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Jeff Tozzer's avatar

The commissioners did not answer yesterday's question. Here is today's email:

Dear Commissioners,

Given that the Three Crabs neighborhood flooded again this weekend after years of residents warning the County that the Meadowbrook Creek estuary “restoration” project worsened flooding, do you believe it is appropriate to continue ignoring those concerns until after the NODC drafts the Hazard Mitigation component of the Comprehensive Plan?

All three commissioners can be reached by emailing the Clerk of the Board at loni.gores@clallamcountywa.gov.

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Dear Constituent,

Thank you for your email. Recurrent flooding in the Three Crabs neighborhood raises legitimate concerns regarding public safety, property impacts, and the County’s responsibility to respond to known hazards. From a governance and planning perspective, the issue you raise is not whether long-range planning is important—it is—but whether ongoing, documented impacts should be acknowledged and addressed while those plans are under development.

As an individual county commissioner, I cannot commit the Board or direct staff outside of an open public meeting. Formal actions—such as commissioning studies, allocating resources, or directing policy—must occur through collective Board action consistent with the Open Public Meetings Act (RCW 42.30). However, individual commissioners do have a responsibility to raise issues, request agenda placement, and ensure that resident concerns are formally considered within the public record.

From a good-governance standpoint, and consistent with established planning and hazard-mitigation best practices, I do not believe it is appropriate to defer engagement with residents experiencing repeated flooding solely until after the Hazard Mitigation component of the Comprehensive Plan is drafted. Federal and state planning frameworks emphasize that hazard mitigation is an ongoing, iterative process, not one confined to plan adoption cycles (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2023; 44 C.F.R. § 201.6).

Accordingly, I will request that the Board consider the following actions in an open public meeting:

Formal acknowledgment and documentation of impacts

Place the Three Crabs flooding concerns on the Board agenda as an action item and ensure that resident testimony, photographs, and damage reports are entered into the public record. Transparent documentation is a foundational element of procedural fairness and accountability in public decision-making (RCW 36.70A.140).

Independent technical evaluation or peer review

Request a clearly scoped, time-limited technical review—either independent or as a peer review of existing analyses—focused on changes in flood frequency and severity following the Meadowbrook Creek project. Best practices in environmental governance support independent review where community observations conflict with project assumptions (FEMA, 2023).

Identification of interim risk-reduction measures

Direct staff to identify and publicly present feasible interim measures that could reduce risk during high-tide or storm events, with associated costs, constraints, and permitting considerations. Interim mitigation is explicitly contemplated in hazard-mitigation guidance and does not require prejudging long-term planning outcomes (44 C.F.R. § 201.6).

Integration—rather than deferral—within planning processes

Ensure that the lived experience and technical findings from Three Crabs are incorporated into the Hazard Mitigation Plan update and Comprehensive Plan deliberations as they occur, consistent with the Growth Management Act’s requirement for early and continuous public participation (RCW 36.70A.020; RCW 36.70A.140).

Clarification of advisory and decision-making roles

Where external entities or advisory groups contribute to planning discussions, clarify their role relative to the Board’s statutory decision-making authority. Clear lines of accountability are essential to maintaining public trust in collaborative planning processes.

To directly answer your question: No, I do not believe it is appropriate to ignore or defer resident concerns until after a future planning draft is completed when there is credible evidence of repeated harm. Long-range plans are critical tools, but they do not replace the County’s ongoing obligation to respond to known risks in a timely, transparent, and evidence-based manner.

Sincerely,

[Commissioner Name]

Clallam County Commissioner

References

Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2023). Local mitigation planning handbook (FEMA P-1026). U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Revised Code of Washington. (n.d.). RCW 36.70A.020: Planning goals. https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw

Revised Code of Washington. (n.d.). RCW 36.70A.140: Comprehensive plans—Public participation. https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw

Revised Code of Washington. (n.d.). RCW 42.30: Open Public Meetings Act. https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw

U.S. Government Publishing Office. (n.d.). 44 C.F.R. § 201.6: Local mitigation plans. https://www.ecfr.gov

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UFOCCWD's avatar

By now the savvy know why state & county officials are ignoring the 3 crabs flooding issues.The most likely premeditated master plan is red tag homes evict owners quarantine area wait until summertime low water levels then fix the flooding issues and now the new 3 crabs property owners can develope lucrative property but who is the new 3 crab property owners any ideas who this could be?

