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Good morning, everybody. It is 10 a.m. on the 3rd of October, and we are here for our regular weekly commissioners meeting. It's a pleasure to see everybody

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this morning. Thank you to all those who have joined us to begin our meeting. As always, I'd love to ask you to please stand and join me in the

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of Allegiance.

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I'm here.

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All right, thank you very much. And do we have any modifications

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noted to the agenda today?

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I believe the modification is we're going to be removing item 3a from

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today's agenda. Is that correct? Yes. All right. Are there any additional modifications

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to the agenda move

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to approve the agenda as modified. It has been moved and

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now seconded to approve our agenda as modified namely removing item 3a all in

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favor please say aye. Aye. Aye, there are none opposed that motion passes our

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modified agenda has been approved. That does bring us to our first

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opportunity for public comment here at the beginning of the meeting we are

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looking for comment specific to agenda items please. We do have a second

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general open public comment period at the end of the meeting at which point we'd

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love to hear from you on any subject whatsoever but at this time again I'm

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just looking for comment specific to our agenda. Mr. Bowen I see your hand is up

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please unmute yourself and go right ahead sir.

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Good morning commissioners at

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Bowen P.O. Box 11 Collin Bay and just a short public comment on agenda item

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four B is in Baker.

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Appreciate the fact that you're posting a call for

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hearing today on this topic that's of a value to the county. I do not meant to

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influence some interest that I have in this, but I do want to make note that it's

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dear to my heart this particular topic and for me to prepare for the hearing.

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I do want to recognize the the county administrator for assistance grant

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provided me in the past week and the ongoing effort to address my issues

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concerns in preparation for the hearing. So I think that is a tremendous

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value that the County Administrator brings to the table when a member of

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the public is having a difficult time navigating the county's infrastructure or

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staffing infrastructure. I'll call it that. Thank you very much and those are my comments today.

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Thank you very much Mr. Bowen. Appreciate it as always. Is there anyone in the

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boardroom who would like to make comments specific to any of our agenda

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items this morning.

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Alright anyone else online or joining us virtually interested

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in making comments specific to any of our agenda items if so please raise your

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hand come on camera or otherwise indicate your interest.

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none we will go ahead and move on through the agenda and again we'll

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have a second public comment period once we get through all of our action

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items, but let's go ahead and begin with our consent agenda, please, Mr. Malki.

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You bet, commissioners. We have five items on today's consent agenda. Item 1A is the

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approval vouchers for the week of September 25th. 1B is the approval

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of payable for the period ending September 15th. Item 1C is the

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approval of minutes for the week of September 25th. 1D is a letter of

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support to Dr. Michael Maxwell, Chief Executive Officer of the North

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Olympic health care network regarding their redesignation as the service area

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competition application and that that letter goes to the health resources and

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services administration and item 1e is a proclamation recognizing the second

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Monday of October as indigenous people say. I move to approve the consent

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agenda. It has been moved and I will second approval of the consent

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agenda all in favor of approval please say hi. Hi. There are none opposed.

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Theresa Lehmann, would you please join me at the podium.

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Thank you very much.

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This morning it is my honor to read a proclamation recognizing the second

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Monday of October 2023 as Indigenous People's Day in order to promote

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tolerance, understanding and friendship, and to combat the

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prejudice and discrimination stemming from colonization. I'm honored today to be

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joined by Teresa Lehman from the Jamestown's Clowham tribe. Whereas Clowham

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County recognizes that we occupy tribal ancestral land and that tribal people

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have lived on this land since time immemorial and whereas the county values

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the many contributions of knowledge, labor, technology, science, philosophy,

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arts, and the deep cultural influences which have shaped the character of this county.

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And whereas Clowham County recognizes that systemic racism toward Indigenous people,

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education and social crises, and whereas the idea of Indigenous People's Day was first

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prepared by

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a delegation of Native Nations to the United Nations-sponsored International

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National Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas.

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And whereas, in 2011, the affiliated tribes of Northwest Indians representing 59 nations

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from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Northern California, Western Montana, and Alaska passed Resolution

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Number 11-57 to, quote, support to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day,

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end quote, and whereas Clowham County joins a growing number of counties that

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have recognized the second Monday of October as Indigenous People's Day,

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creating an opportunity to promote appreciation, tolerance, understanding,

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friendship, and partnerships among all peoples. Now therefore, we the Board of

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Clowham County Commissioners hereby proclaim the second Monday in October

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as Indigenous People's Day in Clowham County, and we encourage all to

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celebrate the thriving cultures and values of the indigenous peoples of our region to learn more

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about the history of indigenous peoples and their cultures, and to continue efforts to promote the

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well-being and growth of our indigenous communities. Sign this third day of October 2023,

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Mark Ozias, Randy Johnson, and Mike French. And Teresa, thank you again so much for being here.

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The proclamation speaks to learning, cultures, values, partnership, and a lot of aspirational

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words and concepts which the Jamestown Scalillum tribe through years and decades and centuries

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of generosity have shared with those who have arrived here over the course of many years.

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so thank you very much and we would love to hear a few words. Thank you Mark and

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thank you the County Commissioners we really appreciate it. Good morning my

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name is Theresa Lehman and I am from the Jamestown tribe I'm the current

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treasurer. My family name is Kurt Kordonsky. These are words we must acknowledge when we

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first speak to people because it gives honor and respect to our families. Today I am present

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here to represent Indigenous people day this day commemorates and honors our beautiful history,

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tradition and our culture on these lands and afar. These lands are currently, the

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the lands we currently stand on represents three column tribes. They are the

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Jamestown tribe, Port Gamble tribe and the Elwa tribe. When we step outside and

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look around at the beauty our Creator has given us. We must remind ourselves we

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are the caretakers and and appointed by our Creator to take care of these lands.

