PORT ANGELES — Easy come, easy go with $1,361,315.
Oh, yeah — plus 48 cents.
That’s how much Clallam County commissioners will formally accept in supplemental appropriations — most of them grants from the state and federal governments — in a resolution Oct. 4.
The Clallam County Charter requires notice of the additional allotments, along with a public hearing on so-called debatable emergencies — expenditures that were not included in the current county budget.
The hearing also is scheduled for Oct. 4.
For the most part, neither the appropriations nor the emergencies are extraordinary.
The expenditures are bookkeeping business as usual that the county performs quarterly.
As for the appropriations, the county acts as a clearinghouse for programs ranging from policing drug traffic to uprooting noxious weeds to building a new emergency room at Forks Community Hospital.
The hospital grant, in fact, represented most of the total — $895,000 from the state Department of Community Trade and Economic Development.
Another major chunk came from the Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse — $162,996.