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Jennifer's avatar

UFO, not to demean your question, it's legitimate. John Worthington has already done the spread sheet on who will become and can only be (because of building codes) the "new 3 crab property owners" The Tribe's Sovereign Status allows them to build outside of our County Codes. Fair? Hell no. Legal? Unless our County Commissioners respond to the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) stating the loss of our land tax will affect the citizens of the county (which they haven't EVER done) the S'Kallam Tribe moves in, get the land at bargain basement prices (using government funds) , gets funding to develop the land (just as they did for the golf course)....TaDay, a real twofer. Disgusting yes, legal yes.

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Glen Parker's avatar

It's frightening to see the flooding of the little homes property at Cays and Woodcock.

I know from personal experience on building our home out here if you run excavators on property you mess with the subterranean hydro flow. The tribe corporation needs to be held accountable. When we had the big snow in the winter of 2019 our property had tons of standing water. We put in a home and an ADU unit. I had to put in a sump pump system under the house and over $20,000 in French draining on the property to stop the water. We drain very well now. I never saw flooding to the extent that I witnessed a week ago on the Cays property. Add that project to the damage at 3Crabs and the engineers for the Sklallam Corporation should all be fired and every project approved by real engineers from a 3rd party to ensure they limit the harm.

Mark Ozias going to DC to tell our representatives our county needs is quite the joke when he has doubled down on Harm reduction.

I wish we could have him removed before his election!

Thank you Jeff and all your contributors excellent reporting. I'll pay for the stickers to give each of our commissioners...Happy to!

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4 reasonable development's avatar

Could Ozias be creating messes in our urban communities perhaps so he can then turn around and say, ‘oh look a problem, what’s it going to take (how much tax money) to fix this one?’ For the last 2 years I’ve watched Ozias do just that. What we see daily with our own eyes is more & more failure dressed up as progress? Where is the seeable progress other than fake, false & phoney numbers on paper to keep the cycle going? WHERE IS THE “REAL” “LASTING” SUCCESS in Clallam County? I see JST success but no Clallam County success for the urban guettos…….why?

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Jennifer's avatar

4rd, Ozias does not plan on sticking around that's why we see JST success and local business failures. His contributing support of Tribal business is much more powerful than any votes he would get from a non-sovereign small struggling business. He plays the numbers game, and doing quite well with it. Don't forget the voting power of his various NGO's. These are all votes he can take with him to Olympia.

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Kristin's avatar

Just makes you want to ground him to his room forever with no internet. (keeping it nice)

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Karen Parker's avatar

...and take away his GameBoy!

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Jennifer's avatar

Kristin, just give him NGO stickers, he'll be busy arranging them on his county funded laptop. He has quite the collection now.

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Jennifer's avatar

Where does Ozias values point to? He says he moved Covid money to "Local Partners" Who were the local partners?

https://www.clallamdemocrats.org/blog/profile-in-leadership-mark-ozias-leads-with-democratic-values

10/26/2025

Profile in Leadership: Mark Ozias leads with Democratic values

By Paul Pickett

3. What has been the highest point for you as a leader and a Democrat?

Mark considers this for a minute. “I’d say it was the local response to the COVID-19 PANDEMIC,” he says. “As the pandemic grew, the DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS PASSED RELIEF FUNDS that were SENT DIRECTLY TO CITIES AND COUNTIES. This was a highly unusual approach – unique.” Mark describes how the County set priorities, looked at LOCAL GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS, and MOVED MONEY TO LOCAL PARTNERS. “We internalized very few of those dollars,” he explains. “I’m proud of how we PARTNERED WITH NONPROFITS AND WORKED WITH BUSINESSES. As a generality, Democrats are COMMUNITY-MINDED. This is an example of Democrat values.”

