FOSC BOARD MEETINGS – No meeting in July, 2010.  Next meeting August 26, 2010. Regular board meeting is the 4th Thursday of each month,  6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Friends' office.  Members welcome. Please RSVP to 419-0988 as schedules can change.

Past Events Calendar

To read the public comments to Skagit Co. Planning Commission on wetland mitigation banks on May 5, 2009 - Click here.   Skagit County Planning Commission meetings are on the web.  Go to www.skagitcounty.net and click on Skagit 21 TV and the meeting you want to view. Skagit County Planning Commission meetings are now on the web.  Go to www.skagitcounty.net and click on Skagit 21 TV.

 2009 FOSC ANNUAL MEETING - July 25th, 2009 Saturday, Shelter Bay Community Center,  Annual meeting 5:30 pm, Program - Where's the Public in Public Process? 6 - 7 pm.  Potluck dinner - 7 pm.  Speaker Toby Nixon, Washington Public Campaigns.

Thanks to Artists Cooperative Gallery 2nd Annual FOSC ART SHOW & SALE, April 5, 2009 at Pine Square, Mount Vernon, for hosting this fundraiser and donating a portion of the sales to FOSC.  Thanks to artists Anne Martin McCool, Anne McCain, Becky Fletcher, Molly McNulty, Joella Solis, Joe Furin, Steve Philbrick, Tom Pickett, Betty Miles, other artists and Michael Larkin for their contributions to this event. The gallery is now closed.  To contact Michael call  360-840-9842, artistscooperativegallery @yahoo.com 

 Western WA Growth Management Hearings Board hearing Case No. 07-2-0025c FOSC, Evergreen Islands v. Skagit County and the City of Anacortes.

This case appeals various issues on the 2005 Comprehensive Plan update, consistency with the Growth Management Act, county policies and other issue on rural Skagit development.  http://www.gmhb.wa.gov/western/index.html