PORT ANGELES – The 15 people chosen to review Clallam County’s charter will interview county commissioners and their administrator tonight with an eye on how they should be chosen.
Questions that may lurk behind their questions include whether commissioners ought to be picked only by voters in their districts and if the administrator should be elected to office.
The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. in the commissioners’ hearing room in the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.
Although the courthouse will close at 4:30 p.m., access to the room will be open through a door just west of the main entrance on Fourth Street.
Clallam County operates under a home-rule charter, unlike most Washington counties where procedures are dictated by the Legislature.
Fifteen citizens, called freeholders, are elected every five years to examine the charter – the county’s equivalent of a constitution – and to recommend changes to voters.
The freeholders’ interview of commissioners and Administrator Jim Jones are the first order of business and are expected to last an hour.
