All right, everybody, uh welcome.

Uh, this is the sea level rise response collaborative uh meeting of the executive committee.

Today is Friday, June 5th.

We're just a little bit afternoon right here.

My name's Danny Madron.

I represent LAT on the collaborative, and I'm calling the meeting to order.

I'm gonna do a quick roll call of collaborative members.

Um in our our voting members, we have uh uh Councilmember Paul Barrett from the City of Olympia.

And we have oh, hi.

We have uh uh Commissioner Craig Unsoll from the port.

Uh and then for our ex officio members, I see that we have Eric Christensen as a community member, Shana Thompson from DES, Bobek Telebi from uh Ecology, and Rachel Grant from uh Commissioner Rachel Rachel Grant from uh Thurston County.

And Natalie, if you could run us through the staff who are present and other guests.

Yeah, hi, Natalie Weiss with the City of Olympia, Jesse Barum from Law Clean Water Alliance, Pamela Graff from the City of Olympia, Zach Palmer from the City of Olympia, Susan Clark, also from the City of Olympia, John Wolfe from the Port of Olympia, and Wendy Stephenson from Law Clean Water Alliance.

Okay, and I believe we got everybody who's here, and if we missed anybody, speak now or forever hold your peace.

All right.

Uh first thing that we need uh is to approve the agenda uh for this meeting.

So if I could get a motion from one of the voting members here.

Move to approve the agenda for the June meeting.

Okay, excellent.

Uh I will go ahead and second.

All right, all in favor?

Aye.

Hi.

Okay.

Um, and then we need to approve minutes from the March 6th, 2026 meeting.

So I'll entertain a motion to do so.

I've read those minutes and um I would move to approve the minutes for the past meeting.

Excellent.

I will go ahead and second.

All in favor?

Hi.

Hi.

Uh all right, we've got an agenda.

We've got minutes from the last meeting.

Um, I don't believe we had anybody sign in for public comments, and I do not see anybody in the attendees.

So we can cruise past that section.

Um, we do have announcements up next.

Natalie, I forgot to check in.

Um, do we have any announcements ahead of the business part of the meeting?

We do not.

Okay.

Well, then we'll go ahead and jump right into a briefing on the long-term sea level rise monitoring and metrics for adaptive management.

Natalie, I'll go ahead and pass it on to you so you can introduce our guests who are going to walk us through this topic.

Yeah, thank you.

Um, so we've been working on this project for just under a year on creating a long-term sea level rise monitoring strategy for adaptive management.

And we're joined here today with Justin Van Dever from AECOM and Julia Grace Handers, also from AECOM, just to present the outcomes of the work and what we've been working on.

So I can pass it over to them to give their final presentation for you all.

Great.

Thank you, Natalie.

Hi, everyone.

Um, Justin Vandever, uh coastal engineer and project manager with AECOM.

Um, see some familiar names uh in the call today.

It's good to see everyone and share some of the findings and recommendations uh from the work that we've been um doing with the um collaborative partners uh on uh a monitoring plan uh to help uh with the implementation of actions identified in the uh Olympia Sea Level Rise Response Plan.

So just to provide uh a little bit of an overview of what we're gonna be covering today.

Um we'll start with a little bit of context and background on how this work relates um to the city's prior and ongoing efforts around sea level rise response, uh, and then kind of talk through some of the um items that were included uh under the umbrella of our work here, um, which included updating some of the um vertical land motion estimates for downtown Olympia and the Port Peninsula, uh, as well as updating um and localizing sea level rise projections uh to inform future planning uh and some mapping updates that we did as well.

Uh and then I will turn it over to Julia Grace and she'll talk through the monitoring framework that we've uh established and and collaborated uh with staff on and then provide a little bit of a look forward on what the next steps are.

Okay.

So building on Olympia's sea level rise response plan, uh, as I'm sure you are all aware, um, Olympia's sea level rise response plan um was adopted in 2018 and provides um a set of near-term, midterm, and long-term strategies to address anticipated impacts of future sea level rise.

And since then, um the collaborative uh and its partners have been working to implement many of the near-term actions identified in that plan.

Uh so roughly over the last five years, um, a lot of progress has been made around stormwater improvements and backflow prevention, looking at funding and financing options, uh, better understanding groundwater, uh, particularly in the Bud Inlet treatment plant area, uh, installation of a local tide gauge, um, and then additional coordination on uh response to you know those winter kink tide and flood events and outreach and emergency alerts and educating the public on some of these impacts and what the city is doing to address them.