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Highlights from Monday’s Commissioner Meeting March 4, 2008
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: The following
comments were made by citizens: An
environmental element is optional in
comprehensive plans because most land use
must go through SEPA review, but the
County’s Comprehensive Pplan has 107
goals and policies in the environmental
element and this is almost twice as many
goals and policies than in the housing and
economic elements of the plan; the County’s
main goal should be to create an affordable,
liveable community; the Board’s agenda was
reviewed and several items were critiqued;
the Commissioners didn’t need to spend
County funds to help the PUD with the
Beckett Point Onsite Sewer Project and
shouldn’t be spending taxpayers’ money on
the UGA Sewer System project because
funding should be available from other
sources; it appears that Environmental Health
is trying to build an empire by proposing more
regulations and fees; Code Enforcement staff
needs to follow through if the County is going
to have fines for non-compliance on the
books; there needs to be consistency of
enforcement; people need to be educated
about the harm of runoff from fertilizers and
pesticides; it still has not been determined
that septic systems are causing the pollution
in Puget Sound; DOE has a proposal to
manage instream flows but it doesn’t put
water back into the creeks, by 2020 Port
Ludlow and Port Townsend could do tertiary
treatment of water and pump it to Eaglemount
where stream flows could be actively
managed in low flow seasons of the year; two
citizens commented for and against the three
minute time limit for public testimony that was
allowed at the CAO hearing; when it comes to
important legislation like the CAO citizens
deserve to know what the Commissioners are
thinking and why they are doing what they are
doing; and the Board was thanked for their
continued efforts to ensure the health, safety
and well-being of Jefferson County citizens.
CONSENT AGENDA: The Board approved
all of the items on the Consent Agenda as
presented.
RESOLUTION: Agreeing to pay any punitive
damages that might be awarded against an
employee employed by the Jefferson County
Sheriff
AGREEMENT: Supplemental agreement for
Contractor’s Creek Bridge Bracing Evaluation,
Project No. CR1696 with David Evans and
Associates, Inc. (Formerly CES, Inc.)
AMENDMENT TO BY-LAWS: Article VI of the
Tourism Coordinating Council By-Laws
PAYMENT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
VOUCHERS/WARRANTS: Dated February 22,
2008 Totaling $2,392.87 and February 25, 2008
Totaling $229,470.20
LETTER OF SUPPORT: Proposal to Designate
the Pacific Northwest Trail as a National Scenic
Trail
ADVISORY BOARD RESIGNATION: Martha A.
Burns from the Jefferson County Solid Waste
Advisory Committee
NOMINATION FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY
REPRESENTATION ON A MULTI-COUNTY
ADVISORY BOARD: Briar Kolp, Port
Townsend Food Co-op and Victoria Wideman,
Alternate to the Olympic Workforce
Development Council
HEARING: After hearing public testimony, the
Board approved the supplemental budget
appropriations and extensions for various
County funds. This “carry forward”
supplemental addresses those projects
scheduled and begun in 2007 that were not
completed by the end of the year. The unused
funds from 2007 are re-appropriated for 2008.
ADVISORY BOARD INTERVIEWS AND
APPOINTMENT: After interviewing Barbara
Nightingale for an open position on the Planning
Commission in District #1, the Board appointed
her to serve a four year term. Jim Watson was
also interviewed for a position in District #3.
Several more applicants for District #3 will be
interviewed in the next few weeks. There are
currently two open positions in District 3.
LETTER OF SUPPORT: The Board signed a
letter to Representative Norm Dicks requesting
that he continue to support legislation for the re-
authorization of the Secure Rural Schools Act.
This funding provides $1.3 million to the County
Road Fund, and Title III funds provide funding
for flood plain acquisition and the 4-H Program
in south Jefferson County.