HomeMy WebLinkAboutclosed_caption10:46:44 Welcome back. We're coming out of closed session with with no action taken but we will take a hope.
10:46:51 So.
10:46:54 I will, I'll just for the sake of the record
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10:47:24 We are back in session. We're gonna take a 5.
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10:53:56 Alright, so we will briefly come back
10:54:05 I will call this meeting of the Board of County Commissioners back into session.
10:54:09 We have one more item on the agenda this morning.
10:54:13 We want to get out of here by 1130, and then, as a reminder to the public, we are doing our quarterly elected and directors meeting at noon, so we'll be back in the same Zoom
room at noon with our our peers from around the calendar but we'll
10:54:28 Try to break at 1130 to facilitate Commissioner Dean's talking to.
10:54:34 Who was it?
10:54:40 So we are looking at a social source emergency contract, mark you, wanna you wanna see this up?
10:54:47 Yeah, and and forgive me for not listing our Commissioner Eisenhower on this item.
10:54:52 I should have. So I'm gonna speak to the the requested action this morning.
10:54:57 But I think details that's diminished. This item.
10:55:01 I'm gonna leave to Commissioner Eisenhower, and I think it would be appropriate for her to describe the situation that we're addressing here before I talk about what I'm asking
for.
10:55:13 Sure.
10:55:16 So as part of my role on the Marine Resources Committee, we formed a derelict vessel Subcommittee in response to a tranche of Federal funding that was coming to Mrcs Via.
10:55:34 The Northwest Rates foundation for addressing darlic vessels around in our region, and as part of that, those subcommittee meetings we were identifying specific Derek vessels
and strong strategies for removing them, and which pots of funding would be the best applied to
10:55:54 Which both this one, this one, came up, this vessel was a 20 seven-foot Catalina, and it was under the Indian Island bridge, and it weathered the last king tied and moved as
a result of that King tied and became even more of a concern because it could
10:56:16 PIN potentially have moved, could have, if it could have floated, it would have hit the could have hit the uprights for the Indian Island Bridge, and anyway, it was, or it could
have completely fallen apart and become marine debris.
10:56:33 So through the course of our conversations on that subcommittee, Libby Earner, who is the Board President of Sailors, Rescue, which is the organization of brave mariners in
our community who go out and respond to boats and distress said the county is likely best suited
10:56:55 To do the emergency possession for this vessel, because of where it sits, and the condition it's in.
10:57:02 We could act quicker. So, under her suggestion, I reached out to the State Dnr.
10:57:10 Geraldine. Vessel removal program and worked with Jerry Farmer, who's there?
10:57:16 Derek vessel removal, lead, and said, What are the steps to do?
10:57:18 An emergency, possession and get reimbursement for costs associated with salvaging a darely vessel.
10:57:30 So Jerry sent me all those, and I called they, and a little of potential contractors, one who I knew from my previous life at the Maritime center.
10:57:42 And so I called Roger Slade, who is the lead for a to boat.
10:57:48 You'll see the vessels. This boat, the red boat out in the bay whenever there's bad weather, basically.
10:57:54 And I said Roger explained the situation to him, and I said, is this something that you guys could?
10:58:01 You know. Hold the ball, hold the football for, and get get a team together to get this out from under the bridge in short order.
10:58:10 So he said yes, and he engaged Star Marine, the tugboat company that's in hot Port Habk, and I started initiating all the paperwork we had to get right of entry from the private
tide landowner.
10:58:27 We had to do an emergency possession, documentation and posting.
10:58:32 So it was quite a quite a bit of logistics. But we were.
10:58:37 I was surprised how quickly we were able to mobilize, and we were able to get.
10:58:42 We started the conversation probably a week ago last
10:58:49 To 2, maybe 10 days ago, and we had the boat out of the water by Wednesday, all because of, you know, the mariners in our community, and I was completely stressed the whole
time, because I felt like I pulled the trigger on this one.
10:59:08 And I I was like Roger. I want to be on the boat when we get that boat out of the water, because I just I felt this sense of responsibility, and there were divers in the water,
and it was extremely cold and windy that morning, and I was anyway, quite Flex.
10:59:23 But it was quite a successful salvage, and I have huge gratitude for both.
10:59:29 Roger and Tosh at vessel, assist and starring all the team I think there was 6 or 8 of them working that salvage.
10:59:42 So the next steps they have already submitted their first invoice, and we need to get it paid.
10:59:48 So I you know, I was communicating with Mark this whole time.
10:59:50 Saying this is what we're doing. Is this, okay? You know, what do we need to do?
10:59:54 And also talk to Matt Tyler, who's done some boat salvage from the Indian Island or the Iron Dale Beach in the past, and said, How did you do it?
11:00:03 And so you know I you know, reached out in the community.
11:00:06 But anyway, so we've got it got all the paperwork in place, and we have our first invoice.
11:00:14 And so we need to, I guess, declare the emergency.
11:00:20 Yeah. 2 things that I'm asking for and I apologize for the typo.
11:00:24 I put the word sing in there, and not sign
11:00:35 So one is, I would ask that the Board approve of motion, declaring the abandoned boat that Heidi talked about, an emergency requiring quick action, and that quick action is
a sole source contract, and that you authorize me to prepare and execute that sole source contract with to
11:00:55 Vote us, flash marine, assist the port, hadlock
11:00:59 And that will include ratification of expenses and current prior to the execution of said contract, and I did stop this with our chief civil deputy prosecuting attorney, Mr.
11:01:11 Hunsucker, who's in on the call.
11:01:14 If you would want him to reaffirm that this is an action the Board can take. Do we have a copy of a declaration
11:01:23 I didn't see one of the agenda oh, I do not prepare one.
11:01:28 Hmm! No, I didn't do. We need to have a declaration of emergency.
11:01:33 I I did prepare a
11:01:36 Emergency, possession, intend to take emergency, possession typically an emergency declaration is for use and pursuing funding from organizations that reimburse jurisdiction
such as ours for emergencies and if we need a declaration.
11:01:54 I would invite Mr. Hunsucker to join us in Teleso.
11:01:59 So when we posted the boat on the fourteenth, we declared the vessel Wn.
11:02:12 7, 8, 7, 7 in an emergency, because it meets the criteria for temporary possession under Rcw.
11:02:18 79, 104 parentheses, 3
11:02:24 Okay. But that's not what we need to approve.
11:02:26 I'm I'm just curious what the mechanism is here that we do.
11:02:32 That first bullet point, Mr. Hunsucker, has been brought over I don't know, Mr.
11:02:43 Bye.
11:02:36 Hunsucker, are you with us? Do you want to comment on whether we need a formal, written declaration? I was just writing you a text to, or can we just declare it
11:02:47 What I think you could do is you can declare it, and you can follow up with a written declaration.
11:02:54 It if necessary. I don't know the the funding sources, and how that works not familiar with it.
11:03:04 I was asked whether you can, to, you know, declare an emergency for purposes of spending funds on this problem.
11:03:10 My answer is yes, so so you may need something to follow up. And you could.
11:03:17 You could, something would be put together today. And this came up at the very end of the day.
11:03:25 On Friday for you guys to look at after lunch, or we can do it in a later session, if necessary.
11:03:33 Thank you, Mr. Hunter.
11:03:35 You're welcome.
11:03:36 And how do that document you have is that was, we didn't need board approval for that.
11:03:43 No, yeah, this was the emergency. Yeah.
11:03:48 So with that document, surprise, I think it's good to have a a record of what yeah, I can, I can email this to Philip, or you could send it to me.
11:03:59 I could send the declaration to fill up. Yeah, I'll do that.
11:04:05 Yeah, and it's just good to have a paper trail when we do stuff like this to us, or whoever's in our footsteps of the process and there is a paper trail.
11:04:14 Promise. Yeah. Hmm, well, you could so you're gonna say, both motions for this afternoon, then?
11:04:22 Oh, no, no, I don't think we need to wait on the motion.
11:04:26 Yeah, I'm comfortable. I will say, we got a little bit of grief to last emergency that we declared where we did a sole source with the is it called critter.
11:04:37 That's right. And I did say, Hey, you know, I'm gonna I we should.
11:04:44 We should maybe have gone and and gone through the the Rp.
11:04:48 Process for that. This is clearly an emergency that we had to respond to, and really kudos, that Commissioner Eisenhower for stepping up working board, indeed, but it was an
emergency.
11:04:58 There was a queue, and could could have gotten worse.
11:05:01 So this is exactly the kind of thing this is for well, it was especially with the king tide coming this week.
11:05:07 It was. We had the window of. Yeah. Actually, we did not declare an emergency, for the critter.
11:05:14 What we did is, we declared it a special facility, fair enough.
11:05:18 Yes, so gotcha. Thank you for the clarification.
11:05:21 So what a boat of that size actually present a risk a hazard to the structural integrity of the bridge!
11:05:29 It. It could act as a it could collect wood, and it could.
11:05:35 It could create like a raft of wood. That would. Yeah.
11:05:39 Would would the one? Yes, and they were to repeatedly bang up against the support that could conceivably cause structural damage.
11:05:49 Portage Channel Portage Canal is extremely dynamic, dynamic, and and popular traffic used all the time.
11:06:02 So if the boat was under the water, it was floating actually under the water.
11:06:05 So it was in it. It could have been a navigation hazard if it had moved any more closer to the channel right
11:06:13 So, if with this new funding source we could anticipate there being more of these situations, do you think we need to to formalize a process, or even a a fund, say that we use
for this process?
11:06:33 Well, I would say that in most cases many cases the county wouldn't be the the logical operator or the logical one, to declare the boat a hazard as we did, and then you know
a number of other situations.
11:06:50 It can be the port, or actually the private private vessel owner.
11:06:55 In this case a private vessel honored in didn't have the capacity to pay for any salvage operations.
11:07:00 So it. It just depends on each situation. Really. Okay. But I think Mr.
11:07:06 C. It's a conversation for them, or seats to see if they want to have a standing subcommittee of the Mrc. Being a Derlick vessel Committee.
11:07:17 Great. Thank you.
11:07:21 Alright! Well, if there's no further conversation, I'd welcome a motion or 2. Sure.
11:07:27 Oh, yes, Phil.
11:07:35 Hmm.
11:07:26 Hi! I just say one thing. There, you know, there is something entitled My Team about Derek vessels being a public nuisance, so we probably should for future purposes, just take
a look at that.
11:07:40 Yeah, reference, that
11:07:41 See how that messes with what we're doing
11:07:44 Thank you.
11:07:47 I'll move to declare. Can you specify a vessel name or something?
11:07:53 Yeah. The unnamed vessel with the registration number W.
11:07:58 In. 7, 8, 7, 7. Any
11:08:04 Have. I would move the Jefferson County to clear the vessel. W.
11:08:10 In 7, 8, 7, 7, any an emergency, because it meets the criteria for temporary possession under Rcw.
11:08:17 79, dot 1040, parentheses 3, and make this emergency declaration effective.
11:08:25 January fourteenth. Can we do that retroactively?
11:08:30 Let's make the motion I'll second it.
11:08:34 Then we could ask Mr. Hunsacker, yeah, I'll second all right. It's been seconded.
11:08:39 I think we've declared emergencies in the past so I don't.
11:08:48 I don't imagine there's a a problem with that. Yeah, I don't know, Philip.
11:08:49 No.
11:08:48 Speak up, and then, and then good! Well, we had this on the agenda.
11:08:59 I will ask the public if there is any public comment just to be anyone.
11:09:03 Has any public comment. You can click, raise hand or star. 9.
11:09:08 Yeah, have a comment to make. See? None. I'll close public comment and and call the vote all, all in favor of the declaration of emergency.
11:09:17 As moved by Commissioner Eisenhower, indicate by saying, Aye, aye!
11:09:21 Motion passes, and I would make a second motion to authorize the county administrator to prepare and sign or sign and execute a sole source contract with Tobo Us.
11:09:33 Marine assistive portab, but incorporated, which will include ratification of expenses incurred prior to the execution of said contract.
11:09:42 I will seconds. Okay, and I'll I'll call for any public comment on that too quick question.
11:09:48 Do we know about how much it's gonna cost for around 30 reimbursed?
11:09:54 Yes, yep. Physically neutral for the county. Okay, seeing no public comment, I will call the question all in favor of authorizing the county administrator to prepare and sign
execute the solar source contract with tobo us.
11:10:07 Marine, a port hatlock, indicate by saying, I bye.
11:10:10 Bye that motion passed. Thank you. Yeah, I would say, thanks, you guys.
11:10:14 And it, you know, a lot of counties. They have different feels like every county has a different recipe for dealing with these boats, and I think, as we see an increasing team
tides an increase in storm activity in our little county region.
11:10:28 Here. We may want to have a more formalized process for dealing with.
11:10:33 You know, they're like vessels and salvage operations.
11:10:38 If they come up. Yeah. Yeah. Well, good work. I mean, really appreciate getting it taken care of.
11:10:46 Yeah, I'm glad it went so smoothly
11:10:50 Great, so nothing else on the agenda this morning's reminder.
11:10:56 We are coming back at noon I guess we probably have a little time for briefing.
11:11:01 At least you wanna look back at last week, sir. You want to start hiding.
11:11:09 I I just briefed you on. Last week was a short week, and with that, you guys, on Monday, on Tuesday, I mean on Tuesday wasn't with you guys on Monday.
11:11:27 And then I went to the ports meeting on the short farm at the Chimicum Grade on Tuesday evening.
11:11:35 It was a. It was a really good meeting it was. It was loaded, I mean.
11:11:41 There was a lot of opinions in the room, and a lot of feedback to the port about.
11:11:46 You know. We wish we had something more a proposal.
11:11:49 We could be responding to. I wrote that comment down probably more than anything that was said, but there was also some very heartfelt testimony from the short family, and you
know you can imagine that this is a a difficult gut wrenching decision to be making for them.
11:12:10 And so I think. But it was about 80 or 90 people.
11:12:13 There, I would say, and it was an interesting mix of the kind of old guard of the farming community, and then a bunch of the young farmers and it was really nice to see that.
11:12:25 And it was really also nice to see them acknowledging each other as generations of farmers and and gratitude for everyone being in the room together.
11:12:33 To talk about this. So you know, I mean, there was a few people who commented on.
11:12:40 If the port's gonna go into agriculture they should start that way and look at.
11:12:44 Look for the best ag land they can find, and then come up with a plan, and then look for the best land to suit that plan and go go that way in a more plan.
11:12:54 Really kind of way. But this opportunity is not all about that, and the opportunity is also about the scale of the the farm.
11:13:01 There. But number of people said, You know it's underwater much of the year, and it's a big concern, right?
11:13:10 So there's I think they're more work to do.
11:13:12 But it was an important milestone for the port in terms of engaging the community.
11:13:18 In the conversation who's there from the Port Erin Berg?
11:13:23 And the commissioners. And anyway, yeah, and Eric tapes.
11:13:33 Okay. And Eric Kingfisher from the Land Trust because they hold the conservation he's been on the short term, and then Wednesday morning I got up at 5 and went down and jumped
on the boat with vessel.
11:13:48 Assist, and went out to watch the salvage operation.
11:13:51 And it was. The weather was awful. I woke up Thursday morning, and I was like, Oh, my God!
11:13:58 But but but the reason was, there was a long, slack tide on Wednesday morning, so there's usually a lot of current in Portage Canal, and so that was the biggest section of quiet
water that was on the calendar before the next set of King tides and so that was why it was
11:14:15 It was go time, and then I went to Trailhead Park to meet with Pete Langley has been doing a bunch of work there, clearing up some of the timber harvest debris and I met Mallory
and Matt out there and did a walk around with Pete Langley so
11:14:33 They could get their eyes on what he's been doing, and kind of give him a the high sign for it.
11:14:38 So that was a good meeting. Then I jumped in the car and went to Pausebo to attend the Hood Canal Coordinating Council Annual meeting, because I know that Scott Brewer is retiring,
and I thought this might be my last chance to meet him in person and that was that
11:14:54 Was an interesting meeting, and I realized, you know.
11:14:59 It's it feels like they need a little help with that.
11:15:02 That transition in terms of their hiring process and I don't know if how we can encourage that.
11:15:09 But yeah. Came up very quickly. His retirement after 20 years service.
11:15:15 He's retiring in short order. Yes, I think caught everyone a little bit by surprise, and needing to fill that position soon.
11:15:23 But pressure on, yeah.
11:15:29 And then I went and sat in my car, and attended the chemical empowered teens.
11:15:33 Coalition meeting. And then I drove home from Paul's bow.
11:15:37 So that day was extremely long and varied. The next morning I had a meeting with Peter Bales, who's doing a review of all the Dnr peace parcels on East Jefferson County against
the force for the future report that was done about 10 years ago, and it was part of all this
11:16:00 Look into forestry. We're doing right now, and that was a good meeting.
11:16:06 I sent a certified low letter to the owner of said vessel that we salvaged and we'll see if that gets returned.
11:16:14 That address sticks I attended the Community Foundation Board meeting, attended a trust land transfer the Trust Line Transfer program has a and an an amount that's set aside
or a targeted amount in the capital budget of 10 million.
11:16:37 We'd like to get that up to 25 at 10 million devil's Lake isn't funded.
11:16:40 So we need to get that number up a little bit. At least, we hope it's number 2, so it doesn't get completely funded.
11:16:50 What's number one?
11:16:53 What is it? Morning Star? And so much I can't remember.
11:16:57 Oh, it might be the one in kids that Egglon.
11:17:01 Yep. So we're trying to get that appropriation up to 25 million.
11:17:07 That's the number we're looking to get funded in the capital budget for Trustland transfer.
