The commissioners and Dr. Berry did not answer yesterday's questions posed regarding the interview with Stacey Richards. Here is today's email:
Dear Commissioners,
Many residents are wondering why the county is moving ahead with discussions about renaming the Clallam County Courthouse or the courthouse complex for Justice Susan Owens when a memorial is already being planned in Forks, where she actually served. People who knew her have said she likely would not have wanted the courthouse renamed in her honor. At the same time, public records show supporters asking the county for copies of emails or letters from people pushing back on the renaming, which raises a fair question about why advocates would want the names or correspondence of those expressing opposition. With a memorial already underway in Forks, why is the county pursuing a courthouse renaming in Port Angeles, and why are proponents seeking information about residents who have voiced concerns?
The move from the Washington Women Lawyers wanting a simple bench/plaque to renaming the main court house in PA to honor Justice Owens is deeply concerning. Along with their adamant insistence and dismissiveness of the public, I once again question what is the end game and why the rush. (It's not because of the one year anniversary of her death.)
When public buildings, public dollars, and public plans are shaped without broad notice and visible process, trust erodes before any vote is taken. Good government conducts public business where the public can see it, understand it, and answer back.
Very well said, Heidi Anderson, CEO of Forks Community Hospital. We need more leaders who keep their organization’s mission at the center and demonstrate through both words and actions a commitment to fulfilling it: “We must ensure that hospital property remains dedicated to its intended purpose: delivering safe, high-quality care to the community.” linkedin.com/in/heidi-anderson-mba-bsn-rn-5b45b289
$50,000 to rename a courthouse, in anyone's name, is ridiculous, especially in times of tight budgets and county employees losing their jobs. This is not fiscal responsibility.
How our Commissioners can even wave a hand in favor of this clearly shows that they don't have the fundamental skills to be in charge, or be trusted with taxpayer dollars. This isn't a one-off, it's a continual pattern going back to the levee project when Jeff started writing his articles rightfully incensed at these actions.
Pattern recognition tells me all that I need to know about these abuses, and anyone with two eyeballs or having just fallen off a turnip truck can see it too. It's another reason, amongst others, that I'm voting for Jake Seegers.
Karen and I just returned from Peoria area and I couldn't believe the difference. No graffiti to be seen and no encampments. They give them 3 options move away, get treatment, or go to jail. There is no garbage in the roadside!
Enabling sticks…
The courthouse should remain and I agree with Eric on a local artisan hired for honoring her deeds . Spend the money way more wisely and in a manner that won't have to change all existing paperwork to be adjusted to a newly named courthouse.
Seems strange the commissioners can't understand fiscal responsibility!
$50,000 for a sign on the courthouse? $50,000 of the public's money? I vote NO. We could take that $50,000 and put 78" flat screen TVs in the Harm Reduction Condos. Isn't that a better use of our $$$?
I urge Clallam County Board of Commissioners (CCBoC) to vote against renaming Clallam County Courthouse. You are the Clallam County Board of Commissioners, not the Susan Owens Board of Commissioners. Nor is it credible to pick one name to represent the Clallam County Hall of Justice.
Spending $50,000 on a plaque, when there s even one “unhoused” resident in the county, or one pothole on a county road, is reckless and unconscionable. Sending money, we don’t have to Silverdale for a plaque, when we have plenty of artisans right here in Clallam County that could fashion a memorial piece, is even more incredulous.
Thank you for mentioning the Planning Departments email distribution failure!!!
One correction, I didn't hear about the closing of the deadline through a facebook post--the Planning Division doesn't use any social media. Instead, I found about the looming deadline because of my involvement in opposing the proposed Luminary Resorts on the Sol Duc. When I realized that the county recommended approving the outrageous development because it complied with our Comprehensive Plan, that's when I recalled the meeting with Emery months earlier in which he discussed the plan being updated. So I emailed him, asking about where we were in the process, and he told me that they have been working on it for months and I only had one week remaining.
Emery stated he was "horrified" when he learned of the mistake. And I think everyone should be. The entire county's comprehensive plan has been going through the process of being updated once in a decade, and no residents received any notice.
