HomeMy WebLinkAboutchat11:09:57 From Chambers to Greg Brotherton(Direct Message) : I unmuted Marianne Walters, as Matt Tyler invited her to this meeting, but then she dropped from Zoom
09:02:42 It wireless my school today.
09:02:45 There's no no, I, is there no snow? I don't know who's nobody in middle school.
09:02:51 I, I don't know. I'll send my kids off all week. How is it? It's mid winter break.
09:02:58 I'll send Spid weather breaks. Okay, good morning everyone. I will call this meeting of the Board of County Commissioners regular meeting into order.
09:03:08 Good morning. Commissioner Dean is. In Boston, I believe, and I'm not sure if she'll join us, so we will just get started.
09:03:19 We have a fairly light agenda today. Probably will be able to adjourn by noon. And but some important stuff coming up.
09:03:31 So first up as always we will open it up for public comments. We've got some folks in the room and anyone on line.
09:03:38 You can hit the raise hand button or star 9 and we'll start with the room. Anyone like to make public comment today?
09:03:45 Okay, yeah, sure.
09:03:52 Not sure we're forgetting her. I think I feel like she she asked me to chair because she had a conflict like they're going to visit colleges I think and they might be at a college
right now so I guess I'll turn first online anyone online that would like to make public comment and hit raise hand star 9 if you're on the phone Love, love to hear from you.
09:04:16 All right, come on up, Maggie. Good to see you.
09:04:25 Okay, today I want to talk about media bias. There's they say there's 7 forms of media bias.
09:04:35 I want to talk about. A couple of them. The first one is exclusion. Eric Forensi.
09:04:43 Did a piece on KPTZ. Local news on Harold. About his band being towed by the city or the transit people and he left out the fact to the listener.
09:05:01 That he did not interview Harold even though it was cleared by Harold's lawyer and Harold himself.
09:05:12 For Derek to interview him. So I want people to know. That Derek did have an opportunity.
09:05:22 To interview Harold and he chose not to. The other was the misrepresentation. Of the disposition of Harold's van.
09:05:34 It was not over by Kaitai Park. It was, in the middle of the transit parking lot in front of the disabled portable bathroom which is a disgusting filthy thing that you would
never One touch, but he needed to be close to it because he's a 77 year old man with mobility issues and so it He had a part in front of there.
09:06:06 And there are no trees around there. It's right in the middle of the barking lot. And he, the reporting.
09:06:15 Said that the car was near trees blocking an access way into A part, which is not true. So I want to get that out of the way.
09:06:26 The other thing I want to bring to people's attentions is April. 20Â s the Supreme Court of the United States is going to cover the grants past case.
09:06:39 Of whether or not it is cruel and then usual punishment, the eighth amendment to jail and find people who sleep on public property because they have no housing and no shelter.
09:06:57 And shelter can be put in quotes because if you think about shelter might be available but it might be dangerous or it might be a sanitation hazard.
09:07:11 So, many people avoid shelters because they could be picked on or targeted in shelters.
09:07:20 So, if they're elderly disabled, LGBTQ, you have disabled, people and domestic violence victims that are in with other people who are formerly incarcerated.
09:07:38 Criminals. So, do I need to wrap it up? Okay, so April 20Â s is the supreme court trial for that.
09:07:51 Thank you very much. Thank you, Maggie. All right. Come on, Mr. Walter.
09:07:56 Yeah, I don't think we're gonna have commissioner. I'm Maryland Show Walter from Shine Road.
09:08:00 I'm sorry, Commissioner Dean isn't here, but I hope she's enjoying Boston.
09:08:06 I just this morning completed a 23 page single space questionnaire on my 4 undergraduate years at Harvard.
09:08:13 So if she is going there, I wish her well. I want to address 2 issues. The first is the one that Commissioner Dean raised a couple responded to a couple weeks ago on asking
the shellfish industry for.
09:08:29 Their federal permit information. And she was pleased that both they and we seemed to be headed that direction. But they were different proposals and as Josh Peters pointed
out The shellfish industry was saying.
09:08:43 If we need to apply for a conditional use, then we would like to be able to submit our federal permit information as part of it.
09:08:52 That's totally unnecessary to put in the new S and P because it's already there. Explicitly.
09:08:59 I was asking. That this information be required of everybody. So that we know what's happening. It's public information.
09:09:09 It's easily available. But then Mr. Peters raised the question of enforcement of it.
09:09:14 What if they don't? Submit this information. I don't think it's a very serious issue.
09:09:21 Although I'm not the one that ultimately judge, but I believe there are fewer than 10 or 12 shellfish operators in Jefferson County.
09:09:30 Moreover It is a condition of federal permits that you require with the laws of the local and state authorities.
09:09:39 So if this were a requirement that you imposed, I think they would be. Probably happy the shellfish industry would be happy to comply with it because if they didn't they'd be
failing their federal permit.
09:09:52 This is a this is not a big ask for this information and it's important information. The second question that was raised is.
09:10:00 What under what conditions can existing non-GUIDA? Shellfishers, expand or change.
09:10:10 Equipment without coming in for a permit. They already have no permit. So the so the more I thought of it, the current law says you can expand by 25% or convert equipment by
25% without coming in for a permit.
09:10:28 The more I thought about it, the more I think that was. Not a very good idea to begin with.
09:10:34 But certainly now they've had 10 years to. Expand, convert whatever they're gonna do.
09:10:42 And seems to me from now on. If they are going to expand. Or convert with the introduction of mechanical equipment or new rebar iron or metal or plastic, then there should be
a requirement to come in and get a permit.
09:11:01 Otherwise, you don't know what they're doing. You don't know if they are expanding into an estuary, for example.
09:11:06 We need to know this information and evaluate it. Thank you. Thank you, Michelle. Okay.
09:11:14 Gordon, come on up. Spent half my life a garden now.
09:11:21 It's between the MRC and that.
09:11:26 According to my wife, that doesn't make you like. Yeah. I have a picture with the latest.
09:11:34 I'm Gordon King, they're still of Bell Street, Port Townsend. Yesterday opened the latest county iteration of the draft, port towns in.
09:11:43 Yesterday I opened the latest county iteration of the draft DCMP update. I see that full CUPs are a special kind of hell.
09:11:46 Reserved solely for most forms of gouduck aquaculture. If you look at the perverting tables on page 65 through 70, you'll see that the nearshore activities such as boat launches,
docks, peers, marinas, dredging, dredging disposal, filling and excavation, shoreline armoring and port development amongst others need only a straight permit through to
09:12:10 the discretionary CUP. Apparently the county and a small group of shoreline property owners do not see these activities as being as significant a concern as a new or expanded
GUIDAC farm.
09:12:24 And 2,020 as directed by the Department of Ecology, Jefferson County started with the SMP update draft that had reasonable, had a reasonable approach to aquaculture.
09:12:36 By late, 2,021 after hearing inaccurate Numbi claims about the impact of GUIDA farms.
09:12:44 The Planning Commission had converted this to the most restrictive permitting possible. After multiple meetings and many hours of deliberation, the Planning Commission eased
somewhat to a moderately restrictive version of GUIDAC permitting.
09:12:55 And now the board of County Commissioners has decided to make the new SNP permitting regulations twice as restrictive as that.
09:13:04 As it was in late, 2021. I find it hard to come up with an objective science-based rationale for the county's position.
09:13:12 The county has the oldest median age of any in the state. Which is over 60 years old. This demographic who by and large retired apparently are the people that matter.
09:13:25 The update is written will prevent young shellfish farmers from expanding into a rewarding form of shellfish aquaculture because the financial barrier of hosting a full CUP
with a public meeting will be too high.
09:13:40 Large companies such as the one I work for will still be able to afford the process. If it is implemented as written, I must congratulate the shoreline property owners on their
win for shoreline property rights over renewable food production and an avenue for working families to succeed.
09:13:58 In an enterprise of their own. I can only hope that one day the real and ordering already non ecological damage caused by removing vegetation, building roads, boat launches
and houses along the shoreline and as exists in the Shine neighborhood will finally be admitted in action taken to mitigate this continuing harm.
09:14:20 I understand where the Shine residents are coming from, IE. Trying to look after what they see as their self-interest.
09:14:27 But at this point, I'm very disappointed in Jefferson County leadership. The show showfish industry presented them with information backed by scientific research and instead
they chose to believe unsupported and accurate opinion from anti-guduct farm waterfront property owners.
09:14:43 Thank you. Thank you, Mr. King. Okay, we still have 16Â min left or a little more for public comments and we'll respond to all public comments after we receive them all.
09:14:54 Anyone online that would like to make public comments today? You can hit the raise hand button or star 9 if you're on the phone to make a comment on any topic for up to 3Â min.
09:15:03 Love to hear from you.
09:15:06 Seeing no hands raised will pause and respond to the 3 public comments we've received to date oh, thank you.
09:15:17 You have 3 of them.
09:15:21 Alright, well give us one for Kate too. Okay, yeah. Alright, Heidi.
09:15:30 Any, Responses?
09:15:35 See.
09:15:40 I don't, you know, I appreciate the additional information. About Harold's Van and I trust Greg was holding the football on that issue.
09:15:50 And so I look forward to hearing an update from him on that, but. You know it's it confounds me that.
09:15:58 We get different versions of stories from. Different people and so I'm Yeah. I'm not tracking this issue as closely as Commissioner Brotherton is.
09:16:10 But I appreciate you being here to bring it. Additional fax to us each week, Maggie.
09:16:15 And, we'll look into some of the stuff myself and the Supreme Court case sounds interesting.
09:16:21 Have very little time right now to focus on Supreme Court cases between county business and other things going on in my life, but I will look into that because it sounds like
a very interesting case.
09:16:32 Still facing. 26 chord case. Okay. Okay.
09:16:40 And so then, . I think next week we're gonna have an additional discussion about the SNP issue Find it interesting that.
09:16:50 Shortline armoring doesn't require a conditional use permit. All the all the uses that Gordon just listed off to us.
09:16:59 So it is confounding that GUI Duck is getting such a magnifying glass on it.
09:17:03 I look forward to our continued conversation next week about this issue because it feels like it's.
09:17:11 We've decided it's special for some reason in terms of the magnifying glass. And I'm not exactly sure why.
09:17:19 It's getting so much scrutiny. So, let's see. Was there anything else?
09:17:28 Nope. Alright. I don't have a lot more to add. It's striking to hear that there's media bias.
09:17:37 We've never been the victims of that ourselves here, but, I, I do believe you and I, you know.
09:17:42 I'm going to try to be at the trial on the 20 sixth, you know. Don't.
09:17:49 You know, we've connected you guys with counsel and, there's not a lot that we can do at this point.
09:17:55 It's really in the the legal system's hands, but Appreciate you staying at it and continuing to participate and And there's a lot of other conversations that we need to have
in the near term about emergency shelters and dignity for the on house.
09:18:11 So I appreciate you being here, Maggie. It's a show Walter and Mr. King.
09:18:14 I appreciate. I think you guys are both really good spokespersons for very diverse perspectives.
09:18:19 I don't wanna get into, the, both of these, all of these bits are, are good fodder for the conversation.
09:18:26 I think we're having it next week. Is that right? So Yeah, I, it's, challenging.
09:18:37 I think to your question, Heidi, if. Aquaculture was less of an ice or we probably would not be focused on it.
09:18:46 So I mean, I think it is really about the aesthetics that bring it to the to the point that it is.
09:18:53 You know, Small, small business livelihood to some folks of the population and, you know.
09:19:01 An environmental risk to others. And I think, yeah, that's we have the unenviable job about parsing where the line should be drawn and so we will continue to that conversation
next week.
09:19:13 I think I've made no secret. Like 10 towards. Less regulation for. You know those mom and pop operations that are gonna have a harder time to get going.
09:19:26 But. I will continue the conversation then. I do appreciate everyone's perspectives. And I'll turn back to the, to the zoom room to see if we have any other public comment this
morning.
09:19:42 See anyone else? Well, we will leave public comment open until 9 30 as is our practice and we can.
09:19:50 Turn to the consent agenda.
09:19:55 Do you have any questions or concerns about the consent agenda? Relatively short percentage agenda today. Except for that.
09:20:04 Huge notebook of. Property at or the not the notebook like capital properties. Well, that was the biggest chunk of paper this week.
09:20:21 No, I didn't. I do spot checking. That's my I did a couple of strategy.
09:20:29 Well, but I noticed the snow creek road, culvert replacement. It's always just astounding to me that those can be One and a third 1 million dollar projects for a covert, but
I know how important they are and.
09:20:40 Often related to fish passage. I'm not sure that this one is, but, yeah, okay.
09:20:48 Wait, this is maybe not.
09:20:52 I feel like it has to be, right? Well, this one also had a lot of like health and safety issues because when it's it's a half a mile from my house.
09:21:05 Yeah, no, it's I walked up there a lot when they were working on it. But I know that it caused, it caused real issues with, drainage, you know, kind of logged up.
09:21:11 It was undersized and failed underneath there. I think it is technically a fish. Passage but it's it exits.
09:21:19 30 feet over the ground I think so it's not Oh, nice. Not a very effective one.
09:21:25 Yeah, I think so. So this might not have been for this. And then the port had like waste water treatment plant when we see these what now feel like tiny, you know.
09:21:36 An additional amount of 5,000 for a $35,000 total contract. It's these amounts. A feel small.
09:21:45 But the one thing I wanted to bring up is that there's gonna be a number of.
09:21:47 Opportunities for the public to get more details on the port hedlock waste water treatment project. In the near future and there's gonna be one about I think one or 2 meetings
about the actual project itself and then there's going to be some.
09:22:05 Additional community outreach meetings with. Interested landowners and developers about what, You will be allowed once the phase one sewers turned on.
09:22:23 Oh, what the UGA overlay looks like. So the question that we've seen in the newspaper and then I've been getting from residents and that we've been talking about a little bit
here.
