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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As an income taxpayer, a trinity county property taxpayer,a trinity county utility rate payer and a fishing guide I couldn’t agree with Travis Michel s position
more. An audit of the program is long overdue and was originally to be part of the ROD. The annual financial audit provision was arbitrarily yanked from the ROD allegedly due to influence by some members of the TMC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It was odd that the program director stated in a public meeting in December that the 100 million dollars, more or less, that has been spent on restoration was
not from the taxpayers. Ignorance abound to say the least.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I, like Travis, believe there are many good well intentioned folks involved in TRRP but still does not excuse the lack of efficacy of the program. Its time
to reign it in and examine the progress or lack thereof.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In addition to sit on draft report that does not paint a favorable light on the programs achievements makes one question the ethics of the parties involved
whether merited or not. Sunlight and transparency is always the best disinfectant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Think about all the money that has been spent without oversight, no bid contracts etc. while achieving little measurable success. The white elephant in the
room is the cumbersome and structurally ineffective design of the TMC and our Trinity County supervisors who seem to be more concerned about how much payroll stays in town rather than what the river needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Water in the main stem and restoration of the tributaries is the answer and we all know that. Bulldozing of the main stem and no bid contracts are not the answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The time to financially audit the program is long overdue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F">Paul Catanese</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us [mailto:env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Stokely<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 5, 2014 7:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [env-trinity] Trinity Journal LTE- Travis Michel: TRRP, tribe audit overdue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_6572ad6e-a40f-11e3-965b-0017a43b2370.html">http://www.trinityjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/article_6572ad6e-a40f-11e3-965b-0017a43b2370.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">TRRP, tribe audit overdue<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">From Travis Michel Weaverville | Posted: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:15 am</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">I’m a local fishing guide, board member of the guides association and also a five-year alternate on the Trinity River Restoration Program advisory committee
(TAMWG) representing upriver locals and guides. I am representing only myself in this letter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Aaron Martin is a Yurok tribal fisheries employee and I feel that should have been mentioned in his letter (the Yurok tribe recieves millions from the
TRRP annually). Our coalition letter opposing more mainstem projects at this time is not a personal attack on any individual, but on program managers who ignore the public and are out of control. What gets done is not decided by Martin, Lee, or even their
bosses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">We are spending our energy where it will do the best, opposing the deceptive environmental document that didn’t mention the Independent Science Advisory
Board report that says their expensive projects are doing very little if any good. The TAMWG has largely been ignored by the Trinity Management Council for more than 10 years, often due to tribal influence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">I agree with Martin that the higher ROD flows have made a difference in steelhead populations and fishing. If the TRRP is responsible for the large run
last year then they must be responsible for the terrible runs this year. It was one of the lowest fall salmon redd counts in many years. The TRRP is focused mainly on hatchery chinook and massive mainstem channel manipulation, and does little if anything to
help wild steelhead, coho or wild salmon by funding habitat work in the tributaries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">As a member of the taxpaying public my main concern is whether our money is being spent wisely and are the projects working? I feel an audit of the program
and the money the tribes get is long overdue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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