The next Planning Commissioners meeting is Wednesday March 18, 6 pm. If you care about the development in our county for the next ten years, please show up.
Learn more here, but ignore the part that says the process ended in December. They just extended it for two more weeks, the County hasn't gotten around to updating their website in months: https://www.clallamcountywa.gov/1842/Comprehensive-Plan-Update
I signed up for the County’s updates some time ago, so I was genuinely shocked to hear the notification system was not working. The only reason I had any awareness of what was happening is that I have been repeatedly going back to the website myself, trying to sort through the inconsistencies between county ordinances, the Comprehensive Plan, Growth Management Act requirements, and the continued struggle to clearly define something as basic as “dwelling” for purposes of density and development.
That is exactly the problem. Residents should not have to piece together fragmented information on their own in order to participate in a once-in-a-decade planning process. We actually have more say at the local level than is being presented to us, and that begins with the ordinances we as a county have created, the budget priorities we choose, and the internal policies that are supposed to make the public process work. When those mechanisms fail, accountability fails with them—for government decision-makers and for property owners alike.
Thank you, Heather, for the work you are doing. I have been submitting my comments and concerns to the planning commission throughout the process since I was made aware of it in May 2025. The words that need to be considered when adding, adjusting, or removing from the comp plan are "concurance" and "capacity." Then the county ordinances need to be amended to align with the comp plan, not the other way around, which is how it is being presented by Bruce from my perspective. -Less is more-
Agree completely. His response was to recommend the commissioners extend the public hearing for two weeks, until March 18, which the Planning Commissioners approved.
This feels like a bandaid on a life threatening injury.
If you can’t make it the meeting, please still submit comments about lack of process on public input.
Always an informative pot pourri, Jeff. Thank you for doing the tough jobs.There is so much going on in a little County and yet we only know a small percentage of it. If we only had community leadership with a backbone, we'd be happy, helpful, and healthy. Change the leadership and improve our lives: VOTE JAKE SEEGERS 2026!
Excuse me...🙋♀️☝️✋...Umm.. A local Sequim Church offers a safe and free parking SPOT, as long as you provide a valid drvers lisence, current tabs and registration paid up to date, and...CAR INSURANCE, yes, yes folks ... That is correct... Current car insurance policy on said vehicle to be parked in a spot over night, or day time too? Hmm, maybe that allows for 24 hour parking on said spot? Is there a time limit you can stay? I'd there a contract said unhoused, carLivin person must sign? Are there other Terms & Conditions to said SPOT? If I get out of my car for fresh air , stretch me legs. Head towards the church doors to use their facilities... oh wait.. is the church providing facilities, ie; SPOT renter has access to 24hr running water, toilets or porta poties, hand washing area or at least big jugs of hand sanitizer??? Back to stretchinge legs and using the church Loo,, I trip and whack me head on the ground,?, is that covereby church insurance or the REQUIRED liability only car insurance me has to have on said Car in said SPOT?? What happens if me car breaks down in SPOT and can't start, how long will it be ok to just stay if you can't get the cer fixed ? Or will the church have car towed, who pays for that and where does it clarify these little peskey fkn annoying questions? Just curious? None of my business... I'll just be completely honest and transparent here ... I wanna fkn know, most won't even ask? And that has been me for awhile too, not any fkn more!! WtAF is going on here in Clallam County ?? I've been addicted and recovered 3 times in 30 years, what I see now... Total fkn whack as*BACKWARDS living... It's freaking me the fk out!! I was arrested in 2005 while living on 7th and I.. first time I'd ever gotten in real trouble, big trouble!! Drugs, drugs and more drugs and money.. and yuk yuk time!! Long story .. I was facing 48 felony charges .. too long a story for here... We dragged it out 2 years of continuances ... 2007 I entered 90 day intensive inpatient treatment.... But those 2 years between 2005 and 2007 while pleadng me case out.... I could not accidentally drop an apple core on the ground .... I got arrested 4 times in those 2 years for not following orders correctly .... This place... Port Angeles... Clallam County... I fell in love the first time I came in, only 1 way in as soon as I hit Peabody Street... Looked to my right, and my jaw dropped and I felt a sense of euphoria and awe... I knew I was never leaving.... I do not recognize this place, it is very maddening ... Officially we are all mad here now ...✌️✌️ ... Just saying..
