OLYMPIA — Whether anyone but the Department of Transportation will investigate DOT’s abandonment of its Port Angeles graving yard project remains to be seen.
But two or all three of the North Olympic Peninsula’s legislators may use the public and legislator comment period of the state Transportation Commission’s regular monthly meeting today to ask a few questions of their own.
The commission’s two-day monthly meeting continues today in the Transportation Building on the Capitol Campus in Olympia.
The Transportation Commission agenda includes a comment period at 1 p.m. for legislators and the public.
Rep. Jim Buck. R-Joyce, said last week that the three lawmakers “might want to have a few words” with the Transportation Commission at its meeting.
Buck, along with Rep. Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam, and Sen. Jim Hargrove, D-Hoquiam, represent the 24th District, which includes Clallam and Jefferson counties and part of Grays Harbor County.
Audit sought
The House Transportation Committee, of which Buck is a member, also has asked the Transportation Audit Performance Board to conduct an audit of DOT’s decision to cancel graving yard construction in Port Angeles.
Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald is scheduled to end today’s commission meeting with his monthly report at 3:45 p.m.
MacDonald is hired and fired by the independent Transportation Commission, which is appointed by the governor.
Four Transportation Commission members, at the request of Gov. Christine Gregoire, hosted a question and answer session in the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant banquet room on Monday.
More than 200 packed the room.