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veronica's avatar

They "internalized very few of those dollars". Yeah, right. Let's see the breakdown of who received that money. Non Profits. Another word for scam. It seems as if WE here are in line for deep dive into corruption. It is long overdue.

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Jennifer's avatar

Veronica, what alarms me is who got the money? There wasn't a support of i.e. restaurants who barely hang on to begin with and then during Covid had to invest more money in costly extaordinary means to be "Covid Safe". My God! Too many had to fold. EVERY SINGLE BUSINESS SUFFERED, but the Tribal businesses! They did not have to adhere to County rules if they did not desire. Did our Covid money go to, as Ozias said, "Local Partners"? If just one non-tribal owned business would come forward and tell me how the County Commissioners truly helped them, I would love to hear. I would also love to hear from the businesses that asked for help and were denied.

Ozias began his total support of the Tribes because Covid gave him the power to do so and they gave him the campaign money to elect him.

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Don Eisenbeisz's avatar

Jennifer, JST donated $500 in 2015, $1000 in 2019, and $1800 in 2023, for a grand total of $3300. That’s for THREE elections. So far, Jeff, his husband, and his rental cottage have donated $7600 to Jake Seeger‘s campaign. That’s for ONE election. More than twice the amount the tribe has donated. I guess we know who will own Jake if he gets elected .

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Glen Parker's avatar

Smells bad though😁

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Someone Someone's avatar

I knew a mayor in another state like that years ago. He got off on playing Sim City at home. It was all a game to him.

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Jennifer's avatar

Glen, "Mark Ozias going to DC to tell our representatives our county needs is quite the joke when he has doubled down on Harm reduction"

Mark Ozias is going to DC, but actually has his eyesight on Olympia. He's feeding the system that will welcome him there. He could care less about Clallam County's needs. What he needs is to continue his support of the NGO's and Tribes, that's where he is building his resume. Don't worry, he won't be running again here but obviously is in a hurry to build his passport with required Visas to get into the Big Boy Club.

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Jennifer's avatar

Ozias March to the Sea: Who will get there first? The hope is Trump’s attacks on NGO’s will slow the power of these Nongovernmental Organizations that Ozias has built his reputation on. Ask yourself why he is in so many of the organizations. Come hell or high water, (no pun intended) he will get his way with the not quite defined but soon to be powerful title of “Water Steward”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/memorandum-for-the-heads-of-executive-departments-and-agencies/

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

SUBJECT:       Advancing United States Interests When Funding

               Nongovernmental Organizations

The United States Government has provided significant taxpayer dollars to Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), many of which are engaged in actions that actively undermine the security, prosperity, and safety of the American people.  It is the policy of my Administration to stop funding NGOs that undermine the national interest.

I therefore direct the heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies) to review all funding that agencies provide to NGOs.  The heads of agencies shall align future funding decisions with the interests of the United States and with the goals and priorities of my Administration, as expressed in executive actions; as otherwise determined in the judgment of the heads of agencies; and on the basis of applicable authorizing statutes, regulations, and terms.

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Mac's avatar

We already have murry cantwell and chapstick, we don't need any more useless politicians in this state! Send him to Minnesota.

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Michael Heath's avatar

Great comment Patriot Glen parker~!

Sincerely, Mike

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

Sent today

Commissioners,

Today, Jan. 5th, 2026, the agenda includes a discussion of a Clallam County Review Commission (CCRC)recommendation to hire a ‘Water Steward’, presumably to consolidate information already collected by non-governmental organizations and governmental organizations. As part of your conversation today, I request that you state what data these agencies already collect, and how this data affects the county governmental decisions about water. If the data already exists, why do we need another layer of bureaucracy to manage it?

The CCRC has recommended, included on today’s agenda, that Clallam County Commissioners respond, in writing, to requests by any governmental agency for trust land transfer. I find it hard to believe you have not answered letters from the Bureau of Indian Affairs during your terms of office as County Commissioners. I’d like to hear you explain your lack of attention to provide economic consequences to county residents of trust land transfer.

