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Home My WebLink About2022/01/31 - Regular Packet Belfair Sewer Extension Public Comments Master List Josie Abels—Against Scott Gordon—Against Steve Abels—Against Andy Graham—Against Anita Acuna—Against Bill Green—Against Barbara Acuna—Against Jeanette Griffin—Against Gloria Alldredge—Against Jeff Habersetzer-For Jim&Terry Allison—Against Ron Hagedom—Against William Aikman—Against Roy Harrington—Against John&Debbie Alexander—Against Diane Hartley—Against AnnaLee Baglio—For Sarah Heartsong—Against Robert Baglio—For Jenell Hicks—Against Paula&Eldon Beck—Against Brenda&Dean Hirschi— Nancy Benson—Against Jax Hix—Against Sharon Benson—Against Tent'Hogan&Patty Thoe—Against Michael&Tina Boldman—Against Vickie Hopkins—Against Clifford Boomhower—Against Steen Howell—Against Maudie Boone—Against Paul Huckaby—Against Spencer Bouchard—Against Hope Hutsell—Against Clifford Brandt—Against Seth Huyett—* Cyndy Brehmeyer—Against Constance Ibsen—Against Nichole Brown—Against Nancy Isbell—Against Larry Bruce—Against Barbara Jabara—Against Michael&Catherine Buckley—Against Ron Jackson—Against Kevin Buck—Against Karen Kashmar—* Gerry Burdyshaw—Against Chris Kay—Against Alex Burke—Against Tom&Leslie Kelly—Against William&Carol Bush—Against Jan Kerman—Against John Byerly—Against Dave Kester—Against B.Dean Byrd—Against Willard Koller—Against John Campbell—Against Anthony Kraskouskas—Against Danielle Carlson—Against Cathy Grotto-Kravitz—Against Mark Carlson—Against Richard&Michael Kriegbaum—Against Terry&Nancy Cavanaugh—Against Rick Krueger—Against Darren Challey-Against Albert Langevin—Against John&Nancy Challman—Against Greg Larson—Against Joann Chen—Against Stacy Larson—Against Wendy Coile—Against Donald LePere—Against Scott Comins—Against Ellen Lukkasson—Against Maranda Cromwell—Against Rick Lukkasson—Against Dell&Nyla Cummings—Against Joseph MacIntyre—Against Diane Demars—Against Kathy Manning—Against Carol DiMundo—Against Vincent Marbella—Against Robert Dressel—For Tom Marcucci—Against Dianna Dryden—Against Marshall Marnng—Against David Engman—Against Donald Marsch—Against Greg Evans—Against Carly Mayo—Against Randall Fellwock—Against Naomi&Laurie McClarrinon—Against Mike Fisher—Against Katherine Diane McLean-Against Linda Fontenot—Against Robert McLean—Against M.Leslie Foss—Against Laurie McLennan—Against Lynn Freeman—Against Marina Medalia—Against Alida Fretz—Against Gabriela Melvin—Against Richard Frohlich—Against Beth Mickelsen—Against Jim Fuller—Against Jim Milgard—For Jim Fuller—Against Yolanda Montano—Against Teresa Gibbs—Against Paul&Marla Morgan—Against Al&Jan Gleich—Against Wilma&Jean Neal—Against Most recently updated at 5:30 p.m.on January 31,2022 Belfair Sewer Extension Public Comments Master List Judy Nicholson—Against Jack Wedel—Against Jan Nuss—Against Christina Williams-Owen—Against Marcus Olivas—Against Gary&Susan Williams—Against Mike Olsen—Against Michael Williams—Against Jerry Otto—* Sue Williams—Against David Overton—* Jeremiah Wills—Against Benjamin Pak—Against Kim Wilson—Against Richard Paul—Against Paula Winslow—Against Janet Pedersen—Against Troy&Judy Woodard—Against Erinn Pervis—Against Kevin Woodland—Against Cheryl Pflug—* Linda Zeh—Against Marcel Poliquin—Against Kurt Zimmerman—Against Kathy&John Poole—Against John—Against Jessica Psaros—Against John—Against Homer&Sue Purdy—Against Anonymous—Against Diane Rae—Against Anonymous—Against Thomas&Pam Rasmussen—Against Anonymous—Against Diana Rhodes—Against Jenny Rice—Against Against: 169 James Richards—Against For: 8 Moody Ann Richards—Against Tami Robbins—Against *Staff was unable to determine for or against Lisa Robson—Against Steve Rogers—Against Paul Savage—Against Linda Schure—Against James&Debra Seibold—Against Leonard Sevall—Against Steven Sherman—Against Gary Shirbish—For Cynthia Shotts—Against Deanna&Mike Smith—Against Andrea Snyder—* Jerald Sparks—Against Eleanor Stamas—Against Jim Stark—Against Betty Stevenson—Against Rich Stites—Against Kim Stone—Against Scott Studerus—Against Susan Sumsky—Against Bob Supino—Against John&Tracy Susan—Against David Sutton—Against Bill Tabor—Against Anna Taylor—Against Barb Thompson—Against Tom Thyer—Against Steven Truitt—Against Cheryl Ulrich—Against Earl VanBuskirk—* Ken VanBuskirk—For Dan Washburn—Against Aliahna Watts—Against Derek Watts—Against Dale Webb-For Most recently updated at 5:30 p.m.on January 31,2022 McKenzie Smith From: josie abels <2jabels@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:23 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer rate Please continue to fight against this raise in the sewer rate. Thank you, Josie Abels i McKenzie Smith From: Steve Abels <sabe1s1758@gmai1.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 2:45 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: sewer rates After reviewing the information concerning the recent rate hikes for the Belfair sewer system I can only surmise that something STINKS IN DENMARK. Why would the county subsidize a system that has no reasonable means to break even or be fiduciary responsible for its spending. As a homeowner, I am appalled that another $87.00 per month will be added to already inflated sewer rates. ( I was told that 25 years ago the rate would never be over $50.00 per month) Let's do the math DTM: $87.00x 12 is an addition $1044.00 per year on top of the existing rate of $1416.00/per year - if my math is correct that equals $2460.per year. Keep in mind that the majority of the residents in Lakeland village are on a fixed income and would need to pay this additional premium for the same service. It might be noted that 68% of the entire Mason County budget is generated from Union- Belfair, Lakeland area homeowners. The bigger question is "why is Lakeland Village" paying for the recent Belfair housing development??? Having resided in many other communities the sewer bill covers not only sewage but storm drain runoff into the city water system, at best in Lakeland village we have only sewer service our rainwater is exited to the golf course. It's time to stop treating us as 2nd hand citizens that continue to pay the bill as if our checkbooks are an endless money pit to fix a 1 broken system. Step up to the plate, address the problem stop the bureaucratic rhetoric of blaming someone else for the commissioner's mishandling of the problem in the first place. Let's NOT pass the BUCK and FIX the problem Steve Abets Lakeland Village 360-277-4500 z McKenzie Smith From: Anita Acuna <amethystmoon09@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:19 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Belfair Sewer Expansion Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Dear Commissioners, I am against the proposal to expand the sewer system and tack on additional debt for this little town. If the expansion does not benefit the greater community then is it NOT in our best interest and should NOT be passed! Thank you for your time, Anita Acuna 180 NE Dragonfly Ln Belfair Wa Sent from Mail for Windows i McKenzie Smith From: Anita Acuna <amethystmoon09@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 10:10 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer Expansion Follow Up Flag: Flag for follow up Flag Status: Flagged Dear Kevin Shutty; I am AGAINST expanding sewer services to a single property and adding to our already heavy debt. If this does not serve the greater community then we should NOT be shouldering the financial burden! Thank you for your time, Anita Acuna 180 NE Dragonfly Ln Belfair,Wa Sent from Mail for Windows i McKenzie Smith From: BMA <bma_7777@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 7:32 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair sewer system Randy, I read your article the other day and I wanted to send this email to let you know that I agree with you. It isn't fair to make the residents pay for the sewer system when a contractor should. It isn't right to accommodate one land owner so they can get a better on the sale of their property. Barbara Acuna Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android i McKenzie Smith From: BMA <bma_7777@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 7:47 PM To: Kevin Shutty; strask@masoncountyw.gov Cc: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Fw: Belfair sewer system Dear Commissioners, I have been reading about your consideration to pass a proposal of the construction of a sewer system at the expense of Mason County tax payers. I oppose such a proposal. It isn't fair to make the residents pay for the sewer system when a contractor should. It isn't right to accommodate one land owner so they can get a better on the sale of their property. Barbara Acuna Belfair, WA Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "BMA" <bma_7777@yahoo.com> To: "randyn@masoncountywa.gov" <randyn@masoncountywa.gov> Sent: Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 7:31 PM Subject: Belfair sewer system Randy, It isn't fair to make the residents pay for the sewer system when a contractor should. It isn't right to accommodate one land owner so they can get a better on the sale of their property. Barbara Acuna Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android i McKenzie Smith From: Gloria Alldredge <galldredge1941 @gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 9:48 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Developers We are long time Mason County residents who are currently in Palm Desert, CA. We were unaware of this development and are definitely opposed to more taxes. It is the developers responsibility, as he profits from this development. Thank you for letting us know. Sincerely, Gloria Alldredge Merle Malland i McKenzie Smith From: Jim Allison <jimallison208@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 5:53 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: E mail sent to Randy Netherland Randy, I'm behind you 100 percent. If I remember right,the sewer system was put in to help clean up the canal.So far it has not extended down either side of the canal where most of the failing septic systems are located.We do not see any reason to extend it up toward the airport.We are on the existing system and am charged$96.00 a month which is already way more than anybody else I have talked to on similar systems.Another$87.00 per month would be ridiculous.Thank you for speaking for us. Jim and Terry Allison 1 McKenzie Smith From: WILLIAM AIKMAN <williamaikman@msn.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 4:06 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Fight for what is right! Thanks. Sent from Windows Mail i McKenzie Smith From: D.Alexander <jdalex2000@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 9:32 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer expansion Randy, Thank you for bringing this issue to everyone's attention. We are tax payers in Mason county who's property evaluation went up 49 percent in 20211! We are on a septic system so we wouldn't have the increased sewer cost but we are against paying additional and unnecessary taxes to line one person's pockets. We agree with you to let developers pay for this expantion. John and Debbie Alexander Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android i McKenzie Smith From: D.Alexander <jdalex2000@yahoo.corn> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 9:40 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer expansion We are tax payers in Mason county who's property evaluation went up 49 percent in 2021!! We are on a septic system so we wouldn't have the increased sewer cost but we are against paying additional and unnecessary taxes to line one person's pockets. We feel that the developers should pay for this expantion. We are counting on you to look out for ALL Mason County tax payers and not just one individual. John and Debbie Alexander Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android i McKenzie Smith From: D.Alexander <jdalex2000@yahoo.corn> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 9:41 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer expansion We are tax payers in Mason county who's property evaluation went up 49 percent in 2021!! We are on a septic system so we wouldn't have the increased sewer cost but we are against paying additional and unnecessary taxes to line one person's pockets. We feel that the developers should pay for this expantion. We are counting on you to look out for ALL Mason County tax payers and not just one individual. John and Debbie Alexander Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android i McKenzie Smith From: D. Alexander <jdalex2000@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 10:10 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: sewer expansion Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged We are tax payers in Mason county who's property evaluation went up 49 percent in 2021!! We are on a septic system so we wouldn't have the increased sewer cost but we are against paying additional and unnecessary taxes to line one person's pockets. We feel that the developers should pay for this expantion. We are counting on you to look out for ALL Mason County tax payers and not just one individual. John and Debbie Alexander Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android i McKenzie Smith From: Jim Allison <jimallison208@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 2:08 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Subject: Belfair sewer system Randy, I'm behind you 100 percent. If I remember right,the sewer system was put in to help clean up the canal. So far it has not extended down either side of the canal where most of the failing septic systems are located. We do not see any reason to extend it up toward the airport. We are on the existing system and am charged $96.00 a month which is already way more than anybody else I have talked to on similar systems.Another$87.00 per month would be ridiculous. Thank you for speaking for us. Jim and Terry Allison 1 McKenzie Smith From: AnnaLee Baglio <annalee.todd@me.com> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 4:35 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair Sewer Public Hello Commissioners, I have been reading and watching social media and speaking to many folks both in and outside of our county. Just a few questions. Isn't part of the reason the debt was being serviced for the sewer system because it's underutilized? Wouldn't this said extension assist in covering the needed usage to assist in repayment? I've been in the Real Estate business for 27+years. I've never seen such a need for housing. Would that development atop the hill be happening right now had that system not been in? I'm hoping you will approve these next phases because I'm moving people into the area faster then any time in my career. This next development step will be great for our local businesses, support our community and all the wonderful new folks we are moving here. It will assist in creating more affordable homes for more people. Please help me understand why this isn't embraced. I implore you to support this next phase. Regards, AnnaLee Baglio Broker John L Scott Real Estate (360)340-2104 annalee.todd@me.com https://annaleebaglio.mohniscott.com/ Side note, if you, or anyone you really like, ever need help in the real estate market I would love the opportunity to assist. Please feel free to share my information. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Robert Baglio <rbaglio@bjcgroup.com> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:08 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Belfair Sewer Public Hearing Dear Mason County Commissioners, I am writing this e-mail in support of the sewer extension. I currently live in Lakeland Village, and I am the owner of a construction company that has been working in Mason and Kitsap County for over 25 years. I am involved in projects, both residential and commercial, in the area proposed for the sewer main extension. These projects will be future customers, paying connection fees initially with the project development and then transferring to lifelong rate payers helping to support the sewer plant and its infrastructure. As a member of the community, I find the recent building activity in Belfair very exciting. Belfair and North Mason are hidden gems. It is wonderful to see the planned development in the area. The new sewer plant is providing protection to the Hood Canal and its associated watersheds which is critical for the preservation of this wonderful natural resource. It also serves the Belfair UGA and its anticipated future growth. It is refreshing to see a municipality look to the future in their plans for providing urban level services to areas for future development. It is the way things should be done. Mason County has made a large investment in the sewer treatment plant. For the full benefits of this sewer plant to be realized,the sewer main must be extended for the connection of as many properties as possible. To build a sewer plant and not maximize the connections is like building a house and not allowing anyone to live in it. It does not make sense. You are not allowing the utility to serve its vital function and the reason for its existence. The more properties this treatment plant serves the more revenue will be generated and the more protection the Hood Canal will receive. For a sewer plant to be self-sufficient it needs connections (customers). The extension of the sewer main will provide the customer base to support the sewer plant. If this sewer extension is not completed at this time, the extension of the sewer main will be piece-mealed over many years and the connection of rate payers to support the cost of the sewer plant will be delayed up to 20 or 30 years. In the meantime, development will continue to occur, but it will occur without the environmental safeguards provided by the sewer treatment plant. Have we not learned from the past? If we do not extend the sewer now, it will be to cost prohibitive in the future and development will occur without the proper sewage treatment. This will only contribute to the degradation of our wonderful natural resource, the Hood Canal. The extension of the sewer makes sense,financially and environmentally. I support the sewer extension. Robert Baglio, P.E I hBJCMANAGEMENT CONSTRUCTION GROUP&CONTRACTING 3780 SE Mile Hill Dr I P.O. Box 2030 Port Orchard,WA 98366 360-895-0896 Phone 1 360-895-1097 Fax The source for all of your construction needs." 1 McKenzie Smith From: eldon beck <talnpaula@att.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 8:32 AM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer connection Please put on record as a Mason County resident that we think all developers should pay for the sewer hookups on all their projects. Pass the cost along to whom ever purchases one of their lots in the form of Mello roos infrastructure, and not to current Mason Co residents. Thank you, Paula Beck and Eldon Beck. Sent from my iPad 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 9:11 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Belfair Sewer Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: Nancy Benson <dnbenson@wavecable.com> Date: 1/26/22 9:09 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Belfair Sewer Hello Randy,Thank you for your informative message on facebook. It is wonderful having someone look out for us and keep us abreast of what is going on. My husband and I are totally on board with you and plan to spread this message via word of mouth, as we are not face book people.We don't directly pay the sewer tax as we are Grapeview/Allyn residents. But we definitely would be affected as you mentioned, if our long enjoyed local businesses started pulling out and relocating. We appreciate you. Sincerely, Nancy Benson (Lori Anderson's parents) Sent from Mail for Windows 1 McKenzie Smith From: Kayce Benson <sharonkayce@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 7:58 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Belfair sewers I don't want to pay any more for the Belfair Sewers. Stop borrowing. Commissioners should not pay other peoples money to help other property owners, good for the few bad for us tax payers. Is there some graft going on here? Sharon C Benson HARSTINE Island 1 McKenzie Smith From: Michael &Tina Boldman <michaeltinamarie@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 7:28 AM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; strask@masoncoutywa.gov Subject: Sewer expansion This is to inform you that my husband and I oppose this completely ridiculous expansion for one developer! The developers should pay for their own sewer expansion, end of story. We already pay an extremely high amount for this service because of the debt incurred, doubling our sewer payments monthly to pay for this is highway robbery, especially when there will be no return on the investment for years!!!This is not forward or progressive thinking,this whole plan is utter stupidity! Michael and Tina Boldman 70 NE Old Belfair Hwy 1 McKenzie Smith From: Michael &Tina Boldman <michaeltinamarie@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 7:36 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer This is to inform you that my husband and I oppose this completely ridiculous expansion for one developer! The developers should pay for their own sewer expansion,end of story. We already pay an extremely high amount for this service because of the debt incurred,doubling our sewer payments monthly to pay for this is highway robbery,especially when there will be no return on the investment for years!!!This is not forward or progressive thinking,this whole plan is utter stupidity! Michael and Tina Boldman 70 NE Old Belfair Hwy v Address not found Your message wasn't delivered to strask@masoncoutywa.gov because the domain masoncoutywa.gov couldn't be found. Check for typos or unnecessary spaces and try again. The response was: DNS Error: 38444888 DNS type 'mx' lookup of masoncoutywa.clov responded with code NXDOMAIN Domain name not found: masoncoutywa.gov Show quoted text i McKenzie Smith From: Clifford Boomhower <cliffordboomhower@icloud.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:08 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Fwd: Mason County Sewer Project Sent from my iPhone >Commissioner Shutty, >We do not need to add any more debt at the expense of community not to mention making one single developer any richer. I am in total agreement that the developer can make back his investment when the property is sold. I say,make no deals and do nothing and see how the presents sewerage situation works out.It seems to me that some people are out to make some quick money on our backs. I say no.Thank for the opportunity to be heard. >Clifford Boomhower > Sent from my iPhone 1 McKenzie Smith From: Clifford Boomhower <cliffordboomhower@icloud.com> Sent: Tuesday,January 25, 2022 10:12 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Re: Mason County Sewer Project I just did. Sent from my iPhone >On Jan 25, 2022, at 10:08 PM, Clifford Boomhower<cliffordboomhower@icloud.com>wrote: > Sent from my iPhone >>Commissioner Shutty, >>We do not need to add any more debt at the expense of community not to mention making one single developer any richer. I am in total agreement that the developer can make back his investment when the property is sold. I say, make no deals and do nothing and see how the presents sewerage situation works out. It seems to me that some people are out to make some quick money on our backs. I say no. Thank for the opportunity to be heard. >>Clifford Boomhower >> Sent from my iPhone McKenzie Smith From: Carla Boone <harstinemaudie@centurylink.net> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 7:48 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair sewer project Thank you so much for asking the public for comment so many politicians don't really care about what the people really want. I don't live in Belfair but I live in Mason county on Harstine Island,you are right we should not be paying for other people to profit, I applaud you and am glad you are working for the people you represent. Keep me on your list for someone who would be on your side. Again thank you Maudie Harstine Island Sent from my Wad McKenzie Smith From: Bouchard, Spencer P CIV USN NAVFAC NW SVD WA (USA) <spencer.p.bouchard.civ@us.navy.mil> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 9:19 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: NO to raising debt for sewer system Good Morning, First and foremost as a Belfair resident on behalf of my family we feel it is not in the cities best interest to borrow an excessive amount of money to add on debt when we aren't even out of the financial hole we dug with the first sewer system! It is a burden on everyone living in the city and it is not necessary to add on more money. Why would we do that so the landowner can turn around, sell the land and get pure profit? Does not make any sense and again it's not in the best interest of the residents of Belfair... I don't want any business to move out of Belfair because they can't afford the city sewer.This idea needs to be shut down and focus eliminating the debt, not adding to it. We need to focus paying of the$8.4 million off we still owe,this is not a good decision and no citizen in Belfair should stand for it. Many of the residents want to stop this from going through, but unfortunately these spending decisions happen off line when many people don't even know it's happening. Thank you for your time. Spencer Bouchard i McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 8:37 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Sewer System Extension Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: "Bouchard, Spencer P CIV USN NAVFAC NW SVD WA(USA)" <spencer.p.bouchard.civ@us.navy.mil> Date: 1/26/22 8:24 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Sewer System Extension Good Morning, First and foremost as a Belfair resident on behalf of my family and I we appreciate the good work you are doing standing up for the citizens of the city! It is unacceptable to borrow an excessive amount of money to add on debt when we aren't even out of the financial hole we dug with the first sewer system! It is a burden on everyone living in the city and it is not necessary to add on more money. Why would we do that so the landowner can turn around, sell the land and get pure profit?Sounds to me like the two commissioners who are pushing this have a personal interest/agenda with the private land owners. Many might think it is conflict of interest and a little suspicious... I don't want any business to move out of Belfair because they can't afford the city sewer! This idea needs to be shut down! We need to focus paying of the $8.4 million off we still owe,this is a irresponsible act on their part and no citizen in Belfair should stand for it! You have my support to stop this from going through! Again thank you for your hard work on this issue and continue your great service to our city.Thank you Spencer Bouchard Engineering Technician Public Works Department, Naval Base Kitsap Bangor Desk: 360.315.6243 Cell: 360.994.9346 Email: spencer.bouchard1@navy.mil i McKenzie Smith From: Cyndy Brehmeyer <brehcyndy51 @gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:28 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer At this time I believe any more money should not be spent on the Belfair sewer 1 McKenzie Smith From: Cyndy Brehmeyer <brehcyndy5l @gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 9:19 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer The Belfair sewer project is a huge waste of tax payer money. We should back out of future obligations. Stop thriwing money at it. Its tax payer money. If a developer wants it they can pay for it. Get out while we can. Please vote no. