I got one of the form letter emails from Ozias, which states, in part, "Now, due to the significant budget constraints we and all counties are experiencing, we are no longer in the position of being able to allocate funds to support the Conservation District." This is a major point. CCD is not a "must have", it's a "we wish we could have" non-essential organization that siphons off scarce budget dollars that could be spent on "must haves", like basic infrastructure or public safety. So instead of working within a budget that many believe already funds a bloated government, the commissioners instead choose to expand government any way they can. Welcome to the world of blue state progressivism ....
And Randy Johnson states that his priorities are (1) Public safety and (2) Roads yet supports the CCD bullying property owners into funding their programs, funding that is meant to replace funding the Clallam County Commissioners themselves have said they could no longer support. No.
The lyrics of the song Slip Kid by the Who, from 1975, succinctly describe the situation that has developed during the past several years; "No easy way to be free..." No truer words have ever been spoken; recall how our Republic came to be. Believe them, indeed, and act accordingly.
Kirsten, that is why you keep reading my free pizza thing. At $10,000 a year the homeless don't need pizza parties, they have more than enough access to food...food banks and Snap (food benefits on a card to swipe at almost anywhere), it's been cut back to $300 a month per single person, but use to be significantly more)
Why in God's name "Free Pizza Handouts"? Pizza isn't even a healthy food choice.
You think us private land owners don’t take care of the air or water. I have taken many steps to do this exact thing spending 10,000 of dollars ensuring my trees and water. I see a neighboring property having horse manure piled up close to a major creek and neighbors reporting the issue no one has taken care of this.
I don’t need the help of CCD, I feel it’s another money grab, employees make more than the average worker, another useless NGO etc.
Our state has many government departments that take care of our trees and water.
As far as farmers which I’m a homesteader, many think this group is an over reach and I agree.
Ozias is setting himself up for a continued job in case he loses an election, time for new blood as we say
I’m circulating the petition around in my neighborhood and glad to do it.
Chris, if you were the theme of movies like 'Dances With Wolves' or 'Last of the Mohicans' you'd be able to take care of the air or water. As is, it's not in your ancestry. Sorry for that. Of course this is meant to be sarcastic, of course we all know the benefits of taking care of our lands. People aren't born with the knowledge, they learn.
Did the Indians really take care of the land, or did they just use up the resources in an area and move on to another area? When they had done the same there, perhaps they could move back if the first area had restored itself. That not “stewardship.”
I don’t believe animal husbandry or agriculture was widespread, and it’s why they could be unfriendly to other tribes and settlers when population pressure impinged on their way of life.
Were they concerned about making the pie bigger for everyone or just dividing the pie? What they seem to be doing now is the latter. Look at “water adjudication” and the items Jeff has disclosed. It’s about special interests and beggaring your neighbors. There’s a large dose of racism. Inbreeding at its finest.
America is about making the pie bigger for all, just the opposite of what we are getting in Clallam County. (Can you discern why abortion and depopulation is so important for some?).
Have you ever driven through many of these reservations, sorry to say they are the most polluters, I see trash everywhere, trash bags piled high in pick up trucks that are broke down, etc and they care so much about the earth? 🤣
JKT is not the tribe. It is a foreign for-profit capitalist corporation which has a gambling 'front' through which millions of dollars are laundered.
It is a political and financial overthrow of our governance and our way of life.
It is a juggernaut corporation which does not have to operate by any lawful rules...they create their own...purchase and install politicians and control our collective fate.
I’d like to see the Indians still on reservations do better, but not behave like JKT. I believe most Indians have assimilated well. Wish we heard more about them. I always thought that one of my aunts was one. I’ve began to question that recently and there’s no one left to ask. She was a great lady.
I went to Junior High and High School with a few Indian kids. One became a Facebook friend some years back. We were not close in school. My last recollection of him is freshman gym class. We were on the same side in dodgeball.
He became a Marine, served in Vietnam with the 311th Aviation Bn in Chu Lai, if I recall correctly. He enjoyed attending the 311’s reunions. He was an iron worker and a movie actor. Member of Screen Actors and was in two? movies. He was a family man, member of two tribes, and a storyteller.
Many Indians have contributed wonderfully to America, and the CC Clowns of whatever race can’t diminish that.
I to have many friends that are Indians, even dated a few in my early years. I still keep in touch with many. I worked for 6 different tribes at the same time and dealt with many of the issues. Many of the elders say that the government made this generation to lazy, they rely on their stipend and won’t get a job but many of my Indian friends have become successful without the help of their tribes, most tribes are to broke to really help the young ones succeed. I can’t help remember drug testing a young 14 yr old for a summer job, she had already given birth to 3 kids she had no youth
Chris, so many of the Elders in different tribes have expressed the same thing as you are saying, that reliance on government money was the worst thing that happened to their youth.
The Sequim City residents are hit with TRIPLE trouble 🤑🤑.
CITY TAX INCREASES, COUNTY TAX INCREASES & THE LARGEST STATE TAX INCREASE IN THE HISTORY OF WASHINGTON!
More people who will be unable to hold their heads above water.
Big government, big wants like politician Ozias’ pet projects all over this state and people wonder why things cost so much to survive……take a look people it’s right in your face!
We are warning the Commissioner (I know you are reading this) you are sitting on a powder keg. Just the mention of $5 MORE and the reactions of the citizens should have your 'Spidey Senses' on the highest alert.
Seems to mebtha Ozais' writtings and your, Jeff, putting this togetherbis a prima facia case of conflict of interest. Where the heck is the County prosecuting attorney...asleep?
I was thinking what comes out the other end. Their plant sale is window dressing to get people to like them because of the deal they offer to buy plants at a reduced cost, which is still our tax dollars.
Exactly right, and supportive of my point that it's done to gain support on the backs of our tax dollars. Look how great we are, using your money to gain power. Hmmm, sounds like another entity we know around here. Covid shots anyone?
Robert, did you know that the CDC recommends 40 shots to our children by the age of 18 (does not include boosters)?
I know when I was working, at birth we gave 3 shots to a newborns in their tender little thighs, plus jabbed their heels to get blood for genetic test. They since stopped the 3 shots to one shot at birth because the mother's immunity was sufficient.
