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From:Hoss, Schuyler (GOV) To:Hoss, Schuyler (GOV) Subject:Governor Inslee Media Availability: February 25th 3:30 pm Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 8:08:18 AM Attachments:image001.png image002.png image003.png image004.png CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Governor Inslee will address the media today at 3:30 pm to give an update on the state's response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The governor will be joined for questions by: Scott Lindquist, MD, MPH, state epidemiologist for communicable diseases Nick Streuli, executive director of external affairs The press conference will be livestreamed by TVW. SCHUYLER F. HOSS Director of International Relations and Protocol Regional Representative – Southwest Washington Office of Governor Jay Inslee State of Washington, United States of America Cell: 360.239.1317 www.governor.wa.gov | schuyler.hoss@gov.wa.gov Email communications with state employees are public records and may be subject to disclosure, pursuant to Ch. 42.56 RCW. All the news you can use on Washington's great outdoors View this email in your browser Coalition E-News: February 2021 From:Christine Mahler To:jeffbocc Subject:February E-News: Whale Tails + Action Items Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:00:08 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Unifying voices for Washington's great outdoors Support the Coalition #RecreateResponsibly February: Black History Month We would like to celebrate Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, who was recently named America’s 2020 Doppelt Family Rail Trail Champion by the Rails to Trails Conservancy. Representative Norton is in her 15th term as the Congresswoman for the District of Columbia and is the Chair of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. She has been a major supporter of walking and biking trails in Whose ancestral land do you recreate on? Click here to find out Congress for many years. Her most recent effort has been the H.R. 2 Moving Forward Act where she played a leading role in its writing and passage in July 2020. The Moving Forward Act includes game- changing funding for active transportation and investments in walking and bicycling trails. Rep. Norton is also an advocate for the 3,700-mile Great American Rail-Trail connecting Washington, D.C., and Washington State. Rails to Trails Conservancy was able to video chat with Rep. Norton in December 2020, watch the video HERE. How Communities Use Outdoor Spaces: Neah Bay For the third blog post of our three-part series, I caught up via Zoom with wonderful artists, water people, and couple Carolyn Votaw and Jael Marquette, who live in Neah Bay on the land of the Makah. We chatted about how the outdoors has influenced their artwork, their inseparable connection to water, Gyotaku fish and whale tail prints, and local gray and humpback whale stories. Listening to them effortlessly talk with such passion and respect for the ocean and wildlife, and then seeing their artwork reflect their deep connection to both is something special. Read more Proposed WWRP Project Action Alert: Your action is needed for the Pipeline Trail Phase 1 project. Located on the ancestral land of the Puyallup and Coast Salish People, this proposed project will develop a 1.6 mile non-motorized trail that will link existing trail networks and provide recreation and commuting opportunities in Tacoma and Puyallup. This area has one of the lowest rates of trail miles per 1,000 residents. Contact your representatives today to tell them why you support robust funding for the WWRP and public lands projects in your district. 12 Months of WWRP: Local Parks This month's featured project is Swadabs Waterfront Park on the Swinomish Reservation. A natural playground for youth was constructed at Swadabs Park behind the large cedar hat pavilions. Work included: landscape and design development; cultural resources assessment by the Tribal Historic Preservation Office; site preparation, grading, and landscape improvements; and, playground and path installation. Read more This is the story of Slim Pickins Outfitters, the nation’s first Black-owned outdoor gear shop, and its owners Jahmicah and Heather Dawes. Get an inside look at the inspiration behind the store, the vital energy and spirit they bring to Stephenville, TX, and the positive impact they are creating within the outdoor industry. The land-healing work of George Washington Carver grist FEATURED STORIES Salmon Talk with Black Scientist, Marisa Litz TODAY, February 25th UPCOMING EVENTS Donate to Slim Pickins Outfitters 10 Things I Wish My Outdoorsy White Friends Knew About Me Melanin Basecamp Paving The Way: Black Women Bicycling Bike Works The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance emergence magazine Mount Rainier Tries Out New Backcountry Camping Permits Process in 2021 WTA Washington State Parks creates 3 temporary new Sno-Parks near Seattle The Seattle Times Y-WE Ignite 2021 March 6th Refuge Day: Spring Edition March 6th Women's Outdoor Summit March 11-13th Big Tent Outdoor Recreation Coalition Legislative Celebration March 18th WA State Parks Free Entrance Days March 19; April 3; June 5, 12-13; Aug. 25; Sept. 25; Nov. 11, 26 National Park Free Entrance Days April 17-25; Aug. 4, 25; Sept. 25; Nov. 11 Check Out Washington (Free Discover Pass) Copyright © 2021, Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition The Vance Building 1402 Third Avenue, Suite 714 Seattle WA 98101 Photo credits: Christin Mahler(Header); Carolyn Votaw and Jael Marquette (Neah Bay); Recreation and Conservation Office (Swadabs Waterfront Park) and (Pipeline Trail Phase 1) update subscription preferences unsubscribe from this list From:larry@larrymorrell.com To:jeffbocc Subject:Consider Joining coalition opposing military training in state parks Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 2:34:33 PM Attachments:Not In Our Parks coalition_Brief.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Dear Commissioners, As you are aware the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission voted 4-3 to delegate authority to the Parks Director to issue permits to the US Navy to train in Washington State Parks. Although permits are still be processed, it doesn’t seem that the concerns and recommendations expressed by the Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee and endorsed by the county commission are having an impact on the parks’ determination. Although the over 800 comments received were overwhelmingly opposed to this training, the WSPR Commission and staff chose to ignore public input and proceed with the permits. Once again the US Navy will impose potential costs and liabilities on Jefferson County without any compensation or benefit to the residents and visitors of Jefferson county. In response a coalition, Not in our Parks, has formed and will shortly launch notinourparks.org. I encourage the commission to sign on as a coalition member adding to the voices of others from all across the state. Details on purpose and goals of the coalition is attached. Thank you, Larry Morrell Port Townsend, WA 425 753 5745 (mobile) From:Patsy Mathys To:jeffbocc; Philip Morley; Tom Locke Subject:COVID Vaccine Supply Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 8:36:02 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Dear County Commissioners, County Administrator and Dr. Locke, VACCINE ALLOCATIONS: I am greatly concerned about the limited COVID vaccine supply our county is receiving during Phase 1B tier 1, mainly for those 65+ years old. Current equitable allocations are crucial for Jefferson County since 35% of our population is 65+ vs. WA state=15%. 1/18/21 Phase 1B tier 1 started. Jefferson County’s weekly allocation=975 vials which was 1% of WA state’s 100,000 allocation. This was reasonable since our county has 1% of the state’s 65+ population. 2/28/21 weekly allocation: WA state=242,360. Our county=1,170, thus has decreased to a .5% allocation. 3/7/21 weekly allocation: WA state=292,220. Our allocation should be 2,922. HOW MANY SENIORS HAVE BEEN VACCINATED: 2/10/21: Seniors vaccinated at least once: WA=30% Jefferson County= 20%. State dashboard has not updated this, but the gap has to be increasing. If assume 100% of those vaccinated are seniors (ignoring multigeneration home), WA seniors vaccinated>48% Jefferson County=30% (2/23/21). At Jefferson County’s current vaccine allocation we fully vaccinate 585 seniors, which is only 5% of the seniors/week. Theoretically we will have vaccinated only 40% of our seniors by 2/10/21. MOVING TO PHASE 1 TIER 2: Per WA DOH we may move to Phase 1 Tier 2 once 50% of the seniors are vaccinated. WA DOH has made contradictory comments whether the state in aggregate, by region or by county will move to the next phase. This will be problematic for Jefferson County either way. · If we move in aggregate: will Phase 1B tier 1 (seniors) have priority over tier 2 for vaccines? · If we move by county: Phase 1B tier 2 (& lower tiers) will be detained compared to their counterparts in other counties? DIVERSITY COMPLICATIONS: WA DOH supposedly set up the mass vaccine sites with larger populations of 2 ethnic groups (Hispanic & Blacks) which is 5.7% of WA seniors =69,900 population. Note: the surplus 192,220 vaccines for just 1 week would have fully accommodated this group. Thus not only this group, but anyone in these counties has greatly benefited over our county. Similar situation for counties with Indian tribes who are receiving direct state allocations. VACCINATED OUT-OF-COUNTY: Jefferson County seniors have limited options to get their vaccine out of the county. Most organizations, such as Clallam County Jamestown, only gives vaccines to their county residents. In many cases the current system is forcing Jefferson county seniors to creatively work around the system. RECOMMENDATION: The tentative “pop-up” and Chimacum High School “mass site” will help. Maybe our County Commissioners, County Administrator, County DOH and State Rep could solicit our Governor and State DOH to greatly increase our senior vaccine allocation immediately so that our Phase 1 Tier 1b is on par with the rest of the state. Squeaky wheel always gets more grease. Feel free to forward this information to anyone I have overlooked. Thank you for your efforts, Patsy Mathys 360-643-1326 33 Westridge Ct., Port Townsend Statistic Sources: Jefferson Health Care, Jefferson DOH & WA DOH websites Qualifiers: There are complications in providing accurate statistics. For examples, citizens getting vaccines out-of-county complicates statistics. Consider asking WA DOH for Phase 1 Tier 1B vaccination & population statistics by county. This would clearly indentify whether our county should get a larger allocation. From:quilcenemuseum@olypen.com To:Leslie Locke; jeffbocc Cc:Larry McKeehan Museum; "Larry McKeehan" Subject:Lodging Tax Reporting Form (2020 - Due February 2021) Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:12:48 PM Attachments:State Reporting Form for 2020 Lodging.pdf CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. To: JeffCo BOCC From: Quilcene Historical Museum Re: Lodging Tax Reporting Form (2020 – Due February 2021) Larry McKeehan, Secretary (Quilcene Historical Museum) Quilcene Historical Museum PO Box 574 Quilcene, WA 98376 quilcenemuseum@olypen.com From:Philip Morley To:Patsy Mathys; jeffbocc; Tom Locke Subject:RE: COVID Vaccine Supply Date:Friday, February 26, 2021 9:01:23 AM Thank you Ms. Mathys. I believe Dr. Locke and Jefferson Healthcare have been advocating for Jefferson County to receive more vaccine. But supplies are allocated by the State, and so far we have had very little impact on their allocation decisions. Philip Philip Morley Jefferson County Administrator pmorley@co.jefferson.wa.us (360) 385-9100 x-383 This is a reminder that all email to or from this email address may be subject to the Public Records Act contained in RCW 42.56. Additionally, all email to and from the county is captured and archived by Information Services. From: Patsy Mathys <mathyspa@olypen.com> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 8:36 PM To: jeffbocc <jeffbocc@co.jefferson.wa.us>; Philip Morley <pmorley@co.jefferson.wa.us>; Tom Locke <TLocke@co.jefferson.wa.us> Subject: COVID Vaccine Supply CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Dear County Commissioners, County Administrator and Dr. Locke, VACCINE ALLOCATIONS: I am greatly concerned about the limited COVID vaccine supply our county is receiving during Phase 1B tier 1, mainly for those 65+ years old. Current equitable allocations are crucial for Jefferson County since 35% of our population is 65+ vs. WA state=15%. 1/18/21 Phase 1B tier 1 started. Jefferson County’s weekly allocation=975 vials which was 1% of WA state’s 100,000 allocation. This was reasonable since our county has 1% of the state’s 65+ population. 2/28/21 weekly allocation: WA state=242,360. Our county=1,170, thus has decreased to a .5% allocation. 3/7/21 weekly allocation: WA state=292,220. Our allocation should be 2,922. HOW MANY SENIORS HAVE BEEN VACCINATED: 2/10/21: Seniors vaccinated at least once: WA=30% Jefferson County= 20%. State dashboard has not updated this, but the gap has to be increasing. If assume 100% of those vaccinated are seniors (ignoring multigeneration home), WA seniors vaccinated>48% Jefferson County=30% (2/23/21). At Jefferson County’s current vaccine allocation we fully vaccinate 585 seniors, which is only 5% of the seniors/week. Theoretically we will have vaccinated only 40% of our seniors by 2/10/21. MOVING TO PHASE 1 TIER 2: Per WA DOH we may move to Phase 1 Tier 2 once 50% of the seniors are vaccinated. WA DOH has made contradictory comments whether the state in aggregate, by region or by county will move to the next phase. This will be problematic for Jefferson County either way. · If we move in aggregate: will Phase 1B tier 1 (seniors) have priority over tier 2 for vaccines? · If we move by county: Phase 1B tier 2 (& lower tiers) will be detained compared to their counterparts in other counties? DIVERSITY COMPLICATIONS: WA DOH supposedly set up the mass vaccine sites with larger populations of 2 ethnic groups (Hispanic & Blacks) which is 5.7% of WA seniors =69,900 population. Note: the surplus 192,220 vaccines for just 1 week would have fully accommodated this group. Thus not only this group, but anyone in these counties has greatly benefited over our county. Similar situation for counties with Indian tribes who are receiving direct state allocations. VACCINATED OUT-OF-COUNTY: Jefferson County seniors have limited options to get their vaccine out of the county. Most organizations, such as Clallam County Jamestown, only gives vaccines to their county residents. In many cases the current system is forcing Jefferson county seniors to creatively work around the system. RECOMMENDATION: The tentative “pop-up” and Chimacum High School “mass site” will help. Maybe our County Commissioners, County Administrator, County DOH and State Rep could solicit our Governor and State DOH to greatly increase our senior vaccine allocation immediately so that our Phase 1 Tier 1b is on par with the rest of the state. Squeaky wheel always gets more grease. Feel free to forward this information to anyone I have overlooked. Thank you for your efforts, Patsy Mathys 360-643-1326 33 Westridge Ct., Port Townsend Statistic Sources: Jefferson Health Care, Jefferson DOH & WA DOH websites Qualifiers: There are complications in providing accurate statistics. For examples, citizens getting vaccines out-of-county complicates statistics. Consider asking WA DOH for Phase 1 Tier 1B vaccination & population statistics by county. This would clearly indentify whether our county should get a larger allocation. From:Laurie Riley To:jeffbocc Subject:Dear County Commissioners, Date:Friday, February 26, 2021 9:33:58 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Please join with us - notinourparks coalition - keeping Navy SEAL training out of our parks! Please email wean@whidbey.net to join. As you are aware the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission voted 4-3 to delegate authority to the Parks Director to issue permits to the US Navy to train in Washington State Parks. Although permits are still be processed, it doesn’t seem that the concerns and recommendations expressed by the Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee and endorsed by the county commission are having an impact on the parks’ determination. Although the over 800 comments received were overwhelmingly opposed to this training, the WSPR Commission and staff chose to ignore public input and proceed with the permits. Once again the US Navy will impose potential costs and liabilities on Jefferson County without any compensation or benefit to the residents and visitors of Jefferson county. In response a coalition, Not in our Parks, has formed and will shortly launch notinourparks.org. I encourage the commission to sign on as a coalition member adding to the voices of others from all across the state. Laurie Riley Celebrating 36 years! The Port Townsend Main Street Program is a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded in 1985. Our mission is to preserve, promote, and enhance our historic business districts. From:The Port Townsend Main Street Program To:jeffbocc Subject:MARCHing Forward! Date:Friday, February 26, 2021 3:19:20 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Main Street News: Have you visited our new Love Where you Live campaign website? Photo of Janice Tucker, co-owner of Mad Hatter & Co. The Port Townsend Main Street Program has been working hard collecting photos and videos of business owners participating in the Love Where you Live campaign for the website. The website focuses on featuring our businesses in the historic business districts, free and socially distant activities for locals and visitors, and Self-Guided and Guided Tours - coming soon! Be sure to check it out iLovePortTownsend.com, we are updating it weekly! For more information or to sign up for the Love Where you Live campaign visit our website. Port Townsend Treasures Trivia Hunt Are you looking for a fun, FREE, socially distanced activity to get you out of the house? The Port Townsend Main Street Program has put together a trivia hunt that takes you around the Historic Downtown where you will find and learn things about Port Townsend's colorful past. This hunt is great for families or individuals and is ADA accessible. If you would like to do The Port Townsend Treasures Trivia Hunt, download the Action Bound app on your smart phone and then scan the QR code, which will take you right to the hunt. Let’s paint the streets with colorful blooms and beautify our town! The flower basket program was on hiatus last year. Now we are ready to bring some flowery cheer to our town and we hope you will participate! This year we have a special treat in store too. Thanks to the generous support of the City of Port Townsend Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (LTAC), the Port Townsend Main Street Program will be purchasing 100 Flower Baskets this year to give out to businesses in the Historic Districts Uptown/Downtown for FREE! These 12” baskets are valued at $54.48 each. Our Main Street Flower Basket Maintenance Program will bring out the beauty of the baskets through the season —this includes watering 5 days a week, deadheading and fertilizing. Our goal is to have beautiful baskets for the public to enjoy from mid- May through September. • We will offer 1 FREE flower basket to any interested main floor business in the historic districts –Uptown or Downtown (first come, first served basis). • Remaining baskets will be available in a second round to historic district businesses depending on availability. • Requirements: Recipients of the free flower basket(s) will need to sign up for the Main Street Flower Basket Watering Program and have a hanging hook for each basket. (These hooks can be purchased at PT Garden Center for $30 and they will install them) • If you are interested in signing up for the Hanging Flower Basket Maintenance Program, please EMAIL Eryn Smith at admin@ptmainstreet.org. DEADLINE March 10th. DON’T MISS OUT! We anticipate the baskets will arrive mid-May, depending on weather conditions. Fill out this form and email back to participate. HUD & Lent Loan Deadlines Approaching Spring HUD Loan Deadline - March 15th, 2021 These funds can help property owners accomplish historic preservation goals and safety improvements in their buildings and is available to commercial buildings in Port Townsend’s Downtown and Uptown Commercial Historic Districts. With these funds, building owners have painted the exterior of their buildings, repaired roofs, fixed staircases, re-pointed brick facades, installed windows and improved the safety of their buildings. For more information about our HUD Loan Program, CLICK HERE. Quarterly LENT Loan Deadline - April 15th, 2021 Purpose of LENT Funds: LENT Low-Interest Microloan Funds are a tool to offset some of the financial impacts businesses endure from emergency situations, though business development proposals will be considered. Funds are made available through the Port Townsend Main Street Program and in part through First Federal. Upon your re- payment of the loan funds, the money will be returned to the Port Townsend Main Street Program for recirculating as part of future LENT Fund microloans. The Port Townsend Main Street program may also earmark funds for specific projects which will benefit Port Townsend’s commercial historic districts (i.e. holiday lighting/off season marketing). For more information about our LENT Loan Program, CLICK HERE. Rotary Bulletin Board on Taylor Street: On hiatus during Covid-19 restrictions. News Around the Block: Old Whiskey Mill's Bourbon Breakfast - Sunday, March 7th The first of Sunday of each month the Old Whiskey Mill will open for breakfast! We will be serving a rotating menu of whiskey infused, paired, and inspired dishes. Showcasing creative eats, cocktails and a new bountiful Bloody Mary each month. Come celebrate whiskey and our eclectic brunch creations with us. We are open for dine-in as well as our heated tent and sidewalk seating, or get your order To-Go with an Old Fashion or Bloody Mary Kit. We will even deliver!! Guided Wine Tastings are back at PT Vineyards! Join us on Sundays for a guided wine tasting experience at Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards located in downtown Port Townsend. Sip and savor 5 of our locally-made wines while learning about wine culture and sharing stories with our friendly and knowledgeable staff. This experience is approximately 45 minutes long and guests receive a complimentary crystal wine glass to take home. The cost is $25 per person and the fee is waived with the purchase of 3 bottles. Wine club members receive two complimentary guided wine tastings. For more information CLICK HERE Looking for Employment? Uptown Pub is looking for Kitchen Staff The Uptown Pub is back open and we are looking for one or two more cooks to round out our kitchen staff. Our kitchen is small but we get busy so if you like to hustle and make delicious burgers we look forward to meeting you! Must be 21+. Please apply in person. Hanazono is Hiring We are seeking new members to add to our team. Experience is preferred but not required. Looking to fill positions in the kitchen as well as front of the house. Be prepared for a fast-paced work environment involving multi-tasking, and versatility between roles. Please note we are still to-go only service. Stop by 225 Taylor street with a resume. Arigato! Dishwasher needed at Silverwater Cafe We are hiring a dishwasher. Shifts Tuesdays - Saturdays. Must be efficient and team-oriented. Come drop off your resume and ask to talk with Chef Jon. Dishwashers needed at the Old Whiskey Mill Looking to hire two dishwashers, part time and full time available. We have three restaurants in total so have flexibility but weekends will be a must. Clean, thorough and attention to detail, team oriented and positive attitude all good qualities. We have a fun crew, looking for that perfect person to join our team. Apply in person at 1038 Water Street, PT or email Amber. New American Lending is Hiring Are you someone who's awesome and has a passion for helping others? We want to meet you! We're looking for a new Junior Loan Officer/Mortgage Loan Specialist to join our team. Check out the job description here. The Spice and Tea Exchange is for Sale! "At The Spice & Tea Exchange, we offer a variety of fine spices, handcrafted seasonings, loose-leaf teas, salts, sugars, gifts, and more! Explore gifts and accessories in the best local gift shop in town. Whether you’re new to the culinary scene, own your own food service business, or are simply looking to add a bit of spice to your life, our friendly and knowledgeable staff can help you find the perfect menu additions! We’re known for our over 85 handcrafted seasonings, which we hand-mix in store daily. Stop on by to watch our Spice Masters at work!" If you love tea, spices and other culinary accouterments and are looking to have a business right on Water Street, now is your chance! Contact owner Judy Kowalski for more information. Virtual Events Port Townsend Film Festival Pics The Port Townsend Film Festival is hosting its March installment of the monthly program, PTFF Pics, in partnership with the Port Townsend Library and Friends of the Port Townsend Library. COMMUNITY FIRST, A HOME FOR THE HOMELESS will be available to stream FREE to the public March 1-7, 2021. Now in its 16th year, PT Library’s “Community Read” program is led by Friends of the Port Townsend Library. They have generously sponsored the March PTFF Pics. This year’s community read selected book is “House Lessons'' by Erica Bauermeister, and PTFF is delighted to provide a paired film to underscore the importance of home. Learn more and claim your free ticket on the PTFF Pics screening page on Eventive https://watch.eventive.org/ptffpics/play/602c4715eb70c20078582a1b Wooden Boat Foundation: Ask An Expert Series EIGHT BEHIND-THE-SCENES INTERVIEWS AND DEMOS FOLLOWED BY Q&A! JANUARY–APRIL 2021 When it’s cold and COVID outside join us online for this unique Zoom experience with many of your favorite experts across the country and all over the world! In 8 Zoom sessions, we’ll visit with friends on the east and west coasts, pop down to Mexico and Costa Rica, and over to New Zealand. Enjoy these engaging, behind-the-scenes interviews and demos with time to ask your burning questions from the comfort of your home. For more information CLICK HERE. “Imagine the Possibilities” Silent Auction Monday – Saturday March 15 – 27, 2021 A live event for the Imagination Library will be held on Sunday, March 21, 2021, starting at 4pm.The proceeds from the silent auction are used to support and enrich residents and students throughout the community by way of grants for local charities and non-profits, and scholarships. We have transitioned to a virtual event format with Silent Auction and raising a Raise the Paddle to support an Imagination Library in Jefferson County. For more information or if you would like to donate an item to the silent auction, CLICK