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Browniela <browniela@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 1:17 AM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Cc: Randy Neatherlin Subject: I am opposed to paying Developers costs for sewer infrastructure Hello I am a resident of Mason County in Belfair. I am opposed to your opinion we should pay for a Developer's sewer system. Our businesses and consumers do not need to take on the burden of a developer. Yes we need room for growth, but do it smartly when costs and inflation are at all time highs and government spending accelerated, now is not the time to hit the people with additional bills. If the Developer wants to build in Belfair,they need to cover their costs and infrastructure. Kind Regards, Nichole Brown 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 8:46 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: new sewer loan Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From: Larry Bruce<larbru@mail.com> Date: 1/26/22 8:34 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: new sewer loan Saw you on Facebook and I agree with you, no to new sewer loan. Pay off old before doing anything else. People on fixed incomes do not need another hit after virus and County Acessors new,uch higher property taxes went up a great deal this year. To put sewer on undeveloped land should be criminal. If they want more revenue why not put sewer on developed housing so people will contribute to it that are using it.Again just say no.Thanks. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Kevin Buck <kbuck55@outlook.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 12:56 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Financing Thanks Randy! For getting this info out... I don't know very much about this issue other than what you have outlined in your post. I moved here (Lakeland) eight years ago from Federal Way and thought our sewer system here was outrageously expensive then. Of course, it has only gotten worse each year. And now, from what you have outlined, it sounds like it is about to go in an extremely negative direction. My wife and I are retired and our income is "fixed". We can't afford an increase in our sewer bill of$87 a month. The annual increases we are already experiencing are pushing the limits of affordability. Like you said, I believe that it is absolutely wrong to give a financial windfall to one landowner/ business and make the taxpayers pay for it. Please keep fighting for us! And keep us informed and let us know what we can do to help. Thank you, Kevin Buck kbuck55@outlook.com (253) 880-2860 McKenzie Smith From: Catherine Buckley <catherbethinc@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 4:41 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Commission vote Hi Randy, Please keep doing the hard work for our little (not so much anymore)town. We vote no on the aforementioned sewer money vote. We really appreciate your service for Belfair. Thanks so much, Michael and Catherine Buckley Twanoh Falls Sent from my iPhone 1 McKenzie Smith From: Catherine Buckley <catherbethinc@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 4:34 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Commission vote Hi Randy, Please continue to do the hard work for Belfair. We,the voters, do NOT want to pay for the aforementioned sewer hook up for a private owner. Thank you so much for your support to Belfair. Sincerely, Michael and Catherine Buckley Sent from my iPhone 1 McKenzie Smith From: gerry burdyshaw <gerrybc70@msn.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 7:37 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Mason County Sewer Project Mr. Neatherlin, read through your thoughts as written in the Shelton-Mason County Journal concerning extending the sewer system on to private property at the cost of an estimated $5,000,000 loan. I fully understand your thoughts and fully support your opposition to such an irresponsible expenditure of taxpayers' money. This project was a failure from the beginning, and it continues to be so today. I hope others in this community stand up and say no to this type of thought process. One must wonder what Keven Shuttly and Nancy Trask are thinking providing a sewer connection to a private/vacant land while still owing$8.4 million dollars on the original project that we the people knew from the beginning would be a financial failure. Passing this burden onto the local businesses will likely run them out of Mason County. If they decide not to leave, their increased costs will be passed onto to the already overburdened consumer. Thank You for bringing this to our attention, Gerry Burdyshaw Belfair Local i McKenzie Smith From: gerry burdyshaw <gerrybc70@msn.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 9:46 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Mason County Sewer Project To all the Mason County Commissioners. Here is my response/comment to Mr. Neatherlin thoughts as written in the Shelton-Mason County Journal. Mr. Neatherlin, I read through your thoughts as written in the Shelton-Mason County Journal concerning extending the sewer system on to private property at the cost of an estimated $5,000,000 loan. I fully understand your thoughts and fully support your opposition to such an irresponsible expenditure of taxpayers' money. This sewer project was a failure from the beginning, and it continues to be so today. I hope others in this community stand up and say no to this type of thought process. One must wonder what Keven Shuttly and Nancy Trask are thinking providing a sewer connection to private/vacant land while still owing $8.4 million dollars on the original project that we the people knew from the beginning would be a financial failure. Passing this burden onto the local businesses will likely run them out of Mason County. If they decide not to leave, their increased costs will be passed onto to the already overburdened consumer. I urge you to abandon the thought that the taxpayer or business owners' shoulder should pay for this sewer extension is frankly, stinking thinking. The private property owner of the involved land should shoulder this expense. It certainly has the appearance as you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours deal ("Quid-Pro-Quo"). Gerry Burdyshaw Belfair Local i McKenzie Smith From: al bee & <hvealbee@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:13 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Thank You Randy. Mr. Neatherlin, I want to thank you for working on behalf of your constituents' interests, especially on this subject. As a retired resident of Lakeland Village I have a high level of interest in the way the sewer system and its financing is structured. It seems highly inequitable the way"flat rates" are currently applied to residents as opposed to rates being linked to water usage (which is highly punitive to us retired "snowbirds" who don't use the system for extended periods during the year). So again, thank you for keeping us aware of what seems to be another inequitable sleight of hand money grab maneuver being imposed on our counties residents/tax payers. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! 1 McKenzie Smith From: al bee & <hvealbee@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:34 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Comment on Belfair Sewer Expansion. Esteemed County Commissioners, I am sharing below my comments to Commissioner Neatherlin concerning the Belfair Sewer Expansion that will be the subject of the January 31 public hearing. "Mr. Neatherlin, I want to thank you for working on behalf of your constituents' interests, especially on this subject. As a retired resident of Lakeland Village I have a high level of interest in the way the sewer system and its financing is structured. It seems highly inequitable the way "flat rates" are currently applied to residents as opposed to rates being linked to water usage (which is highly punitive to us retired "snowbirds" who don't use the system for extended periods during the year). So again, thank you for keeping us aware of what seems to be another inequitable sleight of hand money grab maneuver being imposed on our counties residents/tax payers. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!" Bottom line: Developers should pay up front for infrastructure expansion that monetarily benefits only them. Any maneuver to put rate/taxpayers on the hook for these expenditures reeks of back door corruption and will not go without public notice of who is responsible/complacent in this fleecing of the public. V/R Alex Burke i McKenzie Smith From: WILLIAM Bush <WECA3@msn.com> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:08 AM To: Randy Neatherlin; Sharon Trask; Kevin Shutty Subject: Belfair sewer system The Belfair sewer system being paid for by the taxpayers of Mason County instead of the developers/contractors of the project was wrong 10 years ago and it is wrong now! Those who will reap the profits of their project should be the ones paying for the development of the infrastructure to facilitate that project to exist. It is bad policy to have the general population pay the bills for the benefit of a few to rake in the profits and then move on to the next scheme. Mason County should NOT act as the Federal Government is acting currently--racking up immense additional dept with no "real" plan that can pay for it in a timely manner! William E. and Carol A. Bush i McKenzie Smith From: McKenzie Smith Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 1:02 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair Sewer Extension Comment Good afternoon Commissioners, I received a call from John Byerly who read the article written by Commissioner Neatherlin in the Mason County Journal. He said that the County should not be setting up for a one person land owner and that the County needs to look out for public welfare and best interest. He can be reached a � Warm regards, McKenzie Smith Clerk of the Board, Records Specialist Mason County Commissioners Office (360)427-9670 ext.589 1 msmith ,masoncoun wa.sov hqp://www.masoncountywa.izov **Please note:Mason County complies with the Public Records Act Chapter 42.56 RCW.As such,any e-mail sent to and/or from the County may be subject to public disclosure. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Dean Byrd <dbyrd38@gmai1.com> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2022 5:30 PM To: Randy Neatherlin; Sharon Trask; Kevin Shutty Subject: BELFAIR SEWER January 29, 2022 Dear Commissioners: I would strongly encourage you all to delay the vote on expanding the Belfair Sewer System. From it's inception it has been a burden on the citizens of Belfair and all of the citizens of Mason County. Now you want to borrow almost $5 million dollars on top of the 8 million we still owe. Expanding the sewer system would benefit one developer and burden all of the citizens of Mason County. Instead of benefiting one developer, why not improved public safety by building a decent jail that will actually hold criminals who should not be at large. I know you all signed up to do the will of the people and I think you will find that expanding the sewer and sewer debt is contrary to the will of your constituents. Sincerely, B. Dean Byrd, Shelton, WA McKenzie Smith From: John Campbell <jacbq@earthlink.net> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2022 3:50 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Cc: John Campbell Subject: TELL THEM TO FLUSH IT Randy, Read your note and I entirely agree. These people do not, so far as I know, pay an impact fee either. The NMSD has to pick up the tab for building at least one new school to accommodate the kids that will come with the new homes. Not only that but previous county commissioners (one in particular) actually lectured us on minding our own business and managing our money so we could pay for the privilege of having these developments etc. in our community. Got your back bro. Don't know that my opinion will do you much good. I do not go to in-person meetings on account of the plague. Well...seeing as I am an elected official too (4 times no less) my estimate of the local climate of opinion is that my constituents do not want to pay for this sewer either! Look, you are one of my constituents and you oppose this, so does Brooke...that is my sample of public opinion. Plus when I think of Herb and Mel....come on they do not want to pay for this anymore than do I. We are not the ones who should bear this expense. Proud of you man! johnC Ps. if you are going to build it—pay all the costs of doing it right. Our tax base is too small and our people are not wealthy. Do you think people will want to foot the bill too for the new schools (probably 2) the NMSD will have to build to accommodate the kids of the new home owners? 1 McKenzie Smith From: Danielle Carlson <danclark123@live.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:12 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Extending the Sewer System onto Vacant Land Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Good morning, I wanted to take the time to respond to information that I saw circulating about a decision to expand the sewer system in Mason County to vacant land. I've attached the information below. I do not agree with this and feel it is not a good use of our tax dollars. Many of my family members have lived in Mason County long before we had things like Taco Bell and Dairy Queen. Growing up here, I've definitely come to appreciate the positive changes in Belfair. Having more businesses makes it more convenient to shop in town versus having to spend my money in Kitsap County. It would severely impact the quality of living in our county if we lost any big stores like Safeway or QFC because sewer rates have climbed to outrageous amounts. With everything going on in the world right now, I feel that now more than ever is the worst time to take on unnecessary debt. People are still struggling financially from the effects of Covid and recent inflation changes. Further Mason PUD also increase power kwph rates by 3%. Utility bills, food, gas, living expenses in general are more expensive now than they have been in a long time. Due to this, I strongly disagree with adding any more expenses to mason county families. Please let me know if there is a better way to voice my opinion of not agreeing with this decision. Thank you, Danielle Carlson More than 10 years ago, the Mason County commission burdened Belfair business owners and all of Mason County with a sewer system nobody could afford. All of Mason County has been subsidizing this burden ever since. Last year alone, Mason County spent $1.2 million of your money just to cover the debt service. Was it wrong 10 years ago? Would it be wrong if the county did it to you again? I sure think so. 1 Your County Commission is about to make a big decision, again regarding unnecessary debt. Until recently, two commissioners wanted to borrow around $5,000,000 to extend the sewer system into vacant land. Yes, although we still owe $8.4 million dollars on the system, they want to add another $4.5 million dollars of debt. This action would extend the sewer onto one single developer's private property. Not down the highway, not into a broad area of the County industrial lands for many to access, but up over the hill and through one land owners property. If we pay the bill on this infrastructure and increase this properties value, the landowner can simply turn around, sell it and capture the added value as pure profit for himself. What does the general public get? We the people get to pay on the debt for 20 more years. In addition, the Commission is considering language that actually leverages the load purely on the backs of Belfair. A gamble that could increase Belfair sewer rates by $87 / month while still paying debt out of your county REET dollars. 2 5:14 L .� Mark Text Message Today 5:1.)c+ANI Kevin WTF?are you sure that you have the best intentions for Mason County on your plate because it doesn't look like it to me! Kevin WTF?are you sure that you have the best intentions for Mason County on your plate because it doesn't look like it to me! Kevin WTF?are you sure that you have the best intentions for Mason County on your plate because it doesn't look like it to me! Sewer run through private property at taxpayers expense? AM 0 iPay t` J4 E s% Q McKenzie Smith From: Mark Carlson <mcarlson@hctc.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 12:05 PM To: McKenzie Smith Cc: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; rneatherlin@co.mason.wa.us Subject: Belfair Sewer Extension To Whom It May Concern, Regarding Mason County WA, the proposed Belfair Sewer Extension that is to be placed on "PRIVATE" property at no cost to the land owner nor the costs being put on future owners of that property is absurd. Strapping the citizens of Belfair with the expense of developing private property is not a decision that is the best interest of the County and certainly not for the tax payers of Belfair. Who "BENEFITS" with this kind of thinking?Only the property owner who has contributed to both Commissioner Sharon Trask's and Commissioner Kevin Shutty's campaigns efforts and neither one of those 2 Commissioners even represent that district, sounds to me like someone has purchased these 2 Commissioners for personal gain. While I am not opposed to progress, I do not believe in personal gain at the tax payers expense either, why should a private citizen owning private property receive benefits that the developers of other properties had to endure at their own expense and not at the tax payers expense? This is not the only bad decisions that these 2 Commissioners have made at the cost of the tax payers of Mason County, WA however this one is the biggest burden that will be put on the Community/taxpayer of Belfair. With No "PUBLIC WORK SHOPS" on this venture, one can only come to the conclusion that Commissioner Kevin Shutty and Commission Sharon Trask are not for the citizens of Mason County but are for the individual(s)who contributed large amounts of cash and/or efforts to their campaigns. I would think that with all the area in this county bound up by the GMA that there would be better use of all that money besides developing private property at the taxpayers sole expense. Respectfully Mark Carlson Citizen Mason County,WA 1 McKenzie Smith From: Nancy Cavanaugh <nc_sitka@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 3:14 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Vote NO to any Mason County Sewer extension for private development We are fairly new residents to Mason County and like many in the county,my husband and I are retired.We are happy to be here living in closer proximity to our daughter and her family.We are,however, surprised at the high sewer rates we already pay.To burden homeowners with additional fees for such a small area does not seem reasonable or desirable. The cost of homeownership in Mason County and WA state a lot more than we had planned for retirement.We have stretched our budget to be closer to our daughter and grandchildren. I hope that the county commissioners take into consideration the number of elderly homeowners in the area and do not price us out of our homes for the benefit of so few. I am also concerned about increased traffic along Route 3 and how we will manage that traffic particularly if there is ever a disaster event.We don't have road redundancy and alternatives like Shelton. Encouraging more building without first addressing traffic patterns that exist in the morning, evening, and summer are critical. Please vote no to any further financial burden borne by the residents and please address the traffic on Route 3 through Belfair. Terry and Nancy Cavanaugh Allyn,WA "Whoever you are and wherever you may be, you hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine!" Henry B Eyring Live as a vessel through which love and light can shine. Chris Williams 1 McKenzie Smith From: Darren Challey <dchalley@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 7:49 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Re: Urgent notice from our county commissioner Seems like sound thinking here, thanks for holding people accountable. Far easier to go along with what big business wants but your arguments make a lot of sense to me. We would have not had any idea that these sorts of deals are getting made had you not taken the initiative to at least get this information out into the open. Win or lose on this particular issue, what you did here was the right thing and the harder thing to do. Thanks for having high integrity and a strong backbone. On Wed,Jan 26, 2022 at 5:53 AM Nancy Starr<nancylstarr@hotmail.com>wrote: Just passing the word along - This very lengthy message showed up on NextDoor and for those of you who don't subscribe to it and didn't see it, you might be interested in this as taxpayers in Mason County: (from our Commissioners Facebook page - Randy Neatherlin) FYI Urgent Urgent Urgent notice! Mason county residents. Please read this. In 10 years as a Commissioner, I have never posted anything like this. Consider this a letter to the editor, Share it and comment but I will not be responding on Facebook. Contact info is posted below. More than 10 years ago, the Mason County commission burdened Belfair business owners and all of Mason County with a sewer system nobody could afford. All of Mason County has been subsidizing this burden ever since. Last year alone, Mason County spent $1.2 million of your money just to cover the debt service. Was it wrong 10 years ago? Would it be wrong if the county did it to you again? I sure think so. Your County Commission is about to make a big decision, again regarding unnecessary debt. Until recently, two commissioners wanted to borrow around $5,000,000 to extend the sewer system into vacant land. Yes, although we still owe $8.4 million dollars on the system, they want to add another $4.5 million dollars of debt. This action would extend the sewer onto one single developer's private property. Not down the highway, not into a broad area of the County industrial lands for many to access, but up over the hill and through one land owners property. If we pay the bill on this infrastructure and increase this properties value, the landowner can simply turn around, sell it and capture the added value as pure profit for himself. What does the general public get? We the people get to pay on the debt for 20 more years. In addition, the Commission is considering language that actually leverages the load purely on the backs of Belfair. A gamble that could increase Belfair sewer rates by $87 / month while still paying debt out of your county REET dolaars. To me, this is wrong, but I need to hear from you. Should I keep fighting this fight? Do you care? Do you consider this an appropriate use of your tax dollars? Please weigh in and let the commission know how you feel. I am inserting contact info here but there is much more info to consider below this. You can contact me Randy Neatherlin at 360 490 7389 or email me at Randyn(o-),masoncountywa.gov Commissioner 1 Shutty and Commissioner Trask can be reached at 360 427 9670 extension 419 or email them at Kshutty(a masoncountywa.gov Or Strask masoncountywa.gov There will be a Public Hearing Monday night the 31st at 6pm. You can attend through a link on the Mason County home page. Link below. https://us06web.zoom.us/i/86071039936?pwd=NFRyYU IQUnh3Z2dwWmFlcitiQjcxUT09 This is a hearing where they can make a decision and move forward on a loan and the extension. This sewer system burden was placed on us without listening to the community. We should not let that happen again. I personally requested a full and open public forum. Discussion should go back and forth between the county and the public. I was turned down. They chose a public hearing where I can't get my comments and questions out before the public comment. This is why I'm writing a letter to you here. I need you to get the information before the implementation. In a hearing, staff presents, then public comments and then the commission talks without citizen interaction. A decision can be made on that point. All before the community can weigh in on my concerns. We need much more interaction with our constituents before making such an expensive decision. There are many issues the public should be made aware of. One Commissioner claims this expansion will fix the issue of the county subsidizing the sewer debt. Even a financial novice knows, you don't borrow yourself out of debt. When you are in a deep hole, stop digging. This extension could provide more area for immediate development but it could take another 20+ years before getting a positive dime back. If we do nothing what happens? The developers put the sewer infrastructure in themselves, on their own dime. Either way, the county gets positive cash flow instead of more debt and we aren't 'gifting' your tax dollars to one single landowner. What do you think? Would this new expansion help pay off the debt? We currently need at least 754 Equivalent Residential Units (ERU) to pay