Although I currently don't have any involvement with the WCC I thought I'd help clear up some confusion, but first a little history. The Access Fund, based in Boulder, is a national level non profit agency that protects climbers right by working with land managers and property owners. The agency itself only consists of less than a dozen employees, with the rest being volunteers. There is a board of directors, which you can find more out on their website, but at one point local climber Mark Kroese was the president. There is typically one or two coordinators for each state. Wa state is represented by Andy Fitz, who has done an incredible job with the limited amount of time he has (he is also an assistant state attorney general).
The problem with the Access Fund is that they don't have the resources with their limited number of employees to give much attention to things that don't have serious access implications. It makes more sense financially for the AF to have a few employees that give out grants and such than to have more employees but no money to give out. It was suggested by the Access Fund, considering the size of WA, the number or climbers and areas, and the number of growing issues, that we form our own coalition to coordinate climbing issues and WA with guidance from the AF.
What needs to be made clear is at this point the WCC is an idea, it is a handful of people trying to get it organized who are route developers and/or have experience dealing with access issues, and that's why many people haven't heard about it. There is no membership yet because there is no organization. This meeting is the first opportunity for people to get involved in the formation in this organization and have a say in how it may develop and may serve the climbers of WA.