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Volunteers for the Port Townsend Marine Science Center search for sea stars in the dark during low tide as part of a marine life survey on Indian Island.
Sea stars recovering after wasting disease outbreak Experts blame warm seawater as trigger BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The disease that killed millions of the once-ubiquitous sea stars seems to be fading. Marine biologists are zeroing in on the combined factors — including a rise in water temperature — that resulted in the devastation of the sea star population on the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to Alaska, beginning in 2013. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Treasurer Selinda Barkhuis has reversed her cancellation of a county finance committee meeting, saying Thursday she will chair the meeting March 24 — two weeks after it had been originally scheduled. Barkhuis’ pledge makes certain that the county commissioners will give timely consideration to a $731,705 grant to the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center (SARC) and a bid award for the $15.3 million Carlsborg sewer project, board Chairman Mike Chapman said Thursday. Barkhuis It was an about-face from just two days earlier. “I have canceled the finance committee meeting because it is incongruent to me that on the one hand, the county expresses the desire for my input, while on the other hand, the county threatens to sue me whenever it disagrees with me,” Barkhuis wrote in an email Tuesday to the Peninsula Daily News and the Port O Call newspaper, a monthly publication that has carried Barkhuis’ byline. She said Thursday she had changed her mind. TURN
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Third PA ethics filing targets city attorney City says code doesn’t apply BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles city manager will seek an independent review of an ethics complaint filed against City Attorney Bill Bloor, the city said Thursday. The 33-page complaint, filed with the city Wednesday by attorney Peter Perron of Port Angeles, is the third ethics complaint filed against city officials this month, all revolving around the fluoridation issue. The first, filed Feb. 4, was against Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd; the second, filed Feb. 19,
was against Kidd and Councilman Dan Gase. The complaint from Perron, who has frequently commented against water fluoridation at council meetings, said that Bloor violated Chapter 2.78 of the Port Angeles Municipal Code.
Not applicable to employees That chapter “is applicable only to current and former public elected or appointed officials,” the city said in a news release issued late Thursday afternoon. “It does not apply to city employees who work under the direction of the city manager,” the
news release said. “However, employees are also held to a high standard of ethical conduct and there is a separate process to assess complaints against employees,” the release said. “That process will be followed in this case. “This complaint has been passed along to the city manager, and he intends to seek an independent review of its contents,” the city said. Neither Bloor nor Perron could be reached for comment Thursday. Perron had cited Port Angeles Municipal Code in his complaint and said that the council must assemble a three-person temporary Board of Ethics for investigation and disposition of this spe-
cific complaint. He also said it must be reviewed independently from the other two complaints that have been Bloor filed. Perron’s complaint does not seek disciplinary action against Bloor, saying that is the purview of the State Bar Association. The complaint “concerns the ethical conduct of [Bloor] in his capacity as city attorney . . . relating to his actions and inactions in connection with his role as a pro-
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fessional advocate for the city, which include his ethical duties owed to the public as his fiduciaries,” the 33-page complaint states.
Three events The complaint cites three separate events connected with the city’s fluoridation system construction project. The complaint says Bloor made “fraudulent misrepresentations” in a memo issued July 21, 2015; failed to object to a Dec. 15 motion by the City Council to continue fluoridation; and failed to object to Kidd chairing a Feb. 2 meeting. TURN
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