I personally prefer Kennedy's recommendations and support his research of autism and what is causing such a huge increase. I'M NOT TRYING TO CONVINCE ANYONE, WE ALL CAN DO OUR OWN RESEARCH AND DECISIONS AND I RESPECT THAT.
We need to import some of that 🐫💩so our plants can grow more better.
Maybe the desert dung will help our plants adapt to the droughts being created all over the place.
Spokane River has gone dry in a few spots.
We don't have many hydro-cycles left if we don't get better snow packs...pray for that...visualize that...hope for that...we will be another LA, drinking processed sewage water before long.😨 I don't KNOW know that the droughts are humanoid created but I DO know that psychopathic entities ARE manipulating weather at a mass scale with radar/microwaves, HAARP frequencies, aerial spraying, etc.
The patents are real, the technology exists, the video evidence is real, the science/lab testing for contaminants is real, the satellite imagery is (hopefully) real.
See 'Geoengineering Watch' with Dane 'Wigington' for more on the subject(s).😎
Putin lived in poverty as a child...one day he cornered a rat in the kitchen and was going to 'get it'. It reared up and bared its teeth in defiance and Putin thought 'I'm like that rat...nobody better try to 'corner' me!' And the thought carries him to this day...cornered animals can be dangerous...kommissars don't know that lesson...yet!
In prior years this would all be lumped together and given the proper term of "conflict of interest". In a state that spends an inordinate amount of time talking about how there should be 'no kings' you have abdicated all of your fiscal responsibility to Ozias and his cronies to do as they please, all in the name of 'helping' you while helping themselves to your money. Clallam County has been granted, funded, taxed, and charitable gifted to the verge of bankruptcy. You ever hear that old phrase "throwing good money after bad"? This is the living example of that. You need to turn off that faucet until you figure out why there are so many leaks. Maybe an audit needs to be done on all those involved.
Excellent comment. Thank you. We are (Clallam County as well as the state of Washington) are going down the road similarly to the city of Bell, California -runaway spending, while the citizenry is either asleep at the wheel (ignorantly complacent that our elected officials are being good stewards),or enthusiastic to have our nanny stat, that they feel is funded by the ‘rich’ while their own pockets are picked by the state and local government.
We are living in a time when we ALL need to be belt tightening. It’s no time for additional taxes or ‘fees’.
Most of these commie-leftist 'voters' must have a lot of undeserved/unearned income to splash around, voting in endless taxation without representation.
Or, they are low income activists who just want more gov't teat to parasite on!
Conflict of interest was number 2 or 3 concern of Clallam County residents surveyed and the team of liberals on the County Charter Review ignored their ability to do something about “conflict of interests”. The liberal team was more concerned with establishing a paid position for “water steward”. The liberals have their agenda & then there is the public agenda….
Talk about Kings and servants! SERN’s fiscal agent is the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe—Commissioner Ozias’ top campaign donor.
Page 4 of Jamestown Tribe September newsletter: The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s 2025 Honoring Our Elders Luncheon will celebrate the Allen family, including honorees Ron, Jeff, Jerry, Robin (posthumously) and Jerelyn Allen.
Join the Tribe to honor these Elders from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 7 Cedars Casino and Resort’s Club Seven. The event will include an opening song and prayer from Lisa Barrell, GUEST SPEAKERS, a luncheon, blanketing and OPPORTUNITIES FOR REMARKS.
A GROUP OF ROOMS at the 7 Cedars Hotel will be blocked off and available for OUT–OF–AREA ATTENDEES.
Must be a pretty major event just to honor the Allen family and to block off a group of rooms for out of town guest and include opportunities for remarks. Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall for this GALA event? How many people going are involved in NGO’s and elected officials who will have OPPORTUNITIES FOR REMARKS? It’s as mysterious as a paid Poet Laureate.
Jeff, this may be your most important article since Towne Road. Thank you for outlining how our Comprehensive Plan, Shoreline Master Program and the Growth Management Act are being shaped without our input.
CCW demonstrated that Clallam Conservation District plays critical role in this process that undermines our interests and our will...and the Commissioners want to force us to fund them with a fee that will place a lien on our homes if refuse.
It is time for us to unite in one thundering voice...let's keep the petition signatures rolling! Add a "0" to the original goal: let's get 990!
Super article, Jeff! So many organizations to work through, but you clarified each one . Thank you. I wonder why I didn't get an Ozias form letter? The "No Kings" protests are blatantly identifying the Left's current position - the Progressive Left wants to rule the peasants of the County as a monarchy. No laws apply to them, circumvent all rules and regulations, tax them beyond their means, pay off attorneys and judges, isolate them from the real world through censorship (and with some people use guilt), and above all call them names to demoralize their spirit. Everyone in CC is too smart to not notice this. The problem is these people maybe friends, family, or coworkers. Stay strong CC, and stand up for yourself, your freedom, and your spirit. Return the Trojan Horse to "Sender" and refuse any store credit. Sign the petition!
Politicians long ago learned to use buzz words to get people to go along with their schemes .," clean water" ", clean air" " it's for the children " " it's for the salmon " " save the Spotted Owl " my favorite " it's just 1 %" all the while to increase their power ,lock in the Union vote by creating another alphabet soup agency with their power points pamphlets paying people big wages to plant a few trees give out info that anyone could find 2 sec with AI ? All so the politicians can get the Big Union vote and. Donation money that guarantees their next election ..While that 5 fee is taken out of the " natural economy " which is people buying goods and services which supports small business which generates taxes to fund government necessary services like law enforcement ,fire " good hospitals ," gives people jobs so they don't go on welfare which turns to drug ,alcohol addiction which turns to petty crime to pay for drugs which creates a downward spiral ruins lives not only them ,but their children so they get on drugs because of abuse in the home and creates another generation society has to take care of makes no economic sense ? Which explains a why Port Angeles is a ghost town of small business why restaurant parking lots are empty noon time .no body can afford it .
I too received the Ozias form letter. Gosh I'm honor for such a personal response. ".....we are no longer in the position of being able to allocate funds to support... Then don't fund it. Walk away from the cash machine, out of order, "no mas".
I consider myself a charitable person and if I don't have the means to make a donation, I don't. Simply, "Don't". I don't ask a friend to chip in my portion or sit on the corner and beg. Stop this taxation by fees. Sign the petition that is being circulated.
