BOARD OF ISLAND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MINUTES OF MEETING - JANUARY 24,
2005
Roundtable Meeting with Island County Elected OFFicials AND
APPOINTED DEPARTMENT HEADS
The Board of
Island County Commissioners convened in regular session at 11:00 a.m. on January 24, 2005 for a roundtable
with Elected Officials and Appointed Department Heads, held in the
Board of County Commissioners
Hearing Room (Room #102B), Island County Courthouse Annex, 1 NE 6th
Street, Coupeville, Wa. Other topics for the regular session followed at 1:30 p.m. as outlined on the
agenda.
Attendance
Elected
Officials and Appointed Department Heads:
Tom
Baenen Phil Bakke Greg Banks Robert Bishop
William J. Byrd
Cathy
Caryl Betty Kemp Elaine Marlow Don Meehan Tim McDonald
Wm.
L. McDowell Mike Shelton Bill Oakes Dan Sherk Suzanne Sinclair
Dick
Toft J. Smith for
Mike Hawley
M. Paczkowski for Judge Strow
Others
Attending: Diane Kendy, League of Women Voters of South Whidbey
GOAL SETTING – 2005 ROUNDTABLES
Legislative Session -
Lobbying
The Auditor and Assessor see the importance of communication in all aspects, particularly
during the legislative session. Elected
Officials participate in various groups which allows opportunity for
lobbying. Realizing there are issues of importance to other county
departments, such as Public Works, Health Department, etc. there is an
opportunity for them to gain assistance
by alerting the Auditor, Assessor or other Elected Officials if there is something of interest to be relayed on their behalf. The offer extended to the Commissioners as
well recognizing their schedule often precludes their participation.
Taxpayer Use of Credit Cards
The Auditor mentioned that citizens increasingly
request to use credit cards to pay for
services charged by the County.
The Treasurer is working to make it so people can pay property taxes by
use of credit cards on line, and
District Court uses an agency that takes the payment for District Court and puts it directly into the
bank account, at a minimum charge to the client of $7.95. However, the issue needs to be addressed
county wide so that citizens can use a credit card for other services such as
paying for birth or death certificates, etc.
Need to address all issues in
researching the idea.
Follow-up. Come back and visit this issue again.
Meeting Schedules -
Meeting/Conference Rooms - Communication
The Auditor commented about some frustration
when the Board’s meeting schedule or staff session schedule changes;
nice to adhere to the timetable so that
others can participate and be
informed.
The Chair noted that often times with Staff Sessions it is a case where departments cancel at the last
minute and the Commissioners try to rearrange so
that the session can move forward. When a department cancels in sufficient time
a revised schedule is prepared, but when cancellations occur the morning of the
staff session there simply is not
enough time to do any kind of notification.
Human Resources
Director brought up the need to work on
professional courtesy. An
example is when transferring a telephone call to another office, stay on the
line and advise the person who is on the other line and the topic of conversation if known. Meeting/conference rooms are constantly in use and needed; if you are scheduled on
the calendar to use a room and cancel, please
advise Maintenance so that another group or department may use the room.
One area of importance from the Health Department’s
perspective is continuing to
communicate about document
storage and access. There is great leadership
with the Records Manager; reminder – it is not
necessarily that all documents have to be stored;
some can be filmed and sent elsewhere
for storage.
Central Services Director noted numbers of folks who come in the building[s] looking for certain departments or specific
services and brought up the idea of providing a list of each department within a building and associated
functions within that department made
available to assist folks with the correct department. The Auditor
has a bi-fold information sheet from Snohomish County – a map that shows
by function where those functions occur; it is a document that Island County
could review and perhaps adapt
for use by the County, something that could also be placed on the web
site. Will bring to the next
Roundtable for review.
Follow-up: Mr. Meehan will float the concern brought up about Board meeting schedules and staff
sessions to the Department Heads and
Elected Officials in an attempt to come up with some way to deal with the basis
concern, and bring the issue back at
a subsequent roundtable.
Roundtable Discussion
Assessor. Senior Citizen levels of income for the exemption
went up $5,000; there are 1391 seniors
participating in the program. New
construction on the rolls came in at $218,803,338, with a total value for Island County of $8,479,256,272. Personal property [1382 accounts] value $60,882,575;
single family residence category is 7 million plus;
multiple family residences 119 million.