HERE. Commercial Space Available Prime retail space available on Water Street in the Historic Mount Baker Block Building. CLICK HERE for a list of available spaces. For more commercial retail opportunities, visit our website. More COVID-19 "Safe Start" Updates: Jefferson County has been approved to move onto Phase 2 of Gov. Jay Inslee's Healthy Washington - Roadmap to Recovery plan! Starting on Sunday, February 14th, 2021, Indoor dining will be available at 25% capacity through 11 pm with a maximum of six per table and a limit of two households per table, retail will still remain at 25% occupancy. For more information about Gov. Inslee's Healthy Washington - Roadmap to Recovery Plan, CLICK HERE. For more information about grant opportunities and resources, visit our website. For more information about COVID-19 visit these sites: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html https://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/1429/COVID-19 Main Street Makes a Difference, Join Us! Main Street Volunteer Mary Kellogg helping plant flowers at our 2020 Earth Day Clean-Up event. Did you know that our nonprofit works in four volunteer committees-- Organization, Design, Economics, and Promotion? With partners, we are working on business recovery plans in response to COVID-19 impacts. We care for the downtown gardens and Adams Street Park. We coordinate Creative District efforts, work on design projects, promote our local economy, and help light up Port Townsend for the holidays. We offer low-interest loan funds to property owners for commercial building renovations and microloans to business owners to offset the financial impacts of emergencies. Our work enhances the quality of life for residents and visitors. Become a member today! Head over to our Port Townsend Main Street website for a complete list of our activities and business resources. Follow us on Facebook, twitter and Instagram. Visit our website for more information ptmainstreet.org view this email in your browser Copyright © 2021 Port Townsend Main Street Program, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: 211 Taylor Street, Suite 3 Port Townsend, WA 98368 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. From:Charles Shaw To:jeffbocc Subject:Leo Goolden - Tally Ho Date:Sunday, February 28, 2021 3:52:51 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. I am having a difficult time understanding why Jefferson County appears to be targeting Leo Goolden. If you only knew the impact this man is having on the entire peninsula you would think twice about harassing him. His video’s are seen by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. The impact that he will have on tourism alone will be noticed for years to come. I urge you to give up your vendetta and leave Leo Alone. Charles Shaw Vancouver, WA 98661 chaznw@gmail.com 503-729-7560 From:Stephen Straughan To:jeffbocc Subject:Tally Ho Project Date:Sunday, February 28, 2021 11:49:47 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Dear Commissioners As you know we Leo Gooldon has for several years brought brought world wide man interest to Port Townsend Via his work to to rebuild an historic wooden sailboat Seems to me that port Townsend Has for many years has been regarded to be the the west cost version of most i sea port Bringing in tourists and sailors at the same enriching Washington County So the question is why are you driving out Leo Gooden’s Tally ho project ? I expect that over the years his UTube channel has brought nothing but good to an off the location - instead however it seems that your administrators and inspectors want to shut down his project over one intractable complainant? To be fair would bet my bottom dollar that Canadians in Sydney BC would be delighted to have such a project - Bottom it seems that you would rather loose a very special project and it’s draw to port townsand Just to Mollify one person who refuses to compromise after all Leo would and has -- Kind regards and Salutations - Stephen straughan Phone 905 377 9910 From:Jay Pine To:jeffbocc Subject:Notinourparks coalition Date:Saturday, February 27, 2021 8:02:15 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Dear commissioners, Please consider joining the notinourparks coalition. The Wa. State Parks commissioners have decided that allowing the Navy to train Special forces in state parks is ok. The 800+ citizens who overwhelmingly gave comment against this proposal have been disregarded. The Navy’s intrusion into the public domain has got to be faced. Our lives, health and the health of our parks needs to be addressed. As commissioners you have a loud voice, please consider supporting the effort to keep our parks Navy free. Thank you, Jay Pine 1723 Gise St. PT 360 -643-0866 Sent from my shoe phone From:Tom Locke To:Patsy Mathys; jeffbocc; Philip Morley Subject:Re: COVID Vaccine Supply Date:Friday, February 26, 2021 5:21:41 PM Ms. Mathys, Thanks you for your comments. WA State does not currently have a clearly defined COVID vaccine allocation plan. Allocation decisions are made on a week by week basis and are subject to alteration by the Governor to provide vaccine for National Guard events. Local health officials have proposed a detailed plan that bases allocations on populations of unvaccinated eligible recipients. This plan would equitably allocate the vaccine throughout the State. We are told that this plan is in the works and will assure a stable baseline allocation with 3 week supply projections. This will allow us to do better long range planning and decide when we have adequate vaccine to begin mass vaccination events in Chimacum and elsewhere. When estimating vaccine allocation, allowance need to made for first and second dose regimens. Washington State's allocation of 292,000 doses per week includes both first and second doses. Thus there are only about half that many doses available to initiate the vaccine series. Jefferson County still has one of the highest vaccination rates in the State, behind Chelan and Clallam Counties among counties with populations over 10,000. 24.4% of County residents have had at least one dose, 12.45% have had the full two doses. This compares to 12.90% and 5.72% statewide, respectively. Washington is expecting to receive up to 60,000 doses of the new one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine as early as next week. This will allow a significant acceleration in current vaccination efforts. Tom Locke, MD, MPH Jefferson County Health Officer From: Patsy Mathys <mathyspa@olypen.com> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 8:35 PM To: jeffbocc; Philip Morley; Tom Locke Subject: COVID Vaccine Supply CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Dear County Commissioners, County Administrator and Dr. Locke, VACCINE ALLOCATIONS: I am greatly concerned about the limited COVID vaccine supply our county is receiving during Phase 1B tier 1, mainly for those 65+ years old. Current equitable allocations are crucial for Jefferson County since 35% of our population is 65+ vs. WA state=15%. 1/18/21 Phase 1B tier 1 started. Jefferson County’s weekly allocation=975 vials which was 1% of WA state’s 100,000 allocation. This was reasonable since our county has 1% of the state’s 65+ population. 2/28/21 weekly allocation: WA state=242,360. Our county=1,170, thus has decreased to a .5% allocation. 3/7/21 weekly allocation: WA state=292,220. Our allocation should be 2,922. HOW MANY SENIORS HAVE BEEN VACCINATED: 2/10/21: Seniors vaccinated at least once: WA=30% Jefferson County= 20%. State dashboard has not updated this, but the gap has to be increasing. If assume 100% of those vaccinated are seniors (ignoring multigeneration home), WA seniors vaccinated>48% Jefferson County=30% (2/23/21). At Jefferson County’s current vaccine allocation we fully vaccinate 585 seniors, which is only 5% of the seniors/week. Theoretically we will have vaccinated only 40% of our seniors by 2/10/21. MOVING TO PHASE 1 TIER 2: Per WA DOH we may move to Phase 1 Tier 2 once 50% of the seniors are vaccinated. WA DOH has made contradictory comments whether the state in aggregate, by region or by county will move to the next phase. This will be problematic for Jefferson County either way. · If we move in aggregate: will Phase 1B tier 1 (seniors) have priority over tier 2 for vaccines? · If we move by county: Phase 1B tier 2 (& lower tiers) will be detained compared to their counterparts in other counties? DIVERSITY COMPLICATIONS: WA DOH supposedly set up the mass vaccine sites with larger populations of 2 ethnic groups (Hispanic & Blacks) which is 5.7% of WA seniors =69,900 population. Note: the surplus 192,220 vaccines for just 1 week would have fully accommodated this group. Thus not only this group, but anyone in these counties has greatly benefited over our county. Similar situation for counties with Indian tribes who are receiving direct state allocations. VACCINATED OUT-OF-COUNTY: Jefferson County seniors have limited options to get their vaccine out of the county. Most organizations, such as Clallam County Jamestown, only gives vaccines to their county residents. In many cases the current system is forcing Jefferson county seniors to creatively work around the system. RECOMMENDATION: The tentative “pop-up” and Chimacum High School “mass site” will help. Maybe our County Commissioners, County Administrator, County DOH and State Rep could solicit our Governor and State DOH to greatly increase our senior vaccine allocation immediately so that our Phase 1 Tier 1b is on par with the rest of the state. Squeaky wheel always gets more grease. Feel free to forward this information to anyone I have overlooked. Thank you for your efforts, Patsy Mathys 360-643-1326 33 Westridge Ct., Port Townsend Statistic Sources: Jefferson Health Care, Jefferson DOH & WA DOH websites Qualifiers: There are complications in providing accurate statistics. For examples, citizens getting vaccines out-of-county complicates statistics. Consider asking WA DOH for Phase 1 Tier 1B vaccination & population statistics by county. This would clearly indentify whether our county should get a larger allocation. From:Tom Sparks To:Public Comments Subject:Gun Range operating hours violations Date:Monday, March 1, 2021 8:25:59 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Good Day...We are still waiting for the CC's to deliver a replacement day for the Monday that was spoiled by gunfire from the gun range on Monday Feb 15.( it's been two weeks now.. ) We have made two requests to this remedy and have hear nothing back for the Commissioners or staff. The Commissioners are the landlords of the gun range, what they say goes. When there is violation of operating hours something needs to be done to demonstrate to the community that you care about holding the range operators to their signed lease agreement. That's how it's done,and that's how to keep further violations down to a minimum. As it stands now, nothing is done and the violations continue. This is surprising to us, as it's one of the few windows of opportunity we have to pursue legal remedy to make the county enforce the rules of the lease agreement. Since there are only a few ways to force change here, it comes as surprise that the gun range would be so casual about their violations. it speaks volumes. We will continue to video record and GPS time and date stamp these operating hour violations, so when the time arrives, we will have these violations recorded as evidence. On a second note, we will begin to investigate the accumulation of lead shot at the trap shooting range, which is clearly labeled on county maps as an aquifer recharge zone. Obviously these two items are not compatible. And nothing is being done to remediate this issue. It's just a matter time, not if, but when, the lead shot leaching into the soil shows up in the well waters around the range. And to close..Port Townsend is such a beautiful town and it's surrounds are famous. People from all over the world travel here. You don't even have to say Washington or even the USA, People just say Port Townsend and most folks know where that is. It's kind of like saying Durango, or Jackson Hole or Ft. Lauderdale. Sadly, some of the charm of Port Townsend is marred by the presence of extremely loud, daylong gunfire...it does not have to be this way, but the reduction of this nuisance noise seems to be going nowhere. Remember what the Eagles wrote in one of there songs........" Call a place paradise, and kiss it goodbye..." T. Parks From:tprosys@gmail.com To:Public Comments Subject:PUBLIC COMMENT - Questions for Dr. Locke - Postpone Date:Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:34:30 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Please postpone reading my Public Comment, “PUBLIC COMMENT - Questions for Dr. Locke”, sent to you on 4/21/2021 4:03 pm until such time as it will actually be heard by Dr. Locke. With luck, that would be at your next regular BoCC meeting, subject to the whim of the A/V deities. I do not want to waste any of the BoCC’s time hearing comments to which board members cannot respond with facts. Thank you, Stay safe, Mask up. Tom Thiersch, Jefferson County From:tprosys@gmail.com To:Public Comments Subject:PUBLIC COMMENT - Horse Park Date:Saturday, February 27, 2021 1:03:17 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Good Morning Commissioners and staff. A number of items in your latest correspondence packet ask questions about the 80-acre “horse park” on Cape George Road. During your responses to today’s Public Comments, please give us a summary of the actual status of that property, specifically addressing: The status of the operating lease agreement with the Jefferson Equestrian Association The near-term use of the property, purportedly as part of some tree clearing operation The longer-term use of the property by Jefferson County Public Works If the property is no longer intended to be used by the privileged few for their private entertainment, I would see that as a good start toward making better use of that asset. The underlying zoning there is RR 1-10, so those 80 acres, or whatever acreage is left after Public Works’ needs have been met, are likely worth more than $1 million in today’s market. That’s money that the county should be able to put to good use as we recover from the pandemic and the accompanying economic mess it has caused. Stay safe, Mask up. Tom Thiersch, Jefferson County From:graphiti To:Public Comments Subject:public comment for March 1, 2021 meeting Date:Saturday, February 27, 2021 3:17:50 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. An email exchange between Annette Huenke and public health director Dr. Tom Locke has just been published in the Port Townsend Free Press. I strongly suggest that, if you haven’t already, you read not only the body of that post, but the comments from your constituents below it. In his response to Ms. Huenke, Dr. Locke dismisses as "pseudoscientific opposition” the Great Barrington Declaration—which calls for a sensible, “focused protection” approach to Covid. It is egregious enough that Dr. Locke insults citizens who present legitimate science as “delusional" and “sociopathic". Now he dismisses the professional opinion of more than 55,000 international medical practitioners and scientists as “pseudoscience”. The Great Barrington Declaration was authored by distinguished professors at Harvard Medical School, Oxford University, and Stanford University Medical School. Among them, their expertise includes medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, immunology, detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations, mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, and public health policy. They have published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. Who is the “pseudoscientist” here? And now that the CDC has once again acknowledged that masks haven't worked, they and Dr. Locke—based on a study with mannequins—promote doubling people’s oxygen loss, CO2 inhalation and breeding of pathogens. Sweden, once again, leads the world in common sense, actually banning the use of masks now in some areas of the country. Aside from stating there is no legitimate scientific evidence that masks work, one municipality noted there were great risks in masks being used incorrectly. Here’s a taste of what your wider community is thinking from online comments: "Time to read the riot act to the BOCC about their participation in the Inslee / Locke medical dictatorship. They are obviously not qualified to evaluate the alleged science used to justify the increasingly absurd and dangerous recommendations from public health officials.” "The best option may be to dissolve the Board of Health and as much of the county public health bureaucracy as possible.” Like many community members, I would be grateful if you'd make scientifically justifiable public health policy decisions rather than deferring to this unelected official who vilifies county residents, and insults renowned professionals worldwide who disagree with the divisive fear campaign he delivers week after week. Sincerely, Ana Wolpin From:Rebekahross1@gmail.com To:Tom Locke; Public Comments Cc:Jayne Bradbury Subject:Question about vaccine protection against long term effects Date:Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:36:01 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. I understand the Johnson & Johnson vaccine efficacy rate is only 66 percent for moderate/severe and 80 percent for severe, but it’s 100 percent effective w/re hospitalizations and death. My question is whether we have info on the protection against long term damage (fatigue, loss of taste, etc) that doesn’t require hospitalization but would be pretty awful if it lasted a long time. I read on the Mayo Clinic site that even those with mild versions of Covid can have lingering symptoms. What do we know about the efficacy of the 3 vaccines against the “long hauler” symptoms? Rebekah Ross From:Bekah Ross To:Tom Locke; Public Comments Subject:Understanding vaccine effectiveness Date:Sunday, February 28, 2021 7:56:13 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. I understand that without a vaccine I have about a 80% chance of getting moderate or greater Covid symptoms (which includes the risk of "long haul" issues, including fatigue) if I get infected. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is "66% effective overall in preventing moderate to severe COVID-19 disease" (which I read as 34% NOT effective). So what is the net risk of my getting a moderate to severe case (but not so severe as to require hospitalizaton) after I get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine if I get infected? Is it 34%? Or something less? (I understand that the vaccines have shown 100% effectiveness against hospitalization & death, which is GREAT NEWS; my question pertains to risks of moderate to severe disease with Johnson & Johnson) Thank you. Rebekah Ross From:Annette Huenke To:Public Comments Subject:comment, 3/1/2021 BOCC meeting Date:Sunday, February 28, 2021 9:54:38 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. A JeffCo resident submitted a comment that was read at the Feb. 17 BOCC meeting, in which he requested that Dr. Locke investigate regulatory power available to health authorities to ensure that healthcare workers who interface with the public have had the Covid-19 vaccine. On February 23rd, STAT News published an article by award-winning attorney, Aaron Siri, titled Federal law prohibits employers and others from requiring vaccination with a Covid-19 vaccine distributed under an EUA Here are some excerpts: "Much remains unknown about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine Even though the FDA granted emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in December 2020, the clinical trials the FDA will rely upon to ultimately decide whether to license these vaccines are still underway and are designed to last for approximately two years to collect adequate data to establish if these vaccines are safe and effective enough for the FDA to license. The abbreviated timelines for the emergency use applications and authorizations means there is much the FDA does not know about these products even as it authorizes them for emergency use, including their effectiveness against asymptomatic infection, death, and transmission of SARS-CoV-2... Given the uncertainty about the two vaccines, their EUAs are explicit that each is “an investigational vaccine not licensed for any indication” and require that all “promotional material relating to the Covid-19 Vaccine clearly and conspicuously … state that this product has not been approved or licensed by the FDA, but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA.” … when Dr. Amanda Cohn, the executive secretary of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, was asked if Covid-19 vaccination can be required, she responded that under an EUA, “vaccines are not allowed to be mandatory. So, early in this vaccination phase, individuals will have to be consented and they won’t be able to be mandatory.” Cohn later affirmed that this prohibition on requiring the vaccines applies to organizations, including hospitals.” As of February 12th, nearly 16,000 adverse reactions to the Covid vaccines, including 929 deaths, have been reported to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Healthcare workers, like everyone else, would be wise to do their own research on this experimental medical intervention for an illness that has effective treatments and a 99.7 percent survival rate. Outcomes for vaccinees aren’t looking nearly that optimistic. Annette Huenke Port Townsend From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Reminder: Take action today to support state and local aid in the next coronavirus rescue package Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:22:26 AM From: NACo Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:22:12 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Reminder: Take action today to support state and local aid in the next coronavirus rescue package CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Having trouble viewing this email? Click Here NACo-primary-center_700px_1683049_1832951.png Vaccine-header_1815824.jpg REMINDER JOIN US TODAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO SUPPORT STATE AND LOCAL AID IN THE NEXT CORONAVIRUS RESCUE PACKAGE The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote on the State and Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Funds in the American Rescue Plan. 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Thursday, February 25 From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: COVID-19 News | February 25, 2021 Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 10:59:33 AM From: Washington Counties (WSAC) Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 10:59:22 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: COVID-19 News | February 25, 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Want to receive this email in your inbox? Click here to subscribe. COVID-19 NEWSLETTER New Modeling Report Explores Options for Safer Return to In-Person Learning The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and the Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) released a new report, the fourth in a series, that explores how to minimize COVID-19 introductions in schools, and what can be done to mitigate its spread within schools and the larger community. Read more Announcements and Resources FEDERAL Join NACo Today on Social Media to Support State and Local Aid in the Next Coronavirus Rescue Package The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote on the State and Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Funds in the American Rescue Plan. The bill includes $350 billion in critical aid to state, local and territorial governments. If this bill passes, your county would be eligible to receive a direct allocation from the federal government. Read more STATE Special Enrollment Period for Health Coverage Now Available Washington Healthplanfinder is now offering a special enrollment period for Washingtonians who are currently uninsured or seeking new coverage. This special enrollment period, in response to the current public health emergency, opened February 15 and runs for 90 days, ending May 15, 2021. Read more EMPLOYMENT Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims for Week of February 14 - 20, 2021 During the week of February 14 - 20, there were 14,043 initial regular unemployment claims (up 3.2 percent from the prior week) and 462,218 total claims for all unemployment benefit categories (up 3.3 percent from the prior week) filed by Washingtonians, according to the Employment Security Department (ESD). Read more Business & Worker Update: February 24, 2021 The Business and Workers update is a bi-weekly newsletter providing news and information to help businesses and workers navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. The information is compiled by the state Economic Resiliency Team (ERT), part of the Joint Information Center. Read more NOTEWORTHY No Set Timeline for When Washington Will Reach Herd Immunity to COVID-19 Herd immunity from COVID-19 in Washington state is a long way away. Some experts believe that at least 70% of the population needs to build resistance to COVID-19 to reach herd immunity, and vaccines are the safe way to reach that. But Washington is far from that mark. Only about 12.9% of our state’s total population has received at least their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Read more VIRTUAL MEETINGS March 1, 12:00 pm | Virtual Assembly Register View this email in your browser This email was sent to Kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us | Why did I get this? Want to change how you receive these emails? Update your preferences | Unsubscribe from this list Copyright © 2021 WSAC, All rights reserved. 