Here is my response to Commissioner Ozias’s email: Clerk Gores, please file this as late correspondence for the Sept. 2, 2025, public hearing on the CCD rates & charges agenda item, and forward it to all Commissioners; if the cutoff has passed, please note it in the hearing record and provide it to the Board before deliberation.
Commissioner Ozias,
Thank you for the thoughtful note. I can accept the 10-year term you and the Board prefer if the resolution includes a simple, lawful Nonbenefited Lands = $0 classification under RCW 89.08.405. That keeps the fee performance-based: parcels pay when CCD services/benefits are actually furnished or practically available during the term—not “just in case.”
For me personally, that means my residential parcels should be in Nonbenefited Lands ($0) until I elect to use CCD services (at which point the charge can apply prospectively).
The Nonbenefited → Benefited concept by using the classification discretion in RCW 89.08.405, which expressly allows rates to reflect services furnished or available, benefits received or available, land use/character, and other reasonable distinctions, and by borrowing the ‘benefit principle’ from RCW 89.08.400(3) (where non-benefited lands aren’t charged). In practice, parcels start in a Nonbenefited Lands ($0) class when no CCD service or practical program access is furnished or reasonably available during the term. When a parcel actually receives a service or enters a CCD program (e.g., a funded project, cost-share award, or formal enrollment), it converts prospectively to a benefited class and the charge applies beginning with the next tax year. This keeps the fee performance-based owners pay when there’s real service/benefit while incentivizing CCD outreach and delivery. A simple one-page claim and plain-language appeal standard make the process workable for residents and staff.
Below is paste-ready text you could amend in the resolution without changing your other guardrails.
Minimal insertion #1 — Finding (authority)
WHEREAS, RCW 89.08.405(2)(a)–(c) and (f) authorize the Board to set classes and rates
considering services furnished or available, benefits received or available, the character
and use of the land, and other reasonable distinctions; and
Minimal insertion #2 — Add a class to the rate table
7 – Nonbenefited Lands $0.00 per parcel / year
Minimal insertion #3 — Definition + simple process
Nonbenefited Lands — Definition & Process.
(1) Definition. “Nonbenefited Lands” are parcels that do not receive, and are not reasonably
expected to receive during the term of this system, services or benefits from District
programs, considering services furnished or available, benefits received or available,
the character and use of the land, and other reasonable distinctions.
(2) Simple claim. Within 30 days, the District will post a one-page claim form (online/email/
mail/in-person). Approved parcels are classified at $0 for the remainder of the term,
unless converted under subsection (3).
(3) Conversion rule. When a parcel receives a District service or a written program enrollment/
award for that parcel, the classification changes prospectively beginning with the next
tax year; the District shall notify the owner of the change.
(4) Coordination. Approved classifications shall be transmitted to the Assessor/Treasurer for
roll updates and adjustments/refunds as applicable.
Minimal insertion #4 — One sentence to appeal (end of existing paragraph)
For Nonbenefited Lands claims, appeals may be filed online/email/mail/in-person without
prepayment; when the owner provides credible documentation, the District bears the burden
to establish the correct classification by a preponderance of the evidence.
This approach does not undermine CCD’s mission; it rewards outreach and delivery. If CCD reaches a parcel class with real, practical offerings this term, they can charge it; if not, owners aren’t billed. It’s a fair middle ground that should help with public trust and compliance.
Dr Sarah, quite the time, thought through wording and effort in the letter and thank you so much, but as of today and their interactions, I truly feel what Ozias read (if he even read it) was "Commissioner Ozias, here is my response (blinders on) blah blah and blah. A shame we all put so much effort into a mind that won't budge unless he's backed into a corner and that's what we are all doing with our letters and petitions. I pity the Commissioners if they don't back down on the $5 issue.
Absolutely! I don’t claim to be right, just here trying to get it right and work within the rcws to aim towards the collective goal of sustainability…not perfect but maybe progress, right?
Socialism knows no bounds...the collective...the collective...the collective...that's not us, of course...it's THEM...they ARE 'the collective'...we are the means for their collective success!
We don't need ANY of this crap with the internet and knowledgeable community members helping each other out...There are multiple generations of welfare recipients within the gov't, doing meaningless activities... they can get real jobs like most of us have had to have and now are being taxed and regulated out of our homes and off of the land we rent from the county!😱. Too much...way too much!😎
jeff, I would still like to know who funded the clean up of gas spill by a tribal gas truck. If you take out a guard rail and can be identified, you pay for it. We know who caused the gas spill.
I am sure the tribal fuel truck insurance co will be held liable.But getting back to lagoon flood nobody has been held liable which would most likely take court action.JKT will not take responsibility on their own.
jeff, don't be sure of anything. I'm not sure any insurance pays for anything if there are mitigating circumstances. This all got quiet too quickly IMO. Had it been
any other nontribal gas truck, it would have been played to the hilt.
Still, why haven't we heard more about it either way?
The CC gov't is a wholly owned subsidiary of JKT...no use expecting any logical, common sense outcomes...'it's a big club, and we ain't in it!' G. Carlin😎
😎Totem poles tie back to the Chinese, so our 'regional' natives are Chinese DNA...all the way to Tierra del Fuego. Lots of other mix-ins of course but the Chinese history is strong.
See Gavin Menzies '1421' and '1434' books about the Chinese navy in the 1400's. Fascinating history. The Chinese are buying up our farmland and their latter day offspring are buying up CC...coincidence?😎
Full out anarchy is almost becoming preferable to another suffocating, oppressing regime. At least we could act in a meaningful way, for survival.
Not my call, but I would do my part with what I have left, of this withering body.😊
It may sound red necked, stubborn and unconsidered, but no new taxes is based in very reliable logic. Governance is a self sustaining and self promoting insatiable beast. Regardless of the best of intentions, once a tax teat is latched onto it changes the Government versus private ratio permanently. It takes us one more step closer to Communism. History proves private enterprise is far more efficient at most anything than Government. Look at all the space travel investments we have made in NASA and like institutions. Space X, a private company, is not only rescuing our astronauts that Government cannot, but bringing horribly expensive rocket launch modules that Government disposes after each use back to rest at their launch pad. The disparity in efficiency is not simply obvious; it is an embarrassment. It is proof positive that Government is the most inefficient of all options at unessential services. I'm not seeing our Clallam County water resources in jeopardy from either availability or pollution. Both of those possibilities will become glaringly self evident. We already have in place Government to manage our water resources. If water quality needs more investment, reallocate existing taxation. Are arts, culture, celebrations, drug treatment and various minority-ism projects essential services ? If not, reallocate that money.