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With what we are learning about the shenanigans going on in the courts. (The Olympic Herald) Pretty sure she would not want her name associated with it in anyway.
So true. I actually laughed when I thought about the name change in light of the unprofessional and legal chaos surrounding the court house. I even doubt she would be ok with the current BoCC Comms in a building with her name on it.
What a great idea-- CCwatchdog.com window decals! People are hesitant to apply bumper stickers, but window decals are much more acceptable and get Jeff's word out to people not already following him. I'll contribute and proudly show one off.
I find it disgusting and reprehensible that "we" (the good folks of Clallam County) are literally FORCED to accept this sick virtu signaling BS where the criminals in government management have SO much time and have extorted SO much of OUR money, that they can waste on their phony "hero worshipping" game to support their fake history agenda~! If you were to ask most people who live here in Clallam County who this Susan Owens Individual was, they would have absolutely no knowledge of her at all and at best most could not care less who she was. Those who have the Individual ability to actually "think" would immediately ask "what did Susan Owens actually do to make the community better, that really merits this level of attention and expense"??? Obviously, Clallam County is an unfolding governmental nightmare of life sucking disasters that few could deny, at least on some important levels, so why on earth would "we" engage in this insane "hero worshipping" of ANYONE who has been in government management who actually played any role that brought us to this point of governmental villainy & dysfunction~? The blatant Insanity of the criminals within our government know no bounds~! Perhaps if we "neuter" these crazy out of control, drunk with power, government management goons, that would slow their lunatic agenda down some and keep them from constantly "humping us" for more taxes~? $50,000 my A$$, this "simple" name change" would end up costing us AT LEAST a couple of hundred THOUSAND dollars in signage, emblems, stickers, wasted and reprinted letterhead & envelopes, government ink stamps, computer programming, equipment upgrades, and "public confusion" that is rarely if ever even considered by these deceptive stooge "bean counters" in government~! All for what??? While "we" are all obviously being distracted by this lunatic three ringed circus of buffoons, HA! spell check suggests I use the word "baboons" which also applies well, the criminals in our government are still plotting to steal and transfer OUR public properties and lands, as they continue to steal more of our freedoms and rights every day, while they constantly gaslight us and "WE" pay them FAR too much to fund their underhanded agendas against us and our best interests~! Most folks in Clallam County never voted for this BS, we never wanted this BS, we never agreed to this BS, but we are being swindled by these dangerous and deadly criminals in OUR government management~! Ya, put those of us who are against being fleeced & abused on your "list" of folks to be retaliated against, and YOU clowns in government will be the ones who face justice for what you are doing~! Thank you for your attention on this matter ;-))
Board commissioners complain about needing more $$$ for clallam co to function properly and then we see this kind of taxpayer waste.Renaming a county courthouse to a specific judge name does show prejudice to other past judgesHow much will it cost to rename stevens school which is also in the makings for more waste.These elected liberals seem to go way out of their ways to waste public funds and then bellyache at meetings for lack of public funds 'Wasteful Hyopcrites'public funds are supposed to be used for infrastructure 'derelict roads ect ect ect.
I believe the "Dog Neutering Requires More ID Than Voting" section is misleading.
No ID is required to have a pet spayed or neutered at a vet. This was a "free/reduced cost" spay/neuter event organized by WAG, almost certainly paid for by a grant they received. It's likely (although I don't know for certain) that the grant funder required proof of low income as a condition of the grant to evaluate the effectiveness of reaching the target audience.
It's reasonable to ask those who receive a subsidized service that can cost up to $800 (not including FREE microchips and vaccines) to provide some evidence of qualification for the benefit. Did you call WAG and ask why they required this proof of qualification? A quick phone call probably would have clarified that. I have volunteered at some free/low-cost clinics that don't require proof, so it depends on the grant funder's requirements.
