The commissioners did not reply to yesterday's question asking if they would consider pushing for more transparency and accountability from the Sequim School District. Here is today's email to the commissioners:
Dear Commissioners,
The County emphasizes protecting some watersheds through strict water quality programs, yet Tumwater Creek—despite millions in salmon restoration—remains impacted by human waste, garbage, and debris.
Much of this appears tied to activity surrounding the County’s Harm Reduction Health Center.
Why is water quality enforced in some areas but not in others like Tumwater Creek, and who is accountable for that disparity?
As he/she walked onto the construction site they located the foreman. ‘ I don’t know how to use a level, square, or those other things I see around here, but I have had three courses in Kallam language. I am sure that in itself will allow me to do a good job for you’. These educators basically have no common sense. Those that do are probably shut done.
I went to a business recently where the employee had to read my name on a piece of paper. She asked what it was then told me she couldn't read cursive. Let that sink in.
I had employees who couldn't read cursive, or analog clocks, and had a real issue with using a "not cellular" phone. This was more than a decade ago -- the problem is REAL.
It would be refreshing if fed govt would wise up to tribal con artist that keep begging for millions of taxpayer $$$.Tribes keep using natural resource issues to try and get pity for their bogus issues. Tribes claim they are good stewards of the lands by gillnetting fish stocks into extinction then beg for govt $$$ for fish stock restoration projects that have very little to no positive results.Then use free govt $$$ to build drug dispensaries,gambling casino's then want to get paid for rehab facilities to help cure addicts from their enterprises.Some tribes get mass millions of free tax $$$ with no accountability,they just keep the con game going by simply asking for more $$$.Fed govt should be doing financial investigations before handing out hard earned $$$ out to freeloaders.There seems to be a very big difference of opinion what 'good stewards of the lands' means.Then you hear tribal comments like 'white people are the problem' i agree fed govt has created a very large number of begging monsters that cannot get enough free $$$ to satisfy it's appetite always hungry for more.
Toxic personnel like to setup messy encampments close to all the freebies that are handed out by county and state facilities. Many are just waiting for their new luxury multi million $$$ housing projects to be finished so they can move in.Then they can turn luxury housing into a luxury drug compound like they did to aggies hotel that turned to be a nightmare.Ignorant board commissioners and their supporters have not learned any valuable lessons from the past drug addict debacles which is another reason ignorant elected need to be replaced asap.
Eric, there's no funding or profit in that. Another question, who polices those areas and runs them off? I forgot, it's the magical Sovereign Land rule. They have grant buses that can take them back to the county riverbanks so we can deal with the MAT Clinic - Harm Reduction people. Life is good.
The underlying theme here is that Clallam County is seriously mismanaged and sold out to the Tribe and leftist special interests. For any of us mere mortals, when our money runs out before the month is over, we find ways to cut back. The 3 blind rats running Clallam county (as well as those running the state), do not understand this simple fundamental fact. CUT BACK SPENDING; don't squeeze taxpayers for more. Hello? It's common sense.
BUT, are our leaders lacking in common sense? No, they are devious and the incessant increases in our taxes likely go directly into their Swiss or Cayman Island bank accounts. THAT is why more money is needed. If it costs X to run the government and they collect X+Y from taxpayers, the Y disappears into their pockets. And their friends' pockets. And the more legitimate expenditures they have, the more there is in the pool to siphon off.
However, when people wise up and say "No more increases", the greedy pukes still keep increasing their pocket money, stealing it from the services needed, like law enforcement, jails, cleanup of creeks, and all the other jobs they're SUPPOSED TO do. The trajectory is that we are approaching a time when the politicians take ALL the tax money for themselves, and volunteers will be running the government.
(1) A dual-trailer tanker truck went off U.S. Highway 101 between milepost 237 and 238, and overturned into Clallam County’s Indian Creek on Friday, July 18. Approximately 2,798 gallons of gasoline and 172 gallons of diesel were released from the tanker. The tanker was operated by PetroCard, a distributor of fuel and lubricants. While not widely known to the public, PetroCard is owned by Bristol Bay Industrial, which is in turn a subsidiary of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation, an Alaskan Native Corporation created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
THE COST OF THE CLEANUP AND SUBSEQUENT COUNTY SHUT DOWN WAS SHARED MY MULTI AGENCIES: INCLUDING CLALLAM COUNTY RESOURCES........THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR WILDLIFE.
