The commissioners did not reply to questions asking about a link between the county encouraging drug use and the presence of drug traffickers on the Olympic Peninsula. Here is today's question:
Dear Commissioners,
The Recompete grant is being promoted as an economic breakthrough for the Olympic Peninsula. But when residents take a closer look, much of the money appears set to flow through nonprofits and regional organizations instead of directly through accountable public agencies. Why should taxpayers see this as economic development rather than just another large transfer of public money into a network of NGOs with limited public oversight?
Clallam County isn’t being lead. We are hopelessly watching drug addicts and suppliers ruin Sequim, while the Three Stooges look the other way. Or more accurately don’t answer questions. I hope they are ready to go down in the county history records as abusing their positions through neglect. Thank you for Jake Seeger. It’s too late to set an example for the current commissioners as they appear to have no desire to inspire change. Dr Sarah gives you the cheat sheet (oh, you’d have to read it, and we know that doesn’t happen.) Well at least when you complete your paid civic duty with CC you can look back and be proud of your accomplishments.
Could anyone list one positive thing each commissioner has seen through to fruition. Throw me a bone to see a redeeming act.
No going to Wa.DC doesn’t count.
Joining the commissioners (40k) group doesn’t count nor does all the strings you pull for the tribe (directly or indirectly)
Also that $5 per parcel fee we rejected, did that show up under different wording on our most recent real estate tax invoice. Paying under duress bc of the waste. Housing for active addicts. Bet they will take out the trash and keep the place looking really nice with clean fluffy dogs and all the EV’s fully charged.
Jake-saw your great banners out on the west end coming from Grays Harbor.
Also CCWatchdog heading west on 101 past Diamond Point.
Are yard signs available yet?
We have two lots plus the one our mansion sits on Beach Drive! That is a joke for the people that know our waterfront palace.
Jeff and Jake are keeping me centered otherwise I would slowly melt and have nothing more to do with politics including voting!
Not yet, Susan. We need to order those little signs. Thanks for the reminder! I also owe you some flyers, but we haven't designed or printed them yet. What happens when a campaign manager needs a manager?
PS Last weekend at the Beachcombers and Glass Float 40th Anniversary in Ocean Shores, my Fossil Collection took First Place, the big blue rosette, Plus it was featured in the local newspaper “The Aberdeen World “ I’m somebody( but they didn’t use my name just the exhibit)
Two of my Glass Floats took 2nd and my rock collection all gather here at DP treated with 2 part resin also won 2nd place. They don’t do 3rd or honorable mention any more.
But three wins out of 4 entries was great. It’s always the first full weekend of March. This year they hid glass floats on the beach. Happy finders. So much fun stuff and vendors welcome also! Many categories to enter art, collections, single items, drift wood etc. no charge for entries. I will show pictures next year in early Feb. to get everyone pumped for the show! Thank you .
Good governance does not ask the public to finance promises on trust alone; it shows the legal authority, the real cost, and the measurable result before the bill comes due.
*This guide explains what kinds of taxes counties may lawfully impose, whether voter approval is required, and what limits or conditions apply. It aligns with the proverb because government should not ask the public for more revenue without first showing the legal authority and financial structure behind the request.
*This source reinforces that public business must be conducted openly, and that the people have the right to remain informed so they can retain control over the institutions they created. It aligns with the proverb because requests for taxes, policy changes, or new programs should be discussed in a way the public can actually see, understand, and respond to.
*This guide explains that commissioners are responsible for policy-making, budgeting, tax levies, county funds, and management of county property, and that they must listen to residents while guiding county decisions. It aligns with the proverb because elected officials are not just supposed to approve things — they are supposed to show how decisions connect to lawful authority, public priorities, and measurable outcomes.
*This bill matters because it is the kind of law that can create or expand local taxing authority for public-safety purposes. It aligns with the proverb because when officials rely on new statutory authority to collect more revenue, they should clearly explain what the law allows, what it will cost, and what the public should expect in return.
*This chapter is the broader legal framework for local sales and use taxes in Washington. It aligns with the proverb because it reminds readers that taxes are not just policy preferences — they are exercises of delegated legal authority, and the public has every right to ask whether officials are using that authority carefully, transparently, and for the stated purpose.
Please add Corn Cob Pipes and Zig-Zag cigarettes rolling papers to your harm reduction supply inventory. Seems I’m unable to obtain these item if I use Amazon, but if your center provided these to me at no cost, I could be happy. I could reduce my dependence on tobacco, a harmful toxin.
To demonstrate your free pipes and papers are a step in the right direction, I’ll let my smoking friends know of the availability at your County Harm Reduction Center. Some of the friends are down at the Tumwater Creek Corridor and cannot received Amazon deliveries, if the Pipes and Papers were available. Get it?
yeeeewwwuuu. Well, I wonder if they also have osteoporosis. I have to use toothpaste with fluoride for some drugs I'm on. Yes, I've seen that many do not have teeth and they are brittle-looking. Of course. "Harm Reduction" drugs kill.
Ken, Ha! Good one ; ) Pretty soon the Tumwater Creek people might be able to get drone deliveries. More and more addicts will have access to INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE: Room to Tomb care.
