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Highlights from Monday’s Commissioner Meeting July 18, 2006
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR’S BRIEFING:
The County Administrator reported on the
following:
•He received a letter from the
International Institute of Municipal
Clerks announcing that Lorna Delaney,
Clerk of the Board, has qualified for
first level membership in the Master
Municipal Clerk Academy.
•Diversified Resources is working with
the State Department of Community,
Trade and Economic Development on
an economic development grant for a
commercial and industrial land analysis
project. Port Townsend isn’t a financial
partner and this could be an issue.
•The County received $26,401.49 in
sales tax revenue for June for the
newly established Chemical Depend-
ency/Mental Health Fund. A Mental
Health/Substance Abuse Oversight
Committee will be formed with 2
members from the Board of Health, 2
members from the Substance Abuse
Services Board, and 2 members from
the Law & Justice Council.
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: The following
comments were made: why wasn’t the County
website available this weekend?; several
questions were submitted about the County’s
next steps regarding the proposed Critical
Areas Ordinance (CAO); the CAO will put
farmers out of business; where will the
County’s revenue come from when the Mill
shuts down?; at a meeting with realtors last
week, DCD staff said that they put the CAO
together in just a few days; why was DCD staff
in contact with the Washington Environmental
Council for months about the CAO but didn’t
talk to landowners who would be affected by
the ordinance?; the State Department of
Ecology has elevated the mandate to protect
critical areas above all the other GMA goals
and the County is going along with them; has
a legal analysis been done on the draft CAO?;
there will be law suits against the County when
the Board approves this ordinance, it just
depends which side the Board wants to be on;
and concerns were expressed about meeting
and recording procedures at the Commissioners
meetings and adding agenda items.
CONSENT AGENDA: The following items were
approved:
REAFFIRMATION OF RESOLUTION:
Watershed Management Plan for the
Skokomish-Dosewallips Water Resource
Inventory Area (WRIA 16) (Joint Resolution with
Mason County Commissioners Approved at
Public Hearing in Mason County on July 11,
2006.)
SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT: Public Works
Department Collective Bargaining Agreement
with Teamsters Local #589
LETTER OF AGREEMENT: JeffCom
Communication Officers Contingency Staffing
Schedule with Teamsters Local #589
2 AGREEMENTS: 1) Lease of real property for
Proctor Home residence with Nick and Kristie
Harper, and 2) Amendment to increase funding
in 2006 Consolidated Contract for Health
Services with State DOH
BID AWARD: Fossil Creek Stream Stabilization
Project Oil City Road with Quigg Bros., Inc.
APPROVAL OF FUNDING: For the building
construction phase of the Castle Hill Annex
Property Renovation Project with State
Department of General Administration
HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
REPORT: The museum is on the “short list” for
the Heritage Capital Funds Grant. The annual
meeting was held last quarter with approximately
200 people in attendance.
BID OPENING: No bids were received for the 6th
Avenue (Irondale) Improvement Project.
HEARING: The Board approved the proposed
supplemental budget appropriations and
extensions for various county funds.
APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF MENTAL
HEALTH OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE: The Board
appointed Commissioner Sullivan as Chair of the
Mental Health Oversight Committee because of
his representation on the Peninsula Regional
Support Network.