That will fall under personal property with the acquisition of 58% interest in all of the military housing by American Eagle. The majority of military housing is in the
Oak Harbor area. In terms of military
housing, of all of the Puget Sound
military entities, excluding Ft. Lewis,
the largest is NAS Whidbey.
Auditor. Inventories are due the
end of the month. Over the course of last year have been doing
surprise cash counts. If there is a particular time that is especially bad for
that to happen, please let the Auditor know what that is and she will try to
work around that.
Budget
Director/Clerk of Board. Making a real effort to put
as much information as possible on agendas for
Board meetings which are distributed on Wednesday afternoons before the Monday meetings. Please keep that in mind when providing
items for scheduling to include information that will indicate what the purpose of the
contract, agreement, or MOU is.
Central
Services. Gearing up for tax
statements. Finished the re-wire for the
Nurses Building and linked it back up.
Continue to work on cleaning and speeding up the network. Very close to having
wireless communications between I-COM and the
Sheriff’s Office [look for that to happen mid-summer; applying for a grant to
fund the majority of that]. Nextel
phones used by many employees do
not work within the buildings; Nextel offered to wire one building with
a repeater at no charge to allow good
reception within that building. There
are still some issues because departments in other buildings need reception as
well and it then becomes a cost issue.
She will check on the status and
report back.
Commissioners. Chairman Shelton reviewed for
Appointed Department Heads the County’s leave slip requirements for
Department Heads:
Department Heads need to advise the Board when away from the office. Memos 1987 and 1990 addressed the requirement when taking a day off: a leave slip is to be submitted and approved by the Chairman or other members of the Board.
When away from the office
less than a full day, the Board requests a call or e-mail to allow contact if
needed.
County Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Department Heads are reminded of the importance
of setting a good example.
Commissioner Byrd holds a Town Hall Meeting on
Camano Island the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Anyone having an item to present to the
public at one of those meetings, please contact him. It is a great opportunity to interact with the public.
District
Court. City of Oak Harbor tabled
plans to withdraw from District Court for a couple of years.
GSA. Anticipate a large number of Board of Equalization appeals this
year.
Health
Department. First confirmed flu case. Flu shots are still available open to adults
and children of all ages.
Public Works
Juvenile Detention Center.
Hand-out:
Color coded Construction Parking Plan –Campus Map – parking during
Juvenile
Detention Center
(JDC)
Anticipated construction completion February 2006. Campus parking as it relates to construction of JDC provides enough stalls for people using parking lots. Questions about parking should be directed to Mike Morton.
Chairman Shelton addressed economics once JDC
becomes operational. The County
continues to collect the 1/10th
of 1% sales tax for this purpose.
That, in addition to the amount of money that has and is being
spent from Current Expense to house
juveniles in other counties, along with the
amount of money that has been paid to the Deputy Sheriff Reserve
Association to transport juveniles, those three things combined hopefully will
come together in sufficient amount to
operate the new JDC.
Commissioner McDowell pointed out that the
whole intent was to have the money in
hand before starting. Construction
inflation is quite a bit more than just standard inflation so construction
price is
out-pacing the sales tax collected; therefore, the
Board will have to decide which type of borrowing has to be done [likely out of one of the REET funds, not
current expense].
Record Storage. Board agreed to a scope of work at last staff session; Public Works is moving forward to get
that out as a contract. Expect the facility to be available by the
end of September.
Town of Coupeville Road
Construction Plans. Construction date starting
late Spring and will involve
daylight closures of Main Street
from the Catholic Church south to Front Street.
Planning &
Community Development.
GMA requires every jurisdiction update on a seven year schedule the Comprehensive Plan. In 1997
Island County put together an “Annual Review Amendment Process” which has been very
successful. In each of the
last seven years there were between six
to twelve separate amendments.
