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| Councilman, Lee Whetham |
During the work sessions on March 29 and April 26, Council reviewed and agreed to changes that had been proposed for all sections of the Rules of Procedure, except
Section 13. On May 24th and June 7th, Council reviewed changes to Section 13 and at the June 7th meeting selected Section 13 Option 2 for integration in the Council Rules of Procedure.
During a prior work session, Council requested that a public hearing be scheduled prior to final
adoption of the rules. A public hearing was noticed for the June 21st and July 7th Council meetings with Council adoption anticipated on July 5th. ( see packet page no. F-8)
Also see agenda summary: http://65.243.149.132/Weblink/DocView.aspx?dbid=0&id=169827&page=1&cr=1
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| Peter Ripley, Publisher. |
That shouldn’t be overlooked by council while they reviewing meeting rules. I made mention that during my comments, and remind or at least hinted the reasons why the council the ethics code, code of conduct toward the public, by council members, have. Our pal Max Mania. Even Whetham himself echoed the reasons in a PDN article sometime ago.
After an impromptu, work session like dialog by council member Sissi Bruch, who gave her ‘edits’ if you will on the meeting rules, which I thought should have been talked about during a work session, not during a public hearing on the matter on Tuesday.
After all of that the council decided to call for more work sessions on the issue. (someone must have been paying attention to my comments)
But, during the course of discussion Whetham, said if the council were to adopt the Roberts Rule of Order to govern the meetings he’d be ready to support it! I was thinking bravo! That’s something I fully support that all local governmental meetings should adopt Roberts. Like a old friend of mine who was an advocate for such a measure, Wil Gormley, who drilled the Roberts Rule of order many times in public meetings, but everyone just didn’t pay no mind to. He often challenged how meetings were held, and how in essence those meetings should be considered illegal because of the very fact they weren’t being followed.
Well I tell you readers, that meeting back in Feb. 2nd Roberts weren’t being followed. Again readers, I say that whole meeting on Feb. 2nd should be declared null and void, and done over. I’m waiting to see if there is a council member who will take the next step and declare it.
Now on the video I am sharing with you are comments made by Whetham after my comments, which I didn’t record….guess I should have, but didn’t my call on that one. Maybe next time I’ll have an US flag, my sign promoting my business, and my Army tee shirt to do my own brand of demonstrating.
Following are video clips on protocol discussion during council meeting on Tuesday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX-lHGgGEqU (pt1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTth219h47A (pt2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYMgLZ8owWc (pt3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n65qZZA9-A (pt4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLhU7mF7OSM (pt5)
WHAT'S ON TAP FOR NEXT WEEK
COUNTY COMMISSION WORK SESSION AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS:
2 Letter of support for Floodplains by Design Dungeness Off-Channel Reservoir proposal
3 Briefing Port Angeles Citizen Action Network (PA CAN) – 9:10 a.m.
4 Proposed agreement with David A. Cebelak and Krisanne R. Cebelak to purchase land to resolve pending litigation and expand the public’s access and use (2a)*
5 Contract services review and discussion concerning Human Resources Legal Services due to the pending August 1, 2016 contact expiration
6 Proposed modification of agreement with United States Forest Service to increase funding and extend performance period to October 31, 2017
7 Proposed personal services agreement with K&H Printers for printing and mailing 2016 Primary Election ballots(2c)*
8 Health and Human Services request to review and approve tasks and bid submitted by Geo Education and Research for Chemical Dependency/ Mental Health evaluations activities
9 Proposed modification 5 to the participating agreement with USDA, Forest Service, Olympic National Forest to extend the performance period to December 31, 2016 in order to expend remaining funding in the amount of $15,000
11 Proposed agreement with Kathy J. Rowe to purchase easement for the Olympic Discovery Trail Project
12 Pre-application questionnaire for Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Partnership/Nature
Conservancy grant for the Cooper Ranch Road Culvert Replacement Project 13 Inclusion of Striped Peak Road and Transportation Improvement Program
see full agenda: http://websrv7.clallam.net/forms/uploads/bocc_worksession_agenda.pdf
see agenda details: http://websrv7.clallam.net/forms/uploads/bocc_worksession_packet.pdf
During their regular session on Tuesday, County Commission highlights include:
Special use permit with the United States Forest Service for construction, maintenance and
operation of Segment 7 of the Olympic Discovery Trail on Forest Service Lands
Agreement with Shannon & Wilson Inc. for engineering design services for the design phase of
the Lower Dungeness Floodplain Restoration project
Personal services agreement with Sound Law Center for hearing examiner services of Andrew
Reeves
See full agenda: http://websrv7.clallam.net/forms/uploads/bocc_meeting_agenda.pdf
agenda details: http://websrv7.clallam.net/forms/uploads/bocc_meeting_packet.pdf
CLALLAM PUD AGENDA ITEM HIGHLIGHTS:
Resolution 2059-16 Scan and Toss Policy The Commissioners will consider adopting a resolution establishing the District’s Scan and Toss policy in regards to the destruction of certain non-archival source documents.
see full agenda: https://www.clallampud.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Preagenda-June-27-2016.pdf
PORT COMMISSION MEETING ON MONDAY
(UPDATE) The Port published their agenda on Saturday evening the following are their agendas for Monday:
Work session agenda: http://wa-portofportangeles.civicplus.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/06272016-162
Regular meeting: http://wa-portofportangeles.civicplus.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/06272016-163
* Highlight item: Selection of new director.
OTHER REGIONAL MEETINGS NEXT WEEK
CITY OF SEQUIM MEETING AGENDA: http://www.sequimwa.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/1413
Hearing Examiner Public Hearing LUP15-001 and Consolidated SEPA Appeal ADM16-001, Trinity United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall Project---PORT TOWNSEND
FORKS CITY COUNCIL AGENDA:
http://forkswashington.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/agenda62716.pdf
Jefferson County Commission meeting agenda: http://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/commissioners/Agenda/2016%20Agendas/06-27-16.pdf
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