Reallocation seems to be beyond the comprehension of BOCCC. They need an outside entity to advise them. Like us! As Mike French's best president ever said, "C'mon Man".
Well, stubborn rednecks are mostly country boys....'AND A COUNTRY BOY CAN SURVIVE!' Hank Williams Jr.
If I come back, I'm gonna be a gator-wrastlin', moon-shine makin', gun-totin', swamp swimmin', ocean crossin', mountain climbin', cliff-jumpin', love makin', coyote chasin', snake charmin', man of the world!
Old men can still dream, eh?😝 A regular Rob-a-dile Dundee!😂
We are not 'stepping' towards communism...we have communists at the helm right now...controlled by capitalists...as usual!
Capitalism...our sacred cow of finance, industry and wealth...(while unrestrained by morals and ethics), uses communism, fascism, anarchy and any other tool to profit and gain.
This is a Psychological/Spiritual problem facing humanity since our 'created' beginnings.
You don't have to be religious to read the Bible-OT and take it literally...as a highly redacted historical document...we came into being at the whim of some 'god-like' beings who decided how long we would live and how intelligent we would be...a calculated decision, for a calculated purpose...to serve and work for them.
Monkey see monkey do...re: all the genetic abominations being experi(mentally) carried out around the world...the number of bio-weapons labs is staggering...are a carry over or carry-on of our initial 'creation' story and the 'fallen ones' who brought our body-forms into being. 'They are not God but 'gods'...intelligent, self-serving entities with the same good and evil in them, canted heavily towards evil as borne out by the global human condition.
Then read all the horrors induced by 'god(s)'...war, genocide, sacrifices, idol worship, environmental devastation and brutal domination...these things were not just allegories and metaphors...they happened...it's history...our progenitors MADE us in THEIR image and likeness...not a flattering scenario.
We have goodness in us as well, but as the old quote says...'The line between good and evil runs right through the middle of every human heart.' A. Solzhenitsyn
This we are witnessing every day. The line can and does shift depending on circumstances and individuals, it's all in flux and we are all capable of anything.
I think it comes down to choices, repentance (within yourself) when in error, and new choices, over and over again...Strange world! Stranger by the day!😎
I got one of the form letter emails from Ozias, which states, in part, "Now, due to the significant budget constraints we and all counties are experiencing, we are no longer in the position of being able to allocate funds to support the Conservation District." This is a major point. CCD is not a "must have", it's a "we wish we could have" non-essential organization that siphons off scarce budget dollars that could be spent on "must haves", like basic infrastructure or public safety. So instead of working within a budget that many believe already funds a bloated government, the commissioners instead choose to expand government any way they can. Welcome to the world of blue state progressivism ....
Robert, I couldn't have phrased it better than you..."that could be spent on "must haves", like basic infrastructure or public safety"
Must have
(1) More police?
(2) More soil testing?
And Randy Johnson states that his priorities are (1) Public safety and (2) Roads yet supports the CCD bullying property owners into funding their programs, funding that is meant to replace funding the Clallam County Commissioners themselves have said they could no longer support. No.
Talk is cheap. When someone shows you who they are....believe them.
The lyrics of the song Slip Kid by the Who, from 1975, succinctly describe the situation that has developed during the past several years; "No easy way to be free..." No truer words have ever been spoken; recall how our Republic came to be. Believe them, indeed, and act accordingly.
Eric What is important doesn't matter, it's all about trading Monopoly Money and Wampums.
And free pizza!!
It sure ain’t free pizza for those of us paying for it to be free. 🤷♀️ just saying
Kirsten, that is why you keep reading my free pizza thing. At $10,000 a year the homeless don't need pizza parties, they have more than enough access to food...food banks and Snap (food benefits on a card to swipe at almost anywhere), it's been cut back to $300 a month per single person, but use to be significantly more)
Why in God's name "Free Pizza Handouts"? Pizza isn't even a healthy food choice.
Not even the air is free, we have to suck it in...or else!😎
And the air sure ain't 'free' of 'stuff' being injected into it!
'Ride the painted pony, let the spinnin' wheel ride!'
I just realized... we are all (cowboy and cowgirl gamblers), THAT'S why we're here!
AFB, right on, a MEAT LOVERS PIZZA!!!
They can 'BOOF' their pizza!😱
LOL!
Reading their stuff from SERN, they are getting you to pay them to "rechannel " you to a Urban Growth Area (UGA)..
Right to the point as always...thanks John!🤨
Read the lines and in-between, that's where they hide their 'gold' and 'green'!🤓
You think us private land owners don’t take care of the air or water. I have taken many steps to do this exact thing spending 10,000 of dollars ensuring my trees and water. I see a neighboring property having horse manure piled up close to a major creek and neighbors reporting the issue no one has taken care of this.
I don’t need the help of CCD, I feel it’s another money grab, employees make more than the average worker, another useless NGO etc.
Our state has many government departments that take care of our trees and water.
As far as farmers which I’m a homesteader, many think this group is an over reach and I agree.
Ozias is setting himself up for a continued job in case he loses an election, time for new blood as we say
I’m circulating the petition around in my neighborhood and glad to do it.
Chris, if you were the theme of movies like 'Dances With Wolves' or 'Last of the Mohicans' you'd be able to take care of the air or water. As is, it's not in your ancestry. Sorry for that. Of course this is meant to be sarcastic, of course we all know the benefits of taking care of our lands. People aren't born with the knowledge, they learn.
Did the Indians really take care of the land, or did they just use up the resources in an area and move on to another area? When they had done the same there, perhaps they could move back if the first area had restored itself. That not “stewardship.”
I don’t believe animal husbandry or agriculture was widespread, and it’s why they could be unfriendly to other tribes and settlers when population pressure impinged on their way of life.
Were they concerned about making the pie bigger for everyone or just dividing the pie? What they seem to be doing now is the latter. Look at “water adjudication” and the items Jeff has disclosed. It’s about special interests and beggaring your neighbors. There’s a large dose of racism. Inbreeding at its finest.