The city of PA has a program to get a discount on utility bills if you are low-income, for which you have to provide evidence of your income every year. Maybe your headline on that would read "Why do I have to provide proof of income to pay my utility bill but not show ID to vote?" ;-)
In Washington state, all ballots are mailed to the registered voter's address. You have to sign the ballot when you mail it in. If your signature does not match the state's on-file record from when you registered to vote, or if other errors are found, your ballot is flagged as needing to be "cured". I had this happen to me a long time ago, where there was some problem with my signature on the ballot. Here's a link to a summary of states that have a ballot signature verification process. You will see Washington's process listed. If you think there is widespread voter fraud due to this, can you show some evidence?
No, I did not contact them. The point was that more documentation is required to neuter a dog than to vote. I did not intend to discuss funding sources, grants, and voter fraud. I feel comfortable with what I wrote. Thanks.
The documentation needed for the spay/neuter clinic was (likely) a grant requirement to get $800 of services for just $50. If I get my pet spayed at my regular vet, I don't need to provide any documents; I only need $800 in my pocket.
There is no connection between showing proof of income to qualify for a vet service discount and our voter ID system.
The commissioners and Dr. Berry did not answer yesterday's questions posed regarding the interview with Stacey Richards. Here is today's email:
Dear Commissioners,
Many residents are wondering why the county is moving ahead with discussions about renaming the Clallam County Courthouse or the courthouse complex for Justice Susan Owens when a memorial is already being planned in Forks, where she actually served. People who knew her have said she likely would not have wanted the courthouse renamed in her honor. At the same time, public records show supporters asking the county for copies of emails or letters from people pushing back on the renaming, which raises a fair question about why advocates would want the names or correspondence of those expressing opposition. With a memorial already underway in Forks, why is the county pursuing a courthouse renaming in Port Angeles, and why are proponents seeking information about residents who have voiced concerns?
The move from the Washington Women Lawyers wanting a simple bench/plaque to renaming the main court house in PA to honor Justice Owens is deeply concerning. Along with their adamant insistence and dismissiveness of the public, I once again question what is the end game and why the rush. (It's not because of the one year anniversary of her death.)
exactly denise.
why. ?
Good Governance Daily Proverb:
When public buildings, public dollars, and public plans are shaped without broad notice and visible process, trust erodes before any vote is taken. Good government conducts public business where the public can see it, understand it, and answer back.
Very well said, Heidi Anderson, CEO of Forks Community Hospital. We need more leaders who keep their organization’s mission at the center and demonstrate through both words and actions a commitment to fulfilling it: “We must ensure that hospital property remains dedicated to its intended purpose: delivering safe, high-quality care to the community.” linkedin.com/in/heidi-anderson-mba-bsn-rn-5b45b289
$50,000 to rename a courthouse, in anyone's name, is ridiculous, especially in times of tight budgets and county employees losing their jobs. This is not fiscal responsibility.
How our Commissioners can even wave a hand in favor of this clearly shows that they don't have the fundamental skills to be in charge, or be trusted with taxpayer dollars. This isn't a one-off, it's a continual pattern going back to the levee project when Jeff started writing his articles rightfully incensed at these actions.
Pattern recognition tells me all that I need to know about these abuses, and anyone with two eyeballs or having just fallen off a turnip truck can see it too. It's another reason, amongst others, that I'm voting for Jake Seegers.
Good morning Jeff,
Karen and I just returned from Peoria area and I couldn't believe the difference. No graffiti to be seen and no encampments. They give them 3 options move away, get treatment, or go to jail. There is no garbage in the roadside!
Enabling sticks…
The courthouse should remain and I agree with Eric on a local artisan hired for honoring her deeds . Spend the money way more wisely and in a manner that won't have to change all existing paperwork to be adjusted to a newly named courthouse.
Seems strange the commissioners can't understand fiscal responsibility!
Thank you and all you Doggers, have a great one!
I am a proud member of the Clallam County Order of Turnip Pickers. 👀
Doggers are the ones that stay in the truck.
🤪YUP
$50,000 for a sign on the courthouse? $50,000 of the public's money? I vote NO. We could take that $50,000 and put 78" flat screen TVs in the Harm Reduction Condos. Isn't that a better use of our $$$?
Sent today
Clallam County Commissioners and Administrator
I urge Clallam County Board of Commissioners (CCBoC) to vote against renaming Clallam County Courthouse. You are the Clallam County Board of Commissioners, not the Susan Owens Board of Commissioners. Nor is it credible to pick one name to represent the Clallam County Hall of Justice.