206 10th Ave SE · Olympia, WA 98501-1311 · USA | Contact Us From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Kingston Pilot Service Survey Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:04:34 AM Attachments:Survey Flyer.pdf From: Sara J. Peck Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:03:44 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Ariel Speser; David Faber; David Sullivan ; Greg Brotherton; Kate Dean Cc: Tammi Rubert Subject: Kingston Pilot Service Survey CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Greetings, JTA is seeking feedback about a potential route from Port Townsend to the Kingston Ferry Terminal. As a part of public outreach, JTA is conducting a survey. Please find attached the survey flyer. Below is the survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YK2SY2H If you would like to complete the survey, please do so. If you would like to disseminate this information to your constituents, please do so as well. Thank you for your help. Kind Regards, Sj Peck Executive Assistant/Clerk of the Board Jefferson Transit Authority 63 4 Corners Road, Port Townsend, WA 98368 speck@jeffersontransit.com | 360-385-3020 x 108 From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: JTA LRP Open House and Survey Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:17:02 AM Attachments:JTA-flyer-8211.pdf JTA-flyer-8211-4x.pdf From: Sara J. Peck Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:16:35 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Ariel Speser; David Faber; Greg Brotherton; Heidi Eisenhour; Kate Dean Cc: Tammi Rubert Subject: JTA LRP Open House and Survey CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Greetings, The virtual JTA Open House is up and running. Attached are two advertising flyers. The flyers are in the following sizes: a. 8.5x11 portrait flyer for posting around town, in bus shelters, etc. b. Small 4x5 portraits, 4 per 8.5x11 page that can be cut down to handout. Below is a link to the Open House Webpage and survey: https://www.jeffersontransitplan.com/open-house As with the Kingston Ferry survey information, please feel free to share this information with your constituents. Kind Regards, Sj Peck Executive Assistant/Clerk of the Board Jefferson Transit Authority 63 4 Corners Road, Port Townsend, WA 98368 speck@jeffersontransit.com | 360-385-3020 x 108 From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Coronavirus Pandemic Resources for Counties – February 25, 2021 Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 3:20:51 PM From: NACo Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 3:20:26 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Coronavirus Pandemic Resources for Counties – February 25, 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Having trouble viewing this email? Click Here federal-policy-feed_969768.png NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES | NACo.org/coronavirus FEBRUARY 25, 2021 Vaccine-header_1815824.jpg COUNTIES TAKE ACTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO SUPPORT STATE AND LOCAL AID IN THE NEXT FEDERAL CORONAVIRUS RELIEF PACKAGE Counties across the country joined NACo today on social media to call for bipartisan coronavirus relief that includes direct aid to state and local governments on the front lines. Thank you to all the counties that have participated. Please build on the momentum and continue to call on your members of Congress to support state and local aid in the next rescue package. ACCESS SOCIAL MEDIA RESOURCES | VIEW HIGHLIGHTS Advocacy Toolkit: Counties and the COVID-19 Pandemic In NACo's advocacy toolkit, access our legislative analysis, research, talking points and county-by-county funding estimations for the latest proposed relief bill. ACCESS TOOLKIT Call Recordings: NACo National Membership and Media Calls Yesterday, NACo held a national membership call on the latest COVID-19 relief package. Today, county leaders hosted a national media call to support state and local aid in the next package. MEMBER CALL RECORDING | MEDIA CALL RECORDING FEDERAL POLICY NEWS & RESOURCES New NACo Brief: Vaccine Management Solutions for Counties NACo's new brief highlights IT solutions for scheduling and managing vaccine appointments. READ MORE Biden Administration to deliver 25 million masks to food banks and community health centers The masks will be available between March and May and are expected to provide critical PPE supply to more than 12 million vulnerable Americans free of charge. READ MORE Access recordings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National COVID-19 Vaccine Forum The CDC hosted a national forum on COVID-19 vaccines aimed at promoting effective strategies to build trust and confidence, using data to optimize vaccine implementation and providing participants with practical information for increasing vaccine access. READ MORE VACCINE DISTRIBUTION SPOTLIGHT Macomb County, Mich.Davie County, N.C. Davie County worked with the state health department to secure vaccines for teachers and school staff ahead of the state schedule. More than 300 teachers and staff turned up for the first day of vaccine distribution. READ MORE Portage County, Wis. Portage County’s Center on Aging established a call center to assist residents registering for a vaccine who do not have internet access. The center has helped register 44 residents since starting last month. READ MORE To find additional examples of how counties are administering vaccines, visit NACo’s vaccine resource hub. NKN_Banner_collection-covid_1729564.png MAR 1 NACo Cyberattack Simulation | Ransomware MARCH 1-5 REGISTER MAR 4 NACo National Membership Call MARCH 4 | 2 P.M. EST REGISTER MAR 5 Effectively Distributing Rental Assistance: Evidence for Local Governments MARCH 5 | 2 P.M. EST REGISTER MORE UPCOMING EXPLORE ON-DEMAND HOW COUNTIES ARE RESPONDING Counties open mass COVID-19 vaccination sites From Disneyland in Orange County, Calif., to Six Flags in Prince George’s County, Md., and even to the Texas Motor Speedway in Denton County, Texas, mass vaccination sites are opening across the country. READ MORE Overcoming vaccine hesitancy requires two-way communication Overcoming vaccine hesitancy takes patience, understanding, cultural competence and a united message with health care providers and social and community partners. 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From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Letter of support re budget request to advance fish passage at Hood Canal Bridge Date:Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:44:44 PM Attachments:HCCC Letter to WA State Legislators 20210225.pdf From: Jennifer Poole Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:43:59 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: andrew.barkis@leg.wa.gov; dan.griffey@leg.wa.gov; drew.hansen@leg.wa.gov; drew.macewen@leg.wa.gov; jake.fey@leg.wa.gov; mike.chapman@leg.wa.gov; steve.tharinger@leg.wa.gov; tarra.simmons@leg.wa.gov; christine.rolfes@leg.wa.gov; curtis.king@leg.wa.gov; kevin.vandewege@leg.wa.gov; steve.hobbs@leg.wa.gov; timothy.sheldon@leg.wa.gov Cc: Charlotte Garrido; Dave Herrera; Dave Ward; Edward Wolfe; Greg Brotherton; Heidi Eisenhour; Jeromy Sullivan; Joseph Pavel; Kate Dean; Kevin Shutty; Paul McCollum; Randy Neatherlin; Robert Gelder; Scott Brewer; Sharon Trask, Mason County Commissioner; Diane Zoren; Gretchen Dunmire; Julie Shannon; Kaitlyn Floyd; Alicia Olivas; Haley Harguth; Heidi Huber; Nathan White; Patty Michak; Terry Fischer Subject: Letter of support re budget request to advance fish passage at Hood Canal Bridge CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. To: Washington State Legislators On behalf of the Hood Canal Coordinating Council and its Board of Directors, attached please find our letter regarding support of the budget request to advance fish passage at the Hood Canal Bridge. We appreciate your consideration. Kindly, Jennifer Poole On behalf of the Hood Canal Coordinating Council and its Board of Directors Jennifer Poole | Administrative Manager Hood Canal Coordinating Council | HCCC.wa.gov | OurHoodCanal.org 17791 Fjord Drive NE, Suite 118, Poulsbo, WA 98370 360-900-9063 | jpoole@hccc.wa.gov Note: All emails may be subject to public disclosure February 26, 2021 STATE NEWS How $1 Billion in Pot Taxes Gets Spent in Washington State This year marks a milestone for the state’s legal pot industry. For the first time since voters approved recreational pot use nine years ago, the state of Washington is expected to collect more than $1 billion in marijuana sales taxes and fees over the course of its next two-year budget cycle. From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Friday 5 | Marijuana Tax | Supreme Court | Homelessness | Data Breach Date:Friday, February 26, 2021 10:00:15 AM From: Washington Counties (WSAC) Sent: Friday, February 26, 2021 9:59:40 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Friday 5 | Marijuana Tax | Supreme Court | Homelessness | Data Breach CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. STATE NEWS Washington State Justices Strike Down Drug Possession Law The Washington Supreme Court has struck down the state's felony drug possession law because it doesn't require prosecutors to prove that someone knowingly or intentionally possessed drugs. Five justices said in the decision Thursday the state law was unconstitutional because it criminalized her passive, unknowing conduct, in violation of her due process protections. COUNTY NEWS Understanding the F-1 (Financial Affairs) Statement This online class explains what you need to know about the Personal Financial Affairs (F-1) Statement and how to use the PDC's online application to file your F-1. You can also view a video recording of this Understanding the F-1 class. STATE NEWS $84.4 Million From HUD Supports Local Homeless Programs Across Washington Learn More Learn More Learn More The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced $84.4 million in grants to Washington state to continue helping an estimated 17,800 people in need. The grants renew funding for HUD’s “Continuum of Care” — a program that supports community-based programs on the front lines of serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness. STATE NEWS Notices to Go Out to 1.3 Million Washingtonians Affected by Unemployment Data Breach If you filed for unemployment in Washington last year, be sure and check your inbox in the coming weeks. State Auditor Pat McCarthy’s office plans to send individual notifications to an estimated 1.3 million people whose personal information was exposed in a massive data breach disclosed this month. The notifications will be sent by email over the next two weeks — and will include information about identity theft protection and an individual code for a year of free credit monitoring, the auditor’s office said in a news release Thursday. MARCH 4 Roles and Responsibilities in Local Government 11:00 am | $35 | Webinar MARCH 17, 23, 31 & APRIL 6 Public Records Act Virtual Workshops 9:00 am | $140 | Webinar Learn More Learn More UPCOMING EVENTS facebook twitter instagram linkedIn wsac.org View this email in your browser This email was sent to Kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us | Why did I get this? Want to change how you receive these emails? Update your preferences | Unsubscribe from this list Copyright © 2021 Washington State Association of Counties, All rights reserved. 206 10th Ave SE · Olympia, WA 98501-1311 · USA | Contact Us View More Upcoming Events FOLLOW US From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Ask MRSC: February 2021 Date:Friday, February 26, 2021 10:27:37 AM From: Ask MRSC Sent: Friday, February 26, 2021 10:27:30 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Ask MRSC: February 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. February 2021 IN THIS ISSUE Under the latest OPMA Proclamation and Reopening Plan, can Phase 2 jurisdictions hold a public meeting where staff and the governing body are present in-person, but the public must attend remotely? How long is an agency required to keep various types of hard files related to law enforcement actions? Am I correct that there are no term limits for elected mayors or city/town council members in Washington? When does a budget amendment for a code city require a super- majority vote of the city council? How successful have Washington cities been in passing unlimited Have a question? Officials and employees from eligible government agencies can use our free one-on-one inquiry service, Ask MRSC. Ask MRSC tax general obligation bonds (UTGO) for funding public works facilities? Scroll down to read the answers Under the latest OPMA Proclamation and Reopening Plan, can Phase 2 jurisdictions hold a public meeting where staff and the governing body are present in-person, but the public must attend remotely? Under the latest OPMA proclamation, you cannot just have council and staff physically present, with no members of the public. A condition of holding an in-person component to a public meeting is that anyone that wants to attend in person has to be allowed to do so, and if you can’t meet the safety guidelines you have to adjourn the meeting until you can (or reschedule it as a virtual meeting). You can, but are not required to, have an in-person component to a council meeting but must maintain at least a telephonic option for attendance. We have more specific guidance in this Frequently Asked Question and in this recent blog post, COVID- 19 Reopening Plan, Proclamation Extensions, and Government Operations. Since you have to comply with both the requirements of the proclamation and the re-opening guidance for miscellaneous venues, please check those for details. If you want to have an in-person component to your meetings, you may want to prioritize which staff from the city attends to allow for more members of the public to attend. Or, consider holding the meeting in a larger space if you have access to one (and your technology will allow you to do so). How long is an agency required to keep various types of hard files related to law enforcement actions? Here is a link to MRSC’s topic page Retention Requirements for Law Enforcement Records, which provides guidance on how long police and sheriff departments must retain various types of commonly requested public records. This link has charts listing the various retention requirements by type of record (case files, criminal history records, juvenile records, video records, etc.). Here is an excerpt: Police and sheriff departments must retain their records for a specific amount of time, depending on the type of record, as established in the Secretary of State's Records Retention Schedules for Law Enforcement Agencies. Below are the retention requirements for commonly requested law enforcement records, along with the relevant Disposition Authority Number (DAN). Always review the Secretary of State's (SOS) complete retention schedule to ensure compliance. In your policy update your police department will want to incorporate and follow the SOS requirements. Am I correct that there are no term limits for elected mayors or city/town council members in Washington? Yes, you are correct. There are not state law term limits for elected officials such as mayors or councilmembers in towns or cities. There are some code cities that have adopted ordinances providing term limits for these elected officials. However, towns do not have the authority to pass a local ordinance imposing term limits. A 1991 opinion of the Attorney General, AGO 1991 No. 22 addresses the issue of term limits for local government elected officials. This opinion has legal analysis about different types of local governments and their constitutional and statutory authority regarding term limits. The opinion concluded that towns, second class cities, and non-charter counties do not have authority to impose term limits on elected local officials, but that charter counties, charter cities and non-charter code cities may pass term limit ordinances. Term limits imposed on state-wide elective offices by initiative were found unconstitutional in Gerberding v. Munro, 134 Wn. 2d 188 (1998). When does a budget amendment for a code city require a super-majority vote of the city council? State law only requires a simple majority vote by the city council for a regular budget amendment; changes to wages, hours, and conditions of employment (RCW 35A.33.105); and appropriations of funds received in excess of estimated revenues ( RCW 35A.33.120(4)). A super majority vote is required when council is amending the budget due to "nondebatable emergencies" ( RCW 35A.33.080); when the council has declared a public emergency that is not one of the ‘nondebatable’ emergencies (RCW 35A.33.090); and when the council declares by facts and findings that it is in the best interest of the city to decrease, revoke or recall an appropriation. (Note: this answer is also applicable to budget amendments for 2nd and 3rd class cities, towns and 1st class cities under 300,000 population. See Chapter 35.33 RCW, specifically RCW 35.33.107; RCW 35.33.121(4); RCW 35.33.081; RCW 35.33.091) How successful have Washington cities been in passing unlimited tax general obligation (UTGO) bonds for funding public works facilities? MRSC has a Local Ballot Measure Database where we searched for the results of local ballot measures for general obligation (GO) bonds since 2011 (as far back as our data goes). The results of that search show that there have been a total of 10 ballot measures with 6 passing and 4 failing. We also have a Revenue Guide for Washington Cities and Towns which has a section that discusses general obligation (GO) bond levies which we would encourage you to review. It recommends that you consult your city’s bond counsel early in the process. Thank you to our generous sponsors Stay Informed MRSC publishes a number of e-newsletters related to local government issues. You can also keep up with us on social media. Manage your Subscription If you have questions or comments for the newsletter editor, please contact Byron Katsuyama, Public Policy & Management Consultant or Jill Dvorkin, Legal Consutant. MRSC.org MRSC | 2601 Fourth Avenue, Suite 800, Seattle, WA 98121 Unsubscribe kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us Update Profile | Customer Contact Data Notice Sent by it@mrsc.org From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Questions for the March 1st, 2021, BOCC meeting Date:Friday, February 26, 2021 12:22:45 PM From: Kathleen Keenan Sent: Friday, February 26, 2021 12:22:21 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Greg Brotherton; KPTZ VTeam; Kate Dean; Keppie Keplinger; Tom Locke; Willie Bence; Heidi Eisenhour; jeffbocc Subject: Questions for the March 1st, 2021, BOCC meeting CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Good afternoon. A definite focus on the issue of coronavirus variants reflected in many of the questions this week, as well as few relating to masking and the interplay of age and co- morbidities. I spent two days working with other volunteers this week at the drive thru vaccination clinic and the DEM phone line and wish to express my thanks for all the work and time went into this effort. Well done everyone. And a kuddo to Dr. Locke from a KPTZ listener: “Dr. Locke...thank you so much for your weekly updates during this health crisis, and we rely on your professional expertise and honest approach. You are our version of FDR’s “fireside chats”! Questions and related topics KPTZ would like to have presented on the air to Dr. Locke/County Commissioners (BOCC)/EOC/Jefferson County Public Health as time permits. Original text sent for Questions for the March 1st, 2021, BOCC Meeting Dr. Locke: 1. Where can we go to get the list of approved KN95 masks that Dr. Locke mentioned, so we are sure they are not counterfeit? 2. Why would someone who received the vaccine NOT need to quarantine for 14 days when exposed to an infectious Covid-19 case? I thought you could still get a coronavirus infection even though you got the vaccine, so why would this recommendation change? 3. I work in an office building which is a large space, divided into many cubicles, where workers take off their masks when inside their cubicle, but put on the mask when someone comes into their space. I’m concerned that we should all be wearing our masks all of the time as this virus is spread similar to a restaurant setting. 4. When walking outdoors, I generally do not wear my mask. I have encountered glares and stares, even when there is good distance between us. When biking and near lots of others outdoors, I always put on my mask. I don’t want to feel guilty about not masking when I’m not near other humans, so could you please clarify outdoor masking etiquette for us all. 5. Last week you advised it is premature for vaccinated members of unrelated households to gather indoors without masks. This week, NPR interviewed two separate experts in two separate programs, who said they saw no problem with this situation. Are they premature in that advice or are we getting closer to being able to socialize with other vaccinated people? Covid-19 Testing: (none submitted) Public Health Strategies/Vaccines: 1. I heard that the protection afforded by the Covid-19 vaccinations lasts about three(3) months. Does that mean that we will have to get "booster" vaccinations every 3 months until this pandemic is totally and completely over worldwide? 2. When I applied to be notified for my turn to be vaccinated, there was no place to enter anything other than my age. So how do I alert schedulers that my co- morbidities put me at very high risk and should bump me higher on the list for an appointment? Is somebody accessing my medical record? 3. If the variants of the COVID-19 become dominant and are not controlled or do not provide protection with the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, will there likely be a booster vaccine necessary and available for those who have already received one or both of these vaccines? 4. In a recent Irish Times article, researchers have seen evidence that those vaccinated with the coronavirus, specifically Pfizer’s, had some protection from the circulating viral variants. What is your take on the likely effective protection against the S. African variant? https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/pfizer-vaccine- likely-effective-against-south-africa-variant-study-1.4483020 5. Michael Osterholm from the University of Minnesota is calling for a shift in policy to delay 2nd doses until there is more vaccine available, providing for more widespread vaccination now, especially since the emergence of several variants. Can and should people opt to postpone their second dose so that more people, aged 65 years or up, can be protected before this potential next wave hits us? 6. What do we know about the B.1.427 and B.1.429 strains that are coming out of California? 7. When Jefferson County has vaccinated everyone over 65 Years of age, what groups go next for vaccinations? Will we all have to have appointments? 8. Do we have any progress on being able to schedule appointments for people who do not have internet access or an email? What type of outreach is happening for that group of people? 9. I see pictures of teachers with clear face masks. Do these masks work and are they recommended? 1. Is there a way to delete my name from the Jefferson Healthcare registration website since I have now received my vaccine doses elsewhere? February 26, 2021 From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Legislative Bulletin | February 26, 2021 Date:Friday, February 26, 2021 3:00:57 PM From: Washington Counties (WSAC) Sent: Friday, February 26, 2021 3:00:35 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Legislative Bulletin | February 26, 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. On the Hill Now that the first round of committee hearings is complete, about half the bills have died, and legislators are spending long days on the virtual "floor" amending bills and passing them to the opposite house. It's also when questions regarding when to expect budget proposals begin in earnest. While majority Democrats will wait until after the March 17 revenue forecast to release their budget proposals, Republicans in both the House and the Senate released their versions in the last few weeks. Senator Lynda Wilson is the ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee. She released an actual budget bill (SB 5451) while Representative Drew Stokesbary, the ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee, released more of a blueprint – summary documents rather than an actual bill. Both proposals would spend approximately $55 billion over the next two years, which is around $3 billion less than Governor Inslee's proposal and roughly $3 billion more than current spending. All three versions spend down the budget stabilization/rainy day account, but the Republicans drafted their budgets with a goal of not raising taxes. Instead, they use federal funds and efficiency cuts to state agencies. Some criticize the use of one-time money for permanent tax cuts, while others laud the creation of a balanced budget without tax increases. There are several similarities in the two Republican approaches, including the use of the rainy day fund, the merging of the LEOFF 1 (law enforcement, firefighters) and TRS 1 (teachers) retirement accounts, reductions to B&O taxes, and funding for the Working Families Tax Credit. However, one glaring difference is in their treatment of public health. The Senate proposal merely allocates federal dollars while the House appropriates $150 million to local jurisdictions. Quick Links Weekly Legislative Hot Sheet Legislative Steering Committee Legislative Priorities Accessing the Legislature Remotely Committee Schedules House Remote Testimony Senate Remote Testimony County Zoom Backgrounds Upcoming Events RESOURCES WSAC Virtual Assembly Monday, March 1 LSC Meeting Friday, March 5 Long Days, and Nights, Ahead The legislature is heading into another week devoted almost exclusively to floor work. Legislators have until Tuesday, March 9, to get bills out of their house of origin. Deadlines like this make for long days and marathon floor sessions as legislators race against the clock. The remote nature of session is also slowing things down, so do not be surprised if we see less legislation than usual advance. The first big cutoff took place Monday, February 22. Bills had to advance out of committees by that point, otherwise, they are likely dead for the year. A few bills of interest that did go forward include: HB 1103: Rep. Davina Duerr (D-Bothell), Improving environmental and social outcomes with the production of building materials. HB 1103 required firms selected for large construction or building renovation contracts to provide an Environmental Product Declaration and labor data for at least 90% of the cost of each covered material used in the project. Counties had concerns over the costs associated with a new requirement such as this. HB 1103 failed to advance out of the Appropriations Committee. HB 1308, Rep. Marcus Ricelli (D-Spokane): Expanding apprenticeship utilization requirements. HB 1308 required county public works projects over $1 million to include specifications that no less than 15% of the labor hours be performed by apprentices. It also required contracts that cost $200,000 or more for subcontractors to include specifications that no less than 15% of the labor hours be performed by apprentices. We had concerns with the bill, namely with the increased costs that could be incurred, as well as the availability of labor. The bill failed to advance out of the House Capital Budget Committee. SB 5444, Sen. Rebecca Saldaña (D-Seattle): Implementing a per mile charge on electric and hybrid vehicles. SB 5444 established a per mile fee (i.e. a road usage charge or vehicle miles traveled fee) on certain electric and hybrid vehicles, effective July 1, 2026. The bill repealed the $150 electric vehicle fee, and the $75 transportation electrification fee that same year. We had concerns over the repeal of the electric vehicle fee, as it funds programs at CRAB and TIB. SB 5444 failed to advance out of the Senate Transportation Committee. Carbon, with Benefits – Part 1 The debate and discussion for carbon-based revenue proposals in Washington State are heating up as the session enters its ninth week. While none of the carbon bills beat the cutoffs for policy and finance, any ultimate decision to pass one is likely to be considered “necessary to implement the budget” and therefore not