By the end of the emergency response phase, wildlife teams confirmed the loss of 2,134 fish including juvenile salmon, lamprey, and sculpin. Responders also found hundreds of dead crawfish in the creek bed.
(2 ) Two years ago, without communicating their intentions to the county, project partner Jamestown Tribe deliberately breached the original dike ahead of schedule. To protect downriver communities from flooding, THE COUNTY WAS FORCED TO DECLARE A BUDGETARY EMERGENCY WHICH RELEASED FUNDS FOR EXPEDITED LEVEE CONSTRUCTION.
This emergency also circumvented the REQUIRED COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS. When protests arose from the Jamestown Tribe that the resolution assigned blame to the Tribe, Commissioner Ozias offered to "wordsmith" the document and absolve them of wrongdoing.
THE ADDED COST OF THE JST DIKE BREACH
Commissioner Ozias funneled the last of the Department of Ecology's grant funding, originally intended to surface the road, to the Jamestown Tribe so engineered logjams could be installed in a former cow pasture to prevent water from reaching the levee. As a result, Towne Road's completion became unfunded.
WHAT DISASTERS AWAITS NETPENS AND NONNATIVE OYSTER FARMING FROM OUR STEWARDS?
Don’t forget the JST disaster farming of the Atlantic Salmon pen breaking and all the non-native fish were released into the wild, bigger more aggressive fish into the NW salmon population. Or the shut down of the Dungeness Bay oyster farm because of pollution from 2005-2018. Oh yeah they have been great stewards!
4rd, yes I did forget...we should not. What has their leaders done that makes them stewards? Or I should say, what have they done with their own money that makes the tribal leaders great anything?
I wish I could find it again, but there was a recent BC video about the use of the words "steward" and "unceded" being put into new "acknowledgements" to lay legal framing for landback. I can't recall where, but I have heard some local org use "unceded" when describing Clallam county which is not quite correct since Clallam was part of a treaty.
True, but politically, we can throw it in their faces because they’re supposed to have a close relationship with PA and Clallam County. If they really do, and if they really care about the land, they’ll put their feet down about the abuses.
I think Zenobi is correct when he asserts that the Tumwater situation is allowed to continue so it can be a basis to get grant funding, that will then be skimmed by NGOs and govt. PA 's got the skimming pattern down, just look how much they are taking from lodging tax to fund staff payroll.
To Dutchtown Spirit: Because a person has another view than hers he is a bad person. As to her take on the library spending she doesn’t have a clue as I have seen their lavish tastes. I sure wouldn’t want her balancing my checkbook let alone exposing her gestapo type tactics on my children or yours. She and her followers need a sign in their yard! I am STUPID! Ha Ha
I drove by the property on Old Olympic Hwy on Thursday morning on my way into town and observed piles of paper/household trash being burned in the front yard. Sure makes you wonder if they were getting rid of evidence?????
Cultural education has value but not when it’s used to indoctrinate. Cutting them over classes that people can use to make a living is just common sense.
Dale, I needed that laugh! Maybe they will be Faster than a speeding bullet, more Powerful than a locomotive, able to Leap tall buildings in a single bound. It's SUPER SALMON!
Did anyone else read the one scanner clip with young female caller not knowing where she was or what happened and think possible sex trafficking victim? I know substance abuse and mental health issues are widespread, but we need to keep in mind other overlapping possibilities. We are a port and border town with extremely limited LE resources and should stay alert for cries for help.