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Unfortunately for several years due to colonization we were victimized. We

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lost many of our women. We lost many of our children. Our children were

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replaced in boarding schools, boarding homes. Many of those children did not

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return back to their own homes. This has saddened our tribes not only here but

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nationwide. We are now reviewing what has happened to our children. We will

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never ever allow our children to ever face these tragedies again. We

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encourage our children to go on in society, hold their heads up high, and the

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rest of our Native Americans to hold our heads up high. This is important to us

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plus our education value is important and what we can teach our children. We

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have taught our children respect and this is carried on today.

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the county commissioners and

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Clollum County for their

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annual proclamation. Thank you.

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And it's a wonderful day.

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Oh, you're welcome. Thank you.

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I'll give it to Ron.

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Thank you for being here today.

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Thank you.

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Commissioner French, is there

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anything that you would like to

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report on this morning. Okay, so I did a lot this last week. Of course, we attended the

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Dundas-Levy Town Hall and I would say that that was a very successful event

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thanks to all the county staff that put some good work into making that, you

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know, a good event so the public could come and discuss that project with us

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and give us their views. I also attended for Randy the EDC board

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meeting and it was a great board meeting. One thing that we took kind

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of a little bit of a deep dive into was what the PTAC, the, I can't, I

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I never remember the acronym,

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but they've also now changed the acronym.

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Now it's called the APEX Accelerator.

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And so we had a good little deep dive on that

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and it sounds like that project is moving forward.

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also gotten some funding so that they can expand

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how many employees are gonna be involved at the EDC

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in providing that service.

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Oh, wow, that's wonderful.

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Let's see, I attended the public health staff meeting

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yesterday, which is a great meeting

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of some really great staff members

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who are, you know, I think doing really good work.

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one thing that I learned at that meeting is we're hopeful I don't I don't

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want to announce anything out of turn but I think we're hoping sometime in the

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middle of October to have the help the harm reduction health center new location

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open right in the middle of October and they're working very hard to make that

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happen I also attended one of our tourism master plan town halls I don't

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know if you attended the one in Skwim or I did not there is one in Fort Townsend

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one in Skwim one in Port Angeles and one in Forks I was not able to make the

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one in Forks I apologize to Lizzie for that but I did it make the one

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important to us earlier that day.

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And it was a really good turnout, 40 or 50 people,

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a mix of residents as well as professionals

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who are in the industry.

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They got over 1,300 responses, 1,200 responses

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on the resident survey that they delivered.

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And they got over 160 responses on the stakeholders

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survey that they targeted to people that are specifically

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working.

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So they had a lot of good public input

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both from the industry and from our residents.

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So I think it's going to create a very good plan.

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The things that they talked about,

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that I think we will probably see represented in that plan

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is the strategy of becoming a four season destination.

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So we don't just have tourism happening

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in the warm times of the year,

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but we continue to build that shoulder season

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and off season, which I think has been a strategy

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that we've been pursuing county-wide for some.

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They talked about the need for, you know, more transit opportunities, both public and

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private, and that's something where I know that we've had a lot of those discussions at

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Clown Transit. They talked about developing one singular events calendar. That's something

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that, you know, we've had a couple of fits and starts on, and hopefully we'll figure

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that out as a community on who should hold that calendar and who should push it out.

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They also talked about, you know, kind of the idea of becoming a sports tourism area

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because that could be something that helps supplant our off-season if we find indoor venues where we can bring, you know,

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traveling teams in, which is something that we've done in small amounts, but that I think presents a big opportunity for growth.

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They all talked a lot about the challenges of being a tourist destination, meaning, you know,

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the number one, of course, is housing accommodations that we need, more accommodations for tourists, and more housing for our workforce.

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And of course, that's tied to workforce shortages, and that creates, I think, a real challenge to the

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peak season when our workforce in service industry, restaurants, and, you know, the kind

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of the cultural experience part of that, when we don't have the workforce to accommodate

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peak season, that creates bad experiences.

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And then we, you know, one of the other challenges

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is that we do have limited offseason experiences where, you know, obviously people want to

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come here in the high season because of how beautiful it is outside and the weather

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changes and so that limits our offseason experiences and but it was a great event. I think we're

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going to have a great plan come out of that that will really help us create strategies to

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become more of a four-season destination. I do think that there are policy implications

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that we should always be thinking about. If we're saying right now we don't really have

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enough capacity to increase offerings in the peak season, you know, I think that there is

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a nexus between that and when we talk about short-term rentals, well, more short-term

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rentals are available during the peak season. So we're creating capacity that we can't

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serve. So that's something that we should, you know, I think it's very hard to make

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some of those deliberations, but we should be thoughtful about it. But I think it's

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really important that we're creating a strategy that we can then reform our policy discussions

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about that. Great event though, I think, you know, Marcia and Debbie did really good work

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putting this plan together, putting the public participation part together because they did

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get really good turnout. I attended the City of Swim, City Council meeting, talking about

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a re-compete letter of support, and while I was there, they were having a good discussion

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about the 1590 funds and the potential of an inaugural agreement. So I did briefly

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please speak to the council about, you know,

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what our process has been looking like,

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how they have been involved,

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but I believe that they have to motion at that meeting

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to have their staff connect with our staff

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about what an ILA might look like.

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And so we'll see how that goes.

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And, you know, what I would say about that

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at this point is what is more typical

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in how these kinds of funds are distributed

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is when cities combine funding sources

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and reduce process. It is not difficult to increase the amount of process that we do by

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separating them. So I hope that we'll have a good conversation with our staff about that.

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And then of course, the big amount of meetings I went through this week was a Recompete Plan.

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And I think we were pretty close to actually having a fully developed Recompete Plan. We,

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of course, have one more day to do so. But we've been putting in a lot of work.

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And I think we have a pretty strong application that has good data to back it, good narratives

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behind it that contains a mix of infrastructure projects and job creation projects, job training,

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workforce development projects, mostly center ground and into college, and social support

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services that will help connect people to those jobs and make sure they're successful

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along that pathway, including supports that they might need to move barriers to entrants

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into those for force development opportunities and job opportunities.

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Do you want me to go over any of the specific projects?

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Why don't we cover those next week after the application has been put together?

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Maybe we can.

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Great.

