The commissioners did not respond to an email calling for a serious conversation about OlyCAP's Safe Parking Program, the expenditures in question, and the fleeting transparency. Here is today's email sent to the two county commissioners who also serve on the Shore Pool Board:
Dear Commissioners French and Johnson,
This week, a widely shared social media post alleged that a man was injecting drugs outside the Shore Aquatic Center while families were using the facility.
Given that both of you voted to continue providing free shower vouchers through the Harm Reduction Health Center:
Why have you chosen to continue distributing shower vouchers through a facility that primarily serves transient individuals struggling with addiction and substance abuse?
Can you assure the community that pool staff are properly trained and prepared to handle situations involving drug users utilizing a facility that was originally designed for families, children, and recreational use?
What specific safeguards are in place to ensure that parents, children, and pool employees are not placed in situations they are neither trained nor equipped to manage?
Residents continue raising concerns about safety and the changing role of community facilities. A response would be appreciated.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS VISION HAS GONE BLIND
Meetings are designed to brief the Commissioners to make decisions on local issues (whose briefing them?)
Citizens are invited to attend these meetings and participate by presenting an issue or concern or by speaking during a public hearing (people have spoken but are not heard)
The VISION of the Clallam County team is to maintain and comprehensively ADVANCE OUR QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH RESPONSIBLE AND EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF TRUST IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS.
This Vision is realized through the following Mission objectives:
1. Putting the translated DESIRES of our residents INTO ACTION through effective communication
2. Providing comprehensive and exemplary PUBLIC SERVICE LEVELS IN A PROMPT RESPONSIVE MANNER
3. Maximizing and enhancing our environmental resources for sustainability and LEGACY EXPECTATIONS
4. Celebrating the diversity and inclusiveness of our residents’ contributions to our QUALITY OF LIFE
The Board of Commissioners is RESPONSIBLE for providing the legislative and executive functions of County government. Legislative functions are accomplished at meetings of the Board by adopting ordinances, policies, or resolutions that set public policy and guide government functions. The Board is also responsible for most executive functions of County government. The Board and/or County Charter has delegated many executive functions to the County Administrator.
The commissioners did not respond to an email calling for a serious conversation about OlyCAP's Safe Parking Program, the expenditures in question, and the fleeting transparency. Here is today's email sent to the two county commissioners who also serve on the Shore Pool Board:
Dear Commissioners French and Johnson,
This week, a widely shared social media post alleged that a man was injecting drugs outside the Shore Aquatic Center while families were using the facility.
Given that both of you voted to continue providing free shower vouchers through the Harm Reduction Health Center:
Why have you chosen to continue distributing shower vouchers through a facility that primarily serves transient individuals struggling with addiction and substance abuse?
Can you assure the community that pool staff are properly trained and prepared to handle situations involving drug users utilizing a facility that was originally designed for families, children, and recreational use?
What specific safeguards are in place to ensure that parents, children, and pool employees are not placed in situations they are neither trained nor equipped to manage?
Residents continue raising concerns about safety and the changing role of community facilities. A response would be appreciated.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS VISION HAS GONE BLIND
Meetings are designed to brief the Commissioners to make decisions on local issues (whose briefing them?)
Citizens are invited to attend these meetings and participate by presenting an issue or concern or by speaking during a public hearing (people have spoken but are not heard)
https://www.clallamcountywa.gov/186/Board-of-County-Commissioners
VISION/Mission Statement
The VISION of the Clallam County team is to maintain and comprehensively ADVANCE OUR QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH RESPONSIBLE AND EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF TRUST IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS.
This Vision is realized through the following Mission objectives:
1. Putting the translated DESIRES of our residents INTO ACTION through effective communication
2. Providing comprehensive and exemplary PUBLIC SERVICE LEVELS IN A PROMPT RESPONSIVE MANNER
3. Maximizing and enhancing our environmental resources for sustainability and LEGACY EXPECTATIONS
4. Celebrating the diversity and inclusiveness of our residents’ contributions to our QUALITY OF LIFE
The Board of Commissioners is RESPONSIBLE for providing the legislative and executive functions of County government. Legislative functions are accomplished at meetings of the Board by adopting ordinances, policies, or resolutions that set public policy and guide government functions. The Board is also responsible for most executive functions of County government. The Board and/or County Charter has delegated many executive functions to the County Administrator.
I warned them about the post card.
Its going to be meds in sheds and not heads in beds.
They didn't listen.
I watched them.
Peach the cry in the wilderness...representing the friggin wilderness
This is the progressive post card now.