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Highlights from Monday’s Commissioner Meeting December 12, 2005
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR’S BRIEFING:
John Fischbach reported that a reception was
held in Port Ludlow to introduce the new Port Ludlow Planner, Dr. Louise Dybel, to the
residents. She will be starting her position in
May 2006. In response to the County’s request
for a contempt citation against Security Services Northwest, the Superior Court Judge
found that SSNW abused the restraining order
he had issued and he imposed a $20,000 cash
bond for each employee that needs to shoot at the facility to qualify. The Hearing Examiner
decision on the SSNW project is due
December 19th.
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: The following comments were made: The County is going to
continue to have budget problems and the
Board needs to consider cutting 15 to 20
employees; the County has the same number of road miles as it did in 1990 so why does
Public Works need more employees now than
worked there in 1990?; the Board needs to
have contingency plans for the budget and they need to put a cap on the number of
employees hired; the County needs to do a
study on where cutbacks can be made in
supervisory staff; The County has two great
managers in the County Administrator and the
Central Services Director but the Board needs
to provide them guidance; the Courthouse
needs to be repaired; the Board has a number
of tough budget decisions and tax increases
are not the answer; a suggestion was made
that the Board members look at cutting their
own salaries; there needs to be contingency
funds available because unplanned things happen; now is the time to get rid of junk
vehicles because the price for scrap metal is
high; people need to be given the information
on the process for getting rid of junk vehicles; and what is happening with PILT (payment in
lieu of taxes) funding at the federal level
because it will have an impact on the County
budget if it isn't approved by Congress? (The County
Administrator explained that the loss of PILT
funding (approximately $130,000) would not
have as great an impact on the County as the loss of the Secure Rural Schools Funding. If
the Secure Rural Schools Funding is not re-
authorized, the General Fund would lose
$120,000 and the Road Fund would lose $1.3
million as well as the ability to use these funds
to match other grant funding.)
CONSENT AGENDA: All of the items on the
Consent Agenda were approved as follows:
ORDINANCE and NOTICE OF ADOPTION:
Approval of 6 Comprehensive Plan
Amendments 1) MLA 05-06 (McDiehl); 2) MLA
05-39 (Nelson/Monroe); 3) MLA 05-51 (Kirkpatrick); 4) MLA 05-59 (Olympic Property
Group); 5) MLA 05-60 (Olympic Property
Group); and 6) MLA 05-66 (Jefferson County)
HEARING NOTICE: Proposed Amendments to
Conservation Futures Ordinance No. 06-0708-
02; Hearing Scheduled for Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 10:15 a.m. in the Commissioners’
Chambers
4 AGREEMENTS: 1) Courthouse Site and
Landscape Improvement; Lakeside Industries;
2) Educational and Therapeutic Services Birth
to 3 Years; Holly Ridge Center; 3) Birth to 3
Years; Port Townsend School District #50; and
4) Professional Engineering Services for Road
Construction and Maintenance Projects; Gray
and Osborne, Inc.
Ten-Year Plan to Reduce Homelessness in
Jefferson County; Olympic Community Action Programs; Washington State Department of
Community, Trade and Economic Development
Advisory Board Resignation; Jefferson
County Developmental Disabilities Advisory
Board; Amber Faulkner.
HEARINGS; 2006 Budget and Setting Ad
Valorem Tax Levies: No public comments were made at either hearing after the County
Administrator reviewed his proposed 2006
balanced budget.