I really need a harm reduction kit for educational use, packaged and complete just as it is supplied to addicts, I could pay if required but I thought our taxes already covered HR supplies.
Or the address to the facility where they pass them out.
One other thing(sorry to bug)
Could someone write down all the many safety net places drug users in Clallam can find a soft landing. I know of serenity house , Behavior Health. They were written here several weeks ago so would love all facilities Sequim/Pa/Forks. If there is a quick place for me to seek info let me know , I appreciate all of you on CCWATCHDOG on Substack podcasts and article’s. The engagement of the public is inspirational. Look out BOCCC ***Plus Jeff announces meetings coming up that you may feel was not meant for general public even when they were, he keeps us informed.
Non-profit is nothing more than semantics. Regardless of being constrained from making a profit, at least 20% of all business does not make a profit. A "Non-Profit" is an altruistic title that may or may not be altruistic. If one starts and operates a non-profit that ultimately shows a profit, expenses like more equipment, more office space, salary increases, etc. are easily found to dissolve/use that profit. You need only look at how Somalian nationals view charitable efforts to know skepticism is a healthy tool in determining when you might want to donate to a non-profit. The problem with repeat offenders, regardless of the offence, is the first word; repeat. Too much of society's resources are expensed to repeat offenders. The three strikes law had it's merit. Anything more than one ? No more than three ? Society can pick the number, but there must be one that is enforced; particularly in drug abuse. Supporting repeat drug abusers with "harm reduction" is a drug abuse incubator. Has Government ever considered rewarding a profitable business that employs and provides living wages to local citizens ? We help failure, while we tax success.
Garry, I'm with you. What outrages me is the blindness to the plight of our local businesses.The non-profit employees have higher wages, job security and benefits. These poor owners are being drained to pay for people who are better off than they are. We need our businesses to build CC, we don't need most of the NGO's to tear CC down.
Non-profits and NGOs are created by the same people who benefit most from those entity(ies). Land Trusts, Medical, Educational entities, and Social Justice factions are so interwoven that one would be hard-pressed to disect and separate the grain from the chaff in each case. Each area is constantly increasing services offered at taxpayer expense, while increasing staff promotions from "volunteer" to paid employee. PBH and NOHN jump to the top of that group. The University of Washington will become the main beneficiary of the collapse of OMC, with Airlift Northwest already flying to and from OMC, daily, while those who have become dependent on our "publicly owned and taxed Hospital District" are left hanging, still paying with nothing of value in return. I cannot see how any sole proprietorship business entity can possibly survive the taxes levied, from city, county, and state levels, never mind consumers who support local business paying higher prices for goods and services while building more parasitic drain government via ever-increasing taxation. Federal dollars own Washington State, and every piece of land within it; take stock of local payrolls and their sources, trickle down is the most precise definition. "Recompete" was Kilmer's grift, and swan song.
Jeff, all very good shorts with very good questions. Thank you, too, Andrea, as I liked the history site and was not surprised that the name Sequim was bastardized and co-opted. The most concerning story is the Recompete. Those of us who heard the Commissioners speak about this grant knew that this rerouting of funds would happen. That is a lot of taxpayer monies going to a "network of navigators" who will bleed this grant dry. Is the failed purpose of the Recompete Grant the real reason for the criminal justice tax? No increase in tax revenue, increase in property taxes, increase in crime, increase in indigent defense costs. The citizens of CC are not happy as evidenced by the citizen protest of the CCD tax. Jake Seegers 2026!
There has been much discussion regarding our local government, along with non-profits, NGOs and sovereign nations, with their affects on private property and land use, and individual rights. However, I have noted the absence of our Washington State Legislature, Governor, Attorney General, and Department of Revenue, all of which are inept with regard to budgets aligned to current economy, and long range sustainability. We hear much about "sustainability", and little to nothing of the affects on constituents and their long-term wellbeing. Elected officials and agencies are deaf and blind to anything outside of their agendas, and are all too eager to tout their "accomplishments and hard work", going into overtime sessions; blah, blah,blah. We would do well by communicating regularly with the afore-mentioned; though the best I have received in response to my correspondences is a letter written by an intern or the brag rag mailed or emailed at our expense, of what they are doing, not what constituents want or need. Short answer: constituents are barking up the wrong tree, and accepting whatever spin or crumbs these parasites offer in return for another term of kickng the can with your money in it. It is way past time to find our collective spines, and demand responsibility and accountability for the "Neverending Story" and ensuing taxation without representation. The League of Women Voters are the last source that should be involved in curriculum or teaching history, civics, or any other subjects that can be slanted for an agenda, which they clearly have embraced. NGOs are raping and pillaging American citizen taxpayers, they need to start paying their "wealth taxes" like the people who currently pay for their existence. Write, call, email, megaphone, text, or whatever other means can be employed to remind elected officials, authorities, scientists, experts, or wagon rut dwellers, that they are accountable to taxpayers, not the reverse; complacency is the cancer that enabled the situation we find ourselves in the midst of. Liberty and justice for all isn't free or necessarily easy, but requiires constant vigilance and action, that is what CC Watchdog is all about, because our traditional feed has been tainted and we could not longer stomach the slop. Make yourself heard, or fade to black. ...And now, we return to our regularly scheduled programming.