09:22:27 Is you know, what's that gonna look like in 5 years? And so those meetings are really about getting at that question.
09:22:34 So I'm looking forward to those and Other than that, I don't have anything.
09:22:39 To bring up about the consent agenda.
09:22:44 Yeah. All good. We're happy to make a motion to approve the February, 2024 consent agenda.
09:22:52 I will second. All in favor of approving and adopting the consent agenda as presented in the gate by saying aye.
09:23:00 Alright, alright, that business done. We'll turn back to our Zoom room and see if anyone else has public comment this morning.
09:23:07 We would love to hear from you. You can hit the raise hand button or star 9 if you're on the phone.
09:23:14 Still see no one. All right, well let's take a look at our agenda for the rest of the morning.
09:23:20 And anytime. You're cool. Thanks. So we will, we do have to certify the annual inventory of the capitalized assets, taking an oath to to validate what a lot of people have been
working on for the last couple weeks.
09:23:37 We have our emergency management will. Present their work plan, I guess, at 9 30 here.
09:23:43 If I don't know, is, is Willie in the zoom room. In fact, Carolyn. All right.
09:23:51 And then we have, the extension work plan. Finally, with our consent agenda item and of course we're going to hear a little bit about the quilting community park.
09:23:59 Skate park site and i guess really we're just looking at the site plan which involves a couple of different projects Okay.
09:24:09 So, well, yeah, it seems. I guess while we have folks here, yeah, let's bring.
09:24:19 Will you over and if we're ready to go, we're ready to go.
09:24:30 Good morning, Mr. Vance.
09:24:32 Hey, good morning everyone.
09:24:40 I know, right?
09:24:36 It's all you this morning. No Dr. Barry taking your limelight or anything. Just, and nothing but DEM.
09:24:45 I don't want to do with myself with all the time. Yeah, that's a joke.
09:24:45 So. Please lay up. Good.
09:24:50 I have a Good presentation for you. So I'll go ahead and jump right into it. Perfect.
09:24:54 Yes, please.
09:24:56 Alright, so, just start off our, 2,024 work plan. I did this in 2,023 as well.
09:25:03 I'm a little bit of a refresher. I'm always take a chance to share some knowledge, spread some information.
09:25:09 And we base our organizational structure and most of our organizational structures, here in DEM based on the incident command system, which is kind of the, language of first
responders.
09:25:19 So it's used by fire departments. It's used by law enforcement agencies and it's used to manage disasters.
09:25:26 I'm everything from small single family fires all the way up to the large, you know, Hurricane Katrina superstorm sandy, all that kind of stuff.
09:25:35 So here in DEM, we organize ourselves around an incident command system model kind of mirroring some of the same positions you'd see in ICS.
09:25:45 You have me at the top as the DEM director. We have 4 grant funded clerk hires. I'm all designated by an asterisk on our organizational structure.
09:25:54 I'm Kepi Kaplaner is our public information officer as well as our deputy director.
09:25:59 I'm Dave Cody, serves as our EOC operations lead. He basically works in operations, working with first response groups, other volunteer groups and is really, partially responsible
for the overall readiness of the EOC.
09:26:14 I'm Bradley Brooks is the newest member of DEM. He is our planning coordinator and he helps facilitate a lot of the planning activities in DEM.
09:26:25 John Evaner is actually the longest tenured member of DEEM. He's our logistics and facilities coordinator.
09:26:31 I'm and finally last but not least our admin and grant coordinator. I'm not position is currently vacant.
09:26:39 That is the only other full-time position. I'm here in DEM. So we are accepting applications for that position.
09:26:46 So now as as good as time as any, to throw that out there, we'll, we're still looking for qualified candidates.
09:26:52 I'm not position helps run our volunteer programs. I'm on the administrative side as well as and work with me and some of our grant administration.
09:27:01 All in all, as you all know, DEM, primarily responsible for, assisting in making Jefferson County a more prepared and resilient community through preparedness and outreach and
education and as well as disaster response.
09:27:14 And recovery. So that's where DEM stands as of right now. Our theme for 2023 was back to basics.
09:27:23 Really focusing in on some of the fundamentals that we had lost during the COVID-19 response.
09:27:30 And that was where the emergency operations center was at least activated virtually for a period of about 3 years.
09:27:35 I'm so where there are a lot of things that we were unable to focus on. And while all of our resources were pretty much exclusively focused on on that disaster on that global
pandemic response.
09:27:46 Some of the things we accomplished in 2,023, we updated our badgerling and credentialing standards and implemented a volunteer management database to make our volunteer experience
all that much more better, a little bit modernized and a little bit more streamlined.
09:28:01 I'm Dave Cody and all his work with our vaccine operations during COVID had built a lot of relationships with the medical community and built a cadre of medical volunteers.
09:28:11 And so we then leverage that into a FEMA approval for an organization called a medical reserve court.
09:28:18 They also got some grant funding and to assist with their work in that realm. We revamped our in programming as our, neighborhoods a lot had been dormant, throughout the pandemic
and focused on some, new outreach mechanisms for them.
09:28:33 Held a tabletop exercise. I'm held a pre summer heat summit to talk about issues as it relates to extreme heat and smoke.
09:28:41 I've been working a lot with environmental public health who've been doing a lot of good work.
09:28:45 I'm on extreme weather response. We had our first CERT training, our community emergency response training.
09:28:52 And completed on our first since COVID. We actually had a cadre of trainees who their training was paused in March of 2,020 as COVID took place and so we were able to finally
about 3 years later wrap that training up with them.
09:29:07 I'm better late than never. We had our COVID volunteer appreciation event. Integrated a program called Critical Incident Stress Management, which is peer support for first responders.
09:29:17 We integrated that under DEM. We had a series of trainings during the great shakeout week and had about a hundred people trained during that week of activities.
09:29:27 And then finally we had an EOC activation and actually for the first time activated the wireless emergency alert system and supported the evacuation for the Beaver Valley fire.
09:29:37 So a pretty busy year for us in 2023. I'm the theme for 2024.
09:29:44 We've taken a concept. From emergency management, especially around exercise evaluation and improvement planning. It's often just called poetic.
09:29:54 It's an acronym that stands for Planning. Organization, Equipment, Training, and Exercise.
09:29:59 I mean, there are 5 distinct categories that you, can focus in on to build capacity. I'm and build improvements into your emergency management organization.
09:30:09 And for us, we're really focusing on the first 2 of that list. Planning and organization.
09:30:16 Those are our overarching themes and for 2024. In the planning room, we have 2 major planning initiatives.
09:30:24 Coming down the pipeline. This is a little bit of review for you. For our commissioners who are at the intergovernmental, collaboration group.
09:30:31 Might be review for if you any of you watch that meeting online. When our 2 major planning initiatives on the first of which is our CEMP or our comprehensive emergency management
plan.
09:30:43 And this is the overarching disaster response plan for the county. This, determines our roles and responsibilities.
09:30:52 The who's doing what. In terms of disaster response large and small. I joked during that IGC meeting that our first order of business on that was changing the cover picture.
09:31:04 I'm the previous planning coordinator who worked on this wanted to put a picture of the Hood Canal Bridge.
09:31:09 I'm as you can see this has 4 lanes. The Hood Canal Bridge only has 2.
09:31:11 Yeah.
09:31:13 So that was a some pretty low hanging fruit for us to swap that cover out and begin the planning process there.
09:31:20 And for folks watching this, At home, you can view this plan. It's on our website under the library, or at the following link.
09:31:29 To get started on this, the emergency management division reviews all of the, state's CE MPs.
09:31:38 And we barely scraped over the threshold in terms of approval back in 2,018. There have been some new requirements.
09:31:43 So whereas we previously scored 66%, we're now at about a 44% in terms of the 3 tiers.
09:31:50 Of legal requirements. And so we have some work to do to bump that back up and focus on a few key, few key areas.
09:31:58 What we've done so far on that, and we've established some EOC conditions, which are activation levels and triggers.
09:32:05 So when and how we activate the EOC. We've started work on our, communications section, started working on our health and medical section, and some larger work on our, collaboration
and communications section, specifically around amateur radio and are starting to review roles and responsibilities.
09:32:25 And throughout the remainder of the year on this plan, we're doing individual outreach to all 21 of what's called our emergency support functions.
09:32:33 And so these are functional disaster response areas like law enforcement like firefighting like hazardous materials and search and rescue.
09:32:41 Going one by one and getting their feedback and ensuring their comfort with the plan as it stands. We're going to review our deficiencies from the most recent checklist.
09:32:50 And one of the bigger, projects is to work with the city. I'm on improving the areas of the plan that talk about the coordination between the city and the county.
09:33:00 As in the past, that was a little bit fake. And we hope to have all this outreach done now through August.
09:33:06 So in September, we get back to the state for their review and some socialization on a broader level with the community and our partners.
09:33:12 And then finally, October through December, make our final changes and actually adopt this plan by the end of the year.
09:33:18 When it's due.
09:33:20 The other major planning initiative is something called a lepsy or LEPC, which stands for a local emergency planning committee.
09:33:29 This is something that's established, by the Washington Administrative Code. They're tasked with reviewing local inventories of hazardous materials under the EPA's Community
Right to No Act and then developing a response plan based on the inventories of hazardous materials in the community.
09:33:46 I'm due to her relatively low hazardous materials. I'm stock in the county and therefore our risk.
09:33:55 And we've never actually had one of these local emergency planning committees in place. So right now we are targeting a late quarter to initial meeting to establish that committee
and start reviewing a plan, that we have, working on this.
09:34:07 Emergency Management Division with. Quarter 3, I'm actually conduct a review of that plan and suggest some changes.
09:34:15 And then quarter 4 adopt that plan and actually have our first promulgated hazardous materials plan on board Jefferson County.
09:34:23 This is something for the general public. Public participation is really essential. This is again your right and your ability to see what kind of hazardous materials are being
stored in Jefferson County.
09:34:37 So there will be a pretty broad public outreach component of this as well. So excited to finally get this up and running.
09:34:43 It'll also take a lot of work with our response partners like our local fire departments, as well as the vendors and the organizations who store and utilize hazardous materials.
09:34:52 So that outreach will be, happening relatively shortly on that.
09:34:58 Those are our 2 primary UN planning projects over the course of the year. In terms of organization, we're focusing quite a bit on our volunteer organizations, which you know
you saw our organizational structure earlier.
09:35:13 We have 3.6 FTEs, 2 full time staff and then a couple part timers.
09:35:18 The vast majority of our work is done through our volunteer organizations in bringing up the Kovat 19 response we had about 450 community volunteers who participated in our
vaccine program and other work distributing masks, and etc. Etc.
09:35:34 So we partner with a number of different volunteer programs under our purview. To go out and help prepare the community.
09:35:40 But as these volunteer programs have matured a little bit, become a little bit more complex in advance and taken on more work.
09:35:47 I'm it's been more difficult to administer these programs. And actually provide them the support that they need.
09:35:53 So on the organizational front. Right now we're working in exploring some options to actually reorganize how our volunteer programs are set up at this point in time.
09:36:04 We're working on setting up a volunteer working in coordination group. I'm to better kind of streamline resources around, to better kind of streamline resources around recruitment,
training and administration, a lot of streamline resources around recruitment, training and administration, a lot of responsibilities, all these volunteer groups share.
09:36:16 Coordinate planning around the in prep on the new emergency hub concept which are gathering points that some of our neighborhoods are starting to put together and train on.
09:36:27 And really consolidate resources around outreach and public education. So each and every one of the volunteer groups that you saw listed earlier, I'm has a public outreach component
to try to get folks to prepare.
09:36:39 Individually, you know, build kits, talk to their families, that kind of stuff. But a lot of it is done, somewhat silo.
09:36:46 So we're looking at, allowing them to plan and strategize and better coordinate how they reach out and how they communicate with the public a little bit.
09:36:54 I'm worth finishing that planning. I'm up in quarter one and are hoping for a broader public rollout.
09:37:01 I'm of a kind of a new and improved overall volunteer organization. DEM sometime in quarter too.
09:37:09 I'm on top of that, each of our volunteer programs has been tasked with a number of things.
09:37:15 I'm after kind of, again, everyone re-establishing themselves post COVID on VCOM, which is our volunteer emergency communications group.
09:37:22 I'm updating the communications plan. For the CEMP as well as their EOC protocol.
09:37:28 And they're doing some work on our radio room in the EOC to expand the amount of operators, that we can have at any given time.
09:37:36 So the amount of radio operators to really expand capacity and our communications ability there. I'm starting to pursue some more grants to purchase equipment.
09:37:46 We have a number of outdated pieces of equipment here in the EOC that are long overdue.
09:37:49 So we're looking at that as well. I'm they've established a few new working groups and planning communities, under their organization and are obviously working with those other
volunteer groups.
09:38:02 Our medical reserve core, pretty still the the newest volunteer group. Under DEM doing a lot of training on stock bleed, Narcan.
09:38:12 I'm hands-only CPR and other disaster preparedness subjects and as it relates to disaster medicine.
09:38:18 And they're going to continue to work on building some supply caches. They actually just got approved for their second grant.
09:38:23 I'm to purchase medical supplies and help build. Disaster response, capacity. Under their organization.
09:38:32 Under the Community Emergency Response Team, which is a FEMA program that teaches folks, how to use a fire extinguisher, how to do light first aid, light search and rescue,
how to organize themselves post disaster.
09:38:46 And we're really going to be hitting the the training portion hard of this this year. Our first SIR Academy of the Year actually started this past Saturday with 24 new recruits.
09:39:00 So excited to get that up and running. We're also gonna start looking at training for, certain deployments.
09:39:04 So other than just assisting their neighborhood after a catastrophic disaster, opportunities for local deployments to assist in a law enforcement, maybe working traffic control
after an accident, maybe assisting fire during long firefighting responses with rehabilitation.