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Michael Heath's avatar

Another great edition of "The Watchdog" Patriot Jeff Tozzer~!

I can't wait for the L.C.M.M. "Local Cabal of Moron Muttonheads" (AKA; "Clallam County & Jamestown Criminal Cabal") to come out with THEIR rigged 2-bit fly-by-night so-called "study" that will clearly, "shockingly", conflict with the recent large scale comprehensive multi-million-dollar high tech scientific study that was already accomplished by Federal NOAA and the USCG agencies~! I am confident that the L.C.M.M. criminal cabal will, as you wisely suggested, somehow "prove" that the three crabs property owners "need" to do what the "cabal" of dictators, pirates, shysters and thieves' demand, because of THEIR engineered flooding, and at the same time "we" will of course soon be told that everyone else needs to give up their rights and hard earned monies because of the eminent "deadly drought" conditions~!!! Ha Ha Ha~! I am equally confident that the L.C.M.M. and their paid fake science "goon frauds" ("goon squad" pun ;-) will soon be terrorizing the good folks of Clallam County about their so-called "study" that has "magically determined" that "we" are all doomed to yet another year of "record drought conditions" (climate change gymnastics), especially after the recent Washington State flooding issues that just triggered a "state of emergency"~! Imagine if "hypocrisy" was made illegal and merited a death sentence, these insane criminal social engineers would be gone never to be heard from again~! HA~! Would that not be a pity ;-))

I do also encourage folks to read Marolee (Mimi) Smith's recent "Harm Reduction Is Not a Magic Pill" article if they have not yet had the opportunity~! Mimi did an excellent job revealing that the current failed local governments' approach is actually doing more harm than good~! At this point "we" all need to wonder if the "usual suspects" in our local government are causing harm intentionally or if they are just criminally incompetent, but either way, we need to remove the problem children from our government if we ever want to improve our otherwise wonderful community that has such enormous potential~!

Sincerely, Mike

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Mac's avatar

NOAA has special equipment and has already mapped all of the straits and the coast. What will the tribe use, an artists rendition or have a visionary do the mapping?

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Michael Heath's avatar

Witch doctor~!

The Jamestown Tribal Government will hire a cross eyed one fingered stuttering Witch doctor on crazy and wild mushrooms & "firewater" to conjure up a scary depiction of the eminent flooding that is going to sweep away all those "squatters" who dared to have bought their property for top dollar, paid ungodly taxes & fees to the government every year, and worked themselves half to death to have nice homes! How DARE they! HA~! "Visionary"? Oh, that is rich~! The only "visions" that the Jamestown Tribal Government thugs and the crooks and thieves in our governments have, is of "dancing dollar signs" in their empty little pointed heads, so they can "preside as evil dictators" over the rubble that used to be a wonderful vibrant community for well over 100 years~! This is OUR land, not theirs, and every property owner paid dearly for the proof of THEIR title to THEIR land~! Yes, NOAA and the USCG have VERY special equipment at their disposal and although I sure don't completely trust any government and what they say, we can safely bet our very last dollar that the Jamestown scam artists and their coconspirator crony crooks in our governments will NEVER tell the truth about anything~! Keep up the great work Patriot Mac and everyone else, because these sick evil clowns can spew their BS "gas lighting" lies until they are blue in the face~! They can all go and pound sand, because too many of us are on to their evil games and we know that if we don't stand up for the 3 crabs' folks now, these same scumbags will DEFINITELY come after "us" next in their disgusting greedy war against the good folks of Clallam County ~! ;-)

Cheers~!

Mike

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Mac's avatar

Very well put. I have a friend who was in NOAA here and was lucky enough to go on one of their new equipment tests. The tribe is in no way shape or financial form to do anything like what has already been done. If they say they can then we know that they are just following their same lying ways. We are children of nature and they are no more stewards of nature than a herd of horny toads. The only green the commissioners and jkt are interested in are the printed ones with pictures of presidents and that say in "God we trust".

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Michael Heath's avatar

Right you are good Patriot Mac~!