of our current debts. We would need more if they are multi family as these units pay 70% of single family residential units. If we build the expansion, we will need an additional 400 ERU's to pay off the new $4.5 million dollar debt. We now have about 421 ERU's in all of Belfair. In the last 10 years, we actually went down from 428 to 421 ERU's. After 10 years and the new construction on the hill, we are finally about to get enough ERU',s to cover maintenance and operations costs. Not the current bebt just M&O costs. Those new apartments and home hookup fees go towards the old debt or maintenance. Again, getting this extra $4.5 million back could take 20+ years. Why pay for a developer's investment? Shouldn't developers pay for their own development? I definitely think so. Historically they always have. Why this developer and this location? Do you see us paying for a Shelton or an Allyn developer? No!! So, why this one? Originally the commission (part of the commission) wanted to pay for the sewer infrastructure for the entire development on the hill above McDonald's. It was going to cost us $8 million. I pushed hard against this spending. Eventually, this same developer sold the property and the new owners put the sewer in themselves. Less than 1 year later the new owners then sold the property making millions on their investment. This was an immediate benefit to the system. If we had paid for it however, they would have made millions off of our investments and we would be making payments for another 20 years. Developers should pay for their own infrastructure and profit off their own investments. Everybody wins and Mason County benefits immediately. Commissioners say we need to take this loan because "It is a low interest opportunity." If getting a low interest loan was reason enough, every person in America would own a Volkswagen. Every year they offer 0% interest loans on specific cars. This low interest reasoning makes no sense on this sewer expansion and even puts the community in more fiscal danger. There is no such thing as a free lunch. There is very specific verbiage included in this loan that scares the heck out of me and should scare you too. This could devastate many Belfair businesses leaving the rest of you to cover the bill. 2 HERE IS THE SPECIAL LANGUAGE: Contract has the Special Term and Condition*: "The contractor shall adopt a rate increase of$87 to the base monthly rate per ERU or demonstrate there has been an increase ERU(s) prior to project completion. This increase shall be maintained for the term of the loan, or until such time the BOARD is satisfied with the CONTRACTOR's finances and notifies the CONTRACTOR that this condition no longer applies." Think about this tidbit. In a march of 2020 presentation our staff showed us that the Belfair Safeway and other businesses already pay more than twice that of Bremerton. QFC pays around $40K a year for sewer now. If it was raised to $75K would QFC or Safeway be impacted? Could we lose one of them? How will we recruit more businesses to serve you when we have one of the most expensive sewer systems in the state, in large part due to the continued piling on of debt with most of the benefit being one landowner? My issues with this expansion could go on and on but making our community aware, is my job #1. If the community doesn't care, I need to know. I will back off and focus on other things you deem important. If this is an issue to you, the other Commissioners need to know. I try not to place negative aspersions on people. I feel people usually try to do things for the right reasons. Maybe my other Commissioners have been able to justify this in their minds but I simply can't. This landowner was my friend for more than 10 years, we no longer speak due to my firm position on this issue. I told him I couldn't get behind this without grants, not even a close friend. I have stood by my decision and hope it is the right one. What do you say? Our actions today have ramifications on our future. The decision to take no action is still an action. What will your actions be? Please contact us and tell us what you think. Just to be clear, I have turned off comments on my personal page as I do not want to take your testimony here. I will not be responding on facebook. Your testimony needs to be in the form if an email or direct conversation. You are free to repost and share with everyone. You can comment on those pages all you want. I am only posting to notify you on what I think is a very important meeting and an even more important decision point. Respectfully yours Randy Neatherlin Mason County Commissioner Dist. #1 North Mason mum NEMEEM Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting us06web.zoom.us Nancy Starr 19. 3 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MBCWA" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mbcwa+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mbcwa/M W2PR02M B38189BDA68A9OB9F5C9AFE62BE209%40MW2PR02M B3818 .namprd02.prod.outlook.com. 4 McKenzie Smith From: joann chen <jochen70@hotmaii.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 2:29 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer increase I think this is outrageous! What do I need to do as a resident of Allyn to help stop this?Since moving to Lakeland in 2010 the sewer costs have gone up and I am fine with reasonable increases and I am glad we gave the sewer system this makes no sense. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get Outlook for Android i McKenzie Smith From: Wendy Coile <wendycoile@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 8:39 AM To: Sharon Trask; Kevin Shutty; rneatherlin@masoncoutywa.gov Subject: Belfair Water Commissioners, After reading about the proposed extension and loan for the Belfair Water District, I am compelled to write to you regarding the absolute disgust I have regarding this matter. First of all, why should the struggling businesses in Belfair and the local residents on the sewer system pick up the tab for the building contractor? It isn't our responsibility to make sure the contractor is successfully meeting his financial obligations for development? Secondly,The Belfair community hasn't paid off the most recent loan and incurring additional debt would crush some businesses already struggling to survive. Adding an additional $5,000,000 to the debt and an additional 87 dollars to an already excruciatingly high monthly sewer tab., as well as the ridiculously high fee to hook up to the sewer also affects the residents of this small town where many who live here struggle to survive. Who benefits from this? It looks like the Contractor receives the biggest benefit and then the county commissioners who receive contributions to promote this project. It clearly doesn't benefit the Belfair community. Instead of creating more financial suffering in this area, why not find ways to build this community up, not destroy it with greed. Ask the community about how they feel about this, don't try to sneak it in without consulting us first we are the one who have to pick up the tab. Wendy Coile i McKenzie Smith From: Wendy Coile <wendycoile@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 9:21 AM To: McKenzie Smith; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Mason County Sewer (correction) Commissioners, After reading about the proposed extension and loan for the Belfair Sewer District, I am compelled to write to you regarding the absolute disgust I have regarding this matter. First of all, why should the struggling businesses in Belfair and the local residents on the sewer system pick up the tab for the building contractor? It isn't our responsibility to make sure the contractor is successfully meeting his financial obligations for development? Secondly,The Belfair community hasn't paid off the most recent loan and incurring additional debt would crush some businesses already struggling to survive. Adding an additional $5,000,000 to the debt and an additional 87 dollars to an already excruciatingly high monthly sewer tab., as well as the ridiculously high fee to hook up to the sewer also affects the residents of this small town where many who live here struggle to survive. Who benefits from this? It looks like the Contractor receives the biggest benefit and then the county commissioners who receive contributions to promote this project. It clearly doesn't benefit the Belfair community. Instead of creating more financial suffering in this area, why not find ways to build this community up, not destroy it with greed. Ask the community about how they feel about this, don't try to sneak it in without consulting us first we are the one who have to pick up the tab. Wendy Coile 1 McKenzie Smith From: Scott Comins <sdcomins@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 1:59 PM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer Debt Hi Randy, My wife and I moved to the Blacksmith Lake neighborhood a couple years ago. We live in a yurt semi-off grid (hooked up to electric) and have a rain water collecting/filtering system and incinerating toilet allowing us to be free from a well and septic. We do not pay for water or sewer, but we feel that the Belfair businesses will pass the increased costs along to consumers by increasing prices for goods and services. With inflation running rampant we do not need to add to it. We moved here from Seattle and love it. -BUT- We are starting to feel the waste, greed, and corruption that we saw in Seattle. If ONE LAND OWNER wants sewer to his PRIVATE PROPERTY, then that land owner should foot the bill. The people of Belfair (and Mason County) should not pay for a private resident's land improvements. And if, for some reason, this debt is approved and the land owner sells the property the debt should be repaid by that sale. While we are at it, I'd be interested in how this loan was introduced. If a private individual can leverage tax dollars to improve their property, I would be interested in proposing a $250,000 expenditure from the Mason County budget, paid for by the tax payers, allowing me to build a house and garage on my property. I mean this sewer project is essentially what that is... a $4.5M debt to improve a single individuals property. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Maranda Cromwell <marandart@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 8:41 AM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer Expansion Project Hello, I have heard about the plans to install more sewers in Belfair to appease a developer putting in houses on the property they own,then saddling the debt onto the people of Belfair. I'm against this move. If the developer wants to put more eyesores into our community, then they can front the expensive bill and stop pushing it onto the already strained populous. We don't need more expensive houses hardly anyone can afford, and certainly we don't need the community expanding with commuters that won't spend money in their own community.The people of Belfair already pay for the sewer system and can't afford more debt. I'm unable to attend the hearing so I hope my email finds appropriate ears. Make the greedy developer pay their way to what they want, not exploit the people and make their lives harder for houses no one needs.There are more houses than people and with a strained nation and struggling working class,those houses and attached sewer systems are going to take a while to make that debt "worth it". Thank you for listening, Maranda Cromwell Mason county resident 1 McKenzie Smith From: nyla cummings <nylacummings@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 3:59 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer system proposal Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged As a tax paying resident of Mason County I strenuously object to the new sewer proposal that would run through a private persons undeveloped property. During these exceptional economic times to further burden Mason county taxpayers is irresponsible. Sincerely, Dell and Nyla Cummings McKenzie Smith From: Diane Demars <dianedemars5@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:25 AM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Belfair Sewer District 1 - Resident/Homeowner here! The subsidized sewer in Belfair! 1. This will kill businesses in Belfair! 2. Most who live here cannot afford to pay this to benefit someone else's gain! 3. We cannot risk losing QFC or Safeway! PLEASE vote NO! Thank you for listening! Sincerely, Diane Demars i McKenzie Smith From: Bob Dressel <bulldozerbob@bluestarres.net> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 7:45 AM To: Sharon Trask Cc: Kevin Shutty; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer I will love to pay my share to build the Sewer. Thank You Robert Dressel Sent from my 1Phone i McKenzie Smith From: Bob Dressel <bulldozerbob@bluestarres.net> Sent: Friday,January 28, 2022 7:43 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer Iam on Board Will gladly pay my share. Thank You Robert Dressel Sent from my iPhone i McKenzie Smith From: Dianna Dryden <canalana@live.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 8:36 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Cc: Kshutty@masocountywa.gov; Sharon Trask Subject: Agenda re Belfair sewer, Monday 1131122 I like Randy Neatherlin's guest column re the Monday night topic,Belfair sewer. I am still paying many years later on the sewer loan and the monthly bill is HIGH. I certainly do not want to benefit a big developer. Further,Mason County pays WAY TOO MUCH for garbage. I have property in Kitsap that is MUCH more REASONABLE. Homeowners need you to be good advocates for us.. These utilities are just too much! No more big loans for the county on the sewer's expansion. Thank you, Dianna Timm Dryden 1 McKenzie Smith From: dave engman <tracker69d@yahoo.com> Sent: Saturday,January 29, 2022 8:19 PM To: Sharon Trask; Kevin Shutty; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer expansion Commissioner, This is to let you know that I oppose taking the county further in debt to finance a private development. This proposal is ill advised and should be subject of a full public investigation. Some questions that I want answered are: Why are tax dollars being used to pay for a private development as they are the only ones that profit from their investments? Why this developer and this location? Does the proposed contain any of the following? Contract has the Special Term and Condition*: "The contractor shall adopt a rate increase of $87 to the base monthly rate per ERU or demonstrate there has been an increase ERU(s) prior to project completion. This increase shall be maintained for the term of the loan, or until such time the BOARD is satisfied with the CONTRACTOR's finances and notifies the CONTRACTOR that this condition no longer applies." Is part of the plan to pay for the proposed expansion to increase all other sewerage in the county to make up for the short fall? You might say we need to take this loan because "It is a low interest opportunity." This low interest reasoning makes no sense on this sewer expansion and even puts the community in more fiscal danger. You can't borrow your way out of debt. I expect your response prior to the Public Hearing Monday, January 31st @ 6pm. David Engman Sent from Yahoo Mail for Phone 2 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 9:29 PM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: developer and sewer Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From: Greg Evans<gevans@charter.net> Date: 1/25/22 8:44 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Re: developer and sewer Hey Randy, Hope you're doing well. I'll ask this simple question.Why not just tell the developer if he wants sewer to his development he can pay the county for it and all the connection fees,etc.? Frankly, I don't care about the developers financial position. If they want sewer to the development that should be on them, not the people of Mason County. If the developer can't afford it.Tough chit,guess he doesn't get to have sewer service there. I'd like the power pole moved out of my front yard and I'd like to see all the power running out to the Shorecrest area be underground. I'd like more choice that crappy Clwest DSL or,though great, Hood Canal Communications for TV/Internet. I'd like to see a bridge from the Shorecrest area to either the Bayshore area or downtown. It would save all the people in the Timberlakes/Agate/Shorecrest areas massive amounts of time/gas getting to town, but all I've ever heard about any of these things is"it's too expensive" or,in the case of the power pole,they can do it if*1* am willing to pay for it. I see the sewer the same as the power pole. If the developer wants it,they can pay for it.Alternately,ask the county to rid my yard of this power pole at county expense. Regards, Greg Evans Sent from my iPhone 1 McKenzie Smith From: randall.fellwock <randall.fellwock@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:42 AM To: Randy Neatherlin; McKenzie Smith; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer System Expansion to Private Land Follow Up Flag: Flag for follow up Flag Status: Flagged Good Morning, In response to the proposed assessment to expand the public sewer system to a private developers land, this is absolute insanity. I cannot,will not, and do not support this proposal. Developers can pay to improve their own land, then sell it to realize a profit. It is completely wrong to expect tax payers to take on this burden of cost and then allow the developer to make a profit without the investment. I believe this is a completely unnecessary expense on the tax payers, especially when there are many other issues to address, such as road expansion through Belfair(big issue), PUD issues of moving to Shelton, and the increase in local crime. It also seems to me we should find ways to make Mason County attractive to businesses to encourage them to do business here instead of taxing them out of town,that is counter productive.You can't tax your way out of debt. More business means more revenue, more jobs, and more prosperity. So, to be clear, I am a NO vote on the sewer expansion and I will participate in the upcoming hearing. Randall Fellwock USAF, Retired 1 McKenzie Smith From: Mike Fisher <michaels.fisher@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:48 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewage Upgrade Honorable Commissioners, I recently received news about a decision for the county to assume additional debt for a sewage system upgrade.I plan to attend the public hearing on the 31st to hear justification. I'm a newly retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and have only lived in Mason county for almost three years.I'm a new member of VFW Post 1694 and until recently a Nurse Anesthesiologist at Mason General.I am vested in this community and support infrastructure development but I would have expected a bit more publicity so the electorate could make informed choices to support or oppose.If there is not a clear indication of a need that will directly benefit the people of Mason County,I would not support an$87 increase in utility bills for every citizen.I look forward to meeting you and hearing more information regarding the pressing need for this assumption of additional debt burden on Monday night. Respectfully, Michael Fisher LTC,USA(Ret) CRNA at SPMC,Elma 907-382-9002 Call,Text,or email is fine 1 McKenzie Smith From: Michael Fisher <MichaelS.Fisher@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:39 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From: Michael Fisher Dept Sent To: Commissioner Dist 1 Message: I recently received news about a decision for the county to assume additional debt for a sewage system upgrade. I plan to attend the public hearing on the 31st to hear justification. I'm a newly retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and have only lived in Mason county for almost three years.I'm a new member of VFW Post 1694 and until recently a Nurse Anesthesiologist at Mason General.I am vested in this community and support infrastructure development but I would have expected a bit more publicity so the electorate could make informed choices to support or oppose.If there is not a clear indication of a need that will directly benefit the people of Mason County,I would not support an$87 increase in utility bills for every citizen.I look forward to meeting you and hearing more information regarding the pressing need for this assumption of additional debt burden on Monday night. Respectfully, Michael Fisher LTC,USA(Ret) CRNA 1 McKenzie Smith From: Michael Fisher <MichaelS.Fisher@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:39 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From: Michael Fisher Dept Sent To: Commissioner Dist 2 Message: I recently received news about a decision for the county to assume additional debt for a sewage system upgrade. I plan to attend the public hearing on the 31st to hear justification. I'm a newly retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and have only lived in Mason county for almost three years.I'm a new member of VFW Post 1694 and until recently a Nurse Anesthesiologist at Mason General. I am vested in this community and support infrastructure development but I would have expected a bit more publicity so the electorate could make informed choices to support or oppose. If there is not a clear indication of a need that will directly benefit the people of Mason County, I would not support an$87 increase in utility bills for every citizen.I look forward to meeting you and hearing more information regarding the pressing need for this assumption of additional debt burden on Monday night. Respectfully, Michael Fisher LTC,USA(Ret) CRNA 1 McKenzie Smith From: Michael Fisher <MichaelS.Fisher@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:39 PM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From: Michael Fisher Dept Sent To: Commissioner Dist 3 Message: I recently received news about a decision for the county to assume additional debt for a sewage system upgrade. I plan to attend the public hearing on the 31st to hear justification. I'm a newly retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and have only lived in Mason county for almost three years.I'm a new member of VFW Post 1694 and until recently a Nurse Anesthesiologist at Mason General. I am vested in this community and support infrastructure development but I would have expected a bit more publicity so the electorate could make informed choices to support or oppose. If there is not a clear indication of a need that will directly benefit the people of Mason County,I would not support an$87 increase in utility bills for every citizen.I look forward to meeting you and hearing more information regarding the pressing need for this assumption of additional debt burden on Monday night. Respectfully, Michael Fisher LTC,USA(Ret) CRNA i McKenzie Smith From: Linda Fontenot <linda196565@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 8:01 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: RE: BELFAIR SEWER HEARING for Jan 31, 2022. Extension of the Belfair Sewer System with Extreme Higher monthly rates Dear Commissioner Strask: I live in Allyn, WA in Lakeland Village. I currently pay a monthly sewer rate because the Belfair Sewer system included Lakeland Village in paying for this a few years ago. I have lived here since 2013, and each year the sewer rates have increased and now the commission wants another loan and an extension to the sewer system that a land owner and developer wants! I live on a fixed income and do not want to be shackled with this burden of exorbitant monthly rates. Belfair nor Allyn will be able to attract businesses to help pay for this. Those businesses that are here now pay a hefty rate, as do the residents of these two towns. The public should not subsidize this loan and the extension to build this infrastructure. vote NO. I do not want to pay for a landowners and/or developer's investment! Let the developer pay for their own infrastructure and profit off their own investments. Respectfully, Linda Fontenot i McKenzie Smith From: Linda Fontenot <1inda196565@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday,January 28, 2022 8:13 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: RE: BELFAIR SEWER HEARING for Jan 31, 2022. Extension of the Belfair Sewer System with Extreme Higher monthly rates Dear Commissioner Neatherlin: Below is the verbiage of the e-mail I sent to both Commissioners Shutty and Trask regarding Belfair Sewer system. Mr. Neatherlin, Continue in your work opposing this and thank you for letting us know. I retired here in 2013 and live on a fixed income. So, this would be a huge burden for the majority of us and some impossible to meet, such as myself. Numbers 6:24-26 Respectfully, Linda Fontenot -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I live in Allyn, WA in Lakeland Village. I currently pay a monthly sewer rate because the Belfair Sewer system included Lakeland Village in paying for this a few years ago. I have lived here since 2013, and each year the sewer rates have increased and now the commission wants another loan and an extension to the sewer system that a land owner and developer wants! I live on a fixed income and do not want to be shackled with this burden of exorbitant monthly rates. Belfair nor Allyn will be able to attract businesses to help pay for this. Those businesses that are here now pay a hefty rate, as do the residents of these two towns. The public should not subsidize this loan and the extension to build this infrastructure. vote NO. I do not want to pay for a landowners and/or developer's investment! Let the developer pay for their own infrastructure and profit off their own investments. Respectfully, Linda Fontenot i McKenzie Smith From: Linda Fontenot <linda196565@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 7:59 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: RE: BELFAIR SEWER HEARING for Jan 31, 2022. Extension of the Belfair Sewer System with Extreme Higher monthly rates Dear Commissioner Shutty: I live in Allyn, WA in Lakeland Village. I currently pay a monthly sewer rate because the Belfair Sewer system included Lakeland Village in paying for this a few years ago. I have lived here since 2013, and each year the sewer rates have increased and now the commission wants another loan and an extension to the sewer system that a land owner and developer wants! I live on a fixed income and do not want to be shackled with this burden of exorbitant monthly rates. Belfair nor Allyn will be able to attract businesses to help pay for this. Those businesses that are here now pay a hefty rate, as do the residents of these two towns. The public should not subsidize this loan and the extension to build this infrastructure. vote NO. I do not want to pay for a landowners and/or developer's investment! Let the developer pay for their own infrastructure and profit off their own investments. Respectfully, Linda Fontenot i McKenzie Smith From: Les Foss <Snooska@msn.