subject to the earlier deadlines. So far, both a “carbon tax” and a “cap & trade” bill have been proposed. SB 5126, the “cap & trade” bill, also called “cap & invest” or the Washington Climate Commitment Act, requires entities that emit certain levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to purchase allowances every year at auction. Allowances can be bought and held by speculators and must be surrendered annually by emitting entities as compensation for their emissions. As time goes by, the allowances made available for auction decreases, creating upward pressure on cost and incentivizing GHG reduction strategies. SB 5373, the “carbon tax” bill, also called “Washington Sustainable Transformable Recovery Opportunities for the Next Generation Act” or “WA STRONG,” implements a tax that increases over time on entities that emit GHG’s. Raising tax rates also creates an incentive for developing and implementing GHG reduction strategies. Both bills are intended to help the state achieve its GHG emission reduction goals by 2050. Arguments made for these bills include those in favor and opposed to a price being placed on carbon in general and which approach is better. The potential for adopting one of these approaches will also impact other policy choices that may be approved this session or in later sessions. Next week, we'll discuss some of those impacts. SB 5126 was voted out of the Senate Environment, Energy, & Technology Committee this week. SB 5373 will be heard in the same committee on Thursday, March 4, 8:00 AM. Fiscal Flexibility, OPMA Bills, Expanded Police Misconduct Liability, & Redistricting Deadlines Two of WSAC’s major COVID/pandemic-related priorities continue to move forward. HB 1069, the so-called “fiscal flexibility” bill, would allow counties greater scope in spending certain criminal justice sales tax, lodging tax, real estate excise tax, and levy proceeds. This bill passed the full House last night and is in the Senate. HB 1056 allows counties to conduct remote meetings (held over Zoom, phone, etc. without a traditional physical location) during a declared emergency (statewide or local) throughout the duration of the emergency. This bill passed out of the full House unanimously is expected to clear the Senate policy committee shortly. Two other bills on remote public meetings, HB 1180 and HB 1329, were consolidated into HB 1329. The substitute adopted on February 15 is the compromise WSAC worked out to make the provisions optional as opposed to mandatory. WSAC supports the use of remote tools and testimony, but wants these to be options only. There is a provision that requires that testimony be taken at every meeting, but it may be taken through email or writing (not necessarily orally or in person). The bill also includes provisions to encourage remote testimony for persons with disabilities, and is expected to run on the House Floor soon. Next, as part of a more sweeping system of police reforms, HB 1202 would allow counties to be sued under a fairly broad definition of police misconduct. WSAC testified in opposition to the bill based on its expansive tort liability costs and our belief that court orders are a poor way to set policy and get at underlying reform. We have connected the sponsors with our risk pool experts so they can better understand the potential legal costs this will impose on local government, but it is unclear what compromises or concessions can be reached. One estimate based on risk pool data shows that costs could go up by 475% if this bill is enacted. The bill will likely be run on the House Floor shortly, but we will keep working to bring the potential financial impact of the bill down. Finally, SB 5013, which would align local redistricting timelines with the state timeline, will be amended to give local governments until December 31 of this year (as opposed to November 15 on the original bill) to complete redistricting. In any other year, this would have been a technical bill without much impact, but, because of the pandemic, census data from the federal government is delayed (it’s now expected at the end of September), and counties were facing a severely compressed timeline to complete redistricting work. Stakeholders came together with the sponsor and worked out a compromise to give locals more time this first year. Subsequent redistricting work will have to be completed by November 15 to align with the state deadline, but this should not be problematic in a typical census cycle. Public Health in the Spotlight Public health has undoubtedly had a spotlight moment in history this last year. The pandemic and public health’s role in slowing the spread has increased knowledge about critical emergency and communicable disease work within public health. But public health – and even its core services go beyond what’s in our current headlines. Below are examples of policies that further support public health and our core public health services. Through core capabilities of assessment and community partnerships, SHB 1074 allows local health departments to establish overdose and suicide fatality review teams to review overdose or suicide deaths, and develop strategies to prevent future overdose and suicide deaths. This bill has passed the House and has been referred to Senate Health & Long Term Care Committee. Aimed at reducing the impact of chronic disease, SSB 5292 uses parks and recreation spaces, trails, and facilities to design a Parks Rx pilot program that promotes the great outdoors as a prescription towards better health. The Senate passed this bill, and it’s been referred to House Healthcare and Wellness. Reducing barriers to access care, ESHB 1196 would require insurance reimbursement for audio-only telemedicine services. This bill encourages more diverse healthcare methods, particularly mental health services, a best practice from the pandemic. This bill passed the House and will be referred to Senate Health and Long Term Care. Decriminalization of Simple Possession of Drugs On Thursday, February 25, 2021, the Washington State Supreme Court released a decision that declared unconstitutional the state law that makes simple possession of drugs a felony. The court reasons that the statute does not require prosecutors to prove that the possession of the drugs was intentional. This means that all convictions in Washington for simple possession have been overturned. This results in far-reaching implications. County government will be faced with many difficulties, not the least of which are financial. This ruling is more than likely retroactive, meaning anyone with a simple possession conviction will need to be released and or re-sentenced. There are thousands of people in custody who have convictions for simple possession. This will also likely open up the appeals process for those in prison. The courts, which are already backed up, will be faced with thousands more re- sentencing hearings. That also creates a cascading effect of transportation costs to get people to their re-sentencing hearings, and so many other services that go along with that. Those who are being supervised or treated in the community will no longer require supervision or treatment services for the crimes for which they were convicted. Those cases in which an officer found probable cause for arrest or search based on simple possession which lead to the discover of further criminal activity will be called into question. Do those cases now get thrown out as well? And when do the jails and counties start facing liability for holding individuals in custody who now have no conviction? These are all just the tip of the issues we are currently facing based on this decision. The legislature has the ability to amend the statute to make the law constitutional based on the court’s decision. However, I believe the legislature’s willingness to reinstate this law unlikely. Rep. Davis introduced HB 1499 which, in part, would eliminate criminal penalties for possession of personal amounts of certain controlled substances. The court’s decision eliminates the need for the legislature to take a vote to decriminalize simple possession as well as the statutory mandate for the legislature to pay for the associated costs. It will likely stand. FOLLOW US Contact Your WSAC Policy Team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram WSAC.org View this email in your browser Copyright © 2021 Washington State Association of Counties, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are involved with county government. Our mailing address is: Washington State Association of Counties 206 10th Ave SE Olympia, WA 98501-1311 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. February 2021 eNews From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Jefferson Land Trust News and Events - February 2021 Date:Friday, February 26, 2021 4:32:32 PM From: Jefferson Land Trust Sent: Friday, February 26, 2021 4:32:06 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Jefferson Land Trust News and Events - February 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Photo of child sledding in the Quimper Wildlife Corridor. Photo by Robert Tognoli. Each year, thousands of residents and visitors enjoy walking and biking on the miles of trails weaving through the Quimper Wildlife Corridor. The recent snow inspired this young resident to try a different form of non-motorized transportation. Photo by Robert Tognoli. The Quimper Wildlife Corridor is Focus of Conservation Breakfast 2021! The Quimper Wildlife Corridor — home to beloved Cappy’s Trails and hundreds of species of wildlife — celebrates an important milestone anniversary in 2021. This year marks 25 years of community action to protect the wild green corridor that stretches across Port Townsend from Fort Worden to Middlepoint. With an exciting opportunity to accelerate corridor protection on the horizon, Conservation Breakfast 2021 will explore how far we’ve come in this community-driven protection story, and outline a bold vision for future protection. On Thursday, March 18 from 9 - 10:30 am, Nan Evans, of KPTZ’s Nature Now, will be our host for conversations with special guest historians, naturalists, urban planners, health practitioners, community builders, and long-time corridor advocates, including: Kate Lore, Minister, Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Brent Butler, program manager Age Friendly Seattle, and former Port Townsend City Councilor Chloe Webby, teen naturalist and peer educator Dr. Geoff Hammerson, research zoologist and author Wendy Feltham, photographer and naturalist We hope you’ll grab a cup of coffee, tea, or OJ (heck, mix up a mimosa) and join us on Zoom for this complimentary event. Learn more and reserve your spot today! Join Us in Welcoming Kristen Gerrish! Reserve Your Spot Today Photo of Kristen Gerrish and her dog, Penny.Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Kristen Gerrish, the newest member of the Land Trust team. As half-time Development and Administrative Assistant Kristen will work to build support for the Land Trust’s mission and help keep our organization running smoothly. Kristen, pictured above on a hike with her dog, Penny, is passionate about positively impacting her community and enriching the lives of her fellow citizens. “My background in agriculture and agricultural education draws me to work that empowers people to learn, grow, and make contributions to their community" said Kristen. "I’m looking forward to the many opportunities for collaboration and education in my new role!” Read more here >> Stakeholder Advisory Group meeting on Zoom Twenty-one Stakeholder Advisory Group members shared their input on the vision, mission, and values for the future Chimacum Ridge Community Forest. We couldn’t be more grateful to these busy community leaders, who carved out time to meet during the pandemic. Thank You 2020 Land Trust Volunteers! Every February, around Valentine’s Day, we send heartfelt thanks to our volunteers in appreciation of all of their hard work on behalf of our mission. This year the effort was even more meaningful for us, knowing how complicated it was for our volunteers given the difficulties posed by Covid-19. Despite the hurdles, your dedication to community-powered conservation was undaunted. Thank you for sharing your time, talents, ideas, and positive energy in so many creative ways. Collectively, you volunteered more than 4,500 hours and we’re humbled and amazed by your generosity. Volunteers like YOU are the lifeblood of this organization. Whether monitoring nature preserves and easements, writing grants, serving on the board and committees, leading virtual nature walks via Zoom, shaping the framework for Chimacum Ridge Community Forest, getting Valley View Forest ready to open, sharing your photos of wildlife and wild places, or pitching in on events and communications, we appreciate you and all you do! Thank You! Images Above (left to right) Top Row: Anne Seeley helped us with a number of grant applications; Owen Fairbank (and his wife Sarah) helped deliver gala goodies to TogetherFest guests. Bottom Row: Robert Tognoli, and many other local photographers, regularly share photos with us (photo by James Holb); Ken Wilson co-lead the Birds virtual nature tour and gave the Observing as a Naturalist presentation in Nature in Your Neighborhood. Discovering the Forest's Grand Finale Forest ecosystems are characterized by fascinating relationships between wildlife, plants, trees, water, and air. Add human use and economies into the mix, and the dynamics at play become even more complex. Over the winter in our four-part Discovering the Forest series, a variety of community members helped us explore those dynamics, sharing their knowledge about the plants, trees, animals, and birds that call forests home — and highlighting the ways we benefit from forests and can better steward their abundant resources for the future. Last Friday marked the exciting conclusion to the series. Photographer and wildlife tracker, David Moskowitz and the Land Trust’s Erik Kingfisher, helped viewers dive into the question: “What is our vision for a community forest on Chimacum Ridge that benefits both people and forests?” David shared a story of hope featuring the Harrop-Procter Community Forest in British Columbia and those who care for and manage it. Their success and the three guiding principles with which they manage the forest are inspiring. Although the forest is larger and the community is smaller than our project on Chimacum Ridge, there are meaningful lessons to learn from an experience that transformed a community and the community’s reciprocal relationship with their forest. Curious about the Discovering the Forest program? View the final episode below and read more about the series here >> Click on the video above to tune in to the final episode in the series. And to view other series recordings, check out the Discovering the Forest playlist. Upcoming Community Events Quimper Geological Society Online: Ben Goldfarb Presents "Dam It – How Beavers Shape the Landscape" Saturday, February 27, 4:00 - 5:00 pm In his talk, Ben will discuss the history of this world-changing species; how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, and climate change; and how we can coexist with this vital but occasionally challenging species. Check it out >> Tribal Historic Preservation Presentations: Archaeology of the Sequim Prairie with David Brownell Thursday, March 11, 3:00 - 4:00 pm Join our partners at the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in this event that will feature some of the more significant sites in the Sequim area and learn what these sites tell us about cultural adaptations to climate change and traditional ecological knowledge. More details here >> (Virtual) Conservation Breakfast 2021 – Wildlife Wetlands and We the People: Protecting the Quimper Wildlife Corridor Thursday, March 18, 9:00 - 10:30 am Together we’ll explore the wild green corridor that stretches across Port Townsend and its impact on wildlife and our community. We’ll celebrate 25 years of community conservation, and share new opportunities to help expand and protect it forever. Learn more and reserve your spot today >> Port Townsend Farmer's Market Reopening Saturday, April 3, 9:00 - 2:00 pm Jefferson Land Trust is excited to share that the Jefferson County Farmer's Market in Port Townsend will be reopening on April 3rd! Find out more here >> Facebook Instagram YouTube Website Email Email Copyright © 2021 Jefferson Land Trust, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: Jefferson Land Trust 1033 Lawrence St Port Townsend, WA 98368-6523 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. From:Greg Brotherton To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Vaccine News at Jefferson Healthcare Date:Saturday, February 27, 2021 4:00:31 AM From: Village Council Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2021 4:00:15 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Greg Brotherton Subject: Vaccine News at Jefferson Healthcare CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Vaccine News at Jefferson Healthcare Our website is updated every Wednesday and Friday afternoon with the latest news: https://jeffersonhealthcare.org/covid-19-vaccine/ Today, invitations to schedule vaccine appointments were sent to individuals on our notification list as young as 69 Jefferson County residents, 65 years old and older, can still register on our website to be notified by e- mail “when it’s their turn” We implemented a phone-only notification system to schedule a vaccine appointment. Individuals 65 and older who do not have Internet access can now call Emergency Management, 360-344-9791, to register a call-back phone number and be called to schedule an appointment when vaccine is available. This system will work the same as the e-mail list - the oldest are always notified first, and we will continue down the list sorted by age and sign-up date. The vaccine is for everyone, including those without internet, the socially isolated and vulnerable, communities of color, low-income, and immigrants. Jefferson Healthcare is committed to equity in vaccine distribution. We are partnering with various community agencies to identify and implement strategies and opportunities for community outreach events in the coming weeks and months. Wash Hands Maintain Distance Wear a Mask Visit the Village Council Web Site Your Village Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation whose purpose is to be a unifying force and information conduit for the benefit of all Port Ludlow residents. Port Ludlow Village Council | Post Office Box 65012, Port Ludlow, WA 98365 Unsubscribe gbrotherton@co.jefferson.wa.us Update Profile | Customer Contact Data Notice Sent by portludlowvillagecouncileblast@gmail.com From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: This Week in Photos Date:Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:08:02 AM From: NACo Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:06:45 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: This Week in Photos CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Having trouble viewing this email? Click Here This Week in Photos NACo @NACoTweets This Week in Photos NACo First Vice President Larry Johnson (center, right), NACo Second Vice President Denise Winfrey (center) and Franklin County, Ohio Commissioner Kevin Boyce (bottom, left) reflect on Black History Month with NACo staff. 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To watch live or recorded videos of the entire 9 a.m. Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting, including the 9:45 a.m. COVID-19 update, go to the website for videos of meetings. You can choose “Streaming Live” or, if viewing later, “Recorded.” You can also listen live to Dr. Locke on KPTZ or later in the KPTZ archives. And see below, in Community Notices, for how to be COVID S.M.A.R.T.! Community First, A Home for the Homeless - Free Film Streaming Mar 1-7th *New* *Online* Port Townsend Film Festival Pics, in partnership with the Port Townsend Library and Friends of the Port Townsend Library are hosting the March installment of this monthly program. Now in its 16th year, PT Public Library’s “Community Read'' program is supported by Friends of the Port Townsend Library. They have generously sponsored the March PTFF Pics. This year’s community read selected book is “House Lessons: Renovating A Life'' by local author Erica Bauermeister, and PTFF is delighted to provide a paired film to underscore the importance of home. The film is a documentary introducing an innovative new model for transforming the lives of homeless people through the power of community, imagined initially by Alan Graham of Mobile Loaves and Fishes. Following the screening, view a conversation between director Layton Blaylock and Alan Graham with PTFF Executive Director, Janette Force. Learn more and claim your free ticket on the PTFF Pics screening page on Eventive. Learn more about the Port Townsend Film Festival here. Learn more about the Port Townsend Public Library and the “Community Read” program here. WSU Spring Growing Groceries Class - Register Now - Starts March 1st *Online* This spring Master Gardeners and local experts will teach gardeners about local soils, seed starting, best cultivation practices, pest management, composting and more. Each participant will pick-up a packet of supplies for homework and online hands-on skill building activities*. Pick up locations will be in Port Hadlock and Port Townsend. Monday and Wednesday mornings from March 1st - 31st from 10:00 - 11:30 AM . Plus: two optional class check- in/Q&A sessions on April 19th and 21st from 10:00 – 11:20 AM. Cost: $50 Classes will be held via Zoom. Register via this link or fill out this 2021 Spring GG-Registration-Form, and mail it with your payment of $50 to 121 Oak Bay Road, Port Hadlock, WA. Questions? Please feel free to email Bridget. First Annual Olympic Cooperative Gathering - Thurs, Mar 4th *Online* You are invited to an on-line Cooperative Gathering to meet folks from other Olympic Peninsula cooperatives to explore how we might help grow each other’s cooperatives and the cooperative movement locally through establishing a network. All are welcome to attend. To register for zoom link, go here. Time: 6 to 8 pm (Zoom room opens at 5:30 pm) Location: Online Fermentation with Midori Farm - Fri, Mar 5th *Online* Jefferson County Historical Society's First Friday Speaker Series this month features Hanako Myers and Marko Colby from Midori Farm. They will share the basics of naturally fermenting vegetables through the process known as lactic acid fermentation. The demonstration will include the fundamentals of making sauerkraut and kimchi. Suggested donation: $10. Register here via Simpletix. Livestreamed via Zoom. Time: 7:00 – 8:00 PM Location: Online Farmers Market Annual Meeting: Vendor Attendance Required - Sun, Mar 7th *Online* The Annual Meeting will include essential information for a successful 2021 Market season, including the ways the markets will continue to align with Covid-19 safety guidelines. A holistic community and financial report for 2020 will be presented. For vendors, the meeting is mandatory, and Friends of the Market are also welcome. The meeting will be held via online platform, with a link shared in mid-February. Look for upcoming news about Board Elections; we're working to make that happen in a separate secured online forum. Time: 6-7:30 pm Location: Online Meaningful Movies Presents "Peter's Place: A Community Spirit Village - Mon, Mar 8th *New* *Online* This locally produced film by Dennis Daneau documents the recently completed Community Build Project, a grassroots effort to build 12 wooden tents for unsheltered residents in Jefferson County, Washington. The new village is called Peter’s Place and rests on the property of the Community United Methodist Church in Port Hadlock. It is the hope of the filmmaker that this inspirational film will show the way forward to others taking action to build sheltering communities of their own. Please register here. After the film we’ll be joined by panelists for discussion. You can find more information on the Community Build Project here and on their Facebook page. Time: 6:30 pm Location: Online Climate and Energy Forum: Federal Climate Legislation - Wed, Mar 10th *Online* Come learn about climate action in the 2021 Legislative session from: - Derek Kilmer, US Representative, 6th District - Maria Cantwell, US Senator, WA State (Invited) This Climate Town Hall will include strong advocates for climate action on Bainbridge Island. Rep. Kilmer will provide an update on federal climate legislation and take questions from attendees. Join with this Zoom Link. For more information, go here. Time: 5:00 - 6:00 pm Location: Online Sponsored by: Local 20/20, Climate Action Bainbridge, Sustainable Bainbridge, Citizens Climate Lobby, EcoAdapt,, and Olympic Climate Action Jefferson County Master Gardeners Presents "Growing Blueberries" - Thurs, Mar 11th *New* *Online* Jefferson County Master Gardeners will host “Growing Blueberries” by Janet Albin, the co-operator of Finnriver Farms Home Farm, a 33-acre organic farm on Chimacum Creek. In this talk Janet will discuss blueberry physiology, variety and site selection, nutrient and cultural needs as well as pest and disease issues. To register on Zoom, go here. .Time: 3-3:50 pm Location: Online Jamestow S'Kallam THPO Presents Archaeology of the Sequim Prairie - Thurs, Mar 11th *New* *Online* The archaeological record of Sequim Prairie and its environs stretches back at least 14,000 years. We will look at some of the more significant sites in the Sequim area, and learn what these sites tell us about cultural adaptations to climate change and traditional ecological knowledge. For more information: call 360-681-4632 or email or check the website. Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm; Location: Online Zoom link The password is dk5jZkZKRkoyTkN0UnhoRnBiVHVBQT09#success Local 20/20 Climate Action Outreach Meeting - Thurs, Mar 11th *Online* Want to help educate the community on what we all can do related to reducing our carbon footprint? Attend our monthly meeting to learn more about what is currently planned, and add your ideas to the mix! Meetings are generally on the second Thursday of the month, from 3:00 - 5:00 pm. For the online meeting information, email Cindy. Time: 3pm – 5pm Location: Zoom online Future of Oceans Lecture - "What Can Puffins Tell Us About The Impact Of Climate Change On Marine Ecosystems?”