America is about making the pie bigger for all, just the opposite of what we are getting in Clallam County. (Can you discern why abortion and depopulation is so important for some?).
Have you ever driven through many of these reservations, sorry to say they are the most polluters, I see trash everywhere, trash bags piled high in pick up trucks that are broke down, etc and they care so much about the earth? 🤣
JKT is not the tribe. It is a foreign for-profit capitalist corporation which has a gambling 'front' through which millions of dollars are laundered.
It is a political and financial overthrow of our governance and our way of life.
It is a juggernaut corporation which does not have to operate by any lawful rules...they create their own...purchase and install politicians and control our collective fate.
What is to be done?🤓
Ozias’ bank roll is what I see.
He's an agent all right...bought and paid for while grifting and grafting off of us!🥸
I’d like to see the Indians still on reservations do better, but not behave like JKT. I believe most Indians have assimilated well. Wish we heard more about them. I always thought that one of my aunts was one. I’ve began to question that recently and there’s no one left to ask. She was a great lady.
I went to Junior High and High School with a few Indian kids. One became a Facebook friend some years back. We were not close in school. My last recollection of him is freshman gym class. We were on the same side in dodgeball.
He became a Marine, served in Vietnam with the 311th Aviation Bn in Chu Lai, if I recall correctly. He enjoyed attending the 311’s reunions. He was an iron worker and a movie actor. Member of Screen Actors and was in two? movies. He was a family man, member of two tribes, and a storyteller.
Many Indians have contributed wonderfully to America, and the CC Clowns of whatever race can’t diminish that.
I to have many friends that are Indians, even dated a few in my early years. I still keep in touch with many. I worked for 6 different tribes at the same time and dealt with many of the issues. Many of the elders say that the government made this generation to lazy, they rely on their stipend and won’t get a job but many of my Indian friends have become successful without the help of their tribes, most tribes are to broke to really help the young ones succeed. I can’t help remember drug testing a young 14 yr old for a summer job, she had already given birth to 3 kids she had no youth
Chris, so many of the Elders in different tribes have expressed the same thing as you are saying, that reliance on government money was the worst thing that happened to their youth.
Sad this still goes on, we are 'the fallen' in many ways.🫣
Don...How dare you speak the truth!? You must be one of those right-wing whacko nut jobs that believes in constitutional law and law and order!
Don't you know where you are?
This is Commie Clown County and it belongs to the 'Injuns'!
Don't you forget it, Mister!😱🤣
John Wayne Quote To Unleash Your Inner Cowboy
“Well, there’s just some things a man can’t run away from.”
Dang, I LIKE that one!😊
Correct like everything else in history, we learn from our past
NOzias and 'the tribe' are 'learning' us real good!
We've been HACKED!😱
Good day CCWD,
Please, everyone do research on the Sequim Comprehensive Plan.
This article will make sense to you.
There is an Agenda.
This LETTER by ozias. FLUFF.
He thinks he is dealing with dummies.
Just to reference the letter, “It used to be covered by the general fund” he says.
No shit.💥
Thank you Jeff for digging, you and your dad.
Everyone can dig, it is right in front of our eyes.
They sit back and chuckle.
We have become a society of norms.
Accepting “ALL”.
I don’t accept it.
Stop accepting it.
Look what Jeff and others have done to uncover the lies we are being made to believe.
Thank you Jake for putting this document together for us.
*Will anyone here be attending Tuesday’s meeting?
Isn’t this re: the County Budget?
btw-
Anyone see the rate increase coming from “City of Sequim”
*WATER - UP 5.5%
*SEWER - UP 4.5%
* General Facility Charges - UP 3.%
(Though 2030)
I will attach the Sequim Gazette.
We need to show up in TROVES.
Take time off, ask them to pay you for “Civic Duty”.
ha. ha.
I know it is not easy to free away from work.
This is exactly their plan.
We are Meddling.
Keep on Meddling!
💥🇺🇸
Foil their plan.
https://www.sequimgazette.com/news/council-approves-five-year-plan-to-increase-utilities-starting-in-2026/
As I recall they plan to vote on this at the Sept. 16th meeting after the "revisions" they requested are made.
That is what i thought i read. 😏
The Sequim City residents are hit with TRIPLE trouble 🤑🤑.
CITY TAX INCREASES, COUNTY TAX INCREASES & THE LARGEST STATE TAX INCREASE IN THE HISTORY OF WASHINGTON!
More people who will be unable to hold their heads above water.
Big government, big wants like politician Ozias’ pet projects all over this state and people wonder why things cost so much to survive……take a look people it’s right in your face!
We are warning the Commissioner (I know you are reading this) you are sitting on a powder keg. Just the mention of $5 MORE and the reactions of the citizens should have your 'Spidey Senses' on the highest alert.
Ferguscum has already 'blocked' any federal law enforcement or troops from assisting in the case of civil unrest!
What could that possibly mean???🧐
We “bleed” $$ so the commissioner’s can feed their master’s plan.
💥💥
Blood money!~💰😱
Beware the resolution allowing the city council to approve forming a new LUD instead of you
Seems to mebtha Ozais' writtings and your, Jeff, putting this togetherbis a prima facia case of conflict of interest. Where the heck is the County prosecuting attorney...asleep?
Corrupt. Harold, the horrors of how decadent and corrupt gov't has become is truly beyond comprehension!
When we seek truth...the answers are often painful and undesirable,
but it is what it is !😎
Well-stated, and accurate, Robert.
$5.00 is merely the ‘nose’ of the camel.
I was thinking what comes out the other end. Their plant sale is window dressing to get people to like them because of the deal they offer to buy plants at a reduced cost, which is still our tax dollars.
Their plant sale was a financial failure.
Exactly right, and supportive of my point that it's done to gain support on the backs of our tax dollars. Look how great we are, using your money to gain power. Hmmm, sounds like another entity we know around here. Covid shots anyone?
They are gearing up for the jabs and lockdowns again.
Mass non-compliance is a dream response but we'll see!😎
Robert, did you know that the CDC recommends 40 shots to our children by the age of 18 (does not include boosters)?
I know when I was working, at birth we gave 3 shots to a newborns in their tender little thighs, plus jabbed their heels to get blood for genetic test. They since stopped the 3 shots to one shot at birth because the mother's immunity was sufficient.