Aware of the
pending update, the Department some
years’ ago discussed with the
Board how to tackle the update process
and decided on an incremental approach using the annual review process. The past three or four annual review amendments staff has added in a whole series
of issues deemed necessary from a code
perspective as well as from the
community as far as what needed to be
reviewed, updated or developed. Conscientiously waited until this year to
focus energy and effort on critical area ordinances. Have been in the process
of negotiating a contract for technical and legal support and will be proposing
later today that the Board approve a Contract with Keith Dearborn, who assisted with the development of the 1984 and
1997 codes. Contract negotiated will
prove to be a value to the
County. While $351,550 over the course
of two years may on first blush seem
high, Mr. Bakke pointed out that when
looking at costs from other
consultants, the rate negotiated is a good rate. The Department will also be
proposing that the Board retain
services of some biological folks. Preparing for this update, building and land
use fees have been collected and saved up some three years’ knowing the update
was coming and the County would need
some outside help. Important to note
that there are limitations on how those
funds can be spent , i.e. cannot be
used to fund just any other
current expense costs. [successful lawsuit against Whatcom County some
years ago].
Roundtable
adjourned 12:06 p.m.; next Roundtable February 28 @ 11:00 am.
Other topics for the regular
session followed at 1:30 p.m. as outlined on the agenda, including Diking Improvement District
#4). This portion of the meeting opened
with the Pledge of Allegiance. Mike Shelton, Chairman, Wm. L. McDowell, Member, and William J.
Byrd were present.
By unanimous motion, the Board approved the
January 15, 2005 payroll and the following vouchers/warrants:
2005
Warrant
#205515-205703 …………………………… ..$262,916.75
2004 Warrant #205178-205514 ……………………………..
$830,258.66
By unanimous motion, the Board approved the minutes from the Regular Meeting held on January 10, 2005.
By
unanimous motion the Board approved the following appointments:
Provided
Board of Island County Commissioners concurrence in the appointment by Snohomish
County Council of Jeanne Steffener,
Everett, to the Sno-Isle Regional
Library Board for a term until
December
31, 2011
Appointed as alternate member representing local
planning on the Marine Resources Committee for Island County, Joe Burcar, Shorelines Planner, Island County Planning & Community
Development Department
Appointed Phyllis Kind, Greenbank to serve as
representative of the Island County MRC
on the Northwest Straits Commission for the year 2005
By
unanimous motion, the Board approved
the Staff Session Schedule for February, 2005, outlining the regular staff
sessions to be held on February 2 and 16 beginning at 9:00 a.m.
[Pulled from the agenda at the request of the
Assessor]
Lease Agreement with Nexxpost for Hasler WJ220 Mail system
As presented and explained by Cathy Caryl, Central
Services Director, the Board by
unanimous motion approved Lease Agreement (RM-CS-04-0131) with Nexxpost for Hasler Dynamic WJ220 Mail
System for total lease payment $24,540.00 including sales tax, over 60 months [lease to own unit]. As noted by Ms. Caryl, changes recommended by the Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney under Contract Review have been made.
Contract with Wa. St. Dept. of Fish & Wildlife for a Volunteer Cooperative Project Grant for the Island County Marine Resources Committee Shore Stewards program
A contract between Island County and the Washington
State Department of Fish & Wildlife for a Volunteer Cooperative Project
Grant for the Island County Marine Resources Committee Shore Stewards
program, Contract # 04-1996 in the
amount of $18,790 was approved by unanimous motion of the
Board (RM-EXT-04-0116).
Contracts for 2005 Tourism Program funded by 2% Hotel/Motel Lodging Tax revenues
By unanimous motion, the Board approved the
following contracts for approved 2005
Tourism Program funded projects from 2%
Hotel/Motel Lodging Tax Revenues:
·
Camano Arts Assn. for
Camano Island Studio Tour 2005 $1,500
(RM-BOICC-04-0120)
·
Freeland Chamber of
Commerce for Freeland Visitor Inf. Center $12,000 (RM-BOICC-04-0121)
·
Camano Island Chamber of
Commerce for Tourism Marketing & Fulfillment Program (Visitor Inf.
Center) $15,000 (RM-BOICC-04-0122)
·
Greater Oak Harbor
Chamber of Commerce for Tourism Marketing & Development for Island Co.
$15,000
(RM-BOICC-04-0123)
·
Island County Historical
Society for Museum Tourism Brochures $1,300 (RM-BOICC-04-0124)
·
Langley Chamber of
Commerce for Tourism Marketing Fulfillment Program incl. Visitor Inf.