Spending $50,000 on a plaque, when there s even one “unhoused” resident in the county, or one pothole on a county road, is reckless and unconscionable. Sending money, we don’t have to Silverdale for a plaque, when we have plenty of artisans right here in Clallam County that could fashion a memorial piece, is even more incredulous.
Eric Fehrmann
Constituent
Board of Clallam County Commissioners (BOCC) WORK Session
Monday, Mar. 9th at 9am
https://clallamcowa.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3320/files/agenda/5805
Comments to Clerk of the Board loni.gores@clallamcountywa.gov
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83692664344
Meeting ID: 836 9266 4344 passcode: 12345
**
Board of Clallam County Commissioners (BOCC) REGULAR Meeting with Public Comment
Tuesday, Mar. 10th at 10am
https://clallamcowa.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3210/files/agenda/5807
Comments to Clerk of the Board loni.gores@clallamcountywa.gov
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83692664344
Meeting ID: 836 9266 4344 passcode: 12345
CLALLAM COUNTY AGENDA PORTAL https://clallamcowa.portal.civicclerk.com/
Thank you for mentioning the Planning Departments email distribution failure!!!
One correction, I didn't hear about the closing of the deadline through a facebook post--the Planning Division doesn't use any social media. Instead, I found about the looming deadline because of my involvement in opposing the proposed Luminary Resorts on the Sol Duc. When I realized that the county recommended approving the outrageous development because it complied with our Comprehensive Plan, that's when I recalled the meeting with Emery months earlier in which he discussed the plan being updated. So I emailed him, asking about where we were in the process, and he told me that they have been working on it for months and I only had one week remaining.
Emery stated he was "horrified" when he learned of the mistake. And I think everyone should be. The entire county's comprehensive plan has been going through the process of being updated once in a decade, and no residents received any notice.
The next Planning Commissioners meeting is Wednesday March 18, 6 pm. If you care about the development in our county for the next ten years, please show up.
Learn more here, but ignore the part that says the process ended in December. They just extended it for two more weeks, the County hasn't gotten around to updating their website in months: https://www.clallamcountywa.gov/1842/Comprehensive-Plan-Update
I signed up for the County’s updates some time ago, so I was genuinely shocked to hear the notification system was not working. The only reason I had any awareness of what was happening is that I have been repeatedly going back to the website myself, trying to sort through the inconsistencies between county ordinances, the Comprehensive Plan, Growth Management Act requirements, and the continued struggle to clearly define something as basic as “dwelling” for purposes of density and development.
That is exactly the problem. Residents should not have to piece together fragmented information on their own in order to participate in a once-in-a-decade planning process. We actually have more say at the local level than is being presented to us, and that begins with the ordinances we as a county have created, the budget priorities we choose, and the internal policies that are supposed to make the public process work. When those mechanisms fail, accountability fails with them—for government decision-makers and for property owners alike.
Totally agree. Please show up to the March 18 Planning Commission meeting (in PA or by Zoom) and voice your concerns.
Thank you, Heather, for the work you are doing. I have been submitting my comments and concerns to the planning commission throughout the process since I was made aware of it in May 2025. The words that need to be considered when adding, adjusting, or removing from the comp plan are "concurance" and "capacity." Then the county ordinances need to be amended to align with the comp plan, not the other way around, which is how it is being presented by Bruce from my perspective. -Less is more-
If only the City & County worked for us and they loved their own community, right?
Jake Seegers, a nice idea 👍🏼
Thanks for catching that, I'll correct it.
If Bruce Emery agrees that he failed to ensure that the public was informed then he should do the right thing and back the process up.
Agree completely. His response was to recommend the commissioners extend the public hearing for two weeks, until March 18, which the Planning Commissioners approved.
This feels like a bandaid on a life threatening injury.
If you can’t make it the meeting, please still submit comments about lack of process on public input.
You are spot on Heather!
There is LITTLE to no warning or Town Hall meeting(s) regarding changes to our own community.
The commissioners are busy hobb-knobbing with the lobbyists who keep our attention elsewhere.