11:17:12 This time, and we're also we also have a couple of bills that have been drafted that are introduced, and we're going to Olympia this week to talk with our legislators about
those bills and that appropriation.
11:17:26 So it was a strategy session for all of that work.
11:17:29 Then we had the Board of Health Meeting altogether. Then I went to business.
11:17:33 The business. After hours, which is like the first fun I've had in a long time, and it was just great to see a bunch of people.
11:17:40 I haven't seen in years. I feel like years.
11:17:44 So that was fun. And Good Friday morning I went to Dcd.
11:17:50 For a lean, a lean session on there as Dr. Legal.
11:17:54 A lot of record process which was good, and I feel like there's a lot more work left to do there.
11:18:03 And immediately after that I attended the Olympic coast sack meeting hybrid, I met with Brian Kelly from the leader Friday afternoon to just talk to him about the boat salvage,
so they're maybe a story this week.
11:18:21 Then I went to the Nest grand opening, which is awesome.
11:18:24 Super heartwarming events, and that was that was last week. Super busy week then didn't stop moving last week at all.
11:18:38 Got a lot done. Yeah, okay, how was your week? I also had a busy week.
11:18:43 Wednesday morning started a discussion. Brent and Pinky and Mark, just to keep you in the loop.
11:18:52 We? Were we all received that letter from Hip camp, so we were meeting with Hip Camp later in the week and wanted to kind of set some, you know, direction for that meeting and
how we want to think about hip camp somewhat in relation to other short-term rentals and really that question do we would
11:19:11 We want to consider that as we take on short term rentals, or should it be separate, and we got a lot more information when we met with Hip camp later in the week, which it
it we we haven't actually had a chance to digest yet the 3 of Us.
11:19:26 But I will say it was gratifying camp, you know, reached out to us proactively which is really great.
11:19:32 They have already changed their policies. In the last couple of years to really encourage hosts to be.
11:19:41 You know they now require hosts to have a toilet for all which is a a big change in policy for them, and really encouraging them to work with local regulations.
11:19:52 They totally see the the need for for a local process for approving them, and are willing to work with us on that which I don't know.
11:20:05 If you remember, in early days Airbnb was, you know, resistant to that kind of regulation.
11:20:11 And as a contrast, hip campus, saying, we get it.
11:20:14 We, you know, can help you come up with. Give you examples of what other communities are doing.
11:20:19 And so, yeah, yup, yup. So their government relations Director was able to to give us some ideas of how communities are doing it.
11:20:30 There's a lot of different ways that could be done, and you know it's it's would be a policy question of kind of how, how do we want to approach?
11:20:39 This is something we want to make easier, knowing that there is an impact to to neighboring properties.
11:20:46 And we've already had some complaints. So yeah, so it's a.
11:20:51 It's a real thing already, and yet, you know, in some of the outreach I did talking to people who do it, or interested in hosting.
11:21:01 You know, they really see it as a great way to have passive income to provide more accommodation, to have the type of kind of experience of Jefferson County that a lot of people
love about this place that would have to people live here anyway. Yeah. Exactly.
11:21:18 So so just, you know, I guess kind of prepare for this will be something we'll we'll probably be working on in the future.
11:21:24 And Brent is, you know. I think, doing over a number of ideas, and processes, but the more direction we can give policy, wise.
11:21:35 I think we have some flexibility to figure out how we wanna move forward with this one, you know.
11:21:41 So even in that I example of like, do we make it easier to get some sort of license, or permit versus a more difficult, strenuous process would be a conditional use perit?
11:21:50 We know that's can be expensive and time consuming and yes, there's a whole range of options.
11:21:59 But then, you know. So if we went with an easier approach, would we then want to say, and we will limit it to right now?
11:22:04 There's No. 25 just on Hip camp.
11:22:08 We want to say, like cap it at a certain number for a couple of years, and see how it goes.
11:22:12 What are the impacts? What are the unintended consequences?
11:22:15 So just start giving that some thought and we'll be bringing that conversation back sooner than later, I imagine it would be interesting to hear what's or see what some of the
what other jurisdictions have done, and how they've addressed.
11:22:34 You know various issues. Yeah, she's gonna send some examples of language that you know, we're a bit of a hot spot here.
11:22:44 They're or handful of counties around the State that lend themselves like us, you know proximity to the National Park, and and we currently don't have in theory.
11:22:56 We do have regulation already, but it's it's it's a lot of folks would probably look at it and say, Yeah, that it doesn't necessarily apply.
11:23:05 So you know, they've been able to proliferate here a little bit.
11:23:08 So yeah, they she mentioned 2 counties, maybe I think they're both counties.
11:23:13 Maybe one was a city, and they're just gonna send their regulation.
11:23:18 Yeah, we run into this issue fairly frequently, that because we don't have a county business license, we don't have the ability to like add on a use or endorsement versus sticking
something into land use code, which is more cumbersome expensive and requires a different
11:23:41 Mechanism for implementation and then enforcement. Yeah, so it's a kind of a wide range discussion.
11:23:54 Yeah. So you know, would we do have a short term?
11:24:01 Yeah, rental. Yeah. Yeah. So we could consider something like that that doesn't have to go through the cup
11:24:09 So poor Brand, who already has a lot on his plate, a blood plan manager, too. Right?
11:24:19 Yes, she is, and fire marshal, and many other things.
11:24:25 This is just something else. But you know, because we have a few complaints in the pipeline, it probably behooves us to get ahead of this.
11:24:35 Could prevent more work in the future. If we can write some, you know.
11:24:38 Good regulation around this. It does, I mean your mention of the business license that does as we know of capacity and planning.
11:24:46 If you can just come up with some prescription business license, and that does seems like a more realistic pathway for us in the short term. Yeah.
11:24:54 And you know we've heard for years from one constituent in particular, the value of a business license.
11:25:04 You know, businesses do use the resources of the county to in order to run their business and that would be a way to generate revenue.
11:25:11 To then be able to implement more programs. In a in a fair way.
11:25:17 So anyway, lots of details to dig into. You know, we do have.
11:25:21 You know, for example, the small scale tourist use already in our table.
11:25:27 We have cottage industry, like, where's the best place to put this in, or just have it?
11:25:34 Administrative approval of some sort of permit type that doesn't currently exist.
11:25:41 So stay tuned and appreciate your your input.
11:25:45 Moving forward on that on that front. How are things going with Grannicus?
11:25:48 The Granticus process just really on hold. Dcd.
11:25:53 Is just been too slammed, I think, especially since the Moreitorium ended and the site development.
11:25:59 Yeah, business. License. Good, you know.
11:26:02 Give a pathway to that that is, you know, still use relies on Gcd, but isn't dependent on yeah, that sounds like we would want to do a site development review process for the
hippocamp regardless to identify critical areas you know, really, it's the
11:26:21 The sanitation where are people pooping, washing their hands, and what are they drinking or the, you know, in the neighbor impacts?
11:26:32 But they're a nexus with a lot of our other, you know.
11:26:35 Kind of yeah. Alright sorry. That was all.
11:26:42 On one meeting, anthemic Development Council meeting on Wednesday morning, I'm trying to think what to report from that meeting you know, they're just continuing to do well.
11:26:54 Oh, they're I'm getting an office the first time trying to think if Nodc has ever had an office in in Port Angeles, I think that will be a good kind of raising the profile of
the organization and provide opportunity for staff to work together as the staff has grown you know they have
11:27:14 a need for staff to work together and meeting room. So that's exciting.
11:27:20 We have the Hood Canal coordinating Council meeting, as Heidi mentioned, talked a lot about the hiring process to replace the executive director.
11:27:28 Then I headed to Olympia for the Legislative Steering Committee and report out on that in the legislative report this afternoon, and actually, we're going to talk about legislation
at the noon, meeting, too.
11:27:43 So maybe if you can do that in a abbreviated report there would be.
11:27:50 I saw some bills were listed on the agenda for that noon meeting, which was great, but I said, We'll open it up to the group for other and yeah, easy to get bogged down, and
a lot of details in those so say, high level Thursday also in
11:28:07 Olympia all morning for legislative steering committee.
11:28:14 Then came back for Board of Health. Good, weird, not past the wildfire smoke.
11:28:24 Oh, vice chair! The word of health! We didn't weren't able to pass the Wildfire smoke policy just yet, but I'm getting close on that.
11:28:34 Anything else to report from Board of Health and Friday had Olympic Consortium Board meeting.
11:28:44 That's the workforce oversight board. And not a lot to report there.
11:28:53 Our numbers are still really bad, for number of folks being served through the work source system in Jefferson County.
11:28:59 They've always been really bad which is partly why we lost our work source office here, and they continue to be really bad, which is, I think, indicative of the non traditional
workforce we have we don't have a lot of folks looking for full time permanent jobs, but
11:29:18 It's I just keep saying, Okay, if that's the case, then can we alter services to help folks with what they are looking for?
11:29:28 And also requested that we please try to establish some sort of presence here, which Dr.
11:29:35 Meredith had offered, using the library for, you know, one day, a month, or something, and that has not happened.
11:29:42 So just ongoing advocacy for getting our needs.
11:29:47 Not here then did have a conversation with Hip Camp that afternoon.
11:29:53 Well as I mentioned, and then once the Taylor swift laser Light Show in Seattle.
11:30:01 It's very important. Yes, yes, yes, oh, my God! In between caretaking a very sick husband wow! In between caretaking a very sick husband. Wow! Taylor, swiftly. I've been Laser
Floyd, of course, I know. Yeah. So my daughter it's actually, a gaggle of teenagers.
11:30:20 So that' and that was my weekend.
11:30:21 Alright! I mean well, out of respect for giving you to this.
11:30:27 1130 will will recess and tell noon when we're going to come back for the Quarterly elected and directors, maybe well, you're gonna have to wait for bathing breath for my last
bit.
12:00:37 In person. Yep. And just remember you're gonna have to share the microphone
12:00:53 Okay.
12:01:03 Great. So we have it. Okay, it is noon.
12:01:09 I'll call this meeting of the Board of County Commissioners back into session, or doing our quarterly workshop with elected officials and department directors.
12:01:17 We got lots of folks in in the house here it's great to see everyone we have some new elected, maybe just for the benefit of the public.
12:01:25 We can take a quick walk around and introduce ourselves real quick.
12:01:30 We'll we'll start. We'll start here. I'm great here port account of Commissioner Chair this year.
12:01:36 I'm hiding alright. Do you guys wanna walk around?
12:01:41 Make sure that you do use the microphone when you, when you talk so you're gonna have to kind of share a little bit.
12:01:47 Yeah.
12:01:51 Thanks for making me feel so welcome
12:01:56 Jeff Chatman. I'm the county assessor, Amanda Hamilton, we have Jefferson County clerk, hey?
12:02:03 Bravo! You're gonna really have to get close to the microphone public service now, right?
12:02:08 So yeah, come on up. There's room for everyone up here yeah, we can get more up here, too.
12:02:15 We have more microphones. That's the one problem is, we're a little shy on microphones.
12:02:20 Why don't you grab Kate? And I'll take this one over.
12:02:20 And we're doing a quick round of introduction. Jason Stacy, Prata, treasurer.
12:02:27 . Hi. Chris coy, Central Services Director
12:02:35 Hello, Sarah melons on Hr. Director
12:02:40 James Kennedy, prosecuting attorney and coroner.
12:02:43 Okay, let's reverse just a little bit microphone.
12:03:01 Okay? And I'm mark for calling account administrator, great. And can you guys online, introduce yourself
12:03:10 Don't old Jefferson County sheriff? Oh, Hi! Everyone
12:03:13 Reelected. Yeah.
12:03:17 I'mindi Walker, District Court, judge.
12:03:19 Also reelected good to see Judge and Philip
12:03:22 Yup!
12:03:24 I saw deputy director, public Health
12:03:27 Great
12:03:29 Alright, Philip on soccer, chief civil deputy, prosecuting attorney.
12:03:34 Thank you. Happy New Year! Everybody.
12:03:36 Happy now you're good to see you
12:03:37 Kitty Shepard, finance manager
12:03:41 And Monty
12:03:42 Monty reinders, public works, director
12:03:46 Great good to see everyone, and we have bricks, butler as well.
12:03:50 You want to say, Hi!
12:03:55 Yes, this is Brent Butler. Public works, public works. Excuse me.
12:04:03 You just drive. Don't worry. There's no public here right now.
12:04:01 Yeah, okay.
12:04:06 Brandon looks like light. Mouse. Great! Well, thanks for everyone being here.
12:04:14 We'll do a little bit later. We're gonna do some quick hits from the county coordination meeting from Friday last Friday, the twentieth.
12:04:23 But we're gonna jump right into legislative priority bills and we'd love to hear kind of high level discussion about any bills that you're paying attention to, that.
12:04:34 We also in this room should pay attention to. So this, this line is Assessor Chapman's list you want to.
12:04:42 You want to lead us off, and then anyone else have any bills that they are are paying attention to.
12:04:45 We'd love to hear it, and you want to bring the mic a little closer to you.
12:04:49 If you can't, I might say that Sheriff Noel did send a number of high priority bills for him, and once Assessor Chavin's done, maybe we can go to Sheriff no great and Commissioner
Dean too.
12:05:01 Is we'll be joining as she was with some students nursing students.
12:05:04 But I know she's she's kind of our legislative rep, so I'm sure she'll have some to share as well.
12:05:08 Alright! Take it away. Jeff. Yeah, this list of bills is the from the Washington Association County officials.
12:05:15 It's the request. Legislation by the various departments so there's a lot of very, very important bills.
12:05:21 It's just. These are the ones that that the various associations have request that to be submitted.
12:05:28 So they, they usually are specific to government operations within the various departments.
12:05:36 So I guess folks familiarize yourself as they as they move through through the process, and and have you, are you familiar with these bills, or are you supportive of of these
yeah, I am, and you know, a lot of us are going to be down in Olympia?
12:05:50 And we'll be supporting each other's bills.
12:05:52 So it's really helpful if when we were just not a body, we understand what we're supporting when we go in and this is the time for us to get to know each other, a little bit,
you know, from what's important to each other departments totally thank you Alright so do stay there and then
12:06:08 We'll Sheriff Noel, you want to talk about bills that you're following this year.
12:06:13 Yeah, thanks. And like, like Jeff said, there's a lot of bills that are going on.
12:06:18 These are just some of the the main priority ones for for law enforcement in in the State, and the the priorities that we have.
12:06:27 I I agree with, but so there's just a let's see.
12:06:34 1, 2, 3, 4 of them that are the main ones.
12:06:37 And first of all is the tidy, and up the Blake decision, which was the the legislation that basically legalized drugs, drug possession in Washington State, so that's that's
one.
12:06:54 And and since we only have an hour I'm not gonna talk about all of them.
12:06:58 But the other one is pursuits. There we we can only pursue, and very limited instances now, and that's proving to be ineffective.
12:07:10 And you know, actually looking after victims. Not that I wanna conduct pursuits, but sometimes they are necessary.
12:07:18 Part of law enforcement. Oh, I'm sorry.
12:07:18 Can you give us the numbers of these bills as you go in through them, Joe?
12:07:22 The first one is the, for Blake is Hv.
12:07:26 1, 4, 9, 2, and the pursuits is actually there's a Senate bill and a House bill.
12:07:32 Sb. 5, 3, 5, 2, and Hb. 1, 3, 6, 3, and then the next one's recruitment and retention, and that Senate Bill 5, 3, 6, one.
12:07:49 And I think that you talked this morning about a recruitment money for a lateral officer that's working on security.
12:08:00 This has become quite a a challenge. I think the crop not maybe not, not for all the different counties and and cities, but you know I've always thought it was unfair you that
that this was able to occur, because but to me the smaller government agencies don't have the money necessarily to
12:08:20 Fork out to pay the this. So this is a bill, and it's sb if I didn't say that that would allow the State to pay the money for for this retention and recruit them, and and the
last one is juvenile justice, bill and that's House bill
12:08:42 1, 4, 3, 2, and that has to do with our ability to interview June.
12:08:47 And I juveniles in relation to criminal activity.
12:08:54 So anyway, and that I, if I want to talk more about it.
12:08:58 But basically, we we think that you know the juvenile or the parents should be able to decide if if the youth talks to law enforcement there's been some instances I don't know
how many have happened here, but in other places where cases could be cleared up maybe early, on and
12:09:13 Not bring the juvenile into the juvenile justice system.
12:09:17 If they could have given their information for their side of the story.
12:09:22 What happened. So we we would like to see and all of these, it's not just switch things back to like they were before.
12:09:28 But to tweak the the legislation that was passed last year, to just make them better.
12:09:35 Our main goal is to provide, you know, as I like, in the drug one, you know, like, you know, treatment and whatnot for offenders.
12:09:44 But all to, you know. Hold people accountable, but but also to look out for victims in the communities. Anyway.
12:09:58 Thanks for sharing that show
12:09:51 That's in a nutshell. If anyone has any questions, feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to discuss, and and just for what it's worth, I'm on the loss because of the Washington
associations of sheriff and police chiefs and I'm on the Board of
12:10:07 Of that committee with last week. So this time of year we're we follow the legislation pretty close, anyway.
12:10:13 Thank you very much.
12:10:13 Yeah, thank, you. We'll go around the room. Any other legislation that we should start paying attention to from you.
12:10:20 Rather leaders to Kate run to get her list, or well, she's running somewhere, and she's run back.
12:10:31 So.
12:10:31 Where there's a sales tax to help support law and justice got off.
12:10:37 It also said that I could support dealing with homeless because I guess it reduces the need for launch up or share to be out there.
12:10:45 But my question is the does the county have to implement the one-tenth of a percent sales tax?
