A proposal to ban smoking on Clallam County property will be the subject of a public hearing likely on June 29, Clallam County commissioners decided Tuesday.
They will formally set the hearing date next Tuesday.
Plans to approve a new no-smoking ordinance, designed to keep smokers away from the county courthouse’s main entrance off East Fourth Street in Port Angeles, have been put on hold as commissioners plan the hearing first.
Still unresolved are the issues of where the smoke-ban boundary would extend around the courthouse and whether it could include public sidewalks.
No-smoking designations at the county public works shops and at the juvenile center are also under consideration.
County Administrator Dan Engelbertson said the extra time will allow him to research whether banning smoking on county property constitutes a “change in working conditions” that must be negotiated with employee unions.