Center and accommodation
referral service $18,200 (RM-BOICC-04-0125)
·
Penn Cove Water Festival
Assn. for 2005 Penn Cove Water Festival $1,500 (RM-BOICC-04-0126)
By unanimous motion, the Board approved three Health
Department contracts as follows:
Amendment #1 to contract #HD-09-04(1) with
Margaret E. Griswold - Registered Dietitian services to WIC clients
on Camano Island – amendment in the amount of $2,400, for total contract $3,000
(RM-HLTH-04-092)
Amendment #14 to Contract #C08679 with Department of
Health - Consolidated Contract
2003-2004, adding 1,755 to assessment,
$4,415 to Immunizations, and reallocating
$8,203 (no change in $ amount) of Local Capacity Dev. Jul 04-Dec 04; for
total contract amount $1,064,751
(RM-HLTH-02-0094)
County Program Agreement Contract #0363-364-36428
Amendment #3 with DSHS/Division of Developmental Disabilities to increase the
Maximum Program Agreement Amount by $34,500 to allow the County to make
payments for services for the DDD specified clients for day program services
for those clients that had been directly receiving Social Service payments
(RM-HLTH-99-0054)
Memorandum
of Agreement - Washington State University Cooperative Extension Annual
Modification
Memorandum of Agreement between Washington State University Cooperative Extension and Island County, Appendix “A” the Annual Modification was approved by unanimous motion of the Board (RM-EXT-05-006) in the amount of $23,108.00.
Auditor
Suzanne Sinclair, Island County Auditor, submitted
copies of the Auditor’s Financial Report for December 2004, and reviewed with the Board a few areas where
the percent to budget amount came in higher or lower than 100%.
WSU
– received donations at 141% of budget.
Extension grants are at 197% of budget,
an expenditure year to date of $108,000
in capital assets purchased
Planning – permit revenue is about 123% of budget,
with revenue received
From plan-checking at 326% of budget, collected approximately
$163,000 versus $50,000 originally
budgeted
Revenues
are up in the Auditor’s Office – collecting more in recorded documents than
Budgeted; also
received money for extra election expenses associated with the primary this
year.
Law Enforcement –
Jail overtime, Sheriff’s Office shift differential and Public Defense are a little over budget.
Treasurer
Treasurer Linda Riffe indicated on January 20th
that she would be unable to attend today’s meeting and provided copies of her
written Statement of Cash Operations
Revenue/Current Expense for the period ending December 31, 2004.
[Copies on file with the Clerk of the Board]
Greg Banks, Island County Prosecuting Attorney, commented on a proposed contract the Board would consider later today to hire the law firm of Dearborn & Moss PLLC. He believed the contract was neither good for the County as an institution nor for County taxpayers. Several years ago when the Superior Court Judges terminated the last contract for legal services with this firm, his deputies stepped in. The Board funded an additional Deputy Prosecutor to focus on land use and GMA issues. While initially at a severe disadvantage in the inherited pending litigation, a succession of two deputies emerged themselves in the record and did an outstanding job representing the County. He retooled the office to meet the needs of the GMA review and expected litigation, in particular with the critical areas update. One of his deputies was assigned primary responsibility for advising the Planning Department on land use issues, and is and has given them priority in his work, working closely and productively with Planning in preparing for the update. One of Mr. Banks’ concerns is that when Mr. Dearborn is finished with the work, the County will be in the situation of having little or no institutional knowledge in the Planning Department and no familiarity in his Office about what compromises were made to resolve areas of potential litigation. He respectfully disagreed with the sudden decision to bring an outside firm in to do the important work.
Diane Kendy, League of Women Voters of South Whidbey, Freeland, submitted a letter into the record addressing the Agreement for Legal and Consulting Services proposed with Dearborn & Moss PLLC, asking the following questions. The League would appreciate answers to those questions, in written form not necessary but preferable.
In view of the county’s general budget crunch why is
it spending that amount for outside counsel instead of using the in-house
services of its Planning Department or Prosecutor’s Office?
Since
GMA requires that Critical Areas Ordinances be based on Best Available Science,
why is the county hiring lawyers
instead of ecologists or biologists?
Is
there a conflict of interest for Alison
Moss, who is representing Nichols Brothers Boat Builders in a major case
currently before the county?
