CHARGES OF COVER UPS, MALFEASANCE, OVER LAWSUIT DEAL

How a botched up public record keeping ended up costing taxpayers $550K

Peter Ripley, Publisher.

The County approve the controversial settlement for yet another park for a cool $550,000! Though the decision wasn't what everyone wanted, questions and allegations of cover ups made the headlines locally. See related articles from both the Peninsula Daily News, and the Port O Call. The Port O Call's Dale Wilson has been leading the charge in making those allegations. In my opinion if you are going to make allegations of criminal conduct of the Prosecuting Attorney, you better have clear evidence to back it up. This "web" of conspiracy which, Wilson says going on, has so many parts in it, it's hard to keep up. Is it about a land deal? Is it about public records being misplaced? Is it about the Treasurer being sued by the Prosecuting Attorney? Or is it the County Prosecutor on the take Dale? Which is it? Granted this publication interest in this,  isn't  as much as the other local media outlets.

But, you can't just over look the fact because of some public records being misplaced is now costing the tax payers a cool $550k! As I see this, even though I don't really have a grasp on the whole issue, Because of so many elements in this big spider web, that's if there is a spider web of corruption exist,  as suggested in published reports, I just think this belongs in the courts, not the court of public opinion. Let those who are making the charges of cover up, and malfeasance by the county Prosecutor, then make the charge openly in the court of law. Not on the pages of local news rags. I had someone come up to me during a meeting I was attending hearing this very issue of the Lange lawsuit, and asked me what is this whole thing about? I had no answers to give. Hard to find a place where you can hang your hat on and say: "this is what this is all about" because it's so convoluted with so many parts it's difficult to tell what is this really all about.

However on their agenda the County did approve other items on their agenda that didn't make the headlines with much fan fare locally such as:
CONSENT AGENDA – Any Commissioner may remove items for discussion
1a Approval of vouchers for the week of June 27
1b Approval of payroll for the period ending June 24
1c Approval of Workers’ Compensation expenditures for the months of April and May

CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS
2a Interagency agreement with State of Washington Administrative Office of the Courts for
support of Family and Juvenile Court Improvement Plan
2b Modification of agreement with United States Forest Service to increase funding and extend
performance period to October 31, 2017
2c Agreement with Kathy J. Rowe to purchase easement for the Olympic Discovery Trail Project
2d Amendment 1 with Department of Ecology to allocate existing grant funds to the Education and Outreach task and revise deliverable due dates
2e 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
BIDS AND AWARDS
3a Notice of call for bids to be received no later than 10 a.m., July 26, 2016 for the Courthouse
Boiler Replacement Project
3b Bid opening – Mental Health/Substance Abuse Intervention Services in the Public Schools
All items on the agenda were approved.
As for the hot topic item: H1 Consideration of resolution adopting the following Debatable Emergencies: General Fund Reserves – Transfers settlement funds to risk management/$550,000 (step 1 of 3)
Human Resources, Risk Management – Moves money to ending fund balance/$550,000 (step 2 of 3) Human Resources, Risk Management – Moves money from ending fund balance to claims
settlements/$550,000 (step 3 of 3)
* Mike Chapman voted against the settlement agreement, he didn't agree with the rush to a settlement.

Related news stories:

Clallam County approves $518,000 lawsuit settlement by 2-1 vote--PDN

Land Deal May Be a Cover-up by Dale Wilson---PORT O CALL

Records discovered too late lead to proposed lawsuit settlement against Clallam PDN

From the Associated Press: Lange Settlement--PORT O CALL






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Today's video clip more on the County Commission public hearing regarding the Lange lawsuit settlement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Uet0h9pko

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