All I can say is great articles...and let's keep it going as we are up against local government that doesn't believe in accountability. Theur agenda is clear and damaging to most citizens of this county. When you represent the side to gain and let them monitor their scope of work ... well that's just nuts. You listen to looks like Dr. Berry and we all suffer.
We must get Jake in the Commissioners seat to get this county back on track. We can't be ignored if our numbers keep growing!
Democrats are the party of the working class? <cough><cough> My fanny! Trump has done more for me-- a working class citizen-- than Democrat have for the past 50 years. Democrats are lying, cheating parasites who incessantly raise taxes on the working class all the while reducing their freedoms and rights. Maybe, 50 years ago, Democrats looked out for the working class, but that shit has sailed down Corruption Straits decades ago. French is either lying or smoking intoxicants.
Thanks to Jeff and all the people who speak truth to power. Bravo! I’m happy the CCC will retain its name. I did write a Point-of-view for the PDN at the end of February about another worthy candidate but it has yet to be published. It’s still may be historically interesting but now it’s rather stale news. It’s sad that a ‘local’ paper cannot find room for local news in a timely fashion.
I did not read the Food Bank section as implying admin workers in general are not worthy of above minimum wage, and I fall in that category and pay scale for a private business. The general observed pattern around here seems to be NGOs and govt jobs can offer better pay and benefits than most private businesses can afford because we are all paying for it.
I read the Food Bank criticism as taxes funding non profit and goverent jobs while private businesses and working class taxpayers foot the bill in a county dependent on NGO and government grant grifting.
Susie, I appreciate you taking the time to explain how you read it.
I understand that you did not read it as saying admin workers only deserve minimum wage. But Jeff is still treating the Food Bank like it has crossed some suspicious line into “enterprise” simply because it pays staff fairly. That is the part I take issue with.
I think the place where we may see it differently is the assumption that NGO and nonprofit wages are somehow separate from the “working taxpayers” you mention. The people working those jobs are part of the same community. They are paying rent or mortgages here, buying groceries here, shopping at local small businesses, and paying the same taxes as everyone else.
In many cases nonprofits exist precisely because the private market does not fill certain gaps. Food banks are a good example. They are not competing with private businesses. They are addressing food insecurity that would otherwise go unmet.
When people say nonprofits offer “better pay and benefits,” it can also create a misleading picture. Most nonprofit salaries are actually lower than comparable roles in the private sector. A development coordinator or administrator earning $21–$26 an hour is not living large in Clallam County. For many people here that is simply the difference between scraping by or not being able to afford to stay in the community at all.
At the end of the day, the people running food banks, writing grants, and keeping programs operating are not “grifting.” They are workers trying to keep services running that the community clearly depends on.
How do account for those that make $70-$80/ HR OFF OUR $5 PER PARTIAL FEE now that the grant coverts to taxpayer paid Statius. Because they compare to the highest county and city wage comps.
What are you referring to? Who is making $70-80/hour and what $5 fee?
Are you referring to the $5 parcel fee from Clallam Conservation District? That is not a non-profit. It’s non-regulatory, locally governed public agency. So, not relevant to my point.
Additionally - are they actually making that much per hour or does that amount include the cost of benefits and payroll taxes? Overhead on hourly wages is usually 20-50% somebody who takes home $35 an hour might cost an organization $70/hour.
Did you confirm that’s actually their hourly rate or is that the hourly cost to the organization?
Based on easily found, publicly available information, it looks like they’re showing the hourly expense to the organization versus the what the staff member is getting paid.
Ah, the criminal money laundering machine of Clallam County keeps churning away~! Wasting GOBZ of our precious energy & money, creating a ginormous "carbon footprint" black hole of common sense and contributing to the vast "stinkyocity" off gassing that has become Clallam County government for all to hold our noses on as our eyes water due to the rotting stench! Robbing & victimizing the poor and enriching the greedy wealthy and privileged "preferred special interests" criminals is rampant within our otherwise beautiful community! Our ever-increasing taxpayer funds, criminally extorted, go in one end, and they disappear from view into the void of insane political "grift Hell" that is obfuscated by endless layers and layers of "doublespeak", more criminal schemes of the criminals in government, their criminally corrupt "stakeholders" & the preposterous maze of NGOs, and exit via the low intellect "hole" of simple-minded distraction techniques of these criminal manipulators~! This TOTAL crap that Mike French is supposed to be undergoing "plain language" training, I find to be VERY insulting because that suggests that these "criminal social engineer" nightmares are actually saying that the general public is too stupid to understand this simple-minded "useful idiot" troll Mike French~! On the other hand, we are also supposed to believe that Mike French is OH SO "Intelligent" that he is incapable of "talking down" to we peasants who struggle to "speakie English" like a truck load of turnips just entering America for the first time~! HA! So, what exactly is this "plain language" training? Who exactly "teaches" this marvel of "plain language" tutorial??? Is this a certificate, diploma, or degree program? Satanist Communist Brownie points? What does this training cost and who is paying for it? How did Mike French get into office without being capable of speaking plain English correctly and who exactly "Installed" him? Why on Earth was Mike French "Installed" into any management position if he is incapable of speaking plain English language in the first place??? I think that we all know that this "plain language" horseshit is actually witchcraft doublespeak "wordcraft" that is solely intended to help Mike French to more easily deceive the good folks of Clallam County with his lies and deceptions, so we are less likely to see the lipstick on the criminal "pigs" in this government~! You treasonous criminal clowns in government can paint lipstick on yourselves as much as you want, but we still smell "The Pig" that you truly are~! We can do ourselves a HUGE favor and remove theses evil subhuman reptiles from government NOW, so that Jake Seegers and other good folks can have a fighting chance to join with us to transform this community into a prosperous and safe one for all to be proud of~! I shall NEVER seek "consultation" of anyone, especially the corrupt Jamestown Tribe, to enable them to dictate what I can & can't do on my own land~! None of these scumbags helped me pay a penny for MY property! I paid my own taxes. I bought my land and ALL rights to it, no thanks to anyone but myself, what I managed to keep of my hard-earned money, and the sweat of my own labor~! Here is a little "plain language" for anyone who mistakenly believes that they have ANY business in my property -> Do the initials "F.O." mean anything to you? HA! Thanks, Jeff Tozzer, for your hard work to help our community see the truth and become resolved find the solutions that we need~!