- Sun, Mar 14th *New* *Online* The Port Townsend Marine Science Center continues it's Future of Oceans lecture series by welcoming John F. Piatt, Ph.D. John’s talk will focus on Tufted Puffins in Alaska, how the composition of their diets reflects long-term cycles in marine climate, and how puffins and other seabirds reacted to the strong marine heatwave (“The Blob”) in 2014-2016. Free, get tickets here. Time: 3 pm, Location: Zoom Online. Strait Up Magazine Seeking Submissions - Deadline Mon, Mar 15th *New* *Online* The magazine is looking for creative writing, art, and photography for their Spring/Summer 2021 issue; the deadline is March 15th. This local community magazine features all kinds of creative work, as well as nonfiction works reflecting current issues in Jefferson County. Strait Up is a print-only, bi-annual magazine that deepens connection to this place featuring diverse voices and content. Email with questions or submissions. If you haven't read Strait Up yet, you can order a any of their four issues online or purchase the most recent issue at Aldrich's, the Food Co-op, Chimacum Corner Farmstand, Finnriver, Imprint Books, or Mad Hatter & Co. Local 20/20 Council Meeting - Wed, Mar 17th *New* *Online* The monthly Local 20/20 Steering Council meeting is open to all and welcomes those interested in active involvement in Local 20/20 leadership. Newcomers are always welcome. If you'd like a virtual orientation, please email Marlow. For online meeting information, contact Mark. Time: 4-6 pm Location: Zoom meeting Jefferson Land Trust Conservation Breakfast - Thurs, Mar 18th *New* *Online* This is a chance to explore the wild green Quimper Wildlife Corridor that stretches across Port Townsend from Fort Worden to Middlepoint, and its impact on wildlife and the community. Nan Evans, of KPTZ’s Nature Now, will host conversations with special guest historians, naturalists, urban planners, health practitioners, community builders, and long-time corridor advocates. Conservation Breakfast 2021 will explore how far they’ve come in this community-driven protection story, and outline a bold vision for future protection. Free, RSVP here. Time: 9-10:30 am Location: Online March History Happy Hour: Historic Photography - Fri, Mar 19th *New* *Online* Bartenders Sophia Elan and Alexander Moats as well as Jefferson County Historical Society's Ellie DiPietro for a history-steeped happy hour. Mix up a thematic cocktail with the bartender-led tutorial (non-alcoholic versions too!), then enjoy your drink as they share some fun facts about the history of photography in Jefferson County. First, a whirlwind journey through the history of photography. Next you'll learn about photo re-touching before Photoshop, discuss how photography is used in research, and get a behind-the-scenes look at some of the more interesting photographs in the JCHS Collection. You can register here for free. They will then send you the Zoom link to tune in, as well as a list of ingredients for the drinks. A recording of the program will be available to all registered participants, so if you can’t make the date but would like to see the program, be sure to register! If you’re able, please consider supporting JCHS by becoming a member. Time: 5:00 – 6:00 pm Location: Online Port Townsend Marine Science Center Benefit Auction - Wed, Mar 24th *New* *Online* Join the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) for their virtual live auction, title "You, Me & The Salish Sea". It features updates on PTMSC happenings and how it has changed lives, tantalizing live auction items, music, and silent auction items. Register for the live auction by noon March 24th. Register anytime for the silent auction ((runs for a week starting March 17). Questions? Contact them at (360) 385-5582, or info@ptmsc.org. Community Notices Local 20/20 COVID-19 Resources l2020.org/COVID-19/ *Online* A central location for community-wide information relating to COVID-19, updated frequently. Includes Reliable Information Sources, Vaccine info link, Food Sources, Community Covid-19 Resource pages, Giving and Getting Assistance, Community Events Online, Community Face Mask Program, and information web posts related to COVID-19. Look in the red box at the top of the page for all the newest information. Rising COVID Case Rates - Rising COVID Risk! The Jefferson County community has done exceptionally well holding widespread COVID at bay. Good Job!! We are now faced with a third wave and rising rates in our county. We must not let up and get lax in our vigilance! The Department of Emergency Management is asking you to: Be COVID S.M.A.R.T.! S: Sanitize Frequently M: Mask appropriately - even with family & friends outside your household A: When socializing - stay in good air flow. Outside or Inside with fans and open windows R: Room Between People - Social Distancing reduces virus transmission T: Technology for Gatherings - Use zoom or other conferencing technology instead of in-person visits Cedarroot Folk School is Hiring SpringRain Farm Now Hiring Several positions are available, and interviews are happening now. The sustainable integrated-systems farm has a "limited hierarchy," with team members participating where they are needed. Job descriptions and online application are available on their website. Jefferson Land Trust Is Hiring a Half-Time Communications Coordinator The Jefferson Land Trust has a track record of high quality and innovative conservation work preserving habitat, working farms and forests in Jefferson County. The half-time (with benefits) Communications Coordinator will report to the Communications Manager and will support the mission of the Land Trust by showcasing our work and ensuring the organization has positive and widespread visibility in the region. See the full job posting and read the complete position description here. Veg Rx: Fresh Produce at The Food Co-op January through March, the Food Co-op's partnership in the Veg Rx program offers $20/month in fresh produce buying-power. If your family qualifies for Apple Health and you have at least one person in your household under age 18, talk with your Jefferson Healthcare clinician about your food budget. Veg Rx can help stretch your fresh-food dollars. During the Farmers Market season, you can use your VegRx for fresh produce at the Markets. Farmers Market Launches BIPOC Business Start-up Fund Jefferson County Farmers Markets (JCFM) has launched a Farmers Market BIPOC Business Start-up Fund. Applications are now being accepted, and will be open until funds are exhausted. The Fund seeks to reduce barriers for small business entrepreneurs to join the farmers market with low overhead and have a successful market season. Those applying to the Fund may receive $250- $1000 to procure supplies, mobile equipment, marketing/signage, etc., or other start-up costs. There are no strings attached, and applicants are welcomed to a 4-hour ‘Bootstrap Business’ class, to hone a business plan, led by the Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship, a Fund partner. The Farmers Market Vendor Application, and new Fund Application are available here. Free Biochar! Spring must be in the air. The Olympic Carbon Fund is giving away biochar again! Farms are eligible for whole cubic yards of biochar. Backyard food growers are eligible for the Bucket Share: All the biochar you want, ten gallons at a time. Read about both programs and about biochar generally on the OCF website. Housing Solutions Network Call to Action Now more than ever, affordable housing is key to our health and economic recovery from the pandemic. Finding solutions is going to require action from all of us. Housing leaders and advocates across Jefferson County have created a Community Call to Action for Housing. They are calling on everyone to take action; individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and government all have a role to play. Today, they ask you to stand with them and: READ THE DECLARATION & CALL TO ACTION SIGN YOUR NAME Please spread the word by sharing this message. Join the Jefferson County Farmers Market Board of Directors The Jefferson County Farmers Market Board is an enthusiastic group of market vendors and community members who love local food and strengthening our local economy. We have two open board member positions. If you have: experience with fundraising, marketing, policy writing, graphic design; connections with organizations or groups; or experience inspiring people to volunteer their time, please consider applying! Submit a completed application here. Learn more here. Local 20/20 Social Justice Workgroup Webpage Now Live *Online* Besides the Local 20/20 Social Justice Statement and Addendum, the newly launched pages feature sources we are reading and discussing, community organizations and businesses to support, a spotlight on a regional community artist, and links to other reading and visual resources. Our intent is to learn and share how to be an antiracist, how to support antiracist policies and ideas, and how to incorporate anti- racism into our core purpose, identifying the relationship between climate justice and social justice. To view the new pages, go here. You can find it here or at the Resiliency of the Heart group webpages. Check out our New Music section (on the first link) to share the voices of young Native Americans. Local 20/20 Statement on Systemic Racial and Social Inequities As our hearts, minds, and bodies survive and move through the COVID 19 pandemic and into the uprising of voices demanding social and racial justice sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement, Local 20/20 acknowledges the existence of systemic racial and social inequities in our country. With compassion, we “take a knee” in solidarity with victims of oppression in any form. We pledge to work harder at understanding what it takes to make positive change toward our collective goals for policy that reflect antiracist actions and ideas. Local 20/20’s mission is to promote sustainability and resilience through advocacy and education. We recognize that our goals of a healthy existence for all can ONLY be achieved through policies that uphold racial and social equity. As we enjoy the benefits of living in this incredible paradise, we also acknowledge that we live on land usurped by European Settlers from the Jamestown S’Klallam, the Lower Elwah Klallam, the Port Gamble S’Klallam, the Skokomish, the Quinault, the Quileute, the Hoh, and the Makah tribes. Read about actions that have emerged since we first posted this statement. See updated readings in our Resilience Review section below on this topic. Host a Meeting on the Local Housing Emergency *Online* The HSN's Outreach Housing Action Team is releasing the Cultivating Community Solutions to the Housing Crisis video online to continue reaching broader audiences and inspiring more action. You can view the video here. You can continue spreading this call to action by sharing this video in the community. COVID-19 is a threat multiplier to the challenges our struggling community members were already facing. You can join the HSN Giving Circle here. Just Soup on Tuesdays On Tuesday, 11:30-1:30, Just Soup provides free, hot soup lunches at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1020 Jefferson St, on the Tyler St. bus line [by the Bell Tower.] Enter the rear church parking lot on Franklin, and whether you are on foot, bike, or car, you will be in line for curbside pickup, with masks, gloves, and safe distancing protocols in place. Pick up a lunch for yourself or your neighbor in need. No questions asked. Many partners and supporters have come together to feed Port Townsend one bowl at a time. This information also appears on Local 20/20 COVID- 19 Resources Meals Page here. Times and Locations: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays, St. Paul's Episcopal Church Download Port Townsend Walking Times Map Local 20/20 Transportation Lab's popular walking times map is downloadable here. It provides approximate travel time on foot between points. Estimates are based on an average speed of 3 mph. Walking is healthy, social, fun, costs nothing, keeps your carbon footprint small and allows you to maintain social distance. Use the map to find new routes across our beautiful town. Emergency Text Alerts from Jefferson County Sign up to receive Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management’s emergency alerts by text on your mobile phone and/or by email. NIXLE messages provide crucial information in an emergency & are sent directly to your text-enabled device and/or email. The sign up web page also has information about other alert and warning systems, including the tsunami warning system and the WSDOT alert system. A Tool for Neighborhood Organization Nextdoor is a private social network for YOUR neighborhood. Use this link to join one of 59 Nextdoor Neighborhoods in Jefferson County. Currently there are 12,175 subscribers, with many new members joining each day. Email Pete Hubbard with questions or comments. Calling Local Photographers! Local 20/20 Weekly Announcements invites local photographers to submit images that capture the character of our community and its natural setting. For the opening photo of each weekly email, we seek local color, horizontal (“landscape”) orientation, and jpeg format. Please no children, pets or recognizable faces. Kindly send to events@l2020.org. Please include your name in the jpeg filename. We are an all-volunteer non-profit, so compensation for your talent and generosity is a photo credit and our profound thanks. Resilience Readings Do you have readings, podcasts or videos to share that are aligned with our Local 20/20 mission? Please submit them here for consideration. Capital: The Doomsday Machine (or How to Repurpose Growth Capital) *New* Richard Heinberg examines the insights of David Fleming in this recent essay. Fleming described six kinds of capital, (natural, human, social, scientific/cultural, material, and financial) and noted that each could be used in two ways: as foundational capital for societal maintenance or as growth capital for expansion of population and consumption. Heinberg highlights Fleming’s insight that a healthy society preserves foundational capital but periodically destroys or constrains growth capital. Heinberg’s efforts for years have been to increase awareness that the exponential growth of population and our consumption of resources cannot be sustained on a plant of finite resources. His aim is to avoid the societal collapse on a level never before experienced by our now global civilization. Heinberg describes ways we can give away growth capital; one of the supporting examples he offers is the potlatch ceremonies of the indigenous people of our region. Heinberg goes on to describe how our current society uses all six types of capital in the pursuit of endless growth. Make no mistake, Heinberg offers a grim outlook for global collapse if we do not change our ways. However, despite being a realist, Heinberg continues to explore ways that we might soften the blow in his sections, “Is There a Way out of This Thing” and “Preparing for What’s Next.” These two sections are especially relevant for readers interested in forging a local response to global challenges. Please read Heinberg’s new essay linked here. Also, local readers should please take note of the photo credit for the piece of art that accompanied this Resilience.org article: Watercolor by James G. Swan depicting the S'Klallam people of Chief Chertzemoka at Port Townsend. Our Moral Fate: Allen Buchanan on Escaping Tribalism *New* This interview is of an academic who studies how humans developed morality and how morality and tribalism both evolved and coexist in the species Homo sapiens (so-called “wise man”). I found this conversation tremendously enlightening and potentially useful. If we are to stand a chance of not only confronting the challenges that seem to threaten the existence of American democracy but of dealing with global climate change, we will need to “escape” from the negative effects of tribalism. Buchanan views the challenge of confronting tribalism incredibly difficult, but he does offer a glimmer of hope and a few suggestions that we might, just maybe, implement. It all starts with an awareness of the potential for every one of us to engage in tribalistic thought and behavior. I recommend this article to all of us who imagine a truly resilient local community because it highlights a challenge that may be a potent obstacle. Please find the article, originally from MIT Press Reader, at this link to Salon. The Arctic Has a Cloud Problem *New* As an ardent follower of climate science, I've paid especial attention to progress made in the understanding of how clouds form and what their role will be in future heating or cooling. The impacts can be huge, but the existing models don’t really factor in clouds, as the science has been scanty. It's kind of like the Joni Mitchell song "Both Sides Now,"-- “I really don’t know clouds at all.” This report by The Atlantic authors Quanta and Max Kozlov talks about clouds and how iodine seems to be an especially potent particle for cloud formation. Apparently, iodine is a naturally occurring component that gets into the atmosphere from melting sea ice, algae, and the sea surface. Its concentrations in the atmosphere have tripled over the past 70 years, and this will keep increasing in a positive feedback loop. While this article describes laboratory science it also talks about how this research will inform investigations in the field in the ongoing effort to help understand just how big a hole we’re digging for ourselves. Please find the article here at The Atlantic, which allows a few free articles per reader per month. What Does an Ecological Civilization Look Like? Yes! Magazine’s Spring 2021 issue is focused on “Ecological Civilization.” In their introduction they lay out the case that climate change is far more serious than most people understand and existing plans for responding to it are doomed to fall short unless we make deep and sweeping systemic changes. “We need to forge a new era for humanity —on that is defined, at its deepest level, by a transformation in the way we make sense of the world, and a concomitant revolution in our values, goals, and collective behavior.” They then describe “six rules” for humans rejoining the natural world including diversity, balance, fractal organization, life cycles, subsidiarity, and symbiosis. While the authors admit that we have a long way to go towards making this vision a reality they maintain that it is possible, and that young people especially are looking for a future worldview that they can believe in. I urge everyone, young and old and in- between, to read this essay and think about being part of the solution revolution rather than riding the business-as-usual train all the way to the end of the line. Find the essay (14 minute read) and the many really great accompanying articles here. Massive Landslide Cools Fjord From Hakai Magazine, a journal of “coastal science and communities,” author Nicola Jones reports from the waters of the Salish Sea but north of us. At the head of the Bute Inlet on approximately November 28th of last year, a massive landslide was triggered by melting permafrost and a retreating glacier. It went undetected for days even though it is estimated that the wave created when it got to the glacial lake may have been as high as 110 meters in places. The water scoured out the river channel as it traveled some 70 km down the inlet. As a result the waters of the inlet, which had been significantly warming, were suddenly cooled back to where they had been in the year 2000. While there salmon habitat has been thoroughly disrupted for now, the overall impact longer-term is unknown. Please find this interesting article here. If you have not visited Hakai Magazine before, I encourage you to do so. There are a wide variety of articles on topics of interest to marine ecosystems with special, but not exclusive, focus on the Salish Sea and the coastal communities along its shore. And the photography is amazing. Hakai Magazine. photo credit: Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute Activating the Local Food System in Emergency Responses This article is from the peer-reviewed Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development and highlights the work of the non-profit organization Fresh Approach, which operates in the Bay Area. They present their response to the pandemic as they reached out to local farms in order to fill food boxes for those who in need. They used local food banks as distribution points and provided appropriately sized deliveries as USDA contractors for the 'farmers to families' food box program. It's a short report that illustrates the ability of small diverse local farms to be nimble as the backbone of a community food system. Locally, we had some of the same activity going on through our primary USDA contractor, OlyCAP. This is a great reminder of the central importance of a community’s food system to emergency resilience: please find this article here. photo credit: Fresh Approach. Why Avoiding Climate Change Maladaptation Is Vital Sometimes in discussions relative to climate change people get tripped up over the semantic difference between mitigation and adaptation. In general mitigation refers to reducing our carbon footprint so we help slow or stop global warming. Adaptation typically refers to action taken in preparation for or response to the effects of climate change. However, there is also such a thing as maladaptation, making changes that either further contribute to climate change or have other unintended consequences. This guest post recently published in Carbon Brief discusses how we should think about proposed solutions to problems we face now or in the future. For one thing they advocate focusing on vulnerabilities. A good adaptation solution would help alleviate current problem but also address underlying vulnerabilities. Potential solutions must be considered from the perspectives of all stakeholders, including those not typically present at the policy making tables, also typically those most vulnerable. Please consider the implications and applications for our local situation. You can find the article here. photo credit: Lisa Schipper/Climate Brief The Great Awakening: An Excerpt As we consider the challenges of global climate change and myriad intersecting crises, we first try to understand why it is happening and then try to imagine rational responses. Multiple thinkers identify “overshoot” the core of the problem. In our effort to grow endlessly, we are burning through resources faster than our planet can provide them. Most of the proposed solutions to current challenges continue to rely upon growth and market capitalism as an organizing paradigm. This post at Resilience.org is the first chapter of a book titled "The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life amidst Capitalist Ruins," by David Bollier and Anna Grear. Bollier and Grear propose “new” ways of understanding our challenges and “new” solutions. They discuss how previous societies have also run into overshoot situations and argue that a common response is for societies tp transform themselves to freely share knowledge and management of property and production, moving away from capitalism to a more local, substance economy, with examples from previous civilizations. They identify certain milestones that sound familiar to our present situation. This excerpt includes a link to where you can purchase it and a link to download it for free. If you’re ready for some good paradigm busting reading and thinking please find the Chapter 1 excerpt here. Photo credit: Ship of Fools by Hieronymus Bosch/ Resilience.org The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record To understand what’s happening to the Earth you need a multi-dimensional perspective. When we consider climate change, we usually come at it from a human or at best a biological perspective. We study the rise and fall of civilizations and wonder if the dominance of homo sapiens across the globe might threaten other species. Modern ecological theories such as the Gaia hypothesis and Holling’s socio-ecological resilience envision Earth as a self-regulating biosphere whose purpose is to maintain an environment fit for life. But there is much more to the story. The sheer mass and momentum of Earth’s geology and its dance with the geochemical influence of atmospheric CO2 levels may in fact be the more dominant driver of climate change. This long-read from The Atlantic science writer Peter Brannen takes us on a fascinating romp back through geologic time. Tracking CO2 levels and tying them to the paleoclimate record, Brannen also keep us connected to biologic conditions to see what the science is telling us. Although The Atlantic has a paywall, it usually allows a few free articles per month to each IP address, please find this highly recommended article here. Photo credit: Brendan Pattengale/The Atlantic. The Efficiency Curse Well-known food author Michael Pollan writes this op-ed in The Washington Post on food system resilience. He discusses how our food system has developed to be very efficient and how this helps to keep prices low. But efficiency comes at the price of diminished system resilience. Pollan helps us understand how different supply chains exist for retail customers and for institutional customers such as restaurants or schools. He covers the problems that can arise when production becomes too centralized or big and discusses the issue of farming mono crops versus diversified cropping. Diverse small farms, such as those in the PT/Chimacum area, can more easily adapt to challenges. Pollan also offers the perspective that while efficiency is easy to measure, resilience is not. If a community purposely seeks to improve the resilience of its food systems it should understand that it will be making an investment in lowering the risk of adverse outcomes for hard-to-predict hard times. Please find the article here. The Washington Post has a paywall but usually allows several free articles per month before the paywall cuts you off. Illustration credit: Mark Allen Miller/Washington Post Rondout Riverport 2040 Vision. Local 20/20’s name refers not to the year we lost down the COVID hole, but to vision. We can use the power of imagination to look together towards our future and decide what we want it to look like. This involves the process of thinking critically and searching our souls for what values we want to preserve and amplify and choosing what things we can do without. This wonderful article from Andrew Willner at resilience.org imagines a future on the Hudson River and is an admirable example of how we can reconfigure a post-carbon future in response to climate change. It is a shining example of how place shapes the imagination of a people. Those of us now living in the coastal Salish communities have ample food for thought from our indigenous ancestors as well as other more recent arrivals. We are limited only by our imaginations. Please read this article and have fun imagining what things might look like in the place where we live at the branching of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Kalama Methanol Refinery and the Thin Green Line The January column for Local 20/20’s Resilience Review in The Port Townsend Leader is from Polly Lyle, a member of the Local 20/20 Climate outreach group. She describes the ramifications of a proposed methanol refinery in Kalama, Washington, and shares some good news on the recent developments from WA Department of Ecology. Learn more about that proposal, as well as another one in Oregon, in this article. Insurrection, Pandemic, and Censorship In this article, thinker Richard Heinberg reviews recent tumultuous political events and places them in context. In a previous essay he discussed the breakdown of consensus reality (see article below). Here he returns to that theme as he focuses on communication and censorship. At first he seems to be defending the rights of people to say whatever they want and that we will have to learn to live with cognitive dissonance. But then he turns a corner. He suggests holding the line not merely at spreading lies but also at speech that threatens harm to others. Although Heinberg avoids discussion of how we should consider anti-public health (e.g. vaccination conspiracy theories) speech, he does remind us to think critically. He urges us to build emotional resilience so that we might best help our communities navigate “the craziness to come.” Please find the article here. A Farmer and His Extra Row From the Transition Town of Jericho, Vermont, author Laura Markowitz shares this inspirational story of how a community responded when a local farmer said he would love to plant an extra row of butternut squash but didn’t have the labor he would need to pull that off. The Transition Town community responded they could support that need, so the farmer planted in early summer. Harvest time is always weather dependent, and in this case the threat of an early frost required short notice to gather the laborers. About a dozen people showed up and picked 584 squash in little more than an hour. A ton of food for locals in need was grown by a partnership between a skilled farmer and a community supportive of local agriculture. This is a great concept that would work for us. Please find the article here. Mom, We Crashed The Planet Our neighbor across Admiralty Inlet, Vicki Robin, shares her thoughts about planetary physics, consumption, oil, and overshoot. Vicki asks a lot of “what if” questions and then wonders why we are not making any real progress on solving the climate crisis we face. She offers up the analogy of addiction and the approach of the “Anonymous” programs, with their first step of recognize that whatever we are doing is not working, its not helping to leave the planet in a better place than we found it. She then asks why we can’t see that unless we actually change our behaviors we threaten the future of everything we love with collapse. What follows is a wide- ranging exploration through literature and philosophy, Shakespeare and Monty Python, focused on our predicament. Please find the article at Resilience.org or at the Vicki Robin blog. Saving Farmland, Supporting Young Farmers This article focuses on reforming our concepts of land use and preserving land for Common Purpose. Author David Bollier gives an overview of his latest podcast, Agrarian Commons, titled “Frontiers of Commoning.” It starts with an important observation, especially for theses times: “At the root of peace is sufficiency and wholeness, and that means people having their needs met, people being fed.” Bollier interviews a young organic farmer from Maine and her multi-pronged strategy to promote “community-supported and collectively stewarded farmland.” Bollier mentions a program there called “Seaweed Commons” that promotes seaweed aquaculute and “ecological literacy of stakeholders in the marine economy." Bollier discusses this and other such endeavors as critical to efforts to “build new types of food systems that are regenerative, diversified, and community minded.” Anyone who wants to be part of creating a new local and resilient food system here will find this discussion of value. Please find the discussion and link to the podcast at Resilience.org or at the David Bollier Blog. Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly after Emissions Go to Zero From Inside Climate News, Bob Berwyn summarizes climate- related findings from 2020. Bven though our economy slowed during 2020 due to the pandemic, the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere continued to rise to record levels. But unexpected findings show that despite the La Niña oceanic cooling effect of 2020, we still had record warming even compared to 2016, a year when the El Niño warming effect dominated. The rate of warming in the polar regions was found to be about three times the global average, and the thawing of permafrost is now well underway releasing carbon in a positive feedback loop. Also as polar ice melting accelerated, we are now seeing global sea level rise of 2 inches per decade on average. Berwyn also reviews the findings that many places in the world most affected by climate change were the least studied. Finally, an unexpected but welcome result from research indicates that if we can get to net zero emissions we stand a good chance of breaking the vicious feedback cycle and warming may level off and stabilize within just a couple decades. Quite a hopeful thing that should motivate us to redouble efforts to stop our greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. Find the article here. In Pursuit of Better Agriculture (and a Better Society) The way we farm and the way we think are connected. When, 10-12 thousand years ago we started growing annual plants to feed ourselves and this permitted cities and civilization to take root. We started to think of ourselves as being in control because we grew food rather than simply gathering what nature provided. We started to think short term instead of long term. In this interview of Bill Vitek, a colleague of Wes Jackson, Olivia Malloy discusses the movement to explore the value of “New Perennials” as something both new and ancient.” Vitek sees growing perennial grains as a way to look to nature and observe how ecosystems exist. Vitek asks us to think critically that culture that is based on extraction, consumption. The way we try to turn land into a machine and make it work non-stop, and how we treat workers the same way. He observes that our education systems are geared to preparing kids to live a short-term, fast-paced life; the gig economy. They also discuss how the emergence of a new, truly sustainable, agriculture can scale up to meet the need and co-exist with our existing dominant paradigm during a period of transition. The concepts discussed are very much relevant to how we radically transition our systems to address converging crises and climate change. Initially published in a new journal titled Merion West, please find the article here. 2020: The Year Consensus Reality Fractured Let’s get real, people. 2020 has been a year that has at times seemed surreal or even unreal. In this year-end essay Richard Heinberg discusses the concept of consensus reality. He first describes how consensus reality develops then talks about how it has fallen apart. Heinberg argues that a breakdown of consensus reality during a period of economic, political, or social emergency may contribute to societal collapse when it undermines the social trust that is required for complex societies to function. Heinberg takes it a step further when he suggests part of the problem is a deep “blindspot” and lack of a “unifying vision” here in the U.S. If our “main guiding value is only ‘more” (consumerism) then we continue to dig ourselves a very deep hole indeed. In the last part of the essay Heinberg optimistically speculates that despite the challenges a new consensus is possible. He describes a very positive view of what that that could look like and though he acknowledges that such a reunification will be difficult, he leaves us with the notion that it is something worth striving for. Please enjoy a peaceful holiday season and find Heinberg’s article here. Citizens Climate Assembly: Report from the UK There are indicators that our existing national political system is not up to the task of responding to the climate crisis. For multiple reasons our political "leaders" seem unlikely to enact the significant change we need within the urgent timeframe required. One possible alternative providing a glimmer of hope is a “Citizens Climate Assembly." A citizens assembly is a form of participatory democracy in which members of the community are called to duty to listen to the evidence and craft recommended actions and strategies. The UK convened a climate assembly earlier this year with 108 members of the public randomly selected. They met over a period of five months and heard testimony from 47 subject matter experts. A 556-page report from this citizen group was recently released and an article from carbonbrief.org goes over some of its findings and offers links to the full report. The hope is that citizens working together can find solutions that will be acceptable to a majority of stakeholders and that it will help coerce and support politicians to enact needed policies. The report provides 50 key recommendations to help the UK reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. In a world where both our ecosystems and our democracies seem imperiled this approach offers a way forward. Please see the post above on a Washington State Citizen Climate Assembly starting January 2021. For a detailed look at the UK effort and its findings please access the article here. Transforming Life on Our Home Planet, Perennially This essay by Wes Jackson et al is the first part of a new book, The Perennial Turn: Contemporary Essays from the Field, and it is a joy. The authors suggest analysis as the first step in facing “the multiple, cascading crises that humans have created.” He argues that agriculture may be “the worst mistake in the history of the human race" (argued by Jared Diamond among many others) and that by ramping up agriculture to industrial scales we have monkeyed with ecosystems that we do not fully understand or appreciate. The book discusses how our claim to dominion over the resources of the entire planet sets up an artificial separation of humans from nature. They key thing to understand, the authors write, is that earth’s atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere are not separate from the biosphere. Earth is alive in a holistic way. As they put it, “We hold this to be a truth that must become self evident: Our shared human responsibility is to live on, not dominate, our home planet.” Success will be measured by the “long-term flourishing of ecosystems, including people.” Their prescriptions do not reject reductionist science but call for greater appreciation of complex systems and a “revolutionary change in theory and practice.” They reject fantasies of unlimited growth. They close soberly by considering Wendell Berry, who says we live on “the human estate of grief and joy.” They acknowledge that our cumulative harms of the past mean that unless we change we face grief “unprecedented in human history.” Please find the article here. Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story This worthy yet entertaining documentary on YouTube is an eye opener. The documentary also goes into wasted land, water and inputs. The documentary is free, with a few ads. Filmmakers and food lovers, Jen and Grant, dive into the issue of food waste and pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food for 6 months. In addition, the film looks into expiry dates, perfect produce, and portion sizes, supposedly little things that add up to an overwhelming problem. You can watch the video here. It Took a Townsend The November column for Local 20/20’s Resilience Review in The Port Townsend Leader is from Tracy Grisman, who is a member of Local 20/20's Beyond Waste Action Group. Tracy provides a recap of the Repair Cafe she and others organized earlier this year. The title of the article is “It Took a Townsend: A Fond Memory from 2020." In the article we are introduced us to a new term, the Repairocene (noun): A time when common goals of healing, repairing, and restoring of our lands, our things, and our relationships are shared. Port Townsend’s Repair Café debut was a smash hit! (No pun intended.) You can find the article on our website here. The "Market" Won't Save Us from Climate Disaster This article from The Guardian’s Robert Devine argues that “expecting the free market to fix global warming is like trying to pound nails with a saw.” It quotes a former Chief Economist for the World Bank calling climate change “the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen.” Devine goes into what “market failure” means and how a defect in communication has contributed to consumers not having the appropriate information when they choose to buy, say, a gallon of gasoline. He talks about how ecosystem services have been terribly undervalued for too long. Devine stops short of offering a prescription for radical departure from the free market but offers some ideas for how the current system can be greatly improved and perhaps work towards our goals instead of against them. Please find the article here. Food for Thought Author Leander Jones tackles the problems of our dominant industrial agriculture model and how a system that relies on global production and transportation contributes to risk for some communities when it is stressed by situations like Covid-19. Jones offers an alternative model practiced in Germany that combines collective land ownership with CSA membership. Such a model adheres to principles such as localism, ecological sustainability, common ownership and production for need rather than profit. It pays farm workers a living wage that is independent of crop fluctuations. CSA members are encouraged to help work on the farm and invest their labor as well as their capital to help ensure success. The operation Jones highlights resists growing in size beyond that which serves its members. Also, Jones illustrates how growing local food for local consumption can greatly help reduce agriculture’s greenhouse gas footprint. It's a model worth exploring locally. Please find the article here. No Matter Who Wins The 2020 election is behind us and many people feel optimistic for our future once again. Thus it is a good time to inject some big picture reality into the equation. Some may equate reality with pessimism but as our political leaders begin to transition to establishing new priorities and approaches to problem solving it would be good to base our plans on reality and science. Nate Hagens is with the University of Minnesota and the Institute for the Study of Energy and the Future. He is one of those big picture guys, especially in finance and energy systems. Just before the election he wrote an essay in which he draws our attention back to the really big problems we face, all of which have in recent months been forced off the radar screen of our limited attention spans. He covers the impact of COVID and its economic impact, pending oil supply problems, and our interdependence with the natural world as well as offering some great titanic iceberg analogies. Hagens offers a number of quotes that begin with the same phrase “No matter who wins the election” such as “we will have to face a more complex and less certain energy future.” Readers are encouraged to take the time and inform themselves on the Big Picture with Nate Hagens, find the article here. How to Fix Our Country's Empathy Problem, Starting with the Farmworkers Who Keep Us Fed This article from Salon’s Ashlie Stevens provides good food for thought. It takes up the situation of the migrant workers who play a key role in our food supply chain. Most of us are mostly unaware of the role these essential workers play and of the conditions with which they contend. Stevens argues that many of us have lost a sense of empathy, that we don’t consider the suffering that others must endure simply to earn the money needed to support themselves and their families. We have become deficient in empathy. As we consider how to make our local food system more resilient for the challenging times ahead, we should create a system that works for all stakeholders. Justice for front line workers fosters stability and resilience and, more importantly, it is simply the right priority for our fellow human beings. Please find the article here. Kiss the Ground This fantastic documentary presents the amazing potential of regenerative agriculture. Narrated by Woody Harrelson and featuring Ian Somerhalder, this 2020 Tribeca Film Festival selection was produced by Josh & Rebecca Tickell and provides viewers with the compelling story of how our soil can not only sequester carbon but even draw it down from the atmosphere. The film includes the perspectives of thought leaders, soil conservationists, ranchers, and farmers. This is one of those rare examples of something tangible we can undertake to head off a catastrophe. You can watch it now on Netflix, or on October 22nd you can stream it for $1. This 84 minute film will leave you feeling... hopeful. To watch a trailer, and to learn more, please visit the Film’s website here. The Great Climate Migration Compared to many places, we live in a region where the climate forecast offers reasonable temperature and adequate rainfall. While we cannot expect to escape the direct nor the indirect effects of climate change, we may be one of the places where people from other regions migrate to escape inhospitable temperatures and humidity, drought, or recurring natural disasters. It is, however, a complex situation. A recent report from ProPublica & The New York Times Magazine takes a look at the prospects for climate migration. They begin with analysis of the geophysical forecasts for the U.S. using county-level data displayed in a series of interactive maps. The accompanying article provides an in-depth analysis of the impacts on agriculture, water, and housing issues, as well as consideration of economic and social factors that are quite concerning. This is important information as we begin to think about how we might react and what community values we would like to uphold in such a scenario. The ProPublica article is here, and an interactive and comprehensive mapping feature is here. New Study Shows a Vicious Cycle of Climate Change Building on Layers of Warming Ocean Water It would have been easy to miss the alarming new report from researchers who describe how the Oceans are “stabilizing”. These days it would be quite understandable to welcome any sort of stabilizing but in our oceans this represents an ominous situation. The ability of our oceans to buffer the impacts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has allowed us to delay the onset of the major impacts of climate change forecast for the future. However, it seems the ability of the oceans to perform this service is ending far sooner than scientists had expected. One of the study's co-authors is Michael Mann of Penn State who also says we now cannot rule out some of the more dire risks including that atmospheric CO2 could triple by the year 2100, and that global average temperature could rise by 8 degrees F. Even as so much of our attention seems focused on things like the death toll from COVID-19 and an uncertain political situation we should also take time to assess our world from the big picture perspective and to act accordingly. Find the article by Bob Berwyn at Inside Climate News here. 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Sims Way #12 · Port Townsend, Wa 98368 · USA From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: (former) horse park parcel Date:Monday, March 1, 2021 11:07:36 AM From: tprosys@gmail.com Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 11:07:30 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Heidi Eisenhour Cc: Greg Brotherton; Kate Dean; Philip Morley Subject: (former) horse park parcel CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Commissioner Eisenhour, Thanks for responding to the questions I raised during public comment this morning (3/1/2021) regarding the now-former “horse park” parcel on Cape George Rd. One point of clarification: The parcel ( 001172002 ) is actually zoned RR-10; this can be seen by zooming in on the PDF map at https://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/DocumentCenter/View/683/Current-Zoning-Map-PDF? bidId= The county’s ArcGIS tool at https://gisweb.jeffcowa.us/LandRecords/ does not show all of the information about zoning which had previously been available with the county’s old mapping application, including the fact that the underlying zoning for the parcel in question is, in fact, RR-10, and that the zoning shown on ArcGIS as EPF-WM (Essential Public Facilities, Waste Management) is an overlay; i.e., ArcGIS only shows the overlay. I have been following the status of this parcel since 2008, when the now-defunct Jefferson Equestrian Association lobbied and convinced the BoCC to turn over those 80 acres for the semi-exclusive use of that organization, so I am quite sure about that zoning. Now that the JEA is gone from the picture, I’m reiterating my longstanding recommendation that 60 of those 80 acres – all but the 20 acres adjacent to the solid waste facility where the methane monitoring stations are located – would be well-suited for residential use and that the county should sell off that acreage as 6 parcels in accordance with the RR-10 zoning. At the current market price of about $20,000 per acre in that area, those 60 acres would be worth at least $1 million, money which I’m sure the county would be able to put to good use. Addressing the needs of our unhoused population comes to mind immediately; for example, what would it cost to revamp the large and long-unused part of the Chimacum Park adjacent to the Tri-Area Community Center for that purpose? Septic upgrades and additional restroom facilities and ____ (what else) ? Tom Thiersch Jefferson County From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Join Dr. Lynn Keenan on Coffee with Colleen this Wednesday to hear about Childcare in Clallam County Date:Monday, March 1, 2021 5:42:33 PM From: Clallam EDC Sent: Monday, March 1, 2021 5:42:18 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Join Dr. Lynn Keenan on Coffee with Colleen this Wednesday to hear about Childcare in Clallam County CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Join Dr. Lynn Keenan on Coffee with Colleen Wednesday Morning at 8am to learn about the Clallam County Childcare Industry. Lynn will discuss her preliminary findings as she has worked with Childcare businesses in Clallam County. Numbers and Types of Childcare Providers in Clallam County The Childcare Demand and the Gaps in the County The Troubling Underlying Economics of Operating a Childcare Business Licensing Barriers Proposed State Legislation Please join us: Join Zoom Meeting at 8 a.m., Wednesday Morning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81875115879? pwd=UnEzQjV1N09rM2ZLbFIzVVVxYzJoQT09 Meeting ID: 818 7511 5879 Passcode: 923050 One tap mobile +12532158782,,81875115879#,,,,,,0#,,923050# US (Tacoma) Consumer Goods Digital Strategy 2021 One Hour Free Class: Do you have a product that you would like to sell outside of the United States? Do you have any export-related questions? Hosted by the Consumer Goods Trade Specialist at the Washington State US Export Assistance Center. WA State Department of Commerce are offering up to $10,000 towards website globalization/localization services. • Learn about government programs for US companies who export • Discover the basics of digital strategy for eCommerce • Get a preview of the Website Globalization Review (WGR) Gap Analysis* • Qualify for up to $6,000 in grant funding to globalize your website • Enjoy a customized event, tailored to the Consumer Goods sector in WA When: March 24th, 10-11am Register here More Information can be found here. Doing Business with Our Local Governments Infrastructure funding is expected to be at an all time high in the next few years! We're here to help you get your small business ready to win these contracts. Over $100M will be spent in Clallam County by the WA State Dept of Transportation over the next two years to remove fish barriers across our state highways. Your EDC in partnership with the Washington Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) and USDoT Northwest Small Business Transportation Resource Center will be hosting weekly FREE technical classes for a month beginning on March 31st. Over $100M will be spent in Clallam County by the WA State Dept of Transportation over the next two years to remove fish barriers across our state highways. More information to follow. If you would like more information on these courses, please contact us at info@clallam.org. Choose Clallam First | ChooseClallamFirst.com Clallam County Economic Development Council | 338 W 1st St., Suite 105, Port Angeles, WA 98362 Unsubscribe kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us Update Profile | Customer Contact Data Notice Sent by info@clallam.org powered by Try email marketing for free today! From:Heidi Eisenhour To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Rayonier Carbon Report Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 7:41:22 AM Attachments:rayonier-carbon-report_issued-march-2021.pdf From: Adrian Miller Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 7:40:04 AM To: Kate Dean; Heidi Eisenhour; Greg Brotherton Subject: Rayonier Carbon Report CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Commissioners Dean, Eisenhour, and Brotherton, I wanted to share with you a copy of Rayonier's Carbon Report that we released yesterday. It provides an accurate summary of Rayonier's contribution to carbon sequestration and storage, both in the forest and harvested wood products. Given Rayonier's footprint in Jefferson County, the forests here are contributing quite a bit to these overall numbers. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. Best, Adrian -- Adrian Miller, Director of Public Affairs, Rayonier 19950 7th Avenue NE, Suite 200, Poulsbo, WA 98370 (O) 360-394-0595 (C) 360-620-0346 adrian.miller@rayonier.com March is Women's History Month From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: JCHS Programs in March Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 8:01:37 AM From: JeffCo Historical Society Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 7:59:40 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: JCHS Programs in March CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Key City Public Theatre and the Jefferson County Historical Society present: A special virtual performance of May’s Vote Weds, March 247:00 – 8:30 PM Hosted via Zoom Free and By Donation Register here on KCPT's Website Join us as we meet prim and proper Emma Smith DeVoe and outrageous, flamboyant May Arkwright Hutton who worked side by side -- though seldom eye to eye -- to win the vote for women in Washington State in 1910. Though they were as different as night and day, they agreed on "the one big thing” -- a woman's right to vote. Now May is gone, and Emma can’t get her out of her mind! KCPT will host a live introduction as well as a post-play discussion to bookend the performance. For more information please visit Key City Public Theatre's website. The Key City Public Theatre production of May’s Vote is funded in part by the Washington State Women’s Commission and the Washington State Historical Society through the Votes for Women Centennial Grant Program. Additional support provided by the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Humanities Washington, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. FIRST FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES Our 2021 First Friday Speaker Series celebrates the art of making, featuring makers from throughout Jefferson County and the broader peninsula. From food and fiber to metal and wood, we’re honoring materials and making of all kinds. Upcoming event: Fermentation with Midori Farm Friday, March 5 7:00 – 8:00 PM Hosted via Zoom Suggested donation: $10 Register here via Simpletix Join Hanako Myers and Marko Colby from Midori Farm as they share the basics of naturally fermenting vegetables through the process known as lactic acid fermentation. The demonstration will include the fundamentals of making sauerkraut and kimchi, as well a discussion about how Midori Farm products go from the vegetable fields to the wholesale market. Midori Farm is a 29-acre organic farm located in Quilcene, WA. They grow high quality organic vegetables, garden seedlings, and seeds, and craft their own traditionally fermented sauerkraut and kimchi from farm grown produce. The farm is owned and operated by Hanako Myers and Marko Colby, who are committed to ecologically sound growing practices that enrich the land and the greater community. The tools of close observation, attention to detail, and willful effort help them towards their goal of working with natural systems to grow delicious and nutritious food. Series Passes are available now! Series Pass: $75 for non-members, $65 for members Purchase your Series Pass on Simpletix. 