VSP Training Materials & Webinars
Tailored toward program staff, these resources will help you learn about project implementation, contracts, processing expense vouchers, cost share, monitoring, adaptive management, outreach, education, and reporting.
New County and Conservation District Staff
SCC Financial, Vouchering, and Cost-Share Resources and Training
Grants procedures and cost share:
- SCC Grant and Contract Policy and Procedure Manual - July 2023: Conservation districts may use this document as a reference for questions relating to SCC financial procedures.
- For SCC program-specific grant information, visit the SCC Grants and Contracts webpage, under Program Guidelines.
- SCC Cost-Share Process pdf.
Conservation Practice Data System (CPDS):
- CPDS Participant Field Form: This may be completed electronically or as a hard copy to capture required CPDS information when meeting with participants.
- CPDS BMPs and Resource Concerns Cheat Sheet - May 2023: This sheet includes engineering and design life in the far-right columns.
- CPDS Training Webinar - May 2018
- Use this targeted users’ guide for help entering project data into CPDS. It includes instructions for capital and implementation projects, as well as projects that need a cost-share agreement form from CPDS.
- Use this CPDS one-page fact sheet for project entry when requesting cost share funds. All of the listed steps must be completed in order for the project to show up on the prioritized funding report.
- Quick reference guide: A list of required data fields to be completed in CPDS when requesting funds for cost-share projects.
District Implemented Projects (DIP) resources:
Cultural resources:
New State Agency Staff
New Work Group Members
Watershed work group members have an important oversight role to play during VSP implementation.
Policy Advisory 03-18 explains that the watershed work group members have many different duties during implementation. It is important they read and understand the county’s VSP work plan, receive training in the background and history of VSP, as well as how the work group functions as an entity of the county.
OPMA refresher training is required every four years.
Watershed work group meetings are open public meetings under the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA), RCW Chapter 42.30. All volunteer members of the watershed work group will need to be familiar with the OPMA and should undergo the attorney general’s OPMA training every four years.
Training Webinars
June 2023
SSB 5353 - Reopening VSP to the 12 Non-VSP Counties
SSB 5353 – Reopening VSP to the 12 non-VSP counties – informational webinar – Thursday, June 15, 2023, at 9 am. SSB 5353 reopens the VSP to the 12 counties who originally declined to opt into VSP in 2011-2012 (Clallam, Clark, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Klickitat, Pierce, Skamania, Snohomish, Wahkiakum, Whatcom, and Whidbey Island). Governor Inslee signed SSB 5353, making it effective on July 23, 2023. The webinar is designed to walk the 12 counties through the process for opting into VSP, so the webinar is designed for county commissioners, county staff, and conservation district staff of the 12 counties who might join VSP.
May 2023
VSP 101 Training - May 2023
This webinar was tailored toward new VSP staff responsible for tasks like implementation, contracts, processing expense vouchers, cost-share, monitoring, adaptive management, outreach, education, and reporting.
December 2020
VSP Monitoring 101 Webinar - December 2020
New County & Conservation District Staff Training Webinar and slides
