PORT TOWNSEND — Fifteen people filed Wednesday to become a freeholder to guide the process of creating a Jefferson County charter.
The process will elect five people from each county commissioner district on Nov. 5 who will then create the charter, but only if voters approve the process with a separate vote.
Wednesday was the first day of a special three-day filing period.
District 1 (City of Port Townsend and adjacent area): Former county commissioner Richard Wojt, Peg Furey, Douglas Milholland, Jim Rough, Richard Coker, David Goldman and Raven.
District 2 (Cape George, Kala Point, Nordland, Chimacum, Port Hadlock, Irondale and Four Corners): Dick Shipman and David Cunningham.
District 3 (southeast Jefferson County, then westerly to the Pacific Coast and the communities of Kalaloch and Queets): Jim Boyer and Diane Johnson, both of whom unsuccessfully ran for county commissioner in 2010; Davis Steelquist; Norm Norton; Larry Hovde; and Craig Durgan, who unsuccessfully ran for the state legislature in 2010 and 2012.
Filing continues Thursday and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St.
The filing period also includes candidates for parks districts in Port Ludlow and Kala Point, with no one filing for those positions as of Wednesday.