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 2:55 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: sewer Thank you Randy, I'm new to LLV in Allyn and the sewer bill was a stunner after moving here from Mount Vernon.Yes, please fight on and if there is anything we can do to help this effort,you now have my email. I am willing to go to meetings, talk to neighbors or whatever needs to be done. Many thanks, M. Leslie Foss Sent from Mail for Windows 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Tuesday,January 25, 2022 11:10 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Mark Neary Subject: FW: Sewer Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From: Lynne2 <Lynne2@wavecable.com> Date: 1/25/22 10:30 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: RE: Sewer I emailed the other 2 and told them it's shameful to put this on an already reeling community, during a pandemic and economic crisis! That one benefactor to an expansion is unethical! And I will participate in the zoom meeting! L Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Date: 1/25/22 9:34 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Lynne2<Lynne2@wavecable.com> Subject: RE: Sewer You are correct, if 2 Commissioners vote opposite of me,they win. Randy Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Lynne2 <Lynne2@wavecable.com> Date: 1/25/22 9:09 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Sewer It seems odd that commissioners from other districts are so hot on getting this done! Is there something in it for them? Who's the landowner that will benefit from the extension?And isn't it true if 2 Commish vote yea you're overruled? I'm so over the politics that are present right now. It's an ugly political environment! What can we do to quash this?Thanks, Lynne Freeman Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone 2 McKenzie Smith From: ALIDA FRETZ <alidafl @comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 1:51 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Extension This has to be stopped. It is absurd to even consider adding to the debt for something like this at this time. I bought in Lakeland Village in 2019 and have wondered ever since why the sewer bill is a flat amount with no usage involved. Now I know. Bureaucrats at whatever level all carry the same mind set, that is, no responsibility whatsoever for public funds. Debt is debt. One can't borrow one's way out of debt. You have to stop spending what you can do without and pay off what is owed. Stop digging a hole for yourself is wise counsel. Keep up the good work, and by all means fight the good fight. Do you have a backup plan in case they vote to do it? Court intervention might be one way if concerned citizens got on board. This sort of thing is why many of us lose are confidence in elected leadership. Alida B Fretz, REALTOR John L Scott Belfair Cell 206 8418592 e mail, alidafl@comcast.net alidafretzPiohniscott.com Home office 21 E Country Club Drive Allyn, WA 98524 Don't Fret-Call Fretz for all your real estate needs 1 McKenzie Smith From: Richard Frohlich <richard frohlich@msn.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 3:51 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: New Sewer Project Randy, Again thank you sir for publishing this issue. I am adamantly against this project to use our hard earned tax dollars to make others rich. Please oppose this and fight with any authority you have! As you know most in belfair UGA cannot afford this as is, let alone with an additional tax burden. I agree adding additional debt will drive business out of the area and will take decades to recover from. Again, I thank you for dedication to this community and stand by to assist if I can. Regards, Richard Frohlich Sent from my Verizon Motorola Smortphone McKenzie Smith From: Richard Frohlich <richard frohlich@msn.com> Sent: Sunday,January 30, 2022 4:10 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Proposed Belfair Sewer Extension I am reaching out to respectfully request you both to NOT support adding additional debt as part of extending the Belfair Sewer to private land at Taxpayers expense.This action is on the face unethical and not in keeping with fiduciary duties to taxpayers you inherit as a public official. The Belfair Urban Growth area contains many families that struggle day to day financially and cannot afford increased fees related to sewer ERU costs.The community has recently supported new fire and school levies that have increased taxes. Enough is enough. As a community,we have supported what is needed.This project is not in the communities best interest and I respectfully request you to not support this developer welfare at the cost of taxpayers. Thank you for your time and consideration. Richard Frohlich Sent from my Verizon Motorola Smartphone McKenzie Smith From: jim fuller <jcfuller777@msn.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 11:59 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer rate change Hello Randy, From my perspective I would ask that you stay in the fight and if there is anything we can do to help - PLEASE let us know-We live in Lakeland Village and this add'I amount would have a direct impact on us. Thank you for taking the time to battle this. Jim Fuller McKenzie Smith From: Jim Fuller <jim@bainbridgeseniorliving.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 1:01 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: S Dear Commissioners: This was brought to my attention of a possible proposed action (see below). I have to say I would be disappointed if this were to proceed. I live in the Lakeland Village and knowing several folks in that area this would be a financial hardship on them and to what end? I ask that you consider this very carefully as you move through your process.. Mason County Sewer Urgent Notice Please read the Urgent message below from Mason County Commissioner Randy Neatherlin. This message was posted on Facebook and sent to me by a Lakeland Homeowner. This could impact Lakeland Village Sewer rates by adding an additional $87.00 a month to each residence J�VV. Jim Fuller Executive Director/General Manager Bainbridge Senior Living 206-317-6001 www.bainbridgeseniorliving.com 1 ink 0 � sainbridge - • 2 McKenzie Smith From: Tracy Gibbs <tracy_gibbs@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:42 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: NO on Belfair sewer extension My name is Teresa M Gibbs My address is 730 E Jenns Way, Union I am adamant—do not incur further debt to expand the currently underutilized sewer system in Belfair. There are already not enough users to support the current configuration resulting in onerous fees for those who are already hooked up. Any expansion should be paid for by developers who would benefit from the expansion. At the risk of being rude,this is a stupid idea. It makes no sense to me no matter how you look at it. Thank you for your consideration. Tracy Gibbs Cell:206.755.1473 1 McKenzie Smith From: Tracy Gibbs <tracy_gibbs@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:43 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: NO on Belfair sewer expansion My name is Teresa M Gibbs My address is 730 E Jenns Way, Union I am adamant—do not incur further debt to expand the currently underutilized sewer system in Belfair. There are already not enough users to support the current configuration resulting in onerous fees for those who are already hooked up. Any expansion should be paid for by developers who would benefit from the expansion. At the risk of being rude,this is a stupid idea. It makes no sense to me no matter how you look at it. Thank you for your consideration. Tracy Gibbs Cell:206.755.1473 1 McKenzie Smith From: Tracy Gibbs <tracy_gibbs@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:46 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: NO on Belfair sewer expansion Please continue to fight against the sewer expansion proposal. Below is what I sent the other 2 commissioners. My name is Teresa M Gibbs My address is 730 E Jenns Way, Union I am adamant—do not incur further debt to expand the currently underutilized sewer system in Belfair. There are already not enough users to support the current configuration resulting in onerous fees for those who are already hooked up. Any expansion should be paid for by developers who would benefit from the expansion. At the risk of being rude,this is a stupid idea. It makes no sense to me no matter how you look at it. Thank you for your consideration. Tracy Gibbs Cell: 206.755.1473 1 McKenzie Smith From: Jan G <jangleich22@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 7:02 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: DO NOT TAKE OUT A LOAN FOR SEWER EXPANSION IN MASON COUNTY We are private property owners in Allyn, WA. We pay for our utilities. We are appalled by the discussion to raise sewer rates. Worse yet is the proposal that the area developers will not be paying for the infrastructure improvements that they are planning to make so that more construction and more homes/businesses can someday be built. We firmly believe that individuals and companies involved in such operations should PAY THEIR OWN WAY. They make the profit, they should pay their bills. To put such costs on the general public is absolutely wrong. The dollar increase is completely unacceptable. Please do not approve a loan to expand the sewer system. More importantly don't even put it on the agenda. It should have been a no brainer from the beginning. There is already a debt to pay and adding to it does not make it go away. Do not give up the fight on this issue - every resident and every business will be adversely effected. Thank you, Al and Jan Gleich 1 McKenzie Smith From: gordo602@wavecable.com Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:17 AM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Cc: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair Sewer Follow Up Flag: Flag for follow up Flag Status: Flagged Please stop any further public expenditures for the expansion of the Belfair Sewer System. I understand that it needs more connections to work properly and to be funded properly. This system has been mismanaged from the start. Any further funding should not be born by the Mason County Taxpayer. New development of the sewer system should be paid for by the developer. Mason County has already tried this you build it and they will come??? Stop now and wait. Apartments have been discussed behind Safeway and property next to Safeway is also readily available for Development. The sewer is running to the new housing and apartments above McDonalds finally paid for by the developers. Overton's and other large developers do not need County assistance. Again, any extensions should be paid for by developers or by means of development that makes sense and pays for itself. I do have a question that I do not ever really get an answer too other than it doesn't work that way. With all the septic tank trucks that travel through Mason County and head to Web Hill, why doesn't Belfair have a transfer/dump station to take this sewage and more and charge a fee for it. Seems like an easy and low-cost way to help fix the problem and bring in money. As a small real estate investor in Mason County and trying to get into the commercial market it is hard to do that with all the increased costs and red tape. Between the sewer, Belfair water, engineering required related to different departments, Misc. permitting through different departments and the difficulty understanding all the Mason County Community Development rules/regulations it stops you directly in your tracks due to money. I have found that the heads of the building department cannot/will not even answer simple questions and only point you to the comprehensive plan and other materials to navigate and come to your own interpretations. Thanks for listening and for your service to the Public. Scott Gordon Belfair 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 9:28 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Belfair Sewer Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From: gordo602@wavecable.com Date: 1/25/22 8:15 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Belfair Sewer Please keep fighting so that we the private citizen do not pay for sewer expansion. The Belfair sewer was mismanaged from the start and should be paid for by developers or with a plan that makes sense for it to pay for itself. Thanks Scott Gordon Belfair 1 McKenzie Smith From: Bill Green <bill.green1970@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:19 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Mason county sewer zakdoxd UMMS Caaaiuwaq CW Mason County Sewer Urgent Notice from North Mason Commissioner Randy Neatherlin Good Morning Lakeland Village Residents, Please read the Urgent message below from Mason County Commissioner Randy Neather►in. This message was posted on Facebook and sent to me by a Lakeland Homeowner. This could impact LakeLand Village Sewer rates by adding an additional $87.00 a month to each residence. Urgent Urgent Urgent notice! Mason county residents. Please read this. In 10 years as a Commissioner, I have never posted anything like this. Consider this a letter to the editor, Share it and comment but I will not be responding on Facebook. Contact info is posted below. To share, click on my name above and share from my page. More than 10 years ago, the Mason County commission burdened Belfair business owners and all of Mason County with a sewer system nobody could afford. All of Mason County has been subsidizing this burden ever since. Last year alone, Mason County spent $1.2 million of your money just to cover the debt service. Was it wrong 10 years ago? Would it be wrong if the county did it to you again? I sure think so. Your County Commission is about to make a big decision, again regarding unnecessary debt. Until recently, two commissioners wanted to borrow around $5,000,000 to extend the sewer system into vacant land. Yes, although we still owe $8.4 million dollars on the system, they want to add another$4.5 million dollars of debt.This action would extend the sewer onto one single developer's private property. Not down the highway, not into a broad area of the County industrial lands for many to access, but up over the hill and through one land owners property. If we pay the bill on this infrastructure and increase this properties value, the landowner can simply turn around, sell it and capture the added value as pure profit for himself. What does the general public get? We the people get to pay on the debt for 20 more years. In addition, the Commission is considering language that actually leverages the load purely on the backs of Belfair. A gamble that could increase Belfair sewer rates by$87/ month while still paying debt 1 out of your county REET dollars. To me, this is wrong, but I need to hear from you. Should I keep fighting this fight? Do you care? Do you consider this an appropriate use of your tax dollars? Please weigh in and let the commission know how you feel. am inserting contact info here but there is much more info to consider below this. Send it to the county staff at email Msmith@masoncountywa.gov You can contact me Randy Neatherlin at 360 490 7389 or email me at Randvn@masoncountywa.gov Commissioner Shutty and Commissioner Trask can be reached at 360 427 9670 extension 419or email them at Kshutty@masoncountywa.gov Or Strask(a@masoncountywa.gov There will be a Public Hearing Monday nightthe 31st at 6pm. You can attend through a link on the Mason County home page. Link below. https://us06web.zoom.us/i/86071039936?pwd=NFRVYUIQUnh3Z2dwWmFIcitiQicxUT09 This is a hearing where they can make a decision and move forward on a loan and the extension. This sewer system burden was placed on us without listening to the community. We should not let that happen again. I personally requested a full and open public forum. Discussion should go back and forth between the county and the public. I was turned down. They chose a public hearing where I can't get my comments and questions out before the public comment. This is why I'm writing a letter to you here. I need you to get the information before the implementation. In a hearing, staff presents, then public comments and then the commission talks without citizen interaction. A decision can be made on that point. All before the community can weigh in on my concerns. We need much more interaction with our constituents before making such an expensive decision. There are many issues the public should be made aware of. One Commissioner claims this expansion will fix the issue of the county subsidizing the sewer debt. Even a financial novice knows, you don't borrow yourself out of debt. When you are in a deep hole, stop digging. This extension could provide more area for immediate development but it could take another 20+years before getting a positive dime back. If we do nothing what happens?The developers put the sewer infrastructure in themselves, on their own dime. Either way, the county gets positive cash flow instead of more debt and we aren't 'gifting' your tax dollars to one single landowner. What do you think? Would this new expansion help pay off the debt? We currently need at least 754 Equivalent Residential Units (ERU) to pay of our current debts. We would need more if they are multi family as these units pay 70%of single family residential units. If we build the expansion, we will need an additional 400 ERU's to pay off the new $4.5 million dollar debt.To be clear, each new customer that eventually hooks up must pay around $11k and that is why we need 400 more to break even. We now have about 421 ERU's in all of Belfair. In the last 10 years, we actually went down from 428 to 421 ERU's. After 10 years and the new construction on the hill, we are finally about to get enough ERU',s to cover maintenance and operations costs. Not the current bebt just M&O costs. Those new apartments and home hookup fees go towards the old debt or maintenance. Again, getting this extra $4.5 million back could take 20+years. 2 Why pay for a developer's investment? Shouldn't developers pay for their own development? I definitely think so. Historically they always have. Why this developer and this location? Do you see us paying for a Shelton or an Allyn developer? No!! So, why this one? Originally the commission (part of the commission) wanted to pay for the sewer infrastructure for the entire development on the hill above McDonald's. It was going to cost us $8 million. I pushed hard against this spending. Eventually, this same developer sold the property and the new owners put the sewer in themselves. Less than 1 year later the new owners then sold the property making millions on their investment. This was an immediate benefit to the system. If we had paid for it however, they would have made millions off of our investments and we would be making payments for another 20 years. Developers should pay for their own infrastructure and profit off their own investments. Everybody wins and Mason County benefits immediately. Commissioners say we need to take this loan because "It is a low interest opportunity." If getting a low interest loan was reason enough, every person in America would own a Volkswagen. Every year they offer 0% interest loans on specific cars.This low interest reasoning makes no sense on this sewer expansion and even puts the community in more fiscal danger.There is no such thing as a free lunch. There is very specific verbiage included in this loan that scares the heck out of me and should scare you too.This could devastate many Belfair businesses leaving the rest of you to cover the bill. HERE IS THE SPECIAL LANGUAGE: Contract has the Special Term and Condition*: "The contractor shall adopt a rate increase of$87 to the base monthly rate per ERU or demonstrate there has been an increase ERU(s) prior to project completion.This increase shall be maintained for the term of the loan, or until such time the BOARD is satisfied with the CONTRACTOR's finances and notifies the CONTRACTOR that this condition no longer applies." Think about this tidbit. In a march of 2020 presentation our staff showed us that the Belfair Safeway and other businesses already pay more than twice that of Bremerton. QFC pays around $40K a year for sewer now. If it was raised to $75K would QFC or Safeway be impacted? Could we lose one of them? How will we recruit more businesses to serve you when we have one of the most expensive sewer systems in the state, in large part due to the continued piling on of debt with most of the benefit being one landowner? My issues with this expansion could go on and on but making our community aware, is my job #1. If the community doesn't care, I need to know. I will back off and focus on other things you deem important. If this is an issue to you, the other Commissioners need to know. I try not to place negative aspersions on people. I feel people usually try to do things for the right reasons. Maybe my other Commissioners have been able to justify this in their minds but I simply can't. This landowner was my friend for more than 10 years, we no longer speak due to my firm position on this issue. I told him I couldn't get behind this without grants, not even a close friend. I have stood by my decision and hope it is the right one. What do you say? Our actions today have ramifications on our future. The decision to take no action is still an action. What will your actions be? Please contact us and tell us what you think. Respectfully yours 3 Randy Neatherlin Mason County Commissioner Dist. #1 North Mason Sent from my iPhone 4 McKenzie Smith From: Bill Green <bi11.green1970@gmai1.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:21 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Let the land owner deal with the sewer ! It's not the county's responsibility to determine what a private person does ! If they benefit so be it !! But do not ! Do not charge the tax payers by increasing their rates .. Sent from my Whone McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 12:24 PM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW:Vote No on Sewer Extension! Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From:JM Griffin <jmgriffinx@gmail.com> Date: 1/26/22 12:19 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Fwd:Vote No on Sewer Extension! Please vote NO on the Mason County Sewer Extension. I sent this email to both of the other commissioners. What are they even thinking of adding this debt???!!! Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention and I am very hopeful that you receive a huge response so that this can be defeated! Thank you, Jeanette Griffin Grapeview, WA ---------- Forwarded message --------- From:JM Griffin <imgriffinx@gmail.com> Date: Wed,Jan 26, 2022 at 12:16 PM Subject: Vote No on Sewer Extension! To: <Strask@masoncountywa.gov> Please vote no on the Mason County Sewer Extension. We do not need ANY MORE DEBT! Thank you! Jeanette Griffin Grapeview, WA 1 McKenzie Smith From: JM Griffin <jmgriffinx@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 12:16 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Vote No on Sewer Extension! Follow Up Flag: Flag for follow up Flag Status: Flagged Please vote no on the Mason County Sewer Extension. We do not need ANY MORE DEBT! Thank you! Jeanette Griffin Grapeview, WA 1 McKenzie Smith From: Jeff Habersetzer <jhabersetzer@harborcustomdev.com> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 4:23 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Extension Hearing - Belfair Dear Commissioners: I understand that a hearing will take place shortly to discuss a proposed sewer extension in Belfair. I wanted to reach out and express our support for such an extension, as we believe that the Belfair area is a highly desirable situation for continued development, and we look forward to the opportunity to continue to invest in the community here in Belfair. Harbor has had a pleasant and productive experience with Mason County, and we look forward to many years of successful partnership ahead. Sincerely, Jeff Habersetzer Jeffrey B. Habersetzer Chief Operating Officer Harbor Custom Development, Inc. 11505 Burnham Dr. Suite 301 Gig Harbor,WA 98332 Office (253)649-0632 Mobile (253)886-3823 https://harborcustomhomes.comH A R B^;V R 5 1 McKenzie Smith From: Ronald Hagedorn <sherwood38@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 4:51 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Hi Randy As a fairly long time resident of LLV, we were in the thick of sewer development here. As you are aware we were basically sold a bill of goods as the "Grant" turned out to be a loan instead, which more than doubled our rates. So any talk of more "good deals" is a very sore point with many of us old timers. We came as "refugees" from the Issaquah area which saw explosive growth started by a development called Klahanie. Klahanie was literally across the road from us there. Lowe enterprises representing the developers made (and kept) some very extensive promises including financing sewers, water, roads, surface water management, fire stations, fire hydrants, school property, etc, etc, in return for much more intensive zoning. The later developers then repaid Klahanie. The end result turned into one of King County's newer cities, Sammamish. I'm told, Klahanies developers ended up making a ton of money from the follow-on developers repayments as well as their own sales. However as long time property owners there, it did cost us in the long run, as our property increased in "value", our property taxes went from $800 to $6500 in the time we lived there. We became surrounded by high end developments now taking advantage of Klahanies extensive improvements. Best regards Ron Hagedorn sherwood38@gmail.com i McKenzie Smith From: diane hartley <covistas@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday,January 30, 2022 4:40 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin; McKenzie Smith Subject: Opposition to Belfair Sewer Extension To All Mason County Commissioners: This is to oppose the proposed expansion of the Belfair Sewer System currently proposed. There are numerous concerns I have over this proposal. The Belfair Sewer System was originally constructed based growth estimates that never materialized. There were also challenges to the financial data supporting the project. The project went, as I understand, at least$10 million over budget. Then there were issues with maintenance of the system piling on additional costs. Why should the public have confidence that this extension will be any more fiscally viable? There appears to be a certainty that all ERU's currently connected will pay an additional $87 per month. We already lost businesses when the original system was begun. Do we really want to risk losing one or both of our grocery stores, not to mention all of the other businesses that are already struggling under COVID mandates? How much will prices increase for all shoppers if those businesses are assessed the higher rate? If we lose those ERU's and/or residents cannot afford the $87 increase, the entire county is responsible for the debt and should be weighing in on this issue. I continue to oppose further growth without infrastructure improvements. I read that my concerns submitted for the zoning codes regarding infrastructure were brushed off as something that would be addressed in a special use process. I doubt if individual permits will be considered to be the point where overburdened infrastructure will be adequate to stop a project. If that were the case, what infrastructure improvements were required for the hundreds of units already permitted and not yet occupied, not to mention the multitude of residences being constructed in Allyn?What traffic lanes have been added to accommodate the traffic volume increase? I agree that the developer should pay their own sewer extension costs rather than profiting off taxpayers. That apparently worked for the complex under construction, so why burden taxpayers now? For years I have heard that Mason County is a bedroom community. How did we suddenly become a place with inadequate residency for the workforce?Are we just adding to our bedroom community to Kitsap' County's benefit while leaving us in a traffic jam? There is a movement to eliminate single family residency, which your recent vote helped along. This area is like Des Moines was when I grew up. Then apartments and condos started springing up, many of them were not maintained and Des Moines became a transient community with increased crime. I would hate to see that happen in Mason County. 