09:39:22 There are also opportunities for deployments. Throughout the state and actually throughout the nation under the new FEMA program.
09:39:29 So we looked at that pretty extensively last year. Did some planning and some research for that and are ready to start training folks up to those levels to actually allow them
to assist their their nation potentially as a certain volunteer.
09:39:43 We also had a big kickoff meeting last month to recruit leadership volunteers. And right now we just have 2 volunteer program managers.
09:39:50 I'm so started working on expanding on our capacity and then running this program there as well.
09:39:57 In prep, as always, the all county picnic will be back this year in August.
09:40:01 And we had our first planning meeting for that, even though it's a number of months away. I'm more excited to hopefully offer some expand on our programming last year but offer
some new and exciting things.
09:40:12 And they're looking at restarting neighborhood trainings, pursue some grants and some opportunities themselves to build some supply caches.
09:40:20 And they've done a lot of work to revamp their meeting structure, engaged some new leadership volunteers.
09:40:25 To be a little bit more deliberate, I'm a little bit more. I'm advanced in their planning and organization themselves.
09:40:32 Since again, I'm in. Wonderful program, well over a hundred organized neighborhoods, but a lot of work that hadn't been done on that took a step back during COVID.
09:40:40 So really feel that in prep is back and better than ever. I'm not to mention the new hub concept they're working with.
09:40:46 I'm gonna be rolling out as they resume a lot of trainings this year.
09:40:51 Absolutely.
09:40:50 Pass a question on that, Willie. Who are they? Is there a board of directors of in prep?
09:40:58 I kind of always assumed it was you guys helping set up the hubs and then just neighborhoods, you know, maybe finding a neighborhood leader that's coordinating their neighborhood.
09:41:06 So, can you dig into the architecture a little bit?
09:41:08 Yeah, so we have an in prep leadership meeting, once a month. And that's led by Deb Stenson, one of the founders of N. Prep.
09:41:16 Former Mayor of Port Townsend and about a hundred other things that she does, for this community.
09:41:21 That group has a number of neighborhood leaders. I mean, folks who work alongside us in DEM, to plan the way forward for and prep on top of helping organize their own their
own neighborhoods as well.
09:41:35 And that's open to anyone. Who wants to get involved beyond their own neighborhood and kind of work with us on a programmatic level.
09:41:42 But again, just like a lot of things post COVID, interest waned a little bit.
09:41:46 Folks kinda lost their direction. So, Deb has been working with a few of the leadership volunteers.
09:41:52 To identify, other leadership within the group to take on some, some smaller projects, and help build that back up.
09:42:00 So that's the the second Tuesday of every month if you're in an organized neighborhood and you can wanna see how we work at a leadership level wanna see how we work at a leadership
level want to get involved and you know want to see how we work at a leadership level want to get involved and you know, want to get involved and you know, especially help out, always
use more hands-on, want to get involved and, you
09:42:13 know, specially help out, always use more hands-on deck at that leadership meeting, always use more hands on deck at that leadership meeting, as well as at the All County Picnic
Steering Committee group, as well as at the All County Picnic Steering Committee group.
09:42:17 You know, Debbie's served on that for I think a dozen years now.
09:42:20 You know, Debbie Picnic steering committee group. You know, Deb has served on that for I think a dozen years now.
09:42:28 As has Margaret Backer.
09:42:28 Thank you.
09:42:31 Dart is our disaster air response team, a series of, a number of private volunteer pilots who helped fly small amounts of, you know, central disaster supplies in and out of
disaster areas.
09:42:45 And we'll have our next big exercise. I'm on that this summer and that has participation from a number of communities across Washington across Oregon.
09:42:54 I think we had a few come up from California as well in years past. I mean, this is a really critical lifeline for us to be able to get.
09:43:01 Disaster supplies in and out when the bridge is down, 100, and one might not be accessible.
09:43:07 I mean, our normal supplier lifelines might be impacted. So we'll run that exercise, engage pilots on that.
09:43:14 And this also features a lot of work from CERT from in Prep from VCOM and our other volunteer group.
09:43:20 So excited to continue to exercise and work with the Dark Group on a state level. I should add that this program is really maturing, on a state level as well.
09:43:30 I'm with the state working group that, our DARP program manager, I'm locally here.
09:43:35 I'm Laura Guth has been working on. I'm to help write some of the policy at a state level.
09:43:38 I'm for how DART is operated. And there's questions about whether or not we can transport, you know, the injured or the unwell after a major earthquake.
09:43:48 So we're working through some of that policy stuff. As well for this to really help expand it.
09:43:53 And hopefully build some capacity there.
09:43:57 I'm other projects throughout the course as always, great shakeout. It's the nation's largest earthquake drill that'll take place October seventeenth.
09:44:07 So 1017 at 1017 am. Will be doing some community outreach and some training and some exercising here at the EOC.
09:44:17 Here we had a little bit over a hundred attendees over a week of training. To coincide breakout not to mention a number of neighborhood exercises and outreach events over the
course of that week.
09:44:30 As we look forward to doing that again getting more folks trained building more awareness and you know most importantly even if you just drop cover and hold on for a minute
and then go about your day building some muscle memory for a major earthquake.
09:44:42 Will be holding our, kind of pre summer coordination summit in early May as well as a pre winter coordination summit.
09:44:50 I'm gonna kind of a storm response discussion in early November. We're gonna continue to work with LADRIS, who's the group providing some evacuation modeling for the Community
Wildfire Protection Plan.
09:45:02 And we hope to work with them throughout the year and I just applied for some grant funding to enable that work.
09:45:07 Over 2024, they are hopefully gonna help assist us with some tsunami and wildfire, evacuation work.
09:45:16 Based on their artificial intelligence models. I'm so looking forward to doing that as part of our exercise.
09:45:23 Then as always we have our incident management team. This is our group of not just volunteers, but professional first response partners who work in the operations center.
09:45:34 We meet the first Wednesday of every month and has everyone from our local fire chiefs and representatives from law enforcement.
09:45:42 I'm representatives from non-governmental agencies as well as our EOC volunteers. And the end of the year, just like we do every year, we put together a survey to kind of see
what they wanted to focus on, where their their priorities were.
09:45:56 And this is the work plan that we put together for those monthly meetings. So you can see, some of the topics, some of the training items and some of the discussion items that
we're going to be discussing a monthly with our response partners.
09:46:10 What is IAP train?
09:46:12 IAP stands for Incident Action Plan. It's the model we use under the incident command system to kind of every, every shift you're always planning the work for the next shift.
09:46:26 I'm so as you go into your next shift you have a written plan of what your priorities are and what your actions are and how you're going to meet your goals.
09:46:34 Thank you. Willie. Just because it's become more of an issue.
09:46:41 Are king tides addressed in any of these? Topical areas.
09:46:47 In these, In our meeting schedule that is something we'll talk about during our pre winter briefing.
09:46:59 Okay, yeah.
09:46:55 When we talk about a different types of flooding, we may have to worry about. It's one thing we really appreciate is the partnership.
09:47:04 A national weather service and our local. Response group they provide us whenever there's any sort of weather issue whether it's extreme heat, snow, excessive rain, or king
tide issues.
09:47:18 They provide briefings to local first responders and we'll hold kind of question and answer session so we always invite them to our November pre winter meeting and they kind
of give us a rundown of what they're expecting.
09:47:31 For the climate, this upcoming, winter weather season and one thing they do address, our potential king tide issues.
09:47:40 And then they do that obviously as the time goes on and they, they spot potential problem areas.
09:47:51 Our incident management team meetings? No. That's something that, I know we are looking at bringing back our JPAP meeting, which is our, you know, anyone and everyone's invited
to that.
09:48:05 We call that our whole community. Coordination meeting. But I would, yeah, very much appreciate if one of the commissioners could find time to at least pop in every so often.
09:48:14 It's it's always, you know, with all the busy schedules of our first response community.
09:48:19 We do frequently have folks in for 2030Â min, an hour at a time. It is a 2Â h meeting.
09:48:27 But yeah, whatever, one of you might be able to make, I think that would be appreciated.
09:47:45 Do any of the county commissioners attend these meetings? Well, I would love to be added to. I'm here I am raising my hand for another thing.
09:48:35 But this is all stuff that I track outside of my commissioner life and. Would be like, I would like to get threaded in on this if possible somehow.
09:48:45 I, I don't wanna make any more work for anyone, but. Maybe just add me to your email list or.
09:48:50 Can you?
09:48:54 Cool.
09:48:50 That's like that for these. Yeah, that would be great. Well, we'll be sitting next to someone that's all trained up on this stuff.
09:48:59 Perfect. Yeah, can you? I'll for you that right after the presentation.
09:49:03 Thanks, Willie.
09:49:07 And on top of, all of that work, you know, all of our volunteer groups, our work within our emergency operations center, incident management team, our ongoing activities.
09:49:18 We have a duty officer available, 24Â HA day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
09:49:25 And that's the principal point person for emergency response. And one of the things that they do specifically is to send out Nexal alerts to the community and our alert and
warning function.
09:49:38 And Nixon is our for those who don't know, I'm our subscription. Text alert system.
09:49:45 Primarily we alert of, you know, large traffic accidents. Impacting, you know, Highway 100, and 1, 1920, large arteries and major routes, but we also use that to alert folks
of winter weather conditions.
09:49:58 Of things like potentially a tsunami advisory. If there's ever anything life threatening like the Beaver Valley evacuation, then we would use the public alert warning systems
that's, you know, radio and television.
09:50:11 I'm the push notifications you receive on your phone and that hits a much broader audience. But we do really encourage people to subscribe to this system because you will get
some very important, emergency information there.
09:50:25 We do really make a concerted effort to not bombard you with emergency notifications. I'm to make sure it is impactful. It is useful.
09:50:32 I'm and is timely and relevant to everyone. So you go to our website and sign up for that if you are so inclined.
09:50:41 Obviously, EOC activations and emergency response, we maintain readiness. We're always training.
09:50:45 Volunteer recruitment and engagement. Again, we have all those volunteer programs, that we, that you saw listed earlier.
09:50:52 We're always recruiting. I'm finding new projects for volunteers. And we also do badging and credentialing for, Jeffrey County Search and Rescue, for example.
09:51:02 I'm outreach and education, doing disaster preparedness presentations, letting the public know how they can be more prepared.
09:51:08 So if you were your community group want a presentation and want to find out more about how you can build a disaster kit, write an emergency plan.
09:51:16 You know, I also put emergency plan assistance and mentorship. We can't write your plan for you, but we are certainly happy to provide some guidance and maybe some tools and
resources, and help build a plan.
09:51:27 For you, your organization there. Okay, ongoing, constantly for us here in. Last but not least, this is kind of setting the table.
09:51:38 For 25 and 26 using that. I'm poetic model. On 2,025 we're really hoping to set this up for being the year of training.
09:51:48 Part of this is this year we will be recruiting a volunteer training officer or potentially office search, to help build a training program in 2024.
09:52:00 Our new planning coordinator Brad Brooks has a background in curriculum development. So he's going to be, I'm helping out quite a bit with this.
09:52:05 I'm in curriculum development. So he's going to be, helping out quite a bit with this, to build a training component and, volunteer organization just within DEM to really lean
hard into more routine trainings, a stronger, more deliberate kind of training program to roll out in 2025.
09:52:19 Then, 2026 want to focus on exercise. And so this year we will be recruiting an exercise coordinator or some volunteer exercise coordinate hurts.
09:52:31 Exercises are a ton of work to put together, but they are the best way, for, folks to learn.
09:52:37 That's what builds muscle memory. That's what simulates real-life situations.
09:52:41 So, and we want to can conduct some disaster planning. We organize and really strengthen our organizational ties this year.
09:52:47 Start really focusing heavily on training for next year. Then exercise and what we've put together and what we've learned.
09:52:55 2 years from now. So that's kind of where we are, I'm heading for that.
09:53:00 2026 is hopefully potentially the next and cascading a rising exercise they had one in 2,020 and 2016 again in 2022 potentially, 2026.
09:53:13 That's a big regional exercise. Fema region 10, which is Idaho, Washington, Oregon.
09:53:17 And so we're hopefully trying to set the table for some better participation in that as well. Otherwise, that is where we stand right now and I am happy to take questions.
09:53:30 Thank you, Willie. Any questions, Heidi? I ask them as we go. I'm the interceptor question lady.
09:53:40 I asked most of mine as we went on. I'm curious. So Idaho is in the Cascadia rising.
09:53:44 Is that just because of the FEMA region that they're in? It seems like they are less vulnerable to that kind of, to the ring of fire than we are.
09:53:51 Yeah, so it is because FEMA Region 10 is Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
09:53:56 So they are lumped in with that region. But they also do play a really important role in all of the major kind of catastrophic Cascadia plans.
09:54:06 Pushing resources east to west is really essential so they along with you know areas like Spokane on the eastern side of the state serve as staging areas and forward operating
basis for those supplies coming into the impacted areas.
09:54:19 So I'm your right and that they won't be as impacted, but they're likely to see a lot of folks fleeing the disaster area and they'll be a pretty important, pretty important
resource for us in terms of getting supplies in and, you know, serving as operation centers and command posts, for the larger federal response.
09:54:38 Thanks. And then on the lepsey, work plan, I guess, I feel. I remember seeing a hazardous materials report and maybe, 2,019 that was being worked on and I'm just wondering is
that are we building on that and I guess I know we don't have it just hazardous materials distributed throughout the whole county but you know.
09:55:02 If you think about Indian Island and the hospital and poor towns and paper, we have some some larger entities that I would assume have a significant amount of hazardous materials.
09:55:13 I guess, can you just expand a little bit on our hazardous material. Landscape and what we're doing.
09:55:18 Yeah. Yeah, so, first and foremost, you are, you are right in that you've seen and heard about this plan starting to get put together before and we did you know shortly after
I got here in 2019 we took a draft plan template and started to, put together a draft.
