EYE ON JEFFERSON: Port Townsend council to weigh Navy study comments

The Port Townsend City Council will consider comments regarding the Navy Northwest Training and Testing draft supplemental environmental impact statement/overseas environmental impact statement when it meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

The special meeting will be in council chambers at historic City Hall, 540 Water St. Another special meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

The council will consider endorsing Jefferson County remarks and adding more from the city.

The council will consider on Monday telling the transportation committee to review a recommendation to close Adams Street between Jefferson and Franklin streets as well as review all policies and codes now in effect and report back to the council.

It also will consider that day a water system plan update, an agreement for a police department navigator and a retainer agreement for the city manager transition.

Also on Monday’s agenda is formal repealing of an ordinance passed by the City of Port Townsend Board of Trustees in March 2, 1867 that required a $20 fine of any Native American who built any kind of housing on a specified area of the beach.

The ordinance is not codified in city law and the staff said that it “was arguably repealed when the city reincorporated in the 1870s” but recommended formally repealing the discriminatory law as requested by Ron Allen, CEO and chairman of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.

On Thursday, the council will consider terms for negotiating a new collaborative agreement for Mountain View Commons and approval of a study of the feasibility of a city-operated golf course.

It also will consider authorizing an agreement for a parks study.

County commission

The three Jefferson County commissioners will conduct a public hearing on the 2019 amendment cycle final docket at a meeting that will begin at 9 a.m. Monday.

The meeting will be in commissioners’ chambers at the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St., Port Townsend. An executive session is planned at 1:30 p.m. to discuss actual litigation.

Commissioners also will hear funding recommendations from the Environmental Public Health and Conservation Futures Citizen Oversight Committee.

Items on the consent agenda include:

• Establishing dates for budget submissions and reviews.

• Considering approving a $229,750 agreement for a plan writer for the Homeless Housing Task Force.

• A memorandum of agreement with Teamsters Local 589.

Port of Port Townsend

Port of Port Townsend commissioners will consider final action on its lease policy when they meet in regular session at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

They will meet in chambers at 333 Benedict St.

They also will consider a lease with Best Coast Canvas and authorizing grant funding form the Federal Aviation Administration.

Chimacum schools

The Chimacum School Board will consider a recommendation to name the newly formed school of grades seventh through 12th the Chimacum Junior/Senior School when it meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The meeting will be at Chimacum High School, 91 West Valley Road.

The board also will consider having the Eagles as the mascot for the newly reconfigured elementary school.

The board also will consider finalizing a three-year transportation agreement with Port Townsend School District.

It will weigh adoption a 25-cent increase in lunch prices.

The board also will her of the budget adoption timeline.

Peninsula College

The Peninsula College Board of Trustees will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

The meeting will be in the Cornaby Center on the Port Angeles campus.

An agenda will be available 24 hours prior to the meeting at www.pencol.edu/aboutpc/board/agendas.

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