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HomeMy WebLinkAboutM 091277 ". BOARD OF JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS District No. 1 Commissioner District No. 2 Commissioner District No. 3 Commissioner A. M. O'Meara B. G. Brown Carroll M. Mercer Clerk of the Board Engineer Secretary Betty J. Anderson Edwin A. Becker, P.E. Jerdine C. Bragg MINUTES September 12, 1977 10:00a.m. Chairman Mercer called the meeting to order with all members present. Proposed Vacation: petition by Kala Point Development Company. The entire Olympic Heights parcel and Miller tracts - vacate all roads and lots; the entire plat of Olympic Heights except lots 14 and 15, within Block 6. Rick Overstreet of Kala Point Development appeared. Engineer Ed Becker recommended the vacation. Planner Dave Cunningham reported that the Planning Commission submitted their recommendation to the Board January 13, 1975 approving the preliminary plat of Kala Point with the condition that lots 14 and 15 of Block 6 be provided a 30 foot wide access to a public road and that the vacation of Olympic Heights plat owned by Kala Point Development must be completed before final approval of the Kala Point plat. Somehow the vacation was overlooked until now. Motion by Commissioner O'Meara, second by Commissioner Brown to approve the vacation. The Board signed Resolution No. 67-77 to this effect. Lon Wyrick, Trident Coordinator appeared to give a quarterly report on Trident activities. The dollar amount of the fiscal analysis has been approved by the Assistant Secretary of Defense. It will now be presented to the Congress. The application for school buses in the amount of $98,000 for the Chimacum School District has been submitted. The Department of Defense does not fund buses, but the application is being submitted anyway with the explanation that local and state funds are not adequate for this purpose. The LEAA grant for the Sheriff and Port Townsend Police is expected to be funded. The Chimacum Fire District and nearby areas should get funding. The Board urged Mr. Wyrick to document reasons for the rapid population growth in Jefferson County to see if it is due to the Trident impact. Variance Request by H. A. Rast for his 5-acres tract subdivision. Alan Duback, Surveyor, appeared and explained the variance request to the Board. Mr. Rast is trying to get legal access to tracts E and F by pro- viding a 30 foot easement to these tracts. The subdivision ordinance states that the access must be 60 feet. Mr. Tom Mahan, attorney for adjacent property owner appeared to oppose the variance. The Planning Commission recommended that the request be denied on the basis that "there are not extraordinary or unusual circumstances peculiar to the property, but are instead, the result of the action of the applicant." Therefore, the Board denied the request by motion of Commissioner Brown, second by Commissioner O'Meara. The Board approved and signed Resolution No. 68-77 to authorize an increase in the base figure of the county officers and employees Advance Travel Fund due to demands of the County Road Department against the County ~ Fund. The increase is $500. Petition for the vacation of a county road from Allen W. and Helen L. Shaw. Commissioner Brown moved to set the hearing for October 10th. Second by Commissioner O'Meara. Jim Engles, member of the Jefferson County Fair Board, appeared reo petition by the Jefferson County Commissioners for vacation of city roads within the County Fairgrounds. The Board signed the petition to vacate that portion of Hill Street lying between 49th and 43rd and also 45 and 47 between Jackman and Hill, Brackens Addition. E.I.S. Threshold Determination, Shoreline Management Permit Application No. 14-77, Domsea Farms, Inc. for location of commercial fish rearing pens 500 feet off Indian Island. Tom McKay and Senior Engineer Jack of Domsea Farms, Inc. appeared. Planner Dave Cunningham reported that the Shoreline Committee will review the shoreline application in October or Nov- ,VOL 3 PAGE 01217 ~inu~es of September 12, 1977 Pag'e 2 ember but now the Board needs to decide if the project will have enough environmental impact to merit an E.I.S. The Board reviewed the environmental checklist. Mr. McKay reported the project will take 2 or 3 years to com- plete. There is also an application with the Corps of Engineer's for a site off Hadlock. A service facility will also be built but the site is not yet selected. Commissioner Brown expressed concern over the application not including the service facility as it might be in the lower Hadlock area where the impact would be greater than the impact of the pens. It's neces- sary to know where these facilities will be. Cunningham suggested that Domsea Farms identify 3 optional sites and give the Board of Commissioners what the impacts would be on each one. The Board found this arrangement satisfactory and decided to delay action until September 19 pending report of impacts on service facility site options. Community Development Planner Dave Goldsmith reported that today is the deadline for the grant application for a part time county historian requested by Allen Denison, President, Jefferson County Historical Society. Commissioner Brown reported that because the position was never discussed at the Historical Society meetings he didn't feel he could support it. Commissioner Brown moved to not pursue application for a county historian. Commissioner O'Meara seconded the motion. Unanimous. Harold Buck and Gael Stuart appeared as concerned citizens to discuss the Health District. Stuart suggested the possibility of Olympic Health District separating to become a Clallam and a Jefferson health district. He reported that the timing seems good as Dr. Fisher, the Olympic Health Officer, will be resigning on January 1, 1978. The main problem would be the hiring of a health officer. The 1978 budget has a total expenditure of $465,808 which included a public health administrator. The expenditures for Clallam County are $320,695 and $116,257 for Jefferson County. The revenues, based upon present donations from these counties and from various county organizations, would be $315,908 for Clallam County and $144,228 for Jefferson County. This is $28,000 more in revenues than expenditures. Jefferson County could move to have its own program. There are 2 ways to do it by law: 1) set up a health district that would include the City of Port Townsend and the County Commissioners on the Board and 2) a county health district with just the Commissioners on the Board. The West end would have to contract with Clallam or Grays Harbor County, or it could be handled by hiring a nurse. The Board was in favor of the idea. They decided to check with Bill Howard to find out if it could be done by January 1, 1978. The Board reviewed a letter from the Pollution Control Hearing Board requesting facilities in which to conduct its hearings. The Board had no objections to the use of Courthouse facilities for this purpose but two weeks notice would be required. The Board approved and signed the minutes of September 6, 1977. Mrs. Clark Eaton was appointed as member of the Olympic Area Advisory Council to the Olympic Area Agency on Ageing by motion of Commissioner O'Meara and second by Commissioner Brown. APPROVED BY: ea1/l(IIIIJJ1'/'~b7 Carroll M. Mercer, Chairman ~"^-v/ B f G. Brown, Member a. ~'~AI/4 ~ A. . b' eara, Member ATTEST: d rson, AudJ.tor icio Clerk of the ., 3 PAGE 01-218 _ ,VOL