09:55:35 And then, 2019 early 2020 struck and that got put in the rear view mirror. For the next couple of years.
09:55:44 So we are picking that back up. In terms of the participants, so there are certain thresholds that anyone, any entity that has, you know, certain quantities of specific types
of hazardous materials under the environmental protection agencies.
09:55:59 They call it tier 2 reporting requirements. And as part of the Community Right to No Act. I must submit to EPA, Department of a College, in their local emergency management
agency.
09:56:10 Reports on an annual basis of what kind of hazardous materials that they typically possess. And so that'll include everything like our propane providers, to, you know, PUD.
09:56:24 To the paper mill, etc, etc. So a lot of those entities have been providing us tier 2 reports all these years.
09:56:34 And so part of the lepsey will be reviewing those, reviewing those reports and making sure our response plan aligns with the reality of what's actually being stored based on
what's reported.
09:56:45 Naval Magazine, Indian Island, obviously, you know, does possess transports, maintain, some of their own materials, but you don't national security issues.
09:56:56 They obviously can't divulge everything. I mean we mentioned this during the ICG meeting that they will absolutely invite them.
09:57:02 Their emergency manager, absolutely fantastic, committed to participating this process to the best of their ability. Again, they're always a great community partner, but do
have their national security, tasks to worry about.
09:57:16 So. And we won't get to see everything under the hood in terms of Naval Magazine, Indian Island, but, they'll participate.
09:57:22 And again, any of the other entities who house or possess, possess, I mean, Heather's materials will be invited to participate, as will the broader community as well.
09:57:32 And I guess do we also consider, you know, areas like Banger that aren't in our county, but that have.
09:57:38 You know, again, this is clouded by national security and everything, but there's a significant amount of material there that could impact us in a disaster.
09:57:48 And I'm doing
09:57:49 That's, I, we will briefly touch on materials transported through our county, which, you know, we're fortunate we don't have, you know, large rail or anything significant going
through our jurisdiction, but obviously, things going over in the, county will pass through Jefferson County.
09:58:08 I don't think at this point in time at least for the first entity, we'll touch on, how there's materials in adjacent counties.
09:58:17 I think we'll kind of start, you know, square one what's being stored, potentially transported through.
09:58:22 I mean, that might make for interesting conversation, for future meetings of the LEPC.
09:58:26 But that, wasn't on our initial, initial radar.
09:58:30 And then last question, and this is another one that's a little bit out of the lane, talking about in prep.
09:58:37 I'm hearing a lot of frustration around some of the more rural areas in Jefferson County about an increase of.
09:58:49 Property crime, not really an emergency except for the person that of course is victimized by these often crimes of opportunity.
09:58:57 And I'm just wondering if there is. Possibility of aligning in prep and kind of a neighbourhood watch.
09:59:03 Together, which to me, it seems like it's kind of this the same sort of neighborhood looking after it's each other philosophy that might bring more people into in prep as well
as adding another facet of support for neighborhoods that might help people, you know, especially when you have, you know.
09:59:24 A quarter of your neighborhood is, you know, weekend or occasional visitors second homes, there's a real, there's a gap there that I'm wondering if in prep can help fill.
09:59:33 Yeah, well, so the beautiful part of in prep is that at its core, it's not just emergency response.
09:59:42 It is building. Community and actually just meeting your neighbors and fostering conversation. So I think at the very least encouraging neighbors to get together to meet one
another to discuss issues as it really to, you know, disaster preparedness, but also other issues like, you know, potentially on law enforcement issues.
10:00:00 There absolutely is a nexus there. So if you know, our meeting with your neighborhood once a month.
10:00:05 To discuss disaster preparedness. Issues are once a quarter, once, you know, twice a year, whatever it may be.
10:00:11 And that's certainly something, you know, books can bring up and devise a plan, you know, to help establish a neighborhood watch just like they would talk about a plan to establish
a hub, you know, get CERT trained, what have you.
10:00:23 Something I think we can bring up at our next, or our next in prep leadership meeting to maybe, you know, talk about what that might look like.
10:00:32 But again, the mechanism in terms of bringing people together building community that's always been at its core of, in prep.
10:00:40 So I think it'll be an easy transition to maybe talk about some of those day-to-day issues apart from, you know, obviously the catastrophic earthquake is kind of what we push
folks towards, but today issues like that can certainly be a topic of planning a topic of conversation as you build those neighborhood bonds.
10:00:54 Great. Appreciate it. Okay. I know we talked about, neighborhood watch topics.
10:01:02 At our we had a Picnic last summer in my neighborhood. It was one of the topics of conversation.
10:01:09 So I know it's probably of interest to most of the neighborhoods that are communicating with each other, right?
10:01:16 It's a way to get neighborhoods interested in prep too. I think that might not be but are still usually if they're out there they're very vulnerable to some of these disasters
that in Help you prepare for it.
10:01:27 So, alright. Great. Well, thank you so much, Willie, for this, detailed work plan.
10:01:33 It's amazing how much a small department gets done. So never, to amaze.
10:01:40 No, thank you so much. Appreciate it.
10:01:45 Yes.
10:01:42 Alright. And raising puppies on the side. Oh, right. That may be the hardest work of all.
10:01:49 Yes. Thank thankfully my wife did. She was the one who slept on the couch with the puppy last night.
10:01:55 So thank you for that. A little more spy for this. So thank you, honey.
10:01:50 Oh, yes. Well, good to see you, Willie. Thank you.
10:02:01 Okay.
10:02:02 Alright, I see Ahmet Sharma is in the in the room, but we do have an audience.
10:02:07 I, issue. No, no, sorry. We've got a 1030 on the agenda, so we'll have to wait until 1030 to look at the Wazi extension work plan.
10:02:24 Let's do the certification. So we're gonna turn it over to. Burt Galloway.
10:02:29 And Mark is listed. So this is done every year. It's inventory certification. For all capitalized assets.
10:02:37 The last time we did it was February thirteenth, 2023. And so I have to put you under oath.
10:02:45 First duly sworn and on oath depose and say that the following sheets containing the inventory of capitalized assets of the several departments of the county.
10:02:56 As certified by each department head is true and correct inventory of the capitalized assets belonging to Jefferson County on December 30 first, 2,023.
10:03:04 Do you do you do you say you agree? I agree. I agree. Okay.
10:03:10 And so what I'm gonna do is have, the both of you, I'll be notarizing this later.
10:03:15 But if you wanted to say a few words about the inventory book or your viewing. Well, I did mention earlier it's the heaviest document we review each year.
10:03:26 The heaviest document we review each year. Checking through, you know, random checks through various departments to see.
10:03:34 What's there? Spot checking and relying on the certifications to each department head. You know, it's easier to look at one departments, hardware than, than the entire.
10:03:49 It's always amazing to see how many tools are used by the county. It's always amazing to see how many tools are used by the county. It's always amazing to see how many tools
are used by the county.
10:03:52 Yes. It's always amazing to see how many tools are used by the county. Yes. It's amazing to see how many tools are used by the county.
10:03:54 Yes. It's astonishing. Yeah. Sounding is.
10:03:56 But appreciate the work. I've got to keep good counting of it.
10:04:15 So last week Here with you, of course, on Monday and then.
10:04:25 Tuesday. Say I was doing some community foundation work most much of the day and a personal appointment.
10:04:38 Wednesday also another, lot of personal appointments in my. On my dance card these days. So.
10:04:45 But then I, Did attend the. Jefferson County Library District board meeting. With treasurer Preda to talk about.
10:04:59 Tax rabbits for the county and as they were particularly interested in. D in our timber taxes, DNR, State Forest Transfer Trust.
10:05:10 Revenue. We had a great conversation. We basically just.
10:05:14 Stacey went over kind of. The history of revenues to the. Various taxing districts with a focus on.
10:05:22 The library, of course. And answered questions there and then we talked about timber tax and recent activities of the county regarding conversations with DNR and how largely,
you know, it's DNR decides how they're gonna manage their forests, but we do have a say in some lands and we are forests right the state forest timber texts.
10:05:48 September the state forest transfer trust lands. And talked about our conversations with DNR focusing most of our.
10:05:58 Kind of conservation efforts north of Highway 104. And.
10:06:04 Having less priority south of 104, but interestingly then DNR comes forward with. Lands they wanna take off the book south of 104 so you know it's it's always a conversation
and there have been lots of them and I kinda went over the calendar last year and all the all the things that have happened and I felt like a really good conversation and.
10:06:27 You know, largely at the end of it, they, a couple of the board members commented like we were talking about our trustland transfer applications that we submitted last year
and.
10:06:36 I was highlighting each of the parcels and then I. One of the board members zoomed in on that the personal south of Anderson Lake Road, which includes a potential area that
would be used for expansion of the Olympic Discovery Trail.
10:06:52 And he said, whatever we need to do to get. The ODT off of Highway 20, you know, and I'm like, we're all motivated in that way.
10:06:59 So. It was a good conversation and then there was no, I didn't.
10:07:07 No action and I didn't feel like, I mean, I felt like they wanted more, they would like to see us again in a year or, you know, whenever they ask.
10:07:14 But at every library district board meeting they have an educational topic on their agenda. So Stacey and I were their education last week.
10:07:23 So yeah, that was good. And then,
10:07:26 See. Thursday, Thursday Board of Health. In the afternoon, early afternoon with the entire team there. And then we had an evening meeting.
10:07:42 The intergovernmental collaborative. Talking about the growth management steering committee and. I'm grateful that Superintendent Mark has said he's willing to serve on the
Growth Management Steering Committee.
10:07:54 I feel like his membership on that committee will not only represent the Port Hadlock, urban growth area, but also.
10:08:03 I have a voice from the schools involved in the conversation and I know that was a priority. And then let's see.
10:08:13 And Friday I went in person to the. Say let's behavioral health administrative services organization and executive board meeting and that was a good meeting.
10:08:26 Commissioner Ozias from Callum County was not available to be there, so it was. Christine Rufus from Kids App and I and it was for both of us our first meeting.
10:08:34 So we had a great opportunity to ask a lot of new girl questions and did so and that was a productive meeting I felt.
10:08:43 It was good to get involved with that, that, that, around that table. Yeah. And then, the hard one to define, right?
10:08:51 The way those dollars trickle down into Jefferson County is pretty oblique sometimes. Yeah, but they're really focused on crisis management.
10:08:57 Oh yeah. Yeah, I didn't really understand. The scope of their work. So it's really helpful.
10:09:04 Good. And then I did the KPTZ radio show with Taylor this time. Jim was out for a medical appointment and we talked about the Empowered Teens Coalition.
10:09:18 And the recent cannabis prevention summit. So. Kara from the Chin and Coming Power Teens coalition join me as well as Laura Tucker talking about the cannabis prevention summit
and.
10:09:30 Was a good conversation. I feel like you know, empowered teams coalitions are one of the things that I'm like, I never knew about these before I was a commissioner and I feel
like.
10:09:39 They're a resource in the community and they're in every school district. So I feel like people should know about them. They're pretty new.
10:09:46 I mean, they were the, Chimican was the only one that we had when I was when I was elected that was the only one and then 4 towns and then developing on a lot of experience,
I think the Denise Banker brought. Yeah, and I think it's exciting.
10:10:01 I mean, I'm gonna shine a light on Shim and come again, but. Our team center and Chemical is super active right now and Kara has formed a really great partnership with the new
director of the Team Center in Chemicum, Jeff Jones and they're collaborating actively on programs and they're doing a I think it's a family night at the Te center for families to come
10:10:22 in and Excellent. Yeah. So, and that was. The end of last week.
10:10:28 Yep. All right, I can take a look through. Let's see, with you guys, of course.
10:10:34 Okay, I did something. Oh yeah, I didn't. I took a little. No, I thought I had a recompete meeting in the middle of the day, but no, I did not.
10:10:44 There was a virtual summit all day on Tuesday for recompete that I, did not go to.
10:10:50 I had the EDC finance meeting, which was great. You know, Monica McCator was there as well from the city and, It's it's a really interesting group like your experience with
the BHS.
10:11:02 It's great to kind of get under the hood and see how it's working and that I've talked to quite a few small businesses that are using the free services of Douglas and it's To
to a one they're like we are better off because we we learned with Douglas.
10:11:19 Yeah, I don't know that's been hearing that too. And then I had that Kelsey in Brandon Power Teams coalition Tuesday afternoon.
10:11:29 We're looking to move that. I think we're just going to move it to the third or first Tuesday.
10:11:34 So I missed TCC on Tuesday to attend that rescheduling one. We need to work a little more with the newer, leadership at the quilting school.
10:11:45 We always have a representation from the the Brennan school, but I think we're going to move it a little bit later in the day because we end up having it at 2 30.
10:11:53 So if we're talking about staff, they're like they're dealing with stuff so we never have the SAP, they're dealing with stuff.
10:12:04 So we never have the, the SAP, 3 30. You'd probably be fine. Yeah.
10:12:06 That's what we're gonna on Wednesday had our weekly Team Jefferson Recompete meeting.
10:12:11 You know kinda getting ready a little bit for Yeah, the ICG and.
10:12:21 You know, just kind of working out things to do. I've been trying to connect with some of our tribes that we are our neighbors with as well.
10:12:29 So this week I'm meeting with vice chair Lopez from the Hoe. Still have not touch space with Canal, but that was, heard back that that was kind of the work that came out of
that for me.
10:12:41 We had our monthly orca meeting, the clean air agency and, you know, business as usual had our largest fine ever was paid.
10:12:52 Like 1.3 million dollars. It was for persistent like not having updated. It was a paper.
10:13:02 No, I'd have to go back and look. I forget. Yeah, that's curious.
10:13:10 One moment.
10:13:16 I did not remember.
10:13:26 Let me look at it at a break. I'll bring it back. I'm just curious.
10:13:32 We've had another way the long long time employees there the Robert Moody who was in charge of compliance there, the, Robert Moody who was in charge of compliance, retires.