12:10:51 Hi
12:10:51 And then you get credit back from the State sales tax
12:10:54 You know I'm not exactly sure on that. My my thought was that somehow, magically, the money would come from the State.
12:11:02 I thought it was kind of interesting, because what'sfix says it's not a tax increase, but I know that it's tax money that's coming from somewhere.
12:11:09 So whether that's just a the different place where the money goes I don't know but that my understanding was, unless someone else here knows was that this would not be like
putting the tax within the account.
12:11:23 But I don't know for sure. But I did wonder about that
12:11:25 Yes, 53, 61 well, that supports it or not will be determine whether it's probably by the State or not.
12:11:35 But it might take me a minute
12:11:39 Great, well, we'll we'll put a PIN in that for a moment.
12:11:42 Anyone else have any legislation they want to share.
12:11:44 At this early time, I have one that isn't on this list, because the assessors didn't have a didn't offer a priority legislation this time, but we now have one which is a senior
bill.
12:11:55 It's a House Bill 1355.
12:11:59 It's got 19 co-sponsors now. I mean, it's going to be pretty popular.
12:12:03 The idea is to give some more does a senior exemption program, and the one is to increase the threshold.
12:12:09 So more seniors can qualify. Lower the threshold for California.
12:12:13 It's a little bit it's still qualified.
12:12:19 So yes, but one of the things they're debating right now is, in, and it's relevant, of course, with the Social security bond.
12:12:29 The question is, are they going to bump this up now that it takes in this the total Social security box or are we gonna wind up people getting a bump in social security and
then being kicked off the exemption program?
12:12:42 So that's debate right now. Gotcha, right?
12:12:50 It's it is a new sales tax
12:12:54 5 voters. Let me
12:12:57 No, the county or city legislative authority may impose a sales and use tax in accordance the rate of point one of the selling price.
12:13:09 So sales tax that would be locally adopted.
12:13:15 They they love pushing it out to us
12:13:20 That's the law. That's the law enforcement. One
12:13:23 Yeah. In the bill report. It does say it will come up. It can. It will reduce the sales.
12:13:36 Well, thanks.
12:13:39 Maybe sounding too good to be true. Maybe
12:13:29 The State failed to go. Maybe, and it's not a it's all written in pencil.
12:13:44 Still, right? Yeah.
12:13:47 Kate, while we wait for more information that you want to share some of the the Nola and county priorities.
12:13:54 Well, I would actually love to dig into a couple of bills that I need.
12:13:58 I would love to get some feedback from this group on.
12:14:01 So one is 1022, which is pulling out the veterans assistance levy, and the Dd.
12:14:08 Levy from our 1% cap, so it allow us to leverage more funds for those, but ultimately would be an increase in the Total Tax Burden association of counties support it, and it's
been proposed many times in the past.
12:14:29 So just curious if there's any any feedback on that, we have supported it in the past as well.
12:14:36 But it is ultimately an increase in the total levy collected.
12:14:40 It's not huge, Caroline, you know offhand how much the veterans levy is okay.
12:14:50 Worked out.
12:14:52 If if you keep it in the accounting laby you can do, we'll do is reduce the amount that goes to the current expense, buying them
12:15:04 Cause it. What it does is pixels, the rain
12:15:12 And so by that, we're left in that way raising everybody, we raising all 4 levies by the 1%.
12:15:22 One new concern, right, which we're allowed to do.
12:15:25 They strike all the language and the current law that allows us to do that.
12:15:30 And then those 3 share of the levy at a much higher rate than what we're doing.
12:15:36 Oh, it would reduce the current expense. The county has an option to pull those 3 out, and levy them separately, as part of the account.
12:15:46 But then, what you want of doing as you now have added 3 fixed rate. No
12:15:56 Completely different, is kind of like what we have, and that's what you're doing.
12:16:02 You're creating 3,
12:16:15 You know I could go down and values directly, or it goes up.
12:16:20 But it's basically it'd be either through your staff. Make those up
12:16:27 And that have an impact on housing prices.
12:16:31 I would think and make make our already emergency situation even worse.
12:16:45 Just really know how that rinses a separate type, so that one actually wouldn't be bad
12:16:52 But the other 2. Yeah, that's where I have, but it's also no
12:16:59 Developing disability. Veterans would stay under the
12:17:07 So, but it also will be that out those 2 popular
12:17:17 I don't look. I don't like great basics
12:17:21 You have the microphone. Sorry if you look at everybody in there that we plucked money for there's advocates who want to get out from under the the rate limitations, and that's
exactly what's happening here is you're trying to get people I mean we have the same with
12:17:38 conservation futures is some folks want to get that out from under the some of the other limitations.
12:17:43 You know everyone wants not to be limited and so this is really just that it's trying to get 3 funds.
12:17:52 Highly valuable funds, but out of of the rate limitations.
12:17:56 Now, if you don't move into a separate phone again, you're gonna her current expense.
12:18:03 And wouldn't that be a double hit because of it currently comes out of current expense if this were to happen, it would not come out of current, expense.
12:18:14 It would be its own separate living. You the I, the way I read it we'd be hit almost twice then, wouldn't we?
12:18:21 Well, no, if you pulled it out, then you could increase current expense so it would benefit current expense it's the taxpayers would be right. What you would give the veterans
in Dd, you you wouldn't under this rule.
12:18:33 But then you would collect even more so it's a double hit if you pull the 3 out of current of the county level.
12:18:40 The county gets to keep that because it's it's a toll.
12:18:44 So the county current. If you pull it out, the current expense would benefit, but the taxpayers are the ones who pick up the tab about 350,000.
12:18:52 Yeah. And to be clear, that would, her property would be relatively small amounts
12:19:02 For the most, however, many parcels, worthy causes.
12:19:11 We just got aren't real fond of rate based levies, that's all.
12:19:16 Thank you. One other one that involves a lot of your departments in Senate Bill 54, 40, which is, it's called Competency Evaluations, and many of you will know more about this
than I do.
12:19:30 But it's an important one, because I mean, it's related to the the true blood case from a number of years ago one of association of county's priorities this year was to try
to get the legislature to the table on modernizing jail facilities.
12:19:51 And the you know, as as we all know, the jail is often considered our largest behavioral health, facility, and one of the real backlogs in the system statewide.
12:20:04 And I don't know if this is true, locally or not, is that folks are waiting for competency evaluations as they await trial or not.
12:20:10 As the case may be, less the evaluation more the restoration, if they are
12:20:20 Then
12:20:28 The evaluations used to take over
12:20:34 Legislation and lawsuits. The State is able to get that
12:20:42 The statues have been pretty, that's the restoration.
12:20:45 That's that's the thing. That's a very intensive process, right?
12:20:49 Western State Hospital, or Eastern State
12:20:56 And then takes a while. So we're not holding them during that time.
12:21:03 If if it's an out of contact, see restoration
12:21:09 Thanks out of custody, competency, restoration. Those really only existed
12:21:17 You're looking at it.
12:21:23 Hmm, so why this really matters is that the association of counties is pushing for a statewide survey to see how our our jails serving the the kind of purposes that they serve
now how are they doing compared to you know what what they were built for we know that they
12:21:43 are expectation of the criminal justice system has changed so Lassex, very interested in, you know, doing this survey. Figure out what the needs are.
12:21:51 How can we better be serving that population? Reducing our liability?
12:21:55 Any number of things, and and interestingly representative. Thereinger is, is less interested in that than he is in a program which is funding a pilot study to take a few jails
and and kind of modernize them for current needs and see what the impacts are of that process and
12:22:22 so I was like, we're trying to gather some input on kind of the the needs of our communities.
12:22:29 How much of an issue is this? Should we be, you know, is, I appreciate that they're just like, let's try something new like, let's just, you know, Ideate and get it done.
12:22:43 And yet, if statewide, we're saying, Hold on, we we need a lot more information.
12:22:47 So I appreciate any input on that. So what they did in the last round do more value
12:22:57 You have to send down
12:23:01 Based health care. But the type of community based health care we have just isn't as intensive
12:23:11 That are really needed for what we're talking about, what the State needs to do
12:23:17 Is build, capacity, western or Eastern hell. They should probably build a couple of more hospitals
12:23:24 We're talking about
12:23:27 2 facilities. Western State is very old, that one's definitely on the docket for yeah, basically, replacement.
12:23:36 And our State's population
12:23:39 And the state is to find ways to get out of capacity, and they're not good.
12:23:46 They have to increase capacity.
12:23:51 Simply will not function.
12:23:54 Concerns about trying to which is otherwise very intensive process.
12:24:01 Resources that have psychiatrists, staffing 24, 7. 2.
12:24:07 Treat these people like one of the things that I've learned from doing.
12:24:09 Hearings on here
12:24:11 Have at these hospitals, probably not so
12:24:15 A whole different range of types of physicians there, because people can come up need restoration.
12:24:21 Often have other health issues, many of them have heard issues. Whatever else got going on, and a lot of times those can also play.
12:24:31 Into the whole thing. Liver is actually a really important organ.
12:24:37 With respect to your mental health, so we're not just talking about psychiatrists.
12:24:43 We're talking about all kinds of doctors who can treat and medicate these people to also make sure that the or interact
12:24:55 Awesome. A lot of concerns about the State trying to create another shortcut here.
12:25:01 Okay. One more issue related to this is the ongoing effort to get the 18 to 20 year olds reclassified in the juvenile system.
12:25:13 But then concerns about the juvenile system. You know dealing with the young adult population.
12:25:19 I think the coordinates
12:25:25 Oh, sorry! Are in favor of this. It definitely needs to be somewhat thought, and it was in committee for a little while and didn't go anywhere because you would have to almost
create a different leg of the system, but that I mean, I think that's easier to do in small county we can implement programming much easier
12:25:45 Than the larger counties. So I think King Calendar needs some.
12:25:48 Pan might be less. It's able to do this. But in general the core administrators of juvenile services are all
12:25:59 Not mentally. We fit them much, much better. I mean, we're still doing programming.
12:26:02 We're doing monitoring, we work with the whole family but many of those kids aren't housed on their own yet, and so a lot of times we can repair.
12:26:10 Bridges with family, and get them stable housing that isn't in with older populations when it become vulnerable, and then we lose our main asset.
12:26:19 In our communities, which is, yeah, I don't population. So yeah, I think it's something that we support and we don't run a youth juvenile detention facility, which makes it
easier.
12:26:34 I mean, you know. Good the concern is having 20 year olds in a population with 13 year olds.
12:26:39 That's a very different that's already separate. So even when I have an 18 year old on supervision, because we can have them if they were sentenced at a certain amount of time,
they still serve time separately from our juvenile box, so it's not uncommon for us to
12:26:53 Have an 18 year old, 19 year old.
12:26:59 Those kids if they did need to have incarceration time with still be.
12:27:05 But again our infrastructure is very much thoughtful.
12:27:09 Out in graduated with, so but yeah, it's I think it's where it should be, and it feels much more about it.
12:27:19 I had a question
12:27:18 Thank you. Sorry. Mark. Go ahead, Joe.
12:27:24 The the last part that you that you and China were talking about there.
12:27:29 Kate, is that part of that fifty-four-fourty as well
12:27:31 It's not
12:27:35 I just had it. Sorry. Yeah, no.
12:27:43 I have, is like literally a 1,000 bills in front of me here, so it might take me a minute.
12:27:48 That's that's okay.
12:27:52 1432,
12:27:49 That'd be 1432 I doubt it will go out of I I yeah.
12:27:56 Well.
12:27:56 Well, that's part of the whole juvenile justice.
12:27:59 Bill. Yeah.
12:28:00 Well, and so I could be wrong. That that's where it's living.
12:28:04 The names are so big
12:28:05 That well, and what I wanted to say to what James was saying.
12:28:10 I totally agree with all that, for what it's worth, and and I'll and also like the idea of different strategies.
12:28:18 For how housing, different age, people, for what it's worth.
12:28:24 As the sheriff. I'm in support of anything that can improve our justice system, you know, especially when it comes to incarceration and stuff.
12:28:33 So whether we have wanna get together and talk about that I guess we'll see what no, maybe sometimes it's better to get in front of things before we're forced to do something.
12:28:44 So anyway.
12:28:45 Right. Also, there's just a fix that's going on with the general rule.
12:28:51 7, 4, 1, 6 around it was made during Covid, where Warren's couldn't be issued, or any reason other than in any matter in any case other than hard to community.
12:29:01 And that's trying to get fixed, and I don't know what bill it is, but our good.
12:29:06 It'll make it, but it's to then put also sell more safety to sell, which is a big consideration when we consider about a warren is not just for safety to the community.
12:29:17 Many times these young people are the concern for the safety of themselves is a big matter for us, and would be a reason to, you know.
12:29:24 Bring them in our whole closer until we can minimize that.
12:29:27 So you may hear that as well. Thank you. Great thanks, Shan Stacy.
12:29:33 Did I see you have an update
12:29:37 So the first one was sorry for reading that portion of the bill, and not the full one.
12:29:41 But it is a credit to the State collected portion, so it would be like if an affordable and supportive housing.
12:29:50 We already received the rural and the point 0 1 4 6 supportable in support of housing.
12:29:59 And so currently, we get point 1046 for those out of the 6.5.
12:30:05 And so the proposals, another point 1% for the law and justice that Sheriff Noel mentioned, the other was because Lawrence has a couple of meetings.
12:30:18 I thought I would just point out that the treasurer's proposal that's Hb.
12:30:24 1419, modernizing the process of registered warrants.
12:30:30 This has nothing to do with law and justice other than paying a bill, so we voucher, and we issue warrants.
12:30:37 We issue warrants. Those are the checks that the county pays.
12:30:41 And so this is something that while I don't have any right now, it's a tool in the toolbox for funding our districts, the junior taxing districts.
12:30:51 So when they have collections coming in typically, the peaks are April and October, with property taxes if they need it more evenly over the year, we can issue registered warrants.
12:31:07 I haven't had to. I didn't want to, because it's such a mess trying to comply with State law.
12:31:13 The idea is that this bill would clean up the State law to match modern banking.
12:31:19 Mason counties, treasurer, Lisa Frazier.
12:31:22 She heavily worked on it to do what we need to have it do, because she has a lot of registered warrants, and so just wanted to make clear.
12:31:34 There's 2 kinds of warrants and the treasures are not talking about those warrants at all.
12:31:40 Thank you, Stacey. Oh, and so I'm also working on the Was Act Legislative Committee, and on the Board for Waco, and we did get Representative Mike Chatman to sign on to be primary
sponsor of that Bill.
12:31:58 But anyway.
12:32:01 Thank you. Any other legislative updates at this early early date
12:32:08 I dropped the 1241 which is addressing harassment of elections, officials.
12:32:17 What does the bill do? Does it do a study? No microphone.
12:32:26 It depends on how you harass our election official one and one is a class C. Felony.
12:32:31 The other one is a misdemeanor. So there're trying to make them.
12:32:35 If you get a threat, no matter how it's delivered, it would be a
12:32:41 So that is corner on our radar, because we actually did have this even occur in Jefferson account.
12:32:49 And then we do have another House Bill 1, 2, 7, 2, which is the consistency in voter pamphlets.
12:32:55 So currently the State does a voter pamphlet for the primary in general.
12:33:01 The county has to do a voter pamphlet for every election.
12:33:04 Now, and what they're trying to do is make it consistent, like deadlines.
12:33:09 How many words you can have that sort of stuff consistent with counties in state, because ours is even different from what this state require.
12:33:20 Great are you in favor of that? Yes, lower thanks.
12:33:27 Alright be spending a lot of time in Olympia this session, and just don't hesitate to bring bills or ideas forward.
12:33:38 I could. You know, occupy our whole time talking about things like the the recycling waste management, adding climate change to the growth Management Act. You know.
12:33:50 I mean, it's all over the map, and it's yeah.
12:33:54 Just appreciate your input at any time on issues
12:33:58 And I'll ask one more time. I wasn't really looking at the screen, but anyone with us virtually have any other legislative updates.
12:34:05 They want to share.
12:34:07 Well, we can come back I would just say I'm working on one thing.
12:34:12 Trustland transfer. I've been on this legislative proviso work group for about a year and a half, and we have a House and a Senate bill introduced, and those are reforms to
the Trust Zone transfer program which is a conservation program within Dnr and then
12:34:27 There's also a proposal for a 25 million dollar capital capital budget appropriation for 10 projects that are on a trust, a ranked trust land transfer list.
12:34:38 So it's it's random, but it's a concurrent thing that I've been working on for a long time, and we have bills moving right now.
12:34:44 So not moving yet, but introduced at least
12:34:49 Great. Okay. Well, we can always come back to this at the end.
12:34:53 If there's more that that you've been sparked on and we'll go on now at our county coordination meeting on Friday.
12:35:01 We talked a little bit about the potential redundancy of county coordination meetings as well as our county coordination meetings.
12:35:07 So there was a plan that was discussed. You want to take us through that mark, right?
12:35:11 So, if we have a monthly county coordination meeting, that's 12 meetings, and then, if we have 4 of these once a quarter, that's 4 plus 12 is 16, and so on Friday we discussed
the past of somehow modifying that schedule to reduce the number of meetings
12:35:29 And also this. This meeting is valuable however, it's limited to an hour, and it's on a Monday when the Board's got business in the morning, and then business in the afternoon,
and frequently they've got Walsack calls at 11 or at noon, and so that's a
12:35:50 Content, so what we came up with on Friday was the idea that we would have 8 regular county coordination meetings, and then for coordination meetings that would involve elected
and directors like this, you know, once a quarter January. Yeah.
12:36:09 January, April, and what July and October, and so we wanted to throw that out there to see if this group would agree to that change.
12:36:19 And so I am. Invite comments alright. And I I don't think we're we're absolutely locked into the dates, but just to reiterate.