One more time; Indians are from India. Indigenous peoples and/or the nebulous "Native" Americans are all dead. They no longer live. Using discrimination to end discrimination is a fruitless fool's errand. It is agonizing to see taxes being wasted on these efforts like the $ 515 million for some buy "indian" crusade. What is the hoped for benefit ? Better yet; please demonstrate any benefits realized from any similar efforts before throwing more money at an unattainable goal. I love the art forms originated by PNW indigenous peoples and lots of it lives on the walls of my home. However; much of my art was not created by the indigenous. Similarly, the technology used by today's indigenous progeny is not from their ancestry. What can be accomplished by dedicating $ 515 million to dead people ? The claimed progeny of indigenous people are USA citizens. As such they already own all USA public land in common with all other USA citizens. What benefit could be realized by giving our public land to a private trust ? The only motive I see in this land back movement and specifically the Dungeness Spit area is so a very small group of USA citizens can embark upon a large scale aquaculture project benefiting them exclusively. If the JST, as example, prefers sovereignty to USA citizenship, they should be treated the same as any other sovereign nation. That includes taxation and travel restrictions equal to all sovereign nations. Alternatively USA citizenship is available to all of them. This both/and nonsense is simply that.
people can support the library and still ask questions about how it spends money ----- Isn't this something majority of folks do daily? Support their home and ask themselves questions regarding how they spend their own money.
yes! one can value the core resources of the library, support general fairness for workers, and still question plans and budgets. I am not asking anything of the library system that I don't ask of my own household. But if you question spending or services you will be labled as wanting the library to collapse and workers to be out on the street
The commissioners did not reply to yesterday's question asking if they would consider pushing for more transparency and accountability from the Sequim School District. Here is today's email to the commissioners:
Dear Commissioners,
The County emphasizes protecting some watersheds through strict water quality programs, yet Tumwater Creek—despite millions in salmon restoration—remains impacted by human waste, garbage, and debris.
Much of this appears tied to activity surrounding the County’s Harm Reduction Health Center.
Why is water quality enforced in some areas but not in others like Tumwater Creek, and who is accountable for that disparity?
As he/she walked onto the construction site they located the foreman. ‘ I don’t know how to use a level, square, or those other things I see around here, but I have had three courses in Kallam language. I am sure that in itself will allow me to do a good job for you’. These educators basically have no common sense. Those that do are probably shut done.
I went to a business recently where the employee had to read my name on a piece of paper. She asked what it was then told me she couldn't read cursive. Let that sink in.
I have had that happen too and I write in cursive all the time. So much easier than printing.
I had employees who couldn't read cursive, or analog clocks, and had a real issue with using a "not cellular" phone. This was more than a decade ago -- the problem is REAL.
...can you show me my desk?
Not student’s fault. They were not taught for whatever reason.
It would be refreshing if fed govt would wise up to tribal con artist that keep begging for millions of taxpayer $$$.Tribes keep using natural resource issues to try and get pity for their bogus issues. Tribes claim they are good stewards of the lands by gillnetting fish stocks into extinction then beg for govt $$$ for fish stock restoration projects that have very little to no positive results.Then use free govt $$$ to build drug dispensaries,gambling casino's then want to get paid for rehab facilities to help cure addicts from their enterprises.Some tribes get mass millions of free tax $$$ with no accountability,they just keep the con game going by simply asking for more $$$.Fed govt should be doing financial investigations before handing out hard earned $$$ out to freeloaders.There seems to be a very big difference of opinion what 'good stewards of the lands' means.Then you hear tribal comments like 'white people are the problem' i agree fed govt has created a very large number of begging monsters that cannot get enough free $$$ to satisfy it's appetite always hungry for more.
Are there any harm reduced encampments on "tribal" riverbanks?
Toxic personnel like to setup messy encampments close to all the freebies that are handed out by county and state facilities. Many are just waiting for their new luxury multi million $$$ housing projects to be finished so they can move in.Then they can turn luxury housing into a luxury drug compound like they did to aggies hotel that turned to be a nightmare.Ignorant board commissioners and their supporters have not learned any valuable lessons from the past drug addict debacles which is another reason ignorant elected need to be replaced asap.
Nope!
Eric, there's no funding or profit in that. Another question, who polices those areas and runs them off? I forgot, it's the magical Sovereign Land rule. They have grant buses that can take them back to the county riverbanks so we can deal with the MAT Clinic - Harm Reduction people. Life is good.
JST bus drops of folks with garbage bags of belongings in PA at tree park.
The underlying theme here is that Clallam County is seriously mismanaged and sold out to the Tribe and leftist special interests. For any of us mere mortals, when our money runs out before the month is over, we find ways to cut back. The 3 blind rats running Clallam county (as well as those running the state), do not understand this simple fundamental fact. CUT BACK SPENDING; don't squeeze taxpayers for more. Hello? It's common sense.
