OLYMPIA — The $8.9 billion 2023-2025 capital budget being considered by state lawmakers includes over $24 million for a total of 31 projects in Clallam County.
The requests were submitted by the state Departments of Commerce, Corrections, Fish and Wildlife and Natural Resources; the Recreation and Conservation Office, which includes the state Wildlife Recreation Program focusing on farmland preservation, natural areas and fish-barrier removal; and Community-Technical College System.
The project list is at fiscal.wa.gov. Go to Latest Budget Proposals and click House Capital then click Interactive Data Reports.
Here are the proposals.
• $3.95 million: Johnson Creek Triple restoration in Sequim for project design for fixing fish-passage barriers to restore access to salmon habitat.
• $2.58 million: Four projects — Peninsula College facility repairs, infrastructure replacement, preservation and program improvements, the largest portion of which is $2 million for program improvements.
• $2.4 million: Two projects — Clallam Bay Corrections Center fire pump and warehouse roof replacement.
• $2 million: Port Angeles Waterfront Center, dba Field Arts & Events Hall, Department of Commerce Building for the Arts program, largest of 16 projects, with $2 million for Tacoma Arts Live Tacoma Armory performance venue renovation.
• $1.86 million: Planning up the River program (Quillayute Reaches 4-6) to restore aquatic and terrestrial salmon habitat on the Washington Coast.
• $1.86 million: Dickey River Bridge on the West End, from the Structurally Deficient Bridges program.
• $1.4 million: Pulling Together in Restoration program to restore salmon habitat on the Washington Coast.
• $1.19 million: Sol Duc Hatchery west of Port Angeles, modifications; there have been $72,000 prior biennia expenditures; does not include $8.5 million in projected future biennia costs.
• $1.09 million: Twin Rivers Nearshore and West Twin, under the Wildlife and Recreation Program.
• $1 million: Sol Duc River Access, under the Wildlife and Recreation Program.
• $729,000: Sequim Bay Park entrance improvements.
• $700,000: Corrections to three fish barrier culverts.
• $544,000: Wisen Creek Barrier Corrections east of Beaver.
• $501,000: Four projects — riparian easement compensation program for small forest owners in four areas of Clallam County for the financial impact of expanded protections required by forest and fish laws and rules. Compensation covers the value of leave trees and unstable slop buffers in areas where harvesting timber is prohibited to protect salmon habitat.
• $401,000: Sequim City Band, to complete construction of an expanded rehearsal hall at Carrie Blake Park as part of a $1.4 million project.
The 2,500-square-foot space will include a 20-foot ceiling with “acoustic panels every which way,” band Board President Debbi Soderstrom said. The venue, with a seating capacity of 163, could host small performances, classes and clinics. Completion is expected in April. “It’s essentially finished,” Soderstrom said.
• $421,000: Mid Valley Farm preservation and public access project, comprised of 56 acres of Sequim-area farmland and forest; includes swan and geese habitat.
• $429,000: Compensation for a landowner for providing perpetual easements to preserve habitat, in Clallam County, according to state Department of Natural Resources.
• $350,000: Forks High School Spartan Field upgrades.
• $331,000: Low-tech tributary restoration planning and design to restore aquatic and terrestrial salmon habitat on the Washington coast.
• $160,000: Makah Community Gym roof replacement. The roof leaks, tribe General Manager Patty Manuel said. “It has a wide variety of uses. Not only is it an emergency shelter, but sometimes we have funerals there, and we have general [tribal] council meetings [there] with the community.”
• $138,000: The Dungeness Hub, Nash’s Organic Produce, Sequim, under the state Wildlife and Recreation Program.
• $100,000: Port Angeles Erickson Playfield tennis court upgrades.
• $100,000: Environmental cleanup of DNR-owned Cassidy Road target shooting site in Sequim.
• $71,000: Electrical improvements to two DNR buildings in Port Angeles area.
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Compiled by Legislative Reporter Paul Gottlieb.