12:36:29 So this meeting would have been our Friday County coordination meeting that we just had, and we would have had an open public meeting because we wanted to make sure that all
3 commissioners can can can sit with our peers.
12:36:41 Occasionally. So that is kind of the idea, and that means looking at your guys.
12:36:47 Friday schedules as well, and seeing if this quarterly muted, so the Quarterly Meeting would happen on a Friday. And I think we're also talking about shifting those meetings
still 1130
12:37:01 With, what's the way? Yeah, I appreciate, James, that you brought your lunch.
12:37:06 I really do so? No, with a kid. I know I know I just, you know, breaking bread.
12:37:12 Together is important. I only brought my apple. I had my my sloppy soup before.
12:37:17 Yeah, I mean, and another option would be that we just wouldn't have had our Friday meeting.
12:37:23 And we continue this on Monday, still with us, you know it would still be 12 meetings if that's if that Friday is incompatible with everyone.
12:37:32 Schedule.
12:37:35 I think a quarterly meeting on Fridays it is, presents a high risk for non-compatibility with vacation or
12:37:53 I guess I'd rather take for Monday, like, now we're all here.
12:37:59 I can rather stick with, but generally I like the concept.
12:38:02 Okay. Yeah, I think that's you know, half a dozen of 1, 6 or another.
12:38:09 Yeah, Stacy, I agree with Shannon as well.
12:38:13 It's seems like it would be fine to if the board is okay with having us on the Mondays from the noon to one, and just not have that month.
12:38:23 Friday meeting. I think that's a I think, having the once a month with this mix is really useful, and is really kind of the the floor of of our interaction that I would like.
12:38:40 And so you know, like we did with Covid and with other things.
12:38:42 You know, we can always call one on demand, but I I think that's a really good schedule.
12:38:49 Great, so at Stacey you're in favor of the 12 total meetings, so kind of combining the quarterly meeting.
12:38:57 Okay, yeah. The 8 Friday. And then for Monday, we're the board, the full board.
12:39:02 Yep, not just one. Yeah. Other thoughts I see nodding heads around.
12:39:07 Online any issues with that or counter suggestions.
12:39:13 So that would just be one Commissioner attending on Fridays
12:39:22 So we don't have the duplicate of meeting that we had this week.
12:39:27 Cause. If you look at the agenda a lot of what we're talking about today, we talked about on Friday, right but not everyone could be there on Friday.
12:39:33 So I'm glad that we're okay. We'll see no objections.
12:39:37 We'll just. We'll proceed with the 12 total meetings.
12:39:41 And just on those weeks that we have county quarterly elected meetings. We won't have a county.
12:39:46 Court coordination meeting. Prior. Okay, is an hour enough
12:39:51 Okay. Yeah. Alright.
12:39:56 Great and then kind of in that theme. We were just gonna kind of go over some of the issues we we talked about from Friday, Mark.
12:40:04 You want to take us through some of the high points. Okay, and the agenda says quick hits.
12:40:08 So I'm not going to dwell on any of these, and after I'm done we can talk about any of them that you would like to collaborate on.
12:40:16 First item is that in 2,017, 2,019, the board and a lot of our elected and directors traveled around the county to conduct outreach meetings, and I, you can call them a number
of different things.
12:40:31 But essentially it's an option for us to engage with our constituencies you know, Brennan, Celine, Tri area.
12:40:41 Gardner poor towns in Port Ludlow, and so on, and we're looking to schedule another round of those, the summer, and into the fall, and we'll try to make sure that there is light
for people to travel home at the end of the meetings and then the exact
12:40:59 Format sort of it morphed, depending on the audience that we had.
12:41:05 In some cases we make presentations. In some cases we have small groups, and then the people attending every 10Â min or so rotate to a different group.
12:41:15 So Jeff had been sitting in one chair, Brenda, you'd sit in another, Stacy, and yet another Amanda, you as well.
12:41:22 People would rotate. So we just want you to know that's coming, and we encourage you all to attend, and I've shared the dates that we're looking at on the screen.
12:41:35 So check your calendars. Thank you. Yeah. I'll leave them up there.
12:41:41 One question is where you define it.
12:41:45 From a you know
12:41:47 Yeah. There's some challenges that we haven't haven't sorted out yet.
12:41:52 Opportunities. Well, challenges are just opportunities with a different name.
12:41:59 But yeah, opportunities. And you know, we we look to our intrepid clerk to figure this out
12:42:11 Oh, yeah, correct. That's a big app breakout rooms, or I mean, how would you do it?
12:42:18 Usually when I see 5 like that, it's hybrid, or it almost all
12:42:28 If you have 1Â h you can't cover 7 or 8 or 9 different breakouts.
12:42:33 Groups. So yeah, that's definitely some to think about. Okay, the next item.
12:42:41 And this is a 2 way thing I asked for feedback on Friday regarding the change, the courthouse security, and what what do people think about it? Thus far?
12:42:49 It's only been since the third of January, but the change, I think, is profound.
12:42:55 And if anybody has any feedback for for me and for Chris on this, I appreciate it
12:43:07 Okay, new forms. But I'll say it again
12:43:13 I always felt like that the 2 offices without security, where the commissioners and the conversations
12:43:26 But the man I mentioned that to try
12:43:33 He moved. There, the line out. I'm like
12:43:44 I appreciate it. Yeah. And the 2 9 pistols help
12:43:49 Okay. Positive feedback all around. Nothing. Negative. Great. So here's another heads up.
12:43:55 We have just completed a contract with a company called Very done to help us formulate a county strategic plan.
12:44:03 We floated an Rfp. In the fall had 4 applicants.
12:44:07 We brought the top 3 in for interviews. We created a Strategic Management Planning committee and that committee conducted the interviews, and I think very close to unanimously.
12:44:22 Very done was the first choice. I think we had one person who picked another, but very done.
12:44:27 Was that person's second choice. So our confidence level is high that the very done will be able to help us formulate a strategic plan there's going to be just a ton of involvement
on the part of elected officials department directors employees and most importantly our community we want
12:44:45 to hear from our various constituencies. You know South County, West End, and East County.
12:44:53 As we formulate that plan, we do have one. It's from 2010, and we did share that with the consultants, and said, What do you think of this?
12:45:02 And so they gave us their unfilled feedback.
12:45:06 So anyway, I'm looking forward to that. I know, Commissioner.
12:45:11 Eisenhower will say, when she first got here there was an aborted effort developing a strategic plan, and you want to characterize the process that you observed or not.
12:45:23 Probably not. So, anyway, stand by for that. Any input on that
12:45:31 One thing, and then they're gonna be like, or we just go.
12:45:36 Yeah, I know it's it's always hard. And I was part of that last process.
12:45:39 That's hard to cause. We have so much business our own to try to.
12:45:43 If you have retreat, or if you put, you know how much time you have available, it'd be nice.
12:45:49 I. I like the idea that if we we do it through a facilitator, through regular meetings.
12:45:59 Go to a separate retreat. Kind of situation, where? Yeah, I'm not.
12:46:03 I don't think we're looking at like a 2 or 3 day thing I mean, we'll have a series of meetings, and as they begin to develop the plan iterations will be shared.
12:46:13 Yeah. Fine tuning will occur. And anyway, and the plan had a couple of meetings and retreat sort of aspects built in right?
12:46:23 Yeah, but poly, rp, I don't know. Yeah, yeah.
12:46:29 Alright, yeah, at least one month and a 5 weekly status meeting but I but I went through this over the weekend, and it seems like a real first opportunity to get eyes on the
plan is they're gonna develop a project and schedule, and that'll be something that we'll all want to
12:46:45 Get yup
12:46:49 Yeah, but we want all of you involved in the process is, I think, the what the takeaway right now exactly.
12:46:56 And we got the sign contract back from very done, I think, on Thursday last week, and so the process is gonna ramp up from from here on one comment I have, Mark is that I'd
like us to be a little bit intentional, and how we see this Visa V the comprehensive
12:47:14 Plan which I can't believe is kind up again in 24.
12:47:19 Yeah, feel, like, we just just update it every 7 years.
12:47:25 Right. Is it doing? 25? But we will be working on it next year.
12:47:30 Yeah. So you know, that's the twenty-year vision for the county kind of externally within our communities.
12:47:35 But we don't, you know. I think of the street strategic plan of being more, a little more internally focused on our organization.
12:47:42 But of course those things are related. So just think it's worth in the early stages, giving some thought to how this process can feed the account plan, but not take the place
of the account plan, which is really important statutory and otherwise well, if I recall correctly, I think all 3 of the presenters.
12:48:01 Mentioned weaving this, together with other plans, the county has to include the comprehensive plan.
12:48:08 And so I'm I'm pretty confident that we'll do that.
12:48:09 Thank you. Okay. The next item is, we have 4 targeting agreements with our labor unions that expire at the end of the year, and, thanks to Sarah, we're gonna open those up this.
12:48:25 We're gonna begin negotiating now.
12:48:29 In the hopes that we can have new agreements finalized this year, and I know it's it's a a stretch, but we'd like to have them done before the budget is adopted in December.
12:48:41 So that we don't have to do supplemental appropriations and retro pay and and that sort of thing.
12:48:48 And earlier today we had a closed session with the board, and they authorized certain parameters for us to use in those negotiations.
12:48:56 And I'm very happy with the parameters that that they've given us, and I'm sorry anything to add on that
12:49:05 Okay, so you can, you rat and rattle off the 4 bargaining agreement.
12:49:13 This year will be, you know.
12:49:17 Department teamsters, public works, services and team service shares, admin
12:49:25 Okay, thanks for that. Okay. Next item, you all remember Jeannie Macken?
12:49:35 Well, I think in the fall she moved on to greener pastures, and so the Board authorized the creation of a halftime communication specialist position, and we advertised that
and had had 3 applicants interviewed and I think we've come to terms with Wendy.
12:49:58 Davis. Yeah, we can confirm
12:50:01 Came to terms today, in fact, and so we need to get a formal offer letter out to her and have her sign it and return it.
12:50:12 Background, check as everyone would guess, came back. So we're excited about that, and part of her onboarding process will be to meet with each of you.
12:50:26 Learn about your departments, your offices. What's important to you, and what kind of support you're looking to get from this person from Wendy.
12:50:36 So she's essentially building a program from scratch.
12:50:41 And and so we'll appreciate your support as she does that
12:50:47 That's right. I have yeah, what?
12:50:54 What's that? Okay? The next health insurance premium holiday I'm gonna pump that one to, sir.
12:51:01 That's a pass
12:51:06 Really brief, as part of the agreement with the Ufcw.
12:51:12 Contract that was signed a couple of years ago. Part of what was included what was called a a rate holiday from the sound health and Wellness Trust, which is the administer
of the insurance benefit plan for the group of folks, and that covers sound Health and wellness trust covers not only
12:51:35 Our bargaining unit employees, but also exempt employees.
12:51:38 So part of the agreement was that there was a rate holiday quote unquote, which meant that the employee would not have to pay their portion of the medical insurance, and the
county had did not pay basically a reduced part of the county portion the rate holiday has now ended and as
12:52:05 Part of the end of that agreement. The county pays the county portion as well as the employee portion, until the end of the agreement, which is December thirty-first, 2,023,
basically what that does is it fuels or cycles back the
12:52:24 Savings, to continue to benefit the employees who are covered under the plan yeah, we had hoped that that premium holiday was gonna last longer than it did.
12:52:36 I think it ended what we thought 13 months and hopefully longer.
12:52:40 But it only went 9. Yeah. So and it rates went up right?
12:52:44 Yeah. The interesting thing, too, is that for employees who are on a family plan plan over this, the duration of the holiday, they will have received a benefit of savings of
around $3,400, which is significant.
12:53:02 That's great. Yeah. And so we need to condition our employees to understand that January of next year they're gonna see that again.
12:53:11 On their paid advice. So, anyway, it was good while up lasted.
12:53:16 There's a another item we talked about. We're not gonna discuss it here, but this afternoon we have a discussion of the thirteenth temporary county policy with the Board and
what to do with that?
12:53:32 I think Sarah is updating the personnel manual, and I will be floating a red line version of that out to you all in the next.
12:53:43 We week and a half, and and that incorporates some of the some of the text from the thirteenth right.
12:53:54 And so the discussion this afternoon, I guess we'll focus around whether to resend that
12:54:01 Okay. Concludes the quick hits from Friday. Great, thank you very much, mark and good.
12:54:08 We have a little time to go around and and share whatever you like to share what you're doing, what you need.
12:54:14 You know how it's going why don't we start online?
12:54:18 Reverse the order here, so we'll I'll I'll call on everyone, but if you don't have anything to share that's fine, so we'll we'll start with Sheriff Noel any anything you want
to share with the Group Joe
12:54:30 Not really, I I guess. Well, I guess one thing I want to share is, we recently have some active shooter training at high school, which was a first as far as we actually was
during Christmas break so we were able to use the actual school to practice some some techniques.
12:54:50 So that was that was very beneficial. We plan on doing it with the other schools and accounting as well.
12:54:58 We all, we have participation not only shareers, deputies, but for towns, a police department.
12:55:03 Okay.
12:55:02 We have folks from the game department and also from State parks.
12:55:06 So people that would be coming out of the woodwork if something bad happened.
12:55:11 So that was a good thing. So that that is one thing that I wanted to share
12:55:15 Great thanks for sharing Monte anything to share
12:55:23 Sure.
12:55:24 Sorry. I took a while to get back on there. No, I don't really have anything to share we're we're getting ready to go out to bid on the first phase of Port Headlock sewer at
about a month.
12:55:35 So that's consuming a lot of time for me.
12:55:37 But that'll be an exciting development for everyone, I'm sure
12:55:41 Great. We're looking forward to it. Thank you, Judy.
12:55:45 Anything, to share.
12:55:46 No, not at this time, thank you.
12:55:49 Great thanks, Philip, anything you'd like to share
12:55:57 Okay.
12:56:01 Yeah, that's allowed.
12:55:59 Sorry I was eating my lunch so same thing. No, I don't have anything to share. Sorry
12:56:05 Okay, no no. Problem. Great. We'll go around the table here.
12:56:09 We'll start with Brenda anything to share.
12:56:19 Judge Walker.
12:56:21 Good afternoon. Not a whole lot to share, but just excited to announce that we have a full staff.
12:56:27 Finally. And that's a really exciting thing our therapeutic coordinator.
12:56:30 Soing. Well, and we're already seeing some real benefits to having that person on board.
12:56:37 So we're really excited about that as well
12:56:39 That's great news. Thank you, Brent. Anything to share
12:56:41 Yeah.
12:56:47 Hi, I would just point out that the planning commission is looking forward to meeting with the Board Wednesday, and we we have a full planning commission, and they're very excited
by the opportunity of sharing what they see as some of the priorities moving forward.
12:57:07 So. And that's going to be Wednesday at 5 30.
12:57:11 It's a hybrid meeting. It'll be at the try area
12:57:14 Alright! I'll be there in person, looking forward to it, Brian Gleason.
12:57:20 Anything, to share.
12:57:27 Not really just again repeating that it's really nice to finally have full staff for one.
12:57:33 Yeah.
12:57:35 So that's a big change. In the last year
12:57:36 That's great to hear. All right, Veronica. Anything from public health
12:57:43 We we just received notice from 3 employees that they will be leaving, so we will not have a full step.
12:57:51 Ouch!
12:57:53 Yeah, so one retirement and 2 people moving on to different chapters of their lives.
12:58:01 So anyway, you know, it's just constant over here, you know.
12:58:05 Hmm! I'm sorry. Hear that
12:58:06 But will we will find replacement
12:58:11 Yeah, at least the landscapes change right? That's something I've heard from you guys, too, that it's it's you're getting a different kind of applicant pool than you were a
year ago.
12:58:19 Definitely, yeah.
12:58:21 That's great. Alright, I think I got everyone on online.
12:58:26 Now if I didn't, please speak up. But, Brenda, maybe let's pass the microphone route a little bit.
12:58:33 Anything that you'd like to share. Auditor hunting for.
12:58:36 Yes, so I did appoint a new chief deputy auditor, and that is Jesse Graves.
12:58:42 Accounting like 21 years. So that's the cool thing, you know.
12:58:49 Going live with payroll was an exciting thing. On the fifth we got a few comments about how it was displayed.
12:58:57 You couldn't read so we're doing it on white paper.
12:59:02 So. Thanks for the comments we're working on W.
12:59:05 2 s. Today. And thank you for sharing Noel for sharing care, Carrie, because she's been a big health cause that was still in Gyms.
12:59:14 And we're establishing new ways to communicate with our office because we do have like 2 people in payroll.
12:59:23 Now, Jen what she was a big help on implement team munice.
12:59:28 She is now going to be with a leader. She's our backup.
12:59:31 So we didn't have backup for payroll. So we're super excited.
12:59:34 And so to get a hold of them, and we'll be sending out some communication.
12:59:39 But it's going to be a payroll at CEO.
12:59:40 Jefferson. So you're not just asking a leader.
12:59:45 It'll go to both people. So that's exciting, because then we have 101 person answering, and and we already have that with recording and elections.
12:59:55 So hi, that's my excitingness. Great! Yeah, it changes.
13:00:07 Thanks for sharing past the night. Alright, Janet, your patience with me as well.
13:00:08 We send him cookies? Yeah. Oh, we do have an opening.
13:00:13 Yes. Recording. It will be a front counter, so we're hoping to cross train recording license.
13:00:19 Yeah, so I guess in juvenile services we just have 3 people.
13:00:23 Myself, included in new spots, and they're all pretty critical spots.
13:00:28 So we're just doing a lot of training and getting kinda resettled.
