HomeMy WebLinkAbout060820_ra01 JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
FROM: Philip Morley, County Administrator
DATE: June 8,2020
RE: Motion Directing Staff to Investigate Synchronizing Jefferson County with
Clallam and Kitsap Counties in Submitting a Phase 3 Application Under
Washington's Safe Start-Stay Healthy Plan
STATEMENT OF ISSUE: The Board of County Commissioners will consider passing a
motion directing staff to investigate synchronizing Jefferson County with Clallam and Kitsap
Counties in submitting a Phase 3 application under Washington's Safe Start-Stay Healthy plan.
ANALYSIS: Under Washington's Safe Start-Stay Healthy plan, each county potentially
becomes eligible to submit a Phase 3 application to the State to open additional businesses and
activities starting three weeks after being approved by the State to enter into Phase 2. Jefferson
County received State approval for Phase 2 on May 23, 2020, which translates into potentially
becoming eligible to apply to the State starting June 13. Kitsap County and Clallam County
potentially become eligible to apply to the State starting June 18.
Because our populations and transportation corridors are so closely interconnected, and to avoid
both confusion and concentrated impacts and COVID-19 transmission risks if one county opens
before the others, the Board of Commissioners may wish to coordinate the timing of Jefferson's
application with Kitsap's and Clallam's. The Commissioners can direct staff to investigate the
feasibility of synchronizing when the three counties apply, and plan steps necessary in Jefferson
County to accomplish that.
FISCAL IMPACT: N/A.
RECOMMENDATION: Discuss whether the Commissioners would like to synchronize
Jefferson County's Phase 3 application with Kitsap's and Clallam's, and if so, pass a motion
directing staff to investigate synchronizing Jefferson County with Clallam and Kitsap Counties
in submitting a Phase 3 application under Washington's Safe Start-Stay Healthy plan..
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