New safety tax proposal'if council members are so concerned about public safety why do they allow drug addicts to camp all over public areas committing all sorts of crimes 'more hypocrisy' to squander more tax $$$, what's next because it never ends with these elected taxaholics.New state laws coming shortly that protects encampments from being removed so if council members have any interest in safety they better grandfather in new county-city codes-ordinances that makes encampments-belongings unlawful.If not P.A. will look like L.A. and taxpayers will see their property taxes go completely through the roof because commissioners will go full out building new housing for derelicts to get their junk off public areas.If wa states high end elected officials decide to take the manadatory property tax cap at 1% off and leave property tax rates up to county commissioners to determine then everyone better start packing before it goes into effect because our current board commissioners will jack property taxes through the roof while giving themselves and county employee's cost of living increases at the taxpayers expense.
Almost 35 years ago, Californians overwhelmingly voted to defund illegal immigrant families from public education services. The state's legislature reversed the voter approved Proposition, and the state has been a deplorable mess where there seems to be no end. Where I grew up and lived and where my children attended school, the population is 50% illegal. That is a heavy burden for the other 50% to carry. There is definitely fraud in CA that is being exposed thru welfare services, and later we'll see just how much money is laundered thru the teachers unions and the education systems.
Denise, I too was raised and went to school in SoCal in an area that has morphed into a hotbed of illegals milking the system for all it's worth. In the early 1970s I wrote a college paper that asked this about the old bracero program: If we don't send back when their work is done, and they stay, and then their families grow and grow and grow and stay, decades from now, how we will get them to both go back bad get them off the public dole? I was told I was displaying "racist tendencies", and I should rewrite my paper. I took the "F" instead ...
I grew up in the central valley. Now they are pushing legalization for the people there illegally - especially if they have been there for 10 years or more. They say it would be more taxes paid, more money spent in the country, and more home ownership. Many are conservative in politics. I think this would be the best route for that area.
The commissioners did not reply to questions asking about a link between the county encouraging drug use and the presence of drug traffickers on the Olympic Peninsula. Here is today's question:
Dear Commissioners,
The Recompete grant is being promoted as an economic breakthrough for the Olympic Peninsula. But when residents take a closer look, much of the money appears set to flow through nonprofits and regional organizations instead of directly through accountable public agencies. Why should taxpayers see this as economic development rather than just another large transfer of public money into a network of NGOs with limited public oversight?
Of course they didn't respond about drug trafficking, their whole non profit house of cards is stacked on it.
Clallam County isn’t being lead. We are hopelessly watching drug addicts and suppliers ruin Sequim, while the Three Stooges look the other way. Or more accurately don’t answer questions. I hope they are ready to go down in the county history records as abusing their positions through neglect. Thank you for Jake Seeger. It’s too late to set an example for the current commissioners as they appear to have no desire to inspire change. Dr Sarah gives you the cheat sheet (oh, you’d have to read it, and we know that doesn’t happen.) Well at least when you complete your paid civic duty with CC you can look back and be proud of your accomplishments.
Could anyone list one positive thing each commissioner has seen through to fruition. Throw me a bone to see a redeeming act.
No going to Wa.DC doesn’t count.
Joining the commissioners (40k) group doesn’t count nor does all the strings you pull for the tribe (directly or indirectly)
Also that $5 per parcel fee we rejected, did that show up under different wording on our most recent real estate tax invoice. Paying under duress bc of the waste. Housing for active addicts. Bet they will take out the trash and keep the place looking really nice with clean fluffy dogs and all the EV’s fully charged.
Jake-saw your great banners out on the west end coming from Grays Harbor.
Also CCWatchdog heading west on 101 past Diamond Point.
Are yard signs available yet?
We have two lots plus the one our mansion sits on Beach Drive! That is a joke for the people that know our waterfront palace.
Jeff and Jake are keeping me centered otherwise I would slowly melt and have nothing more to do with politics including voting!
Not yet, Susan. We need to order those little signs. Thanks for the reminder! I also owe you some flyers, but we haven't designed or printed them yet. What happens when a campaign manager needs a manager?