BUT, are our leaders lacking in common sense? No, they are devious and the incessant increases in our taxes likely go directly into their Swiss or Cayman Island bank accounts. THAT is why more money is needed. If it costs X to run the government and they collect X+Y from taxpayers, the Y disappears into their pockets. And their friends' pockets. And the more legitimate expenditures they have, the more there is in the pool to siphon off.
However, when people wise up and say "No more increases", the greedy pukes still keep increasing their pocket money, stealing it from the services needed, like law enforcement, jails, cleanup of creeks, and all the other jobs they're SUPPOSED TO do. The trajectory is that we are approaching a time when the politicians take ALL the tax money for themselves, and volunteers will be running the government.
Excellent explanation and comment.
Keep asking the question: Why are the tribes silent on homeless contamination of the creeks and soils of their "ancestral land?"
SomeSome, I'm still back in the past asking, who ever gave the tribes the title of stewards to the land or water?
TWO DISASTERS CAUSED BY THE STEWARDS OF OUR LAND
https://www.ccwatchdog.com/p/fuel-fumbles-and-forgotten-taxpayers PetroCard
(1) A dual-trailer tanker truck went off U.S. Highway 101 between milepost 237 and 238, and overturned into Clallam County’s Indian Creek on Friday, July 18. Approximately 2,798 gallons of gasoline and 172 gallons of diesel were released from the tanker. The tanker was operated by PetroCard, a distributor of fuel and lubricants. While not widely known to the public, PetroCard is owned by Bristol Bay Industrial, which is in turn a subsidiary of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation, an Alaskan Native Corporation created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
THE COST OF THE CLEANUP AND SUBSEQUENT COUNTY SHUT DOWN WAS SHARED MY MULTI AGENCIES: INCLUDING CLALLAM COUNTY RESOURCES........THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR WILDLIFE.
By the end of the emergency response phase, wildlife teams confirmed the loss of 2,134 fish including juvenile salmon, lamprey, and sculpin. Responders also found hundreds of dead crawfish in the creek bed.
https://www.ccwatchdog.com/p/commissioner-offers-public-apology
(2 ) Two years ago, without communicating their intentions to the county, project partner Jamestown Tribe deliberately breached the original dike ahead of schedule. To protect downriver communities from flooding, THE COUNTY WAS FORCED TO DECLARE A BUDGETARY EMERGENCY WHICH RELEASED FUNDS FOR EXPEDITED LEVEE CONSTRUCTION.
This emergency also circumvented the REQUIRED COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS. When protests arose from the Jamestown Tribe that the resolution assigned blame to the Tribe, Commissioner Ozias offered to "wordsmith" the document and absolve them of wrongdoing.
THE ADDED COST OF THE JST DIKE BREACH
Commissioner Ozias funneled the last of the Department of Ecology's grant funding, originally intended to surface the road, to the Jamestown Tribe so engineered logjams could be installed in a former cow pasture to prevent water from reaching the levee. As a result, Towne Road's completion became unfunded.
WHAT DISASTERS AWAITS NETPENS AND NONNATIVE OYSTER FARMING FROM OUR STEWARDS?
Don’t forget the JST disaster farming of the Atlantic Salmon pen breaking and all the non-native fish were released into the wild, bigger more aggressive fish into the NW salmon population. Or the shut down of the Dungeness Bay oyster farm because of pollution from 2005-2018. Oh yeah they have been great stewards!
4rd, yes I did forget...we should not. What has their leaders done that makes them stewards? Or I should say, what have they done with their own money that makes the tribal leaders great anything?
Stewards of a major narcotic trafficking operation at their hotel.
hmmm.. 🤔
I wish I could find it again, but there was a recent BC video about the use of the words "steward" and "unceded" being put into new "acknowledgements" to lay legal framing for landback. I can't recall where, but I have heard some local org use "unceded" when describing Clallam county which is not quite correct since Clallam was part of a treaty.
True, but politically, we can throw it in their faces because they’re supposed to have a close relationship with PA and Clallam County. If they really do, and if they really care about the land, they’ll put their feet down about the abuses.