1 It is unfortunate that flawed data resulted in an overbuilt sewer system for Belfair. It makes no sense to make it worse by encumbering the county for 20 years rather than pay off what exists in 5 or so years. Please vote no on this sewer extension. Diane Hartley Grapeview z McKenzie Smith From: Sarah Heartsong <heartsongwoman@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 9:37 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Fwd: sewer system loan To: Mason Co Commissioners Re: extension currently under consideration for the sewer system of Belfair The current sewer system loan burden was placed on us, the people of Mason Co., without listening to the community. Please listen to us now. What you are proposing is wrong and unduly burdens us all to the benefit of a few. That is not what we hired you to do in voting you onto the commission. Long term decisions should be made with the benefit of the maximum number of people in mind, not a singular property owner. The optics on that are truly ugly... and imaginations can wonder about the motivations pushing you that support this forward. Have you read the definition of Mason Co and Belfair on the Urban dictionary? It's not pretty. Decisions like this by people who are leading our communities don't help. Know that people are watching and we are hopeful that the commissioners will consider the generations down the road when making large infrostructure decisions. This "deal" is lousy. Don't do it. Mason Co Resident and Taxpayer Sarah Heartsong Rev. Sarah Heartsong Heartsong Healing Arts, Inc. Rare Earth Designs Erosia Land Sanctuary Tree of Life Interfaith Sanctuary (575) 640-8506 Confidentiality Notice:This email, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information.Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message.-- 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 8:40 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: sewer system loan Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: Sarah Heartsong<heartsongwoman@gmail.com> Date: 1/26/22 8:26 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov>, Kevin Shutty<KShutty@masoncountywa.gov>, Sharon Trask <STrask@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: sewer system loan To: Mason Co Commissioners Re: extension currently under consideration for the sewer system of Belfair The current sewer system loan burden was placed on us, the people of Mason Co., without listening to the community. Please listen to us now. What you are proposing is wrong and unduly burdens us all to the benefit of a few.That is not what we hired you to do in voting you onto the commission. Long term decisions should be made with the benefit of the maximum number of people in mind, not a singular property owner.The optics on that are truly ugly... and imaginations can wonder about the motivations pushing you that support this forward. Have you read the definition of Mason Co and Belfair on the Urban dictionary? It's not pretty. Decisions like this by people who are leading our communities don't help. Know that people are watching and we are hopeful that the commissioners will consider the generations down the road when making large infrostructure decisions.This "deal" is lousy. Don't do it. Mason Co Resident and Taxpayer Sarah Heartsong Rev. Sarah Heartsong Heartsong Healing Arts, Inc. Rare Earth Designs Erosia Land Sanctuary Tree of Life Interfaith Sanctuary 1 (575) 640-8506 Confidentiality Notice:This email, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message.-- 2 McKenzie Smith From: jenellrae@yahoo.com Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:00 AM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: proposed sewer system expansion Follow Up Flag: Flag for follow up Flag Status: Flagged Good Morning Commissioners, I am reaching out because I am alarmed at the consideration that is being given to extend our county sewer system onto privately owned,vacant land, at taxpayer expense! Our county is already burdened with high tax rates, unaffordable housing, employment insecurity issues and families are struggling to buy food and gas with uncontrolled inflation. I cannot see how this sewer expansion, along with increased county taxpayer burden would benefit our community! It would only serve to help weaththy developers by reducing their development costs. Additionally,there are already so many existing homes in the county without any public sewer service,yet they are paying part of the existing sewer tax burden. It would seem logical to consider that kind of sewer system expansion first, before ever considering a sewer expansion on vacant, private land. Just as the county does not pay to install and maintain my septic system, I do not believe it is my responsibility to pay for the sewer system installation on another private property owners land.This is absolute craziness!! I respect the commission and know that your jobs can be difficult. I also know it is impossible to make everyone happy all the time, but I ask you to NOT move forward with this proposed sewer system expansion and instead,take a look at some of the more important issues that are facing our community. We cannot afford more taxation. Respectfully, Jenell Hicks 241 E Forest Dr Belfair, WA 97528 402-212-9868 1 McKenzie Smith From: Brenda and Dean Hirschi <brendahirschi@comcast.net> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 5:58 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From: Brenda and Dean Hirschi Dept Sent To: Commissioner Dist 1 Message: Commissioners,will we be given read aheads with information to be presented at the Jan 31, 2022 public hearing on the Belfair Sewer Extension? Since you may make a decision at this meeting, it seems that prior to putting the county into deeper debt you'd ensure that we have time to process the complexities of the Belfair Sewer. For this to truly be a"transparent process",there must be an opportunity for back and forth dialogue between the public and the commissioners. i McKenzie Smith From: Brenda and Dean Hirschi <brendahirschi@comcast.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 S:S7 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From: Brenda and Dean Hirschi Dept Sent To: Commissioner Dist 2 Message: Commissioners,will we be given read aheads with information to be presented at the Jan 31, 2022 public hearing on the Belfair Sewer Extension? Since you may make a decision at this meeting, it seems that prior to putting the county into deeper debt you'd ensure that we have time to process the complexities of the Belfair Sewer. For this to truly be a "transparent process",there must be an opportunity for back and forth dialogue between the public and the commissioners. i McKenzie Smith From: Brenda and Dean Hirschi <brendahirschi@comcast.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 5:58 PM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From: Brenda and Dean Hirschi Dept Sent To: Commissioner Dist 3 Message: Commissioners,will we be given read aheads with information to be presented at the Jan 31,2022 public hearing on the Belfair Sewer Extension? Since you may make a decision at this meeting, it seems that prior to putting the county into deeper debt you'd ensure that we have time to process the complexities of the Belfair Sewer. For this to truly be a"transparent process",there must be an opportunity for back and forth dialogue between the public and the commissioners. 1 McKenzie Smith From: jax hix <jaxhix@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday,January 25, 2022 9:46 PM To: jax hix Subject: Sewer Hello, I'm writing today to express my concerns that the commissioners are expanding taxpayer debt to the benefit of private developers. In regards to the sewer: If it's for affordable housing maybe but the project should be county not private development. Private developers should pay for their own infrastructure like the rest of us. Subsiding wealthy developers is not how we improve our community. I want to see my tax dollars actually working to improve housing for everyone. Personally,this county is missing the mark on this in the face of rapid gentrification, it could easily lessen the housing shortage by allowing cheaper alternative housing, like tiny houses. Think about it, a zoning change and for very little cost on taxpayers tiny houses can be taxed as residential mobile homes and those renters and squatting in RVs become a tax base.Affordable housing benefits the local economy,too, by freeing income strangled by outrageous rent for spending in the community. It's a win for the taxpayers and a better quality of life for working poor families. It sure beats homeless camps and over development on mammoth houses local families can't afford. It's a far more humane way to improve the tax base without inviting outsiders with wealth who have zero concerns about how that concentrated wealth harms the community. Mason county overall is poor and enabling gentrification is not what your voters want.They sure the hell don't want to pay extra money they don't have for it. Something to chew on. I'm watching this closely and I vote in every election. Your decision will affect my vote. Thank you for your time, Jax 1 McKenzie Smith From: CenturyLink Customer <terryohogan@q.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 7:58 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Belfair sewer extension Randy Neatherlin had a letter to constituents in the Mason Co. Journal this week relating to the cost to the county taxpayers for the possible benefit to a lone landowner. This is disturbing & not to the general benefit of all Mason County inhabitants. I realize the ecological fragility of the Belfair/Hood Canal area. From what I understand, runoff & sewer infiltration has caused a dead zone in the lower end of Hood Canal. There are hundreds of homes along the north & south shore of Hood Canal. All of these residential units with their septic systems may be a possible cause of the degradation of the ecology of Hood Canal. With this concern, I suggest you take a close look at the studies done in the past regarding the dead zone, see if there are any ecological grants available to mitigate this problem & utilize that possibility to address extending the Belfair sewer to the north & south shores of Hood canal. This action would cost the taxpayers along Hood Canal to bear the brunt of the extension cost, along with an ecological grant by the State of Washington & a possible federal grant. Please consider these suggestions during your deliberations regarding The Belfair sewer extension debate. I am not in favor of the current direction the majority of the commissioners are leaning toward benefiting a few individuals to the detriment of the general taxpayers! Sincerely Terry O. Hogan & Patty Thoe(Harstine Island) 1 McKenzie Smith From: CenturyLink Customer <terryohogan@q.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 8:02 AM To: Sharon Trask Cc: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair sewer extension Randy Neatherlin had a letter to constituents in the Mason Co. Journal this week relating to the cost to the county taxpayers for the possible benefit to a lone landowner. This is disturbing & not to the general benefit of all Mason County inhabitants. I realize the ecological fragility of the Belfair/Hood Canal area. From what I understand, runoff & sewer infiltration has caused a dead zone in the lower end of Hood Canal. There are hundreds of homes along the north & south shore of Hood Canal. All of these residential units with their septic systems may be a possible cause of the degradation of the ecology of Hood Canal. With this concern, I suggest you take a close look at the studies done in the past regarding the dead zone, see if there are any ecological grants available to mitigate this problem & utilize that possibility to address extending the Belfair sewer to the north & south shores of Hood canal. This action would cost the taxpayers along Hood Canal to bear the brunt of the extension cost, along with an ecological grant by the State of Washington & a possible federal grant. Please consider these suggestions during your deliberations regarding The Belfair sewer extension debate. I am not in favor of the current direction the majority of the commissioners are leaning toward benefiting a few individuals to the detriment of the general taxpayers! Sincerely Terry O. Hogan & Patty Thoe(Harstine Island) i McKenzie Smith From: vhrose16 <vhrose16@aol.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:05 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Cc: vhrose16@aol.com Subject: Opposed Randy, Please continue fighting against this proposed $87 per month rate hike for our Mason County Sewer system over the next twenty years. Our monthly sewer rate cost for Mason County is already higher than most other counties. Sincerely, Vicki Hopkins Lakeland Village Resident Mason County Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:00 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Belfair sewer develoment Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: Steen Howell <steenhowell@gmail.com> Date: 1/26/22 10:50 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Belfair sewer develoment Dear Randy, My name is Steen and I am a resident of Belfair. I agree with you that the county paying for a private land owners sewer system is both wrong and irresponsible. Developing a property is the financial responsibility of the developer not the county and the county has no business putting themselves into further debt to increase the profit margins of one person especially since they will have to hook the development up to the sewer line anyway. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Steen Howell <steenhowell@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 3:16 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Belfair sewer expansion Good afternoon, I am messaging you because i am concerned with the proposal to have the county pay for the sewer expansion into the land being developed by the post office. In my eyes the county paying for the sewer is no diffrent then the county writing a check to the developer.The only people who would make a financial gain on this proposal are those who will profit when this development is done leaving the businesses and private resendents left to pay the cost. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Paul Huckaby <paul.g.huckaby@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:50 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Randy Neatherlin; strast@masoncountywa.gov Subject: Belfair Sewer System - VOTE NO! To The Elected Officials of Mason County, I do not concur with nor do I support the expansion of the Belfair Sewer System using public funds. The existing sewer system is not cost effective and puts a significant financial burden on the citizens of this county (and especially those forced to use the system). Mason County, specifically the Belfair area, would be much better served with tax dollars spent on public infrastructure such as road and bridge repairs. Consider using funds to pursue the Belfair Bypass, something that has been discussed for more than two decades without any real progress being made. As an elected member of our county,you represent the people who elected you.You should make decisions that represent the desires and best interests of the voters. Supporting the sewer system expansion IS NOT in the best interest of the Belfair community or Mason County residents. Sincerely, Paul Huckaby 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 9:09 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Sewer Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Date: 1/26/22 8:30 AM (GMT-08:00) To: "Hope, Phaedra Hutsell" <phaedrahopehutsell@gmail.com> Subject: RE: Sewer Thank you Hope. I agree with you and appreciate you sending this email. Thankyou Randy Neatherlin Mason county Commissioner Dist 1 Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: "Hope, Phaedra Hutsell" <phaedrahopehutsell@gmail.com> Date: 1/26/22 7:59 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Sewer Randy, The letter you posted encourages community involvement in the appropriate channels, and/your transparency in reaching many community members over facebook was highly effective. I appreciate the comprehensive information in your letter, and support your position.Thank you for working for the people's financial wellbeing.Thank you for encouraging community responses to this issue and for making the zoom link widely accessible. Have a great day, HopeO 1 McKenzie Smith From: Seth Huyett <huyettindustries@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 9:07 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Thank you I have greatly appreciated your openness and willingness to engage in public forums. Transparency in governance I think is the most important thing for keeping democracy alive. Thank you for speaking out on this issue and letting us all know. I'm sorry that it has cost you personally, and I'm grateful for the sacrifice. I don't know you, but I think you're my kind of guy. We'll check in at tomorrow's meeting. Thank you for your service, Seth Huyett McKenzie Smith From: constance ibsen <constance.c.ibsen@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 4:57 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Please NO county dollars to subsidize new roads in Belfair Attachments: Lakeland V. county roads.pdf Commissioner Shutty As you prepare for your August 31 public conversation concerning ongoing county subsidization of Belfair Wastewater Treatment Facility, please ensure that developers and not Mason County taxpayers pay for new roads for new development in the Belfair area. Constance Ibsen Note: Commissioner Neatherlin lives in Lakeland Village where all roads are county maintained roads. RESOLUTION NO. 40-85 RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ESTABLISH COUNTY ROADS LAKELAND VILLAGE - NO. 10 WHEREAS, on Monday, May 6, 1985, in conformance with RCW 36.81.010, the Board of County Commissioners entered upon their Minutes a motion declaring their intention to establish "all roads dedicated to the public in the Plat of Lakeland Village - No. 10, as recorded in Volume 10, Pgs. 68 - 70, records of Mason County, Washington. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the proposed county roads are a public necessity, and that the County Engineer be directed to report thereon, and the Clerk of the Board shall fix a time and place for hearing the report as required by statute, and that the Prosecuting Attorney be requested to review and give approval to the steps herein ordered. DATED this 6th day of May, 1985. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON Chair erson mb Member ATTEST: E�� "o vw� Clerk of the Board APPROVED AS TO FORM: 7-1z ��- 3,,,-a cuting Attorney cc: Cmmrs. Auditor Engineer Assessor General Services McKenzie Smith From: Nancy Isbell <sublimek9life@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 2:30 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer loan debate I am firmly against mason county extending any further loans to developers for sewer development. This is part of the builders/developers/ investors infrastructure and debt burden and Mason county does not, and cannot afford,to subsidize such a loan debt. Nancy Isbell Mason County resident Namaste McKenzie Smith From: Nancy Isbell <sublimek9life@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 2:34 PM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer loans I am firmly against Mason County extending any loans to developers for their sewer systems/hook-ups.These costs are part of the builders infrastructure and subsidizing them with a loan from the County is not a healthy model for them or us. We can't afford to do this. Nancy Isbell North Mason Resident Namaste 1 McKenzie Smith From: Nancy Isbell <sublimek9life@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 2:39 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Please vote no on sewer loan Mason County acting as a loan agent and extending loans for sewer system to developers is a poor idea. We are not Seattle negotiating with Boeing,where each side has millions of dollars,years of history,and a certainty of success. Builders are responsible for their costs which includes sewer development.They know this or it wouldn't be a loan. Mason county can't afford in this day and age to bank them and should not take that risk. Please vote no on this loan Nancy Isbell North Mason resident Namaste 1 McKenzie Smith From: Nancy Isbell <sublimek9life@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 2:49 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer development loan I am asking everyone to vote no on the loan for sewer development. Mason County cannot afford and should not take the risk of extending such loans,esp in todays market. Developers are responsible for their build out, its permits, costs,environmental compliance, infrastructure.They are responsible for the financial success of their endeavor.If a developer is unable to meet the costs of his build through his own means and credit-ie the sewer system-how is he to be trusted to have a viable project that is so financially profitable as to be able to pay off such a debt( in addition to the other loans)This is not a good risk for us(Mason County)at this time Aren't there better places to spend that money? Nancy Isbell North Mason resident Namaste 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 9:28 PM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Sewer expansion Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From: Barbara Jabara <barbara.jabara@frontier.com> Date: 1/25/22 8:43 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Sewer expansion It is unconscionable that any elected official would even consider using tax payer funding to connect private property to the existing sewer lines. If you wouldn't do this for an individual constructing their personal property,why would you ever take on the expense for"potential"development? This should be handled the exact way the property above McDonalds was handled. It's the developers cost to bear, not ours. Thank you for taking this on, and bringing it to our attention, Barbara Jabara 1 McKenzie Smith From: Badgolfer <badgolfer1234@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 11:30 AM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kshulty@masoncountywa.gov; Sharon Trask; Kevin Shutty Subject: Proposal to increase sewer rates. Randy, I was just made of the aware of the consideration in process to raise sewer rates by approximately$87 per month. I vehemently appose this action. I have lived in Lakeland Village for nineteen years and have been subjected to the yearly increase in sewer rates. Although not welcome, it is something agreed upon. I find the proposal over the top and predatory. Please vote no and urge your fellow council members to do so as well. Respectfully Ron Jackson i McKenzie Smith From: Karen Kashmar <kekashmar@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 8:50 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Fwd: Updates? Also comments on sewer in belfair Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Karen Kashmar<kekashmar@gmail.com> Date:January 26, 2022 at 9:16:19 AM MST To: Kevin Shutty<KShutty@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Updates? Also comments on sewer in belfair Also can you comment on https://m.facebook.com/groups/774074725996613/permaIink/`6861702793900412/?m entstream sou rce=group&anchor composer=false&ref=m notif&notif t=group activity Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Karen Kashmar<kekashmar@gmail.com> Date:January 24, 2022 at 9:24:21 AM MST To: Kevin Shutty<KShutty@masoncountywa.gov> Cc: Erika S<sugita.erica@gmail.com> Subject: Re:Are you working this week? Any updates on this project? Sent from my iPad On Aug 29, 2021, at 9:11 AM, Kevin Shutty <KShutty@masoncountywa.gov>wrote: Good morning, As I mentioned previously,this is a Fall work item for planning staff due to other workload priorities this summer such as updating the Shoreline Master Program to meet state deadlines.We are discussing the Fall work plan tomorrow morning so I'll have a better idea then but can assure you this hasn't fallen off our radar. Take care, 1 -Kevin Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From: Karen Kashmar<kekashmar@gmail.com> Date: 8/29/217:45 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Kevin Shutty<KShutty@masoncountywa.gov> Cc: Erika S<sugita.erica@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Are you working this week? Curious if this is still in the works and what's happening in the process? Sent from my iPad On Jul 7, 2021, at 3:37 PM, Kevin Shutty <KShutty@co.mason.wa.us>wrote: Hi Karen, Yes, I am working this week. I am meeting with Community Development this afternoon to discuss the ordinance you forwarded. I will also be following up on the enforcement issue we discussed. When I have information to share, I will share it. Best, -Kevin 2 McKenzie Smith From: CHRISTOPHER KAY <kayranch@msn.