I personally prefer Kennedy's recommendations and support his research of autism and what is causing such a huge increase. I'M NOT TRYING TO CONVINCE ANYONE, WE ALL CAN DO OUR OWN RESEARCH AND DECISIONS AND I RESPECT THAT.
It's pretty blatant and hard to imagine what will become of the young if their caregivers allow this draconian protocol to continue.
And it's hugely profitable with no liability or accountability.
I believe vaccines can be useful, but now, how can Pharma-gov. ever be trusted again?
Who would do such things?
Thank You for your service!😊
William+MK: The other end of the Camel?🐫
We need to import some of that 🐫💩so our plants can grow more better.
Maybe the desert dung will help our plants adapt to the droughts being created all over the place.
Spokane River has gone dry in a few spots.
We don't have many hydro-cycles left if we don't get better snow packs...pray for that...visualize that...hope for that...we will be another LA, drinking processed sewage water before long.😨 I don't KNOW know that the droughts are humanoid created but I DO know that psychopathic entities ARE manipulating weather at a mass scale with radar/microwaves, HAARP frequencies, aerial spraying, etc.
The patents are real, the technology exists, the video evidence is real, the science/lab testing for contaminants is real, the satellite imagery is (hopefully) real.
See 'Geoengineering Watch' with Dane 'Wigington' for more on the subject(s).😎
Where's Elon Musk when you need him!
Headed for Mars, I think...he's outta here!😁
Camels are THIRSTY!
CASH CAMELS ARE THE WORST!😎
Great article. Its just an international rabbit hole of "window dressing" and "greenwashing' designed to punish property owners and white colonizers..
Succinct!😊
Putin lived in poverty as a child...one day he cornered a rat in the kitchen and was going to 'get it'. It reared up and bared its teeth in defiance and Putin thought 'I'm like that rat...nobody better try to 'corner' me!' And the thought carries him to this day...cornered animals can be dangerous...kommissars don't know that lesson...yet!
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The Kommissars are 'house slaves'. Woe to them when they have to live in the 'real world'.
Like cops in prison... Not the happiest of times!🤓
In prior years this would all be lumped together and given the proper term of "conflict of interest". In a state that spends an inordinate amount of time talking about how there should be 'no kings' you have abdicated all of your fiscal responsibility to Ozias and his cronies to do as they please, all in the name of 'helping' you while helping themselves to your money. Clallam County has been granted, funded, taxed, and charitable gifted to the verge of bankruptcy. You ever hear that old phrase "throwing good money after bad"? This is the living example of that. You need to turn off that faucet until you figure out why there are so many leaks. Maybe an audit needs to be done on all those involved.
Excellent comment. Thank you. We are (Clallam County as well as the state of Washington) are going down the road similarly to the city of Bell, California -runaway spending, while the citizenry is either asleep at the wheel (ignorantly complacent that our elected officials are being good stewards),or enthusiastic to have our nanny stat, that they feel is funded by the ‘rich’ while their own pockets are picked by the state and local government.
We are living in a time when we ALL need to be belt tightening. It’s no time for additional taxes or ‘fees’.
Most of these commie-leftist 'voters' must have a lot of undeserved/unearned income to splash around, voting in endless taxation without representation.
Or, they are low income activists who just want more gov't teat to parasite on!
Or they are just insane...or all of the above!😊
Conflict of interest was number 2 or 3 concern of Clallam County residents surveyed and the team of liberals on the County Charter Review ignored their ability to do something about “conflict of interests”. The liberal team was more concerned with establishing a paid position for “water steward”. The liberals have their agenda & then there is the public agenda….
No board of ethics...no ethics!
No supervision with enforcement abilities=corruption.
What is the antidote for intentional evil?👿
Talk about Kings and servants! SERN’s fiscal agent is the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe—Commissioner Ozias’ top campaign donor.
Page 4 of Jamestown Tribe September newsletter: The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s 2025 Honoring Our Elders Luncheon will celebrate the Allen family, including honorees Ron, Jeff, Jerry, Robin (posthumously) and Jerelyn Allen.
https://jamestowntribe.org/events-announcements/newsletters/
Join the Tribe to honor these Elders from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 7 Cedars Casino and Resort’s Club Seven. The event will include an opening song and prayer from Lisa Barrell, GUEST SPEAKERS, a luncheon, blanketing and OPPORTUNITIES FOR REMARKS.
A GROUP OF ROOMS at the 7 Cedars Hotel will be blocked off and available for OUT–OF–AREA ATTENDEES.
RSVP to Liz Barbee at 360-681-4600 or 360-683-1109, or email to lbarbee@jamestowntribe.org.
Must be a pretty major event just to honor the Allen family and to block off a group of rooms for out of town guest and include opportunities for remarks. Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall for this GALA event? How many people going are involved in NGO’s and elected officials who will have OPPORTUNITIES FOR REMARKS? It’s as mysterious as a paid Poet Laureate.
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Sovereign Power
Excludes You
Well, we know where Ozias, 24th LD reps, the governor, and Emily Randall will be on that date and time.
Follow the money…
4rs....yuppers! And you can gamble while you're there
Roses Red
Violets Blue
BOCC smells like Poo!💩🤣
Robert, you are our own CCWD Poet Laureate and you cost nothing. Then again, I wouldn't pay for that poem ; )
That was my inner 5 year old...rambunctious little guy!🤓
He doesn't need money, yet!💰
Jeff, this may be your most important article since Towne Road. Thank you for outlining how our Comprehensive Plan, Shoreline Master Program and the Growth Management Act are being shaped without our input.
CCW demonstrated that Clallam Conservation District plays critical role in this process that undermines our interests and our will...and the Commissioners want to force us to fund them with a fee that will place a lien on our homes if refuse.
It is time for us to unite in one thundering voice...let's keep the petition signatures rolling! Add a "0" to the original goal: let's get 990!