Of course, the "wampum" that the criminal Jamestown dictators "LOVE" the most does not have a previous President on it, but an escaped White slave named Benjamin Franklin~! Other than that, "little detail" you hit it right on the head~! Tis the LOVE of money and their greed that will spell the end of the dictators and thieves who oppress the Jamestown Tribe and all others in our community~! The Jamestown Tribal government has absolutely no superior rights to the claim that they are stewards of the land, in fact their recent atrocious behavior in the way that they have actually treated the land, environment, and all that occupy it, absolutely prove them criminally incapable and/or incompetent to have any say in the matter whatsoever... We would actually be better off with the "herd of horny toads" to guide us! HA~! Oh, and did you know that in the not-so-distant future, that the current fiat US "dollars" are scheduled to be replaced by 100% asset backed "United States Treasury Notes"~?

Keep the faith and stay tuned~! ;-)

Sincerely, Mike

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MK's avatar

Since time immemorial thingy....

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Jennifer's avatar
4dEdited

Yupper, that's the go to phrase. I laugh every time, just as I laugh when they say because of their genes they are able to be steward of all mother nature created. The rest of us are retarded. I wake up in the morning, walk into the wall before I get my bearings.

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Jennifer's avatar

Mac, it's in their genes dontchaknow? They just know! You haven't read the Land Acknowledgements? It say so, right there.

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jedjennings50's avatar

The motor home looks too good. It should be missing tires and graffiti on it with a car buying

dope next to it. Maybe one of the commissioners handing out money. Then it would be complete

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Jennifer's avatar

jedj, you forgot to have one of the commissioners handing out FREE PIZZA ; )

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Michael Heath's avatar

Nice touch Jennifer ;-)

Sincerely, Mike

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jedjennings50's avatar

Thick or thin crust and anchovies?

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Jennifer's avatar

jedj, thick crust with salmon, with a side of land acknowledgment.

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Denise Lapio's avatar

Oh, Jennifer, I love it!

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Karen Parker's avatar

Also, blessed by a poet laureate.

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jedjennings50's avatar

Maybe the poet has some meth for sale and herion cocaine and

a little joint to start over again. No pizza with all that dope and the sure and the hell could not recite poetry

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Denise Lapio's avatar

Breathe in, breathe out. Repeat. Monday morning potpourri to get us moving, calmly and with level heads. I appreciate Jeff giving us good information and updates because as much as I want all of these problems to go away, I know they won't for a while. So I will see everyone tomorrow at the BoCC 10:00 regular meeting where we are free to be the voices of reason.

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Susie Blake's avatar

In the title company picture, the chubby guy with tan saggy pants- he is one of the same ones from the PA photo tour who was standing IN the Safeway entrance drive to panhandle and run errands between users. I found the other pictures, saggy pants dude is the same but the other dog was more black and this one has more white markings it's probably good I can't have a dog or I be at Safeway buying dogs from dope dealers every weekend .We can see the same players repeating the same behavior, why can't LE? Where do PA council members get their groceries I wonder? How can they keep pretending this DRUG crisis is not our root problem?

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4dEdited

“…pretending the drug problem is not our root problem”. Exactly. Having read another harm reduction story and increase attention by major cities, these operations are not working. It’s a license to kill, an okay to our citizens (legal, illegal, children, tourist, businesses, etc) that this county condones public drug use and the consequences are nil. Feed-the-seagulls plan of action is working. They return to the source, free, and results are always predictable. Whether we are talking Harm Reduction store fronts or something as advantageous as a local food bank, they come, they receive, they’re happy and they return.

For the record, I support the mission of the Sequim Food Bank and Mark O is a Director not President on the Board there. Their Executive Director search is a worthy one.

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MK's avatar

Curious, what is the Sequim Foodbank mission as you understand it?

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Ken's avatar

From their website. The Mission of the Sequim Food Bank is “To provide food and assistance to individuals and organizations in our community.”

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Michael Heath's avatar

Great comment and questions Patriot Susie Blake~!

