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Complaint seeks Kidd ouster in PA
Expanding access
Eight-part filing asks for deputy mayor’s removal BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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John and Cammy Thomas of Port Angeles walk along the water’s edge at the mouth of the Elwha River west of Port Angeles on Saturday.
Wetlands grant to aid Elwha mouth purchase Access to river’s east side possible by summer 2018 BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Public access to the new beaches on the east side of the Elwha River mouth is expected to be available by the summer of 2018. Coastal Watershed Institute
has been awarded a $1 million National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant to help purchase a property, restore wetlands and establish public access in the area. “We are very excited to get to work,” said Jamie Michel, project manager and nearshore biologist for the Institute. The only present public access to the 80 to 100 acres of beaches at the mouth of the Elwha River is on the west bank of the river, which is across public property and where parking and public services are very limited.
“The only Sani-Can, which services up to hundreds of people a day, is sponsored by the Olympic Peninsula Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation,” said Anne Shaffer, executive director and lead scientist for the Institute. The east side of the river delta, where the more extensive beaches have grown, is almost entirely within Lower Elwha Klallam tribal land. The tribe does not currently allow public access to the beaches through its land. TURN TO GRANT/A7
PORT ANGELES — A former City Council candidate has filed an eight-part ethics complaint against Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd over her conduct while presiding at a City Council meeting Tuesday night. Marolee Smith, who unsuccessfully ran for a position in November now occupied by Michael Merideth, filed the action Thursday under a section of the city code that was passed in 2012 — while Kidd was mayor. It’s the first ethics complaint filed under the new rules. Smith asks that Kidd be removed as deputy mayor, a position the council named her to in January. Some 50 to 60 people attended Tuesday’s meeting, with many signing up to speak — mostly about city water fluoridation — during public comment periods. The complaint will be decided by a three-person citizens’ ethics board named by the City Council — not including Kidd, City Attorney Bill Bloor said Friday. The pool of citizens whose names are currently filed with the city for participation on a board of ethics consists of Grant Meiner, William Yucha, Kenneth Williams, Diana Tschimperle, Danetta Rutten, Frank J. Prince
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Jr., Roy Gotham, Edward Zoble and Jerry Dean, said Kari Martinez-Bailey, administrative assistant with the city manager’s office, said Friday. The City Council will discuss the complaint at the council’s next regular meeting Feb. 16. “I feel there is no validity at all in any of the charges,” Kidd said Friday. Smith alleges Kidd violated the city Code of Ethical Conduct by prohibiting political signs, limiting public comment, acting in a way that discredited public officials and engaging “in harassment of each speaker in the public comment period” during a meeting that drew some 50 to 60 people. She also alleges Kidd “was rude to several of the City Council members,” was abusive and verbally attacked the character or motives of the public, and “demeaned, harassed and intimidated another person.” TURN
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Two school districts ask voter approvals Sequim, Crescent Valley on ballot PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Votes will be counted Tuesday in special elections in the Sequim and Crescent Valley school districts. The Sequim School District is putting a construction bond measure up for the fourth time in hopes that voters will approve money for a new elementary school, renovation of Sequim High School and other district improvements.
Earlier attempts So far, attempts have fallen short of the 60 percent superma-
the November proposal to the present one is because interest rates are higher and construction is expected to be more costly jority needed for bond passage. This time, the amount is for because of a manpower shortage, $54 million, with goals similar to Brian Lewis, Sequim School Disthose proposed for the $49.3 mil- trict director of business, has said. lion measure that appeared on Higher levy the Nov. 3 ballot. That one failed by just 54 If it passes, the measure would votes, or 0.45 percentage points result in a tax levy of 61 cents per short of a 60 percent supermajor$1,000 of assessed valuation on ity. property owners, Lewis said. A $49.2 million bond proposal For the owner of a $246,675 on last February’s ballot received home, the median sale price of 6,691 yes votes to 5,026 no votes, Sequim-area residences in 2015, or 57.11 percent to 42.89 percent. that would mean the addition of KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Voters defeated a $154 million about $138.14 in annual property Clallam County election workers Mary Reader, left, and measure by a 56 percent-44 pertaxes, he said. Clare Judge, both of Port Angeles, open ballots for cent margin in April 2014. TURN TO BOND/A9 sorting at the Clallam County Courthouse. The $4.7 million increase from
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