13:00:35 And I just guess I just feel like I constantly forget something.
13:00:38 Every day I go home, and I know I forgot stuff. So I apologize to all of you.
13:00:42 But you've got anything. Your court judge coming in, and we have a new Spear Court judge coming in, and that's exciting.
13:00:49 And as I've worked for 3 or 4 judges, so I always appreciate having that a new judge come in because it just really recenters the focus or can bring to light things that maybe
you have let go of it.
13:01:06 And so I'm pretty excited about being our judge. But again, that's another transition.
13:01:10 So, we have lots of growing pains, but it's fine.
13:01:15 But am. I do appreciate everybody's help because I think I've pardon and might have stolen somebody's employee.
13:01:23 So , you get an interception we're also gonna be down staff a little bit because we got one person retiring.
13:01:36 Darcy, Harrison's retiring, and she and Jamie Traffen handle the front office, and which also means exemptions, and it's no easy thing processing exemptions, because you almost
have to be.
13:01:48 You have to have the same skill set as an Irs auditor because you have to go through everybody's income so we're we're interviewing this week, and we're gonna bring someone
on to and train them to do that.
13:01:59 And that also being that I forgot to mention on the Senior Citizen Bill that we support.
13:02:04 There's a one and the other thing is they talk about, how are we going to promote this so that people who qualify can sign up and and some counting put it on the side of their
buses right wow! So they're talking about do you need to counties in an advertising budget to help
13:02:21 Promote this. So that's one of the discussions that are still going on with that. Dr.
13:02:24 Wendy. So it worked out as we predicted.
13:02:35 You know, assessments. County-wide went up by 20%.
13:02:39 But because we're in a budget based tax system they taxes only went up by 3.
13:02:42 So you know whether values had gone down or gone up or stayed the same.
13:02:47 You're what you're gonna pay and tax about what you would have any.
13:02:50 I see that a lot less time a year, Joe and that's what people are.
13:02:55 Going to find the exception as far as well, or fortunately, is quill seeing, because they didn't pass the bond, they went up by 20% on a assessments, and the taxes they're paying
is going down.
13:03:09 Thank you, Amanda, still acclimating, but inherited a full, awesome team, so I'm thankful for that.
13:03:21 And Lori's training. Another clerk, and so excited to have a new judge come on.
13:03:27 He's getting sworn in Tuesday, so we'll be kind of newbies together and find a way to help communicate with her.
13:03:34 All of our offices, and I'm looking forward to that, working together as a team.
13:03:40 Got all our got our hard drive back from the microfilm that Ruth submitted.
13:03:45 So that's exciting. I've found out it's 4 plus terabytes which I'm told is more than all of the county has first storage altogether.
13:03:54 So, so we can figure out a solution how to integrate that into our record.
13:04:03 So looking forward to working with Dj. And on that solution, otherwise, yeah, one day to time.
13:04:11 And I appreciate everyone's patience, and as I, you're up in just new role, so thank you, when is the swearing?
13:04:18 In 1 30 tomorrow, and open to the public
13:04:22 Okay. Okay. Treasurer's office. So Assessor did certify the tax role.
13:04:31 We're working on our property tax statement. So the amounts for this year are online now.
13:04:38 So if people can look there, our goal is always February fourteenth for the tax statements to go out.
13:04:44 We're on track right now, in spite of challenging software it every year, it's a different thing and it has.
13:04:55 It's roll with it. So the other is we do have our Budget committee meeting this week, and so I put some more annual reports in this time.
13:05:08 So they went out this morning, so you can look at them.
13:05:10 But definitely, we have better access to Munis information, general Ledger information now so I'm trying to work on ways to provide more usable and relevant information for
decision making so definitely a collaborative process in in knowing what you need to know or what's available so we'll keep working to
13:05:35 Make that better, and then also I do have a pending retirement this year for some cheap deputy in my office.
13:05:45 So, and the vacant position that I'll be going out for.
13:05:50 So just watch the employment opportunities. Right? Thank you, Stacy.
13:05:57 Hi! Everyone. Chris Cole, Central Services Director, starting off with some good news.
13:06:03 We successfully hired a incredibly talented new database technician.
13:06:10 I'm very pleased to to say that Scott Carpenter comes to us from the city of Seattle with over 20 years of experience.
13:06:19 There. We're incredibly lucky to have it as as we are.
13:06:24 The rest of the Central Services team, which is incredibly talented.
13:06:29 It's been a joy to get to know them all over the past few months.
13:06:33 So Scott is devoting most of his time over at Dcd.
13:06:37 And imagine the undergo implementation. Yeah? And as soon as things begin to get a little bit more stable over there, we're going to proactively be reaching out to each department
to begin creative problem solving on things that better database interactions might assist you with and then we are
13:06:59 Also on track with our critter relocation projects, critters and acronym critical resource information technology room.
13:07:09 In other words, are redundant, for redundancy, planning for our server facility is being migrated.
13:07:16 Sheriff's office, and we are on track for early spring.
13:07:19 So very pleased with those progress that's been happening there, and very grateful for other technical expertise that's being devoted during regular and non work hours to make
13:07:33 I think that's about it that needs to be reported here.
13:07:36 Good thanks, great thanks. I know that Scott is super appreciated over at DC.
13:07:42 In public health, and everyone else is just hungry for it.
13:07:44 Yeah, Sarah. Hello, everyone. So when Chris brought up creditor relocation, I thought he was talking about the mice that we relocated
13:08:00 Don't know if you heard the whooping up in our office.
13:08:02 It was awesome. Hi! Merrily. What I wanna just say is that there's a lot of new faces here at this table and this team.
13:08:16 And just the I really appreciate what I'm seeing and how the collaboration and the care that is coming forth. And that's that feels right.
13:08:25 The new staff and the leadership that we've got here, and I also feel that that we can recognize that and how that impacts the staff.
13:08:37 And so I just encourage that. And let's keep on this care and collaboration, not only in our departments, but remember that with each other you're all resource.
13:08:48 For everyone else, and to we can build trust and ways of working together.
13:08:54 So communication is really important in that way. I really appreciate people who reach out for me and double back and ask questions.
13:09:03 So thank you. Everyone. Alright. That's good. Next time I'm gonna go to you last, sir.
13:09:08 That's great! Good words to end on, but we'll still give James's chance.
13:09:12 Yeah, yeah, that's good. I love. I love, you know.
13:09:15 Good teams positive morale it really is, I mean, that's what you want your job to be when you come so that's right. And and just to shout out to the folks who worked on Munich
the HTML human capital management payroll Judy stepped in to lead
13:09:33 the team at the end of that work, and Jen Alita, Sarah Kristin works with me.
13:09:42 That's like been a another half time job or full time job over the last year.
13:09:46 So I'm not shout out to everybody. That's great!
13:09:48 Just to comment on Sarah's nice closing argument if you're having a mouse problem, we could probably get animal control there.
13:09:57 Eric might be able to cap
13:09:57 Actually, James is going to wreck it. Yeah, no, I'm sure he's got something bother what's going on, James.
13:10:08 We're just try to focus on streamlined certain things around the office.
13:10:13 Yes. Okay.
13:10:19 Voluntary treatment have some of those out
13:10:24 Themselves or others.
13:10:28 There's been a high volume of those. I first came to this county in 2,014.
13:10:35 It here in here, and it was the first time
13:10:44 So that's why
13:10:49 Because usually and Monday pop up he would be able to get them down to kits up county
13:11:00 And since that time they have just picked up in frequency and
13:11:08 And this county's Democrats, we should expect that to continue.
13:11:14 Particularly when we have, which is not so easily treated or taken care of.
13:11:24 Other national numbers, get them back
13:11:34 But with dementia. What many.
13:11:39 And so those have been very difficult
13:11:44 Working on, streamlining those hearings, trying to create an sop. Or I've been working with Page
13:11:52 So that's that's work in progress. We have a vacancy.
13:11:56 Thanks to juvenile services, so we're working on filling that.
13:12:05 And we are going to be down in attorney for a few months.
13:12:09 This spring, is growing. We're gonna have some going on maternity leave.
13:12:13 So just bear with us. We'll be short staff or a few months this way.
13:12:19 Great. Thank you, James. Mark anything additional to share. No, I just appreciate you, allowing me to serve that is really grateful to work with such fine folks.
13:12:32 Yeah, yeah, that's great. Go ahead.
13:12:37 With with Julie. And that's the huge and huge help.
13:12:45 To our accounting staff. She's all allowed.
13:12:50 Yeah, anyways, and we're all in this together. Right? So it's great to be able to share the skills throughout like that.
13:12:58 Kate anything additional to share yeah, I'll just say as many of you know, my husband is going through a very aggressive cancer treatment.
13:13:08 And I I'm just not going to be around a lot this year, and so appreciate all the you know.
13:13:15 Love that has come our way, and we'll continue to need a lot of grace.
13:13:20 I will be attending things remotely as much as possible.
13:13:24 I'll be masking a lot. So just just know that I am trying to keep up with all my responsibilities.
13:13:32 But might be kind of calling in some backup. I've tried to to get some redundancy for all of the important committees I'm on and so appreciate your support and just know that
I'll be participating as much as I can.
13:13:45 And also at times stepping out and saying, Hey, can somebody cover this for me?
13:13:49 So appreciate it right? Yeah, go ahead. Stacey totally got your back also.
13:13:59 Also, just, we all have ebbs and flows. And so, you know, it's more about having coverage.
13:14:04 Not that each of us, physically does each thing. So the goods, yeah, but I did want to piggyback on Brenda's conversation or or comment about the financial manager Judy Shepherd.
13:14:20 But I do not have a mou with them on that.
13:14:25 But what they know. But it's working really. Well.
13:14:31 We have day in, day out we keep seeing how all of our finances and the general ledger, and how we do everything really touches everything else.
13:14:42 And so it's a bit brutal now navigating it, but we all are doing it, and I think Judy does it with good grace, and you know, payroll.
13:14:51 All of this. I also wanna second, the who does to the payroll?
13:14:57 Hr team, just because it's such a big deal, and it is now allowing so many things to line up and become so much easier in in terms of what we do.
13:15:09 So definitely, I'm I'm really proud of our county financial team.
13:15:13 It takes a every department has their own financial person, and I really feel like we're working together better than ever.
13:15:22 It's great to hear. Thank you, Stacy Heidi.
13:15:25 Last thoughts. I would just encourage folks to get out and take a walk, and then the middle of the day, or whenever you can find time.
13:15:34 I've kind of set a New Year's presentation, and Julie and I've been walking a bit, and Stacy and I go walking every once in a while, and every time I do it 2 or more times a
week I the whole week is better.
13:15:46 And so I'm just encouraging folks to get out and take care of yourselves and take time for yourselves and schedule will be meeting.
13:15:55 Yeah. Walking meetings, whatever works, anyway. Just get some movement and take care of yourself.
13:16:05 And yeah, because I'm learning that other duties is assigned as a big part of the job.
13:16:10 And the list was big last week, and I was like Whoa.
13:16:15 So just taking time for yourself. Important. That's great, and we I appreciate you guys sticking with us.
13:16:20 For a little long today, but I'm glad that we took this opportunity to go around and hear from everyone, and I I feel really blessed to work with all of you, and I'll echo what
what Heidi said, especially we have new electives, and directors and you know keep working on that balance and we're
13:16:34 All here to help each other balance it out you know we're working together so great team.
13:16:39 Good to see everyone. We'll we'll see you in a in a quarter, and and we've got a new schedule.
13:16:46 So we'll recess this, and then 1 30, when the Pocc will rejoin this meeting.
13:16:51 But great to see everyone online as well, and have a great afternoon.
13:33:51 Are you going
13:33:59 I will call this meeting at the Board of County Committee Commissioners back into session.
13:34:08 Sorry. No. No. Problem. Okay. I don't think we have any time conditional things on our agenda.
13:34:21 So we've got a couple of stuff under a couple of things, including couple of letters.
13:34:25 Tammy Porny had forwarded on to see if we could just assign onto it, so we wouldn't be able to modify these letters, but could always choose to write different letters.
13:34:32 Of course, or use these as our own letter for a weekree, and legislative update.
13:34:40 We've talked a little bit about over the lunch break at our quarterly elected meeting, and then boards and committees and the thirteenth kind of policy, I think, will be a big
conversational topic.
13:34:49 Anything else that people would like. Oh, I guess and we haven't done calendaring, or Mark, or my briefing so.
13:34:59 And we did, we did get the declaration.
13:35:02 The boat Derek. Boat declaration, right. You want to start with that.
13:35:05 We can do that
13:35:10 Thanks for thanks, Philip, and Mark, for working on this
13:35:16 Hmm.
13:35:21 Takes the village
13:35:41 I need to read it
13:35:44 No, no, we don't need
13:35:50 See, this would be
13:35:59 No, I've been through it. It looks great
13:36:05 Pictures.
13:36:08 I have so many pictures, it would be. I wish we had the luxury of an afternoon with bond bonds, and I could give you a slideshow. Oh, wow!
13:36:18 Greed Dot where the boat was. The green.is where the boat was at 1 point.
13:36:24 And moved closer to the bridge, and a little bit farther out
13:36:42 You have something you wanted to add your input on this this resolution
13:36:51 Yep, we can hear you
13:36:50 Can you hear me? Okay, yeah. It needs, say, a close quotes after the first, whereas between the the semicolon and the add
13:37:09 Semiconductor in the end. Oh, yeah.
13:37:11 Yeah. No. Sorry.
13:37:14 Yup, and you got that
13:37:15 Alright realize I'm adding myself. But
13:37:19 And, Philip, can we just add this resolution to our earlier motion? Or should we make a
13:37:25 No, no 1, 1 one up 1.1, whereas up that should be a colon where you are now
13:37:36 Just a a close quote here. Yeah, right there, after the after the yeah, right there
13:37:49 Yeah, yeah.
13:37:46 Right well, Chicago Manual Side would say after the semicolon, but
13:37:51 That's a rule I forget all the time
13:37:57 With that? No, the other way.
13:38:02 So am I calling close quote.
13:38:08 Semicolon
13:38:09 Oh, my gosh! We'll get there! Hmm! Great!
13:38:13 There you go. Thank you. Sorry about that.
13:38:16 Did you hear my question, Philip? Do we need to make another motion to adopt this resolution? Can we
13:38:21 You should make another motion to adopt the resolution and call for public comment.
13:38:27 That's the safest chord
13:38:26 Okay on the second, whereas I need a semicolon. And and because there's more, whereas is below
13:38:39 If you want any of these funny things, they're great
13:38:44 Little French candies.
13:38:48 That's that's fine!
13:39:01 No, thank you
13:39:07 Yeah.
13:39:16 Hey? Is it good now? Is it good? Now.
13:39:22 Do you get back to the top again? Can see the resolution name
13:39:28 So this follows up on on work we did earlier to kind of back for the work that Heidi did last week and the week before.
13:39:37 So just to formalize it would Mark and Philip have created this resolution.
13:39:43 You see the the title of the Resolution there, and I would welcome a motion.
13:39:48 If you guys are ready, I am happy to move that we adopt the this resolution in the matter of declaring an emergency for vessel Wn.
13:39:56 7, 8, 7, 7 in. E. Because it meets the criteria for temporary possession described under Rcw.
13:40:03 79, dot, 104 parentheses, 3 a second alright, and since this is a new on our schedule, we will open it up for anyone that would like to make public comments, and you can click
raise hand or or star 9, if you're on the phone to make a
13:40:25 Couple of comment. We don't have any of the public in the room with us.
13:40:28 See, no, have a comment, I'll I'll close public comment and call the vote.
13:40:35 So all in favor of approving the resolution in the matter of declaring an emergency for vessel Wn.
13:40:40 7, 8, 7 7 in e. Because it meets the criteria for temporary possession described under Rcw.
13:40:46 791040, parentheses, 3 indicate by saying, I hi, hi!
13:40:51 That motion passes.
13:40:54 Alright! Once you go and stop sharing your screen there, Mark.
13:40:59 Thanks for working on that. Appreciate it mostly, Phil. Thanks, thanks, Phil.
13:41:03 I see Sammy Picorni is on the call, so I would suggest that maybe we go to the 2 letters of support that she had brought forward, that I said I would bring forward.
13:41:16 You guys had an opportunity to review these 2 identical, I think, letters
13:41:24 Yes, and so the ask is to sign on to them if we wanted to make our own edits, it wouldn't be the letter I don't know.
13:41:37 Maybe we can bring Tammy. I don't know if you have anything to say I'd love.
13:41:42 We could just talk about where this came from, and be helpful.
13:41:45 Hi tim
13:41:47 Right. Oh, good afternoon. Thanks for having me, and for considering these letters, the would be probably program is something you most likely are familiar with watching the
coast Restoration resiliency initiative in the past.
13:42:02 Legislature has awarded roughly 12 million dollars, and this year there's a request for 17.6 applications were received by the Rco.
13:42:15 And vetted by a review committee. That was the result of a or a queue.
13:42:28 Hmm.
13:42:22 And so, if you are curious as to the members, I have that list, and they ranked 13 projects for possible consideration within that 17.6 million dollar funding limit and 5 of
them have to do with Jefferson county one is the county zone application the request is to sign on to
13:42:45 These letters to support the entire list, rather than picking and choosing that test.
13:42:54 And
13:42:51 Then, oh, getting support and okay funding.
13:42:58 So I'm happy to answer any questions
13:43:00 Great Tammy I? Kate asked a question just as you were coming on. Where?
13:43:05 Oh!
13:43:05 Where did these letters originate? I mean that we're signing at being asked to sign onto?
13:43:09 Hmm.