Exactly
where is the county finding $351,550 when other departments, including the Sheriff and Prosecutor, need more
personnel, and the Assessor, Treasurer and Auditor need to upgrade their
technical support?
Ms. Kendy acknowledged that some of the questions had been answered by Mr. Bakke at the roundtable this
morning.
In relation to the dollars expended for this
contract, Chairman Shelton commented that as Mr. Bakke mentioned this morning,
recognizing the need to update the GMA Comp Plan and the primary focus on the Critical Area ordinances, three years’ ago the county began to save
dollars for the program. The issue
raised about why other departments are
short of staff and how can the County afford to hire the attorney, he clarified
that the fees collected in Planning & Community and Development Department
are directly related to specific services rendered to the citizens and those
fees cannot be charged at a level that would alternatively support other
aspects of county government. It is hoped
that whoever the land use attorney is within the Prosecutor’s Office
will be involved in the development of the CAO as it goes along. The contract proposed with Keith Dearborn
takes the appeal process through the Hearings Board but does not address the
cost of going on to Superior Court.
Inasmuch as the Planning
Department pays for one-half
salary of a deputy prosecuting attorney
the Board hopes that attorney will be at the table should there be a Superior
Court process. With regard to possible conflict of interest, there is a Conflict Waiver that will be read
into the record disclosing other clients in the County and will address
that issue. Funding for a
biologist hopefully will also come
from planning fees collected. BAS is a
moving target at best. The legislature
was tasked last year with defining what BAS is and could not do so.
Commissioner McDowell emphasized that the
money that has been collecting from
building fees is for the general purpose of planning and cannot be used to fund other current expenses such hiring additional personnel in other
offices.
Contract/Contract Bond PW-0420-170
Interwest Corporation, Inc.
Woodland Beach Road Repair
(pulled at the request of the Public Works Director)
HEARING SCHEDULED: ORDINANCE #C-03-05/R-03-05 CLOSURE OF
PORTION OF OLD CORNET BAY ROAD
By unanimous motion, the Board scheduled a Public Hearing for the purpose of
considering Ordinance #C-03-05/R-03-05, the Closure of a Portion of Old Cornet
Bay Road located in Section 35, Township 34 North, Range 1 East, W.M. on
February 28, 2005 at 2:15 p.m.
As presented and recommended by Bill Oakes, Public
Works Director, the Board by unanimous motion approved and accepted a Quit
Claim Deed from Estela A. Avila related
to Bayview Road project CRP 98-17, with compensation in the amount
of $5,400.00 ($1,600.00/Land, $1,000.00/Trees & Landscaping,
$2,800.00/Fencing), Lot 41, Plat of
Lakeview Terrace, Division No. 1.
Certification of 2005 Road Levy – Annual Report to County Road Administration Board
As presented for approval by Mr. Oakes, the Board by
unanimous motion approved and signed Certification of 2005 Road Levy, the
Annual Report to the County Road Administration Board.
AWARD OF BID FOR Juvenile Detention Center - Ebenal General, Inc.
As presented and recommended for approval by Mr.
Oakes, along with Gary L. Hess, P.E., Public
Works Engineer, the Board by unanimous motion
awarded bid to the lowest bid quotation for the Island
County Juvenile Detention Center to Ebenal General, Inc., including Alternates
2 and 6, for a total of $5,333,233.50.
Amendment 3 - Contract with Washington Department of Ecology
By unanimous motion as presented, the Board approved
Amendment 3 to Contract PW-0420-171 between Island County and the State of Washington
Department of Ecology CZM310 Grant # G0400019, Deer Lagoon Property
Acquisition, amended to comply with federal
OMB circular regulations.
Contract/Contract Bond – Henkels & McCoy, Inc., Underground utility installation and satellite dish foundation
The Board, on unanimous motion, approved the
Contract and Contract Bond RM-PW-052001
as presented, between Island County
and Henkels & McCoy, Inc., for underground utility installation and
satellite dish foundation #PWP 04-03, Work Order 306 in the amount of
$20,705.00, Board signature authorized once contract is returned with signature
of contractor without substantial changes.
The Board by unanimous motion approved and signed
Amendment 2 to PW-0520-03 between Island County and the State of Washington
Department of Ecology, Grant #G0200361 to
revise the completion date to December 31, 2005 for the Freeland Water
Quality Improvement Report Project.