2021 Upcoming Programs: April 2: Jewelry Making with Azure May 7: Metalwork with The Port Townsend Foundry June 4: Cider with Alpenfire Cidery HISTORY HAPPY HOUR Historic Photography Friday, March 195:00 – 6:00 PM Hosted via Zoom FREE Register here via Simpletix Join bartenders Sophia Elan and Alexander Moats as well as JCHS’s Ellie DiPietro for a history-steeped happy hour. Mix up a thematic cocktail with the bartender-led tutorial (non-alcoholic versions too!), then enjoy your drink as we share some fun facts about the history of photography in Jefferson County! After crafting a “picture perfect” drink worthy of its own social media account, we’ll embark on a whirlwind journey through the history of photography. Next we’ll learn about photo re-touching before Photoshop, discuss how photography is used in research, and get a behind-the-scenes look at some of the more interesting photographs in the JCHS Collection. We’ll send you the Zoom link to tune in and a list of ingredients for the drinks. A recording of the program will be available to all registered participants, so if you can’t make the date but would like to see the program, be sure to register! THE PORT TOWNSEND PAPER MILL – PAST,PRESENT, AND FUTURE The Jefferson County Historical Society and the Port Townsend Public Library are teaming up with the City of Port Townsend, the Port Townsend Paper Mill, KPTZ 91.9, the Swan School, and other partners to present a suite of programming this winter all about the Mill – it’s history, economic and workforce impact, recycling practices, and of course its product – paper! Upcoming event: An Oral History Radio Broadcast In Their Own Words: Mill Workers Past and Present Tuesday, March 30 6:00 – 7:00 PM Broadcast on KPTZ, 91.9FM FREE Tune in to join JCHS Executive Director Shelly Leavens for this one-hour broadcast featuring curated oral histories from the JCHS collection. Special thanks to interviewer Pam Clise for her support in collecting these stories. Explore all the upcoming Paper Mill programs on our website. COMMUNITY PROGRAMS OF INTEREST March 11th THPO Topic: Archaeology of the Sequim Prairie The archaeological record of Sequim Prairie and its environs stretches back at least 14,000 years. We will look at some of the more significant sites in the Sequim area and learn what these sites tell us about cultural adaptations to climate change and traditional ecological knowledge. THPO Topics are brought to you by the Jamestown S'Kllalam Tribal Library on the 2nd Thursday of the Month 3:00pm — 4:30pm. For Zoom link and more information call 360-681-4632 or email library@jamestowntribe.org Visit the Tribal Library website for more information. Image courtesy the Peninsula Daily News Port Townsend Public Library 2021 Community Read Don’t miss the Port Townsend Public Library’s 2021 Community Read: House Lessons: Renovating a Life by Erica Bauermeister. House Lessons received a 2020 Historic Preservation Award from JCHS, and we’re thrilled to see all the love around this book. Learn more about the annual Community Read on the Library's website. Welcome, Amy! Amy Swanson (she/her) is the newest member of TEAM JCHS as our Education and Programs Assistant. She will handle the day-to-day logistics and communications necessary to bring programs to life, including the Walking Tour Program, and other tours, lectures, and events throughout the year. Her background is in Outdoor Education and Social Justice, as a Children’s Nature Mentor and School Garden Educator. In 2018, she facilitated fundraising to construct a brand new elementary school garden in an abandoned community swimming pool. She has also worked extensively in Hospitality and Tourism as a Server & Bartender, Hostel Receptionist, and Tour Guide. Currently, Amy is completing a B.A. in History with a minor in Archives & Information Studies. When she isn’t working or studying, Amy enjoys painting and collage, singing, hiking, and dancing. Given the opportunity, she would also totally love to hang out with your dog. Members make us swoon. Thank you for your support! Our Mission: Through collections, research, exhibits and programs, we bring people together to share, learn and be inspired by Jefferson County arts and heritage. Copyright © 2021 Jefferson County Historical Society, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are a valuable member of our community. Please forward to your friends and family, and tell them to come party with us as members too! Our mailing address is: Jefferson County Historical Society 540 Water Street Port Townsend, WA 98368 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Take Action to Support Direct Aid for All Counties in the Next Coronavirus Rescue Package Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 8:46:17 AM From: NACo Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 8:46:01 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Take Action to Support Direct Aid for All Counties in the Next Coronavirus Rescue Package CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Having trouble viewing this email? Click Here NACo-primary-center_700px_1683049_1832951.png Vaccine-header_1815824.jpg TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT DIRECT AID FOR ALL COUNTIES IN THE NEXT CORONAVIRUS RESCUE PACKAGE On Saturday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the State and Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Funds legislation, part of the American Rescue Plan Act. The bill, now in the Senate, includes $350 billion in critical aid to state, local and territorial governments. If this bill becomes law, Jefferson County would be eligible to receive a direct allocation of $6,304,808 from the federal government. Please call on your U.S. Senators to support coronavirus relief that includes direct aid to counties on the front lines. Use our resources below to take action, including a full analysis of the bill, state profiles, customizable tweets and graphics and more. 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Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. www.jeffcountychamber.org 360.385.7869 director@jeffcountychamber.org Port Townsend Library Community Read Melody Sky Eisler, Library Director of the City of Port Townsend Public Library is excited to talk about this year’s 16th annual Community Read, House Lessons: Renovating A Life by Erica Bauermeister. The City proclaims March as the official "Reading Month." Community Read is designed to promote closer ties among community members through the shared experience of reading, sharing, and discussing the same book and ideas related to topics raised by the book. This year’s programs are mostly online to keep our community connected and safe. Learn more on the Library’s website: https://ptpubliclibrary.org/library/page/community-read Jefferson County businesses Chamber Cafe 10-11am Virtual Program There is no fee to attend and no membership required. Registration is necessary for Zoom access. More Info - Reservations 2021 Jefferson County Community Leadership Awards Nominations Open Now! Download Form click here! send completed form to: director@jeffcountychamber.org Nominate NOW! www.jeffcountychamber.org Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce | 2409 Jefferson Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368 Unsubscribe kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us Update Profile | Customer Contact Data Notice Sent by director@jeffcountychamber.org powered by Try email marketing for free today! Tuesday, March 2 From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: COVID-19 News | March 2, 2021 Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 11:00:28 AM From: Washington Counties (WSAC) Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 10:59:58 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: COVID-19 News | March 2, 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Want to receive this email in your inbox? Click here to subscribe. COVID-19 NEWSLETTER Take Action to Support Direct Aid for All Counties in the Next Coronavirus Rescue Package On Saturday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the State and Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Funds legislation, part of the American Rescue Plan Act. The bill, now in the Senate, includes $350 billion in critical aid to state, local and territorial governments. If this bill passes, your county would be eligible to receive a direct allocation from the federal government. Read more Announcements and Resources STATE More than 70,000 COVID-19 Vaccines Given at State-Led Mass Vaccination Sites The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is pleased to share more than 70,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered at the state’s mass vaccination sites over the past month. Thanks to the hard work of DOH staff, the Washington National Guard, and local and private sector partners, 70,774 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given out across the four state-led mass vaccination sites. Read more COVID-19 Vaccination Demographics Data Added to Dashboard The Department of Health (DOH) added data on vaccination by race, ethnicity and age to the COVID-19 dashboard. To see the data, click on the Vaccinations tab at the top of the dashboard, then select “Who is getting vaccinated?” directly below. Read more COVID-19 Prevention Efforts Remain Critical Despite Declining Trends The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) released the latest statewide situation report on COVID-19. Some of what the report findings include are, trends in cases, hospitalizations and deaths are largely continuing to decline, some concerning signs remain. COVID-19 transmission decreased in January following peaks in late December, but the reproductive number (Re) has remained close to 1 in both eastern and western Washington. Read more COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Update From the Washington State Department of Health The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) continues to make progress with our COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration efforts. As of Feb. 22, more than 1,411,453 doses of vaccine have been given across the state, which is more than 75% of the 1,821,705 doses that have been delivered to our providers and long-term care programs. Washington is currently averaging 25,346 vaccine doses given each day. We hit a new record Feb. 11, administering 44,872 doses in a single day, which is extremely close to our goal of vaccinating 45,000 people per day. This information can be found on the DOH data dashboard under the vaccines tab, which is updated three times per week. Read more EMPLOYMENT Real-Time Employer Demand The Employer Demand and Supply-Demand Reports have been updated through January 2021. January 2021 data shows that the ratio of job postings compared to unemployment benefit claimants has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The ratio for the number of job postings compared to those interacting with the unemployment insurance system from January 1 through January 30, 2021 was 0.31 job postings, whereas the January 2020 ratio was 1.59 job postings. Read more NOTEWORTHY Keep It Up, Washington. We are more than a year into the COVID-19 response. But with all the recent focus on vaccines, you might be wondering what else is happening with COVID-19 right now. Read more Top Health Officials Answer Your Questions! The Department of Health is leading with equity to keep Washington healthy. With more challenges to overcome, some of our state’s top public health experts teamed up during a special Q&A session to provide a deeper look into this unprecedented vaccine rollout. Read more One Year After Seeing First COVID-19 Death, Washington Expected to Surpass 5,000 This Week Washington is expected to surpass 5,000 COVID-19 deaths this week — almost exactly a year after the first was announced in the United States. But while the state absorbs that painful milestone, health officials are hopeful that a recent, consistent decline in deaths, combined with a ramp-up of vaccine distribution and continued masking and social distancing, mean better days are ahead. Read more VIRTUAL MEETINGS March 8, 12:00 pm | Virtual Assembly Register View this email in your browser This email was sent to Kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us | Why did I get this? Want to change how you receive these emails? Update your preferences | Unsubscribe from this list Copyright © 2021 WSAC, All rights reserved. 206 10th Ave SE · Olympia, WA 98501-1311 · USA | Contact Us From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: COVID19 in the Latino Community Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 1:56:01 PM From: elSieteDias Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 1:55:48 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: COVID19 in the Latino Community CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. View this email in your browser COVID19 in the Latino Community The El Siete Días team is continuing to drive the awareness of COVID-19 through our media channels and strong partnerships in the Washington. We are working hard to stay in front of the Latino people, engaging invaluable resources and leveraging our affiliations to prevent future infections. Our concern is containment. This is paralyzing many with fear, as a new variant is on the rise in our state. We have received reports of the first case of B.1.351 in Washington State and now seeing cases of B.1.1.7 increasing, especially in vulnerable communities. This is grave concern, as many see a new wave dominating and creating additional pain and suffering. Your Latino team continues to dedicate a large portion of our resources to this ever important campaign. Our previous special edition was welcomed with great success, which included important feedback from the Latino community and local health departments. In this effort we ask for your continued support, as many of the Spanish speaking residents in our area are unsure of the efficacy of the vaccine. Together these tools are powerful and effective in communicating resources available to the Latino community in the State of Washington. Please help us bring this terrible disease and epidemic to an end. Thank you and we look forward to speaking with you soon. Copyright (C) 2021 elsietedias. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. elsietedias 12005 NE 12th St Ste 26 Bellevue, WA 98005-2420 Add us to your address book Update Preferences | Unsubscribe Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp From:Earll M Murman To:jeffbocc Subject:ADO Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:45:46 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Dear Board of County Commissioners: I understand that consideration is being given to changing the designation of Jefferson County’s Associate Development Organization from EDC Team Jefferson to the Port of Port Townsend. I would like to share some general thoughts to consider as you weigh this decision. Regardless of which organization is designated as our county’s ADO, from my perspective we are currently under resourced in our economic development efforts. The current level of resources seems to support ongoing management and coordination, but does not provide adequate resources for strategic thinking and innovation. We particularly need that in the post COVID period. Although the Port is chartered for economic development, its scope in terms of economic sectors doesn’t seem to cover the entire landscape important to Jefferson County. The planning, creating, and operating functional areas directly related to the port is a sizable responsibility. Please give consider whether the port has the capacity to lead economic development efforts related to Food and Farm, Tourism and Retail, Small Entrepreneur, Arts and Culture and other important areas of our county. Looking online, best I can ascertain is that of the 40 Washington Counties, only 4 have their ports as designated ADOs (Chelan & Douglas, Columbia, Walla Walla). Another 3 have their chambers as designated ADOs (King, Kittas, Wahkiakum). The other 33 have separate EDC organizations as does Jefferson County. The four SE WA counties are combined into one Economic Development Association SEWEDA, although Columbia County also lists their port as an ADO. Having the ADO as part of the port is an exception. Before switching from our current designation to a new one, it might be worth seeing what can be learned from what works well and what challenges each of these options face. Although there are cultural and economic differences between Clallam and Jefferson Counties, we might benefit from taking a more regional approach to economic development. Perhaps that could help with the under resourced problem. I have been impressed with the great cooperation of these two county’s public health departments during the pandemic. The virus does not know about county boundaries. Maybe the north Olympic Peninsula economy could benefit from a more regional approach. And that makes me wonder about the roles of the counties two respective ADOs and the North Olympic Development Council. Maybe if there was one organization with two regional offices we might all prosper more. As mentioned above, the 4 SE WA counties are combined, and have a population comparable to Jefferson + Clallam. Chelan and Douglas Counties also appear to have a combined ADO with the CD Regional Port Authority. I hope these comments may help in your deliberations. Earll Murman 325 Lincoln St, Port Townsend (360) 821-9033 From:gatewayvcr@olympus.net To:Heidi Eisenhour; Greg Brotherton; Kate Dean Cc:Philip Morley; Julie Shannon Subject:Monthly Report from the Gateway Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:48:12 PM Attachments:Jefferson County-JCHS Yearly Overview 2021.xls CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Hello All, Here is the monthly Report from the Gateway Visitor Center. Any questions you might have, please contact me. Stay well, cheers, Bill Bill Roney, Manager Olympic Peninsula Gateway Visitor Center 93 Beaver Valley Road P. O. Box 65478 Port Ludlow, WA 98365 360-437-0120 Visitor Center 360-531-0120 cell www.gatewayvcr@olympus.net From:Donna Etchey To:jeffbocc Subject:Port Townsend/Jefferson County. Leader Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 5:20:54 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. To: County Commissioners Kate Dean Greg Brotherton Heidi Eisenhour Dear Commissioners, The Leader offers the County a premium audience. For almost the entire history of Jefferson County, residents have turned to the homegrown, independent Leader to find both public notices and news stories or commentary about County actions. Residents expect that all government actions will be noted in the Leader, ranging from the County to the City of Port Townsend to school districts to the Port, the Fire Districts and the PUD. According to RCW 36.72.075 the bid should go to “the lowest responsible bidder, giving consideration to the question of circulation in awarding the contract with a view to giving publication of notices the widest possible publicity.” The purpose of any public notice contract is to inform the most citizens of Jefferson County about the actions of their government, as required by law and by principles of open government. The printed Leader reaches 6,004 households in Jefferson County and 15,010 residents, taxpayers, and voters. The Leader's website has seen an increase of 50% of new users in 2020 vs 2019 with over 70,000 users monthly visiting ptleader.com and over 270,000 page views per month. Our information is that the PDN reaches about 2,000 households and 4,600 Jefferson County residents. Leader circulation in Jefferson County is triple the PDN circulation in every zip code in this county. There are 14,000 occupied homes in Jefferson County, according to the U.S. Census. Public notices placed in the printed PDN are thus not seen by 86 percent of Jefferson County households, while the printed Leader reaches almost half of them, and a majority with digital access added. As you know from any other bidding experience, you are under no obligation to accept a low bid that does a substandard job of the task at hand. The Leader has strong ties with the communities inside Jefferson County. They turn to the Leader to find out what is happening in their community and around the county. Our news staff attends all of the county commissioner's meetings as well as most other government entities in Jefferson County. The Leader also plays an important role in the community: it keeps the residents connected in a way that bigger, regional newspapers cannot. We try to supply information that drills right down into the core of the community. Every Leader story is about Jefferson County. Most of our staff lives and pays taxes in this county. Thank you for your consideration. Please do not hesitate to call for more information on any of these bid specifics: (360) 385-2900. All the Best, Donna Etchey, Publisher Port Townsend/Jefferson County Leader 226 Adams St. Port Townsend, WA 98368 detchey@ptleader.com (360)385-2900 ext. 115 PORT TOWNSEND/JEFFERSON COUNTY LEADER Your local source for all things Jefferson County In-Depth - In Touch - Independent Find us on the web at ptleader.com View this email in your browser Your action is needed for the Riverside Little Spokane River Robinson Property project. Located on the ancestral land of the Ktunaxa and Spokane People, this proposed project aims to acquire property along the Little Spokane River within From:WA Wildlife & Recreation Coalition To:jeffbocc Subject:Proposed Project Action Alert: Riverside Little Spokane River Date:Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:00:49 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Riverside State Park. This project will conserve important wetlands in the Little Spokane River Natural Area and support recreation access for a growing population. If you live in Legislative District 7, contact your representatives today to tell them why you support robust funding for the WWRP and public lands projects in your district. Don't live in District 7 but still want to support projects like this? Make a gift of $10 (or more!) to the Coalition today to help us mobilize support for the Riverside Little Spokane River Robinson Property! Donate $10 Today Copyright © 2021 Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to Coalition emails or are a member of one of our partner organizations. Our mailing address is: Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition 1402 3rd Ave, Suite 714 Seattle, Wa 98101 Add us to your address book Photo Credit: King Co. via RCO's PRISM Database Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list From:tprosys@gmail.com To:jeffbocc Cc:Philip Morley Subject:Sunshine Week March 14-20, 2021 Date:Wednesday, March 3, 2021 9:04:30 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Commissioners, Over the past year, Jefferson County has worked hard to keep the public informed and involved in the BoCC’s activities. In recognition of your efforts, please consider adding an item to your March 15 agenda to commemorate Sunshine Week, now in its 16th year. I suggest repurposing one of your prior Sunshine Week proclamations, with some words added to highlight the extra effort that has been needed to conduct online meetings while at the same time providing for public comment and testimony. All that effort has led to even greater public involvement than in years past and has been appreciated! Thank you, Tom Thiersch Member, Washington Coalition for Open Government From: https://www.newsleaders.org/sunshine-week-about Sunshine Week was launched in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors — now News Leaders Association — and has grown into an enduring initiative to promote open government. Join News Leaders Association in the annual nationwide celebration of access to public information and what it means for you and your community. It’s your right to know. HOW TO GET INVOLVED: Publish Sunshine Week content toolkit: Major news organizations work together on a special reporting package free for anyone to publish in print or online during Sunshine Week, made available at the start of the week’s events. Find this year’s offerings under Content Toolkit. Share your stories: Sunshine Week celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2020, and we’ve made a lot of gains in open government thanks to your work. Please share your experiences, success stories, FOIA battles, new laws and other efforts on behalf of open government. Tweet to us @SunshineWeek or use #SunshineWeek to share. If you are in the world of journalism, you can highlight the importance of openness through stories, editorials, columns, cartoons or graphics. If you are part of a civic group, you can organize local forums, sponsor essay contests or press elected officials to pass proclamations on the importance of open access. If you are an educator, you can use Sunshine Week to teach your students about how government transparency improves our lives and makes our communities stronger. If you are an elected official, you can pass a resolution supporting openness, introduce legislation improving public access or encourage training of government employees to ensure compliance with existing laws mandating open records and meetings. If you are a private citizen, you can write a letter to the editor or spread the word to friends through social media. From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: County News Now – March 2, 2021 Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:46:13 PM From: NACo County News Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:44:12 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: County News Now – March 2, 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Having trouble viewing this email? Click Here County News March 2, 2021 COVID-19 vaccines: Don’t waste a single drop House passes COVID relief