THE CITY OF Port Angeles doesn”t know how it will spend its $7.5 million share of the graving yard settlement — and might not tell even if it knew.
City Manager Mark Madsen said on Tuesday, “We don’t have an answer to that at this point in time.”
The state’s settlement with the city included a list of “examples of city projects for funding under . . . this agreement” and cited running electricity to the Airport Industrial Park, replacing major water lines and widening the Lauridsen Boulevard Bridge.
“We just basically gave them things off of our capital projects list,” said Madsen.
As for naming projects the city actually wants to start, he said, “We specifically told the state we weren’t going to do that.”
Every project funded by the city’s share of the settlement will — just as in the case of the Port of Port Angeles — will be approved on the state level on a case-by-case basis.
