EYE ON JEFFERSON: Port Townsend council to mull ordinance on pot regulations Monday

Meetings across Jefferson County.

The Port Townsend City Council will consider an ordinance adopting permanent zoning regulations and standards relating to both medical and recreational marijuana, including the adoption of buffer reductions for licensed marijuana operations, when it meets Monday.

The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in council chambers at historic City Hall, 540 Water St.

In addition, the council will consider revisions to the city’s Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan, last approved in 2010.

Jefferson County

The Jefferson County commissioners will meet Monday to potentially approve funds for two birth-to-3-year programs — one for the Port Townsend School District for $10,694 and the other for the Chimacum School District for $4,805.

The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. in chambers, 1820 Jefferson St., Port Townsend.

Commissioners also will approve payments from Jefferson County Public Works to Widener & Associates of Everett for work done on the new Undie Road construction.

Port Townsend ­services, special ­project

The Port Townsend Council General Services and Special Projects Committee will discuss off-leash areas when it meets ­Tuesday.

The meeting will start at 4 p.m. in the third-floor conference room of the municipal building, 250 Madison St.

Port Townsend Arts Commission

The Port Townsend Arts Commission will hold a special meeting Wednesday.

The 6 p.m. meeting, which will be a seminar with questions and answers intended to educate artists and organizations on the commission’s application process, will be held in the Cotton Building, 607 Water St.

Jefferson Transit

Jefferson Transit board members will discuss a resolution to authorize the general manager to purchase RouteMatch software at a meeting Tuesday.

The board will meet at 1:30 p.m. at the transit facility at 63 Four Corners Road.

On the consent agenda is the approval of minutes and expenses for August and September and approval of out-of-state travel for Kari Piecuch, Transit human resources and payroll/benefits administrator, to attend a drug and alcohol program training course.

Jefferson County Fire District No. 1

Jefferson County Fire District No. 1 commissioners will hold a special meeting Wednesday to discuss the 2017 budget.

The commissioners also will hear public comment at 5:30 p.m. at Station 1-5, 35 Critter Lane, Port Townsend.

Quilcene School Board

The Quilcene School Board will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Room 9 at 294715 U.S. Highway 101.

The agenda was not available Saturday.

More in News

Serve Washington presented service award

Serve Washington presented its Washington State Volunteer Service Award to… Continue reading

Mary Kelsoe of the Port Angeles Garden Club thins a cluster of azaleas as a tulip sprouts nearby in one of the decorative planters on Wednesday along the esplanade in the 100 block of West Railroad Avenue on the Port Angeles waterfront. Garden club members have traditionally maintained a pair of planters along the Esplanade as Billie Loos’s Garden, named for a longtime club member. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
In full bloom

Mary Kelsoe of the Port Angeles Garden Club thins a cluster of… Continue reading

Housing depends on many factors

Land use, infrastructure part of state toolbox

Sarge’s Place in Forks serves as a homeless shelter for veterans and is run by the nonprofit, a secondhand store and Clallam County homelessness grants and donations. (Sarge’s Veteran Support)
Fundraiser set to benefit Sarge’s Veteran Support

Minsky Place for elderly or disabled veterans set to open this spring

Jefferson commissioners to meet with coordinating committee

The Jefferson County commissioners will meet with the county… Continue reading

John Southard.
Sequim promotes Southard to deputy chief

Sequim Police Sergeant John Southard has been promoted to deputy… Continue reading

Back row, from left to right, are Chris Moore, Colleen O’Brien, Jade Rollins, Kate Strean, Elijah Avery, Cory Morgan, Aiden Albers and Tim Manly. Front row, from left to right, are Ken Brotherton and Tammy Ridgway.
Eight graduate to become emergency medical technicians

The Jefferson County Emergency Medical Services Council has announced… Continue reading

Driver airlifted to Seattle hospital after Port Angeles wreck

A woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in… Continue reading

Becca Paul, a paraeducator at Jefferson Elementary in Port Angeles, helps introduce a new book for third-graders, from left, Margret Trowbridge, Taezia Hanan and Skylyn King, to practice reading in the Literacy Lab. The book is entitled “The Girl With A Vision.” (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
After two-year deal, PA paraeducators back to work

Union, school district agree to mediated contract with baseline increases

Police reform efforts stalled

Law enforcement sees rollback on restrictions

Pictured, from left, are Priya Jayadev, Lisa O’Keefe, Lisa Palermo, Lynn Hawkins and Astrid Raffinpeyloz.
Yacht club makes hospice donation

The Sequim Bay Yacht Club recently donated $25,864 to Volunteer Hospice of… Continue reading