10:13:47 We've lost 50 years of, staffing there in the last couple of months, but they've got a really good succession planning going on with our new ED there.
10:13:54 So it's, they've been having missed a step.
10:13:55 Had lunch with, John Morrow. And then. We had a. Community Conversation Committee meeting of the Housing Fund Board.
10:14:02 Talking about a couple meetings coming up. That we want to do publicly one is to have a conversation kind of a public conversation about that the shelter matrix and Jefferson
County, you know, both dealing with the kind of the, another large encampment that's, you know, sprung up around, thank you, DSHS as well as.
10:14:24 What's what goes on in 3 31 when that American Legion contract is over. So trying to schedule that and.
10:14:34 And what was the other 10, also the 5 year, homeless and housing plan.
10:14:39 We need to redo it. So we want we want to have a Kind of a Zoom Meeting initially just to kind of gather input, you know, this is what we've done.
10:14:47 This is what we had. This is what we have to do and what should we do as we as we move forward.
10:14:53 Talk to the chair of the board of health about some of the agenda items on Thursday And then let's see, Thursday we have the recompete job creation, teams meeting.
10:15:07 I guess that's where I got the task to talk to the, the tribes. With a couple other people.
10:15:12 I was with you guys at the Board of Health meeting.
10:15:17 Pretty good meeting I thought and then I was at the first half of the ICG meeting and then exciting about the joint management steering committee though we're still not scheduled
right we don't have a meeting date that's gonna be a challenge.
10:15:30 And then I had to leave halfway through to hop over to the regular, only cat meeting, you know, we continue to have a lot of struggles at Only Cap and.
10:15:39 Yeah, just supporting our interim ED, Tammy Lidster as she tries to.
10:15:45 Sort, things out, you know, and there's some, a lot of people leaving the housing department right now. Yeah.
10:15:53 And then Peggy Webster has left the housing fund board and has taken a role at Only Cap to help, you know, guide the housing ship with Kathy through this transition period.
10:16:04 So I'm looking for a new housing fund board member, but great to have Peggy. Announced Olympic housing trash is gonna be the ED of the housing trust so I'm not sure that transition
I think is kind of a flexible, you know, she'll still be a support.
10:16:21 For only cap through this transition.
10:16:25 So it's Thursday, busy time. Meeting with Josh Peters on Friday about the recompete grant to the strategy grant for the Glencoe of work as more challenging than we thought about
the, you know, like we already had a contractor lined up that both the city and the county were using for the comp plans.
10:16:49 And we might need to do an RFP and stuff like that so kind of slowing down and making sure we dot all our eyes and cross all our T's.
10:17:01 And then we reschedule the Olympic. Workforce board for, I think really early March, like a 8 to 9 o'clock meeting before.
10:17:13 Before our regular BOCC meeting. And, you were on the radio. I wasn't.
10:17:20 And then met with Mark on Friday afternoon. And we're meeting again today with the. Independent financial consultant for the PFD.
10:17:34 It was an interesting meeting. I don't know. I kind of I think I didn't quite understand what it was.
10:17:41 You know, it was beforehand you beforehand. Yeah. I don't know. So.
10:17:47 They're really, they're not as It's not as much of a financial analysis as I thought, it seems like.
10:17:56 I mean, how would you describe? What we're going to get that we're having another meeting today.
10:18:01 I'm curious to see. Well, it's a Texas 2 step. Initially, There has to be a review regarding the simple formation of the PFD and I believe she's going to use the OSIS report.
10:18:19 Estimates about patronage and revenue operational cost and then of course the cost of the debt and what a 2 10 sales tax might yield in terms of revenue.
10:18:31 Right. And then based on that. Is it feasible and I think her conclusion will be yes.
10:18:40 However, as I think you learned, Greg, cause I had a previous conversation with her about the mountain that, yeah, is in front of us if we want to actually attack this thing.
10:18:53 It is, you know, it's Mount Everest. Yeah. And she's gonna point out the risks associated with it and.
10:19:01 And there's another report that we'd have to do another report. Yes. And that would occur prior to actually.
10:19:09 Pursuing that. So that's after we've seeded a PFD. There's another once once they have a project, once the PID as a project, right, then they would be another independent financial
review of the project itself.
10:19:21 So even though that they're using the kind of the work of the steering committee right now. Correct.
10:19:29 And, you know, she said that it would be prudent prior to forming the PFT.
10:19:34 Because once it's formed, it's an independent government entity that can chart its own course. Somewhat independent of the city and and the county.
10:19:45 What that course might be. When we select who the members are going to be of the PFT and presumably the members would share the vision of the city in the county and not go some
direction, 180 degrees.
10:20:04 Really vague when she was talking though, even didn't she even talk about an MOU or something?
10:20:08 That I was gonna, okay, yes, I was gonna address that next. That.
10:20:12 Prior to forming the PFD, we would it would be prudent to Execute an MOA MOU with all the participating parties of the city.
10:20:23 You know, if the hospital is going to contribute, the Y.M.C.A. and so on. Laying out certain understandings, you know, principle of which might be financial support from the
city, what happens to the 400,000 they're committing now because if the PhD actually forms And says, well, we're not going to build a mountain view.
10:20:43 We're going to build in Hadlock. Is that 400 still available or not? And so some of these understandings would have to be documented.
10:20:51 In advance of forming the PFD I would think. It seemed weird. It's like, no, they're totally independent, but you can build guardrails in.
10:21:00 I don't know. I ended up with more questions after that first meeting. Well, to the extent that the PFT would rely on the county or the city.
10:21:08 For financial support prior to sales tax revenue, flowing into the PFT and then I mean they would have to remain true.
10:21:19 To the provisions of the MOA because would they not do that then the county could withhold support?
10:21:27 So. So anyway. And didn't she was under the pressure that we would probably have to someone some organization would have to stand up with the financial backing.
10:21:37 For the PFD. Correct. They're not gonna be able to bond by themselves. The scratch miss doesn't work.
10:21:43 You need. And that would likely be us, right? Correct. That would likely be us, the county.
10:21:50 More likely than not. And that would include. You know, if we have to hire financial talent if we have to hire bond counsel.
10:21:56 Underwriters. You know, legal advice and so on. How does that affect our ability to raise funds for other capital priorities in the future?
10:22:08 Well, if the PFD is actually formed, you know, I've, sort of proposed and the notion that the PFD could be Could encompass more facilities than just an aquatic center that it
could fold in our community centers, maybe H take care of Park and Memorial Field.
10:22:26 As a way of, encouraging people to vote for the thing. Because, quite frankly, our, our capital revenues are are not all that robust.
10:22:38 You know the increase in mortgage interest rates has driven down rate revenue you know we I think Last year we earned about 70% of what we earned the prior year and their new
roles about what you can use.
10:22:54 Read revenues for. And so if we're ever to take care of the Port Townsend Community Center, the Brennan Community Center and so on, another source of revenue.
10:23:03 For county facilities I think would be a very good thing. And I think people in Brennan and Colin and Elsewhere might be more likely to vote for a 2 10 sales tax if they could
see tangible benefits for their community.
10:23:19 Yeah, it's challenging. Didn't get easier. We have another meeting today at 3 o'clock.
10:23:27 Mostly when we heard on Friday, but the other members of the group need to hear the same information.
10:23:32 Right. And you know, one of the notes talking, just the letters from the public that we got over the weekend.
10:23:39 Talk about the United. They either say it's great or it's a boondogle course, right?
10:23:45 And, but, we spent over $700,000 on this process so far. I know the county contributed, I think, 100,000 and ARPA money for the right for the review by this.
10:23:59 I don't have disability number from a couple of people. Yeah, I don't know what options got paid.
10:24:06 And then, you know, besides some budget breakdown, I don't know. You know, Kerry was brought in specifically for these 2 projects.
10:24:11 I think that call for us in the Aquatic Center. And so you could factor in a great deal of her salary and benefits into that.
10:24:21 But it could be that that that much has been spent. I don't know. We we need an accounting out of the city.
10:24:28 Interesting. So yeah, that was my week. How was your last week, Mark?
10:24:35 Okay, well, Monday the twelfth was, short day with the board. Then on the thirteenth, Tuesday.
10:24:42 Met with Brent to go over his projects. Then at noon we had a courthouse security committee meeting.
10:24:50 You know, Chris Goy obtained a grant. Before he left the county and. Those monies are still available and thank goodness we got Tracy Coleman.
10:25:00 She's picking that grand up and is going to arrange to have new cameras put in the courtroom, much higher resolution and, you know, Judge Mack is really happy about that.
10:25:12 Yeah, Judge Mac also got a grant for a lactation pod and so we're gonna work to Order that, have it delivered and cite it maybe on the third floor landing.
10:25:24 And I'm sorry, I'm like, ation pod that's just privacy, privacy. Okay. Yeah, it's right.
10:25:31 It's so nursing mothers can attend to the to the nursing needs of. Her child. Pods an interesting. Yeah, while at work.
10:25:40 Yeah, in Clark County I actually had to take a storage room on the first floor for the public service center and convert it into a lactation room.
10:25:51 And then 2 o'clock, 1818 meeting. And then I met at 3 o'clock with Chief Black and Steve King from the city.
10:26:02 To review the fixes necessary for the community wildfire protection plan. At the conclusion of that meeting, I drafted up what we had discussed shared it with both of them.
10:26:14 They made minor tweaks to it. And now we're just waiting for Emma Bowling from the city to review our work and hopefully she'll concur and I could launch that.
10:26:22 To Emily at our consultant and then I'll get a modified statement of work and a budget estimate so I can amend the contract and we can get that.
10:26:33 That plan completed.
10:26:37 Then on the fourteenth like they I met with Sarah Mellonson to go over human resources strategic plan.
10:26:46 Objectives, tactics, and actions and very fruitful meeting. Came up with actionable steps to achieve the objectives that are part of strategic plan, strategic priority number
6, which is organizational health.
10:27:04 Very productive meeting that was.
10:27:08 Then on Thursday, had my regular meeting with. With Josh Peters and then brought Brent.
10:27:15 Butler in. To coordinate with Josh and Brent on a number of strategic efforts that DCD has underway.
10:27:24 And then of course, ICG meeting at 5 o'clock. And then on Friday we had the county coordination meeting and then of course Greg the independent financial feasibility review
discussion that you mentioned.
10:27:36 So that was it. Great. Alright, well we have a 1030 so we probably shouldn't jump into calendaring.
10:27:45 I did want to just follow up and it was crowned crown cork and seal that makes aluminum cans in Olympia.
10:27:50 Oh. And they did a They did an expansion without getting the permits. Oh, and there was a couple other things.
10:27:56 Can coding material, it's needed permit limit. They operated the can coding lines while by passing a mission control equipment and they failed to monitor compliance with several
emission limits.
10:28:08 They're totally in compliance now. They just to kind of go back through it and it was 1.9 million dollars.
10:28:12 Wow, big fine. It's a series of 9 different ones. The biggest one was 744,000 for 1 one fine.
10:28:18 So I'm gonna, we'll take a quick break. We have 5Â min with, well, 4Â min until 1030 and we'll get to start.
10:28:25 So you'll get on it to get set up and do you have a 5Â min with, well, 4Â min until 1030 and we'll get to start.
10:28:31 So you'll get on it to get set up and do You have a PowerPoint to set up?
10:28:33 Yes, you're doing it.
10:32:01 Yeah.
10:32:08 Alright, coming back into session, 1030, we are joined by I'm at Charlotte to give the Wazu Extension Work Plan for 2024.
10:32:18 Really glad that you can be with us today. I think Mark is just. Spinning up the slide deck and.
10:32:24 We'll turn it over to you when you're ready, Thank you so much. I think I'm done.
10:32:30 Thank you so much.
10:32:40 Okay, this is trickier than I thought, Mark. And, so these are the performance indicators.
10:32:47 The reason I kind of throw it up is these are the same that I had projected. While I was presenting the budget.
10:32:54 And these are the same figures. That was. When at a time when I was really new, I think I would want to not for this year, but going forward, most of these indicators as I see
it are more output based.
10:33:10 In terms of okay we are going to touch these many people we are going to have so many events but what I believe it's lacking is the mix of process as well as outcome indicators,
the mix of more long-term.
10:33:25 Improvement indicators. And more, moving more towards impacts. Okay, so you did certain events, but what was the impact?
10:33:34 And that is what the strategic planning process that I'm kind of trying to engage in. Would hopefully lead us to.
10:33:41 But this would give us a good snapshot of the 5 main program areas that we are currently involved in.
10:33:48 The first block is for 4 H, which is our youth lead. Non-formal education program. Second block is for Master Gardener.
10:33:58 Which is urban gardening, composting, and other related areas. The third one is the small farms which is the regional small farms program works primarily in the, again, ag related.
10:34:10 Domains. The fourth one is water quality and the fifth one is a noxious feeds control book.
10:34:15 That's where the small farms is the only one that seems to be like trending down in scope when all the other programs seem to be trending up in scope.
10:34:25 Can you elaborate more? What do you? Go back to the slide. I mean, like all of these are outputs and I understand you want to talk about impacts too.
10:34:34 And I, you know, love to have that conversation, but if you've got, you know, 23, we had 22 workshops and now you go down 15 and 400 class participants down to 2 50.
10:34:45 Yeah, because of tilth was this year. Now this was this was also pointed out by Commissioner Team last time when I presented and I went back to Kelli, my small phones coordinator
and asked us to what the case is.
10:34:57 The projected, numbers for 2023 were kind of, too ambitious and you were mad and so that's why she is correct.
10:35:07 And I haven't corrected it in this sheet because I wanted to kind of retain the same number that I had presented last time.
10:35:31 I think the monitoring mechanisms that are there are not robust and and very strong. Some of the programs and that is one of the areas that hopefully we can kind of correct
in.
10:35:39 Thanks. These are the snapshot of the various programs and what the year is going to look like.