Associated with the Bradshaw Lane Outfall
PW-0420-166 the Board by unanimous
motion approved Drainage and Maintenance Agreement and Covenants with
SWDC, Inc., fee in lieu of detention.
Contract/Contract Bond -
Shinn Mechanical, Inc. - Law & Justice Building Modifications
Contract and Contract Bond #PW-0520-11 between Island County and Shinn Mechanical, Inc. for
Law & Justice Building Modifications in the amount of $19,537.32
(incl 8.3% WSST) was approved by unanimous motion of the Board with Board,
with signature authorized once the
contract and bond are returned with the
signature of contractor, without
substantial changes.
Agreement for Legal and Consulting Services with Dearborn & Moss PLLC (RM-PLAN-05-003)
Agreement for Legal and Consulting Services with
Dearborn & Moss PLLC (RM-PLAN-05-003) was presented Phil Bakke, Planning & Community
Development Director. As background,
he reiterated comments from earlier this morning during the Roundtable. In 1997 Island County put together an “Annual Review Amendment Process” for
reviewing the Comprehensive Plan and implementing development regulations. Each year since 1997 Planning undertook the
process with between four and twelve separate amendment items.
About three years’ ago Planning began discussing
with the Board the mandatory
pending GMA update and looked
internally at processes and how to approach the task. The decision was made to review as many components of the Plan
and Regulations as possible while leaving for this year the critical area
ordinances update. The main reason to
isolate the CAO update was because experience had shown that to be the most
controversial and most important section of review. Everyone plays a role in
protecting critical areas and has an
interest in the outcome of the review process. Over the past five years Planning worked hand in hand with the
Planning Commission, Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Public Works, Health
Department, State agencies and others as well as the Board of Commissioners, to
review the Plan, adopt new sections of code, respond to public input and make
it a more friendly and usable document.
The State Legislature has had
great difficulty in defining what Best Available Science (BSA) means, as has
Courts and all three Growth Management Hearings Boards. There is no standard; instead there is a
“hodgepodge” of science created from various places in the country, highly
subjective, highly legalistic. A
legalized approach to the update must
be taken to ensure a positive outcome both for the county and the citizens.
Mr. Dearborn ultimately was chosen because of his
extensive work with Island County, integrally involved in the 1984 and 1997 Comprehensive Plan and Development
Regulations review, adoption and defense, and
has a good deal of experience with members of the community. Mr. Dearborn has negotiated a contract with for $200 an hour, a rate
almost unheard of for a land use attorney with 30 + years’
experience. The two-year contract provides for the work to be broken
into four phases with the work completed for the contract amount, and the Mr. Bakke believes the contract represents a great value. While $351,550 is a great deal of money,
when put into perspective, it represents a great value to the County especially
when considering the depth and scope of work to be done. Mr. Bakke will personally be reviewing the
billings coming from the consultant on
the project.
Expenses associated with the update were anticipated
and was prudent financial planning on the part of the County. Planning & Community Development
building and land use application permit fees were increased, generating more
money than anticipated at that time and
resulted in a pooling of funds that
are available to spend on this contract as well as
other contracts dealing with professional biologists to help with the project. As a point of information Mr. Bakke commented about costs of other
consultants with Mr. Dearborn’s experience
around the state. For example,
Lewis County is paying $250/hr. to a
land use specialist working on
Comprehensive Plan updates; Skagit County’s contract is $280/hr. and
last year spent $380,000. Chairman Shelton noted the importance of
recognizing that Skagit County
attempted to do the work in-house for a number of years and is currently in the process of updating a
plan that has never been approved.
Planning
& Community Development is
prepared to apply as many as five full
time employees on and off through this update cycle, a much greater commitment
than in the past. The Department
currently funds half an FTE for the Prosecutor’s Office, and seek a great deal of professional legal advice on a
routine basis. This project is going to
come outside of that scope requiring someone who is an absolute expert in land
use.
The CAO update is broken into four aspects: scope of the update schedule; completing all
research studies necessary to support
conclusions and identify what needs to be done; preparing legislation for the
Board well as defending any
administrative appeals. The Department
also recommends the Board approve the Conflict Waiver; Mr. Bakke does not
believe that there is a conflict with Mr. Dearborn representing Island County
on this issue while Ms. Moss represents Nichols Brothers Boat Builders; these are separate issues.