Perhaps "we" are looking at our problems with the few dubious troublemakers in government incorrectly? Why do so many automatically assume that these few Individuals in government management are acting in Good Faith~??? What if these few problematic government servants of ours are intentionally causing harm, getting people injured and killed? There have been many proven cases of exactly that kind of twisted behavior in some government employees before... That is something to reasonably consider, however it does not appear that the local folks have suffered enough to demand the removal of these few troublemakers in our local governments...

Stay safe~!

Mike

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MK's avatar

I'm beginning to wonder whether Commissioner Ozias is treating Clallam County as his personal social experiment.

A thought for the businesses in PA. Aggregate and work with the PD to institute a trespass program, or if there is one, revitalize it.

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Jennifer's avatar

MK, I'm beginning to wonder whether Commissioner Ozias wants Clallam County to go bust. Who would come to the rescue and get bargain basement deals?

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Susie Blake's avatar

trying again, PA tresspass program and link to form found here https://www.cityofpa.us/834/Trespass-Program

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MK's avatar
4dEdited

Well this is interesting. I wonder which businesses have taken advantage of this, or how widely known it is that the PD can protect the private property of business owners?

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Susie Blake's avatar

UNSafeway utilizes it, somewhat, as they only address issues inside their building. When I have called and asked them to report issues in the parking lot I am told" we are not allowed to address anything outside our doors." Thus we have narcotics trafficking in the UNSafeway parking lot as their safe zone and middle aged dealers helping young women shoot up in their alley. Also I jave noticed some places that I think do use the program, seems like LE let them hang around all weekend making messes and dealing dope, then move them along early Monday

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Jennifer's avatar

Susie, I can't pull up the chrome-extension you pasted

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Clallamity Jen's avatar

Thank you for sharing the Sequim Monitor — and thank you to all the new subscribers! The Monitor is a we thing and not just a me thing; anyone can submit articles that focus on Sequim, either the government, the NGOs, the schools, the businesses, the community.

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John's avatar

People forget that a conspiracy and a conspiracy theory are two very different things. Conspiracies are real and happen everyday. Thanks for calling them out Jeff

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UFOCCWD's avatar

One reason why we see commissioners are involved with so many NGO's is so they can control who get's hired so they can keep the liberal party growing.The food bank position that pays a extremely high wage & benefits will be given to another liberal without a doubt.If and when board commissioners get voted out of office which could not happen fast enough they will have backup plans for employment with all their involvement with the NGO's they belong to.It has been said ozias is president of the food bank so does he get to determine who get's appointed to the sequim food bank position.

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Denise Lapio's avatar

Does that make Ozias a community organizer? I say 'yes'.

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Someone Someone's avatar

I always figure they kick a lot of the cash to ActBlue or the Mark Ozias campaign.

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Someone Someone's avatar

When contractors like JKT want money for that kind of work, that’s a sign that it’s already underway. JKT probably wrote the specs for the span of work description.

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Jennifer's avatar

SomeSome, exactly correct. JKT has a finger in EVERY pie and the Commissioners are serving out the slices!

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Glen Parker's avatar

So true, I can't touch the "like" !!!

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4dEdited

I just tried to request the Conservation District's mail in ballot. As for birth date required, we have to navigate back to the year we were born month by month That would take me all day! Maybe longer.

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Jon Purnell's avatar

Just submitted a ballot request. The people who designed the web site either didn't try to use it, or they are hoping people will give up their effort to request a ballot. I had to cycle through 850 calendar pages to enter my full birthdate. The birthdate field should be capable of editing via a keyboard, but it is not. Also, you MUST have a mobile phone and an Email address to request a ballot. Contrary to popular belief, some do not, indeed refuse to have a mobile phone. Voter suppression? You be the judge.

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Denise Lapio's avatar

Intentional voter suppression. The DEI hires should know better.

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Don Eisenbeisz's avatar

I checked the ballot request page on three different devices. On iPhone, you tap the date and a month/year scroll bar menu pop-up. On both Mac and regular PC, I was able to type the date right into the date field.