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I'm not sure we'll have to take a look at it, whether it would be appropriate.

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Where we have had a lot of discussions have been around specifically how the county

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is going to help administer and manage the grant opportunities,

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specifically if that's strategic development grant.

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And that's been a difficult conversation.

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I think that's going to help finance and from our administrator.

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But one of the things that's been challenging

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is with the big grant, the Recompete Plan,

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a lot of the positions don't have to be made today.

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We're putting together a framework.

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I think we're putting together a very good framework,

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but we're going to have another process to deepen that with the student development grant.

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We're having a very precise right now on a very short time.

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I'm not going to challenge.

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But I think every effort that's been put into this, especially Angie.

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Excellent.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you again for your participation and leadership.

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It has been a very challenging summer getting all of this put together.

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I also appreciate all of the support that Angie and others on our team have provided.

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I think the lift has been a little bit heavier than we anticipated in some ways at the beginning

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of the summer.

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I'm wondering if you have any thoughts, you know, once we get past applications in

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middle, you know, there's all this effort that's gone in, you know, to sort of take

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a breath once we get the application, you know, once we hit send.

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And then there's just going to be sort of a period of waiting.

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Has the steering committee had any conversation

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about any potential follow-up steps once the groups

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had the chance to breathe for a week or two?

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What would be an appropriate way to continue

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to maintain some lines of communication and momentum

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while we're waiting?

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The good thought, and we haven't really talked about that

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because we've been so focused,

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but I do think it's important to keep this group at least talking to each other.

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I would say that there's two things that come to mind first.

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One is direct staff-to-staff connections that we've made between large institutions,

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right, where we have staff members from the Port of Port Angeles talking to Peninsula College,

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talking to Qualum County staff members, and they're making professional development

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connections that can be, that might be really useful, especially in this world where

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we've seen such an immense amount of different grant opportunities coming down

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from the federal government, thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and the Inflation

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Reduction Act, and it's not always easy to figure out who swats in well for them.

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So that connection has been really important, and I hope that that continues.

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And then at the task force level, one thing that we've noted is how many of these different

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ideas already have motions, you know, they already have action going in and have other

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potential funding sources and so that's something where we want to make sure we

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keep the momentum going that we don't just you know slump our head we don't

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get this money and say well we tried but we keep momentum going and say where

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else can we find resources to make these things happen because I think the

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projects we've identified are all very good projects that would have

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meaningful results you know in our region. Excellent thank you. I'll bring

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that up to the task force so that's a good yeah no that I would

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appreciate that that would be great. Would it be appropriate

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update for Monday so

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that you can share the application and talk a little bit about the projects I'm

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not sure you know depending on how much time and how deep you would you would

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think would be appropriate we could either do that as part of our reports

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and presentations on Tuesday or we could just you know notch up work

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I think either way would work okay well also down with money afterwards we can

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talk about what we think is best and one way or the other we'll get a little bit

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more of an update next week. Thank you. And briefly also on the concept of an

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interlocal agreement with the city of swim with regard to $1590 just a little

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bit of history behind that concept. When the county decided to go ahead and move forward

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with the public hearing process for adopting that revenue stream, we reached out to the

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City of Squim. The City of Port Angeles had of course already proactively adopted that

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on their own. We did reach out to both the cities of Squim and Forks to let them

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know what the county's intent was so that each of those cities would have time to take

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action ahead of the county should they be interested.

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Squim indicated at the time that they were not going to go ahead and move forward, but

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we did talk about in general the concept of ensuring that some portion of that 1590

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revenue is deployed in and around Squim.

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So I think as we look to developing some language for that interlocal I just

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would ask that we keep that basic concept in mind as that was the genesis of

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the of the concept for an interlocal is you know how do we ensure that some

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portion of those dollars are spent in and around the squim area. Of course the

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Housing Solutions Committee has been developed and formed since then that

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group has developed a significant amount of process and put a significant amount of thought

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into that process. And I don't think it would be appropriate for the interlocal to build

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a new process or to do anything that's going to usurp the work that the Housing Solutions

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Committee is doing. But that's the basic context that led up to the concept.

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I want to echo your comments about the public meeting on the Dungeons and Slavies

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setback project last week. You know that is obviously a project around which

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there is a lot of concern and opinion in the community. There are a lot of

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factors that we are looking at and weighing internally and I really

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appreciate all of the work that staff did from multiple departments to make

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that meeting happen considering the contentiousness of the issue. It was

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a remarkably civil public meeting which I appreciate very much and say thank you to everyone who

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participated and helped to ensure that that was a productive and civil public meeting.

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I attended a staff meeting with the IT staff last week and as always I am amazed at the

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breadth and depth of work that that team does.

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I have noted in meetings with other departments a significant difference from several years

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back. You know, there aren't a lot of complaints that I'm hearing about the IT department. And

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as I told them, you know, staying out of the headlines and hearing nothing generally

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means you're doing a pretty good job. So I hoped that that was a compliment. It

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certainly was was intended that way and I you know that that that team the heavy

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lift never ends and you know once they once they get through with one

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project they're already you know working on the one that's to down the road so

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it's always an honor to get to meet with teams of professionals that's one

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of the actually one of the privileges of of this position I've lastly wanted

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to note that the housing panel I participated in last week was actually all of the audience

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were legislative aides of state senators, which was a wonderful audience. I have never

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seen that group put together before and I let the facilitator know that if there are

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other opportunities for our county or for counties and cities generally to get in

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front of that group then I would love to take advantage of it so we will see

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and lastly I did have the honor to participate in a panel on Friday

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morning the state gathering of PUD commissioners was held in our county

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late last week it looked like they had a really great agenda over several days

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is the panel that I participated in

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had to do with sort of the nexus

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between tribal water rights and municipal water rights.

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I was certainly the least directly knowledgeable

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panelist on that topic,

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but was able to spend a little bit of time

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talking about the role that the county plays

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as sort of connective tissue in some ways

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between various entities

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and how what structures it takes and what we're doing in this county to allow

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us to work together through difficult conversations like that. So that also is

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a valuable audience to be in front of and I appreciated the invitation. That is

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all I've got for this morning. So Mr. Melkey, let's go ahead and move back

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into the agenda beginning with item 2A, please.