13:43:09 I believe they were written by wildfish Conservancy, which is a a nonprofit that has been promoting quickly over the years
13:43:23 And
13:43:23 And but I'm sure that the review committee had some say I wasn't a part of that effort, so I can't see for certain
13:43:31 Hey? You know who else is being asked to sign on these letters
13:43:36 Oh, well, the elected that that are within the jurisdictions, where the funding would be awarded.
13:43:45 Okay.
13:43:44 So Washington coast counties and cities that would, and I would imagine, tribes.
13:43:52 I'm sorry I I couldn't find that out for you.
13:43:57 Specifically, but all the project sponsors have been, you know, asked to go through their respective channels to generate support for these lovers, potential
13:44:09 And so you were saying the total, the total ask this time was the 17.6 million dollars that would fully find over 5
13:44:19 The theme. This year, may the team of 23
13:44:24 Any other questions for Tammy. No, I think this is something we have done in the past.
13:44:31 And yeah, happy to support this. Okay, well, I welcome a motion opportunity for public comment.
13:44:43 I'm happy to move that we so sign on to 2 letters of support for the Washington Coast restoration and Resiliency initiative to the Budget leaders in the State Legislature.
13:44:57 Seconds, alright, it's been moved and seconded.
13:45:02 I'll I'll ask anyone in person or at home if you like.
13:45:05 Make public comment on these 2 letters that we are posing, signing on to indicate by raising your hand online
13:45:11 In person.
13:45:15 Alright, seeing no public comment, I will call call the vote all in favor of supporting signing on to these letters indicate by saying, Aye, hi, bye, bye, alright!
13:45:25 That motion passes. Okay, do so other. I guess we could start I mean, is there much to report on the boards and committees?
13:45:40 Let's take a quick look. I think I have filled the most difficult to fill award yeah, left one.
13:45:52 I have a young man hungry to participate in government, who is interested.
13:45:56 And and I said, This is a great way to to kind of get your feet wet in in the process, and and and get some reps.
13:46:04 So I would say that we've added the parks and Rec Advisory Board 2 has 2 vacancies, one in District one and one in District 3.
13:46:13 Those are recent and weren't on the list last time.
13:46:16 So just calling your attention to those. Hmm! And I'm working on a district 2.
13:46:24 Rep for conservation features right now, citizens, right? Still working on noxious weed boards. I'm about to go back to doing it myself for for District 5
13:46:36 Oh, right Housing Fund Board has 2 vacancies that just opened.
13:46:43 So that's can you remind me of those representative?
13:46:49 I think all of the the seats were at large, but we really wanted a kind of a distribution throughout the county when we chose.
13:46:58 I don't think it was tied in but it wasn't tied.
13:47:01 It wasn't geographical positions, so we did have one from District 3, and we had one from District One.
13:47:06 Those are the 2 folks that aren't on it anymore.
13:47:08 There's one dear chairman at 3 years. Okay.
13:47:14 Okay, so time for us, county, Facebook, post.
13:47:23 There's also some recent vacancies on the solid Waste Advisory Committee.
13:47:29 I noticed
13:47:30 Right, Jennifer Taylor, step down right
13:47:36 Hmm! And the ferry is still gotta find someone who's like, financially economic driver based on. I need to follow up with the person I thought was applying
13:47:52 Hmm.
13:47:56 Alright!
13:48:04 That's
13:48:07 Let's follow up off offline, Steven, and I'll get you the information on that.
13:48:12 You have to. Yeah, you could stop by the office even before we're done.
13:48:16 You have to have a business that relies to some degree on the ferry traffic, and Jefferson County.
13:48:23 That's the condition. So if that, if that if you meet that that qualification, I think that's the only the only requirement or represents people are businesses.
13:48:32 Rely on fairies for commerce.
13:48:38 Which is like everything here. Alright! Should we go on to the thirteenth temporary counties?
13:48:49 County policy, sure, alright, we're ripping right through it so I'm hopping all over the place.
13:48:55 So is Sarah joining us for this
13:49:04 Okay. Okay.
13:49:20 Hello, Sarah! Are you with us
13:49:23 Hi! There! I'm on my way
13:49:25 Oh, okay, great. Well, we'll wait for you.
13:49:28 Okay, here we go. Hi.
13:49:33 Yeah.
13:49:30 Okay, Hi, good to see you again. So we are jumping into this discussion about the thirteenth emergency Covid policy. What have you got for us?
13:49:44 Well, the question is, are we going to extend the policy?
13:49:49 Continue with the emergency. Basically, the thirteenth policy has some temporary personnel policies in there.
13:49:58 Most of them relate to
13:50:05 Employees, taking care of themselves, watching their hand what to do in case of of a pandemic, basically continue washing their hands.
13:50:16 You know all the hygienic things wear a mask.
13:50:20 The recommendation to wear a mask. That temporary policy also included information about Covid leave for folks who got Covid, or who had a family member with Covid, and they
were able to use up to 40Â h of leave designated as Covid leave and for folks
13:50:43 who were not able to work from home. They were eligible for an additional 40Â h of Covid leave, and those are the primary requirements of that temporary personal policy.
13:50:59 And so the question is, you know, I guess, where's the board?
13:51:02 Want to go? Or does the Board want to discuss
13:51:09 Is there a recommendation before we start discussing
13:51:24 Hmm.
13:51:13 Well, I think an important thing is to have the Health Department make their recommendation because the Health Department it, Tim, is, or is, the basis for the emergency, and
I think that would necessitate perhaps a broader discussion
13:51:38 I mean, I have a personal opinion, but it's, I think, for a county to make the decision that we, the the Health Department, would need to be brought in
13:51:52 Yeah.
13:51:51 Health primary, the health officer. Okay. Well, I mean, do you have a a professional opinion that you want to share with us as as part of this
13:52:01 Well, you know, on yeah, on a professional. The professional opinion is that employees the just the rate of people who I'm aware of, who are infected that has really declined.
13:52:19 And so we had one person this month who was aware of testing, testing positive, and notified me, and that went into the protocols for notifying folks in the in the building.
13:52:37 Basically. But I wonder, you know, I think, that the idea of an emergency has shifted.
13:52:45 And so do employees know there's an emergency still, and and what does that mean?
13:52:52 If there is, or if there isn't, do employees continue to get Covid leave for cold
13:52:59 And I haven't. I remember that was one of the the May 1 one of the reasons that we opted to keep this policy in place was for some of the Agr.
13:53:11 Related allowances that it had in it but if we're not seeing people rely on those anymore, and I guess also, just to follow on to hide these comments.
13:53:22 Last question, are many of these personnel policies that you talked about your your contemplating?
13:53:30 You're working on the personal policy for the county right now.
13:53:31 So which of these do you think are going to get incorporated into your draft of a new personnel policy?
13:53:38 So what? What is
13:53:38 Well, according to the last discussion, maybe it was the end of the year December, a few weeks ago, with the Board, with the Health Department.
13:53:53 That recommendation was to include the health related recommendations in the personnel policy.
13:54:05 My a recommendation is the personnel policy is a policy of what to do.
13:54:12 And typically that doesn't contain recommendations. It contains.
13:54:15 The policy of this is what we do when there's these issues.
13:54:19 And so I can you know I've included this in the personal policy I I inserted a pandemic session section.
13:54:28 What to do. If there's a pandemic, you know, we'll follow the rules that are prescribed by the Health Department for the State of Washington, and for that for Jefferson County,
and and to me I'm just not sure that all the specific language is required in the personal policy
13:54:48 Like what hands doesn't belong in the personnel policy
13:54:48 You know, and well, I would hope that people would know that they they could watch, or that they could follow all rules to prevent the spread of disease.
13:55:02 You know, and and that would include you know washing your hands and wearing a mask and that could be included.
13:55:07 Right.
13:55:09 I, you know, so more direction, I think, would be important, because I think everyone's not voice needs to be heard in this
13:55:18 Okay. Thank you.
13:55:23 Kate Heidi anything you have a thoughts
13:55:30 It would be interesting to hear from Dr. Barry on this.
13:55:35 We can give her a heads up for the next time, which will be the first week in February, so we can make that kind of the time that we are gonna gonna talk about this.
13:55:47 And we could even ask her to incorporate it as we have fewer questions on a weekly basis into her presentation on Kpbz.
13:55:54 Yeah, I'm not hearing anything at the state level coming down.
13:55:59 Okay, I. It seems like the State is prepared to, you know.
13:56:01 Just be in the endemic phase as well, and so I am not opposed to to, to rescinding the emergency.
13:56:11 And yeah, just again, wanna make sure that we're not closing any doors that have unintended consequences.
13:56:19 Right. That's the that's really the only thing I'd be concerned about.
13:56:22 And we did see today, while we're saying here, the FDA is recommending it's be an annual vaccination, you know, so that's kind of hmm normalizing the choice to get a vaccination
or not.
13:56:41 Yup!
13:56:43 I think also, you know, in general I mean the the Covid and the pandemic was, you know, something we never thought we'd have to face, and this is scary, and I think it is important
to have you know reference to it in our personnel policy.
13:57:03 That, you know. We take the seriously, and we are concerned about the held of our employees.
13:57:08 So, and that so the county can continue its. It's mission and essential function supporting. It's the Jefferson County community
13:57:19 Hmm.
13:57:19 And and then what's that balance? You know how specifically do we go into all the necessary requirements?
13:57:28 So the county already follows room for health and safety as required by the state Department of Labor and Industries.
13:57:37 So we're already kind of following these requirements that are already noted in the personal manual
13:57:51 Yeah, I, tend to agree to. I mean February sixth, when we can have Dr.
13:57:57 Barry here. It's naturally we would have her, and we don't have a meeting next Monday, and in the event, so I feel like, Oh, Sarah, can you tell us when would the thirteenth
policy?
13:58:06 And what's the end? Date on it?
13:58:07 There is none, as far as I know.
13:58:09 Oh, okay, so we would have to resend it.
13:58:12 And Sarah, how would that timeline be for like would we want to pair that with Sync?
13:58:21 That with the policy manual changes.
13:58:24 Yeah, I think I'm I will. Still that's not too far away, and I will still send out the poly personal changes because there are a lot of other updates in that manual.
13:58:38 And so if I we will hold off on finalizing anything until after a board decision about that policy
13:58:47 Okay. And when do you think the personnel policy will be updated
13:58:51 Well, I've got a draft just about ready to go out, and so it will be going out to department.
13:59:00 Heads will be able to ask their employees to review. So, you know, give them a week or 2 for that, and then there would be no finalization for the board until after that February
sixth day, and then so, if there was language that needed to be revised or included then we would still have the
13:59:23 Opportunity to do that, and and the Health Department could weigh in as well
13:59:28 Okay. That seems like a good time. Line to get it into the personnel policy.
13:59:34 And and and yeah, okay, any other thoughts? Nope, no.
13:59:39 Sounds like the right timeline to me great, but I will use my discretion as board to ask if anyone has any public comments on this.
13:59:47 Yeah.
13:59:50 Come on up to the mic. Say it for everyone, and we're happy to hear you, Steven.
13:59:56 Well, I'll I'll just say I appreciate you guys being open to to normalize it.
14:00:02 I appreciate where you're coming from about not wanting to close any doors that maybe needed to say open.
14:00:07 You know, it does sort of feel like with with flu and other things becoming as important or more important than Covid.
14:00:16 At this point. It doesn't seem like there should be as much Covid exceptionalism and just from an integrity point of view you know, an emergency is an emergency and then, when
there's emergency, you know, the captain is can do whatever he wants but when it's not a emergency, things should be done. By the rule.
14:00:34 Of law. And so I do appreciate moving back to that.
14:00:37 Thank you, Stephen. Anyone else like to make public comment online today, you can hit the raise hand button
14:00:46 Okay, seeing no one else, we will close that public comments.
14:00:52 No, we're not taking action today. But I think it's a pretty clear path to to look at rescinding it on February the sixth.
14:00:59 Well, I'll reach out to our health officer to get her estimation of that action on our 945, briefing with her
14:01:08 Anything else on that
14:01:12 No. Okay. Great. Well, shall we finish briefing in calendaring?
14:01:18 And then is there any anything else that we should look to add to the agenda this afternoon?
14:01:23 No, but you've got the legislative update.
14:01:29 We're getting totally, good. Good! Well, I look forward to it.
14:01:35 I'm excited about it. Alright! Well, I will go first with looking back at my past week.
14:01:42 Get back there we're here with everyone on Tuesday.
14:01:47 I think I told you about my Monday down the onboarding support of Health and northward canal chamber, Wednesday.
14:01:56 I I went skiing and not really a public issue, but my feet were fine for the first time.
14:02:01 It was just a game changer for me, so I was not like I would have bound feet on the slope.
14:02:08 So feeling really good. What? What was the yeah. My boots were too small.
14:02:13 I was. You know I got new boots, and they still didn't fit.
14:02:16 But then, when I was up, and Whistler, it was so painful that I couldn't walk after I took them off, and I went and found this guy that stretches boots, and so he heats it up
with the heat gun and stretches it out, and so i've got the spoke boots now
14:02:30 that are incredibly comfortable. I walk around here. So it was.
14:02:34 It was very nice on Thursday, back and forth, and quite a busy Thursday and Friday to make up for the Wednesday I went to the last drug court graduation at Sharpers under Judge
Harper's control, and it was a very very sweet event great to hear
14:02:53 from Nick, who graduated. And you know those are always really just touching stories of transformation in a really positive way.
14:03:04 And then, after they were done, you know he could kind of walks the gauntlet for board came back, and and you know all the different people that we're on his council, you know,
kind of give them an AD boy and stay at it, and you know the hard works just beginning now and then judge hartford had to
14:03:20 do the same thing, and so they they had a goodbye to him, and he had to go.
14:03:24 Do the conflict as well, and they had before and after pictures of him as well.
14:03:30 So they I'm just, you know, young young law student, Harper, and Janelle was there in Zoom, and there was a a big crowd, and and the future spirit port judges.
14:03:41 Mac was there. So it was a really a really touching
14:03:50 And then we later. In Thursday morning, that community Conversation committee met from the Housing Fund Board.
14:03:58 We're setting up that Advisory Council for coordinated entry.
14:04:03 Hmis! Only, Cap, you know that Consolidated Homeless grant that we just approved or deferred on opted out.
14:04:09 Basically decide to our lead entity is everyone needs to work well together on coordinated entry, to make coordinated entry coordinated, and one of our requirements in the Five-year
Plan is that we have an advisory Council that makes that coordinated entry coordinated which we've never
14:04:25 Had. So we have a meeting, not a public meeting, but anyone's welcome to come in the chambers on February tenth that we've invited all of the housing providers that use coordinated
entry to to set the stage, and then we're looking for commerce to come
14:04:41 Out and do a training in March, and just kind of basically form that Advisory Council out of all the entities that use the system so that that felt really positive and lunch
with the publisher of the towns and leader it's great good talking to them.
14:04:58 They're interested in a a South County reporter.
14:05:02 So I'm looking around for a a. A beat reporter to get to do the South here for that too great.
14:05:09 Well, they also would love to get perspectives from the Commissioner, so I signed up for that, and you know they'd love to get it from all of us whenever we're willing to.
14:05:19 So you know. Quarterly kind of perspective piece. I've written one before, and early days of Covid.
14:05:23 So maybe think about if there's a piece that you'd like, and we can talk about whether there's a a schedule that might work.
14:05:30 I think it's a really good you know. It's just a good place for advocacy, and Alice.
14:05:35 So if there's something that we want to shine a little light on that's a really easy spot to do it.
14:05:39 I had agenda planning with with Mark after that, and then I I crashed his weekly meeting with Chris Goy and was, you know, just blown away by the level of detail and the amount
of work that Chris is doing so really got a lot out of kind of bird dog in your meeting I
14:05:57 Appreciate you letting me sit in there, but just reinforce what I what a strong addition!
14:06:03 Christmas, then, yeah. And he's yeah. Good advocate for his staff.
14:06:09 Good advocate for the community, and for you know the kind of the direction of the county from the Commissioners.
14:06:14 So really, really positive. We had Board of Health meeting, and I think Kate talked a little bit about it.
14:06:21 Case, call for her new chair and Kate will be our vice chair for 2,023, and then one other thing that we we heard a little presentation from great presentation from empowered
teens, coalitions that were all members of but from the the human rights Council and just
14:06:41 Wondering. Is there? Amelia is there? I got a follow up call that I need to return, but I'm wondering what you guys think.
14:06:48 The next steps are, I mean, I think you're very diplomatic and realistic, and talking about capacity, about creating new advisory board and and and that.
14:07:00 But you know, we do have to think about what we want to do to support.
14:07:05 You know. A good, a good phase. Human Rights Council is, I think, only in addition to the social fact, protectors, you know, sounds like a protecting factor in our in our society.
14:07:17 So I'm in favor of the idea, but I don't know what our role is.
14:07:22 Board a health role. If you've thought about yeah. My task was to check in with John Marro about that.
14:07:29 Okay. So you're still owning that task. Yes, yeah, we'll do. And he leaves for a like a month soon. Right?
14:07:44 I I think we want to be a little bit cautious you know, things are just really fraught right now around identity politics.
14:07:51 And I. I think, however, you know, if we move forward with this, we wanna
14:07:57 Be careful to not not get caught in a lot of crosshairs, which has plagued some other similar commissions in other places, and so I I just think we want to do do some homework
and figure out what the best structure is.
14:08:16 You know. In some ways, I think, working independently. Yeah, it can be more effective.
14:08:30 Then working within the system, and being really limited by our our own constraints, which almost every board or commission we have would tell you.
14:08:37 It's, you know, people come in thinking they can do a lot more than we actually have the authority to do in in government.
