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We'll call to order the business meeting
for Tuesday, September 8th, 2026. We do

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have a quorum. All three commissioners
are present.

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Becky, would you lead us in the flag
salute, please?

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» I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.

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Thank you.

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Entertain a motion.

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» Madam Chair, make a motion to amend
business meeting agenda include to

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include resolution 26-385

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for distressed county zone 9 for
Chehalis.

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» Second.
>> All those in favor?

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» I.
>> I.

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» I. Motion carries 3-0.
Reva, could you give us public comment

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guideline, please?
>> Good morning. The commissioners welcome

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public comment. Public comment is
limited to 3 minutes per person. There's

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a timer in front of me. It'll be green
as you have plenty of time left. It'll

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turn yellow when you have 30 seconds
left, and it'll turn red when your time

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is up. We do ask that you please state
your name and city of residence when you

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get ready to give public comment, and we
do note that this is more of a one-way

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street. This is your opportunity to
share your concerns with the

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commissioners, not necessarily their
time to respond.

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» Thank you.
Mr. Merkle.

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» Morning. Rob Merkle from Packwood.
I'm here to give you an update on our

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property tax situation. There's some
good news, but also more to the story

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that as a tax-paying citizen furthers
our frustration with the whole

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situation.
To bring you up to speed, because of

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large increases year to year, our 2025
tax assessment resulted in us having to

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pay close to $18,000 in 2025.
We appealed our 2025 tax assessment to

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the county appeals board. We were
denied.

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We then filed the state board of tax
appeals and were granted a hearing in

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August of this year.
We submitted a lot of information that

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included case law that when applied to
our case showed that the Lewis County

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Assessor is required to provide us
with how he arrived at that assessed

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value. That was never provided.
Two days before our hearing with the

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state board, we received a telephone
call from a team from the Assessor's

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office offering us an approximate $1
million reduction in our assessed value.

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Thus, admitting by their actions that
the original assessment was wrong. The

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irony is that in the March 2025 edition
of the Chronicle, the Assessor stated

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flat out that the methods used resulted
in assessments being, quote, spot-on.

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I wish that the success of our appeal
was the [clears throat] end of the

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story, but I discovered that the county
plays by a different set of rules when

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compensating for their errors.
If a taxpayer is late on paying their

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property taxes, they are charged 9% per
annum on any over-overdue tax.

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The auditor applies state regulations
and pays an interest rate based on

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current returns of US Treasury bonds,
3.25%.

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To be clear, the county charges 9% when
the taxpayer owes the county money, but

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the county if a pound of overcharged
pays 3 and a quarter percent.

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It gets worse.
The auditor, citing state regulations,

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states that any interest paid would take
place on refunds held more than 6 months

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of a big case being settled.
Since the case was settled in August of

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2026, we are receiving zero interest.
One would think that the same grace

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afforded the county would be extended to
the taxpayers.

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Solomon stated that unequal weights are
an abomination.

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The county has held our funds for over 1
year now. Being a retired financial

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advisor, that money would have been
invested in an index mutual fund that

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has returned 18 and 1/2%.
That results in an additional loss of

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$1,400.
This whole situation was avoidable. We

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have had to spend hours gathering
information for our appeals owing to

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have to force the issue by appealing to
the state. It was only then that the

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assessor's office by their actions
finally admitted their error.

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We should not have had to go to such an
extent to prove ourselves in the right.

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It shouldn't be this way. We shouldn't
have to spend our golden years

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preventing this abuse.
Everett W. Lord stated, "Be fair. Treat

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the other man as you would be treated."
>> time. If you'd like to leave your

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paperwork, you're welcome to do so.
>> I'm done.

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» I I'd like to have a copy of that. Rob.

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» I've had to write all over it, so I will
send you a copy. I will email it to you.

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» All right. Do we have anyone else for
public comment in the gallery?

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Anyone online for public comment? Please
use the raise your hand feature.

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Not seeing anyone, move to consent
items.

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» Madam Chair, make a motion to approve
consent item resolution 26-382

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and the minutes from the September 1st
BOCC meeting.

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» Second.
>> All those in favor?

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» Aye.
>> Aye.

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» Aye. Motion carries 3-0.
>> Madam Chair, make a motion to approve

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deliberation items resolution 26-3
83 and 384.

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» Second.

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» Morning Commissioners, Jeff Soderquist,
Public Works Director. Here to speak on

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resolution 26-383.
This resolution is to list the bids

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received for the Tucker Road paving
project

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and recommend award to the lowest
apparent responsible bidder

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and authorize the County Engineer to
sign on behalf of the board.

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Uh we received three bids, Granite,
Lakeside, and Western United Civil

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Group, with Granite being the apparent
low at $699,349.50.

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» Any questions on this item?
>> No, ma'am.

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» All right.
Burn restrictions.