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is an agreement with the Port Angeles School District for Mental Health School Support Services.

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This is the third year of the contract. There really are no changes to it. The services

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are costed out at $97.43 an hour, not to exceed $72,000 for the year.

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I move to approve the agreement with the Port Angeles Public School District for Mental

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Health School Support Services.

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I will second your motion. It has been moved and seconded to approve an

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agreement with the Port Angeles Public School District. Commissioner Frantz, any

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final comments, questions? In that case, all in favor of approval please say aye.

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Aye. There are none opposed. That motion passes. We can move on to item 2B please.

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Item 2B is the contract amendment D with the Salish Behavioral Health

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Administrative Services Organization for substance use disorder outpatient

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services. This is an agreement that we have every year. It is a redistribution to existing

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providers. There is a slight increase in this contract.

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I move to approve the contract amendment D with the S-B-H-A-S-O or S-B-H-A-S-O.

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Substance use disorder outpatient services. I will second your motion. It has been moved and

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seconded to approve contract amendment D with the Salish behavioral health administrative services

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organization. Any additional comment or question? In that case, all in favor of approval, please say

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aye. Aye. There are none opposed. That motion passes and contract amendment D with the Salish

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BHASO has been approved, which moves us along to agenda item 2C. Please, Mr. Malki.

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I am to see is an agreement with the Department of Commerce for behavioral health services within the secure crisis residential center

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The amount of this agreement is three hundred and fourteen thousand dollars

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Excuse me three hundred and fourteen

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nine hundred and forty six dollars

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It is a grant renewal and it aligns with the state fiscal year. I

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Move to approve the agreement with the Department of Commerce for behavioral health services within the SCRC

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All right, I will second your motion. It has been moved and seconded to approve an

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agreement with the Department of Commerce. Any additional comment or question? In that

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case, all in favor of approval please say aye. Aye. There are none opposed. That motion

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passes and an agreement with the Department of Commerce for behavioral health services

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and the Secure Crisis Residential Center has been approved. That moves us on to

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item 2-D for this morning please, Todd. So, commissioners, the next three items

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as deal with the transition program services.

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This is a program that is based,

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or as the purpose is for individuals

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with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

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The cost of these contracts are based

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on the number of students anticipated

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for the 2023-2024 school year.

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So there are different dollar amounts.

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So item 2D is the agreement with the Squim School District

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for the transition program services.

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this agreement is for the amount of $43,200.

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I move to approve the agreement with the Squim School District for Transition Program Services.

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I'll second your motion. It's been moved and seconded to approve an agreement with the Squim School District for Transition Program Services.

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Any final comment? All right. All in favor of approval please say hi.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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There are none opposed. That motion passes and the first of three agreements this time with the Squim School District for Transition Program Services has been

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approved moving us along to item 2e please Mr. Malki. 2e is an agreement for

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the same program with the Quillute Valley School District. The amount of

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this agreement is valued at fifty thousand four hundred dollars. I move to

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the agreement with the Quillute Valley School District for transition program

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services. I'll second your motion. It has been moved and seconded to approve

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an agreement with the Quillute Valley School District for transition

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program services. Any final comment or question? Alright seeing none all in

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my favor of approval please say aye.

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Aye.

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There are none opposed that motion passes

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and an agreement with the Quilley Valley School District

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for Transition Program Services has been approved.

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Moving us along to item 2F please.

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2F is the third of these three agreements

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for Transition Program Services.

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This one is with the Port Angeles School District.

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The value of this agreement is $55,200.

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I move to approve the agreement

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with the Port Angeles School District

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for Transition Program Services.

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I will second your motion.

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it has been moved and seconded to approve an agreement with the Port Angeles School District

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for Transition Program Services. Any additional comment or question? All right. All in favor

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of approval please say aye. Aye. There are none opposed. That motion passes and an agreement

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with the PA School District for Transition Program Services has been approved. Moving

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us along to agenda item 2G, please. Mr. Melke. Yes. Item 2G is an agreement with

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the Washington State Military Department and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for

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operation stone garden. This is an agreement that comes about every year and it actually

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acts in a way or so. It's always based on the year of application and then it takes

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a couple years to process the payment. This is the second agreement. This agreement

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replaces the previous one at the suggestion of the military department and it is for

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the same fiscal year and it includes the remainder of the amount for border patrol and security purposes.

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I move to approve the agreement with the Washington State Military Department and the U.S.

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Department of Homeland Security for Operation Stone Garden. I will second your motion. It has now

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been moved and seconded to approve an agreement with the Washington State Military Department

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and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for Operation Stone Garden. Any additional

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comment or question. All right. In that case, all in favor of approval, please say aye.

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Aye. There are none opposed. That motion passes. We have removed item 3A from the agenda. So that

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brings us to item 3B. Please, Administrator Melke. Sure. And just a reminder for item 3A,

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we are removing this project in the 2024 construction season. So we do anticipate going

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going back out for bid on this project in spring

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in anticipation of a summer construction schedule.

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So just want to make sure that public is aware of that.

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Item 3B is a proposal opening.

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This is for behavioral health programs

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and related services, a proposal for 2024.

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Excellent.

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Well, we will take a couple of moments

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and open these individually and

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kick us off here.

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I am looking at a propelled

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education and early intervention for mental wellness.

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The requested funds amount for 2024 would be $168,200 for 2025 would be $187,400.

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$200.

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Proma

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-informed support groups from Nature's Academy, Davis, this is Unbounded Horizons,

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and that's in the amount of $25,310 from the 2024 year, and $45,475 from the 2025 year

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for a total of $70,785.

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All right.

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Next up is a proposal from Olympic Personal Growth Center titled Filling the Gap in

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in the amount of $39,240 in both 2024 and 2025.

