<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Clay, Thank you for your many years of service. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Rick<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 19, 2021, at 7:14 AM, K7CR via SBE16-Seattle <<a href="mailto:sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org" class="">sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">In the event you were not in attendance at the last Washington SECC Zoom Meeting last week, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">you missed something that I wanted to make sure you knew. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">That something was the announcement of my retirement as Chair of this Committee.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">The Plan Revision Committee has been working for some time on the replacement for our present<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">EAS Plan and now plans on launching WA-PAWS in September. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">I concluded that this would a good time to step down. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">Therefore, the September 14<sup class="">th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Meeting of the SECC will be my last one as Chairman.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">It’s been a long ride – I recall how in 1996 John Price and the late Jimmy Hocutt<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">took me to lunch and convinced me that I should lead our States effort with this new EAS<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">system that was replacing EBS.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">I told the SECC in the recent meeting that I would be around to assist the Committee<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">moving forward for the next year, or so. I offered a couple of areas where I would be willing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">to continue to serve perhaps as Vice Chair. I also expressed interest in continuing to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">manage our Monitoring Assignment. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">Ultimately, the decision as to who should replace me is entirely up to the SECC.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">I did submit a couple of thoughts along that line –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">I felt the Ted Buehner, our Vice Chair, is the obvious choice to become Chairman.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">For Vice Chair, I mentioned Lowell Kiesow and Charlie Osgood.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">The ‘bottom line’ ….It’s time for me to move on. I am well past conventional<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">Retirement Age and would like to enjoy the free time that not doing so much<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">EAS Work will provide.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">Thanks for your support over the past 25 years. I know you will do well<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">at keeping Washington States EAS Program in good hands.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class="">Clay<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><b class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Clay Freinwald<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);" class="">Clay Freinwald Technical Services -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><a href="mailto:K7cr@blarg.net" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 102); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);" class="">K7cr@blarg.net</span></b></a><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; 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