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» Good morning, commissioners. Rivel
Lester, clerk of the board, here to

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speak to resolution 26-384.
This ratifies action you took last week

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to modify burn restrictions to allow
recreational campfires in designated

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campgrounds and on private lands in
approved fire pits and to allow the use

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of solid fuel barbecues effective at
12:01 a.m. on September 3rd.

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» Any questions on that item?
Okay, it's been moved and seconded to

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approve resolution 26-383
and 384. All those in favor?

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» Aye.
>> Aye.

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» Aye. Motion carries 3-0.
>> Madam Chair, make a motion to approve

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resolution 26-385.

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» Second for discussion.
>> Okay.

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» So,
last week we

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had former Commissioner Gross come in
here and talk about

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.09
that one of their projects didn't get

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funded, whatever.
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and he made a pretty compelling case
that more money needs to go over there

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and then never even hearing about the
project and then on this one, I'm a bit

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confused just even going through packet
writer

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um
with the documents. they put a .09

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application in for
250

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but were but it says 450.
Um and then is this for the sinkhole

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that has been discussed?
The North Fork, is that the same one

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that we're talking about?
>> No, this is the uh sinkhole that is uh

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just east of
uh the cannery

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and just north of the train station.
The historical museum.

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And I will note that uh there was
originally a

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an attempt to put this on our agenda
before it even came to the .09 board.

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And so
I requested that that not happen and go

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to .09 first since that is the process.
>> Did it go to the .09?

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» It did and the
uh documentation as I said was only for

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the 250,000. I'm not sure where it got
changed in there to be

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uh the
450,000.

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» Uh so I had reached out to Todd Chappet
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there had been any discussion regarding
that and it sounds like there was a

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verbal request at the meeting. He
revised his minutes to reflect that that

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the city representatives
had

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uh requested an increase when they
presented and the .09 committee had then

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um
made a motion to approve that higher

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amount.

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» So the full .09 board
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discussed the project in its entirety
but then yet last minute we increase

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from 250 to 450.
>> My understanding is that the city had

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applied originally for 250,000
and then the morning on Friday that that

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group met
and the 0.09 committee met and the city

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representatives
then requested a

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the consideration for additional
funding to increase that amount and that

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is the recommendation from the 0.09
committee was to award up to 450.

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Of course that is
for the

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the commissioner's consideration.
>> Right. Did they provide any backup at

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all as far as engineers estimates?
>> The only documentation that was provided

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has been attached to the

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um
>> Just to the quote?

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» Correct.

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There was also discussion about whether
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basically emergency infrastructure as
opposed to being planned economic

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development projects.
And I believe that there will probably

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be more discussion going forward on
that.

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Um
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uh
Kelly Smith Johnson for Centralia was um

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very supportive of that being used for
infrastructure uh for emergency

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infrastructure maintenance.

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» She was in support of it being used for
emergency use.

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» Yes.
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our legal team has stated is just that
we put in a policy that anything over

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250
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um
a more extensive

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application process instead of the short
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I mean, if we start circumventing and
and doing that, I can see where other

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opportunities will rise within the
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declaring something a an emergency and
then for us to circumvent

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the policies that we've put in place.
And so, 450 I don't I mean

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their
their application is for 250 and to add

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another 200,000 just because
they felt that they would want the extra

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200,000. Well,
I'd like that in my paycheck, too.

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» There's you know, for me there's just
too many discrepancies between what was

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in the minutes of the 2.571 ask and
and this appropriation for 450 as well

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as
as a very general

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quote for

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the work that's to be done here. I don't
see any

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real

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backup here as far as what's actually
going to

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take place other than a very

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rapidly and I understand the the issue
with that, but a very rapidly put

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together
estimate.

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Obviously, this is a it's a critical
issue. I have no doubt about that.

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And I don't want to
drag it on, but I think we need to

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to have

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some more information on this.
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» How come we didn't we didn't discuss
this last

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last Wednesday? Because
>> Because that's not the process. It is

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supposed to go to the 09 committee
first, and that has been my consistent

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issue with a lot of these things
is that we are not following the process

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that we have put into place.
So, and I get a lot of flak for that.

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So, I decided this one at least we
didn't discuss it ahead of time.

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I took the hit for making sure that it
went to 09, but rather than being

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continually complained about as being
the anchor, said, "All right, we'll move

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it forward to the three of us."
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I think what Commissioner Brummel is
referring to is we didn't even have an

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opportunity to have a discussion about
it at directors, which we normally

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would. This was added obviously today.
Um and the other thing is if this wasn't

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an emergency, then I would assume that
the people from

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Chehalis would be here to be able to
speak to this, but maybe because it was

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such short notice that maybe didn't even
know that we were doing it today.

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» They had planned to come last Monday. Um
I don't know if they knew that this

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discussion was taking place today. I
only had conversations with Todd.

