SAKW Annual Meeting Information

SAKW 2025 Annual Meeting

The 74th Annual Meeting was held Tuesday and Wednesday, January 28 & January 29, 2025, at Hotel Topeka at City Center, 1717 SW Topeka Blvd, Topeka, KS.  We followed the same format as in 2024 with a Watershed event at the Capitol Building.

The meeting began at Hotel Topeka at City Center on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 with registration from 8-9 a.m., Keynote Address, and a presentation from 9:10 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. At 10:30 a.m. shuttle coaches transported attendees to the Capitol Building for a meet and greet with legislators. Lunch was provided and was included in the registration fee. The shuttle picked up attendees from the Capitol Building at 2:00 p.m. and returned to the hotel. The meeting presentations reconvened at 2:30 p.m. and concluded at 5:00 p.m. The meeting reconvened at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 29, 2025.

SAKW and its members represent an important segment of the state’s natural resource protection initiative.

Registration Form

Hotel Registration Form (for online booking, copy the link and open in new browser page)

2025 Board of Directors

This year our member districts selected the 2025 board of directors during the 2025 annual meeting in Topeka, which includes:

Don Hook, President

Barb Oltjen, Vice President

Andy O’Brien, Secretary

Terry Smith, Treasurer

Herb R. Graves, Director

Gary Henderson, Director

Corbin Pfrang, Director

Vic Robbins, Director

Dennis Schwant, Director

Sarah Diamond, Executive Director

Marisa M. Johnson, Executive Secretary

2025 Annual Meeting Presentations

2024 Annual Meeting Presentations

2023 Annual Meeting Presentations