PS Last weekend at the Beachcombers and Glass Float 40th Anniversary in Ocean Shores, my Fossil Collection took First Place, the big blue rosette, Plus it was featured in the local newspaper “The Aberdeen World “ I’m somebody( but they didn’t use my name just the exhibit)
Two of my Glass Floats took 2nd and my rock collection all gather here at DP treated with 2 part resin also won 2nd place. They don’t do 3rd or honorable mention any more.
But three wins out of 4 entries was great. It’s always the first full weekend of March. This year they hid glass floats on the beach. Happy finders. So much fun stuff and vendors welcome also! Many categories to enter art, collections, single items, drift wood etc. no charge for entries. I will show pictures next year in early Feb. to get everyone pumped for the show! Thank you .
Good Governance Daily Proverb:
Good governance does not ask the public to finance promises on trust alone; it shows the legal authority, the real cost, and the measurable result before the bill comes due.
References
Municipal Research and Services Center. (2024). Revenue guide for Washington counties. https://mrsc.org/getmedia/4865001b-1f63-410a-a5ed-8d1ad8d752f3/Revenue-Guide-For-Washington-Counties.pdf?ext=.pdf
*This guide explains what kinds of taxes counties may lawfully impose, whether voter approval is required, and what limits or conditions apply. It aligns with the proverb because government should not ask the public for more revenue without first showing the legal authority and financial structure behind the request.
Municipal Research and Services Center. (2024). The Open Public Meetings Act. https://sao.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-08/Open-Public-Meetings-Act.pdf
*This source reinforces that public business must be conducted openly, and that the people have the right to remain informed so they can retain control over the institutions they created. It aligns with the proverb because requests for taxes, policy changes, or new programs should be discussed in a way the public can actually see, understand, and respond to.
Municipal Research and Services Center. (2025). County commissioner guide. https://mrsc.org/getmedia/6134275f-ca98-45b2-8c4c-aa49515363ab/County-Commissioner-Guide.pdf?ext=.pdf
*This guide explains that commissioners are responsible for policy-making, budgeting, tax levies, county funds, and management of county property, and that they must listen to residents while guiding county decisions. It aligns with the proverb because elected officials are not just supposed to approve things — they are supposed to show how decisions connect to lawful authority, public priorities, and measurable outcomes.
Washington State Legislature. (2025). Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2015: Improving public safety funding by providing resources to local governments and state and local criminal justice agencies. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/Senate/2015-S.E%20SBA%20LAW%2025.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com
*This bill matters because it is the kind of law that can create or expand local taxing authority for public-safety purposes. It aligns with the proverb because when officials rely on new statutory authority to collect more revenue, they should clearly explain what the law allows, what it will cost, and what the public should expect in return.
Washington State Legislature. (n.d.). Chapter 82.14 RCW: Local retail sales and use taxes. https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=82.14&utm_source=chatgpt.com
*This chapter is the broader legal framework for local sales and use taxes in Washington. It aligns with the proverb because it reminds readers that taxes are not just policy preferences — they are exercises of delegated legal authority, and the public has every right to ask whether officials are using that authority carefully, transparently, and for the stated purpose.
Dear Dr Berry
Please add Corn Cob Pipes and Zig-Zag cigarettes rolling papers to your harm reduction supply inventory. Seems I’m unable to obtain these item if I use Amazon, but if your center provided these to me at no cost, I could be happy. I could reduce my dependence on tobacco, a harmful toxin.
To demonstrate your free pipes and papers are a step in the right direction, I’ll let my smoking friends know of the availability at your County Harm Reduction Center. Some of the friends are down at the Tumwater Creek Corridor and cannot received Amazon deliveries, if the Pipes and Papers were available. Get it?
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
A Concern Citizen
My dentist says they should be handing out toothbrushes....
Brushing won't save their teeth:
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-warns-about-dental-problems-buprenorphine-medicines-dissolved-mouth-treat-opioid-use-disorder
https://universitybehavioral.com/blog/substance-use-and-dental-care-rebuilding-hygiene/
yeeeewwwuuu. Well, I wonder if they also have osteoporosis. I have to use toothpaste with fluoride for some drugs I'm on. Yes, I've seen that many do not have teeth and they are brittle-looking. Of course. "Harm Reduction" drugs kill.
Most don’t have any teeth to brush after years of drugs.
Ken, Ha! Good one ; ) Pretty soon the Tumwater Creek people might be able to get drone deliveries. More and more addicts will have access to INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE: Room to Tomb care.
I really need a harm reduction kit for educational use, packaged and complete just as it is supplied to addicts, I could pay if required but I thought our taxes already covered HR supplies.
fossilhunter
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Or the address to the facility where they pass them out.
One other thing(sorry to bug)
Could someone write down all the many safety net places drug users in Clallam can find a soft landing. I know of serenity house , Behavior Health. They were written here several weeks ago so would love all facilities Sequim/Pa/Forks. If there is a quick place for me to seek info let me know , I appreciate all of you on CCWATCHDOG on Substack podcasts and article’s. The engagement of the public is inspirational. Look out BOCCC ***Plus Jeff announces meetings coming up that you may feel was not meant for general public even when they were, he keeps us informed.