Plaster notices in grocery stores, libraries and senior centers, high schools ect…
- civic awareness 💥
Always an informative pot pourri, Jeff. Thank you for doing the tough jobs.There is so much going on in a little County and yet we only know a small percentage of it. If we only had community leadership with a backbone, we'd be happy, helpful, and healthy. Change the leadership and improve our lives: VOTE JAKE SEEGERS 2026!
Dig the new song!
Excuse me...🙋♀️☝️✋...Umm.. A local Sequim Church offers a safe and free parking SPOT, as long as you provide a valid drvers lisence, current tabs and registration paid up to date, and...CAR INSURANCE, yes, yes folks ... That is correct... Current car insurance policy on said vehicle to be parked in a spot over night, or day time too? Hmm, maybe that allows for 24 hour parking on said spot? Is there a time limit you can stay? I'd there a contract said unhoused, carLivin person must sign? Are there other Terms & Conditions to said SPOT? If I get out of my car for fresh air , stretch me legs. Head towards the church doors to use their facilities... oh wait.. is the church providing facilities, ie; SPOT renter has access to 24hr running water, toilets or porta poties, hand washing area or at least big jugs of hand sanitizer??? Back to stretchinge legs and using the church Loo,, I trip and whack me head on the ground,?, is that covereby church insurance or the REQUIRED liability only car insurance me has to have on said Car in said SPOT?? What happens if me car breaks down in SPOT and can't start, how long will it be ok to just stay if you can't get the cer fixed ? Or will the church have car towed, who pays for that and where does it clarify these little peskey fkn annoying questions? Just curious? None of my business... I'll just be completely honest and transparent here ... I wanna fkn know, most won't even ask? And that has been me for awhile too, not any fkn more!! WtAF is going on here in Clallam County ?? I've been addicted and recovered 3 times in 30 years, what I see now... Total fkn whack as*BACKWARDS living... It's freaking me the fk out!! I was arrested in 2005 while living on 7th and I.. first time I'd ever gotten in real trouble, big trouble!! Drugs, drugs and more drugs and money.. and yuk yuk time!! Long story .. I was facing 48 felony charges .. too long a story for here... We dragged it out 2 years of continuances ... 2007 I entered 90 day intensive inpatient treatment.... But those 2 years between 2005 and 2007 while pleadng me case out.... I could not accidentally drop an apple core on the ground .... I got arrested 4 times in those 2 years for not following orders correctly .... This place... Port Angeles... Clallam County... I fell in love the first time I came in, only 1 way in as soon as I hit Peabody Street... Looked to my right, and my jaw dropped and I felt a sense of euphoria and awe... I knew I was never leaving.... I do not recognize this place, it is very maddening ... Officially we are all mad here now ...✌️✌️ ... Just saying..
and this church is hiring too :)
Trinity UMC-Sequim has several part-time job openings: Director of Missions and Discipleship; Director of Music; and Facilities Manager.
Thank you for sharing some of your lived experience and how the current local conditions impact you. Please consider making a public comment at your city or county meetings.
With what we are learning about the shenanigans going on in the courts. (The Olympic Herald) Pretty sure she would not want her name associated with it in anyway.
So true. I actually laughed when I thought about the name change in light of the unprofessional and legal chaos surrounding the court house. I even doubt she would be ok with the current BoCC Comms in a building with her name on it.
What a great idea-- CCwatchdog.com window decals! People are hesitant to apply bumper stickers, but window decals are much more acceptable and get Jeff's word out to people not already following him. I'll contribute and proudly show one off.