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I have a proposal from the School of High School titled Education and Early Intervention for

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Mental Wellness and in 2024 requesting $191,800 and 2025 requesting $212,250.

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I am reviewing a proposal from first step family support center titled parents as teachers behavioral health and early intervention program.

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They are requesting $100,000 in 2024 and $100,000 in 2025 to support this program.

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00:39:17,830 --> 00:39:23,410
I have a proposal from West End Outreach Services titled West End Outreach Behavioral Health Services.

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The request is an equal amount of $24,000 and $25,645 each year.

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Next up is a proposal from Lutheran Community Services Northwest titled Clalem Community

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Resource Center requested amount in 2024, $212,272 in 2025, $223,846.

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I have a proposal from the Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic. Title of rediscovery, unfunded-undefunded, requesting in 2024, $277,200 and in 2025, $296,780. I'll disclose that I am a member of this Board of Directors.

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I'm looking at a proposal from Reflections Counseling Services Group titled Crisis Intervention

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and they are requesting $189,800 in 2024 as well as $189,800 in 2025.

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I have a proposal from a real health for the past project which is project for

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transition homelessness requesting $23,301 in 2024 and $24,470 in 2025.

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All

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right next up is a proposal from the Port Angeles Fire Department for the

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community paramedic program. They are requesting $206,259.33 in 2024, and $145,611.91 in 2025.

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00:41:22,450 --> 00:41:26,810
I have another proposal for mental health. This time for mental health per se.

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funding in both 24 and 25 of $12,000 per year.

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This is a proposal from Prevention Works of Clalem County titled Prevention and Early

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Intervention Education and Awareness Campaign. They are looking for this proposal for $12,595

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in 2024 and $12,650 in 2025.

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And my last proposal here is from the boys and girls club. It does not contain the same cover sheet.

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So let me just dig through this for a moment and I'll see if I can get through it.

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can find their proposal.

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While you're digging, I have a proposal

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from transformations by Olympic Angels

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called Love, Box, and Dare to Dream Case Management for $31,468.24

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and $47,402.25.

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OK, I found it.

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This proposal is from the Boys and Girls Club

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of the Olympic Peninsula.

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It is for their Comprehensive Behavioral Health

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and Wellness Plan.

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They are requesting $21,681.20 in 2024 and $12,247.20 in 2025.

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I look

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forward to these proposals to Clalent County Health and Human Services for recommendations.

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It has been moved and I will second the motion to remand these to Health and Human Services for their additional review and recommendations.

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questions.

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Commissioner French any additional comment or question. All right. In that case

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I want to thank the behavioral health advisory board as always for their good work. That

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group has just in my observation anyway continued to gain traction over the last couple of years.

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There's been a lot of evolution in how this RFP process works and I am really looking

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forward to the recommendations forwarded by the behavioral health committee after

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they've had the chance to review all of these proposals. Obviously it will not be

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an easy job trying to figure out how to how to sort through and prioritize

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these. So Christine, thank you and thanks to your team for their leadership

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thanks to the behavioral health advisory board for doing some very

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difficult bit of work on behalf of the public. So it has been moved and

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seconded to remand these proposals to Health and Human Services. All in favor

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please say aye. Aye. There are none opposed. That motion passes. Thank you

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again Christine. And with that Administrator Melke, let's go ahead and

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move on to the administration section of the agenda with item 4a please.

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There are two. One is in the amount of $100. That is the prosecuting attorney's petty cash

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fund. The other one is in the amount of $50. It is the prosecuting attorney's child support fund.

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These accounts have not been used. They're no longer necessary, and this would eliminate

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the need for long-term accounting. I move to approve the resolution, closing

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the prosecuting attorney's office petty cash funds. I will second your motion. It's been

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moved and seconded to approve a resolution closing the prosecuting

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00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:36,860
attorney's office petty cash funds. Any additional comment in that case all in

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00:45:36,860 --> 00:45:42,480
favor of approval please say aye. Aye, there are none opposed. That motion passes

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and with that we can move on to item 4b please Mr. Melkey.

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I'm going to go ahead and call Christina St. John forward to answer any

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questions that you may have but this is with regard to the weed

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assessment rate and she can give you a little bit of maybe history about this

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is one that has not been adjusted in quite some time.

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00:46:11,910 --> 00:46:15,870
Yeah Christina thank you very much for being here if you could highlight for

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us just a little bit of the remind us of the composition of the Noxious Weed

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Board maybe share a little bit of their deliberation with us and then remind

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us what the additional revenue would help to accomplish. Of course. So the

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Noctua-Suite Control Board is made up of five volunteers representing five

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districts within the county and they are the board that oversees the Palm County

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00:46:44,910 --> 00:46:49,970
Noctua-Suite Control Program. Part of that program is the inspection and

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general education program where we work with private landowners who have

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regulated noxious weeds on their property and make sure that they know what

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they are, how they can safely and effectively control them, and make sure

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that they are complying with state and county noxious weed control laws. Our

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general program also works with the community in general informing them

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about what noxious weeds are, why they're important to control, and what

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are effective ways to do that. This program is funded through the general

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of the suite assessment. This was enacted in 2000 and the rates were $1.50 per parcel and

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13 cents an acre and it has not been increased since then. Obviously our program has grown

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since the 2000s and we're asking for an increase or the Noxious Control Board is recommending

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that we have an increase to $3.60 a parcel and 31 cents an acre. And this will help

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to fund a full-time inspection program. So previously our inspection program has

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not been able to be fully funded. We work with the public when we can, but we've

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also had to take on grants and contract work in order to pay for staff. And so

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this program would fund a full-time inspection program where we can really

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work with the public, let them know again what Noxious Weeds are, how they

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can control them, and what the laws are, and to educate the public about

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what Noxious Weeds, why they're important to control. And so the

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Noxious Weed Control Board has been thinking about this weed assessment increase recommendation

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for a number of years and we feel like it's time for our county to have a full-time inspection

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program to work with the public. Thank you so very much. Any additional questions this morning

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for Christina?