Non-profit is nothing more than semantics. Regardless of being constrained from making a profit, at least 20% of all business does not make a profit. A "Non-Profit" is an altruistic title that may or may not be altruistic. If one starts and operates a non-profit that ultimately shows a profit, expenses like more equipment, more office space, salary increases, etc. are easily found to dissolve/use that profit. You need only look at how Somalian nationals view charitable efforts to know skepticism is a healthy tool in determining when you might want to donate to a non-profit. The problem with repeat offenders, regardless of the offence, is the first word; repeat. Too much of society's resources are expensed to repeat offenders. The three strikes law had it's merit. Anything more than one ? No more than three ? Society can pick the number, but there must be one that is enforced; particularly in drug abuse. Supporting repeat drug abusers with "harm reduction" is a drug abuse incubator. Has Government ever considered rewarding a profitable business that employs and provides living wages to local citizens ? We help failure, while we tax success.
Garry, I'm with you. What outrages me is the blindness to the plight of our local businesses.The non-profit employees have higher wages, job security and benefits. These poor owners are being drained to pay for people who are better off than they are. We need our businesses to build CC, we don't need most of the NGO's to tear CC down.
Non-profits and NGOs are created by the same people who benefit most from those entity(ies). Land Trusts, Medical, Educational entities, and Social Justice factions are so interwoven that one would be hard-pressed to disect and separate the grain from the chaff in each case. Each area is constantly increasing services offered at taxpayer expense, while increasing staff promotions from "volunteer" to paid employee. PBH and NOHN jump to the top of that group. The University of Washington will become the main beneficiary of the collapse of OMC, with Airlift Northwest already flying to and from OMC, daily, while those who have become dependent on our "publicly owned and taxed Hospital District" are left hanging, still paying with nothing of value in return. I cannot see how any sole proprietorship business entity can possibly survive the taxes levied, from city, county, and state levels, never mind consumers who support local business paying higher prices for goods and services while building more parasitic drain government via ever-increasing taxation. Federal dollars own Washington State, and every piece of land within it; take stock of local payrolls and their sources, trickle down is the most precise definition. "Recompete" was Kilmer's grift, and swan song.
I really like your sentence 'we help failure, while we tax success.'
seems to be the county motto😒
Thank you.
Non-profit is an oxymoron, they profit from our taxes with no accountability.
Jeff, all very good shorts with very good questions. Thank you, too, Andrea, as I liked the history site and was not surprised that the name Sequim was bastardized and co-opted. The most concerning story is the Recompete. Those of us who heard the Commissioners speak about this grant knew that this rerouting of funds would happen. That is a lot of taxpayer monies going to a "network of navigators" who will bleed this grant dry. Is the failed purpose of the Recompete Grant the real reason for the criminal justice tax? No increase in tax revenue, increase in property taxes, increase in crime, increase in indigent defense costs. The citizens of CC are not happy as evidenced by the citizen protest of the CCD tax. Jake Seegers 2026!
There has been much discussion regarding our local government, along with non-profits, NGOs and sovereign nations, with their affects on private property and land use, and individual rights. However, I have noted the absence of our Washington State Legislature, Governor, Attorney General, and Department of Revenue, all of which are inept with regard to budgets aligned to current economy, and long range sustainability. We hear much about "sustainability", and little to nothing of the affects on constituents and their long-term wellbeing. Elected officials and agencies are deaf and blind to anything outside of their agendas, and are all too eager to tout their "accomplishments and hard work", going into overtime sessions; blah, blah,blah. We would do well by communicating regularly with the afore-mentioned; though the best I have received in response to my correspondences is a letter written by an intern or the brag rag mailed or emailed at our expense, of what they are doing, not what constituents want or need. Short answer: constituents are barking up the wrong tree, and accepting whatever spin or crumbs these parasites offer in return for another term of kickng the can with your money in it. It is way past time to find our collective spines, and demand responsibility and accountability for the "Neverending Story" and ensuing taxation without representation. The League of Women Voters are the last source that should be involved in curriculum or teaching history, civics, or any other subjects that can be slanted for an agenda, which they clearly have embraced. NGOs are raping and pillaging American citizen taxpayers, they need to start paying their "wealth taxes" like the people who currently pay for their existence. Write, call, email, megaphone, text, or whatever other means can be employed to remind elected officials, authorities, scientists, experts, or wagon rut dwellers, that they are accountable to taxpayers, not the reverse; complacency is the cancer that enabled the situation we find ourselves in the midst of. Liberty and justice for all isn't free or necessarily easy, but requiires constant vigilance and action, that is what CC Watchdog is all about, because our traditional feed has been tainted and we could not longer stomach the slop. Make yourself heard, or fade to black. ...And now, we return to our regularly scheduled programming.
"The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance" The Founding Fathers.
Good morning Jeff and Doggers,
All I can say is great articles...and let's keep it going as we are up against local government that doesn't believe in accountability. Theur agenda is clear and damaging to most citizens of this county. When you represent the side to gain and let them monitor their scope of work ... well that's just nuts. You listen to looks like Dr. Berry and we all suffer.
We must get Jake in the Commissioners seat to get this county back on track. We can't be ignored if our numbers keep growing!
Thanks and have a great one all!