If we 'get' this one we have to ROLL, as they 'might' throw us a bone...this is the 'thin end of the camel'...I do love mixed metaphors!😊
Super article, Jeff! So many organizations to work through, but you clarified each one . Thank you. I wonder why I didn't get an Ozias form letter? The "No Kings" protests are blatantly identifying the Left's current position - the Progressive Left wants to rule the peasants of the County as a monarchy. No laws apply to them, circumvent all rules and regulations, tax them beyond their means, pay off attorneys and judges, isolate them from the real world through censorship (and with some people use guilt), and above all call them names to demoralize their spirit. Everyone in CC is too smart to not notice this. The problem is these people maybe friends, family, or coworkers. Stay strong CC, and stand up for yourself, your freedom, and your spirit. Return the Trojan Horse to "Sender" and refuse any store credit. Sign the petition!
Politicians long ago learned to use buzz words to get people to go along with their schemes .," clean water" ", clean air" " it's for the children " " it's for the salmon " " save the Spotted Owl " my favorite " it's just 1 %" all the while to increase their power ,lock in the Union vote by creating another alphabet soup agency with their power points pamphlets paying people big wages to plant a few trees give out info that anyone could find 2 sec with AI ? All so the politicians can get the Big Union vote and. Donation money that guarantees their next election ..While that 5 fee is taken out of the " natural economy " which is people buying goods and services which supports small business which generates taxes to fund government necessary services like law enforcement ,fire " good hospitals ," gives people jobs so they don't go on welfare which turns to drug ,alcohol addiction which turns to petty crime to pay for drugs which creates a downward spiral ruins lives not only them ,but their children so they get on drugs because of abuse in the home and creates another generation society has to take care of makes no economic sense ? Which explains a why Port Angeles is a ghost town of small business why restaurant parking lots are empty noon time .no body can afford it .
“Resilience.”
Pretty good system...for some!😱
I too received the Ozias form letter. Gosh I'm honor for such a personal response. ".....we are no longer in the position of being able to allocate funds to support... Then don't fund it. Walk away from the cash machine, out of order, "no mas".
I consider myself a charitable person and if I don't have the means to make a donation, I don't. Simply, "Don't". I don't ask a friend to chip in my portion or sit on the corner and beg. Stop this taxation by fees. Sign the petition that is being circulated.
Here is my response to Commissioner Ozias’s email: Clerk Gores, please file this as late correspondence for the Sept. 2, 2025, public hearing on the CCD rates & charges agenda item, and forward it to all Commissioners; if the cutoff has passed, please note it in the hearing record and provide it to the Board before deliberation.
Commissioner Ozias,
Thank you for the thoughtful note. I can accept the 10-year term you and the Board prefer if the resolution includes a simple, lawful Nonbenefited Lands = $0 classification under RCW 89.08.405. That keeps the fee performance-based: parcels pay when CCD services/benefits are actually furnished or practically available during the term—not “just in case.”
For me personally, that means my residential parcels should be in Nonbenefited Lands ($0) until I elect to use CCD services (at which point the charge can apply prospectively).
The Nonbenefited → Benefited concept by using the classification discretion in RCW 89.08.405, which expressly allows rates to reflect services furnished or available, benefits received or available, land use/character, and other reasonable distinctions, and by borrowing the ‘benefit principle’ from RCW 89.08.400(3) (where non-benefited lands aren’t charged). In practice, parcels start in a Nonbenefited Lands ($0) class when no CCD service or practical program access is furnished or reasonably available during the term. When a parcel actually receives a service or enters a CCD program (e.g., a funded project, cost-share award, or formal enrollment), it converts prospectively to a benefited class and the charge applies beginning with the next tax year. This keeps the fee performance-based owners pay when there’s real service/benefit while incentivizing CCD outreach and delivery. A simple one-page claim and plain-language appeal standard make the process workable for residents and staff.
Below is paste-ready text you could amend in the resolution without changing your other guardrails.
Minimal insertion #1 — Finding (authority)
WHEREAS, RCW 89.08.405(2)(a)–(c) and (f) authorize the Board to set classes and rates
considering services furnished or available, benefits received or available, the character
and use of the land, and other reasonable distinctions; and
Minimal insertion #2 — Add a class to the rate table
7 – Nonbenefited Lands $0.00 per parcel / year
Minimal insertion #3 — Definition + simple process
Nonbenefited Lands — Definition & Process.
(1) Definition. “Nonbenefited Lands” are parcels that do not receive, and are not reasonably
expected to receive during the term of this system, services or benefits from District
programs, considering services furnished or available, benefits received or available,
the character and use of the land, and other reasonable distinctions.
(2) Simple claim. Within 30 days, the District will post a one-page claim form (online/email/
mail/in-person). Approved parcels are classified at $0 for the remainder of the term,
unless converted under subsection (3).
(3) Conversion rule. When a parcel receives a District service or a written program enrollment/
award for that parcel, the classification changes prospectively beginning with the next
tax year; the District shall notify the owner of the change.
(4) Coordination. Approved classifications shall be transmitted to the Assessor/Treasurer for
roll updates and adjustments/refunds as applicable.
Minimal insertion #4 — One sentence to appeal (end of existing paragraph)
For Nonbenefited Lands claims, appeals may be filed online/email/mail/in-person without
prepayment; when the owner provides credible documentation, the District bears the burden
to establish the correct classification by a preponderance of the evidence.
This approach does not undermine CCD’s mission; it rewards outreach and delivery. If CCD reaches a parcel class with real, practical offerings this term, they can charge it; if not, owners aren’t billed. It’s a fair middle ground that should help with public trust and compliance.
Thank you for considering this addition.
Respectfully,
Dr. Sarah Huling, EdD, MBA
District 3 – Forks | Triple S Consultants, LLC
triplesconsultants2025@gmail.com
Prepared with assistance from an AI tool; I reviewed for accuracy and accept responsibility for the content.
Dr Sarah, quite the time, thought through wording and effort in the letter and thank you so much, but as of today and their interactions, I truly feel what Ozias read (if he even read it) was "Commissioner Ozias, here is my response (blinders on) blah blah and blah. A shame we all put so much effort into a mind that won't budge unless he's backed into a corner and that's what we are all doing with our letters and petitions. I pity the Commissioners if they don't back down on the $5 issue.
Thank you for such a well reasoned, thoughtful, and comprehensive response. It makes all the sense in the world. Some might consider it common sense.
I don't know whether to vote for you or Mr. Seegers for the next BOCCC District #3 race.
Thanks @MK, I endorse @JacobSeegers for District 3!
Mind if I send commissioner Ozias an email urging his acceptance of your proposal, or if not then a NO vote fee?
