Proposals to elect the Clallam County community development director and to covert all elected county offices to partisan posts moved a step closer to the November ballot Thursday.
Clallam County Charter Review commissioners on Thursday night approved motions to consider the amendments again after Clallam County Chief Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chris Melly reviews the language in the proposals.
Commissioners voted 6-4 to ask Melly to review the proposed amendment to the Clallam County Charter making all county elected positions partisan.
Commissioner Rod Fleck of Forks did not vote on the measure and four other commissioners were absent from the meeting.
Charter Review Commissioner Don Alexander of Sequim, who says he campaigned on the issue of making county offices partisan, told commissioners that keeping the positions unaffiliated moves county government further away from citizens.
“That’s communism, folks,” Alexander said.
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