VOTE FOR JAKE! MUCH IS AT STAKE!
French taking classes on how to speak frankly with normal people, knowing how smart and special he thinks he is, is hysterical.
How condescending can you get? I mean, announcing it in that way?! So typical!
The money does "appear" to flow through nonprofits and regional organizations.
For example:
This is on tomorrow's CC Commissioner meeting:
BUDGET
2a Notice that the following Budget Revisions will be considered for adoption on March 31:
Health & Human Services – Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS)
• (1 of 2) The budget is being revised to transfer FPHS revenue to Environmental Health
Administration for one-time special projects, including staff overtime for document
scanning, data entry, and evening/weekend community outreach/$25,000
• (1 of 2) Funding is being transferred from FPHS unanticipated projects to the HHS
Operations budget for hand wash stations at the fairgrounds, emergency water filtration
systems, public health education materials for community events, and water fountain
filtration at the 3rd Street building/$75,344
• (1 of 2) FPHS revenue from unanticipated projects is being reallocated to fund an HHS
Administration special project where employees working outside regular hours will scan
paper documents and enter data digitally/$5,000
THIS!
This is just the 2nd page of a 219 page Agenda.
transfer the funds from here to there, from there to here, now... donate some over there...
isn't that called money ........ ?
Who takes the time to read this?
They are hoping you don't.
It is sad, disgusting, tricksters!
Start looking at the Agenda's all pages...
They know we are paying attention now.
This is happening all over the country.
We live in this State.
Challenge accepted.
Keep it up Jeffrey!
HooRahhhh!!!!!
We regularly see these reallocations throughout the year and always wonder why. It's difficult to understand the budget because it's so bloated.
One big pot o' gold!
Democrats are the party of the working class? <cough><cough> My fanny! Trump has done more for me-- a working class citizen-- than Democrat have for the past 50 years. Democrats are lying, cheating parasites who incessantly raise taxes on the working class all the while reducing their freedoms and rights. Maybe, 50 years ago, Democrats looked out for the working class, but that shit has sailed down Corruption Straits decades ago. French is either lying or smoking intoxicants.
The new game in cc is I'm the victim!!!!
Thanks to Jeff and all the people who speak truth to power. Bravo! I’m happy the CCC will retain its name. I did write a Point-of-view for the PDN at the end of February about another worthy candidate but it has yet to be published. It’s still may be historically interesting but now it’s rather stale news. It’s sad that a ‘local’ paper cannot find room for local news in a timely fashion.
I did not read the Food Bank section as implying admin workers in general are not worthy of above minimum wage, and I fall in that category and pay scale for a private business. The general observed pattern around here seems to be NGOs and govt jobs can offer better pay and benefits than most private businesses can afford because we are all paying for it.
I read the Food Bank criticism as taxes funding non profit and goverent jobs while private businesses and working class taxpayers foot the bill in a county dependent on NGO and government grant grifting.
Clallam county and Recompete seem to fit the description https://youtube.com/shorts/owIftBcCjoU?si=C6G06kvsJLbOWuO7
Susie, I appreciate you taking the time to explain how you read it.
I understand that you did not read it as saying admin workers only deserve minimum wage. But Jeff is still treating the Food Bank like it has crossed some suspicious line into “enterprise” simply because it pays staff fairly. That is the part I take issue with.
I think the place where we may see it differently is the assumption that NGO and nonprofit wages are somehow separate from the “working taxpayers” you mention. The people working those jobs are part of the same community. They are paying rent or mortgages here, buying groceries here, shopping at local small businesses, and paying the same taxes as everyone else.
In many cases nonprofits exist precisely because the private market does not fill certain gaps. Food banks are a good example. They are not competing with private businesses. They are addressing food insecurity that would otherwise go unmet.
When people say nonprofits offer “better pay and benefits,” it can also create a misleading picture. Most nonprofit salaries are actually lower than comparable roles in the private sector. A development coordinator or administrator earning $21–$26 an hour is not living large in Clallam County. For many people here that is simply the difference between scraping by or not being able to afford to stay in the community at all.
At the end of the day, the people running food banks, writing grants, and keeping programs operating are not “grifting.” They are workers trying to keep services running that the community clearly depends on.
How do account for those that make $70-$80/ HR OFF OUR $5 PER PARTIAL FEE now that the grant coverts to taxpayer paid Statius. Because they compare to the highest county and city wage comps.
What are you referring to? Who is making $70-80/hour and what $5 fee?
Are you referring to the $5 parcel fee from Clallam Conservation District? That is not a non-profit. It’s non-regulatory, locally governed public agency. So, not relevant to my point.
Additionally - are they actually making that much per hour or does that amount include the cost of benefits and payroll taxes? Overhead on hourly wages is usually 20-50% somebody who takes home $35 an hour might cost an organization $70/hour.
The hourly rates are mentioned in this article: https://www.ccwatchdog.com/p/after-a-voided-election-ccd-faces?utm_source=publication-search
Did you confirm that’s actually their hourly rate or is that the hourly cost to the organization?