10:35:44 This is for Master Gardener. I don't know how many of you are familiar with Bokashi workshop.
10:35:50 I'm also getting to know more about it. This is a new composting technique which is they put all the composed in an air tight container and without it's an orderless way of
composting things.
10:36:05 So this is kind of new. I had one workshop. I wasn't able to attend, but really cute is gonna know more about it myself.
10:36:10 The Master Gardener training is going to be starting from the 20 seventh. That is the main flagship for the Master Gardener Program, as many of you know.
10:36:19 So, Sorry, say that again. That training for existing? No, and this is for new members.
10:36:29 It is the old members are very involved in, in terms of running the classes and core running the classes.
10:36:37 But yes, this is the new members. Sorry. This is the forage program. We have.
10:36:43 2 new clubs as you would see the llamas the rescue packers and the reptile club that with started in 2323 24 and we are trying to build that on.
10:36:55 In addition to that, we are having a lot of different events. And Angie who's our newish program coordinator is kind of really taking the lead in terms of ensuring partnership
with other departmental agencies, including the health department, primarily in terms of bringing in mental health trainings and Also, we are increasing the staff at the Brennan after
school center.
10:37:19 So we would have one more person kind of managing that. This brings me to the larger issue which I'm going to discuss much later, but I just wanted to touch upon it is.
10:37:27 The fact that many of the programs, in fact most of the programs at WSE Extension Office are single person programs.
10:37:35 Which means if the person leaves for whatever reason or you know they are ill or not able to come to office for excellent period of time.
10:37:45 The entire program in some way collapses. And we can arrest this situation to a certain extent by a robust documentation.
10:37:54 And ensuring that the processes are in place, but the fact is I think in the long run the most pragmatic solution would be to try and come up with a with the structure where
at least there are 2 people.
10:38:08 Involved in running a program. At this point in time, we don't know how to do that.
10:38:14 Given the financial limitations, but I think long-term horizon, I'm definitely going to aim for that.
10:38:20 We're talking about volunteers or staff. No, I'm talking about stuff. Okay. Because wallet, yes, you can, I would say that strong documentation would be one piece of ensuring
sustenance of a program having a robust.
10:38:32 Advisory board or council is another way having a very robust volunteer-based system is another way. But nothing is more impactful than having at least one more person who's
kind of jointly running the program.
10:38:43 And that is something If we have been missing for for quite some time, which means that all the institution knowledge that is there with any individual kind of is lost the moment
that person is gone.
10:38:55 Also, this means that the because that structure is not there. People are not able to get out of.
10:39:03 They day-to-day operations and look at more strategic. Things all for that matter the part time person or the second affiliate person.
10:39:12 There is no career growth for them. So that is another area where perhaps many other counties or other other organizations might poach from us.
10:39:20 So that is something that I would really want to kind of. Pay attention to in the years to come.
10:39:27 This is this regional small farms program. Again, most of the events listed are the usual ones that we do all throughout the year.
10:39:35 The big main flagship event is the cultivating success. Farmer education course. That is going to be starting in the second half of the year.
10:39:46 We are trying to pilot with is a small farm in your future course, which is like an entry level one day experience.
10:39:53 So that we can see. If the people who are really interested in even enrolling for the cultivating success program, they can see.
10:40:02 Is this even something that I'm interested in rather than enrolling for the main program and then dropping out?
10:40:09 This is the noxious leads control board, almost ongoing programming. We might hire a seasonal part-time worker this time around for the noxious feet control board.
10:40:20 They are entering into partnership with various departmental and and county agencies so So I'm at when you say you might be hiring a partner, I've seen that job posted, so you
are hiring for that. Right.
10:40:33 I'm hopefully we'll have someone really good. The reason I say we might be hiring is if For instance, for the other position that we have advertised with the, which is the finance
and, operations coordinator.
10:40:45 We haven't really gotten a lot of good applications, so we don't know. But yeah, we obviously intend.
10:40:51 Yeah.
10:40:53 This is the water quality program and last week the coordinator for this Monica who had been with us for the past 4 years decided that he is she's moving away to Kitsap.
10:41:06 So yeah, no, that was like a gut punch. Wow, should be so great. Yeah, I did.
10:41:14 I was like, yeah, she's been amazing. I mean, the good thing is that this This takes her further to her personal professional goal.
10:41:19 She's better at her partner, I think, is based out of Kitsap and She's interested, excited about the job, but that leads us in a in a huge fix because Again, similar situation
where it was a one person program.
10:41:35 We were about to hire a part time, a MRC assistant, but, But things are in a complete flux as if now.
10:41:45 I'm trying to wrestle as to what extent can we really document things up to what extent can be.
10:41:50 Reli on the MRC advisory board. But as I said, the crucial thing is in the long term, I would idly want to have at least 2 people working on a specific program.
10:42:03 Well, at least with MRC, I mean, we have a good Share drive that we all use.
10:42:12 I mean, there's a lot of documentation of process. That has been that has been one of the highlights for a Mazi and that is again Monica has been very diligent in terms of documenting
things and putting hands down.
10:42:20 Having said that, still, you know, if there is so much things that she would do and she would think that, oh, this is automatic.
10:42:27 This is kind of, this is, this is. This is nothing new, but that is why I'm trying to see if one of the interns who worked for MRC could join us as an interim position and In
addition to the other things, also look at all the documentation of Fresh and see if.
10:42:42 All the documentation is making sense to her. So yeah, that's, that's about the water quality program.
10:42:50 Should make a chat bodies, Monica, unfortunately. I wish I could. I wanted to revisit this slide that, again, I shared with all of you during the budget presentation, which
is.
10:43:06 My my long term aim is that I can somehow align the extension priorities and strength and when I say extension priority these are the WSE extension at the broad level.
10:43:16 What are the community and and and the county goals as has been I think really well documented in the county strategic plan.
10:43:24 And then what are the organization capacity within our local extension office? And these were my operating principles that I had listed down at that point in time and I think
in so many ways they still stand true and I think they give us a good stopping point.
10:43:42 Except it seems like you're going for a little bit of breath right now too. I am going in for a bet, but I think for me individually the program coordinators should go into
the depth and I can kind of and the 5 programs, but my call to them is to go in for depth rather than going in for bed.
10:44:03 The 3 main vehicles through which I'm planning to do this and focus on on this alignment somehow this year, there might be others but the 3 main that I wanted to highlight was
Coming up with a solid needs assessment.
10:44:16 For specifically for Jefferson County. Extension office. And for this I am drawing already on the work that has been done across the other departments including the library
including the health department including the base data that we youth utilized.
10:44:30 For coming up with the county strategic plan. But that's, that's something that I would really want to do.
10:44:36 In terms of mapping out which other agencies do we need to partner with? What are the unmet needs where extension can play a vital role?
10:44:43 I also understand that there are new players, newer organizations that are that are doing similar work to what extension used to do.
10:44:53 And and I believe that's that's a good thing because if somebody else is there who is bringing in new sets of competencies and is able to move faster with some things.
10:45:03 We can focus on our strength and focus on. On the areas that we can do best. I don't give you a little more explicit.
10:45:10 I mean, let's say, let's say the, grants. The various grants that the farmers could apply to.
10:45:18 I know DC if NO DC does a good job at that. Because they're far more nimble, have far more expertise.
10:45:27 We don't have the capacity there. It takes a lot more time. So then we are we are in any ways partnering with NODC.
10:45:32 So rather than us taking on the mantle that we would do everything on our own that is not the idea.
10:45:38 We are very much about partnerships and that's that's the way that we will want to move forward.
10:45:42 Monthly learning events is something that I'm wanting to get started. We tried it in the last year as well, but this is we are structuring it a bit more where every fourth Monday
of the month.
10:45:53 We are meeting as a team for 3Â h and and just focusing on one learning topic. It could be, let's say, volunteer engagement, it could be.
10:46:02 About advisory councils it could be about fundraising we are taking a deep dive into each of these things and hopefully the longer term aim is that in another 6 8 months we
might be able to open this.
10:46:14 To other organizations just as a informal learning. Platform where different organizations could come together let's say We are talking about AI and productivity tools on a
little bit to basis.
10:46:27 So I would love to have you and the other entities who are interested to kind of gather and brainstorm and learn together.
10:46:33 And third part of it is we are also planning to use the monthly learning events for the strategic planning.
10:46:41 But once the needs assessment, we are able to derive some data out of it, we want to really move into the strategic planning as it applies to extension.
10:46:46 Again, this is, I'm really trying to build in the connections with the county and what WSE extension is wanting to do.
10:46:54 For instance, in the county implementation plan, we are listed as the lead organizations for very few But if few goals per say.
10:47:05 But then there are multiple goals or objectives within which we can play a role. And I'm trying to kind of map it down.
10:47:09 Oh, for instance, for the, for I think it's objective one, the health related thing.
10:47:16 There is so much that we could do. And and there is so much that we can learn from the other organizations.
10:47:21 I think Mark mentioned about HR and the strategic priority 6. Imply engagement, training and development. Creating a more diverse workforce.
10:47:29 All those are things that we can really draw upon the expertise of the county there.
10:47:37 Okay, just to move. Yeah, thanks. Thank you. This is something that I wanted your inputs on.
10:47:49 This is the work plan. Of more the strategic aspects of it. What I have done is that at least the way I am looking at it is this kind of four-step process which would Help us
achieve the county and the.
10:48:02 And the WC priorities and lead us to the leaders to the mission that Extension has. So yeah, thank you.
10:48:15 So if you focus on the left hand side What I'm hoping is that my first priority, the first foundation of this effort is organizational capacity.
10:48:28 Once that is achieved, I can really focus on the internal processes and try to improve the internal processes.
10:48:35 Because without organizational capacity, there's no way I can really improve the internal process. Hopefully if that is in process, I can really strengthen the community engagement
and the partnerships that I am having.
10:48:48 Which can lead me to program goals being met and financial sustainability being achieved. This in turn would. Would mean that if this is aligned, I am kind of really addressing
these 2 priorities both for the county and extension.
10:49:03 And I am being true to my mission, which is taking advancing knowledge economic well being in quality of life by bringing in the cutting edge research that is happening.
10:49:15 Within organization capacity, these are my 4 or 5 core areas that I want to focus on during the year.
10:49:23 But even within that, my first priority for quarter one is recruitment and selection. Because currently we have these 2 positions vacant one is going to be for the water quality
and and more critically I would say.
10:49:34 Is for the, the finance and operations lead. We did hire for this position. Last to last month, but then the person who joined was kind of overwhelmed and really feel that this
was the right place.
10:49:47 So. We are we are having to hire for this place and again we have not received very good applications even this time around despite increasing the level and the grade by a couple
of steps.
10:49:58 Can I just ask, I mean, these are all kind of the 4 different. Goals this year are interrelated but it's not like you're gonna, can you not work on internal processes and tell
you get that finance director?
10:50:12 I mean, I guess now. It seems like you gotta, yeah, no, absolutely. Not a binary.
10:50:17 Yeah, absolutely. No, you can't. You I would say yeah, you definitely would have to attack on all those 4.
10:50:24 You can't wait for one thing to be robust without you. But having said that, if you don't have the capacity because let's say for the admin and finance lead.
10:50:31 If everyone is kind of stuck with the day-to-day operations, figuring out where that invoice is.
10:50:37 You don't really have the capacity to think more long term. And because of the limited. Resource power that we have.
10:50:45 Obviously your attention and your efforts are going to be scattered. So as a pride because if everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority.
10:50:53 So just in order to get it more focused, I'm trying to see what can we really focus on and get done in Q one, then move our attention on to Q 2.
10:51:03 So for instance, in Q one, then move our attention onto Q 2. So for instance, in the blue one, then move our attention on to Q 2.
10:51:06 So for instance, in the blue one, which is the finance and monitoring management. The internal processes you would see how Financial monitoring is very much a focus in Q one.
10:51:14 And this is something that, again, is kind of, I would say, not very robust. In terms of the process, documentation is not there.
10:51:21 A lot of overlap. I'm also trying to see if there is an overlap between the admin and stuff, which includes me.
10:51:27 The reception and the communication person and the finance person. So just in case for instance let me take a very simple example, laser fish, right?
10:51:35 If the finance person is not there, Currently, I are the the reception person doesn't know how to upload laserfish documents.
10:51:43 So I'm trying to see that at least for those core things, there is some overlap. There is a backup person.
10:51:48 To kind of ensure that at least the critical processes are not getting stuck. Time sheets. Now we have perfected the time sheets thing that now even if the finance person is
not there, which currently is being managed by Sue.
10:52:02 If she is not there, at least we can handle it. So, so we're trying to map each process, have a backup process for each and kind of trying to come up with that.
10:52:10 If you keep putting zoo in your slide decks, she's going to keep working for you.
10:52:13 Is that? Yeah, that's the thing. That's the thing we which we want to move away from.
10:52:19 In terms of organization capacity, as I said, programs are sustainability is going to be a huge one for me.
10:52:25 And that is exactly what I said. Having more documentation, having a. Having volunteer engagement. Having advisory committee and council and part time positions for all the
programs going forward.
10:52:37 So that's my. That's my plan for, for the last, for the second half of the year.
10:52:43 But for currently I'm essentially focusing on financial monitoring and management. And for the community and partnership part I am really as we deep dive into the strategic
planning process with my staff.
10:52:55 They're really focusing on what are the partnerships that we can have with other entities within WSU.
10:53:00 And with the county. Because that I think is again. Something that we are missing, it tends to be more isolated.
10:53:09 Efforts and those are not going to produce the results and especially given the kind of overlap that is there with the other departments.
10:53:15 So that is going to be my next big clarity in terms of program sustenance. Another thing that we are focusing on is how can we leverage the regional character of the programs.
10:53:26 It doesn't not every program has to go the way the small firms program has gone. Which is the 3 county regional program structure.
