EYE ON CLALLAM: Health board to hear update on measles Tuesday

The Clallam County Board of Health will hear an update on the measles outbreak Tuesday.

The meeting is at 1:30 p.m. in Room 160 of the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.

Other updates will be on influenza and avian flu.

Action items include a resolution establishing a public health emergency on measles; the appointment of Dr. Tom Locke, who plans to retire as Clallam County public health officer while remaining in that position for Jefferson County, as deputy health officer; and discussion and possible appointment of an interim health officer.

Clallam commissioners

Clallam County commissioners will discuss agreements with Olympic National Park and the Western Federal Lands Highway Division for activities on the Spruce Railroad Trail project Tuesday.

The work session will be at 9 a.m. in the commissioners’ boardroom (160) at the Clallam County Courthouse.

The county is working with the park to pave and widen the Spruce Railroad Trail at Lake Crescent. Once completed, the trail will become part of the Olympic Discovery Trail.

Commissioners will hold their regular business meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Action items include:

■ An agreement with the Crescent School District for transition program training.

■ A contract supplement with the state Department of Transportation adding funding for the U.S. Highway 101 over-crossing at Deer Park Road and Buchanan Drive and rest area improvements project.

■ A contract amendment with the state Recreation and Conservation Office increasing funding for the North Olympic Peninsula Lead Entity.

A public hearing will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday for consideration of declaring a Sig Sauer P229 .40-caliber pistol and four magazines as surplus.

Port Angeles city

Port Angeles City Council members will hear a report from Public Works Director Craig Fulton on potential suicide-prevention signs for the Eighth Street bridges when they meet Tuesday.

The meeting is at 6 p.m. in City Council chambers at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St. At a 5:30 p.m. executive session, the council will discuss potential litigation.

On the consent agenda is an hourly archaeological contract between $26,000 and $40,000 to be awarded to Mary Leinart of Port Angeles.

The temporary archaeologist would monitor activities on the city’s $18.5 million combined sewer overflow project’s phase two.

SARC

Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center commissioners will discuss what to do now that voters have rejected a six-year levy proposal when they meet Wednesday.

The special meeting is at 5 p.m. in the gymnasium at the SARC facility at 610 N. Fifth St.

They will discuss options for the future of the recreational center.

Sequim schools

The Sequim School Board will consider approving school improvement plans when it meets Wednesday.

The meeting is at 6 p.m. at 503 N. Sequim Ave.

The plans are for Greywolf and Helen Haller elementary schools, the middle school and high school, and the alternative school and Olympic Peninsula Academy.

The board also will consider policies on student records, infectious diseases and emergency treatment.

Development council

The Clallam County Economic Development Council board will discuss the organization’s proposed bylaws, under which the board would have the option of no longer meeting every other month, when it meets Thursday.

The meeting is at 10:15 a.m. in Room 208 of the North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center, 905 W. Ninth St., Port Angeles.

Board member and Forks City Attorney-Planner Rod Fleck will lead the discussion on the bylaws.

The board has been meeting every other month for the past few years and monthly since late 2014, Fleck said.

Sequim City Council

The Sequim City Council will discuss with the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe connecting the tribe’s properties in Blyn with Sequim’s wastewater treatment system in a joint meeting Friday.

The meeting will be at the tribal center, 1033 Old Blyn Highway.

They may pass a joint resolution supporting the connection.

The open session will follow a closed briefing to the tribe by the Navy to which Sequim council members have been invited. The briefing will cover tribal concerns about a Navy proposal to conduct electronic warfare training with EA-18 Growler aircraft flying from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island across the North Olympic Peninsula.

Closure of the briefing to the public is permitted under the state’s Open Meetings Act if Sequim council members only listen to the Navy’s presentation and the tribe’s concerns about impacts to its treaty fishing grounds and resort/recreational centers.

Charter review

The Clallam County Charter Review Committee will conduct a public hearing Tuesday.

The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. at the Clallam County Courthouse.

Planning Commission

The Clallam County Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on a draft Shoreline Master Program update Wednesday.

The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the commissioners’ meeting room (160) at the Clallam County Courthouse.

The Planning Commission will recommend action to the three county commissioners, who will ultimately adopt a shoreline plan.

The November draft Shoreline Master Program update is available at www.clallam.net under “Current Issues.”

Also Wednesday, the Planning Commission will discuss a request to the commissioners for a time extension on a recommended recreational marijuana draft ordinance.

Shelter Providers Network

The Shelter Providers Network of Clallam County will receive preliminary results from the Jan. 29 Point in Time annual count of homeless people when the network meets Wednesday.

The meeting is at 9 a.m. in Room 160 of the Clallam County Courthouse.

Olympic Medical Center

Olympic Medical Center commissioners will consider a $40,000 payment to Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics when they meet Wednesday.

The meeting is at 6 p.m. in Linkletter Hall in the basement of the hospital, 939 Caroline St.

The payment is in lieu of OMC’s providing free rent to the VIMO clinic, which serves uninsured and underinsured patients and which recently moved.

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