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I moved to call for a hearing to be held on Tuesday, October 17, 2023,

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regarding an ordinance amending Chapter 5.28 of the Clown County Code

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assessment levied for not just weed control. I will second motion. It has been

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moved and seconded to approve a call for hearing that's scheduled for Tuesday

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the 17th of October regarding an ordinance submitting chapter 5.28 of the

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Clowlam County Code, namely assessment levied for not just weed control. Any

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additional comment or question? All right in that case all in favor of

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approval please say aye. Aye. There are none opposed that motion passes and we

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We will look forward to that public hearing scheduled for 10.30 in the morning on October 17.

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With that, Mr. Malke, let's go ahead and move on.

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Thank you, Christina.

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00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,580
Let's go ahead and move on to item 4C, please.

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4C Commissioners is a resolution appointing Katina Hester to the Planning Commission.

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I move to approve the resolution appointing Katina Hester to the Planning Commission.

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I will second your motion.

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it's been moved and seconded to approve a resolution appointing Katina Hester to

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the Planning Commission. Any additional comment or question? We're always grateful when the

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public joins us in these volunteer commissions. Yes we are. All in favor of

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00:49:52,100 --> 00:49:56,980
approval please say aye. Aye. There are none opposed that motion passes and a

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resolution appointing a member to the Planning Commission has been approved.

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That is the final formal agenda item which brings us back around to our

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general opportunity for public comment. I suspect we've got comment from both

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folks in the boardroom and online. So I'm going to go ahead and take turns. I'll

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start with people here in the boardroom. Is there anyone joining us in the

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boardroom who would like to make general comment? Yes, please join us at the

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podium. Let us know who you are and where you're from for the record and

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then you've got three minutes.

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00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:33,060
Sure. I'm Kate Halk and I'm from 4501

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from Dunge Nest Way in Dunge Nest and I just wanted to come in and talk to you

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about what happened at my house this summer during the drought. I live on

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Mediver Creek adjacent to the the project the Levy project and I started

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my lawn mowing guy told me in June that he couldn't get the lawn mower along my

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Yard the way he always did every summer and then in August where I thought things would dry out instead it got wetter and

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I was concerned, but also I was kind of ignoring it doing other things and then I

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It wasn't a plan

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But I happened to see a guy with a clipboard in the culvert

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Where the meta work creek goes under swim nunch nunch way?

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I was going by on my bike and I said, hey, I seem to have a problem in my yard.

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Can you come and take a look?

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And so he said he was a county employee from the streamkeepers and he came over and looked

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at what was going on and we threw out a tape measure and took a picture and the water

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was coming in and it was about 20 feet from my deck.

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And so he also said that when he was on the levy, because there are often a lot of county

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people there, he would come over and check this out again for me, with me, whatever.

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And so I just knew that he was a county employee and that he had taken up a piece of data

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about the situation.

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And then, surprisingly, as drought wore on, the water kept coming more and more into my

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yard until it was concerned that it got to pretty much a panic state in my mind because

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it was coming from two different directions, not just the first direction.

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And so the numbers changed from 20 feet to 10 feet to 4 feet.

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and two trees fell over because they got so inundated with water that the roots

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just didn't hold. So then I called the county and took a couple days got the

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call back from Bruce Emery and he said he'd follow up with an engineer on

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Monday that didn't happen and then it was the next Monday and he did get in

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touch with me at the end of the week or I called him and he said he'd send a

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biologist out. So she came out yesterday and we checked it all out and so what it

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00:53:25,220 --> 00:53:30,900
was was in a close area of the squimmed under Nesway, Meadowbrook Creek had four

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different beaver dams and one of them was actually in that culvert that

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00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:48,580
went underswimmed under Ness Way. So I'm here to request that you would monitor this situation

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because, you know, it's a tidal creek and so I have water pushing two different ways.

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We have the project and we have the coming spring where we're really going to see snow

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melt, heavy rains, possibly high tide all at once. So I'm hoping that we can set something

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00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:15,480
up where you will clear this debris because it's affecting and I understand that you have

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to maybe contact the state. So it would be great if you could monitor it because if the

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state has to get involved and it might take longer and longer. In the meantime, you know,

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00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:35,500
it's getting crazy in my yard. I am a 100-year-old house there, close and a low elevation.

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00:54:35,500 --> 00:54:41,000
other people that moved in since I've been there for 40 years have brought in

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fill. So anyways I just wanted to get on the record that on channel like make an

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avenue for watching it and thank you for coming and having a meeting in swim

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00:54:51,220 --> 00:54:57,040
last week I thought it was well attended and well run appreciate it. Thank

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00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:01,080
you so much for making time to comment this morning I saw our county

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00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:05,180
administrator taking a lot of notes we will definitely follow up with

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project leads to make sure we understand what kind of a monitoring red no

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regiment we can put in place. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. Alright

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I'm gonna turn next to our virtual audience. Mr. Grad, I saw your hand go up

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00:55:21,460 --> 00:55:26,200
first so please unmute yourself and introduce yourself for the record and

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the next three minutes is yours, sir.

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00:55:28,660 --> 00:55:30,600
Good morning, we're on a ride from Swim

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and thank you to the ministry

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for giving me the opportunity to address me.

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00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:37,260
I just came off as a tenetist

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00:55:37,260 --> 00:55:39,480
at the Board of Natural Resources Meeting

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where I appealed to them to accept

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00:55:42,820 --> 00:55:47,500
Fort Angeles' application for a transfer of trust loans,

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00:55:47,540 --> 00:55:51,580
specifically those that boarded the Elwha River

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00:55:52,260 --> 00:55:55,100
and in particular, the power plant

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00:55:55,100 --> 00:56:02,720
that we've often discussed and one of the things that I noted was that the DNR assertion

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regarding the geologic and hydrologic studies which you all saw presentation regarding back

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00:56:11,180 --> 00:56:22,080
in May, my contention is that there needs to be further study because I have not seen

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00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:26,120
a report of record regarding those studies.

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00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:31,640
And I ask you, the board, if you have access

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00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:35,620
or receive any document relating to those studies.

