EYE ON CLALLAM: Port Angeles council to hear housing needs assessment

The Port Angeles City Council will receive a housing needs assessment at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

The meeting will be in the City Council chambers at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth. St.

The regular meeting will be preceded at 5:30 p.m. with an executive session to discuss potential litigation and collective bargaining.

The housing needs assessment will help guide future policy on housing issues in the city.

Other agenda items for the meeting include:

• The declaration of a city-owned parking lot southwest of Front and Oak streets as surplus property.

• An ordinance amending fees and costs of public records.

• A presentation from North Olympic Healthcare Network.

• A presentation from Clallam County Marine Resources Committee.

• A City Council think tank.

• Designation of a community facade grant program.

• Final acceptance of contracts for underground cable replacement, overhead reconductoring and tree trimming.

Clallam County

The three Clallam County commissioners will discuss the current legislative session at a meeting that begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

The work session will be in the commissioners’ board room (160) at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.

Commissioners will review Clallam County’s priorities, projects and programs that require support from the state legislature and to plan and coordinate individual and collective outreach efforts, according to an executive summary.

Other agenda items for the Tuesday work session include:

• A letter to the state Department of Commerce and the state Attorney General requesting reconsideration of a proposal to provide voluntary withdrawal management services for youth.

• A letter of support for a state Department of Fish and Wildlife land acquisition for the Twin Nearshore and West Twin Acquisition project.

Commissioners will hold their regular business meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Action items include:

• An agreement with the Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau to promote year-round tourism.

• An amended agreement with Anchor QEA, LLC, for engineering and design of improved fish passage at the McDonald Creek outtake of the Agnew Irrigation District project.

• A resolution reopening the Community Network fund.

Board of Health

The Clallam County Board of Health will hear an update on measles and communicable disease management at a meeting that begins at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The meeting will be in Room 160 at the Clallam County Courthouse.

Other agenda items include:

• A presentation on a youth marijuana prevention program.

• Election of a chair and vice chair.

• Suicide prevention.

• A revised water availability policy.

Planning commission

The Clallam County Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on a proposed code change for wireless communications facilities at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The meeting will be in Room 160 at the Clallam County Courthouse.

The proposal would repeal portions of the existing ordinance, create new sections for development standards, small cell technology, wireless communication procedure, design standards and amend certain standards and provisions that are consistent with federal regulations, according to the agenda.

Port Angeles parks

The Port Angeles Parks, Recreation and Beautification will discus a proposal to rename West End Park the Pebble Beach Park in the language of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe at 6 p.m. Thursday.

The meeting will be in the City Council chambers at City Hall.

Other agenda items include amended bylaws and a director’s report.

Clallam Transit

The Clallam Transit board will hear a report on emergency operations during the recent winter snowstorms at a meeting that begins at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

The meeting will be at the Clallam Transit System administration building, 830 W. Lauridsen Blvd.

Other agenda items include:

• Resolutions recognizing 20-year service anniversaries for Joe Sutton and Jaci Rooney and former Operations and Planning Manager Steve Hopkins as employee of the quarter for the fourth quarter of 2018.

• A resolution for National Transit Driver Appreciation Day.

• A social media policy.

• An update on the Clallam Transit System Comprehensive Plan.

• Communication from the Peninsula Regional Transportation Planning Organization.

• A support letter for funding improvements to the Morse Creek S-curve.

• An update on operations manager recruitment.

Strait ERN

The Strait Ecosystem Recovery Network will hear a report on the Strait Oil Spill Geographic Response Plan when it meets at 9:30 a.m. Friday.

The winter quarterly meeting of the group will be in Red Cedar Hall at the Jamestown S’Klallam Community Center in Blyn.

The group also will consider the next steps for Clallam Conservation Futures, receive an update on the legislative session and hear about culvert inventory in Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 19, which is the Lyre-Hoko river basin.

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