Maybe city staff didn't catch the news article in Sunday's edition of the Peninsula Daily News, or didn't read the memo from the County Treasure...
Clallam County treasurer requests public documents in case commissioners start court fight
Barkhuis has insisted the $1 million grant to the Port of Port Angeles and the $285,952 grant to the city must go through debatable-budget-emergency hearings and be accompanied by contracts, or she could be held personally liable as treasurer. Commissioners for a second time approved the funds Tuesday on a 2-1 vote with Chapman voting no but in the second go-round held hearings and subjected the grants to memos of understanding, which Barkhuis told the PDN later Tuesday was not good enough.----PDN dated 8/16/15
During their meeting on Tuesday despite County Treasure's Barkhuis was quoted in saying in published reports that those MOA's were good enough for her to release any funds. The City approved their MOA by a 6-0 vote, our pal Lee Whetham "15-month lee" wasn't present at the meeting according to the Peninsula Daily's News report on what transpired during Tuesday's Council meeting with the headline which read: Port Angeles City Council votes to have county's criminal justice services handle misdemeanors
PORT ANGELES ---- Government officials have agreed that Clallam County should take over responsibilities for adjudication, prosecution, public defense and jailing services under one contract, saying the plan would save the city of Port Angeles money and increase the county's revenue.---read more
Now, why no mention of the MOU approval of grant funding in the PDN?
Nevertheless here is the staff memo from the city again to refresh your memory:
OPPORTUNITY FUND - GRANT ACCEPTANCE AND MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR THE WTIP PROJECT TR02-2003
The City has received a $285,952 grant for phase 2 of the Waterfront Development Project.
Considering this is authorization to receive money for a Council approved and budgeted project
this item has been placed on the consent agenda. The grant has already been incorporated in the City Council adopted Capital Facilities Plan.
The County has presented the City with a Memorandum of Understanding entitled the “Clallam
County Opportunity Fund Program Memorandum of Understanding. The document is attached to this staff report. The only obligation of the document is that the City will provide a presentation
to the County on the success, progress, and/or lessons learned from implementation of Phase 2 of the Waterfront Transportation Improvement Plan.
Staff recommends that Council accept the Opportunity Fund grant approving the Memorandum of Understanding. Council should also authorize the Mayor to sign the Memorandum of
Understanding and make minor modifications as necessary.
If the County Treasure hadn't signed off on releasing these funds, which she indicated she would not MOU or not, how is it they got this funding? Is there something I missed here? I suspect the Port during their meeting on Tuesday will also have one of these MOU's to approved of as well. Unfortunately, they have yet to release their agenda for Tuesday. Did the County just ignored the County Treasure and wrote out the checks anyways!?
In other local news headlines...
Port of Port Angeles faces loss of $222,660 in annual lease income when Westport cabinetry shop moves to former Walmart building
PORT ANGELES ---- The Port of Port Angeles must plug a $222,660 hole in annual income plus 100,000 square feet of vacant space when Westport Shipyard leaves William R. Fairchild International Airport industrial park. That doesn't count $308,000 the port recently approved to improve the heating/ventilation/air conditioning (HVAC) system in the building at 2138 W. 18th St. that Westport LLC will vacate.---read more
McEntire, The Rainmaker
McEntire remains consistent in his distaste for moratoriums of all kinds, including one on water use. Based on his interpretation of the Dungeness River flows, McEntire said the average annual flow is on an uptrend since 1988.---PORT OF CALL
SARC: Now what?
Multiple changes at the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center are planned in an ongoing effort to maintain the public exercise facility and only public pool within the City of Sequim.---SEQUIM GAZETTE
Remembering.....Sappho
In February 2009, the roof of the old building that stood at the Sappho junction finally gave out under the weight of snow.---FORKS FORUM
Dale Wilson takes helm as OlyCAP director Sept. 1
Housing and in-home care services are two areas in which Dale Wilson of Colville, Washington, expects to bring expertise to Olympic Community Action Programs (OlyCAP) when he takes the helm as its executive director on Sept. 1.---PT LEADER
* No it's not Dale Wilson who publishes the Port O Call.
NEWS FROM ACROSS THE STRAIT
Tax-debt scam left man out thousands of dollars, woman in tears
A telephone scam involving someone purporting to be from the Canada Revenue Agency has left a Victoria businessman out a few thousand dollars and sent a woman crying to police because she thought she was about to be arrested.---Times Colonist
Chief judge reviews online provincial court records
B.C. is the only province where charges and convictions in provincial court are posted on a public database as well as being available to courthouse visitors.---VICTORIA NEWS
Private sewer pipes in Esquimalt due for inspection
The condition of sanitary sewer pipes running beneath the homes of Esquimalt residents isn’t something that’s typically on a homeowner’s mind.---VICTORIA NEWS
WHAT'S ON TAP FOR NEXT WEEK...
CLALLAM COUNTY COMMISSION AGENDA HIGHLIGHT: Resolution adopting the following Budget Reduction: Public Works, Carlsborg Sewer Projects – Delays in regulatory approvals pushing project into 2016/($2,285,952)
Agenda detials: http://websrv7.clallam.net/forms/uploads/bocc_meeting_packet.pdf
Port has a scheduled meeting on the 25th, but they not have yet published their agenda.
CITY OF SEQUIM AGENDA HIGHLIGHT ITEM:
Resolution Establishing a Community Arts Support Program
CITY OF FORKS AGENDA: http://www.forkswashington.org/pdf/agenda82415.pdf
DAILY DEVOTIONAL
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
Romans 8:32 NKJV
