ATTENDANCE:
Commission	Public
Ron Ozment, Chair	Bill Frymire, Attorney General's Office
Fred Shiosaki, Vice Chair	Elliot Marks, Office of Financial Management
Ken Chew
Jerry Gutzwiler
Chuck Perry
Will Roehl
Shirley Solomon
Miranda Wecker

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27:

CALL TO ORDER:
Chair Ozment called the work session to order at 9:00 a.m.

Commissioners provided biographical history, work history, interests, and philosophies.

ELLIOT MARKS:
Elliot Marks, Governor's Executive Policy Advisor, briefed Commissioners on Governor Gregoire's vision of fish, wildlife, and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's (WDFW) public lands management. Other comments and questions centered on the Governor's Government Management Accountability and Performance implementation as applied to WDFW.

BILL FRYMIRE:
Bill Frymire, Assistant Attorney General, presented Commissioners material on the Commission's history, governing statutes, and mandates.

DAY-TO-DAY COMMISSION FUNCTION:
Discussion continued on the above issues, and expanded to issues of Commissioners' contact with stakeholders, potential for conflict of interest, and ethics issues. Also discussed with individual Commissioner expenses.

COMMISSION SUBCOMMITTEES:
Commission subcommittees were discussed, including the possible need for additional committees.

Chair Ozment recessed the work session at 5:00 p.m.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28:

Chair Ozment called the work session back to order at 9:00 a.m.

COMMISSION BUDGET:
Discussed were the Commission budget, personnel under the Commission budget, and the need for reports of budget status.

DISCUSSION:
General discussion centered on the Commission's subcommittees: (1) possibility of redirecting the subcommittees' areas of responsibility; (2) potential for additional subcommittees (i.e., lands, co-management, science, enforcement, invasive species, and (3) potential for existing committees to absorb some duties.

Commissioner Solomon replaced Commissioner Shiosaki as chair of the Fish Subcommittee, and Commissioner Gutzwiler replaced Commissioner Shiosaki as chair of the Wildlife Subcommittee.

Chair Ozment adjourned the work session at 12:00 p.m.

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