EYE ON CLALLAM: County to consider grant to Forks

Government meetings across Clallam County

The three Clallam County commissioners will consider final approval for a $2,375,610 grant to the city of Forks for retrofits to its wastewater treatment facility in their weekly work session on Monday and weekly business meeting Tuesday.

Both meetings will be on Tuesday due to the Presidents Day holiday on Monday.

The meeting can be viewed on a live stream at http://www.clallam.net/features/meetings.html. To participate via Zoom video, go to https://zoom.us/j/875561784, by Zoom audio only, call 253-2125-8782.

The meeting ID is 875 561 7844 and the passcode is 12345.

Agenda items include:

• An agreement with the Port Angeles Fire Department for $201,200 to provide the community paramedicine program from Jan. 1, 2022 through Dec. 21, 2023.

• The annual request for qualifications for architectural and engineering consulting services.

• An update to the interlocal agreement between the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.

• Renewal of the federal grant to fund recreational boating enforcement in Clallam County.

• An agreement with the Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau for $650,000 to promote year-round tourism.

• A joint letter of support, with the city of Sequim and the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, for on/off-ramps and a frontage road in the the Simdars Road interchange project.

The meeting agendas are posted at www.clallam.net/features/meetings.html.

Public comment can be sent to agores@co.clallam.wa.us.

Port of Port Angeles

Port of Port Angeles commissioners will consider an amendment to the log yard site and stormwater improvement contract with Kennedy Jenks Consultants during a regular meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

To join the virtual meeting, go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86748209585.

To listen only, call 1-253-215-8782 and enter webinar ID 867 4820 9585; no passcode is required.

Comments may be submitted until 8 a.m. Tuesday to braedib@portofpa.com or by calling 360 461-9515.

The full agenda and meeting packet is posted at https://www.portofpa.com/AgendaCenter.

Port Angeles city

The Port Angeles City Council will conduct annual training required by the Open Public Meetings Act during a special workshop meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

To join either meeting, visit www.cityofpa.us/Live-Virtual-Meetings or https://cityofpa.webex.com/cityofpa/onstage/g.php?MTID=eab3cd71b896309c01d9e3e53c39db064.

To listen only, call 1-844-992-4726 and enter access code 2550 908 3229.

The full agenda can be viewed at https://www.cityofpa.us/583/Meetings-Agendas.

Crescent school

The Crescent School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

The board meets in the library at Crescent School, 50350 state Highway 112, Joyce.

The full agenda is expected to be posted at https://go.boarddocs.com/wa/crescent/Board.nsf/Public

Sequim schools

The Sequim School Board will hear a second reading of policy 2125 “Sexual Health Education” when it meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

The board will meet in the library at Sequim High School, 601 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.

The full agenda is posted at https://go.boarddocs.com/wa/sequim/Board.nsf/vpublic?open.

Library Trustees

The North Olympic Library System Board of Trustees will hear an update on the library’s COVID-19 response an online meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

The board also will hear updates on its meeting locations for the remainder of 2022, the Sequim branch library expansion and renovation project and on the bookmobile project.

Meeting links are expected to be posted at https://www.nols.org/board-administration.

OESD 114

The Olympic Educational Service District 114 board of directors will discuss, in executive session, the qualifications of an applicant for superintendent during a special meeting at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

The meeting will be conducted exclusively in-person at the district offices, 105 National Ave. N, Bremerton.

The directors may continue the discussion, online only, at 9 a.m. Thursday.

The board is expected to select a candidate for superintendent by 11 a.m. Thursday.

To join Thursday’s meeting, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81678874027?pwd=TDVWNkF3V2VsalNWWjJzNmdmMnIzZz09.

To join the meeting audio-only, call 669 900 6833 then enter meeting ID 816 7887 4027 and password 000000.

OESD 114 serves the 15 school districts on the Kitsap and North Olympic peninsulas by delivering educational services that can be more efficiently or economically performed regionally.

Strait ERN

The Strait of Juan de Fuca Ecosystem Recovery Network members will discuss possible federal infrastructure funding for Port Angeles Harbor Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration at their winter quarterly meeting that will begin at 9:30 a.m. Friday.

The Port Angeles harbor discussion will begin at 11:30 a.m.

All meeting materials, including the agenda, Zoom link and applicable documents can be found at https://www.straitern.org/meetings-events.

Also to be discussed are the 2022-26 action agenda, legislation and a roundtable on collaboration.

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