SWCDs

​​Led by Eric Nusbaum — 1 hour​

A deeper and more advanced look at Public Meeting Law than will be presented in the New Director and Employee Trainings. This session would be particularly helpful to managers and administrative staff who deal with setting up meetings, providing agendas and notices, and prepare minutes. There will be time for answering and discussing questions from the participants.

• Public Meeting Law presentation
  
• Public Records and Meetings Manual
• Training video​​
  

​​​​​Led by Ellen Hammond — 1 hour​

This session is for directors, managers, and staff who would like to know how the Department’s Agricultural Water Quality Program operates and works with SWCDs. This will include looking at area plans and rules, the compliance program, Strategic Implementation Areas (SIAs), monitoring, and other areas of interest. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion. This session will be repeated at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 25.

• ​Strategic Implementation Areas (SIA) Statewide Overview​
• SIA Partner Overview
  
• Compliance Enforcement Overview
  
• Ag Water Quality Complaint Form
  
• Water Quality and Agriculture
  
• 2019 Ag Water Quality Report
  
• Training video​
  

​Led by Eric Nusbaum — 1 hour

Learn simple tools for managing your time and stress! The emphasis is on small changes you can make for your work day to be less stressful and more efficient. There will be time for everyone to share their own tips and tricks.​​

• Stress and Coping Strategies
  
• Ten Tips for Creating Balance
  
• The Paired Comparison Process
  
• Time and Stress Management
• Training video​​
  

​​​Led by Courtney Shaff and Tara Choate — 1 hour

Grant Payment Coordinator Tara Choate and Interim Business Operations Manager Courtney Shaff will go over 10 Tips and Tricks for easy and reliable SWCD Capacity Reporting. Topics include how to easily use OWEB’s Request for Funds Form, what information is necessary on the Expense Tracking sheet, budget category tips including allowable costs under travel and food, and the best way to get answers to the question “What category is that?” This session will be repeated at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24.

• Reporting SWCD Capacity Grants
  
• Reporting SWCD Capacity Grants: 10 Tips and Tricks
  
• Training video​
  

​​Led by Tyler Manitsas — 30 minutes

The Agricultural Drainage Channel Maintenance (ADCM) program authorizes maintenance activities without a Removal-Fill permit from the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) in dry, traditionally maintained channels under certain circumstances.  The ADCM staff developed a new notice-based process that landowners and irrigation, drainage, and other water control districts must use if they are interested in agricultural maintenance of eligible ditches and streams that drain agricultural lands. Tyler will give a brief explanation of the program followed by questions and answers.

• Before You File a Notification
• Notification Process
• Interim​ Manual of Best Management Practices​​
• Agricultural Drainage Channel Maintenance Presentation
• Training video​​
  
  

​Led by Eric Nusbaum — 1 hour​

A deeper and more advanced look at Ethics Law than will be presented in the New Director and Employee Trainings. This session would be particularly helpful to managers and board chairs who may be in the position of monitoring the actions of their board members or employees for possible ethics violations. There will be time for answering and discussing questions from the participants.

• Oregon Government Ethics Laws: A Guide for Public Officials
• ​Ethics for Public Officials
• Training video​​​

​​​Led by Courtney Shaff and Sandi Hiatt — 1 hour

For the 2021-2023 SWCD Operating Capacity grants, districts will be applying through OWEB’s Online Grant Management System​.  This training will provide an overview of OWEB’s online grant application system and provide a preview of the SWCD Operating Capacity online application. This session will be repeated at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24.

• Training video​
  

​​Led by Eric Nusbaum — 1 hour, 30 minutes

This session is for both new directors and directors who wish a general refresher course on the basics of the legal responsibilities of being an SWCD director. The session will cover what it means to be a director, what you can and cannot do as a director, how your district interacts with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, and the basics of Ethics, Public Meeting, and Public Record Laws. This session will be repeated at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25. There will be a similar session focused on new employees at noon Wednesday, Feb. 24. Directors will still find that session useful if they cannot make any of the other three sessions.

• ORS Chapter 568
  
• New Director Orientation
• Training video​​
  

​​​Led by Eric Nusbaum — 1 hour, 30 minutes​

This session is for employees new to the SWCD world or to being a public employee.  The session will cover what it means to be a public official, how your district interacts with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, and the basics of Ethics, Public Meeting, and Public Record Laws. This session is similar to the New Director Orientation sessions. New employees will find those sessions useful if they cannot make this employee-oriented session.

• ORS Chapter 568
• New Employee Orientation
• Training video​​​

​​Led by Courtney Shaff and Tara Choate — 1 hour​

Grant Payment Coordinator Tara Choate and Interim Business Operations Manager Courtney Shaff will go over 10 Tips & Tricks for easy and reliable SWCD Capacity Reporting. Topics include how to easily use OWEB’s Request for Funds Form, what information is necessary on the Expense Tracking sheet, budget category tips including allowable costs under travel and food, and the best way to get answers to the question “What category is that?”

• Reporting SWCD Capacity Grants
  
• Reporting SWCD Capacity Grants: 10 Tips and Tricks​

​​Led by Eric Nusbaum — 1 hour​​

This training will look in detail at the complexities of holding an Executive Session — what you can and cannot hold executive sessions for and how to conduct them. Violations of Executive Session law can lead to costly fines and legal costs for the district and individual board members; it is important to ensure you know how to appropriately hold your executive sessions. There will be time for asking questions and discussion. ​

• Checklist for Executive Session
  
• Sample Script to Announce Start of Executive Session
  
• Executive Session Law
• Training video​​
  

​​​​​​​Led by Courtney Shaff and Sandi Hiatt — 1 hour​​​

For the 2021-2023 SWCD Operating Capacity grants, districts will be applying through OWEB’s Online Grant Management System. This training will provide an overview of OWEB’s online grant application system and provide a preview of the SWCD Operating Capacity online application. ​

​​Led by Ellen Hammond — 1 hour

This session is for directors, managers, and staff who would like to know how the Department’s Agricultural Water Quality Program operates and works with SWCDs. This will include looking at area plans and rules, the compliance program, Strategic Implementation Areas (SIAs), monitoring, and other areas of interest. There will be opportunity for questions and discussion.

• ​Strategic Implementation Areas (SIA) Statewide Overview​
• SIA Partner Overview
  
• Compliance Enforcement Overview
  
• Ag Water Quality Complaint Form
  
• Water Quality and Agriculture
  
• 2019 Ag Water Quality Report​
  

​​​Led by Eric Nusbaum — 1 hour, 30 minutes​

​​Led by Eric Nusbaum — 1 hour