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In a message dated 7/19/2021 12:50:57 PM Pacific Standard Time, sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org writes:
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<div>Clay, Thank you for your many years of service. 
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<div class="yiv6312684261">On Jul 19, 2021, at 7:14 AM, K7CR via SBE16-Seattle <<a class="yiv6312684261" href="mailto:sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect">sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">In the event you were not in attendance at the last Washington SECC Zoom Meeting last week, <span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">you missed something that I wanted to make sure you knew.  <span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">That something was the announcement of my retirement as Chair of this Committee.</div>
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<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">The Plan Revision Committee has been working for some time on the replacement for our present</div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">EAS Plan and now plans on launching WA-PAWS in September.    <span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">I concluded that this would a good time to step down.    <span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">Therefore, the September  14<sup class="yiv6312684261">th</sup><span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span>Meeting of the SECC will be my last one as Chairman.</div>
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<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">It’s been a long ride – I recall how in 1996  John Price and the late Jimmy Hocutt</div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">took me to lunch and convinced me that I should lead our States effort with this new EAS</div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">system that was replacing EBS.</div>
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<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">I told the SECC in the recent meeting that I would be around to assist the Committee<span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">moving forward for the next year, or so.    I offered a couple of areas where I would be willing<span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">to continue to serve perhaps as Vice Chair.  I also expressed interest in continuing to<span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">manage our Monitoring Assignment.   <span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">Ultimately, the decision as to who should replace me is entirely up to the SECC.</div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">I did submit a couple of thoughts along that line –<span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">I felt the Ted Buehner, our Vice Chair, is the obvious choice to become Chairman.</div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">For Vice Chair, I mentioned Lowell Kiesow and Charlie Osgood.</div>
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<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">The ‘bottom line’ ….It’s time for me to move on.   I am well past conventional<span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">Retirement Age and would like to enjoy the free time that not doing so much<span class="yiv6312684261Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="yiv6312684261" clear="none">EAS Work will provide.</div>
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<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">Thanks for your support over the past 25 years.    I know you will do well</div>
<div class="yiv6312684261" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; color: #663300;">at keeping Washington States EAS Program in good hands.</div>
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