Based on easily found, publicly available information, it looks like they’re showing the hourly expense to the organization versus the what the staff member is getting paid.
https://opengovpay.com/employer/wa/clallam-conservation-district
Ah, the criminal money laundering machine of Clallam County keeps churning away~! Wasting GOBZ of our precious energy & money, creating a ginormous "carbon footprint" black hole of common sense and contributing to the vast "stinkyocity" off gassing that has become Clallam County government for all to hold our noses on as our eyes water due to the rotting stench! Robbing & victimizing the poor and enriching the greedy wealthy and privileged "preferred special interests" criminals is rampant within our otherwise beautiful community! Our ever-increasing taxpayer funds, criminally extorted, go in one end, and they disappear from view into the void of insane political "grift Hell" that is obfuscated by endless layers and layers of "doublespeak", more criminal schemes of the criminals in government, their criminally corrupt "stakeholders" & the preposterous maze of NGOs, and exit via the low intellect "hole" of simple-minded distraction techniques of these criminal manipulators~! This TOTAL crap that Mike French is supposed to be undergoing "plain language" training, I find to be VERY insulting because that suggests that these "criminal social engineer" nightmares are actually saying that the general public is too stupid to understand this simple-minded "useful idiot" troll Mike French~! On the other hand, we are also supposed to believe that Mike French is OH SO "Intelligent" that he is incapable of "talking down" to we peasants who struggle to "speakie English" like a truck load of turnips just entering America for the first time~! HA! So, what exactly is this "plain language" training? Who exactly "teaches" this marvel of "plain language" tutorial??? Is this a certificate, diploma, or degree program? Satanist Communist Brownie points? What does this training cost and who is paying for it? How did Mike French get into office without being capable of speaking plain English correctly and who exactly "Installed" him? Why on Earth was Mike French "Installed" into any management position if he is incapable of speaking plain English language in the first place??? I think that we all know that this "plain language" horseshit is actually witchcraft doublespeak "wordcraft" that is solely intended to help Mike French to more easily deceive the good folks of Clallam County with his lies and deceptions, so we are less likely to see the lipstick on the criminal "pigs" in this government~! You treasonous criminal clowns in government can paint lipstick on yourselves as much as you want, but we still smell "The Pig" that you truly are~! We can do ourselves a HUGE favor and remove theses evil subhuman reptiles from government NOW, so that Jake Seegers and other good folks can have a fighting chance to join with us to transform this community into a prosperous and safe one for all to be proud of~! I shall NEVER seek "consultation" of anyone, especially the corrupt Jamestown Tribe, to enable them to dictate what I can & can't do on my own land~! None of these scumbags helped me pay a penny for MY property! I paid my own taxes. I bought my land and ALL rights to it, no thanks to anyone but myself, what I managed to keep of my hard-earned money, and the sweat of my own labor~! Here is a little "plain language" for anyone who mistakenly believes that they have ANY business in my property -> Do the initials "F.O." mean anything to you? HA! Thanks, Jeff Tozzer, for your hard work to help our community see the truth and become resolved find the solutions that we need~!
Sincerely, Mike
New safety tax proposal'if council members are so concerned about public safety why do they allow drug addicts to camp all over public areas committing all sorts of crimes 'more hypocrisy' to squander more tax $$$, what's next because it never ends with these elected taxaholics.New state laws coming shortly that protects encampments from being removed so if council members have any interest in safety they better grandfather in new county-city codes-ordinances that makes encampments-belongings unlawful.If not P.A. will look like L.A. and taxpayers will see their property taxes go completely through the roof because commissioners will go full out building new housing for derelicts to get their junk off public areas.If wa states high end elected officials decide to take the manadatory property tax cap at 1% off and leave property tax rates up to county commissioners to determine then everyone better start packing before it goes into effect because our current board commissioners will jack property taxes through the roof while giving themselves and county employee's cost of living increases at the taxpayers expense.
HB 2266
https://seattlered.com/homelessness/democrats-homeless-housing/4117121
That won't work!
Good new song!
Glad you like it... 1984 was a good year!
Any ideas on how much this is costing us? ...about time we reverse this idiotic policy...
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/overturning-outlandish-supreme-court-ruling-only-way-fix-education
Almost 35 years ago, Californians overwhelmingly voted to defund illegal immigrant families from public education services. The state's legislature reversed the voter approved Proposition, and the state has been a deplorable mess where there seems to be no end. Where I grew up and lived and where my children attended school, the population is 50% illegal. That is a heavy burden for the other 50% to carry. There is definitely fraud in CA that is being exposed thru welfare services, and later we'll see just how much money is laundered thru the teachers unions and the education systems.
Denise, I too was raised and went to school in SoCal in an area that has morphed into a hotbed of illegals milking the system for all it's worth. In the early 1970s I wrote a college paper that asked this about the old bracero program: If we don't send back when their work is done, and they stay, and then their families grow and grow and grow and stay, decades from now, how we will get them to both go back bad get them off the public dole? I was told I was displaying "racist tendencies", and I should rewrite my paper. I took the "F" instead ...
Good for you! It was a good question and one that should have been discussed and debated in a college setting.
I grew up in the central valley. Now they are pushing legalization for the people there illegally - especially if they have been there for 10 years or more. They say it would be more taxes paid, more money spent in the country, and more home ownership. Many are conservative in politics. I think this would be the best route for that area.
And never got my CCD ballot. Shady as hades this election is.