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3.10.24 BoCC suggestions for the formation of pool task force
I feel this overwhelming need to point out, again, that we have pools and those voters are exceptionally unlikely to support this inequitable pool scheme. Cape George, Kala Point, Port
Townsend, Port Ludlow and soon to be Brinnon, all have pools. If the county wants a new pool, it must be centrally located and funded without burdening the taxing-fatigued residents
of this stressed county. Do some fundraising before asking the residents for money. Site the thing where the greatest number of people can access it. Stop screwing around with this
tone-deaf notion that the poorer rural residents should subsidize the wealthier residents’ luxury item which is located in a place where they cannot access it.
Now onto the draft at hand...
While some of the proposed items in the draft formation of the healthier together task force are a step in the right direction if you insist on dragging us all through this, I have suggestions
about some things that should definitely be corrected.
First paragraph... Why is the task force “advisory... to the... steering committee”? The steering committee no longer exists and even if it did, some of the members have abandoned it.
While it did exist, it produced unimpressive work products which relegated everything it touched to be dubious and unreliable, it generated extreme criticism from across the county
and it has lost all credibility. Let that disappointing steering committee go to its watery grave. It has not served us well and should be thoroughly and permanently scuttled. Good
riddance!
The task force should not report to City Council, either. Members of City Council have threatened to withhold their subsidy if the pool is not located in the city and the purpose of
this task force is to review a location OUTSIDE the city. Even if City Council somehow decides that a Hadlock location is worth supporting, this current Council has no authority to
demand any future Councils uphold that subsidy so they ultimately cannot be relied upon for ANYTHING (especially any financial obligations) and they can change their minds on a temper
tantrum, at any time. The task force should report solely to the BoCC. If this is a COUNTY pool, only the county government will be the authority which moves this issue forward to the
creation of a PFD. If the former members of the steering committee and City Council wish to attend any briefings made by the task force to the BoCC, they are, of course, free to attend
(assuming you change the policy of the steering committee and allow the public to attend this time around).
Why should the task force have two members from JAC? One would be more than sufficient to represent their perspective (I’m inserting a postscript here: which is, upon re-reading and
suffering a conniption fit, already provided for with the allowance of the JAC chair since that member is already part of the steering committee). Or they can just serve as advisory
to the task force and not be members at all. If each of the reps from the county districts represent roughly 5,000+ residents, why would you permit the disproportionate representation
of JAC members who cannot possibly have 10,000+ members (equal to the population of a district). The previous JAC chair served on the steering committee and no members of the public
had that opportunity. Further, creating a group with an even number of members makes a tie possible in a voting scenario, which is always inadvisable, so at best, only 1 member should
be allowed from JAC.
Staffing should under NO circumstances include Carrie Hite (or the other extremely problematic city staffer). I can’t believe that I must point this out to you! You were one of the targets
of her fraudulent, deceptive, arrogant, unacceptable, coercive and coordinated tactics. This is one of the people who withheld documents from not only BoCC, but also City Council and
the public. This is the person/people who thought she/they could force feed BoCC the conclusion she/they wanted you to draw. This is the person/people who usurped your authority as
elected officials and tried to mislead the entire county into spending over $50 million in taxpayer funds from across the entire county on a fancy pool for Port Townsend. This is the
person/people who lied, over and over and over again, about the “robust public outreach campaign,” the “well attended” meetings, and the actual condition of the Mountain View pool.
Come on now! Is THAT the best we can do? Do you really think ANYTHING produced by this person/people has ANY credibility? Please do us all a favor and excise this painfully obvious
conflict before it does more damage and spontaneously combusts in a ballot measure (which will make us all look like complete idiots, ie Camas).
Meeting protocols. I am glad to see that you may be coming to your senses on the subject of open meetings. Thank you for that. I think you should allow oral public comments, in addition
to written public comments. It takes a lot of time for the public to write and submit written comments and it takes the task force members even longer to read all the comments. If you
expect these volunteers to hear the feedback as quickly as possible, the fastest way for that to happen is to open the mics. We cannot assume that all the volunteers will be able to
read all the comments and there is a tremendous amount of important info conveyed in an oral comment that cannot be conveyed in a written comment. Deliberately stifling the vehicle
used to provide feedback has been problematic since the most recent inception of the idea of a county pool. You have the opportunity to correct that here and now. Cease to allow these
nefarious actors to continually silence the public and begin to embrace the public’s feedback in any way they are able to provide it because THAT is the right thing to do.
Now wait just a damned minute! I just re-read the draft and I swear to god it gave me a seizure. Did you actually let this text slip into this draft with a straight face?! “Any existing
healthier together steering committee members” can serve on the task force? NO. Absolutely not. To restate what I already said earlier, the steering committee has no existing members
because the thing has outlived its founding documents, effective 12/31/23. There are no members. Even if there were still members, we don’t want any of them on the task force. They’ve
shown complete incompetence and a total lack of due diligence. None of them can be entrusted to contribute to the task force in any kind of productive manner. They had their chance,
and they totally blew it. Why does it require the peanut gallery to point out this obvious cognitive flaw in this founding document? I think I might have gotten a concussion from reading
that just now. I’m pretty sure my optic nerves could win the eye rolling Olympics after this workout.
Jean
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