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Special Meeting — Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 9:00 a.m.
Beaver Valley Sorts Timber Sale and
Letter to the Board of Natural Resources
Jefferson County Courthouse— Commissioners' Chambers
1820 Jefferson Street, Port Townsend, WA (Virtual)
CALL TO ORDER: Chair Heidi Eisenhour, Commissioner Kate Dean and Commissioner Greg
Brotherton participated in the meeting remotely. Chair Eisenhour called the meeting to order at the
appointed time. She explained the purpose of the meeting is to discuss and hear from the public
regarding a proposed timber sale.
PUBLIC COMMENTS: Fourteen individuals provided comments.
CONTINUED WORKSHOP re: Beaver Valley Sorts Timber Sale; Letter to the Board of Natural
Resources re: Carbon Storage and Biodiversity and Requesting Inclusion in Phase II of Their
Carbon Pilot: The Commissioners discussed the issue and worked on making edits to a proposed letter.
A recess was called to allow time for the Commissioners to draft additional comments to include in the
letter.
The meeting was recessed at 10:55 a.m. and reconvened at 11:31 a.m. with all three Commissioners
present.
CONTINUED DISCUSSION re: Beaver Valley Sorts Timber Sale; Letter to the Board of Natural
Resources re: Carbon Storage and Biodiversity and Requesting Inclusion in Phase II of Their
Carbon Pilot: The Commissioners continued review of the draft letter. During discussion,
Commissioner Brotherton noted that edits to the draft letter now include the Pennywise Timber sale, and
the original draft version of the letter only discussed the Beaver Valley Sorts Timber sale. He added that
his constituents are in favor of the Pennywise Timber sale moving forward. The Commissioners decided
to listen to additional public comments prior to taking-action on the letter.
PUBLIC COMMENTS: Nine individuals provided additional comments.
CONTINUED DISCUSSION re: Beaver Valley Sorts Timber Sale; Letter to the Board of Natural
Resources re: Carbon Storage and Biodiversity and Requesting Inclusion in Phase II of Their
Carbon Pilot: Chief Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney (DPA) Philip Hunsucker was asked to provide
guidance regarding Commissioner Brotherton's concerns that the Agenda for this Special Meeting did
not include action on the Pennywise Timber sale.
After review, Chief Civil DPA Hunsucker advised that since the Pennywise Timber sale was mentioned
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Commissioners Meeting Minutes of May 31, 2022
in the Agenda Request, the public had sufficient knowledge and therefore the Commissioners could
decide to include Pennywise in the final letter, if they wished.
After further edits and discussion, Commissioner Dean moved to approve the letter as presented here,to
be signed by the Chair. Chair Eisenhour seconded the motion. She called for a vote on the motion.
Commissioner Dean and Chair Eisenhour voted in favor of the motion, Commissioner Brotherton voted
against the motion. The motion carried. The letter will be sent to the Board of Natural Resources and
copies will be sent to Washington State Legislative delegation.
NOTICE OF ADJOURNMENT: Chair Eisenhour adjourned the meeting at 12:28 p.m. until the next
regular meeting or;special meeting as properly noticed.
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B P ARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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ATTEST: Greg otherton, Member
Carolyn allaway, CMC Kate Sean, Member
Clerk of the Board
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