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Highlights from Monday’s Commissioner Meeting November 20, 2007
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: The following
comments were made by citizens. Search and
Rescue needs new vehicles because the old
ones are unsafe and not dependable; the Board
has to make hard decisions about cuts to
balance the budget which may include a
reduction in force; the Public Defender’s
contract needs to be renewed before December
31; the Commissioners have not kept campaign
promises that they made especially regarding
government spending; houses aren’t selling and
people aren’t building which decreases
revenues; the Board needs to cut programs and
implement a hiring freeze; the Clean Water
District Task Force needs to review all funding
options; the Planning Commission needs strong
legal support in order to address Critical Areas
Ordinance issues; and concerns were expres-
sed about an e-mail from outside Counsel
regarding the process for the Second Settlement
Agreement with the WEC.
CONSENT AGENDA: All of the items on the
Consent Agenda were approved.
5 RESOLUTIONS: 1) Creating a County project
designated as South Discovery Road; 2)
Withdrawal of Rural Arterial Program funds for
the Paradise Bay Road Improvement Project; 3)
Naming a private road Hawks Prairie Road;
Larry Cohn Petitioner; 4) Naming a private road,
Quiet Place; Robert Balser and Sheila Olsen,
Petitioners; and 5) RESOLUTION and
HEARING NOTICE: Declaring certain personal
property as surplus and authorizing disposal;
Hearing scheduled for Monday, December 3,
2007 at 10:00 a.m.
3 HEARING NOTICES: 1) CDBG Grant close
out; South Seven Senior Housing Project;
OlyCAP; Hearing scheduled for Monday,
December 3, 2007 at 10:15 a.m.; 2) CDBG
Grant Application; 2008 Public Service Grant
and close out of the 2007 Public Service Grant;
OlyCAP; Hearing scheduled for Monday,
December 3, 2007 at 10:30 a.m.; and, 3) 2007
Comprehensive Plan Amendment Application;
Master Planned Resort at Black Point; Hearing
scheduled for Monday, December 3, 2007 at
5:00 p.m. in the Superior Court Courtroom
6 AGREEMENTS:1) Development of Quimper
Peninsula Transportation Forecast Model with
The Transpo Group, Inc.; 2) Solid Waste
Management Plan Amendment Process with
Green Solutions; 3) Reimbursable work
agreement with Clallam County Public Works; 4)
Removal and destruction of derelict and
abandoned vessels with Peninsula Recycling; 5)
Amendment No. 5 to Health Services
Consolidated Contract with State DOH; and, 6)
Amendment to agreement for supported
employment for individuals with developmental
disabilities with Washington Initiative for
Supported Employment
FINAL PLAT APPROVAL: Two-Lot short plat
located at 41 E. Uncas Road, Port Townsend;
William and Lea Gallant
PAYMENT OF VOUCHERS/WARRANTS: Dated
November 13, 2007 Totaling $811,277.04
PAYMENT OF PAYROLL WARRANTS: Dated
November 5, 2007 Totaling $752,201.95 and A/P
Warrants Done by Payroll Dated November 6,
2007 Totaling $577,865.30 and November 14,
2007 Totaling $60,068.22
TASK FORCE CREATION: Clean Water District
Financing Task Force (CWDFTF)
ADVISORY BOARD RESIGNATION: Kevin Earl,
Resort at Port Ludlow from the Jefferson County
Lodging Tax Advisory Council
ADVISORY BOARD APPOINTMENT: Debi
Bainbridge, Inn at Port Hadlock to the Jefferson
County Lodging Tax Advisory Council (Expires
July 23, 2010)
CONSERVATION FUTURES ADVISORY
BOARD PRESENTATION: The Advisory Board
Chair reviewed the process the Committee uses
to award funding to applicants. He briefed the
Commissioners on two questions they want to
add to the application form. Since 2003, they
have received fifteen applications and made nine
awards.
2008 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR
JEFFERSON COUNTY: Senator Jim Hargrove,
Representative Lynn Kessler, and Representative
Kevin Van De Wege met with the Board to
discuss State legislative priorities for 2008 which
include: preserving banked capacity; the overturn
of I-747; funding for the Port Hadlock Sewer
System; reimbursement of Public Infrastructure
Funds revenue from the State DOR; proposed
legislation for shellfish zone protection; clean
water districts and sewer systems; proposed
Dosewallips State Park sewer system; affordable
housing; and authorization to collect a severance
tax for mineral extraction activities.