Board of County Commissioners Meeting - Mar 2

All three of our county commissioners stayed for the entire meeting. Here's what I heard.

- There's a vacancy on the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee since Mike Carnavole resigned. Ross announced that they are looking for a new member who is involved in generating hotel/motel tax dollars.

- Mason County Parks and Trails Department Business Planning Task Force recommendations were on the consent agenda. Several members of this task force were in attendance today with Patti Case speaking for them as she summed up their work.

(I was just thinking this same task force should be asked to come up with a strategy to improve Mason County's Health Report. We could ask them to help move the county from 37 out of 39 up to say 20 out of 39 by 2020. When they finish with this assignment we could ask them to provide a vision for Mason County. Patti, could you and your team help us figure out what Mason County wants to be when all grown up?)

- Charlie Butros, Public Works Department announced that recently the county had followed up with Senators Cantwell/Murray and Representative Dicks on federal funding for the Simmons/Lynch Road.

(Someday in the hopefully not too distant future, folks who live off Lynch Road will be able to go off their high blood pressure medicine. On the downside, we won't know what to do for excitement when we stop getting that adrenalin charge as we make the life threatening left turn onto Highway 101.)

- Tim in discussing his calendar noted that there would be no Board of County Commissioners meeting on March 23 because he and Lynda would be out of town or otherwise not available. Looks like Ross is the only commissioner who is working full time during March. No commissioners meeting on March 9 or March 23.

(To get my full opinion on this please refer to my blog posting "Staff Driven" 12/19/2009.)

- Lynda mentioned that while she is in Washington DC next week she'll be teleconferencing back to the area so that she can be part of a discussion on replacing the Hood Canal Coordinating Council. This was made in passing as she discussed her maiden voyage "skyping".

- Lynda is meeting this week with Wilt Hamilton who works with ADAGE. She's working to get their answers to questions submitted by the public.

(If we've got questions, we probably need to get on them quickly so that ADAGE has time to prepare their "objective" responses to them.)

- On March 15 three panels plus the commissioners will be interviewing five candidates for the HR/Budget Director position.