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DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
621 Sheridan Street | Port Townsend, WA 98368
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www.co.jefferson.wa.us/commdevelopment
FINAL
Meeting Notes Summary
Staff to Staff “Go to Meeting”
September 8, 2017
ATTENDEES: (conference call)
Roma Call, Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe
Sam Phillips, Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe
Tim Cullinan, Point No Point Treaty Council
Garth Mann, Statesman CEO
Don Coleman, Statesman
Joe Callaghan, GeoEngineers
Jennifer Dadisman, GeoEngineers
Patty Charnas, Jefferson County DCD
Michelle Farfan, Jefferson County DCD
AGENDA
1. Welcome and Overview
a. Purpose of this meeting
b. Summary of activities-to-date
2. Wildlife Management Plan
a. Discussion of specific issues and actions
3. Water Quality Management Plan /Shellfish
a. Discussion of monitoring and response plan(s)
4. Wrap up and Next Steps
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Meeting Summary:
Wildlife Management Plan
• Introductions. Patty welcomed everyone and provided an overview with a summary of
activities to date.
• Tim described management options to prevent elk from entering a property based on
Sequim experience. Elk could be diverted by creating other grassy areas. Fencing seems
to be inevitable. Discussed different fencing options that could work.
• Garth: we are an environmental company and have reduced the golf course from 18 holes
to 9 holes. It used to be a campground with soccer and baseball fields. We closed the
campground around 2007/08. The “grasses” have over grown and the site is not virgin
property.
• Tim: how many acres of grass will be created now that it is 9-holes?
• Garth: Xeroscaping will be planned in between the tee area and fairway.
• Tim: what is the vegetation?
• Garth: low scrub-shrub plus Rhody’s on side with added crushed rock.
• Don asked Tim to help with vegetation.
• Patty asked Tim to describe the fence.
• Tim: The fence can be disguised back in the woods and designed to allow smaller species
passage. It does not necessarily have to be a solid fence and can use topography.
Possible fencing adjacent to Black Point Road or cattle guard. Ideally, we would walk the
boundary line with the site plan in hand.
• Garth stated the majority of Black Point Peninsula is single family residences and people
have grass and do not have elk.
• Tim: Elk typically do not like individual single family yards as they are too fragmented.
Believes fence should be first order and not last. If another place can be produced that is an
attractive diversion for the elk, it could keep them off the golf course.
• Tim suggests an on-site field visit with DFW to know more about landscaping and will work
on setting up that meeting.
• Don would be very happy to be tour guide post October 4th.
• Joe: great idea; may we have your ideas?
Water Quality Management Plan /Shellfish:
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• Sam: Water quality monitoring for biological oxygen demand is existing and ongoing (for
Pleasant Harbor and Duckabush flats). Sam suggests mussel cages which can be used to
track (chemical) contamination and help to know if pollution is occurring.
• Discussion of adaptive management and corrective actions needing to be better described.
• Garth: State health works with local health department on water quality monitoring. We will
do the monitoring and also test the monitoring wells.
• The monitoring wells will be sampled.
• Patty wraps up meeting with some next steps being considered.
• Roma requests another meeting on cultural resource and on shellfish.