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00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,140
And the reason I think it's important is

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00:56:38,140 --> 00:56:41,220
is that there are independent studies,

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00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:46,100
perhaps they're not deemed worthy

645
00:56:46,100 --> 00:56:49,780
because they don't appear to be associated

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00:56:51,380 --> 00:57:03,320
I will say however that a study that was submitted to you by Glenn Wade, he noted that he is

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00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:12,080
a certified state licensed professional engineer and you know in most places if you achieve

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00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:15,620
that that's considered being a qualified expert.

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00:57:15,620 --> 00:57:20,380
the other criteria that's involved regarding three years of study on steep slopes.

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00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:27,440
Well, I want to see the, you know, I want to see qualifications of DNR's hydrologist

651
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:31,960
and see if, in fact, he's a qualified expert because I just don't, I don't know.

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00:57:32,380 --> 00:57:37,920
So the problem is, is if we can't trust the studies and that there is contradiction

653
00:57:38,540 --> 00:57:42,560
from an independent report, there's some pretty close examination.

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00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:49,180
And I know that it's easy to say that, well, DNR is the authority, and they've been doing

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00:57:49,180 --> 00:57:51,680
this forever, and they know what they're doing.

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00:57:53,660 --> 00:58:06,220
Let me note that the Federal Aviation Authority granted the inspection certifications be done

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by the aviation companies themselves.

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00:58:08,580 --> 00:58:13,320
And we've seen problems with that over the years and, you know, that's like letting the

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00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:14,280
fox in the henhouse.

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00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:19,380
We need independent oversight in regards to this particular cut.

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00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:26,160
I mean, I could say a hell of a lot about other cuts, but this one in particular is

662
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:30,460
egregious because of the impacts it can have upon the city of Port Angeles.

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00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:35,640
Now I would note that, you know, if you go to buy a car, you want to keep the tires,

664
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:39,380
But you have access to something called a car fax.

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00:58:39,580 --> 00:58:43,580
That's a report of record about the status of that particular vehicle.

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00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:49,840
And if you can't get at least a document, a record of what they have done here,

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00:58:50,260 --> 00:59:00,760
telling us that, in fact, our levels of concern aren't necessarily worth a second look.

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00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:08,280
I really think we have a problem, and it's a matter of transparency and trust.

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So again, I ask you to consider everything related to our request to honor the City of

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00:59:16,540 --> 00:59:24,900
Fort Angeles as requested to delay or cancel the power plant timber cut, because I don't

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think the information you've gotten is as reliable as you believe it is.

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Thank you.

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boardroom. Mister grad. Thank

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you. So anyone else in the

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boardroom who would like to

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make general comment this

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morning. If so, we would

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welcome that at this time.

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All right. Then turning back

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to our virtual audience. Mister

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Wheeler. You are next, sir.

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Please go ahead and unmute

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yourself. Introduce yourself

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for the record and the next

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3 minutes is yours. Nice to

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see you this morning, sir.

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Hello, I'm Tim Wheeler, I, too, am from Swim, and I was one of four people in...

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Including Brian, we were just on the Zoom with the DNR, so we made a pitch to them. And we weren't

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alone. I mean, there were a lot of other people who were speaking out against the timber sales

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here and there, but especially on the Olympic Peninsula.

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I wanted to comment, Commissioner Osias, that I ran into you and your lovely wife at the

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North Olympic Land Trust Harvest Dinner on Saturday, and that was a real pleasure.

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we are very lucky to live in this county. This is such a beautiful place to live.

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And the view of the mountains, the view of the water, out over the straight of Wanda

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Puget, just outstanding. But with that comes a responsibility to look after this

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beauty and make sure that it is not harmed. And that's a reason that I feel so strongly

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about this cut, this timber sale and this cut that's planned in the Elwha River Watershed.

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And I don't need to repeat what I've said before about the salmon, the spawning

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beds, the, you know, the drinking water for the people of Port Anselis, and I wholeheartedly

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agree with what Brian said about this appeal by this application by the City of Port Anselis

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for a transfer of land. I don't think there should be any logging in the Elwha River

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water shed. It is magnificently beautiful and vital to the survival of salmon and providing

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drinking water. It is so beautiful there. And again, thank you for all you do and we're

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going to keep on pushing on this question. And it's not the end. I mean, there's going

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to be more. This is just the beginning. I'm up and armed about that ode to Joyce. My beloved

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wife was named Joyce and they want to cut down the timber in the ode to Joyce. Oh my God,

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that hurts. Anyway, thank you for all you do and let's stop logging the Elwha Watershed.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much for your time this morning, sir.

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Ms. Menchew, please go ahead and unmute yourself,

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reintroduce yourself for the record,

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and the next three or so minutes is yours.

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Good morning.

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My name is Ellen Menchew, and I live in Clowland County,

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and I thank you for the opportunity to speak again this morning.

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First, I want to thank Commissioner French

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for meeting with us last week.

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We had, I think, a very productive meeting and we share very, very similar concerns about

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our community and money that is afforded to the junior taxing districts as a result of

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these timber sales.

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And particularly in regard to that, with money being the driving force, I want to

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just reiterate, we know that the school districts are the most important

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recipients of the monies from these sales here in our community and in light of

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that I want to just address the fact that I think that the remuneration

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process that exists from these timber sales is pitting junior taxing districts

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against one another. And it is just not an equitable path forward. And particularly here

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in Clowlam County, we all share the same concerns about the money that our schools need. And

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I don't have to tell anybody on this Zoom or in the meeting room there that we know

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that this results in our, I'm not going to be ashamed to say my fellow, the political

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party on the opposing side, the GOP folks here in our communities who vote

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consistently against bonds for replacement of public education facilities

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in our communities. And we need to address other ways to fund our schools.