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Jon Purnell's avatar

That's good to know. Glad your experience was successful. My experience was similar to Carol's using my Android tablet. Either way, this issue needs to be corrected.

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Jon Purnell's avatar

Thanks for pointing this out. Evidently, my VPN software was interfering with the functioning of the webpage. It worked on my PC when I paused my VPN. I will pass this on to the Conservation Distict.

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Powdermonkey's avatar

This piece includes plenty of accurate details, but they’re arranged in a way that nudges readers toward conclusions the evidence doesn’t actually support.

Take the coastline mapping. Yes, NOAA and USGS have datasets, but federal data isn’t automatically usable for local permitting or restoration work. Counties still need updated, higher-resolution, ground-verified information. That’s just how it works. Partnering with tribes isn’t suspicious either. Small counties often rely on those partnerships to access funding and technical support they don’t have themselves.

On Meadowbrook and Three Crabs, the flooding is real and people have every right to be frustrated. But blaming a single restoration project ignores the bigger forces at play, like sea-level rise, storm surge, groundwater rise, and aging infrastructure. Some coastal neighborhoods will see more flooding no matter what the county does. The public can’t keep paying to rebuild roads and protect private parcels forever. Residents deserve fair treatment, and taxpayers deserve realistic expectations about what government can sustain. These decisions will set the tone for flood policy, infrastructure, buyouts, and zoning, and that requires honesty, not speculation.

The same pattern shows up in the discussion of NGOs, campaign donations, and so-called different rules. The individual facts may be true, but there’s no causal link connecting them. Advisory bodies can’t change zoning or acquire property. Campaign donations are legal and disclosed. The “different rules” issue is mostly about jurisdiction. Tribal trust land follows federal and tribal law, not county zoning. Tribes still have to comply with federal environmental laws, and any land they own outside of trust follows the same county rules as everyone else. What looks like favoritism is really just two governments operating in the same space.

Harm reduction didn’t cause the fentanyl crisis. Overdose trends follow the supply of synthetic opioids, not access to syringes. The real gap is treatment capacity, housing, and behavioral health infrastructure. Focusing on paraphernalia misses the point.

Finally, the Sequim Food Bank salary issue is being framed incorrectly. Nonprofit executive compensation is compared to similar organizations, not the average income of local residents. In that context, the numbers cited are normal. Financial discrepancies should be clarified, but nothing presented shows misuse or misconduct.

Across these issues, the pattern is the same. Facts are real, but the narratives built from them are often misleading.

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MK's avatar

"... The real gap is treatment capacity, housing, and behavioral health infrastructure. Focusing on paraphernalia misses the point."

Oh, so wrong. Are you on the take somehow? What's your conflict of interest here? Jeff is responsible enough to clearly state his.

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

Fact. Tribes are subject to Federal regulation.

How high has the sea risen ? Fact?

Fact. Harm reduction has not reduced the fentanyl crisis.

Fact? Am I engaging a bot?

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Jeff Tozzer's avatar

The Dungeness Lighthouse, sitting just a few feet above sea level, was built in 1857. How much has the sea risen in the last 169 years, and why haven't they had to move it?

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

The lighthouse must be climate resilient.😗

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Don Eisenbeisz's avatar

Because the lighthouse sits higher than Three Crabs Rd.

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

Just finished watching our county co9mmissioners push the two recommendations forward to future (yet unscheduled) town hall meetings and ask charter review commissioners to restate arguments for the recommendations. Why do we have a charter review commission?

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4dEdited

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but if you would have attended just one CRC meeting... :)

Oh, wait.

Still clear as mud, I get it. But they did get a security detail.

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James C. Lately's avatar

Lidar maps are so cool. They show slide areas, old railroad grades, roads and landings, old river beds, and other interesting things.

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MK's avatar

Why pay for more "cool" when we already have the data? What am I missing?

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Don Eisenbeisz's avatar

You’re missing the part that Jeff left out. The data changes over time. It’s a dynamic coastline. It will be done again in some number of years and it will continue to be done periodically forever as the coast and estuaries and sea levels continue to change.

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