The three Jefferson County commissioners will consider a professional services agreement with Olympic Community Action Programs to provide transitional housing for individuals with substance abuse disorders and/or mental health issues when they meet at 9 a.m. Monday.
The meeting will be in commissioners’ chambers at the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St., Port Townsend.
The $40,000 agreement funds a case manager and maintenance for each Haines Street Cabin. Funding comes from a one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax for mental health and substance abuse.
Items on the consent agenda include:
• A resolution designating applicants at Public Works for the Washington Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
• An interlocal agreement with Clallam County to support a state Department of Health grant continuing a Sequim Bay-Dungeness Watershed Clean Water District pollution identification and correction plan project. The project will have no fiscal impact on Jefferson County.
• An amendment adding $38,010, for a total of $70,125, to a contract with Jumping Mouse Children’s Center to provide mental health services to children who have suffered trauma, along with support for their parents/caregivers.
• A contract for installation of a rain garden in Chetzemoka Park for educational purposes as well as to mitigate stormwater impacts to Puget Sound.
• A bid award not to exceed $41,570 to Cabot Dow Associates Inc. for a total compensation study.
On the board’s regular agenda is a bid opening for the transfer station crane.
During the county administrator briefing session at 1:30 p.m., commissioners will hear miscellaneous items.
Port Townsend city
The Port Townsend City Council will discuss the 2018 budget and a cost allocations summary for the draft when it meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday.
The meeting will be in council chambers at historic City Hall, 540 Water St.
Other city committee meetings, which are in conference rooms at City Hall, 250 Madison St., unless otherwise noted are:
• Civil Service Commission — 3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, second-floor conference room.
• Port Townsend Planning Commission — 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, council chambers at historic City Hall, 540 Water St. On the agenda is the Critical Areas Ordinance.
• Planning Commission Design Review Subcommittee — 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, third-floor conference room. On the agenda is the Port Townsend Food Co-op addition at 414 Kearney St.
Port of Port Townsend
Port of Port Townsend commissioners will consider bond funding to complete the Point Hudson south breakwater project at a business meeting at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
The regular session will begin at 1 p.m. in chambers, 333 Benedict St., and will also include a revised operating and capital budget development schedule.
The afternoon session will be preceded by a public workshop at 9:30 a.m. that will deal with tax revenue, possible grant revenue and partnerships, operation revenue (jetty construction implications and revenue initiatives) and bonding options.
Brinnon parks district
Brinnon Parks and Recreation commissioners will discuss recreational and fundraising activities when they meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The meeting will be at the Brinnon Community Center, 306144 U.S. Highway 101.
Chimacum School Board
The Chimacum School Board is expected to meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The meeting will be at Chimacum High School, 91 West Valley Road.
An agenda was not available as of Saturday.
Jefferson PUD
Jefferson County Public Utility District commissioners will discuss and possibly act on a general manager separation and release agreement when they meet at 3 p.m. Monday.
The special meeting will be at 230 Chimacum Road, Port Hadlock.
The meeting will include an executive session to review the performance of a public employee.
Board action related to either of these items may occur at the meeting.
PUD advisory board
The Jefferson County Public Utility District Citizen Advisory Board will meet at 2:30 p.m. Monday at 310 Four Corners Road, Port Townsend.
The board will mull clarification of the legality of offering loans for conservation projects, a community solar discussion, PUD credit card use policy, reduced rates for low income and Citizen Advisory Board appointment terms.
Strait ERN
The next quarterly meeting of the Strait of Juan de Fuca Ecosystem Recovery Network (Strait ERN) will occur Friday.
The meeting will be from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s Red Cedar Hall in the Community Center on Old Blyn Highway in Blyn.
On the agenda is educational, planning, funding and action implementation topics, among other issues and opportunities pertaining to the Strait Action Area.
The Strait ERN is one of the Puget Sound Partnership’s Local Integrating Organizations working to implement the Action Agenda for Puget Sound protection and recovery.
It includes all of the tribes and local jurisdictions, and most of the non-governmental organizations, educational institutions and key business groups with interest in the Strait Action Area, which extends from Cape Flattery near Neah Bay east to Point Wilson in Port Townsend, said coordinator John Cambalik.
For information on the Puget Sound Partnership and the Puget Sound Action Agenda, see www.psp.wa.gov. For more on the Strait ERN, see www.straiternlio.org. To contact Cambalik, email coordinator@strait ernlio.org.
Fire District 3
Clallam County Fire District 3 commissioners will consider accepting a $1 million grant to fund additional firefighters when it meets at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
The special meeting will be at 323 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim.
The $1,006,881 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant would cover about 75 percent of up to six new firefighters’ wages and benefits for two years and 35 percent in the third and final year.
To accept the award, the district must ensure it has the financial capacity to sustain its current operations while paying for the partial wages the grant will not cover in three years and all the wages thereafter.
Tuesday’s meeting is not expected to result in action.
The district covers the east side of Clallam County with a small portion in Jefferson County.