10:53:33 But at the same time, there are lessons to be learned from what other countries are doing in forage.
10:53:39 And if we don't have to reinvent For instance, as an example, if they are doing something really good.
10:53:44 And so we don't have to reinvent the V and start afresh. We can definitely kind of see how that partnership might look like.
10:53:50 So that is what my my Q one and Q 2 priorities are. I've tried to map it on some of the measures I haven't defined the measures because that is something that I wanted to do
with my team.
10:54:01 And that is something that we are going to do as part of the learning meetings that we are going to have.
10:54:06 And come to you all hopefully. Next time with a very detailed. An objective plan in terms of what is due.
10:54:15 And similar to what the county is trying to do with the implementation plan. So yeah, open the questions.
10:54:21 Yeah, how are you gonna find a financial? Staff really challenging so I mean yeah we what can you do differently or Yeah, so the one thing that I am already trying to see is
if there is a possibility of splitting the position into 2.
10:54:38 And I know that, yeah, I mean, even while I was advertising for this position right now, we have had this discussion.
10:54:44 Maybe splitting the position into 2 might mean. That the part for which the person doesn't have to be in office can be can be remote.
10:54:52 That hopefully might mean that there are people who are more willing to apply. Also it might not be overwhelming.
10:54:59 At least recruiting for the for the receptionist position last year I learned that there are many people who are interested in part-time role rather than full-time goals for
various reasons.
10:55:10 And if we don't get success with the full time position, that might be one alternative that we might try.
10:55:15 Especially at least bifurcating the role in such a way that one role is kind of can be done completely remotely.
10:55:23 That might at least mean that we have some person and maybe they can come to the office once. That might mean that we are then opening up.
10:55:32 The possibility to people in Seattle and these other kind of. More dense areas. So that is one.
10:55:36 I'm also trying to see if. The core part of this position is documented really, really well.
10:55:44 And either me and between me and the office receptionist, we can at least handle the very core aspects of it so that If the, if the, if there is a delay in the next person joining,
at least we can handle it for the time being.
10:55:57 I'm gonna sit with Judy in the finance office and see if There is any staff that they have who could potentially take up the core part of it in the way that things are, things
are not happening.
10:56:12 Last but not the least for the WSU part of things because this position also used to handle in relation to the county small part of Pcard reconciliation.
10:56:21 And attendance and some bit for the WSU, which we have now taken it upon us. All the WSU employees are managing it on their own for now.
10:56:29 And they would continue till the time the new position joins in. But any references are more than well.
10:56:37 I'm really challenging role to hire for, right? I mean, public, health at a similar position open for how many years?
10:56:44 5 years. Yeah, that's, that is a challenge. And does was you have resources?
10:56:53 I mean, can you use regional financial support or anything? Not really. Because most of this work is kind of county specific and it actually requires work on.
10:57:10 And so, and in fact, you need, because most of this work is kind of county specific and it actually requires work on Munis.
10:57:13 And so, and in fact you need a physical computer, the county computer for you to be able to work.
10:57:15 So that is one of the things where where the challenge comes in, otherwise I would have potentially looked at just having this entire thing.
10:57:20 Potentially even outsourced to some other agency who does. Kind of specialize in accounting or a management because there are entities who do that.
10:57:29 And then you don't have to worry because you are outsourcing to not an individual but an agency.
10:57:34 But at least as of now, that doesn't seem to be the possibility. I'll learn more from Judy as to what what are the options.
10:57:41 We have received a few applications. Let's see if we are able to work it out. This time around, I'm, But otherwise my go to strategy would be to try and split the position into
2 and then see how what the response is.
10:57:56 Thank you. Any other questions? I like I like the way you're the progression you're thinking though.
10:58:03 I mean, that all makes good sense. At least theoretically, you're thinking though, I mean, that all makes good sense.
10:58:11 At least theoretically, you should have to accept that. Yeah, things are gonna pan out on the ground. Great.
10:58:17 Such an important part of the county's work though, really digging in on this. Yeah, absolutely.
10:58:19 Thank you so much and I appreciate all the help from from the county at all level, especially Ma, Carolyn and.
10:58:23 ADL and everyone who has been so supportive by the finance person was not there and even otherwise.
10:58:29 So really appreciate it. Yeah, we're all part of the same team. So I appreciate you having here and got Commissioner Dean is I think you know indisposed today who's out of town.
10:58:38 So I'm sure she'll come back and and and catch up and watch this after that. So thank you, Ahmet. Thank you.
10:58:43 Alright, have a great day.
10:58:46 Okay, running a tight ship. Alright, well we have 4Â min. So the 11 o'clock scheduled presentation.
10:58:54 Good to see you Asa, Matt. Good to see you too, Ray. So let's, let's just take a brief, another brief recess so we can get all signed up and get ready to go.
10:59:06 So we'll be back in just 3Â min. Okay.
11:02:21 Yeah, Okay. Thank you. Okay. Oops, I didn't need to do that.
11:02:31 Okay, everyone ready? Okay, we'll call ourselves back into session. We are joined by, Matt Tyler and Asa.
11:02:41 I'm not sure your last name. We are joined by, Matt Tyler and Asa.
11:02:44 I'm not sure your last name, Clifford, Isaac Clifford, to talk about plans down at the Closene community center.
11:02:49 So glad that you guys could be here and I'll turn it over to Matt. Thank you. Thank you, commissioners, staff.
11:02:53 And most especially volunteers who are advocating for the skate park including Asa and others. There might be parks advisory board members online.
11:03:02 I don't know, but let's see. The Parks and Rec Advisory Board.
11:03:07 I've reviewed this project for quite a while and has. Given that an official recommendation to the commissioners and the project has proceeded along with some preliminary design.
11:03:16 Are funded by a grant from the county. That occurred during a well attended community. Participation meeting you have a second one plan.
11:03:27 The proposal is to put it ski park in the Wilson community part as you guys know. But before we do that, we think it's important to get in front of the board.
11:03:37 To get your input. And potentially I don't know it's up to you if you choose to do any official action about it.
11:03:44 I don't know if it's necessary to do any official action about it. I don't know if it's necessary.
11:03:47 Later there will be a donation agreement as a follow-up. The volunteers are planning to Get a fiscal sponsor.
11:03:59 You're working on that right now. And then they'll apply for the new RCO brand to community outdoor.
11:04:03 Facility Grant that you're all familiar with. A great opportunity, potentially a great opportunity for them.
11:04:11 If it gets funded, it could move ahead quickly. Just want to make sure that everything's coordinated in terms of where it ends up in the.
11:04:16 In the park and that you guys support support it and get your input. So can I ask one question on that before we go too far?
11:04:24 And that's, and it's really a question for Asa, but are you are you guys pretty Do you, do you think the new fiscal sponsorship is?
11:04:32 Certain. I mean, we're coming on March eighth pretty quick. The application deadline. Is there anything we can do to support?
11:04:39 That new fiscal sponsorship, I mean, hopefully we know this week. Great. Whether it's gonna work or not, but.
11:04:54 What kind of things? I mean, a lot of support. I mean, we can reach out if there's any, but doesn't sound like there's any.
11:05:01 Pinch points along the way you're in your conversations with the Y.M.C.A. I just.
11:05:05 It's mostly been Brady in contact with Wendy and see they're seeing. So I can check in.
11:05:12 Just to make sure. Here's a Brady online so I'm going to bring him over.
11:05:21 So potentially support is there the commissioners could. Connect and collaborate I guess and staff. I'm willing to do anything I can.
11:05:34 Yeah, and Tracy Coleman has been brought in on this. Yes, Tracy and Van and I met.
11:05:39 Okay, excellent. And they went and looked at the site. And that's the whole point is to make sure that everything is coordinated before we plop this down.
11:05:50 So you can see potential septic field potential restroom. This is a community center. And the highway would be down here.
11:06:03 Right?
11:06:08 Washington Street there. So one thing is that the septic field and the skateboard and the skate park could be flip flopped in this design with no problems.
11:06:18 Okay.
11:06:18 Tracy and Ben have commissioned on park holes to make sure that everything perks and they're doing some preliminary work to It would be completely possible to flip flop those
2, I don't think with any issues.
11:06:33 They only issue is that the design is being laid on the top of the ethical map. In the current location.
11:06:43 Exactly. And which it's a preliminary design. And natural design. There's no actual.
11:06:51 Water or geo engineering or anything going into it that wouldn't be right to. Update I hope and the current location is the one on the yeah graphic here yes they haven't produced
any does any sheets or any technical work yet.
11:07:07 Engineers haven't looked at it and so forth.
11:07:09 Just keeping that option open if it's required by the septic field.
11:07:16 Question time or is there anything else? I think that's Yeah. Brady. Do you do you wanna?
11:07:24 Speak at all to anything we can do to help in your pursuit of fiscal sponsorship by the Y.M.C.A.
11:07:36 I don't know if you're free to talk or indeed we have the right Brady. I don't know Brady's last name either.
11:07:41 McDonald, Mr. McDonald.
11:07:46 Just join this personal meeting.
11:07:51 Well, we can't hear you right now, Brady. You look like you're unmuted.
11:07:55 Oops. Done. He's back to the attendees. He demoted himself.
11:08:01 Yeah, that's, that, connection or something. Okay, good to know. I know. Yeah, Philopanzak has been looking for that option for ages.
11:08:13 Okay, try to bring him back.
11:08:13 Alright, hold on, I will add a public comment. So we'll give you an opportunity, right?
11:08:19 Brady? Your proposed new restaurant with Hey, now, now we can hear you. Yes.
11:08:21 Hello. Hello, can you see me as well? I'm not seeing myself. So can you hear me though?
11:08:31 Okay.
11:08:28 We can we can hear you and that's fine. And were you able to hear our question for you?
11:08:36 You cut out a little bit. I think my connection is not as good as I thought it would be, but.
11:08:42 Regarding the sponsorship with the Y.M.C.A, I'm assuming. Okay.
11:08:46 Yes.
11:08:47 So actually I just spoke to Wendy yesterday afternoon. She was over in Washington DC.
11:08:54 So we had trouble kind of connecting over the last week. But we emailed back and forth. Essentially, we haven't secured the, the sponsorship yet.
11:09:05 She's having her her meetings with the board and with the the her financial like committee essentially this week.
11:09:18 And so hopefully on by Friday, we'll have a little bit more clarity. She just essentially has to check off all the boxes.
11:09:27 It, although I'm optimistic about it, I'm, you know. I'm aware that they, you know, we are, we don't have the contract secured yet.
11:09:37 So I am looking. At an open to other options but cause until we get that contract we can't you know we can't move forward but we're we've been in conversation and sort of you
know trying to share all of the details and all the information so that they feel like you know confident and in supporting us with the fiscal sponsorship.
11:10:03 But yeah, we're just not, we don't quite got it yet because she has, she has to work with her people there to get full approval but she said a manager that she's she works with
for her projects was excited about it and so I'm feeling like, oh, this could work out really well for us.
11:10:20 Good. Well, I encourage you to send photos of the well attended chorete that you guys had down at the community center.
11:10:26 I think. It's a it's a great way to demonstrate interest and I'll just repeat what we said to Asa before you were on.
11:10:32 Huh.
11:10:33 You know, if there's anything I can do to help, you know, write a letter of support to to the Y.M.C.A. or anything, or if there's anything on this end that would be helpful.
11:10:42 Just, you know, you can, you don't have to answer right now, but you can reach, reach out to me offline.
11:10:45 Oh heck yeah, don't, don't don't hesitate to send us a letter support.
11:10:50 I love the idea of just, you know, as much as possible. I don't want to, you know, I was like, I'm kind of kinda, you know, dump all of this stuff on.
11:10:58 Like, look at all these people who are so excited about that, you know. So I'd love as much of that as possible.
11:11:06 Thank you.
11:11:05 I will work on one. You can tell one of your 3 county commissioners used to own a skateboard shop in Port Townsend briefly.
11:11:11 Whoa. Cool.
11:11:12 The paved way. The paved way. Yeah, we took over the paid wave from Gary. But I only wrote, I only wrote long boards so I was not a Good partner.
11:11:27 Yeah, awesome. Yeah, it has a pup track. That's one of the things that came out in the design.
11:11:23 Well, yeah, our skateboard parks for the longboard people too. Yeah. Right.
11:11:33 Shared is that very of common theme is to have this accessible pump track around the outside that any, you know, wheelchair or anything could use basically.
11:11:40 Yeah.
11:11:40 So, can you use the microphone? Sorry, I didn't tell you before, but. Yeah, last week, and I went to the new Brian Lansing, to check it out.
11:11:50 And they have a pump track that's really cool and fun to roll around on for everyone. That was one of the big points in the shred that I attended was the accessibility of skate
parks is is kind of baked into them is kind of my takeaway that they are.
11:12:05 It's a very inclusive community. So, okay. Did you have any questions? Hiding?
11:12:15 I get super exciting. Really exciting. We do have some public here that are interested. So I'm gonna add a little public comment.
11:12:20 Maybe if. Ray, if you can grab this microphone and bring it up so everyone can read you. That's all. Oh, okay.
11:12:29 Yeah, we'll, out some of those, some of those things there. Yeah, Matt, let's talk about these red circles.
11:12:35 I mean, we talked about the skate park and that's the area that we are looking at and that's the area that we are looking at and then to expand the restrooms which is another
Harper grant that we made was to support the design of that and to and also really the idea that we would put capital dollars into funding the actual construction of the new septic
system.
11:12:55 So. Looking at spaces that can build. Drain field big enough to have an actual commercial kitchen in the community center and showers that are accessible to the.
11:13:08 To the campers as well as the community at large. I think Matt also talked about in this the desire at least and maybe it's not exactly funded but to have a camp host at quill
scene. I don't know.
11:13:23 Do you want to talk about that idea? Is that premature? It's just to know these ideas are for the skate park is fairly concrete.
11:13:31 Good one. Yeah. It's my realm, the dad jokes. Go on.