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 7:47 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Mason County Proposed Sewer Expansion T o whom it may concern, I have recently been made aware of a proposal to expand our sewer system with the intent to bare the burden of that expansion upon the tax payer and current system users. It is unclear as to the logic of why that burden is not being borne by the benefactor of that expansion. In my previous experience with infrastructure expansion as a Professional Engineer,the developer or property owners that directly benefit from a given expansion were either tasked with installing the system or were assessed an impact fee to cover the costs of said expansion. I will be participating in the public hearing on Monday evening for the purpose of understanding the facts surrounding this proposal and determining whether our elected officials are truely serving their constituency through responsible discharge of their responsibilities. Respectfully, Chris Kay, PE Get Outlook for Android I i McKenzie Smith From: CHRISTOPHER KAY <kayranch@msn.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 7:53 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Proposal to expand Sewer System Commissioner Shutty, I have recently been made aware of a proposal to expand our sewer system with the intent to bare the burden of that expansion upon the tax payer and current system users. It is unclear as to the logic of why that burden is not being borne by the benefactor of that expansion. In my previous experience with infrastructure expansion as a Professional Engineer, the developer or property owners that directly benefit from a given expansion were either tasked with installing the system or were assessed an impact fee to cover the costs of said expansion. I will be participating in the public hearing on Monday evening for the purpose of understanding the facts surrounding this proposal and determining whether our elected officials are truely serving their constituency through responsible discharge of their responsibilities. Respectfully, Chris Kay, PE 1 McKenzie Smith From: CHRISTOPHER KAY <kayranch@msn.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 7:59 PM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Proposal to expand Sewer System Commissioner Trask, I have recently been made aware of a proposal to expand our sewer system with the intent to bare the burden of that expansion upon the tax payer and current system users. It is unclear as to the logic of why that burden is not being borne by the benefactor of that expansion. In my previous experience with infrastructure expansion as a Professional Engineer, the developer or property owners that directly benefit from a given expansion were either tasked with installing the system or were assessed an impact fee to cover the costs of said expansion. I will be participating in the public hearing on Monday evening for the purpose of understanding the facts surrounding this proposal and determining whether our elected officials are truely serving their constituency through responsible discharge of their responsibilities. Respectfully, Chris Kay, PE Get Outlook for Android i McKenzie Smith From: CHRISTOPHER KAY <kayranch@msn.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 8:05 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Proposed expansion to sewer system Randy, Thank you for alerting me to this unsavory situation. For your information, I have sent the email below individually to both commisioners and to the County. Commissioner Shutty, I have recently been made aware of a proposal to expand our sewer system with the intent to bare the burden of that expansion upon the tax payer and current system users. It is unclear as to the logic of why that burden is not being borne by the benefactor of that expansion. In my previous experience with infrastructure expansion as a Professional Engineer, the developer or property owners that directly benefit from a given expansion were either tasked with installing the system or were assessed an impact fee to cover the costs of said expansion. I will be participating in the public hearing on Monday evening for the purpose of understanding the facts surrounding this proposal and determining whether our elected officials are truely serving their constituency through responsible discharge of their responsibilities. Respectfully, Chris Kay, PE Get Outlook for Android i McKenzie Smith From: Thomas K <tomanles@earthlink.net> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 9:20 AM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Cc: tomanles@earthlink.net Subject: No on Extending Belfair Sewer and More Debt Mr. Shutty and Ms. Trask, We are writing to you as concerned longtime(30 years) residents of Belfair. We read the article by Randy Neatherlin in the Mason County Journal (1/27/2022)regarding the upcoming decision to borrow money(4.5 mil)to further extend the Belfair sewer system. We are totally NOT in favor of such a decision. Please vote NO to obtaining such a loan and extending the sewer system, we find to be fiscally irresponsible to get into more debt for this system Thank you, Tom and Leslie Kelly Belfair, WA. i McKenzie Smith From: Thomas K <tomanles@earthlink.net> Sent: Sunday,January 30, 2022 9:27 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Cc: tomanles@earthlink.net Subject: Thank You for the Article Mr.Neatherlin, We wanted to thank you for writing the Belfair Sewer Project article in the Shelton Mason County Journal(1/27/2022). We have contacted Mr. Shutty and Ms. Trask to let them know we are against the decision to obtain the loan and extend the Belfair sewer system. We are longtime residents of Belfair(30 years)and find this action to obtain the loan and extend that system to be fiscally irresponsible. It was a mistake 10 years ago and we are still saddled with debt from the sewer project. Thank you, Tom and Leslie Kelly Belfair, WA 1 McKenzie Smith From: Thomas K <tomanles@earthlink.net> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 10:32 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: RE:Thank You for the Article We hope they will listen to reason. We have also big believers that new developments should foot some of the basic infrastructure costs like roads, new sewer, etc. -----Original Message----- From: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Sent:Jan 30, 2022 9:30 AM To:tomanles@earthlink.net<tomanles@earthlink.net> Subject: RE:Thank You for the Article Thank you so much. I just hope they listen but the response is historic Randy Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From:Thomas K<tomanles@earthlink.net> Date: 1/30/22 9:27 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Cc: tomanles@earthlink.net Subject:Thank You for the Article Mr. Neatherlin, We wanted to thank you for writing the Belfair Sewer Project article in the Shelton Mason County Journal (1/27/2022). We have contacted Mr. Shutty and Ms.Trask to let them know we are against the decision to obtain the loan and extend the Belfair sewer system. We are longtime residents of Belfair(30 years) and find this action to obtain the loan and extend that system to be fiscally irresponsible. It was a mistake 10 years ago and we are still saddled with debt from the sewer project. Thank you, Tom and Leslie Kelly Belfair, WA 1 McKenzie Smith From: Jan <jankerman22@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 1:27 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Proposed extension of sewer system I strongly oppose spending community funds for the extension of the sewer system. I believe payment for development and its infrastructure is the burden of developers since they are the ones who profit. I understand we are in grave debt for the existing sewer system and have paid an exorbitant amount in debt service alone. Since the community remains in debt with our prior loan commitment and it could be a good many years until we reap benefits, if ever, it makes absolutely no sense to secure another loan, at any interest rate. Please do the right thing. Put community needs and finances above the very questionable funding of developer interests. Thank you. Jan Kerman Mason County 1 McKenzie Smith From: Jan <jankerman22@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 12:57 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Cc: K.shutty@masoncountygov.wa; Sharon Trask Subject: sewer spending Randy, From what I can glean, I thank you for fighting, what seems to be at best, an unnecessary financial burden for the community, and opposing diverting our funds inappropriately to shoulder the burden of development for developers. I'm not the brightest in understanding sewer issues, technical or financial, and I can't join you Monday night. However, I will sign a petition, etc. to assist. Thank you for your good work on our behalf. Jan Kerman Twanoh Falls Mason County i McKenzie Smith From: Dave Kester <kesterville@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 10:23 AM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer loan In a Democratic society citizens are privileged to be able to vote on what their government does! By the People! My vote on the proposed sewer loan is: NO! As it only benefits a single developer, not the general citizenry, this plan is already in the sewer. Kesterville Stewardship Forest Tahuya,Wa i McKenzie Smith From: kollerwe <kollerwe@wavecable.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 7:09 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer expansion I VOTE NO ON THE SEWER EXPANSION!Talked about by Randy on the Mason county bulletin board on FB! respectfully Willard Koller Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone 7 McKenzie Smith From: kollerwe <kollerwe@wavecable.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 7:13 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer expansion I VOTE NO ON THE SEWER EXPANSION! Talked about by Randy Neatherland on the Mason county bulletin board site on FB. Willard Koller a concerned Mason county property owner. Sent from m Verizon Samsun Galax smart hone Y , g Y p 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 8:23 AM To: McKenzie Smith; Mark Neary Subject: FW: Sewer expansion Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: kollerwe<kollerwe@wavecable.com> Date: 1/26/22 7:05 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Sewer expansion I VOTE NO ON THE EXPANSION! respectfully Willard Koller Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone 1 McKenzie Smith From: Anthony Kraskouskas <tkraskouskas@icloud.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:49 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer line extensions Good day- my wife and I recently moved from Kent to Mason County to get away from over regulation and taxation. We have slowly been coming up to speed on the happenings and history of this area. I was pleased to see your recent Facebook post regarding the proposed sewer line expansion. My wife and I feel that there is a place for Govt assistance and support- however enriching others at the expense of the populous as a whole is wrong. We agree wholeheartedly that when someone seeks to access public infrastructure such as water and sewer or any utility they should bear the costs of that connection and it should not be a burden on others. Thank you again for bringing this to see the light of day and alerting the community. Anthony Kraskouskas i McKenzie Smith From: McKenzie Smith Sent: Friday,January 28, 2022 1:46 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair Sewer Comment Good afternoon Commissioners, I received a call from Cathy Grotto Kravitz who is not in support of the Belfair Sewer Extension. Warm regards, McKenzie Smith Clerk of the Board, Records Specialist Mason County Commissioners Office (360)427-9670 ext.589 1 msmith@masoncountywa.gov http://www.masoncounlywa.gov "Please note:Mason County complies with the Public Records Act Chapter 42.56 RCW.As such,any e-mail sent to and/or from the County may be subject to public disclosure. II 1 McKenzie Smith From: RICHARD A KRIEGBAUM <mekrieg@msn.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 5:13 PM To: Randy Neatherlin; McKenzie Smith; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Public Hearing 31 Jan 2022 To: Mason County Commission Commissioner Randy Neatherlin has brought to our attention that there is a Public Hearing Monday (31 Jan 2022) regarding borrowing funds to expand the local sewer system onto private land. We agree with Neatherlin's stance rejecting this proposal. The county should NOT go further into debt to install infrastructure for a private developer. The precedent for not providing such support was set for the development on the hill above McDonald's. There is no reason to reverse the precedent in this case. We advise the Commission to reject the proposal to borrow funds to extend the local sewer system onto one developer's private property. The developer should pay these costs, not the county. Concerned residents of Lakeland Village, Richard & Michael Kriegbaum i I am proposing 70-90 hookups in the near future as well as the current thirty-five existing unconnected residences....100 new connections and I cannot get the county to pay for the extension of the sewer main. Now,you want to extend the sewer main on future speculation. This proposal makes no sense. Developers for the most party pay for utilities to be extended or negotiate when there is a benefit to other parties. You really need to slow down and hire a business development consultant to review an extension of the sewer system. Thank you for your consideration. Rick Krueger McKenzie Smith From: Albert Langevin <awlangevin@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:11 PM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Financing of Developer Projects I wish to add my full support of Commissioner Neatherlin's position regarding increased borrowing to support private sector development projects. As the Master Planner/Planning Director for 37 years for major U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force activities in the U.S. and overseas, I have always taken the position that borrowing money that will simply increase developer/contractor profits does not benefit those who must repay these loans nor do the local affected communities gain any significant benefit over time. Significantly adding to an existing unpaid debt should NOT be given serious consideration. Thank you for your consideration of this matter. Sincerely, A. W. Langevin 1 McKenzie Smith From: Greg Larson <gregandjudy@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:49 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From: Greg Larson Dept Sent To: Commissioner Dist 1 Message: Commissioner--get a solid grip on the recent land development issue you've made public on Facebook. The repercussions of allowing this process to play out as portrayed set a precedent that is alarming, at the very least.You've taken the proper first step--now follow through.The developers will profit exponentially by their enterprise--and shouldn't be allowed to do so on the backs of taxpayers. More growth on the County's expansive hinterlands is inevitable--I urge you to champion the cause of making it done ethically and responsibly ! G Larson Tahuya, WA McKenzie Smith From: Stacy Larson <crosswalker@outlook.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:36 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer system Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Hello, As a tax payer of Mason County I want my public opinion counted and say no to any additional sewer system that is subsidized by our tax dollars. Let private land owners develop at their own expense. Stacy Larson Sent from my Whone McKenzie Smith From: Stacy Larson <crosswalker@outlook.com> Sent: Tuesday,January 2S, 2022 10:32 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Proposed sewer Hello, As a tax payer of Mason County I want my public opinion counted and say no to any additional sewer system that is subsidized by our tax dollars. Let private land owners develop at their own expense. Stacy Larson Sent from my iPhone McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 11:14 PM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Sewer Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From: Stacy Larson <crosswalker@outlook.com> Date: 1/25/22 10:39 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Sewer Randy, Thank you for sharing the proposed plan and I just sent my email rejecting the idea. Everything in your post makes perfect sense to us as tax payers. I appreciate all you do and may God bless you and your health too! We are grateful to have you on our side! Stacy Larson Sent from my iPhone McKenzie Smith From: lapeski@wavecable.com Sent: Sunday,January 30, 2022 6:31 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewers This is ridiculous. I am already paying $214.50 per month for sewers I did not need or want. My property in Belfair had a perfectly good septic system that handled six living units & my Dental office. It was cleaned every three to five years. Never had a problem. The county commissioners jammed the sewers down our throats and we had to pay for the hook-ups. After seeing am estimate of over$30,000.00 to add the remaining low income housing units we could see it was not economically sound to hook-up. Instead we had them torn down. Prior to the sewers there were two trailers &four low income WWII housing units &the dental office on the property. Now there is one living unit with no tenant &the building that used to be my dental office. Speaking of trailers, how come the Golden Bell Trailer park is not hooked up to the sewers? You didn't help me pay for my hook-up,why would you help the new developers @ north end of Belfair. They can p[ay the same as all of the rest of us4212 ERU's. Borrowing money to payoff debt is just stupid. I don't care what the interest rates are. We have not cleaned up the Hood Canal or Case Inlet pollution problem. This is throwing new money after bad. Why have you not run the sewers down South Shore, North Shore & Old Belfair Hwy where there are lots of ERU's. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.This is not a bad idea, it is fiscally wrong. I doubt that Commissioner Schutty& Commissioner Trask will be hooked up to the Belfair sewers. This idea is just flat wrong . Donald R. Le Pere, D.D.S. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Lukkasson, Ellen M CIV USN (USA) <ellen.lukkasson@navy.mil> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 7:07 AM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: vote tonight Dear Sirs, I am writing to you regarding the meeting and vote on the schedule for this evening regarding the loan of approx. 5 million to a developer for septic development on their property. I am not sure why such a thing would even be a consideration. We live in the furthermost corner of what is considered the Urban Development area, and have for many years.This area is behind the industrial area off Log Yard Rd. We have one way in and out and even on your plans it is listed as unlikely to develop and unlikely that the sewer would ever reach us. And yet, when we subdivided a piece of property and gave it to our kids to build a house on, before they could even get their building permits approved they had to pay $11,300 for a septic hook up they will probably never see, with the promise that if it doesn't arrive they will get that money back in 10 years. Exactly how do you intend to pay that back if you are going to add another 5 million in debt? They would not be here at all if they had not lost their jobs to Covid and had to sell their house in Georgia.They can't afford that extra out of pocket expense and yet you are already forcing that on them. What will the cost be for the next poor sod if you add that debt? Not to mention all the people who are already on sewer line. Do you think they can afford to have their bills raised yet again?To benefit someone else? If a developer can afford to buy property with developing it in mind, then it is up to them to figure in the cost of doing so. It is not on the backs of everyone else. Everyone else is not making the profit off of it when it is resold. Do the developers intend to share their profits with everyone else when it is done? I have to question the motive behind even considering this. Is one of you getting a kick back if you vote yes? I surely don't want to think that. I want to think that you have the best interest of all the people of the county at heart or that you would have resigned by now if you no longer did. I certainly hope you prove that to me tonight when you vote no. 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If you received this communication in error, please notify me immediately at the above telephone number or email address and return the original message to me.Thank you. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:12 PM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Tonight's VOTE Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: "Lukkasson, Ricky D CIV USN NAVSHIPYDIMF PGS WA(USA)" <ricky.lukkasson@navy.mil> Date: 1/31/22 11:52 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Kevin Shutty<KShutty@masoncountywa.gov>, Sharon Trask<STrask@masoncountywa.gov>, Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Cc: "Lukkasson, Ellen M CIV USN (USA)" <ellen.lukkasson@navy.mil>, "Aliahna Lukkasson (aliahnamarie2@gmail.com)" <aliahnamarie2@gmail.com> Subject:Tonight's VOTE Commissioners; I am at a total loss of why our county commissioners would consider such a vote on paying for an individual developer's sewer of over 5 million dollars. How is that justifiable? Landowner's in Mason County should not to pay the bill for one individual to make a profit at the expense of the public. I also just subdivided a small parcel of land in order for my children to build a home.This sub-division is located in an area that most likely will not receive sewer connections per urban development area map, yet over$11000.00 connection fee was demanded before issuing building permits. We paid the fee. I ask the question why this developer is any different from me, a longtime resident in Mason County. You are voted in to your office to speak for all the people of this county.VOTE NO ON THIS UNJUST ISSUE! Sincerely: Rick Lukkasson Tax Payer. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 9:28 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: MORE DEBT Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone -----Original message-------- From: "Joseph W. Maclntyre" <outlook_D4BC4F3F224ED7B0@outlook.com> Date: 1/26/22 9:27 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: MORE DEBT The proposal I just read about for the Mason County Commissioners to suggest seeking a 5 million dollar loan to expand the current overpriced sewer system is wrong headed. With inflation skyrocketing and getting worse, WE THE PEOPLE should not be burdened with more debt. In fact every effort should be made by the Commissioners to reduce taxes. I urge you to oppose any new debt in Mason County. Sincerely, Joe Maclntyre haggis@wavecable.com 360-275-0589 Sent from Mail for Windows 1 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Tuesday,January 25, 2022 10:01 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Mark Neary Subject: FW: Sewer hookup in Belfair Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: Kathy Manning<kathymanning777@gmail.com> Date: 1/25/22 9:47 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Sewer hookup in Belfair I totally agree with you (Randy) on your outlook on this sewer hookup expense. How is it fair or right for one land owner to get a free ride at tax payer expense on his investment propery whats in it for county and community at large? I along with many others in county had to invest in my own septic design and installation. Why should another land owner be subsidized and get his connection thrown on his community?Whoever votes for this should be investigated in who is filling up whos pockets what is the justification at a minimum if this is done county should have a lein on the property for value of the new loan so it cant be sold without paying it back towards the loan i dont believe even that is fair bit better than no lien. Who is greasing who's skids? Property is an investment it shouldn't be subsidized by community members some of whom are low income,senior citizens, single parents and etc. They shouldn't have an increase of monthly sewer bills when many are heading towards homelessness already. One extra expense may put them into a really bad spiraling out of control problem. Which on turn will give they county even more issues. Senior and low incone housing,foster care theft drugs and etc. Please do the right thing ask the property investor to pay his or her own way. Don't ask low income people pay for his investment success. Should be considered robbery from the community. Thank you Kathy Manning Mason County resident 1 McKenzie Smith From: Kathy Manning <kathymanning777@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:46 PM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; strask@masoncounty.gov I totally agree with Randy Neatherlin on the sewer hookup and the expense being passed over to taxpayers it is wrong and should not be passed. How is it fair or right for one land owner to get a free pass/ride at tax payer expense on his investment property? What's in it for county and community at large and those voting for it to go through? I along with many others in Mason county had to invest in our own septic design and installation's on more than one property. Why should another land owner/investor be subsidized and get his connection thrown down on his/our community? Whoever votes for this should be investigated in who is filling up who's pockets...what is your justification for a yes vote? At a minimum if this is done the county should have a lien on the property for the value of the new loan and interest so it can't be sold for a profit without paying it back towards the loan directly and come clean with taxpayers and county money. I honestly do not believe even that is a fair option only maybe a bit better than no lien. But who is greasing who's skids? Property is an investment it shouldn't be subsidized by other community members blood sweat and tears. Some of those that would be affected the most are low income people, like senior citizens, single parents, or people not living here yet, struggling businesses and etc. They shouldn't have an increase of their already expensive monthly sewer bills. Many are heading towards homelessness already. One extra expense may put them into a really bad spiraling out of control problem. Which in turn will give the county even more issues to deal with and make some of the already known issues worse like senior and low income housing needs,foster care,theft, drugs and maybe even suicide due to depression of not being able to make ends meet. Please do the right thing ask the property owner/investor to pay his or her own way. Don't ask low income people to pay for his property investment success or failure. This vote should be considered voting for robbery or righteousness for the community. Do the right thing the community is paying attention to your moves. Thank you Kathy Manning Mason County resident 1 McKenzie Smith From: Kathy Manning <kathymanning777@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday,January 25, 2022 10:49 PM To: Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer hookup concern in Belfair ...