14:08:44 So, yeah, just I, I'm trying to do homework and take it slowly so we are sure that we're not setting folks up for disappointment.
14:08:55 Or you know, putting ourselves in a position of of having to answer to really difficult kind of political swirlings out in the world that we aren't.
14:09:07 We can't necessarily fix yeah, the catfish have no agency over.
14:09:10 Really well, I will just close the loop with Amelia, who reached out to me after that meeting.
14:09:16 I mean, and talk about that passing. We did Housing Fund Board.
14:09:23 Excuse me, agenda planning. Oh, no, we didn't.
14:09:25 We were going to, but it's no one else. The agenda was easy to to get going, so we had that meeting coming up this week on Friday.
14:09:36 The theme of the week or the theme of the month for me has been shedding chairs.
14:09:40 I am no longer the chair of the Salish Behavioral Health Administrative Service Organization that is now Commissioner Ozias, who was in this chair when I came on.
14:09:49 Oh, yeah. And so the big thing there is the opioid settlements funds still waiting for rules.
14:09:58 But the big request was how do you want to do them like they're just funds for us.
14:10:05 There's an indirect cost ratio built in 10% like normal that sayers can have.
14:10:10 They can use more or less, and their question was, You know, do you want us to come up with an Rfp.
14:10:14 Or do you want to put it into one of your existing methods and distribution?
14:10:19 Like, we could. Just, you know, our our allotment in the first chat.
14:10:23 The first 2 checks have come in, if you remember, it's our our a lotment was like 805,000 or something with 18 payments over 17 years.
14:10:34 So we've received. We expected each payment was going to be about eighteenth of that yeah, $44,000.
14:10:40 And they came in about 20% lower on all the payments.
14:10:43 So we got to payment of like $35,000 and $36,000.
14:10:47 That's at the sales. Bhjso, and they were sort of well, what do you want to do?
14:10:52 It's App and Clown both have much more significant funds, and they asked for staff recommended from sales there's a couple of other ledge Updates that sailish has.
14:11:05 So what I said was good. Stephanie Angelene come probably virtually to one of our afternoon sessions, kind of talk through the possibilities and talk about the possibilities
of less just funneling it into our you know, hard road 1 10 to 1%.
14:11:21 You know they're very flexible, she says there's 12 pages of things that you can use for, but you could use it for everything from, you know, navigator systems to housing.
14:11:31 I mean, it's really would fit into a lot of different buckets.
14:11:34 So not a very is that, you know. That's reviewed annually, allocated.
14:11:43 Based on highest priority and need a lot of, you know, diverse community input into how those are spent.
14:11:49 Right already. I mean, that was just my idea, but I know so if it's all right with you guys, I'll have them out in the next couple of weeks and talk about those possibilities.
14:11:58 And we might even want to have. I guess Anna is here as well, just to kind of give a staff perspective on if that is a viable route, it just seems a little silly to have them
do an Rfp.
14:12:12 For us for $44,000. Factors in
14:12:22 Well, I mean that's another place that it could be behavioral health, consortium.
14:12:27 Ha, I mean, yeah, that's it. Could be either one.
14:12:30 That is our own problem. I guess. I think that the Rfp process and the Bhac is more robust.
14:12:38 And that is this point I mean, there's some ones that are going out, but it's been doesn't have the same I just know there are concerns between the 2 right being sucked into
sure.
14:12:49 So you know, I want everyone to feel like they're has the opportunity to.
14:12:56 Oh, alright! There may be he has some nuance that I don't understand.
14:13:01 Phil, did you have something you wanted to contribute to that
14:13:05 No, he's not over yet. Just taking away from your day all day long, aren't we?
14:13:11 Hmm.
14:13:10 Oh, no worries! I just wanted to say that in terms of how the money comes by Ila with the 3 counties it comes to sailors, and the only my understanding is the only limitation
on how the money can spend as it has to be spent for abatement purposes abating the
14:13:33 Opioid crisis, and as you, as Commissioner, Brotherton mentioned, there is a list of things that clearly qualify, but at the end of the day there, there's an accounting process
where you have to account for the money being spent on opioid abatement.
14:13:50 So if the money came to the county, which I think could probably be done in the manner that, and then there'd have to be some mechanism for accounting for it.
14:13:13 Hmm.
14:14:01 To make sure that it complied with all the settlement documents cause they.
14:14:07 They are somewhat complicated, and I'm guessing that the folks at sales are just getting up to speed on those.
14:14:15 Now, whereas you know the 3 chief civil deputies involved in the Ila have been involved in, you know, in the Opioid case since the start, and you know we have one more settlement
coming very soon.
14:14:33 The Walmart, one
14:14:43 That one goes to the consortium
14:14:33 That will, and it'll be about the same amount coming to the county approximately the same amount and total as the first one.
14:14:46 So so that but it would. It will also pass through salish just like the other one will
14:14:46 Yeah, right? It's it's controlled by that same Ila, right?
14:14:57 It is, it will be controlled by the same island. There might be some slight differences, you know, in the implementing memo that we have with the State I don't know yet we haven't
seen that yet, but but I'm told that our lawyers and the ages office have
14:15:17 negotiated the same parameters, in other words, 50% of the money comes to the local governments.
14:15:25 Somex.
14:15:24 Yep, Philip, you don't know why our award was 20% less than that rate sheet that you sent
14:15:31 I don't. I don't know why, but there
14:15:33 Overhead. Well, the the legal fees came out before they split it, the legal fees were 15% on the top, and then 80.
14:15:41 5 was our half of the interest of the post legal fee
14:15:53 Great
14:15:44 But we can figure that out. I mean, well, I don't know the answer to that, but I'll ask our lawyers about that, and we can have it, you know, next time we talk about the 3 that
are coming up, and I mean they're really coming it up fast we could talk
14:16:02 About that, too.
14:16:03 Well, maybe you could be with us when we have a salish out here to talk about.
14:16:08 Kind of what what the Grant requirements are, and you know they can.
14:16:11 I think they. They are positioned. They have the staff capacity to do the reporting requirements.
14:16:18 So it's it's about what, how to, how does it all work?
14:16:20 If if we're distributing the funds and everything, that's the where the art is
14:16:24 Right right, and then that was one of the main reasons why we decided to the 3 counties, decided to have that management manage it because they have their already have the resources
to do that.
14:16:38 But I think it is important what you said, Commissioner, that you know there's a lot of flexibility on how the money can be distributed as long as it meets that requirement
for aatement of the opioid crisis
14:16:50 Great. Thank you.
14:16:54 More to come, but I will have them out. Let's see, that was my morning, and then we had the county coordination meeting.
14:17:04 We had our at our lunchtime meeting kind of. We talked about a lot of the issues that we had talked about.
14:17:08 There, but it was great we are moving to 1130, going forward, which also means that judge judgment should be able to join us, because usually criminal court is a conflict every
Friday morning, too.
14:17:20 So they'll put his hand back up. Oh, yeah.
14:17:23 Just asking to go away
14:17:24 Okay, until until next time. Maybe 3Â min from now we'll have you back.
14:17:34 Alright, and then met with housing advocates and that with Alice and Arthur from only cap on the point in time, count, which is coming up this coming week.
14:17:46 The 26. Where? Where, where are folks sleeping on the 26?
14:17:50 That's the big question. But it's now it is being rebranded as a housing survey, so as not to stigmatize.
14:17:57 I can't take it out of my mouth, pointing time.
14:17:59 Count is just. It's a thing. So it's hard for me to change.
14:18:02 But and then I visited with some some neighbors of mine who I'd never met before, who also are having some frustrations with that.
14:18:12 Through your development and and getting their their, their project going.
14:18:16 So I met with them, and and and walk through it, and Saturday I press passed on county land to look at the penny wise sale and my takeaway is just that, and we can talk about
it more if you guys want but I know the dnr as responded as appropriately as
14:18:37 They think, you know, when we get when you get one side of the story, it's hard to know what is really going on, but I guess my my takeaway is that we should really ask for
a an after action to assess.
14:18:49 Well, let's see how the leave trees are now, and just so we can, because I believe if leave trees are taken away, we are entitled in the junior taxi districts are entitled to
damage of 3 times of the value of this trees yeah, that was my concern.
14:19:05 Is if we if we lost value somewhere. Yeah.
14:19:12 You know right. Our best intention. And Dns, yeah, totally.
14:19:21 And I think they ask for an exception is my impression to harvest in this timeframe, which was not allowed right to do that addressed in the letters.
14:19:30 I might be in that steep a document. Oh, Gotcha, I haven't looked at that.
14:19:36 I'm not. Yeah.
14:19:39 And those. Yeah. Curious about the answer that. But that was my week last week I mean, it's just it's interesting, because we've got 2 versions of the story at this point, right?
14:19:51 I'm just trying to true them up. They don't meet, they don't. They don't match and the middle. Well, I mean, we've got multiple multiple versions from each side right
14:20:03 But there's a lot of wood there, lot of wood on the ground, lot of animals still running around.
14:20:10 Sell a little chipmunks. Yeah, you know, but it seems you know I don't know.
14:20:17 It's an orderly logging side, you know.
14:20:20 It's it looks horrible and delicious at the same time, and the leave trees are robust, and they look pretty good.
14:20:31 Yeah, I don't know. It's hard for me to evaluate.
14:20:33 Really it was good to go out there
14:20:36 Hmm, hmm! Mark, how was your your last week?
14:20:41 Anything to report? Yeah, we have some overlap, but course, on a short week Tuesday, with the board.
14:20:49 Then on Wednesday spend a fair amount of time.
14:20:52 I've got the Revised 5 way agreement ready for distribution to the port.
14:20:59 The Pd. In the city. Cindy works, and I went back and forth a number of times, and she's happy with it.
14:21:06 It's simplified. It proposes an indefinite term.
14:21:12 So that she can apply for certain grants that require longevity, and I removed budget tables and things of that that don't age well, and so hopefully, we'll have that before
the Board and and it it and it includes the increased amounts that she
14:21:36 Requested from the 4 governments, and so hopefully, we'll have that before you on the in the first meeting in February.
14:21:44 Yeah, and then I also got the Nola contract.
14:21:48 Kate, to to Josh and I got it back, signed.
14:21:55 I wasn't prepared to get it back signed so quickly, but so that they want the money, so that will also be on the Board's agenda in a couple of weeks, and in the morning we had
a meeting on the rate, holiday, and next steps we're we're having to write a
14:22:15 Large check to cover their the cost that we didn't realize we had to cover in the payroll of 5 January
14:22:24 And then I have meeting in the afternoon to talk about the parameters that we presented to you today.
14:22:31 And so that was the eighteenth. On the nineteenth I met with Brent Butler at 8, and then spent 4Â h with a number of folks evaluating the consultants for the community.
14:22:46 Health and wellness center. And it was pretty clear Thatopsis was the the firm to hire and and so we're gonna carrier contract with them to do that work.
14:23:00 And and then once they begin, we'll have regular update meetings, I think, once a month, and I would assume Kate that you got invitations for those, if not all, make sure that
you get them, whether or not you can attend.
14:23:14 Yeah. Let's see, there was a trying to think through the there was a consistent.
14:23:20 I had a consistent conflict with it, so I've been trying to move things around.
14:23:25 So see where I stand. Okay? And I did invite Chris Gory to participate, to have a second set of eyes.
14:23:33 And amazingly enough, we have rank things pretty much the same.
14:23:39 So that's making progress, then met with Greg on agenda planning, and then at my weekly with Chris, that Commissioner Brotherton, what did you say?
14:23:50 You bombed it, or crashed that crash. Yeah, anyway, it was.
14:23:54 It was good, and I would welcome many of you board members to participate in any of the meetings.
14:23:59 I have with Staff. You're welcome anytime. And then on Friday, how do you and I attended?
14:24:10 And she covered this well that we went over to Dcd.
14:24:12 To listen to Staff talking about the various processes they have underway.
14:24:18 There, and Scott, Carpenter a new database Guy was there as well.
14:24:22 So they're continuing to meet on processes to continue to improve them, and then coordinates. Can I just add something to that? I didn't say earlier on that Dcd meeting.
14:24:35 They made of a feeling, a sense that you know they're they're the what the wave is cresting right?
14:24:41 And they're starting to get some. They're getting some efficiency.
14:24:44 And back in their system. And they're moving through things faster.
14:24:47 So it was. It was an optimistic message coming from the team.
14:24:52 There. Okay, I think I think I said the rate of improvement is increasing.
14:24:57 So we're we. It's not a straight line.
14:25:00 It's more exponential or logarithmic.
14:25:01 Yeah. And the new people are getting up to speed. So that's gonna yeah, yeah, they've got a brand new person.
14:25:08 And they have one joining. On February first.
14:25:12 So things will only get better there and then I think we had a really good coordination meeting on Friday, and we shared a bunch of the quick hits today.
14:25:23 So that's last week. Great alright! Should we go to next week?
14:25:28 Calendaring, and and see any conflicts and then we'll go into the ledge update.
14:25:33 I can. I already gave Greg what my conflict I cannot attend.
14:25:39 Swack. My first swack meeting back with Swag, and I had to give my meeting up.
14:25:44 But I'm going. I I didn't mean to say, pardon me, I apologize.
14:25:51 On Saturday I had a bunch of old paint cans and I went to the moderate Les Waste disposal of an event event at Haynes Place that ran from 100'clock until 20'clock super efficient
layout nice to directional signs I pulled
14:26:06 up. They took my materials. They had people in Hazmat suits and whatnot and containers all marked with the, you know, the poisonous markings and everything, and I I sent a note
to to Al and Monty this morning saying, great Job and I've got Feedback
14:26:23 from Al that they collected as much at that one event as they would over the same amount of time.
14:26:29 Oh! At the facility at the port. Little less staff time, though with less staff time and and what do you relate?
14:26:37 Was he was really happy to see it all on a truck that was leaving an accounting.
14:26:40 Yeah, that's great. On that note. There was the sexton.
14:26:46 Kids were turned away from the event there was a miscommunication, and I got a call on Saturday, and there's a little bit of hair on fire about.
14:26:55 We thought that there was a certain amount of material coming off the Glendale Farm property that they could take to this event, and Seth was turned away at the event, so I
think there was just a big communication breakdown there, and he's apparently really upset about that.
14:27:12 So. But I was gonna do this week
14:27:22 So today, I, of course, with you guys, and then tomorrow, I have a bunch of prep work to do for Thursday for lobby Day in Olympia, and a couple of meetings regarding Jefferson,
Honey Forestry and Forests, one with Peter Bails to go to look at
14:27:46 His maps, and another one to talk with Dnr.
14:27:50 Staff about Mallory's project, and then I may go to the Olympic Coast Marine sanctuary.
14:28:01 Fiero, speaker, Series event. It's the new sack director I have.
14:28:06 Yet to meet Kevin in the evening tomorrow, and then Wednesday Budget Committee.
14:28:12 All of us. And then after that, there, we have a meeting with Dnr.
14:28:20 About the 3 Jefferson Land Trust Trust, Jefferson County in partnership with Jefferson Land Trust.
14:28:27 I think it was over 10 years ago. Took on some lease properties, and we're talking about how to move forward with the idea of buying out the fee remainder of those and moving
them into county ownership, which has been something I've reported on a number of times and well.
14:28:50 They're gonna they're gonna they raise the money, but they'll be in county ownership. Okay.
14:28:56 That was always the the rest of the, recipe is.
14:29:00 I understand that. Hmm, that I'm having a meeting with Laurie Fleming and discovery.
14:29:07 Viva, Griff Behavioral health about collaboration in the behavior health landscape.
14:29:13 I what I'm getting a sense of is that there's a divide between behavioral Health Advisory Committee and the behavioral consortium and trying to understand, you know how the
funding flows to each group and what just feels like there's some miscommunication going on
14:29:31 Or just 2 groups doing similar things. I think that's the no problem.
14:29:37 It's been there since since they began, but there's plenty of work to do. Right?
14:29:41 Yeah, yeah. And then what? Wednesday evening? The joint special meeting with the planning commission do we know what the topic is?
14:29:53 It's a normal planning commission meeting. Well, I think they're going to talk about their priorities for the upcoming year.
14:30:01 There is a back and forth with the word on that. It's an agenda.
14:30:05 Here, let's say.
14:30:12 Summary of the annual reports
14:30:16 Introduction of the Outrage reach. Subcommittee, and discussion of planning commission prioritization work for 23.
14:30:25 With presentations by planning commission members, general forest practices from Lorna Perspective on Housing, from Kevin, and a perspective on housing for map and then discussion
characterizing the relationship between the Planning Commission and the Board of County Commission. It's Gonna be a pack meeting thank you
14:30:50 And then Thursday I will get up at before the crack of Don, and drive to Olympia, hoping that the little electric car, hoping I can find a place to plug it in down there and
I'm Gonna be driving down with Peter bail so we have meetings
14:31:07 with there, Ander Chapman Bandwig, R. Office, and then there's a hearing and Senate natural resources on the Senate bill.
14:31:19 In the afternoon. So that's a super Pac. Day, and then drive home.
14:31:24 And Greg. While I'm driving home we'll be attending the swack meeting for me.
14:31:28 Thank you. Greg, yeah. And then I am out on Friday and going to the east side of the mountains for the sculpture.
14:31:41 The great sculpture escapade number one of 2023.
14:31:47 So that's and then next week is the fifth Monday.
14:31:53 As we all said, I have a few meetings on Monday time held for those have quite a few meetings next week I will be in Olympia one more day on the second, for a meeting with Steve
Fernser on another item in the capital Budget, and then a the Washington wildlife.
14:32:14 Recreation, coalition. That'd be a Rob Washington recreation parks, associates, Lobby Day at the Governor's mansion reception.
