PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners Tuesday appointed and reappointed members to the Clallam County Board of Health, Permit Advisory Board and Peninsula Housing Authority.
Dr. Jeanette Stehr-Green was reappointed for the at-large position on the Clallam County Board of Health, which she chairs.
Olympic Medical Center Commissioner John Beitzel was reaffirmed as the OMC representative on the health board.
“I really appreciate the fact that both John Beitzel and Jeanette Stehr-Green are willing to re-up on the Board of Health,” county Commissioner Steve Tharinger said via speakerphone from Olympia, where he is a state representative.
“They’re great participants. They bring a lot of knowledge, and as I think the rest of the board members know, having good people on this advisory board is really helpful to us, to the county, and I appreciate their willingness to serve.”
Beitzel and Stehr-Green will serve through May 2013.
Delbert Johnson, Mike McAleer, Terry McCartney and Gene Unger were each reappointed to the county’s Permit Advisory Board for terms that expire in December 2012.
Johnson was reappointed in the building designer category, McAleer in the Economic Development Council category, McCartney as a propane and wood stove contractor and Unger as an engineer.
“We have four individuals that have been on this board and giving good advice, so we appreciate their continual service,” Commissioner Mike Chapman told newly sworn-in Department of Community Development Director Sheila Roark-Miller.
“Hopefully you will be working with them closely.”
Carole Boardman, Roger Easing, Cheri Fleck, Helen Hamilton and Norma Turner were appointed to the newly named Peninsula Housing Authority.
The five members had to be reappointed because the housing authorities of Clallam and Jefferson counties merged Dec. 7.
From the Legislature
Tharinger, the newest member of the 24th District delegation representing the North Olympic Peninsula in the state Legislature, phoned in for the entire commissioners meeting and work session.
He said there are ongoing discussions in the local government committee he serves on about public information requests, agricultural lands and critical area codes.
“Even though the [legislative] session is all budget all the time, there are some policy issues that relate to local government that we’ll be moving through the Legislature,” Tharinger said.
“I’ll obviously keep you tuned to that, as will the WSAC [Washington State Association of Counties] and our legislative steering committee.”
Other business
In other news, the commissioners passed a contract amendment with the state Department of Social and Health Services that will fund juvenile drug court case management in 2011.
The federally funded contract is $10,580.
“It actually went up $580, if you can believe it,” said Pete Peterson, Clallam County Juvenile and Family Services director.
“It’s a slight increase, and we’ll take it. . . . We use our $10,000 to help offset the cost of case management in juvenile drug court.”
Commissioners also passed a contract supplement with David Evans & Associates Inc. for design of the Deer Park underpass east of Port Angeles.
The supplement extends the terms of the contract and adds scope of work and $806,647 in funding. The design contract’s new total is $1.02 million.
Federal transportation grants and a portion of the county’s surface transportation funding will cover the cost.
The underpass of U.S. Highway 101 near Old Deer Park Road will have two 12-foot lanes, two 8-foot-wide shoulders and a 10-foot pedestrian and bicycle path.
County officials say the $7 million project will improve the safety of the highway intersections at Deer Park Road and Buchanan Drive.
The underpass will eliminate the left turns onto the highway from those roads.
The project is expected to be finished in late 2012 or early 2013.
The commissioners also called a Feb. 8 public hearing on proposed amendments to the county’s six-year Transportation Improvement Program.
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Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be reached at 360-417-3537 or at rob.ollikainen@peninsuladailynews.com.