(failed to deliver to strask first time) Attachments: icon.png totally agree with Randy Neatherlin on the sewer hookup and the expense being passed over to taxpayers it is wrong and should not be passed. How is it fair or right for one land owner to get a free pass/ride at tax payer expense on his investment property? What's in it for county and community at large and those voting for it to go through? I along with many others in Mason county had to invest in our own septic design and installation's on more than one property. Why should another land owner/investor be subsidized and get his connection thrown down on his/our community? Whoever votes for this should be investigated in who is filling up who's pockets...what is your justification for a yes vote? At a minimum if this is done the county should have a lien on the property for the value of the new loan and interest so it can't be sold for a profit without paying it back towards the loan directly and come clean with taxpayers and county money. I honestly do not believe even that is a fair option only maybe a bit better than no lien. But who is greasing who's skids? Property is an investment it shouldn't be subsidized by other community members blood sweat and tears. Some of those that would be affected the most are low income people, like senior citizens, single parents, or people not living here yet, struggling businesses and etc. They shouldn't have an increase of their already expensive monthly sewer bills. Many are heading towards homelessness already. One extra expense may put them into a really bad spiraling out of control problem. Which in turn will give the county even more issues to deal with and make some of the already known issues worse like senior and low income housing needs, foster care,theft, drugs and maybe even suicide due to depression of not being able to make ends meet. Please do the right thing ask the property owner/investor to pay his or her own way. Don't ask low income people to pay for his property investment success or failure. This vote should be considered voting for robbery or righteousness for the community. Do the right thing the community is paying attention to your moves. Thankyou Kathy Manning Mason County resident 1 ---------- Forwarded message--------- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem<mailer-daemon@googlemail.com> Date: Tue,Jan 25, 2022, 10:46 PM Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) To: <kathymanning777@gmail.com> Address not found Your message wasn't delivered to strask@masoncounty.gov because the domain masoncounty.gov couldn't be found. 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The response was: DNS Error: 27411811 DNS type 'mx' lookup of masoncounty.gov responded with code NXDOMAIN Domain name not found: masoncounty.gov ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kathy Manning<kathymanning777@gmail.com> To: Randy Neatherlin <randyn@masoncountywa.gov>, kshutty@masoncountywa.gov, strask@masoncounty.gov Cc: Bcc: Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:46:02 -0800 Subject: ----- Message truncated ----- 2 McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 11:16 PM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: Kathy Manning<kathymanning777@gmail.com> Date: 1/25/22 10:46 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov>, Kevin Shutty<KShutty@masoncountywa.gov>, strask@masoncounty.gov Subject: I totally agree with Randy Neatherlin on the sewer hookup and the expense being passed over to taxpayers it is wrong and should not be passed. How is it fair or right for one land owner to get a free pass/ride at tax payer expense on his investment property? What's in it for county and community at large and those voting for it to go through? I along with many others in Mason county had to invest in our own septic design and installation's on more than one property. Why should another land owner/ investor be subsidized and get his connection thrown down on his/our community? Whoever votes for this should be investigated in who is filling up who's pockets...what is your justification for a yes vote? At a minimum if this is done the county should have a lien on the property for the value of the new loan and interest so it can't be sold for a profit without paying it back towards the loan directly and come clean with taxpayers and county money. I honestly do not believe even that is a fair option only maybe a bit better than no lien. But who is greasing who's skids? Property is an investment it shouldn't be subsidized by other community members blood sweat and tears. Some of those that would be affected the most are low income people, like senior citizens, single parents, or people not living here yet, struggling businesses and etc. They shouldn't have an increase of their already expensive monthly sewer bills. Many are heading towards homelessness already. One extra expense may put them into a really bad spiraling out of control problem. Which in turn will give the county even more issues to deal with and make some of the already known issues worse like senior and low income housing needs, foster care,theft, drugs and maybe even suicide due to depression of not being able to make ends meet. Please do the right thing ask the property owner/investor to pay his or her own way. Don't ask low income people to pay for his property investment success or failure. 1 Z juapisaa Aluno:) uoseW suiuueW Agle)l nog(juegl sanow anon(of uoi}ual}e SuiAed si Al!unwwoa aqj Suigl IgSu aqj oa •%liunwwo:) aqj ao}ssousnoalgSia ao/uaggoa JOI SuiJon paaapisuou aq pinogs ajon sigl McKenzie Smith I From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Tuesday, January 2S, 2022 11:16 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Mark Neary Subject: FW: Sewer hookup concern in Belfair ...(failed to deliver to strask first time) Attachments: icon.png i Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: Kathy Manning<kathymanning777@gmail.com> Date: 1/25/22 10:49 PM (GMT-08:00) To:Sharon Trask<STrask@masoncountywa.gov>, Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov>, Kevin Shutty <KShutty@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Sewer hookup concern in Belfair...(failed to deliver to strask first time ) totally agree with Randy Neatherlin on the sewer hookup and the expense being passed over to taxpayers it is wrong and should not be passed. How is it fair or right for one land owner to get a free pass/ride at tax payer expense on his investment property? What's in it for county and community at large and those voting for it to go through? I along with many others in Mason county had to invest in our own septic design and installation's on more than one property. Why should another land owner/investor be subsidized and get his connection thrown down on his/our community? Whoever votes for this should be investigated in who is filling up who's pockets...what is your justification for a yes vote? At a minimum if this is done the county should have a lien on the property for the value of the new loan and interest so it can't be sold for a profit without paying it back towards the loan directly and come clean with taxpayers and county money. I honestly do not believe even that is a fair option only maybe a bit better than no lien. But who is greasing who's skids? Property is an investment it shouldn't be subsidized by other community members blood sweat and tears. Some of those that would be affected the most are low income people, like senior citizens, single parents, or people not living here yet, struggling businesses and etc. They shouldn't have an increase of their already expensive monthly sewer bills. Many are heading towards homelessness already. One extra expense may put them into a really bad spiraling out of control problem. Which in turn will give the county even more issues to deal with and make some of the already known issues worse like senior and low income housing needs,foster care,theft, drugs and maybe even suicide due to depression of not being able to make ends meet. Please do the right thing ask the property owner/investor to pay his or her own way. 1 Don't ask low income people to pay for his property investment success or failure. This vote should be considered voting for robbery or righteousness for the community. Do the right thing the community is paying attention to your moves. Thank you Kathy Manning Mason County resident ---------- Forwarded message--------- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem<mailer-daemon@googlemail.com> Date: Tue,Jan 25, 2022, 10:46 PM Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) To: <kathymanning777@gmail.com> t; Address not found Your message wasn't delivered to strask@masoncounty.gov because the domain masoncounty.gov couldn't be found. Check for typos or unnecessary spaces and try again. The response was: DNS Error: 27411811 DNS type 'mx' lookup of masoncounty.gov responded with code NXDOMAIN Domain name not found: masoncounty.gov ---------- Forwarded message---------- From: Kathy Manning<kathymanning777@gmail.com> To: Randy Neatherlin<randyn@masoncountywa.gov>, kshutty@masoncountywa.gov, strask@masoncounty.gov Cc: 2 McKenzie Smith From: Vincent Marbella <vincegdaddyo@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:15 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer infrastructure Dear Elected Officials, As a resident of mason county for many years I am outraged at the idea that our county commissioners are considering an increased loan value to subsidize any contractor or private property to install a sewer system. The burden of infrastructure for developing the land lies on the developer not the county,this includes Power,Water, Sewer, and Roads to name a few. I know Randy Netherland is not behind this ludicrous idea nor should any of our other elected officials be. This would be doing a disservice to our community and forcing more people to abandon or leave our community just when things were looking good. If I am missing something on this issue please inform. Sincerely Vincent Marbella 650 E Soderberg Rd Allyn WA. 98524 360-801-0950 1 McKenzie Smith From: Tom Marcucci <t_marcucci@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 11:01 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer rate question? Good morning. I'm a resident of Mason County, and am alarmed and dismayed over the information Commissioner Neatherlin published regarding proposals to further increase Mason County Debt. I'm sure there must be another side to this issue. Can someone enlighten me as to why this proposal makes sense? Thanks Tom Marcucci McKenzie Smith From: Tom Marcucci <t_marcucci@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 10:19 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Rate issue Regarding your e-mail about the sewer hearing, are there not procedural or parliamentary roadblocks that you can be use to stall this hearing, or the project? Exactly what influence do we have over commissioners who are not of our district? If you believe there is potentially illegal influence, collusion or corruption between your fellow commissioner(s) and developers or land-owners holding the potential of harm to taxpayers this be reported to the Washington Attorney General. Finally, what should we say if recognized at the hearing? Other than woe is me I can't afford a rate increase? Thanks. Glad to help with this effort in anyway possible Tom Marcucci i McKenzie Smith From: DON MARSCH <damarsch@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2022 12:06 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair sewer rates. Commissioner Randy Neatherlin has made a public case that makes the Mason county commision have the look and feel of corruption. Continuing to pursue a course that profits individual investors at the expense of the county and its constituents is an act of folly and concern for the constituents. Continuing to let a bad decision of the past to play out at the expense of the entire county will impugn the integrity and character of all the members of the commission who support a failed sewer plan in Belfair. This deal was bad from the beginning and should change course immediately. If the commission cannot make good decisions at the start of business and then cannot find solutions that correct the errors it is time to find new commissioners who can make contracts that benefit the county they serve unless the intent was self-serving from the beginning. Creeping corruption is not acceptable. If you find incredulous solutions to one problem, you will only look for similar solutions to issues throughout the county. It looks bad and I urge you to do a better job than you are exhibiting in this issue. Yours truly, Donald Marsch Lakeland Village Allyn, WA. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Carly Mayo <daddysgirl12881 @gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 8:28 PM To: Kevin Shutty Cc: Sharon Trask; Rneatherlin@masoncountwa.gov Subject: Belfair sewer loan and expansion Commissioners, I am writing today to bluntly tell you that I DO NOT support any loan to provide sewer to any land owner. Developers and land owners should pay for their own development. When we bought our house here the county hadn't paid for my sewage to be dealt with. My house was brand new and built by a developer. Why would the county discriminate between developers? I believe if you allow this you should be sued.You have a responsibility to the community fiscally. To be honest how dare you even consider this loan for only one land owner? Even if you think it will help in the long run wrong is wrong. It is wrong to pay for one and not all. It is wrong to enrich only some at the expense of others. Our minds and tax dollars should be put to tasks that benefit all of the county. Look at the recent winter storm and how some people didn't get their roads plowed for a week. When last year it only took a few days. There are other issues needing attention. I want you to know I will vote against any person who votes yes on this. I will speak to my neighbors and make sure they are aware and can decide how to vote as well. I can tell you that they will not be happy either. Small towns tend to stick together and I hope you realize you need to do the right thing and not spend money that we don't have, and in a way that only benefits one person. It would be shameful for you to betray your constituents like this. Sincerely, Carly Mayo Belfair homeowner 1 McKenzie Smith From: Naomi McClarrinon <buykandi@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:27 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: sewer from Naomi and Laurie on byerly dr. Randy we will fight with you.. what do we need to do.. no open forum but some stupid zoom.. they sure can contol that can't they. Randy we are already in bankruptcy over the stupid sewer. Boy for it to get higher.. we had to pay to install the sewer, so why do the little people get screwed again. we are still paying the installation fee ourselves. If they afford to build those dangerous mud flowing buildings above belfair.. then they can afford to pay their own sewer installation fees and if they can't then they can take a loan out like the rest of us. no no no no no i don't know how many times i can say no to increase fees..we just can't afford to pay 96 dollars to poop let a long 200 dollars. this is just wrong on so many levels. Naomi and Laurie 100 NE Byerly DR 360 824 0999 keep fighting McKenzie Smith From: Naomi McClarrinon <buykandi@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:36 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Belfair Sewer raising cost to customers. want you all to know that anyone wanting to hook up to the sewer has to pay for their own fees. i found out that you all want to add more debt to the sewer plant and add the cost of that debit to the what less than 500 people that were forced against their will to have to hook up to the sewer. live on Byerly dr, we are low income people and are in a middle of bankruptcy because of this stupid sewer we almost lost our home becauue the high cost of pooping. Do any of you people been hooked up to the sewer, do you even understand that a 100.00 extra a month to poop is pretty outrageous as it is. and now you want to add 87 more dollars. So tell how are we supposed to eat. if that person or persons that have that building contract above the MacDonalds want mason county to foot the cost of installation. if that is so can i get a refund on my cost that i had to pay and still paying on for my installing the sewer. it is and was a hardship for us. and no one not one single person offer to help any of the fees or permits we has home owners had to pay. i say they can pay their own fees. If this is the same guy that tried to push the race track here. i was at that meeting telling them we did not want it my main problem was they did offer any new permanent jobs. anyway please don't pay his or theirs bills. that is just not right or fair. thank you McKenzie Smith From: Diane McLean <eziekel.mclean@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:38 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Proposed Belfair Sewer Expansion Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Dear Mason County Commissioners: I strongly support having any developer or private land owner pay the full cost of any sewer expansion on their property. The proposal that Mason County should accept substantial debt to benefit a single landowner is corporate welfare paid by those who can least afford it.The argument is that only Belfair residents will be responsible for additional debt,but in reality the entire county will be. I do not want my taxes increased or my tax dollars used to benefit a single landowner. Sound economics dictate that developers/land owners internalize all their costs, including indirect costs with effects beyond their properties. Actions where two of three commissioners,without meaningful consultation with county residents, make decisions benefiting political allies make a strong argument for Home Rule form of government. We can thank commissioners Shutty and Trask for having made the argument for Home Rule proponents. Sincerely, Katherine Diane McLean Allyn,WA 98524 i McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:32 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Proposed Belfair Sewer Expansion Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From: Diane McLean<eziekel.mclean@gmail.com> Date: 1/26/22 11:27 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Proposed Belfair Sewer Expansion Dear Commissioner Neatherlin: I strongly support having any developer or private land owner pay the full cost of any sewer expansion on their property. The proposal that Mason County should accept substantial debt to benefit a single landowner is corporate welfare paid by those who can least afford it. The argument is that only Belfair residents will be responsible for additional debt,but in reality the entire county will be. I do not want my taxes increased or my tax dollars used to benefit a single landowner. Sound economics dictate that developers/land owners internalize all their costs, including indirect costs with affects beyond their properties. Actions where two of three commissioners, without meaningful consultation with county residents, make decisions benefiting political allies make a strong argument for Home Rule form of government. We can thank commissioners Shutty and Trask for having made the argument for Home Rule proponents. Sincerely, Katherine Diane McLean Allyn, WA 98524 i McKenzie Smith From: Robert McLean <mcleanrobertf@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 12:38 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Cc: McKenzie Smith Subject: Proposed Belfair Sewer Expansion Dear Commissioner Neatherlin: I am strongly opposed to the current proposal to expend $5 million in public moneys(and incur debt)to extend the existing sewer system into a single developer's parcel located within the Belfair UGA. Public moneys should not be used to financially benefit a single landowner.At best this constitutes corporate welfare transferring dollars from those least able to afford it to a developer who rightfully should be held responsible for internalizing all costs associated with any planned development. At worst it is flagrant graft. The current proposal envisions repayment of the public debt by residents within the Belfair UGA.These residents are already debt burdened by the ill-timed decision over 10 years ago to construct the current sewer system. Incurring additional debt with a decision to publicly fund sewer system expansion into a proposed private development is a gross disservice to Belfair residents. In the event of default on the debt, all Mason County tax payers are placed at risk.This is truly bad public policy. All development should be required to internalize all direct and indirect costs.The residents of Mason County should not be expected to pick up the bill to benefit a single developer. I urge you to stand firm in your opposition to this proposal. Sincerely, Robert"Mac" McLean Allyn, WA 98524 1 McKenzie Smith From: Laurie McLennan <happylandinghome@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 10.