14:32:24 So. But you're not there this week, are you?
14:32:26 That week you'll be there I'm there the first and second.
14:32:31 Sorry you have any interest in going to this evening. On the second events, I will probably come back. Okay.
14:32:40 You'll be on your way back by then. Yeah, okay?
14:32:43 And then
14:32:47 Julie's birthday is also on the second, and then let's see the following week I'm going to the Nico Conference.
14:32:59 So are we gonna are gonna be here on the sixth.
14:33:04 But I will not be here on the thirteenth, and I'll try and call in in the morning.
14:33:09 I don't know yeah what this. I don't have my schedule figured out for that
14:33:18 Sorry.
14:33:23 Alright! Well, thanks for the 2 weeks as we, we're not every year next week.
14:33:28 It's good look at the next couple of weeks.
14:33:30 If there's any conflicts, sure. So tomorrow morning I have a first hearing on the point 0 9 bill in the House, then I'll plan to attend Brendan Max swearing in tomorrow afternoon.
14:33:48 Have a conversation with a constituent on kelp.
14:33:51 Because kelp is all the range these days that a port town is an empowered teams.
14:33:57 Coalition meeting. Wednesday. We have Budget committee meeting.
14:34:00 Then I regular check-in with Jefferson. Health care, also a let's see, everything has to be scheduled the same time.
14:34:11 So the child care center project meeting basically at the same time as Housing Fund Board meeting but I'll I'll be able to squeeze both those in.
14:34:23 Then the meeting with planning commission as mentioned. There's Day morning.
14:34:33 It's it's it's funny. I have almost nothing.
14:34:37 Thursday, Friday, and Monday, which makes me think I should take time off.
14:34:40 But I I probably just need to finish the big stack of to do.
14:34:44 Yes, so, and then let's see. I know.
14:34:47 DC. Meeting Thursday afternoon. Very little on Friday, very little.
14:34:55 On Monday, it's the fifth Monday, Tuesday, the thirty-first just to the signature verification training.
14:35:05 Wednesday and Thursday in Olympia.
14:35:08 I do have, I'll be missing the Edc.
14:35:12 Board meeting on Thursday, the second, which worries me a little bit.
14:35:17 Do you think we'll be talking about the five-way agreement by then, Mark or I would expect her to?
14:35:22 Yes, any chance Mark or someone else could do. Thursday.
14:35:29 The second at 9 Am. It's like an hour and a half, 2Â h.
14:35:36 Show me the invite. Sure. Okay, and I will let Cindy know that you'll be attending because you could speak to the five-way agreement to Mark should be helpful.
14:35:44 Right, yeah. So I think with that first week of the month straddling the you know.
14:35:55 Light week ahead. Yeah. So I'll take
14:35:59 Alright. Thank you. Let's see. So for me, I think tomorrow I'm going on some morale.
14:36:07 Building early with you with Mark. Right, keep that one a little on it will.
14:36:12 I'll report on it when we come back together. And then Bryan, early, I'll I'll join Stacey and and Judy and Mark for the finance meeting the Quarterly meeting there in the afternoon.
14:36:23 I'm sitting in for the first half of a meeting with commerce and Bayside, and only cap about the last Consolidated Homeless Grant and some of the issues that were going on there.
14:36:38 As they try to. Mend those bridges, and then I have the intellectual and developmental Disability Advisory Board Meeting at 2, 30, or 2, 45 on Tuesday, and then, meeting with
the some of the group of quilting residents down at the Community Center
14:36:58 Tuesday evening, 5 30. On Wednesday I'll be at the Budget Committee meeting as well.
14:37:05 Another one of those director meetings on the 360 evaluation of Orca, the clean air agencies.
14:37:13 Director meeting with Sheriff Noel to just catch up.
14:37:17 How Housing Fund, Board. Hopefully, we'll have some applicants do we have any applicants yet?
14:37:23 Caroline not yet, and talking about the work plan for the year.
14:37:29 Looking forward to the the joint meeting with the planning commission.
14:37:33 Even 5 30. I'll try to be there in person.
14:37:37 Thursday pretty light, but I have swack! And then Friday also pretty late for me, too.
14:37:42 It's that that fifth week does throw everything off.
14:37:46 So Monday, when we don't have the point in time, counts starts on the 26, but as a rural county we have 10 days to do it so on Monday I'm hoping to join the sheriff's navigator,
Steven Eccles as he goes out to
14:38:02 Some of the on. How is that? He's hip to Monday morning?
14:38:08 Tuesday I believe I'm going to the Brennan Food Bank to do point in time counting at the Food Bank in the morning and Wednesday I'll be doing the Quill Scene Food Bank same
thing that we my point in time contribution Monday to thirtieth also have the Northward canal
14:38:24 Chamber of Commerce, and then on Wednesday meeting with the American Legion Board, along with cherish from Olycap, I told you the rent escalation this year, right I went from
$60 to a $1,000 a month, and now they want to raise it to 1,700 and
14:38:40 50. Yeah. So going to navigate that with with cherish. On Thursday I have the Olympic Area Agency on Aging Council of Governments meeting, and then
14:39:01 We do have the Jefferson County check in with HUD on Friday, I think, I said, we're looking for technical assistance dollars, and they have all been subscribed so in a couple
of months we'll be able to check again.
14:39:13 That was maybe for housing fun board, or for you know, even staffing, housing fun board.
14:39:19 But no, no funds available there currently. And yeah, pretty late week next week.
14:39:26 But it'll it'll fill up
14:39:28 And that's it. Mark you want to look at your next 2 weeks.
14:39:32 Yeah. Pretty pretty thin. I'm mostly ongoing updates with my department directors.
14:39:40 Of course, today with with the Board tomorrow morning. The finance meeting with Stacey.
14:39:47 Then, of course, the swearing in of Brandon Mac. In the afternoon, followed by 18 meetings
14:39:55 Budget could be. On the 20, fifth. So we'll have a review of 22.
14:40:00 Won't have much data for 2,023 to speak of, and then the trust land transfer. Q.
14:40:07 A session. I I think that's gonna be very interesting.
14:40:13 Then on Thursday the only thing on the schedule is so weekly with Chris. Goy.
14:40:19 Oh, yeah. And then tomorrow morning, 6, 30, Greg and I are.
14:40:25 Gonna be like you, said Greg. A morale thing, and we'll give you detail next time we meet
14:40:32 And that's pretty much it, and I don't have anything of note scheduled the week after it's fifth Mondays are a blessing sometimes.
14:40:45 Okay, we got all the conflicts taken care of.
14:40:49 I guess you wanna take us into a ledge update, Kate.
14:40:53 Sure, so
14:41:00 My my hope with these is to to hear if you guys have any strong feelings or concerns about about, you know positions that I might be taking, or you know I certainly want to
keep you informed, too.
14:41:13 But I appreciate any, any input you have. So, as I mentioned the 0 point 0 9 bill was dropped and is going to hearing, it's always gone through the house.
14:41:24 Yeah, unanimously. So, just the beginning of that process.
14:41:28 Hope that goes well. So go through the 4 wasac priorities first.
14:41:33 Canola, and then other. I guess we kind already talked about the the other issues of concern to Usac in the Quarterly meeting over the lunch hour.
14:41:44 So another priority for Wasack is the the Federal Transportation Fund Exchange, and so that is taking the block.
14:41:56 Grant funds we get from the Feds, which is a relatively small amount every year, and the federalizing those through a State swap and it sounds like there's support for that.
14:42:11 Axel Swanson and I met with Senator Bandwidth last week.
14:42:16 He's very supportive of it. He's, you know, the the Capital Budget Committee, the Senate.
14:42:22 So that's good news. Seems to be moving forward pretty well, you know, just as a reminder we end up sharing those funds with other jurisdictions and putting them all into one
project at a time.
14:42:34 So we only end up using them every third or fourth year, because it's not worth it for the small amount we get to use them on our project.
14:42:41 So, 476,000 is the 22 Stpga County.
14:42:55 Oh, no. Yeah. It's 127 million statewide.
14:42:59 Okay. Hi, he's on that board
14:43:04 Yeah. It doesn't go to Piff. This is just a Federal transportation dollars that get allocated by formula to counties.
14:43:14 Yeah, so that is going along. Well, the behavioral health.
14:43:20 You might actually know more about what's what's going on with the behavioral health efforts that seems to be changing a lot right now.
14:43:27 So not a lot to report on. We didn't actually get a report out
14:43:42 Sales. Okay, it sounds like it's a rapidly moving target.
14:43:46 Because they were not gonna do a bill last I heard, and now they are so.
14:43:51 But we didn't get a report, because I think it's just moving too quickly or changing too quickly.
14:43:57 Hmm! The let's see. Put a 9 transportation.
14:44:03 Oh! And then the the jail modernization priority. I talked to a little bit about at the noon meeting, which is that it's right now, there engineer isn't supporting the this
study that we want to do statewide.
14:44:19 So that'll be a, you know, I think they'll want us to apply some pressure.
14:44:26 There. He instead wants to do this pilot project like like not study and delay, but instead, like, really get some action.
14:44:36 And, like James, was saying, the real need is, for you know, beds, and like high security beds and skills in skill facilities, not having that population in the jails got to
have crisis stabilization throughout.
14:44:57 So that's part of the behavioral health priority, and that I just every time somebody talks about it, it's a totally different emphasis.
14:45:07 The network adequacy so I I don't know, Marcosias and Rob Gelder were in the meeting with me, and they said, Oh, we have a Aso meeting.
14:45:20 Yeah, yeah, so I, yeah. And I'm not sure it was as specific as beds. But more like, how do we ensure that
14:45:32 Oh, communities have access to some baseline of of care without having to travel to the other side of the State, or, you know, some services are offered by contract and end
up being really too far away. And so hopefully, I'll be able to report back on that in a couple of weeks, and you might hear something sooner
14:45:53 So the 3 big issues we worked on were putting climate change as a new element in the Comp plan, and this is a bill that's come up over and over again.
14:46:10 And it was the only of the Gma bills last year that we're all being considered in a package that did not pass so it's pretty likely to pass this year.
14:46:19 The sponsor representative doer has done a lot to change the bill to make it work better for local government.
14:46:29 We would not be subject to a lot of the bill. Being a rural county, we would have to
14:46:43 Have to do some. There's some kind of environmental justice like calling out where climate change is going to affect historically disadvantaged communities.
14:46:52 We would have to do that analysis we actually wouldn't have to do the elements.
14:46:57 Is there? Only 1, 2, 3. Looks like
14:47:03 12, county, 13 counties that would have to do the whole element.
14:47:07 We would have to do some environmental justice work, and then also some well, you're welcome to read this.
14:47:14 The issue paper is really helpful, you know I left my own devices would would support this bill, was considering the staff recommendation was to stay neutral on it, and it was
very hard to get the body to agree to neutral with concerns even most most folks were opposed so
14:47:44 That's one. But yeah, first, right?
14:47:51 Yeah, no, you'll you'll hear that it's a juicy last week.
14:47:56 So barely got to neutral with concerns, and which at least keeps us at the table with the stock.
14:48:07 The second bill. We talked a lot about was the clean energy sighting, and it's one of the biggest concerns of the Eastern Washington Swassex folks.
14:48:27 This bill specifically is trying to streamline the process a little bit, but keep local control.
14:48:35 So we actually were able to maintain a position of support on this bill.
14:48:41 It's a it's kind of a compromise bill.
14:48:44 But we spent a lot of the time talking about how much they don't want.
14:48:49 Screen energy projects in their communities. So this, this one is palatable because it maintains local control versus F. Sec.
14:48:58 The State. You know authority to override local zoning and land use.
14:49:06 This is mostly suitable for smaller projects, but lot of concern about Fsac, and a lot of resistance to having any renewables in the State.
14:49:21 Yeah, I mean, it's not like it's a choice between coal or oil.
14:49:27 It's just Gray's land.
14:49:30 Yeah. But I mean, it's a cultural shift that has that
14:49:37 But also much higher. Have a new return
14:49:45 Yeah, which is one of the things that confines me, because that's a private property right to lease out your land.
14:49:50 However, you want to use it, but they're very concerned about rural.
14:49:56 This does, and quality of life. They also don't like I don't trust that the the grid it's interesting because they don't trust the grid can support the shift to electrification,
but then they also don't want to be taking on a production of electrification.
14:50:16 So both lead to doubling down on fossil fuels.
14:50:20 Yeah. It's a strange. It's produce more lectures. Yes, yeah, like, and that they really need to.
14:50:28 To be doubling down on on fossil fuels so tough to have to understands that position. You know.
14:50:37 I think that one of the real issues I think, I said this last week is just that it's really about producing electricity for Western Washington in Eastern Washington.
14:50:47 And are they getting as someone who lives just down the street from port towns and water supply
14:50:55 Yeah, yeah, once, funny, this is come up in some of the kind of maritime boards that I'm on to that.
14:51:06 A lot of coastal communities are also fighting title and wins energy offshore or even near shore.
14:51:13 So in some ways I think gosh! I would love if a big Solar farm wanted to come here.
14:51:17 And yeah, we would, we would find a way to to make that land use work.
14:51:22 But you know, some of our communities are also saying No, so, but it's frustrating.
14:51:29 So I mean, it just feels so obvious that that's the future.
14:51:32 We need to be creating. And at every turn they're being turned away and shut down.
14:51:38 And so a little frustrating. But they did.
14:51:42 They were able to maintain a position of support on that one.
14:51:44 This was the really surprising one, the the rap act, the Solid Waste Management Act.
14:51:53 The staff recommendation was to support the bill, and we barely got to a position of neutral with concerns.
14:52:04 So yeah, yeah, it has really 3 main components, one, the producer responsibility.
14:52:10 The producers must be building infrastructure for curbside recycling anywhere that curbside garbage is collective.
14:52:21 Yeah, there's an opt in to that. I believe.
14:52:26 Cause some like. Here we offer curve, side garbage, collection in the county, but it's not required.
14:52:33 So there's an opt in there. There is a bottle deposit on it which you know, that has had a huge success in recapturing waste products, and Oregon, for example.
14:52:50 So what are the 3? The recycling
14:52:54 Oh! And then the post consumer amounts, increasing the amount.
14:52:59 Required by producers to have in there in the new packaging that they create upping, that the amount of postconsumer waste
14:53:12 Let's see, these are. These are super helpful. Let's see.
14:53:21 Require that by January thirty-first, twenty-thirty-one, 75% of all covered materials are reusable, recyclable, or compostable.
14:53:33 You could, all packaging.
14:53:36 Yeah. You'll have to take a look at this. This is the 143 page Bill, and I did not get all the way through as well Yup, Yup, yeah.
14:53:50 And Lizbury. So the was ton of opposition to this bill, feeling that it's conspiracy to just grow up huge recycling industry, which I don't know why that would be bad kind of
overstate overstepping state authority by requiring
14:54:09 Manufacturers. Yeah, yes, even though we do that.
14:54:18 In lots of industries when they are creating pollutants
14:54:26 And perception that the Bottle bill is a tax that will be passed on to consumers and higher, that they'll be higher costs to consumers, even though it's not a tax.
14:54:39 It's something that retains its value that you get back so long as you participate in the system.
14:54:48 Oregon Adopted retail prices. Go out.
14:54:54 Yeah, and it'd be interesting to look in the I don't know if the fiscal bill is out for this yet, but that is one of the things they're required to look at.
14:55:03 So it'd be worth worth looking up. Yeah, so literally, one, we're within one vote of that of opposing this bill.
14:55:16 So that was all. 3 issues were tough, but got through the mom.
14:55:22 And then, you know, just a 1,000 more. Here I mentioned the kind of cross-cutting ones that I wanted to hear from our other departments on
14:55:33 Yeah, I don't. I don't know. There's more to report on
14:55:43 To pursue. I know it's a priority for Waspack and and the the minority party
14:55:54 And I mean people. I don't. I have. I've heard very little buzz about that in Olympia, even though there was a I mean our our legislative body said they were willing to reconsider
some of that legislation, but they have an actually heard a lot of talk about it.
14:56:10 Yet so we should. Engage the sheriff on that in terms of the Nola priorities.
14:56:19 We're getting some good action on the electrical apprenticeship.
14:56:24 So kind of 3 different strategies right now. There's an effort to take the existing bill and amend it to given a to your extension on that.
14:56:35 The expiration of the rural trains or the let's just call the trainee program versus registered apprenticeship representative Chapman dropped a bill.
14:56:49 Another bill explicitly giving it a 2 year. Hold on that, and then sounds like there's we also have one of our delegation advocating for a provider to fund a pilot project for
a training program at Peninsula.
14:57:05 College that would could then be a model for other rural communities.
14:57:08 So one or 2 of the 3 might get some traction.
14:57:13 But it's that we do definitely have people's attention right now, which is helpful
14:57:20 And there's some yeah, I mean, that's I think that's all I have from Nola, for now
14:57:28 Okay, good stuff. It's the game is a foot. Yes, yeah.
14:57:34 And moving and changing quickly, so
14:57:47 So right will be the virtual update. Just really just the wastex staff like quickly going through the most important bills.
14:57:57 And if you know that's open to anybody to attend
14:58:08 That's it for me. Alright!
14:58:16 Great. Well, I I think we are at the end of our agenda. Unless anyone's got something else they want to bring to the table
14:58:27 You can always use an extra hour taking care of other things.
14:58:31 No, we could just talk about electric car charging advice from more experience
14:58:43 Yeah, well, you can do that offline, too. That's a legitimate conversation.
14:58:48 Okay. Well, if there's nothing else, you don't have anything else.
14:58:51 Mark! Alright, we are adjourned, we will see you in 2 weeks.
14:58:57 On February sixth, for our next meeting. Thank you.