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Hi Commissioners. I’m planning to publish a story next week about the agreement signed between the Jefferson County PUD and the Pleasant Harbor Master Planned Resort regarding having
the County agree to take over the sewage system in the event of financial failure of the MPR.
I am wondering if you have any comments on the County’s agreement to assume the financial support of this system that is not even yet in the planning stages.
Some issues that I will be raising in the article:
The PUD mades its Agreement with “the Hamlet of Pleasant Harbor INC.” However, there apparently is no such organization found on any registrations filed with the Secretary of State and
no business licenses exist for such an organization. Is it a binding agreement to make an agreement with a non-existent entity? A lawyer I discussed this with thought that it is not
legal to do so, especially given the description of it being an Inc. Wouldn’t the Inc’s president and board have to approve such an agreement to be binding? Who is their president
or CEO? Who are their board? Why did the County approve this?
There is mention in the agreement about managing the treatment plant “owned and operated by the Hamlet of Pleasant Harbor and the Pleasant Harbor Utility District” Neither of these exist
as entities. Neither does the treatment plant even have plans submitted yet.
The county entered into an agreement on a lawsuit filed by the Pleasant Harbor developers that had refused to pay for years of county work. Have they actually paid the county for this
work under the new agreement?
Thanks in advance for any reply to these questions. Call if you prefer.
Al Bergstein | The Olympic Peninsula Environmental News |Port Townsend, WA | 206.235.2991 (txt ok)