Absolutely! I don’t claim to be right, just here trying to get it right and work within the rcws to aim towards the collective goal of sustainability…not perfect but maybe progress, right?
Yeah, maybe we make a little headway. Thanks for your research and thoughtfulness.
Socialism knows no bounds...the collective...the collective...the collective...that's not us, of course...it's THEM...they ARE 'the collective'...we are the means for their collective success!
We don't need ANY of this crap with the internet and knowledgeable community members helping each other out...There are multiple generations of welfare recipients within the gov't, doing meaningless activities... they can get real jobs like most of us have had to have and now are being taxed and regulated out of our homes and off of the land we rent from the county!😱. Too much...way too much!😎
If three crabs flooding occurred after lagoon dyke removal by jkt, then why not rebuild dyke at jkt expense.
jeff, I would still like to know who funded the clean up of gas spill by a tribal gas truck. If you take out a guard rail and can be identified, you pay for it. We know who caused the gas spill.
I am sure the tribal fuel truck insurance co will be held liable.But getting back to lagoon flood nobody has been held liable which would most likely take court action.JKT will not take responsibility on their own.
jeff, don't be sure of anything. I'm not sure any insurance pays for anything if there are mitigating circumstances. This all got quiet too quickly IMO. Had it been
any other nontribal gas truck, it would have been played to the hilt.
Still, why haven't we heard more about it either way?
There will be no legal action against kommissars or JKT...they and the prosecutor, judicial and sheriff's office are all corrupt.
State attny. gen....ditto!
We are currently in 'check'...checkmate is inevitable unless we tip the applecart!🙏🏼😇😎
And the Gaslighting!😂
Oh, dear. That might make them look bad in the public eye.
The CC gov't is a wholly owned subsidiary of JKT...no use expecting any logical, common sense outcomes...'it's a big club, and we ain't in it!' G. Carlin😎
When can we expect to see a new donated totem pole erected at the County courthouse? Next week wouldn’t be soon enough.
😎Totem poles tie back to the Chinese, so our 'regional' natives are Chinese DNA...all the way to Tierra del Fuego. Lots of other mix-ins of course but the Chinese history is strong.
See Gavin Menzies '1421' and '1434' books about the Chinese navy in the 1400's. Fascinating history. The Chinese are buying up our farmland and their latter day offspring are buying up CC...coincidence?😎
Full out anarchy is almost becoming preferable to another suffocating, oppressing regime. At least we could act in a meaningful way, for survival.
Not my call, but I would do my part with what I have left, of this withering body.😊
Nationwide property tax revolt is going on in the news it's not just here that taxes are out of control people are demanding change.
John, that's why the Commissioners should listen and quit telling us to eat cake. The tax revolt is now a pressure cooker waiting to explode.
Sooner the better!😊
YESSSSSSS! AND YES!😁
It may sound red necked, stubborn and unconsidered, but no new taxes is based in very reliable logic. Governance is a self sustaining and self promoting insatiable beast. Regardless of the best of intentions, once a tax teat is latched onto it changes the Government versus private ratio permanently. It takes us one more step closer to Communism. History proves private enterprise is far more efficient at most anything than Government. Look at all the space travel investments we have made in NASA and like institutions. Space X, a private company, is not only rescuing our astronauts that Government cannot, but bringing horribly expensive rocket launch modules that Government disposes after each use back to rest at their launch pad. The disparity in efficiency is not simply obvious; it is an embarrassment. It is proof positive that Government is the most inefficient of all options at unessential services. I'm not seeing our Clallam County water resources in jeopardy from either availability or pollution. Both of those possibilities will become glaringly self evident. We already have in place Government to manage our water resources. If water quality needs more investment, reallocate existing taxation. Are arts, culture, celebrations, drug treatment and various minority-ism projects essential services ? If not, reallocate that money.
Reallocation seems to be beyond the comprehension of BOCCC. They need an outside entity to advise them. Like us! As Mike French's best president ever said, "C'mon Man".
Yeah, "C'mon man!" "I just show the kids my hairy legs, I don't know why"...barf...barf...barf!😱The sonofabitch got away with it ALL!
'I swear there ain't no heaven and I Pray there ain't no hell! ' Exception for the evil ones, may their souls find rest...after they pay their dues!🥸
Well, stubborn rednecks are mostly country boys....'AND A COUNTRY BOY CAN SURVIVE!' Hank Williams Jr.
If I come back, I'm gonna be a gator-wrastlin', moon-shine makin', gun-totin', swamp swimmin', ocean crossin', mountain climbin', cliff-jumpin', love makin', coyote chasin', snake charmin', man of the world!
Old men can still dream, eh?😝 A regular Rob-a-dile Dundee!😂
We are not 'stepping' towards communism...we have communists at the helm right now...controlled by capitalists...as usual!
Capitalism...our sacred cow of finance, industry and wealth...(while unrestrained by morals and ethics), uses communism, fascism, anarchy and any other tool to profit and gain.
This is a Psychological/Spiritual problem facing humanity since our 'created' beginnings.
You don't have to be religious to read the Bible-OT and take it literally...as a highly redacted historical document...we came into being at the whim of some 'god-like' beings who decided how long we would live and how intelligent we would be...a calculated decision, for a calculated purpose...to serve and work for them.
Monkey see monkey do...re: all the genetic abominations being experi(mentally) carried out around the world...the number of bio-weapons labs is staggering...are a carry over or carry-on of our initial 'creation' story and the 'fallen ones' who brought our body-forms into being. 'They are not God but 'gods'...intelligent, self-serving entities with the same good and evil in them, canted heavily towards evil as borne out by the global human condition.
Then read all the horrors induced by 'god(s)'...war, genocide, sacrifices, idol worship, environmental devastation and brutal domination...these things were not just allegories and metaphors...they happened...it's history...our progenitors MADE us in THEIR image and likeness...not a flattering scenario.
We have goodness in us as well, but as the old quote says...'The line between good and evil runs right through the middle of every human heart.' A. Solzhenitsyn
This we are witnessing every day. The line can and does shift depending on circumstances and individuals, it's all in flux and we are all capable of anything.
I think it comes down to choices, repentance (within yourself) when in error, and new choices, over and over again...Strange world! Stranger by the day!😎