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I'm looking forward to the fact I'm grateful that you're having a workshop

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shop next week and I'm looking forward to that. But I think we all share the same concerns

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and I would really like to ask you to support the City of Port Angeles' application process

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to have this land transferred. If there is any possibility at all that there is the

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possibility of harm to the water system in the city, that has to be the most

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important factor. And I did some research because I remember when the dams

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were removed, there was problems with the water treatment plant that was old,

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what was it called? It was the Ranny Tower or the Ranny Water System. And

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And this resulted in an $80 million fund to rebuild a water treatment plant.

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So I just urge you to please consider all the factors here and support the City of

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Port Angeles in their efforts.

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I would expect that you would want them to support you if the shoe was on the other

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foot because they would be the ones holding the bag if anything does happen and the

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the water system fails. They're responsible to answer to the residents here in the city.

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So thank you again for the opportunity to speak and I echo my friends that you'll be seeing us

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continually until we come to some resolve over this entire situation. But we appreciate all

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that you do for us. Thanks so much. Thank you very much. I don't see any other hands online.

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Mr. Rihando please feel free to join us at the podium sir.

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Good morning

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commissioners Kenneth Rihando, Port Angeles. So as a lifetime resident I was

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pleased to hear the new administrators comments about strategy long-term

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strategy yesterday in your very long work session. They included very many

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important topics going forward. I think what some of my fellow Democrats online here have

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spoken about are a strategic vision for long term going forward. What would we do? I did

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attend with Commissioner of French, the meeting in Port Angeles about tourism, and I did go

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to forks to listen to the differences. It was stark. What I heard in forks was much

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concern about general living, not so much tourism. They were worried about some of

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the people of resiliency in the face of more visitation.

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So I looked at some of

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the offerings yesterday and going forward.

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Again, I'm concerned about purchase of vehicles

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that create more emissions, in particular landscaping,

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groundskeeping type, high dollar equipment

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that might be using a different power source.

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I don't have all the details about the needs,

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but these are some of the things that I'm interested in going forward for as

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you know our representative from the Indigenous community earlier talked about

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sustainability over the long term. Thank you. Thank you very much. Turning back

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to our virtual audience Nina you are next please go ahead and unmute

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yourself introduce yourself for the record and the next few minutes is

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Nina

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Cermanto in Fort Angeles and thanks for the opportunity to comment this

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morning. I'm here to comment about the logging of mature forests in Clown

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County specifically power plant and the other planned timber sales in the next

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few years.

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I'm here to ask you to support the city's request to cancel the

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power plant timber sale and all other planned logging

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in the El La River watershed.

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This proposal by the city is the only thing I've seen

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that really is aligned with the climate crisis

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that we're facing and that is doing the right thing

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for future generations, we're all going to die.

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You're gonna die much sooner than me. I'm gonna die much sooner than people younger

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than me. And so that's a truth that we need to talk about more because what

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we're doing right now is going to be more important after we die than while

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we're alive. So I'm not here to destroy anyone's livelihood. I'm not out to get

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the forest products industry. I'm here to to help future generations coexist with

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this land and show you the truth and you're not gonna find it by listening

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to timber industry executives that call forest products climate-friendly. There's

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absolutely nothing friendly about forest products. The only things that they're

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friendly to are the people that they're making money for. This entire society is

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awash in speciesism and that's the misguided human-held belief that all

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other species are inferior to us. We are so interdependent on everything around us and

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it really shows with the El Wah watershed because those mature trees are helping us have

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a quality and quantity of drinking water. And so the proposal by the city, it isn't

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It's only a tiny fraction of the land is actually a mature forest.

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All of the land, we're really not going to see benefits from protection for many decades

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out, but by protecting the land now, it's really the right decision for the future

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based on the path that we're headed.

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So please stop the power plant timber sale and actually do something different, actually show us that you want change.

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You haven't asked the DNR to do anything differently regarding the power plant timber sale.

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They are treating this sale like they do every single other sale.

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Like it doesn't matter if you ask them hard questions, you're still not asking them to do anything differently.

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And again, this is the Owawa River.

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This is the most magnificent, beautiful rivers on the planet.

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And that's because so many people care about it,

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that so many people have a connection to it.

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That's what makes it the most important.

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I mean, I could go into the other ecological reasons.

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It has the most species of salmon

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than any other Olympic river.

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It's the largest watershed, you know,

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it's our drinking water.

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but a lot of the decisions that people make are kind of based on what's in their heart

817
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and so we're gonna find the truth within yourself by actually going out and experiencing these

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mature forests and experiencing the river, experiencing the consciousness of every single

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sip of water that you drink every time you turn your sink on every time you

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01:13:54,250 --> 01:13:59,630
make some tea all that water coming from the El Wa watershed after having

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being filtered through this mature forest so please find the truth within

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yourself and please do something to protect Power Plant and supporting the

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city and protecting the river watershed. Thanks. Thank you very much sir.

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Anyone else who would like to make comment this morning if so please raise

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your hand come on camera or otherwise indicate your interest.

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Okay seeing none

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I want to thank everyone again very much for your participation and your

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01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:44,320
interest and everything that this county government is doing. Looking ahead

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to the remainder of the week. Tomorrow at 8 a.m. is the weekly virtual Coffee

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with Colleen program. We will be at Blinksley's Bar and Grill in Forks

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tomorrow beginning at 11 30 for the first stop on our

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Budget outreach process and looking forward to meeting with folks from the

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Forks Chamber of Commerce and others who are interested. Again that is tomorrow we

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have that starting at 11 30. I think it's approximately until 1 o'clock.

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Thursday at 9 a.m. there will be a meeting of the county finance committee.

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That is an open public meeting so folks please feel free to join in if you're

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interested. And lastly, Friday morning at 9 a.m. is a meeting of the Housing Solutions

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Committee. We expect two or more commissioners are generally in attendance at that meeting.

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Friday at 4 p.m. we have KSQM. And I believe that Mark Lane will be joining me to provide

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a county budget update during that radio program. Commissioner French, anything else

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01:15:51,710 --> 01:15:55,410
that you wanted to add? Administrator Mulkey, anything else?

842
01:16:06,300 --> 01:16:11,600
Thank you so much. Well, with no further business before us, we stand adjourned. Thank you.