple options that are less radical than totally unsubscribing 
from the WMA mailing lists:
1. temporarily disable mail delivery for your address ( a good thing to 
know how to do if you have an auto-responder that sends out-of-office 
replies );
2. Set Digest Mode to ON (collects a number of messages for delivery all 
together, no attachments however );
3. switch to the Associates mailing list to receive infrequent WMA 
announcements.

Either of these options can be done by you through the mailing list web 
pages:
http://mcwma.org/mailman/listinfo/partners_mcwma.org
http://mcwma.org/mailman/listinfo/associates_mcwma.org

http://imcwma.org/mailman/listinfo/partners_imcwma.org
http://imcwma.org/mailman/listinfo/associates_imcwma.org

If you have any difficulty, contact me and I will assist.

Thanks for all your help,

Tara


Lakeport Meeting 2007/07/24

 >>Ask Steve about:

1. Follow-on funding for distaff thistle: Will we be in jeopardy for 
2009 funding?

2. Clarify Distinction between Eradication and Containment
 > what is the region that eradication would apply to
 > what does pioneer mean
 > what does outlier mean

Will projects with eradication goal have higher ranking than other goals?

3. Matching funds- can be state or federal, or does it have to be local?

4. Do matching funds have to be go specifically towards work on 
populations identified in proposal?

Example: eradication of gorse at Caspar transfer station- could matching 
funds for State Parks apply?

5. Weed Prevention Area Program- does this fit any of the goals in the RFP?
  Example: Williams Ranch Road, from 30,000 stems YST to 15 in 2007

 >>Ask Sonoma County about Gualala/Sea Ranch area.

Tara Athan
Coordinator, Inland Mendocino Cooperative Weed Management Area
coord at imcwma.org
707-485-1198
PO Box 415
Redwood Valley, CA 95470


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