EAB Task Force

Patrick Sieng2h 40min

Patrick Sieng

00:12

Okay, welcome, everybody. I'm going to start recording here. Thank you to everybody for being flexible with the platform change here to teams. I think it's going to work a little bit better than GoTo Meeting, especially for those of you who are on the state network should allow for a little bit more capabilities as well as allowing us to better manage the meeting a little bit. So there is the chat function as usual. This one does have the raise hand feature. Along with other reactions, if you ever want to heart or Laugh Emoji during the meeting, you can feel free to submit those as well. And if we ever need to, we can break out into various breakout rooms to the purpose of today's meeting is to kind of follow up from last last week's meeting, as we kind of get this task force and the various committees and whatnot set up. So we can expect the committee's to kind of meet in between each of the task force meetings. And as a reminder, we have set the task force meetings of this larger group to be the second Tuesday of the month. So our next one will be September September 13. I am going to just since we did the kind of larger welcome and introductions and roll call last time and I know we have some new folks on this time. I'm just going to kind of take notes of who's here based on the attendance list. Looks like everybody has their full name on there. So thank you make sure nobody's on the phone or any weird other names. Okay. So looks like we're good. With that, hopefully everybody has the agenda that was sent out a little bit ago. If you don't, again, I'll put my email

Unknown Speaker

02:26

chat.

Patrick Sieng

02:28

That probably also means your you may not be on the list. So if you did not receive the calendar, invite or the email with the agenda, shoot me an email. We'll make sure you're on the list we are working on as we kind of get organized and ready. Working on a kind of listserv email address that can be used for the big group and the various committees. So as we get those forums a formed look, look for those. Look for that information. Okay, I think that's it for the housekeeping and welcome, everybody. Our goal is to be done by 230 today. So we're going to start with some discussion on just the organization of the task force leadership, various committees. And I think Chris is going to lead us on that discussion. Thanks, Chris.

Chris Benemann

03:28

Thank you, Patrick. And good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for taking time to join today our second with flying by rapid pace. So again, like Patrick kind of said today, really the goal is to revisit some of the two major takeaways that some of us took from our last meeting and one of the major ones was really being able to how are we going to organize this greater Task Force, it was great to see a lot of participation. But getting anything really done as one large group is not going to be an effective way. So we decided it might be mostly this was myself, Kevin Ripley with the Forest Service and Wyatt Williams with the ODF got together to kind of brainstorm and how we thought this would be the best way to go about orchestrating this larger group. And kind of deciding that this would sort of be thought of as like a tiered structure. So a lot of the things I'm going to talk about I did try to capture in the agenda so if you have that might be good to reference that so you can follow along. And again, if you don't have that practicability now that too, you can get lost in the mix somebody on the listserv so again, I apologize. We're trying our best to capture as many folks who want to be a part of this group as possible. I did get an email from someone just before the meeting started and told them sure have you added so it's going to be find out who all is out there and get everybody on the same page. So in terms of the organization from a top down, we're thinking in sort of a three tiered structure so one being at the top is what we're calling a steering committee. The names aren't really so important. It's really like what the purpose is. So with steering committee, our purposes sort of acting as at tier one, so at the top of the kind of like the sort of pyramid structure as a smaller group, kind of taking the lead on any primary larger decision. Making that we might need, whether that's for an item or Genda item that happens outside of the realm or the scope of an individual subcommittee, or something that maybe the subcommittee's have pushed up the ladder and say, Hey, we need a higher authority using the state authority that's like that lies with the ODA. Or with USDA are so important and organization that they need to come in and to have some input on that. Again, organizing these meetings, the stakeholder meetings, which is the forum for this meetings, common larger, larger scope conversations and also you know, I figuring out what we want to focus on the conversations when we do come together at the onset creating agendas. And of course, we look for the subcommittee's to forgive us proposals for things that you want us to cover would include on the agendas for these stakeholder meetings. And a big thing for these stakeholder meetings is to be can have that kind of level. I don't want to use the word accountability but so we can follow up with your various subcommittees on accomplishments or issues that are coming up. So again, collectively, we can brainstorm and try to find solutions for problems as they arise. I do want to mention that. As I'm going through, I have names written down again, this was a part of this brainstorming session. That we were having. We were having, trying to be quick in our response to come to the table with this to all of you so if you see your name on their

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06:46

suggestion, or it's a proposal we're

Chris Benemann

06:47

asking, not not being mandated to do that. So if your name was written in italics, that was an idea. It means that we didn't confirm it. It's not required. Of course we would love to have your participation but if you feel like you don't have the capacity or don't have the interest, just let us know have your name removed but just to put that out there people disclosure so for the steering committee, that's kind of looking at the regulatory agencies, Oregon State agencies that kind of are involved in this. So it'd be Oda odf Oregon State University, USDA APHIS, PDQ for service and then I would like to invite the king water services to participate in the steering committee as well. This used to be a group that has a lot of investment in this issue, and Robert had a lot of great input and suggestions and concerns that he brought to the table on the at the last meeting. So again, we invite Robert to participate. I know I sent him a note that I hadn't heard back yet. So again, I apologize. I don't mean to call you out and announce. Again, feel free to reach out if you're wanting to participate in that group. Other members so for Oda I have myself listed as well as Kobe Hope House shoes or newly minted Program Manager for insect pest prevention programs. I Cody, he's on vacation today but has joined us thank you for coming for calling in for ODfB a wild Williams or Scott, either or both of you are welcome Oregon State we nominated Dave Sharpe. David is wanting to or would like to nominate someone else to dissipate from overseas. So again, please reach out if you want to yea or nay that nomination MSAP BQ J voter. Thank you, Jay for agreeing to sit on the steering committee. And of course, Karen, you've already been an active participant and I look forward to continue working with you. And then again, lastly, Robert, if you or someone else from that organization would like to step up for that. So starting from the top, that's a tier one and then that leads us to tier two which is the task force that's all of you who are on this call. Again, we tried to cast as wide net as possible to 30 that we think are affected and are interested in developing and pursuing the EAB response in Oregon. So again, it will be a developing list of who we see on this as a member of this taskforce. Please reach out if it's not you or you want to nominate somebody else in your organization to be added to the list. We are busy curating that was busy doing that over the weekend to make sure that we are capturing the correct the correct audience. So amongst the task force, we have been done identified kind of be again, kind of pulling from our notes from the last meeting what these kind of big groups of topics that will need to be addressed and created with the comprising of seven different subcommittees. Seven kind of sounds like a lot but there's a lot here to unpack, there's a lot to figure out. So I think that conquering and dividing that would be the most appropriate way to do this. So that listed in order of importance just listed in the way that our conversation kind of manifested first step would be communications. So the function of the communications group is to develop a communication plan sharing and delivering key messages as those have come out from the steering committee or from the subcommittee's, we really the goal is to kind of help carry those messages within up to the media. Get them out to the public. Creating our FAQ. So that's one thing I know that we really need to work on is creating an FAQ that will be specific to the assets and the needs of the local community as these questions arise, ensuring that the online resources that we're developing and sharing them across the different agencies so people are seeing the same information across across the different online sources, in particular, the website for Oda for species restrictions and their resources to help with this cause. Not the need for that has already been a great asset to the media response in Oregon, and I believe in our country shows dissipate with that, again, I haven't been able to confirm exactly how much of her time she's going to be outlined for this but we'll be helping. Seven committees research that was kind of something they've shot and have expressed concern about being able to come up with topics and subjective research would be sensitive Oregon State would kind of be on the lead for that combination exactly who would be on that that nomination to be David Sharpe. So

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