I find it disgusting and reprehensible that "we" (the good folks of Clallam County) are literally FORCED to accept this sick virtu signaling BS where the criminals in government management have SO much time and have extorted SO much of OUR money, that they can waste on their phony "hero worshipping" game to support their fake history agenda~! If you were to ask most people who live here in Clallam County who this Susan Owens Individual was, they would have absolutely no knowledge of her at all and at best most could not care less who she was. Those who have the Individual ability to actually "think" would immediately ask "what did Susan Owens actually do to make the community better, that really merits this level of attention and expense"??? Obviously, Clallam County is an unfolding governmental nightmare of life sucking disasters that few could deny, at least on some important levels, so why on earth would "we" engage in this insane "hero worshipping" of ANYONE who has been in government management who actually played any role that brought us to this point of governmental villainy & dysfunction~? The blatant Insanity of the criminals within our government know no bounds~! Perhaps if we "neuter" these crazy out of control, drunk with power, government management goons, that would slow their lunatic agenda down some and keep them from constantly "humping us" for more taxes~? $50,000 my A$$, this "simple" name change" would end up costing us AT LEAST a couple of hundred THOUSAND dollars in signage, emblems, stickers, wasted and reprinted letterhead & envelopes, government ink stamps, computer programming, equipment upgrades, and "public confusion" that is rarely if ever even considered by these deceptive stooge "bean counters" in government~! All for what??? While "we" are all obviously being distracted by this lunatic three ringed circus of buffoons, HA! spell check suggests I use the word "baboons" which also applies well, the criminals in our government are still plotting to steal and transfer OUR public properties and lands, as they continue to steal more of our freedoms and rights every day, while they constantly gaslight us and "WE" pay them FAR too much to fund their underhanded agendas against us and our best interests~! Most folks in Clallam County never voted for this BS, we never wanted this BS, we never agreed to this BS, but we are being swindled by these dangerous and deadly criminals in OUR government management~! Ya, put those of us who are against being fleeced & abused on your "list" of folks to be retaliated against, and YOU clowns in government will be the ones who face justice for what you are doing~! Thank you for your attention on this matter ;-))
Have a nice day~!
Sincerely, Mike
Board commissioners complain about needing more $$$ for clallam co to function properly and then we see this kind of taxpayer waste.Renaming a county courthouse to a specific judge name does show prejudice to other past judgesHow much will it cost to rename stevens school which is also in the makings for more waste.These elected liberals seem to go way out of their ways to waste public funds and then bellyache at meetings for lack of public funds 'Wasteful Hyopcrites'public funds are supposed to be used for infrastructure 'derelict roads ect ect ect.
Jeff -
I believe the "Dog Neutering Requires More ID Than Voting" section is misleading.
No ID is required to have a pet spayed or neutered at a vet. This was a "free/reduced cost" spay/neuter event organized by WAG, almost certainly paid for by a grant they received. It's likely (although I don't know for certain) that the grant funder required proof of low income as a condition of the grant to evaluate the effectiveness of reaching the target audience.
It's reasonable to ask those who receive a subsidized service that can cost up to $800 (not including FREE microchips and vaccines) to provide some evidence of qualification for the benefit. Did you call WAG and ask why they required this proof of qualification? A quick phone call probably would have clarified that. I have volunteered at some free/low-cost clinics that don't require proof, so it depends on the grant funder's requirements.
The city of PA has a program to get a discount on utility bills if you are low-income, for which you have to provide evidence of your income every year. Maybe your headline on that would read "Why do I have to provide proof of income to pay my utility bill but not show ID to vote?" ;-)
https://cityofpa-formsdev.app.transform.civicplus.com/forms/23552
Regarding no ID to vote...
In Washington state, all ballots are mailed to the registered voter's address. You have to sign the ballot when you mail it in. If your signature does not match the state's on-file record from when you registered to vote, or if other errors are found, your ballot is flagged as needing to be "cured". I had this happen to me a long time ago, where there was some problem with my signature on the ballot. Here's a link to a summary of states that have a ballot signature verification process. You will see Washington's process listed. If you think there is widespread voter fraud due to this, can you show some evidence?
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-15-states-with-signature-cure-processes
No, I did not contact them. The point was that more documentation is required to neuter a dog than to vote. I did not intend to discuss funding sources, grants, and voter fraud. I feel comfortable with what I wrote. Thanks.
Jeff, I don't agree.
The documentation needed for the spay/neuter clinic was (likely) a grant requirement to get $800 of services for just $50. If I get my pet spayed at my regular vet, I don't need to provide any documents; I only need $800 in my pocket.
There is no connection between showing proof of income to qualify for a vet service discount and our voter ID system.
Paying to Hear the “State of the City”
Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce says free seating is available to those who wish to attend the City Manager's speech without eating the $30 lunch.