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June 14, 2016
JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
Philip Morley, County Administrator
FROM: Tami Pokorny, Environmental Health Specialist II
DATE: June 20, 2016
SUBJECT: Agenda Request: Setting a Public Hearing Date and Publishing a Public
Hearing Notice on the Conservation Futures Applications for 2016.
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
Environmental Health requests BoCC approval of a Public Hearing Notice to take comments regarding the
four Conservation Futures project applications submitted for consideration during the 2016 funding round.
The notice is to be published on June 22 and June 29, 2016 in the Port Townsend & Jefferson County
Leader. The hearing is scheduled for July 11, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.
ANALYSIS/STRATEGIC GOALS/PRO'S and CON'S:
Jefferson County Code (JCC) 3.08.030(4) requires a duly noticed public hearing prior to final action by the
Board of County Commissioners on the annual allocations from the Conservation Futures Fund. Public
comment on the 2016 QWC (Quimper Wildlife Corridor) Addition, Big Quilcene River — Moon Valley
Reach, Irondale Beach County Park Additions, and Tarboo Creek, Farm, and Forest projects will be
accepted from the date of publication until the close of the Commissioner's hearing. After the public
hearing, the BoCC may resolve to award funding to one or more of these projects.
FISCAL IMPACT/COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS:
Costs to publish the Public Hearing Notice in the Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader will be paid
for with funds from the Jefferson County Conservation Futures Fund.
RECOMMENDATION:
To facilitate a timely public process, staff recommends that the BoCC approve the Public Hearing Notice to
hold the hearing on July 11, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Jefferson County Conservation Futures Program
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing is scheduled by the Jefferson County
Board of Commissioners for MONDAY, July 11, 2016 at 10:00 a. m. in the Commissioners'
Chamber, County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368. The public
hearing is to take comments for (or against) the four projects submitted for consideration during
the 2016 conservation futures funding cycle. Conservation futures funds available to projects in
2016 total $228,000. The total amount requested by the four applications is $158,914. Written
public comment will be accepted any time up through the close of the public hearing, addressed
to the BoCC at P.O. Box 1220, Port Townsend, WA. 98368 or by email at
jeffbocc e,coJefferson.wa.us. The projects are summarized as follows:
1.2016 QWC Addition, $34,814 towards the fee simple acquisition, and operation and maintenance,
of ten platted parcels within the Quimper Wildlife Corridor totaling 2.5 acres of vacant land adjacent
to trail corridors in Cappy's Woods. The parcels were identified as high conservation priority in the
QWC Management Plan which was adopted by the City of Port Townsend in 2008. The proposed
match is the combined value of four donated parcels with an estimated total value of $17,914 as well
as the donation of partial values of three of the subject properties totaling $20,050. The operations
and maintenance request is $4,000 of the total amount for annual monitoring and stewardship.
Jefferson Land Trust is the project sponsor. The City of Port Townsend is the project applicant.
Project location: Sec. 33, T.3 IN, R.1 W.
2. Big Quilcene River — Moon Valley Reach, $5,000 towards the fee simple acquisition or a
conservation easement on up to 107 acres of floodplain and adjacent slopes of the Big Quilcene River
above Quilcene. The proposed match is $5,000 from a state or federal grant yet to be determined. The
Jefferson County Environmental Health is the project sponsor. Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement
Group is the project applicant. Project location: Sec. 22 & 23, T27N, R.2W.
3. Irondale Beach County Park Additions, $22,000 towards the fee simple purchase of two parcels of
vacant land totaling 1.5 acres on the slope above the county park. The proposed match is a donated
parcel located adjacent to the subject parcel valued at $22,000. Jefferson County Public Works is the
project sponsor. Project location: Sec. 35, T.30N, R.1 W.
4. Tarboo Creek, Farm, and Forest, $97,100 towards the acquisition of a conservation easement on 33
acres of forest and farmland in the Tarboo Valley. The proposed match is the partial value of the
easement to be acquired ($60,000) as well as grant(s) and private contributions ($67,000) for
operation and maintenance actions to restore conservation values. Jefferson Land Trust is the project
sponsor. Northwest Watershed Institute is the project applicant. Project location: Sec. 20, T.28N,
R.1 W.
Copies of the project applications are available to view in the Office of the Board of County
Commissioners at the Jefferson County Courthouse and online at http://www.co.jefferson.wa.us.
Click on "Conservation Futures" under "Quick Links". For more information, contact Tami
Pokorny at ph: (360) 379-4498 or tpokomy@cojefferson.wa.us.
JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Kathleen Kler, Chairman