with direct county funding The bill, with $65.1 billion in direct county aid, will go straight to the Senate floor, with hopes of the president’s signature by March 15. READ MORE Counties provide free transportation to vaccine sites Counties are working to tackle transportation issues to ensure residents can get to and from vaccine appointments. Read more Redesign of child protection hotline helps connect families to support Los Angeles County receives more than 220,000 calls for suspected child abuse or neglect each year, and while not all calls require investigation, many families would benefit from community support to prevent them from entering the child- welfare system. Read more MORE COUNTY NEWS Legislative Updates NACo releases new brief on vaccine management solutions for counties The brief highlights several IT solutions for scheduling and managing vaccine appointments that counties of varying sizes have used to organize their distribution, scheduling and vaccine data tracking efforts. Read more Census Bureau announces release of redistricting data to be delayed until September 2021 Local governments will be faced with a shorter timeline to finish drawing new maps in time for the 2022 elections. Read more MORE NEWS SPONSORED CONTENT Case Study: Sacramento County simplifies telematics with California State Contract Read how Sacramento County adopted Geotab's California State Contract to simplify their telematics procurement process. Here are a few ways they've benefitted from the State Contract: Telematics devices and installation at no extra cost Automated smog checks and $50 per vehicle in savings Rightsizing their motorpool with Geotab's Keyless solution READ MORE AIT Bridges The Latest From NACo Counties, Coronavirus and GIS: A few lessons from the pandemic A look back at 2020: Counties can adapt quickly and are perhaps more resilient than we might have thought. HCCC counties share strategies to combat “Zoom fatigue” Members of the Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge discuss strategies for and barriers to community, resident and team engagement while working remotely. Wilkes County, N.C. and Dougherty County, Ga. share how they are staying connected by leveraging online web platforms and visual tools. Learn more here. Share your story: Letter to the editor template Across the country, counties are making significant investments in services and supports for infants and toddlers. Use NACoRF’s new letter to the editor template to share your county’s efforts to expand early childhood services. Once published, share your piece with NACoRF by sending it to info@countiesforkids.org and we will recognize it through social media, newsletters and the Counties for Kids website. Download the resource and get tips on publishing your letter here. Achievement Awards submissions due March 31 Apply now for a NACo Achievement Award to celebrate your county's successes and receive well- earned recognition. Submit your 2021 NACo Achievement Awards entry by March 9 for early bird prices! Apply now at www.naco.org/achievementawards for our special discounted application rate. NKN_Banner_collection_CN-now(1)_1729551.png MAR 3 WEBINAR Quarterly Behavioral Health and Social Services Peer Engagement Group Call 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. EST MAR 4 WEBINAR NACo National Membership Call 2 p.m. EST MAR 5 WEBINAR Effectively Distributing Rental Assistance: Evidence for Local Governments 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. EST MAR 8 CONFERENCE NACo 2021 Virtual Legislative Conference March 8–26 | Virtual MAR 18 WEBINAR SLLC Supreme Court Midterm Webinar 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. EDT MAR 18 WEBINAR NACo National Membership Call with White House Officials 2 p.m. EDT MORE EVENTS Leg_Conf_header_v2_1801228_1816529.jpg 660 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20001 Did someone forward you this email? Sign up to stay up-to-date on topics affecting America's counties! Click here to unsubscribe. From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Please join us Wednesday to learn about scholarship opportunities in our community. Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:51:56 PM Attachments:image001.png From: director@forkswa.com Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:50:25 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Please join us Wednesday to learn about scholarship opportunities in our community. CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Dear Kate Dean , Please join us tomorrow, Wednesday, March 3rd for our Monthly Business Meeting. Our featured speakers Deanna Green, Scholarship Manager and Development Associate at Community Foundation Southwest Washington, and Larry Hull will be discussing the Maury and Betty Hull Scholarship. They will be joined by two students, and will talk about how it has impacted them along with the community. Our meeting takes place online Noon – 1pm and is open to the public and all are welcome to attend. You can join the meeting with this recurring link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84599423539?pwd=aGlFWGYvQjRUeWdOM0hNTVc5MlM0QT09 Meeting ID: 845 9942 3539 Passcode: 912775 One tap mobile +12532158782,,84599423539#,,,,,,0#,,912775# US (Tacoma) +16699009128,,84599423539#,,,,,,0#,,912775# US (San Jose) Upcoming Programs March 3 – Monthly Business Meeting along with Deanna Green and Larry Hull from Maury and Betty Hull Scholarship March 10 – David Hurn, Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction March 17 – TBA March 24 – TBA March 31 – April Business Meeting and program TBA April 7 – Congressman Derek Kilmer FROM CLALLAM EDC Join Dr. Lynn Keenan on Coffee with Colleen Wednesday Morning at 8am to learn about the Clallam County Childcare Industry. Lynn will discuss her preliminary findings as she has worked with Childcare businesses in Clallam County. · Numbers and Types of Childcare Providers in Clallam County · The Childcare Demand and the Gaps in the County · The Troubling Underlying Economics of Operating a Childcare Business · Licensing Barriers · Proposed State Legislation Please join us: Join Zoom Meeting at 8 a.m., Wednesday Morning https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81875115879?pwd=UnEzQjV1N09rM2ZLbFIzVVVxYzJoQT09 Meeting ID: 818 7511 5879 Passcode: 923050 One tap mobile +12532158782,,81875115879#,,,,,,0#,,923050# US (Tacoma) Consumer Goods Digital Strategy 2021 One Hour Free Class: Do you have a product that you would like to sell outside of the United States? Do you have any export-related questions? Hosted by the Consumer Goods Trade Specialist at the Washington State US Export Assistance Center. WA State Department of Commerce are offering up to $10,000 towards website globalization/localization services. • Learn about government programs for US companies who export • Discover the basics of digital strategy for eCommerce • Get a preview of the Website Globalization Review (WGR) Gap Analysis* • Qualify for up to $6,000 in grant funding to globalize your website • Enjoy a customized event, tailored to the Consumer Goods sector in WA When: March 24th, 10-11am Register here More Information can be found here. Doing Business with Our Local Governments Infrastructure funding is expected to be at an all time high in the next few years! We're here to help you get your small business ready to win these contracts. Over $100M will be spent in Clallam County by the WA State Dept of Transportation over the next two years to remove fish barriers across our state highways. Your EDC in partnership with the Washington Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) and USDoT Northwest Small Business Transportation Resource Center will be hosting weekly FREE technical classes for a month beginning on March 31st. Over $100M will be spent in Clallam County by the WA State Dept of Transportation over the next two years to remove fish barriers across our state highways. More information to follow. If you would like more information on these courses, please contact us at info@clallam.org. CHAMBER RENEWALS for 2021 were due on January 31st. We are in the process of delivering/mailing the certificates. Please let us know if you don’t receive yours. If you have not paid we have a grace period so don’t worry! Please feel free to contact me with questions. We accept cash, check and credit cards (we can take your card over the phone, or send you a Paypal invoice). We appreciate your continued support! Chamber News… FORKS VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER (VIC) We are open with a modified foyer to help visitors. We can help one group at a time (up to 4 people) inside the visitor center and we will be open Monday through Saturday 10 am – 4 pm and Sunday 11 am – 4 pm through the winter. FOREVER TWILIGHT IN FORKS COLLECTION Forever Twilight in Forks Collection reopens to the general public on February 26th. Please see link for more details. EVENTS PAGE We are in the process of repopulating our events page. We accept online and in-person events (events allowed in Phase 2). If you have an event you would like share, please send it to events@ForksWA.com. FORKS CHAMBER STAFF DIRECTORY Lissy Andros, executive director (I will be on vacation from April 2-13, returning on April 14th) Rob Hunter, VIC staff member and assistant to the E.D. Rob handles all of our visitor correspondence and administrative duties for the Chamber, and the online store. Gay Bunnell, Forever Twilight in Forks Collection and VIC staff member. Gay is our lead staff member at the Collection, including maintaining the records for the exhibits. She is in charge of procuring our brochures, maps, and information for the VIC. Kari Larson, VIC staff member. Kari is in charge of ordering our merchandise and sending out visitor packets. Susie Michels, IT Manager. Susie runs our website and handles all technical issues. PPP, EIDL and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Best regards, Lissy Lissy Andros, Executive Director Forks Chamber of Commerce 1411 S. Forks Avenue Forks, WA 98331 360-374-2531 office 903-360-4449 cell From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Corrected Zoom Info for tomorrow"s Coffee with Colleen on Childcare in Clallam with Dr. Keenan Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:38:31 PM From: Clallam EDC Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:38:28 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Corrected Zoom Info for tomorrow's Coffee with Colleen on Childcare in Clallam with Dr. Keenan CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Join Dr. Lynn Keenan on Coffee with Colleen Wednesday Morning at 8am to learn about the Clallam County Childcare Industry. Lynn will discuss her preliminary findings as she has worked with Childcare businesses in Clallam County. Numbers and Types of Childcare Providers in Clallam County The Childcare Demand and the Gaps in the County The Troubling Underlying Economics of Operating a Childcare Business Licensing Barriers Proposed State Legislation Please join us: Corrected Zoom Link & Information for 8 a.m., Wednesday Morning: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89474510306? pwd=VlIrRHh5RG1nYVh3V3JXRzFSMmRodz09 Meeting ID: 894 7451 0306 Passcode: 187447 One tap mobile +12532158782,,89474510306#,,,,*187447# US (Tacoma) Upcoming Coffee with Colleen Guests: March 10 - Dr. Allison Berry; Clallam County Public Health Officer March 17 - Employee Retention Tax Credit. Graham Ralston and Lena Washke May 5 – Hilary Franz; Commissioner Department of Natural Resources SBA Prioritizes the Smallest of Small Businesses in the Paycheck Protection Program: The latest round of Paycheck Protection Program funding opened one month ago and there major improvements to the program’s implementation that can help businesses in Clallam County: If you are a small business owner with 20 employees or fewer, or are self-employed; there is new information for you which may lead to much more forgivable PPP funding. SBA Press Release The SBA and the Public Private Strategies Institute are hosting a series of free Webinars on steps you can take now to take advantage of this special opportunity, which closes Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 2 p.m. Women Business Owners - March 3 at 9:30am Register Native American + Tribal Small Business Owners; Asian-American + Pacific Islander - March 4 at 12pm Register Black + African-American Small Business Owners - March 5 at 10am Register Hispanic Small Business Owners - March 5 at 12pm Register Veterans, Self-Employed Business Owners - March 6 at 11am Register Restaurant Owners, LGBTQ Business Owners, Youth Entrepreneurs - March 8 at 12pm Register Join Marc Abshire and the PA Chamber tomorrow at 11am to hear from Brix Marine, the new, local company that has transformed from the former Armstrong Marine. We'll discuss their brand and company change, as well as Brix Marine's plans for the future, their current job openings, and the state of the maritime trade and boat building industry in our area. Wednesday, March 3, 11am ZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83123793211 To participate via audio only, Dial: (301) 715-8592 Use Meeting ID: 831 2379 3211 Consumer Goods Digital Strategy 2021 One Hour Free Class: Do you have a product that you would like to sell outside of the United States? Do you have any export-related questions? Hosted by the Consumer Goods Trade Specialist at the Washington State US Export Assistance Center. WA State Department of Commerce are offering up to $10,000 towards website globalization/localization services. • Learn about government programs for US companies who export • Discover the basics of digital strategy for eCommerce • Get a preview of the Website Globalization Review (WGR) Gap Analysis* • Qualify for up to $6,000 in grant funding to globalize your website • Enjoy a customized event, tailored to the Consumer Goods sector in WA When: March 24th, 10-11am Register here More Information can be found here. Doing Business with Our Local Governments Infrastructure funding is expected to be at an all time high in the next few years! We're here to help you get your small business ready to win these contracts. Over $100M will be spent in Clallam County by the WA State Dept of Transportation over the next two years to remove fish barriers across our state highways. Your EDC in partnership with the Washington Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) and USDoT Northwest Small Business Transportation Resource Center will be hosting weekly FREE technical classes for a month beginning on March 31st. Over $100M will be spent in Clallam County by the WA State Dept of Transportation over the next two years to remove fish barriers across our state highways. More information to follow. If you would like more information on these courses, please contact us at info@clallam.org. Choose Clallam First | ChooseClallamFirst.com Clallam County Economic Development Council | 338 W 1st St., Suite 105, Port Angeles, WA 98362 Unsubscribe kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us Update Profile | Customer Contact Data Notice Sent by info@clallam.org powered by Try email marketing for free today! From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: I"d like to hear from you about your county and NACo Date:Wednesday, March 3, 2021 5:50:02 AM Importance:High From: Leinbach, Christian Y Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 5:49:41 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Subject: I'd like to hear from you about your county and NACo CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Dear Washington NACo Member I look forward to "seeing" you on the March 19th virtual NACo Board meeting. These are unprecedented times which are creating challenges we could never have anticipated a year ago at the 2020 NACo Legislative Conference. If you are not already registered for the NACo 2021 Virtual Conference you may register at this link. https://www.naco.org/events/2021-virtual-naco-legislative-conference As a candidate for NACo 2nd VP I want to know what you believe are the most important issues facing you as a county leader and us as NACo leaders. It's very important that this race not be about me and my county but rather about what is important to you as a county leader and as a NACo Board member. I would love an opportunity to speak with you. I'm available by phone (See below) and can also set up a virtual call. If you would rather just email me your thoughts, that would also be fine. This call will not be about me or my candidacy. I want to hear from you and what you think I need to know as a NACo 2nd VP candidate. It's all about your experience and your story. Sincerely, Christian Y. Leinbach Chairman - Berks County Commissioners 633 Court Street Reading, PA 19601-4310 Phone: 610-478-6136 Ext. 3 / Ext. 6127 Fax: 610-478-6139 Email: CLeinbach@CountyofBerks.com Website: www.CountyofBerks.com Get Outlook for iOS FOR INFORMATION RE: COVID-19 AND WHAT YOU CAN DO… CLICK www.DoYourPartBerks.com This message and the attachment(s) are intended for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication including attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or reply to the original message at the above address and then delete all copies of the message. Thank you. From:Philip Morley To:tprosys@gmail.com Cc:jeffbocc; Julie Shannon; Adiel F. McKnight Subject:Re: Sunshine Week March 14-20, 2021 Date:Wednesday, March 3, 2021 10:54:45 AM Thank you Mr. Thiersch. Philip Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2021, at 9:04 AM, tprosys@gmail.com wrote: CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Commissioners, Over the past year, Jefferson County has worked hard to keep the public informed and involved in the BoCC’s activities. In recognition of your efforts, please consider adding an item to your March 15 agenda to commemorate Sunshine Week, now in its 16th year. I suggest repurposing one of your prior Sunshine Week proclamations, with some words added to highlight the extra effort that has been needed to conduct online meetings while at the same time providing for public comment and testimony. All that effort has led to even greater public involvement than in years past and has been appreciated! Thank you, Tom Thiersch Member, Washington Coalition for Open Government From: https://www.newsleaders.org/sunshine-week-about <image001.jpg> Sunshine Week was launched in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors — now News Leaders Association — and has grown into an enduring initiative to promote open government. Join News Leaders Association in the annual nationwide celebration of access to public information and what it means for you and your community. It’s your right to know. HOW TO GET INVOLVED: Publish Sunshine Week content toolkit: Major news organizations work together on a special reporting package free for anyone to publish in print or online during Sunshine Week, made available at the start of the week’s events. Find this year’s offerings under Content Toolkit. Share your stories: Sunshine Week celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2020, and we’ve made a lot of gains in open government thanks to your work. Please share your experiences, success stories, FOIA battles, new laws and other efforts on behalf of open government. Tweet to us @SunshineWeek or use #SunshineWeek to share. If you are in the world of journalism, you can highlight the importance of openness through stories, editorials, columns, cartoons or graphics. If you are part of a civic group, you can organize local forums, sponsor essay contests or press elected officials to pass proclamations on the importance of open access. If you are an educator, you can use Sunshine Week to teach your students about how government transparency improves our lives and makes our communities stronger. If you are an elected official, you can pass a resolution supporting openness, introduce legislation improving public access or encourage training of government employees to ensure compliance with existing laws mandating open records and meetings. If you are a private citizen, you can write a letter to the editor or spread the word to friends through social media. From:Bill Wise To:City Council; jeffbocc Subject:WA State Healthcare Bills House Bill 1152 and Senate Bill 5149 Date:Wednesday, March 3, 2021 10:01:59 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. There are two bills House Bill 1152 and Senate Bill 5149 currently being proposed in our State Legislature. I consider the impact of these Bills to be "urgent" and affecting our wellbeing. This is the article in today's PDN - Healthcare Bills. We cannot afford to lose Dr. Locke in this County. I urge City Council and the Board of County Commissioners to adopt measures opposing House Bill 1152 and Senate Bill 5149. Below is the letter I have sent to Senator Van De Wege and similar ones to Representatives Tharinger and Chapman. __________________________________________________________ Greetings Senator Van De Wege... I urge you to vote NO on Healthcare Bills House Bill 1152 and Senate Bill 5149 currently being proposed. Jefferson County is a rural county and is NOT like Kitsap County. I have watched other "regionalization" schemes go awry. We have an excellent public healthcare system that cooperates with our local Jefferson Healthcare and throughout the County. We are demographically the oldest county in the state and our needs are being met by the current system. Regionalizing will not have the necessary focus on our County. I urge you to vote NO on Healthcare Bills Senate Bill 5149. Bill Wise 710 Foster St Port Townsend, Wa 98368 From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Apply for a 2021 NACo Achievement Award by March 31 Date:Wednesday, March 3, 2021 1:54:48 PM From: NACo Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 1:54:42 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: Apply for a 2021 NACo Achievement Award by March 31 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Having trouble viewing this email? Click Here Two months left to apply for the 2019 NACo Achievement Awards! APPLY FOR A 2021 NACo ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BY MARCH 31 It’s time to showcase your county’s most innovative efforts! Apply for a 2021 NACo Achievement Award. Over the past year, county officials and frontline employees are demonstrating bold, inspirational leadership and saving countless lives during these extraordinary times. We want to help recognize your successes. A non-competitive program, the NACo Achievement Awards recognizes outstanding county government programs and services in 18 categories, covering a vast range of county responsibilities. By participating, your county can earn national recognition. NACo will highlight the 18 “best of category” winners, as well as feature all winners in NACo materials and online. We also provide a customizable press release for you to share the good news with the media and residents. We encourage all counties, parishes and boroughs to submit noteworthy programs for Achievement Awards today. EARLY BIRD APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 8 (Save $25 off your application fee) FINAL APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 31 Please email awards@naco.org with any questions about this year’s application process. APPLY NOW! 2020 NACo Legislative Conference 660 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20001 Did someone forward you this email? Sign up to stay up-to-date on topics affecting America’s counties! Click here to unsubscribe. From:Greg Brotherton To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: Village Council Board Meeting March 4, 2021 Date:Wednesday, March 3, 2021 1:41:27 PM From: Port Ludlow Village Council Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 1:41:24 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Greg Brotherton Subject: Village Council Board Meeting March 4, 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Village Council Board Meeting Thursday, 3/4/2021, 2:45 p.m. Zoom Conference Call Like everyone else right now, your Village Council Board is observing stay-at-home practices as directed by the Governor. We still believe that it is important to reach out to the community like we do monthly, only now we will conduct these meetings using conference calling until we are allowed to resume our normal gatherings. THIS WILL BE A ZOOM MEETING - NOT FreeConferenceCall.com Date: Thursday, March 4, 2021 Time: 2:45 PM - 4:45 PM In addition to our standing agenda, we will have a special presentation: Special Community Activity in Port Ludlow – Jane Holmes (Port Ludlow resident) – presentation on VolksWalk – AVA America’s Walking Club – scheduled for 2021.08.28. You can download the full agenda by clicking on the Agenda button, below. Directions for joining the conference call are: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84392340537 Meeting ID: 843 9234 0537 One tap mobile +12532158782,,84392340537# US (Tacoma) Dial by your location +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Announce yourself Mute your phone or PC until the moderator solicits participation To avoid having multiple people attempting to talk at the same time, please wait until questions or comments are invited by the moderator. When you wish to speak, un-mute your phone and ask to be recognized. When recognized, begin by stating your name and then your comments. Agenda Next PLVC Board Workshop, Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 at 2:45 pm, Virtual and Conference Call Next PLVC Board Meeting: Thursday, April 1st, 2021 at 2:45 PM, Virtual and Conference Call Visit the Village Council Web Site Your Village Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation whose purpose is to be a unifying force and information conduit for the benefit of all Port Ludlow residents Port Ludlow Village Council | Post Office Box 65012, Port Ludlow, WA 98365 Unsubscribe gbrotherton@co.jefferson.wa.us Update Profile | Customer Contact Data Notice Sent by portludlowvillagecouncileblast@gmail.com From:Kate Dean To:Julie Shannon Subject:FW: JeffConnects March 3, 2021 Date:Wednesday, March 3, 2021 3:30:36 PM From: The Chamber of Jefferson County Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 3:30:25 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Kate Dean Subject: JeffConnects March 3, 2021 CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. www.jeffcountychamber.org 360.385.7869 director@jeffcountychamber.org JeffConnects March 3, 2021 Reimagine - Reengineer - Revitalize Jefferson County Click here to read JeffConnects, forward or print it and enjoy! Join us for Chamber Cafe - your community conversation The 1st and 3rd Friday of each month 10:00 AM Zoom Registration is required for these events to obtain Zoom access code. There is no fee or membership required www.jeffcountychamber.org/events Register for a Chamber Cafe Now! Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce | 2409 Jefferson Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368 Unsubscribe kdean@co.jefferson.wa.us Update Profile | Customer Contact Data Notice Sent by director@jeffcountychamber.org powered by Try email marketing for free today!