If they get funding for it, sure, they'll save us! Then show Olympia how the close relationship works AND get to own the land and water rights.
I think Zenobi is correct when he asserts that the Tumwater situation is allowed to continue so it can be a basis to get grant funding, that will then be skimmed by NGOs and govt. PA 's got the skimming pattern down, just look how much they are taking from lodging tax to fund staff payroll.
Susie, I agree
Hey Ron draw on that 1/4 blood and follow along:
Take only what you need.
Leave the land as you found it.
The earth provides enough for every man's need,
but not every man's greed.
To Dutchtown Spirit: Because a person has another view than hers he is a bad person. As to her take on the library spending she doesn’t have a clue as I have seen their lavish tastes. I sure wouldn’t want her balancing my checkbook let alone exposing her gestapo type tactics on my children or yours. She and her followers need a sign in their yard! I am STUPID! Ha Ha
I drove by the property on Old Olympic Hwy on Thursday morning on my way into town and observed piles of paper/household trash being burned in the front yard. Sure makes you wonder if they were getting rid of evidence?????
S. Bauer it's Smoke Signals
Cultural education has value but not when it’s used to indoctrinate. Cutting them over classes that people can use to make a living is just common sense.
Headline from last week:
“ Salmon exposed to cocaine swim almost twice as far as those without, study shows”
Is this part of the salmon recovery plan for Tumwater Creek?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salmon-cocaine-swim-farther-study/
Dale, I needed that laugh! Maybe they will be Faster than a speeding bullet, more Powerful than a locomotive, able to Leap tall buildings in a single bound. It's SUPER SALMON!
omg Jeff,
the Police Blotter.
the young woman, waking up disoriented, not knowing who she is?… age 15??
what is going on ???
I fair to say, patriot Michael has his sights on truth..
It is about the children..?
there is a pattern of women being offended this week… yes?
drug induced vomiting?..
gosh..
lots to unpack here..
thanks for posting the police blotter! 👍🏼
Jake, i will place Jake Seegers signs on my roof top.
You know it!
I know someone that could do it.
Good day.
I hadn't even thought about a trafficking victim until Susie mentioned it.
Drain backed up? Electricity out? Roof need repair? Who you gonna call?
Did anyone else read the one scanner clip with young female caller not knowing where she was or what happened and think possible sex trafficking victim? I know substance abuse and mental health issues are widespread, but we need to keep in mind other overlapping possibilities. We are a port and border town with extremely limited LE resources and should stay alert for cries for help.
But the net result will be no different whether they call themselves protectors or protesters, they will still be protesters
and some, are paid protesters
One more time; Indians are from India. Indigenous peoples and/or the nebulous "Native" Americans are all dead. They no longer live. Using discrimination to end discrimination is a fruitless fool's errand. It is agonizing to see taxes being wasted on these efforts like the $ 515 million for some buy "indian" crusade. What is the hoped for benefit ? Better yet; please demonstrate any benefits realized from any similar efforts before throwing more money at an unattainable goal. I love the art forms originated by PNW indigenous peoples and lots of it lives on the walls of my home. However; much of my art was not created by the indigenous. Similarly, the technology used by today's indigenous progeny is not from their ancestry. What can be accomplished by dedicating $ 515 million to dead people ? The claimed progeny of indigenous people are USA citizens. As such they already own all USA public land in common with all other USA citizens. What benefit could be realized by giving our public land to a private trust ? The only motive I see in this land back movement and specifically the Dungeness Spit area is so a very small group of USA citizens can embark upon a large scale aquaculture project benefiting them exclusively. If the JST, as example, prefers sovereignty to USA citizenship, they should be treated the same as any other sovereign nation. That includes taxation and travel restrictions equal to all sovereign nations. Alternatively USA citizenship is available to all of them. This both/and nonsense is simply that.
people can support the library and still ask questions about how it spends money ----- Isn't this something majority of folks do daily? Support their home and ask themselves questions regarding how they spend their own money.
yes! one can value the core resources of the library, support general fairness for workers, and still question plans and budgets. I am not asking anything of the library system that I don't ask of my own household. But if you question spending or services you will be labled as wanting the library to collapse and workers to be out on the street