26. Congratulations - The first EAWRD Meeting is Complete

26. Congratulations - The first EAWRD Meeting is Complete

26. Congratulations - The first EAWRD Meeting is Complete
East Africa WRD 18:17 Thu Mar 23/23 35 lines

As an introductory item, I would like to inform
everyone that the first EAWRD board meeting was
complete and the organizing infrastructure is
complete and with their marching orders.

All twelve board members were present. There are
three each from the provinces of Ethiopia, Kenya and
Victoria and three from the IFG.

The main order of business was to appoint the
consulting firm Arusha Group to develop the
organizational structure for the EAWRD. They will
develop this plan, then, after board approval, it
will be implemented. This plan is to set up the
various departments and org charts and to create a
map of personnel that will be needed. Once the plan
is approved, people can be hired, facilities leased
and design work for the canals, water tunnels,
reservoirs and the cold fusion desalinization plants
can commence. Then, on to construction.

The board unanimously appoved the appointment of
Arusha Group and directed the crafting of the contract
with them (its almost ready anyways). Once finished,
it will be voted on by the Board and the work can be
done.

As the contract is almost done, the Board gave the
legal team 1 more month to complete it and finish
working out details with Arusha Group, at which time
it will be presented to the Board.

This forum will be a place where updates about the
EAWRD will be posted, including Board meetings and
actions.

26/1. John Palmer 11:02 Sat Apr 1/23 2 lines

Are they doing any setup now at all or is
everything on hold till the contract is complete?

26/2. Taka Khumbartha 11:10 Sat Apr 1/23 24 lines

There are a huge number of folks working on planning
day and night (well, at least during working hours).
They will get paid for their work retroactivly when
the structures are set up.

There are several tracks of work

1. The organizational stuff - AG (Arusha Group) will
formalize everything, but some of the structure is
already laid out and they will just adopt a lot of
that.

2. Engineering - the real work. Plans for the desalinization
plants, water tunnels, aqueducts, reservoirs and irrigation
channels alreay exist in piecemeal form as folks have been
designing these for years in hopes of some sort of grand
plan / district to implement them. These are piecemeal, but
a lot if the detail exists in bits and pieces, so there
is not as much work as folks think.

So, while it may look like they have nothing, this is far
from the truth. Once the formal stuff is done, you will
see things move much faster than might be obvious from the
outside world.

KEYWORDS:
EAWRD BOARD MEETINGS MEETING 1 - 03/23/2023

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