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On Friday, not
>> To your knowledge, uh Commissioner

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Palloc, is there
any buy-in from the the railroad? Is

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this solely a city responsibility
because of the being stormwater, or is

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there any
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match that's provided by the railroad?
>> No, currently the my understanding is

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that the railroad is just doing what
they can to not stand in the way. So,

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they'll be working on coordinating with
flagging for the trains during the time,

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but
uh there was And it was asked whether

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they were making any financial
contribution to this.

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But, as uh far as Chehalis knew and
anybody knows,

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there's been no financial contribution
by BNSF.

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» Okay.
>> And commissioners, if you would like, um

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we could invite the city to we could add
this to tomorrow's agenda. We could add

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it to next Tuesday's.
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if you would like
further information, we can reach out to

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the city or invite them to
come.

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» Well, I think we need the full
documentation that we normally require

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for this kind of ask.
>> Right.

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» I'm done with questions.
>> Okay.

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» Anything else for discussion on this?
All right, it's been moved and seconded

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to approve resolution 26-385.
All those in favor?

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All those opposed?
>> I.

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» I.
Motion fails 0-3.

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Any announcements or new business?

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» Uh you guys received an email over the
weekend that we had a literal dumpster

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fire at the Centralia transfer station.
So, I did ask Rocky to come here and

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give an update on that. And that we were
notified

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at 5:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, I
believe,

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uh is when dispatch received the phone
call

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about the fire. So, we do have pretty
significant damage. We are up and

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running at about 50% capacity right now,
but Rocky's got some more details.

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» Yeah, thank you. Rocky Lions solid waste
manager. Yeah, so

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um
5:30 a.m. Centralia dispatch, Riverside,

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Chehalis fire, and some other outlying
smaller county fire apparatus showed up

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to the
middle of the two commercial or the two

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bays. Room was on fire as well as the
tractor trailer and the trailer full of

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garbage.
Um it was quickly extinguished enough to

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where there wasn't any
active fire. Um we did spend

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the entire day removing and
separating and cleaning and things like

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that. As of now, the the main damage is
affected on the equipment room was a

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total loss everything that was in it all
of the tooling air compressors bench

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grinders vices those types of things is
completely gone.

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The tractor that was affected may be
able to be repaired. It's being sent out

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to to get looked at. One of the
the trailers was a Lemi trailer. It has

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been moved off to the side and they'll
assess that on their own.

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Had a city of Centralia inspector come
out and deem it okay for us to use one

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side Sunday after the fire.
He did come by this morning and allow us

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to open up to both sides as well as
someone from our engineering group went

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over and checked it out. Um
and deems it safe.

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So while we're rebuilding and working on
things, I had when anticipate probably a

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couple of days to get caught back up. We
do have some logistics to work through,

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but all in all very very thankful for
very swift response as well as the help

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on a weekend
from the city of Chehalis, the city of

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Centralia, as well as public works team.
We had some people from public works

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come in facilities.
It was a really really awesome group

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effort to see everybody come together to
make something happen in order to turn

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around and open the next day on such an
extensive situation. So believe the

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source of the fire potentially could
have been fireworks that had been dumped

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there it
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probably intently but accidental fire is
what caused the situation. So some more

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investigating to go and but I'll keep
you updated.

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Any questions?
So a lot of electricals damaged in there

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to get um
our scale readouts up with the machines

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up on top
along with lights and our fans. So the

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entire
north half is right now completely

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de-energized.
Um going to be quite a bit of re-running

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wire and conduit uh to get just the
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main solid waste operations back up and
running on the north side.

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So, part of the what Rocky's got going
right now is we're dumping on both

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sides, but then everything's getting
shoved to the south side to then get

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loaded into the trucks.
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As we work through the evaluations, it
sounds like we can likely get the north

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side open back up and get operations,
but we're going to have to run some

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temporary power to get the scale
readouts and everything working again.

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Um and then it'll be a matter of
uh permanent repairs and restoration of

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that equipment room and getting those
tools replaced.

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» That compressor isn't isn't necessary
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» No, the trucks can
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running air to the the trailers to keep
them the axles down so that we had

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accurate weights on them. But, other
than that, no. Okay.

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And we do have another air compressor
that is um able it's on wheels. If we do

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need it for any reason, we do have uh a
couple extra auxiliary ones around.

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All right.
>> So, yeah. I guess just a reminder to

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please be patient with us while we get
back up and running.

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Already made significant work just in a
couple of days.

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So, um
I know there was a bit of a backup when

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I was out there this morning, uh but
just a reminder for the public to please

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be patient.

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» Can we do a press press release on that?
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can we coordinate with
Rocky or Karen or

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» Yeah, we can get that out. Put a post on
our Facebook page and as well as the top

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of our solid waste um page on the county
website that there is that we have, you

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know, had a fire and there's some damage
and we're operating, so expect long

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delays.

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» I'd be happy to work with you on
something to send out.

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» Thank you.

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All right.
>> Anything else for announcements or new

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business?
For calendars?

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Anything from the press?
>> Move to adjourn.

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» Second.
>> We are adjourned.