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Highlights from Monday’s Commissioner Meeting December 19, 2006
PRESENTATION: Chairman Johnson
presented an engraved paperweight to out-
going Commissioner Pat Rodgers. Several
citizens were present to thank him for
representing District #3 from 2003 through
2006.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR’S BRIEFING:
The following items were discussed.
•CTED has awarded $18,000 to
Jefferson County and Clallam County
for a study to determine the economic
development needs of a regional
marine services cluster.
•The County has no plans at this time
to sell North Beach Park to State
Parks.
•The Board asked the County
Administrator to respond to a proposal
from Security Services Northwest for
security services for the Courthouse.
•No major property damage was
reported in the County after last
week’s windstorm.
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: The following
comments were made by citizens. Residents
are having to pay more taxes everyday;
government employee’s salaries and benefits
have far surpassed the employees in the
private sector; several people thanked
Commissioner Pat Rodgers for his years of
service to the County and a person presented
a signed poster and a map to him; a person
asked about the process for reassessing
property values; Jefferson Healthcare is a
community hospital that does a great job; and
East Quilcene Bay Road is very dangerous
for school buses that travel the road everyday
and the Board needs to have Public Works
make safety improvements to the road.
CONSENT AGENDA: The following items on
the Consent Agenda were approved.
3 AGREEMENTS: 1) Preparation of Water
Resource Inventory Area 17 meeting minutes
with Brisa Services, Inc.; 2) Water Resource
Inventory Area 17 detailed implementation
plan facilitation services with Cascadia
Consulting Group, Inc.; and, 3) Lease of real
property located at 213 and 214 W. Patison
Street, Port Hadlock (4-H /Spruce Room) with
Shold Business Park, LLC
REQUEST FOR PRE-PAYMENT: 2007
Expenditures from 2006 Budget for various
departments
FINAL SHORT PLAT APPROVAL: Nelson
Monroe Short Plat #SUB06-00028; Two lot
short plat located on Dabob Road, Quilcene;
Elizabeth Nelson, Applicant
AGREEMENT: The Board approved the 2007
community and public outreach agreement with
Christina Pivarnik, CP Communications
Company.
REQUEST FOR PRE-PAYMENT: The Board
approved an additional request by the Health
Department to pay 2007 expenditures from the
2006 budget.
HEARING: The public hearing on budget
appropriations/extensions was opened and
citizens commented about the Sheriff’s Office
request and the recently established Mental
Health Tax. The Board approved the budget
appropriation and extension requests for
various County funds.
FORT WORDEN’S LONG-RANGE PLAN: In
2005, the Fort Worden Planning Team
adopted a vision and has spent 18 months
developing a concept plan to implement it.
Final action is requested when the State Parks
and Recreation Commission hears the
recommendation on Fort Worden’s long range
plans at their January, 2007 meeting. The plan
includes all aspects of Fort Worden including a
visual picture, a business picture, an
operational picture and a facilities picture. The
Planning Team presented two planning options
to the public. The Conference Center will
continue to be an important function, but the
consensus was to emphasize a life-long
learning center concept that would utilize
partners to help facilitate capital campaigns
and operation of the Fort.