11:13:35 Yeah, so parking along Washington Street. Potential restroom with showers where it says restroom.
11:13:42 And the footprint there is just conceptual and schematic, so it doesn't show the actual size, except for the skate park is approximately 7,500 square feet.
11:13:51 It won't be a rectangle, won't be an ugly rectangle. I'll have a natural organic shape.
11:13:56 It may exceed those boundaries slightly so that it fits in beautifully. To the park, all this stuff will enhance the beauty of the park.
11:14:05 Pathway leading to the campground is a campgrounds all over here. It's not shown on the map.
11:14:09 So it all fits in. I know that the temporary. Building is looked at is being looked at for use changes potentially.
11:14:19 I don't know what those would be. How's I don't know the size of the septic field, but that would be one possible location to put it in.
11:14:26 How about a camp host department? We talked to the shares to share's office about possible annex and they actually asked the budget last year for a South County officer that
was not approved last year but it's an open conversation but I think they said.
11:14:42 In that conversation that we don't need an office really, you know, the cars are pretty much self contained offices.
11:14:48 So I doubt that it would be any sort of. JCSO and or anything but what is you know the food bank is building their own facility a couple blocks over and so that is going that's
the primary use of that is storing food so it's just is kind of it's up for a new it needs a new alternative use right it's still got good bones is what i've heard from that so it's
a solid
11:15:14 building that it had some old issues but those have been sorted. It's a solid building. It's a solid building. It's a solid building.
11:15:22 It had some old issues, but those have been sorted. I think so. So, and you're talking about the circle of possible use changes. Yeah, that's no one.
11:15:28 It's just a little, Yeah. So the, septic field. You gotta talk into the mic.
11:15:33 Yeah, the septic field would be. Potentially be used for the RP park itself then and maybe for a pump out or it would just be mainly facilitating the restroom.
11:15:45 We didn't have it in mind. We're now looking at an RV. We have in mind a camp post site.
11:15:52 There's no plan changes to the campground. Just for the building just for the buildings. You know, shower restroom thing that you just kind of plop down and connect to a new
septic system still cost you know a couple $100,000 problem.
11:16:09 Right.
11:16:11 But there, you know, these are all early ideas and you know, we have a new central services director that I'm gratified to hear has been down there with Ben from facilities
looking at what some of the the real implications are.
11:16:25 So I appreciate you bringing them in. Yeah, definitely coordinating. Before we build anything. Yeah, but really excited about the skate park and everything I've heard is that
this application would be really competitive with that new RCO process.
11:16:38 So too, yeah.
11:16:39 Really excited. Yeah. Any other questions? All right.
11:16:44 Well, I appreciate you making time Asa and Matt to come down and talk about this and Brady as well.
11:16:49 Yeah, and we're onward. We're on this path with you. And I'll get a letter drafted to signal our support of the fiscal sponsorship of the Sounds like the design should be in
its first stages complete on the 20 ninth.
11:17:06 So excited to see share with us and we'll push it out here too. Okay. Alright, thank you guys.
11:17:11 Thanks a lot, guys.
11:17:13 Okay. Flying through our agenda today. Don't have any of Kate's difficult questions. Maybe that's why we're going fast.
11:17:25 Let's see. So back. Oh, sorry. Let's bring Marianne back over.
11:17:38 I was.
11:17:35 Sorry, Marianne. Matt, Matt's still here. We moved on. I didn't I didn't recognize that you had something to say.
11:17:43 We'd love to hear from you. Mary.
11:17:50 Oh dear.
11:17:43 Well, I am just so sorry I was having computer problems and had to access the system through my cell phone finally but it's all on my fault it's nothing to do you guys were
great just as a district 2 board member for the parks and recreation department.
11:18:03 We, toured down there in the Kulsing facility, a few months ago and we were met with the skate park people and it was exciting to see the excitement that all of them had and
the enthusiasm.
11:18:19 And what a great opportunity to bring to an underserved underdeveloped area. And I just wanted to add that and it sound like I got in the last few seconds and you were nodding
your head that you thought that was a great thing.
11:18:32 Oh yeah, for sure. We are fully supportive of this and doing everything we can to help. So yeah.
11:18:37 Yahoo! Okay, you're all on board then. So that was all I had to contribute.
11:18:48 And again, my apologies for being so late.
11:18:48 That's okay. Thanks for being here, Marianne. Nice to hear your voice, Marion.
11:18:50 Alright, you guys take care. Bye bye.
11:18:52 Bye. Yeah, no, great from the Parks and Recadvisory Board for long time. I don't know.
11:19:00 Great from the Parks and Recadvisory Board for a long time. I don't know.
11:19:01 In years years. That's probably. Okay, well that takes us to the end of our agenda.
11:19:07 We haven't done calendaring yet. So maybe we should hit that and then are there any other agenda items that you need to raise today?
11:19:17 Great to take, you know. As many conversations as we can when we have all 3 of our members here.
11:19:23 So. Let's take a look at our calendars and then we can wrap for the day. Yeah.
11:19:30 So today, we're ending soon and then. I have a lunch date.
11:19:37 And then this afternoon we have a Jefferson Transit Authority board meeting. At what time? At 3 30.
11:19:45 Yep. And then tomorrow morning we have a budget meeting at 8 30. We all do and Tomorrow afternoon, the Chemical Empowered Teams Coalition.
11:19:58 And then also the short farm work group. Is meeting for our first. Non tour meeting meeting style meeting tomorrow evening at WSU.
11:20:14 I, so in the midst of our meeting today. Kate confirmed that she's now chair of the Hook Canal coordinating council.
11:20:22 And she is planning to chair that meeting remotely so I will not be attending. Okay. Yep.
11:20:28 But I was for a minute going. You're doing the election on Thursday. I am just hard to find the election.
11:20:33 Yeah. So Thursday, Thursday, I'll be certifying the election upstairs with our team upstairs.
11:20:40 And. I'm pretty sure that Kate's going to the NODC. Meeting Thursday afternoon, but I have a 10.
11:20:51 So I will take it off. I just leave things on tentatively till I get. And then I hope to.
11:21:00 Pop in at the DCD backlog. Yeah. Celebration? So, lack of a backlog.
11:21:09 Yeah, the lack of a backlog worked on working through the backlog. And then Friday I am trying to get somebody from East Jefferson Fire and Rescue or the CARES team to come.
11:21:19 On KPTC and talk about the CARES program. But I have yet to receive confirmation of that.
11:21:24 So. Will consider. I'll have a backup topic in place, I guess.
11:21:30 And then Saturday. Is the opening of the new library at the Jamestown tribe in Blynn and I I want to go to that, so I'm trying to make that happen.
11:21:42 Would love to take my mom to that cause she loves. She loves libraries almost probably more than I do.
11:21:49 So probably got it from her. So. That's my week and let's see, let's look at.
11:21:55 Just take a quick glance at next week just to see if there's any.
11:22:00 Hmm. Don't look like I have.
11:22:06 Any conflicts next week?
11:22:10 Yeah, looking good. Great. Let's see, my week, yesterday was able to go to the Northwood Canal Chamber of Commerce meeting in Brennan.
11:22:25 Good meeting. You know having a some growing pains, you know, it's, it's hard hard, time of the year for chambers of commerce.
11:22:34 It's just hard to get people to show up, but good stuff going on. I feel like there was something I wanted to report out from the account.
11:22:45 Yeah, I can't remember. Today I'm with you guys and then of course I'll be at the Jefferson Transit meeting and then as we mentioned earlier we have another independent financial
feasibility review with the whole steering committee on this one.
11:23:00 At 3 o'clock so I have to leave Jefferson transit a little bit early. At tomorrow. I have both the budget.
11:23:07 Meeting and the team Jefferson. Recompete group, I'll probably go to the budget meeting.
11:23:14 I don't think there's anything critical this week. Then I am meeting via Zoom with.
11:23:19 Vice Chair Lopez, Maria Lopez from the whole tribe talk about recompete and how we can make recompete work for the whole.
11:23:27 And Karen from NODC is joining me for that. I'm glad I don't have to go to the hood canal.
11:23:32 Coordinating Council. Thursday morning where kind of following up the Port of Port Angelus and the 2 EDCs and NODC and myself on our tribal outreach.
11:23:55 I don't even know what this is. Oh, it's a grand opportunity. With the behavioral health consortium for the.
11:24:06 That, believe in recovery, East Jeffers fire rescue and hospital reps will be attending.
11:24:11 And I'm kind of here all day, so I'll jump into that. Do not have to do the election.
11:24:18 We have our jobs creation meeting for Recompete Thursday afternoon and then I'll be at the monthly NODC meeting.
11:24:26 And then on Friday I have a Weekly recompete meeting. And. To recompete meetings and, that's what I have on my schedule for Friday.
11:24:40 Next week, I don't think I have any big conflicts. Nope. Normally. Mark, how does your week this week look?
11:24:54 Alright, well today with the board of course then tomorrow budget committee so we've shipped into the third Wednesday of the month now and so this is our first third, third
Wednesday meeting.
11:25:08 Then I'm meeting with, Wendy Davis to go over. Our strategic plan.
11:25:16 Objectives for which, Wendy is responsible.
11:25:21 And then, Stacey Preda, Judy Shepherd and I are.
11:25:26 Checking out software packages to. Upload our budget data to so that we can in a very.
11:25:35 Easy to understand format, share with the public what our budget is, using pie charts and bar charts and trend lines and so on.
11:25:44 Yeah, I think Judy mentioned during her work plan that our budget presentation is numbers numbers numbers, numbers hard to make sense of them.
11:25:52 And so anyway, we're hopeful that we'll find something that Wendy number one can afford.
11:25:58 And that our new reconstructed IT office can support. If you need any. I'm learning how to use the program R.
11:26:08 I can make you plot lines. And things like that. So let me know if I can help in the day.
11:26:12 I like least I use AI to program it for me because of the programming like linear regression and stuff like that.
11:26:17 Regression analysis and novo, all that stuff. So least squares. Yeah, where's the means and all that.
11:26:24 So, yeah, if you want to that done, I am a horrible programmer myself, but I have a very good relationship.
11:26:28 With my chat bot so I can get it done. That's starting to get a little creepy, Greg.
11:26:37 Professional relationship. Okay. And then 3 30 I'm meeting with Josh Peters to go over his strategic plan objectives.
11:26:46 He's got quite a few. And then on Thursday, Jeffcom admin board, I may consider driving down to the fire station.
11:26:57 I haven't been there in 8, but. 3 years. And the acoustics when I joined remotely are not all that great.
11:27:06 That's true. And then I'm scheduled for agenda review with Kate, but she's not here, so I don't know whether that's gonna happen.
11:27:10 So. I'll probably join in with Washington County. Administrative Association, regular zoom call.
11:27:19 And then on Friday, I'm meeting with Josh and Phil Seir to talk about ramping up the fire inspection program.
11:27:29 You might remember, commissioners that you approved a fee regime for the fire marshals office and. And we're looking to hire a deputy fire marshal and and then stand up that
program begin earning revenue so that we can and by the fire marshal that a vehicle and Make that a break even program.
11:27:52 So that's my week.
11:27:55 Alright. Anything else that you wanted to broach today, Mark? I don't think so.
11:28:03 And the strategic plan things heating up and I'm happy. Happy that it's doing so.
11:28:10 Need to get with Barry done and talk about the dashboard this week. You don't know the things I learned.
11:28:17 I got to look up the quote now.
11:28:19 You know the old saying if you can't Measure it, you can't manage it. Yes, and also the things the boss checks or the ones that get done.
11:28:31 That's good. The I think the whole quote of that if you can't measure it, I'm looking it up now.
11:28:37 Cause Yeah, I mean, how do you know you've improved if you can't measure it?
11:28:44 Right. But the actual quote. It's like half the sentence I'm trying to find it now.
11:28:55 Hold on 1Â s. It's worth it's worth the wait.
11:29:02 You were the strategic plan skeptic, weren't you, Commissioner? I was? Yeah, initially.
11:29:07 I don't, I mean, I don't think I was, I mean, I've had,
11:29:16 Reservation just about the action that strategic plans engender.
11:29:25 There we go.
11:29:30 Oh, I gotta find it. I gotta find it.
11:29:42 Oh, that's what it.
11:29:46 It is wrong to suppose. That if you can't measure it, you can't manage it.
11:29:52 That's the original quote. Okay. Which, of the meeting, 180 degrees, right?
11:29:58 It's a different statement. Yeah. Well, it's different than where I thought you were going.
11:30:04 You can manage it if you can't measure it. I mean, yeah, I mean, what do we mean by measurement?
11:30:11 Objective or subjective? We're often very focused on counting and you can count things a lot of different ways.
11:30:20 Yeah, but well, I mean you you you could come up with a employee survey. And have them answer a hundred questions and and then score those.
11:30:27 And come to the conclusion that things are better, but subjectively you might know that that's not the case.
11:30:35 Yeah, no, it's true. And it's just, I don't know. I think it's so funny that quote.
11:30:40 Is the antithesis. The antithesis of what he said. Yeah. But yeah, no, you, but it is.
11:30:47 I mean, often measuring these metrics are, I think, really critical to making sure that these metrics are, I think, really critical to making sure that we're actually measuring
these metrics are I think really critical to making sure that we're actually implementing the strategic vision that we.
11:30:57 Care like with, presentation, you know, track over time. If more people are having access to information or getting served by the county.
11:31:06 Right. To me, it's like meaningful, tracking things. Yeah. Absolutely.
11:31:12 Okay, so Wise words for done. Wise words for done. Okay, the words are failing me at this point.
11:31:21 So if there's anything else for the good of the order. Nope. Alright. We are adjourned for the day.
11:09:57 From Chambers to Greg Brotherton(Direct Message):
I unmuted Marianne Walters, as Matt Tyler invited her to this meeting, but then she dropped from Zoom