The
Board, by unanimous motion, approved Waiver of Competitive Solicitation
Procurement Procedure under ICC
2.29.030 (B) (12) regarding Agreement
for Legal and Consulting Services with Dearborn & Moss PLLC .
Chairman
Shelton read for the record the Conflict Waiver from Keith W. Dearborn:
Section VII of the proposed Agreement between Island
County and Dearborn & Moss PLLC requires that we disclose to the County all
clients that our firm currently represents that are located in or do business
in the County. Please accept this
letter as the full disclosure required by the Agreement. Under the Agreement and the Rules of
Professional Conduct for lawyers you must consent to our continued
representation of such clients.
Dearborn & Moss represents one client that is
located in or conducts business in Island County -- Nichols Brothers Boat
Builders, Inc. Alison Moss is currently
helping Nichols obtain local, state and federal permits and approvals for the
continuing operation and modification of the Nichols facilities located in
Freeland. I understand that all pending County applications have been
determined to be complete and, therefore, will be considered under existing
County regulations. For this reason, we
believe any revisions to County regulations that may result from my work for
the County will have no affect on these pending applications.
All of the Nichols work has been and will remain the
responsibility of Alison Moss. Alison will have no involvement in the firm’s
work for Island County. We believe we can effectively represent both Nichols
and the County and that our representation of Nichols will not adversely affect
or limit our work for the County. Still the County must independently reach
this conclusion. Please consider this
matter carefully. We encourage the
Board to consult with County staff to ensure that it is fully aware of all
facts that relate to these pending applications that may bear on the services
you have requested that we provide the County.
If you agree to waive any actual or potential conflict of interest inherent
in Alison’s work for Nichols, please acknowledge by the appropriate signature
below.
By unanimous motion, the Board approved and authorized the Chairman’s signature on the Conflict Waiver from Keith W. Dearborn. [GMA #7727]
By unanimous motion, the Board approved the Agreement for Legal and Consulting Services with Dearborn & Moss PLLC for consulting and legal services to assist in the review and update of the GMA Critical Areas policies and regulations in the amount of $351,550 (#RM-PLAN-05-003). [GMA #7726]
Resolution #C-04 -05 (PLG-001-05) Incorporating the Service Area for the Saratoga Beach Owner’s Association into the Island County Coordinated Water System Plan
As presented and recommended for approval by Mr.
Bakke, the Board approved Resolution #C-04-05
(PLG-001-05) Incorporating the Service Area for the Saratoga Beach
Owner’s Association into the Island County Coordinated Water System Plan. [copy placed on file with the Clerk of the
Board]
HEARING SCHEDULED:
ORDINANCE #C-05-05 (PLG-022-04)
An Ordinance concerning technical amendments to the Island County Comprehensive
Plan Future Land Use Plan Map and the Island County Zoning Atlas (Maps 701
& 703)
As presented by Phil Bakke for scheduling, the Board by unanimous motion scheduled a Public
Hearing on Ordinance #C-05-05
(PLG-022-04) An Ordinance concerning technical amendments to
the Island County Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use
Plan Map and the Island County Zoning Atlas (Maps 701 & 703) to be held
on February 28, 2005 at 2:30 p.m. [GMA No. 7728]
Executive Session Announced
Chairman Shelton announced that the scheduled 3:00
p.m. (Chairman’s Agenda) Executive
Session would be held at 3:30 p.m. instead, held in Conference room #218,
Courthouse Administration Building. The
Executive Session is being held in accordance with R.C.W. 42.30.110 (1) (i)
to discuss with legal counsel
litigation. The session is not expected
to last longer than 30 minutes and no announced is anticipated on conclusion of
the session.
There being no further
business to come before the Board at
this time, meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.
There is no Board meting scheduled on January 31, 2005. The
next regular meeting of the Board will be February 7, 2005 beginning at
9:30 a.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
ISLAND COUNTY, WASHINGTON
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Mike Shelton, Chairman
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Wm. L. McDowell, Member
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William J. Byrd, Member
ATTEST: _______________________
Elaine Marlow
Clerk of the Board