ISLAND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS  -  MINUTES OF MEETING

SPECIAL SESSION – FEBRUARY 22, 2003

 

 

The Board of Island County Commissioners  met  in Special Session on Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 9:00 a.m. for a  no-host breakfast meeting at Henderson’s Restaurant, 430 S.E. Pioneer Way, Oak Harbor, Wa.   Wm. L. McDowell, Chairman, William J. Byrd, Member, and Mike Shelton, Member, were present.

 

The meeting was called  to allow the County Commissioners’ participation in a joint Council of Governments meeting with Elected Officials from Island County, City of Oak Harbor, City of Langley, Town of Coupeville, and Port Districts, and Washington State Legislators from District 10.

 

In addition to the County Commissioners, attendance included:  

 

Senator Mary Margaret Haugen

Representative Barbara Bailey

Representative Barry Sehlin

Nancy Conard, Mayor, Town of Coupeville

Patricia Cohen, Mayor, City of Oak Harbor

Ed Van Patten, Coupeville Port  District Commissioner

 

The purpose of the session was to meet with the Senator and  Representatives to discuss in a roundtable setting  various legislation of mutual interest and concern. The bills are still in committee and it is about two  weeks’ out until it will be known which bills  survive committee.  Participants were told that it is unlikely  any  bills with associated costs to the State will survive committee.

 

Meeting adjourned  at 11:00 a.m.

 

The Board of County Commissioners will meet in Regular Session next on February 24, 2003, beginning at 11:30 a.m.

 

 

          BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

                                                          ISLAND COUNTY, WASHINGTON

 

                            

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                                                          Wm. L. McDowell,  Chairman

 

 

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                                                           William J. Byrd,  Member

                                     

 

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                                                          Mike Shelton, Member

                                               

                            

                                 

ATTEST: 

 

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Elaine Marlow, Clerk of the Board