-09 AM To: Randy Neatherlin; Sharon Trask; Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer expansion I moved to Spokane in 1995 to work for egghead, a computer technology retailer.They had been gifted a huge building and an acre by Spokane county to attract the company.All they had to do is employ a certain number of people for 1 year. Some were local,many from around the country.After a year they started laying off people. Most people were laid off A week after after Christmas. By the summer,they abandon the location and sold the building and property.They left behind devastated and stranded employees without jobs or prospects.Please don't burden the tax payers further. You've already added a burden of debt, increased traffic,crime and huge increase in population with these ill-conceived developments. Without regard to existing citizens,you're going to ruin a beautiful rural area that was a pleasure to raise a family or retire. Anyone who lives here does not want all the junk of a big city just to feed political aspersions or random growth. Please don't do this. Developers should pay for any improvements required to public services for their projects. Thank you, Laurie McLennan Sent from my iPhone McKenzie Smith From: Beth Mickelsen <beth.mickelsen@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 1:20 PM To: Kevin Shutty Cc: Randy Neatherlin; Beth Mickelsen Subject: Sewer Expansion Commissioner Shutty&Trask, I'm writing to you as a very concerned citizen who has been becoming more involved to see how I can help with the homelessness crisis. I was just made aware of a loan to expand a sewer system that is an absolute waste of money. I have family that are developers and executives in the Master Builders Association. I was actually just speaking with one of them this weekend about zoning and sewers were actually brought up. Did you know that builders are having to put in sewer pipes in sites that will never get connected to sewer and they are on septic?We have pipes in the ground going nowhere for no reason.All this does is add costs to building and development. Why are we spending money that does not benefit the people of Mason County right now?This is absolutely ridiculous to me. The reasoning about a low- interest rate is pretty laughable to me as well. Small businesses are barely making it and you want to add another unnecessary cost? These types of spending decisions are one of the reasons we are in this mess. How is this helping anyone in Mason County today or in the next year? I will be on the call on Monday. Thanks, Beth Mickelsen 1 F L O R A L CONTINENTAL G R E E N S January 27, 2022 Mason County Commission PO Box 0 Shelton,WA 98584 Dear Mason County Commission, As the owner of Continental Floral Greens in Belfair, I support the expansion of the sewer trunk lines out to the MTA park and ride facility. This is a needed investment that extends sewer closer to the industrial area in which CFG operates. Please continue to design and construct the trunk lines and lift stations needed in this area. Continental Floral Greens cares about the well-being of the land we own and being good stewards of the environment and our communities. Extending the sewer line would allow new development in the area, creating clean and environmentally friendly infrastructure. Please feel free each out to me wit an uestions with support for this project. Sincerely, Jim Milgard Owner NE 25491 ST HWY 3, PO BOX 429, BELFAIR,WA 98528 1 360.275.5345 1 CFGREENS.COM McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 4:14 PM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Urgent Message from Randy Neatherlin Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Yolanda Montano<yolanda.montano35@gmail.com> Date: 1/27/22 3:23 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov>, office@llvcc.com Subject: Re: Urgent Message from Randy Neatherlin Hello Randy, I'm responding to the below email our housing community sent. I'd like to avoid the extra sewer expense. I do agree that the developer should pay the cost. How do we help to fight this request? Yolanda On Thu,Jan 27, 2022 at 11:45 AM Lakeland Village Community Club<office@ I lvcc.com>wrote: fakdaxd Uiffaye Ca**U4 y Crab. Mason County Sewer Urgent Notice from North Mason Commissioner Randy Neatherlin Good Morning Lakeland Village Residents, Please read the Urgent message below from Mason County Commissioner Randy Neatherlin. This message was posted on Facebook and sent to me by a Lakeland Homeowner. This could 1 impact Lakeland Village Sewer rates by adding an additional $87.00 a month to each residence. Urgent Urgent Urgent notice! Mason county residents. Please read this. In 10 years as a Commissioner, I have never posted anything like this. Consider this a letter to the editor, Share it and comment but I will not be responding on Facebook. Contact info is posted below. To share, click on my name above and share from my page. More than 10 years ago, the Mason County commission burdened Belfair business owners and all of Mason County with a sewer system nobody could afford. All of Mason County has been subsidizing this burden ever since. Last year alone, Mason County spent$1.2 million of your money just to cover the debt service. Was it wrong 10 years ago? Would it be wrong if the county did it to you again? I sure think so. Your County Commission is about to make a big decision, again regarding unnecessary debt. Until recently, two commissioners wanted to borrow around $5,000,000 to extend the sewer system into vacant land. Yes, although we still owe $8.4 million dollars on the system, they want to add another$4.5 million dollars of debt.This action would extend the sewer onto one single developer's private property. Not down the highway, not into a broad area of the County industrial lands for many to access, but up over the hill and through one land owners property. If we pay the bill on this infrastructure and increase this properties value, the landowner can simply turn around, sell it and capture the added value as pure profit for himself. What does the general public get? We the people get to pay on the debt for 20 more years. In addition, the Commission is considering language that actually leverages the load purely on the backs of Belfair. A gamble that could increase Belfair sewer rates by$87/ month while still paying debt out of your county REET dollars.To me, this is wrong, but I need to hear from you. Should I keep fighting this fight? Do you care? Do you consider this an appropriate use of your tax dollars? Please weigh in and let the commission know how you feel. I am inserting contact info here but there is much more info to consider below this. Send it to the county staff at email Msmith@masoncountywa.gov You can contact me Randy Neatherlin at 360 490 7389 or email me at Randvn@masoncountywa.gov Commissioner Shutty and Commissioner Trask can be reached at 360 427 9670 extension 419 or email them at Kshutty@masoncountywa.gov Or Strask@masoncountywa.gov There will be a Public Hearing Monday night the 31st at 6pm. You can attend through a link on the Mason County home page. Link below. https://us06web.zoom.us/i/86071039936?pwd=NFRVYUIQUnh3Z2dwWmFIcitiQicxUT09 This is a hearing where they can make a decision and move forward on a loan and the extension. This sewer system burden was placed on us without listening to the community. We should not let that happen again. I personally requested a full and open public forum. 2 Discussion should go back and forth between the county and the public. I was turned down. They chose a public hearing where I can't get my comments and questions out before the public comment.This is why I'm writing a letter to you here. I need you to get the information before the implementation. In a hearing, staff presents, then public comments and then the commission talks without citizen interaction. A decision can be made on that point. All before the community can weigh in on my concerns. We need much more interaction with our constituents before making such an expensive decision. There are many issues the public should be made aware of. One Commissioner claims this expansion will fix the issue of the county subsidizing the sewer debt. Even a financial novice knows, you don't borrow yourself out of debt. When you are in a deep hole, stop digging. This extension could provide more area for immediate development but it could take another 20+years before getting a positive dime back. If we do nothing what happens?The developers put the sewer infrastructure in themselves, on their own dime. Either way, the county gets positive cash flow instead of more debt and we aren't 'gifting' your tax dollars to one single landowner. What do you think? Would this new expansion help pay off the debt? We currently need at least 754 Equivalent Residential Units (ERU) to pay of our current debts. We would need more if they are multi family as these units pay 70%of single family residential units. If we build the expansion, we will need an additional 400 ERU's to pay off the new $4.5 million dollar debt.To be clear, each new customer that eventually hooks up must pay around $11k and that is why we need 400 more to break even. We now have about 421 ERU's in all of Belfair. In the last 10 years, we actually went down from 428 to 421 ERU's. After 10 years and the new construction on the hill, we are finally about to get enough ERU',s to cover maintenance and operations costs. Not the current bebt just M&O costs.Those new apartments and home hookup fees go towards the old debt or maintenance. Again, getting this extra $4.5 million back could take 20+years. Why pay for a developer's investment? Shouldn't developers pay for their own development? I definitely think so. Historically they always have. Why this developer and this location? Do you see us paying for a Shelton or an Allyn developer? No!! So, why this one? Originally the commission (part of the commission) wanted to pay for the sewer infrastructure for the entire development on the hill above McDonald's. It was going to cost us$8 million. I pushed hard against this spending. Eventually, this same developer sold the property and the new owners put the sewer in themselves. Less than 1 year later the new owners then sold the property making millions on their investment.This was an immediate benefit to the system. If we had paid for it however, they would have made millions off of our investments and we would be making payments for another 20 years. Developers should pay for their own infrastructure and profit off their own investments. Everybody wins and Mason County benefits immediately. Commissioners say we need to take this loan because "It is a low interest opportunity." If getting a low interest loan was reason enough, every person in America would own a Volkswagen. Every year they offer 0% interest loans on specific cars.This low interest reasoning makes no sense on this sewer expansion and even puts the community in more fiscal danger.There is no such thing as a free lunch. 3 There is very specific verbiage included in this loan that scares the heck out of me and should scare you too.This could devastate many Belfair businesses leaving the rest of you to cover the bill. HERE IS THE SPECIAL LANGUAGE: Contract has the Special Term and Condition*: "The contractor shall adopt a rate increase of$87 to the base monthly rate per ERU or demonstrate there has been an increase ERU(s) prior to project completion. This increase shall be maintained for the term of the loan, or until such time the BOARD is satisfied with the CONTRACTOR's finances and notifies the CONTRACTOR that this condition no longer applies." Think about this tidbit. In a march of 2020 presentation our staff showed us that the Belfair Safeway and other businesses already pay more than twice that of Bremerton. QFC pays around $40K a year for sewer now. If it was raised to $75K would QFC or Safeway be impacted? Could we lose one of them? How will we recruit more businesses to serve you when we have one of the most expensive sewer systems in the state, in large part due to the continued piling on of debt with most of the benefit being one landowner? My issues with this expansion could go on and on but making our community aware, is my job #1. If the community doesn't care, I need to know. I will back off and focus on other things you deem important. If this is an issue to you, the other Commissioners need to know. I try not to place negative aspersions on people. I feel people usually try to do things for the right reasons. Maybe my other Commissioners have been able to justify this in their minds but I simply can't. This landowner was my friend for more than 10 years, we no longer speak due to my firm position on this issue. I told him I couldn't get behind this without grants, not even a close friend. I have stood by my decision and hope it is the right one. What do you say? Our actions today have ramifications on our future. The decision to take no action is still an action. What will your actions be? Please contact us and tell us what you think. Respectfully yours Randy Neatherlin Mason County Commissioner Dist. #1 North Mason Lakeland Village Community Club 1 360.275-3508 1 P.O. Box 184 Allyn, WA 98524 1 Ilvcc.com Lakeland Village Community Club 1 470 E COUNTRY CLUB DR, ALLYN, WA 98524 Unsubscribe yolanda.montano35@gmail.com Update Profile I Constant Contact Data Notice 4 McKenzie Smith From: marla morgan <mmm19622002@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:06 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Rates and Private Development Dear Kevin, Sharon, and Randy, We are writing in response to the upcoming vote on extending the sewer service, and taking on more debt. We are ADAMANTLY OPPOSED to moving forward with this project. Although we support sewer hook ups to facilitate a cleaner environment (Sherwood Creek), we do not feel it is the public's responsibility to pay the bill for a developers project. ALL DEVELOPERS should be responsible for their own sewer infrastructure and additionally be required to fund road, green space and emergency services in alignment with the property use and density. Please vote NO on this proposal and make the right decision for everyone. Thank you, Paul and Marla Morgan 253-732-7222 McKenzie Smith From: marla morgan <mmm19622002@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 9:39 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Fw: Sewer Rates and Private Development Dear Mason County Commissioners and Board, We are writing in response to the upcoming vote on extending the sewer service, and taking on more debt. We are ADAMANTLY OPPOSED to moving forward with this project. Although we support sewer hook ups to facilitate a cleaner environment (Sherwood Creek), we do not feel it is the public's responsibility to pay the bill for a developers project. ALL DEVELOPERS should be responsible for their own sewer infrastructure and additionally be required to fund road, green space and emergency services in alignment with the property use and density. Please vote NO on this proposal and make the right decision for everyone. Thank you, Paul and Marla Morgan 253-732-7222 i McKenzie Smith From: marla morgan <mmm19622002@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday,January 28, 2022 8:39 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Re: Sewer Rates and Private Development Attachments: Letter to commissioners 1-4-2022.pdf Thanks Randy! Below is a copy of the letter I sent on January 4, 2022. 1 will send an additional reminder at the end of next week as requested. I have also attached a PDF copy which includes pictures of the sign recommendations not shown below. This stretch of road n e e d s to have signage and whatever it take to get people to slow down before someone is killed. My plan of attack is to be the squeaky wheel with this request, building momentum as it rolls down the hill....always wrapped with a bow. 5 Have a great day out there today and again, thank you for doing the thankless. One of my best friends has been mayor of their town for the last 4 years and I know first hand how difficult it is to be honest, forthright and make the hard decisions, not the easy ones. Hang in there.....we need you! January 4, 2022 Mason County Commissioners Kevin Shutty, Sharon Trask and Randy Neatherlin 411 N 5th St Shelton, WA 98584 Dear Kevin, Sharon and Randy; First and foremost I would like to commend your commitment and service to the community. It is so often a thankless road you have chosen, and I want you to know that your work is valued and appreciated. Thank you! My name is Marla Morgan and I live at 7710 East Grapeview Loop right on the curve before the straightaway. I am writing to ask you to review and modify the speed of the stretch of road between the first turn onto Grapeview Loop road after the village of Allyn and Sherwood Creek, to the end of Allyn Beach Tracts Estates at 7200 E Grapeview Loop Road, Allyn WA. In the 7 years my husband and I have lived here we have been affected by: i • The name post in front of our house being wiped out twice by cars going too fast and not making the curve. • Our neighbor to the south recounting multiple cars ending up in the ditch in front of their home. • Our garbage cans being hit and spilled over the road multiple times. • My husband and I pulling a dying baby deer off the road which was hit twice because cars were speeding around the corner so fast they could not stop for an emergency. • Our neighbor to the north having a car miss the curve, crash in- between a light pole and huge tree, smashing and totaling their parked truck. • And last night 1/4/22 a car, traveling again too fast for the curves, flipped and ended up in the ditch right across the street from our driveway. The driver crawled out their back window on a blind curve, and I stood for over 45 minutes in the dark flagging and slowing cars down as they sped around the curve so there would not be a multi care pile up. This is the final straw that has motivated me to reach out and begin safety reform on our road. If needed, I can gain signatures and personal testimony from affected residents. Challenges and Solutions: Challenge #1: Excessive speed through blind curves and driveway entrances. There is mixed messaging in the signage posted when you first turn onto Grapeview Loop Road after crossing Sherwood Creek signaling 25 mph for curves ahead, and then less than 50 feet away another sign saying 40 miles per hour right before sharp, blind curves. My driveway is situated in the middle of those curves, and I am required to make a blind, left turn 2 into my driveway. My family takes its life it its hands just to get to our home because of the reckless signage posted by the county. Solution: Keep the speed limit at 25 mph until cars have driven through all the curves, and place signage on both ends of the curve segment stating: or Challenge #2: Excessive speed on the straightaway between the bridges impacting the residents of Allyn Beach Tracts Estates. Solution: A reduction of speed to a maximum of 30 miles per hour. We all know that speed signs don't really make an impact on collective learned behavior and that is why I am asking for visual signage on both ends of the designated road to reflect driving into a neighborhood, and speed rumble strips (like on the hill coming into downtown Allyn) placed at each end of the neighborhood warning drivers to slow down. These physical and visual additions to the reduced speed signs will help change the landscape of how the road is perceived. Challenge #3: Residents crossing the road to access mail. Solution: Crosswalks painted so residents can safely gain access to their mail. Thank you for your time and partnering with the community to represent the Basic Speed Law that "No person shall drive a vehicle.... at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent...and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property." We do not feel safe and feel that the current set speed limits and signage endanger residents and drivers. Warm regards, Marla Morgan 253-732- 7222 mmm19622002@yahoo.co m 3 Marla Morgan Peninsula Hands On Art 253-732-7222 "It is our programs foundational belief that students across all socioeconomic backgrounds should have the same educational opportunity and ability to access artist quality materials and art education." On Thursday, January 27, 2022, 10:00:38 PM PST, Randy Neatherlin <randyn@masoncountywa.gov> wrote: Please send me another email on this later next week. I will call public works and ask for an update Randy 0 Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: marla morgan <mmm19622002@yahoo.com> Date: 1/27/22 9:37 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Re: Sewer Rates and Private Development Thanks Randy! I will send an additional copy to the address you provided, and I appreciate your prompt response and the courage it took to take a stand, and go against the tide. That can be quite the challenge and I am sorry that it cost you a friendship in the process. Side note, I recently sent emails and a hard copy letter to each commissioner about Grapeview Loop road and the speed /danger through our neighborhood. Not sure if you had the chance to read it, as I can see you have been overwhelmed with much greater issues, but when you get the chance I would love to chat with you on what can be done. I just noticed today that at the far end of our neighborhood right past 7200 E Grapeview Loop Rd, there has been another accident by someone taking the curve too fast and wiped out the guardrail. Lots to talk about. Thank you again for all you are doing for the community. In sometimes a thankless job, many thanks. Have a great night! Marla Marla Morgan 4 Peninsula Hands On Art 253-732-7222 "It is our programs foundational belief that students across all socioeconomic backgrounds should have the same educational opportunity and ability to access artist quality materials and art education." On Thursday, January 27, 2022, 07:51:20 PM PST, Randy Neatherlin <randyn@masoncountywa.gov> wrote: Thank you so much. I agree with you and appreciate you sending this email. I will continue to stand against it. You can help by making sure the other Commissioners know how you feel. If you would like to comment to the whole commission, please also email them at MSmith@masoncountywa.gov Thank you Randy Neatherlin Mason county Commissioner Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: marla morgan <mmm19622002@yahoo.com> Date: 1/27/22 6:05 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Kevin Shutty <KShutty@masoncountywa.gov>, Sharon Trask <STrask@masoncountywa.gov>, Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Sewer Rates and Private Development Dear Kevin, Sharon, and Randy, We are writing in response to the upcoming vote on extending the sewer service, and taking on more debt. We are ADAMANTLY OPPOSED to moving forward with this project. Although we support sewer hook ups to facilitate a cleaner environment (Sherwood Creek), we do not feel it is the public's responsibility to pay the bill for a developers project. ALL DEVELOPERS should be responsible for their own sewer infrastructure and additionally be required to fund road, green space and emergency services in alignment with the property use and density. Please vote NO on this proposal and make the right decision for everyone. Thank you, Paul and Marla Morgan 253-732-7222 5 McKenzie Smith From: JUDY NICHOLSON <pcco6@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 9:43 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair sewer I want to thank you for putting this out on Facebook. I wish I could have shared it, but I'm not techie enough to figure that out. I have emailed the other two commissioners asking them to vote no, and I am hoping that you will also vote against this, for all the right reasons. Thank you for your service. Judy Nicholson a Mason County voter McKenzie Smith From: JUDY NICHOLSON <pcco6@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 9:40 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Belfair sewer system I am writing to you to emphatically tell you that I am opposed to this additional loan you are contemplating regarding the Belfair sewer system in order to benefit a developer. Mason County does not need this debt! Please vote against this!!! Judy Nicholson a Mason County voter McKenzie Smith From: JUDY NICHOLSON <pcco6@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 9:37 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: proposed Belfair sewer I am writing you to emphatically tell you that I am opposed to the newest loan you want to apply to the Belfair sewer system to aid a developer. Mason County does not need this! Please vote against this!! Judy Nicholson a Mason County voter McKenzie Smith From: JUDY NICHOLSON <pcco6@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 9:43 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair sewer I want to thank you for putting this out on Facebook. I wish I could have shared it, but I'm not techie enough to figure that out. I have emailed the other two commissioners asking them to vote no, and I am hoping that you will also vote against this, for all the right reasons. Thank you for your service. Judy Nicholson a Mason County voter McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:05 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Mark Neary Subject: FW:Taking on more debt Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From:Jan Nuss<junquessa@gmail.com> Date: 1/25/22 10:02 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject:Taking on more debt Hi Randy- Thank you for putting the case out so clearly. Absolutely, I am with you. I do not understand why the other commissioners would even consider for the town to take on that kind of additional debt. Please stick to your guns! Thank you,Jan Nuss 1 McKenzie Smith From: Mark Castillo <goldentoe68@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday,January 25, 2022 11:43 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Commissioners Shutty,Trask, and Neatherlin, I am a 72 yr old retiree living in Belfair Area on a fixed income. I am a taxpayer, own my home and have resided in North Mason for 30 years. I have supported the county with my share of taxes since 1993 and rarely do I not support good projects such as the school,fire department, sheriff's department as an example.They are wise investments. I have been retired since 2018. If I made 200 less a month I could be eligible for food stamps. Consequently I have to spend wisely to pay my taxes, utilities, food, transportation and the ever increasing cost of living. I feel taxes are too high as it is. I recently learned about a proposition to extend the very expensive sewer system to a vacant lot owned by a developer at no cost to him. This seems like border line theft as it benefits not the taxpayer but a developer. Consequently I ask this proposition be vacated and not allowed to proceed. I am disabled. In the past I have made county board meetings but unfortunately my health and Covid Concerns prohibit my attending the meeting where this proposition will be discussed. You are the county commissioners voted on by the residents of Mason county to look on wisely over our interests. The proposition mentioned above is outrageous. I ask this be voted down. I am calling everyone I know about this meeting. Unfortunately I found out with so short notice otherwise I personally would be calling Seattle news organizations to attend. Yes this is thievery. Be responsible. yr Marcus Castillo Olivas McKenzie Smith From: Mike Olsen <mikeolsen534@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 9:48 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From: Mike Olsen Dept Sent To: Commissioner Dist 3 Message: I am urging you to not insure further debt for the Belfair Sewer system. You also represent the residents inside the city limits,and we are already paying the debt for our sewer system,of which residents outside the city do not help with. Your vote to make us pay for the Belfair system is grossly unfair and will be remember on the next election. McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:39 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Question Received from the Mason County Website - Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From:Jerry Otto <jotto5300c@gmail.com> Date: 1/26/22 10:29 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From:Jerry Otto Dept Sent To:Commissioner Dist 1 Message: RE: your appeal regarding sewer extension in Belfair area. I understood the state Growth Management Act put the burden on developers to pay a good part of the cost to extend public services to new development sites, including the siting of schools needed as a result of development. I may be wrong but I understood, like roads,the developer bears the cost to construct to public standards then public accepts and assumes maintenance. Not the same for sewer? 1 McKenzie Smith From: David Overton <david@eeoverton.com> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 3:31 PM To: McKenzie Smith Cc: Kevin Shutty; Randy Neatherlin; Sharon Trask Subject: Belfair Sewer Dear Mason County Commissioners, Thank you for taking public testimony on the Belfair Sewer Expansion. I have read the County Proposal and the Board Packet for tonight's hearing. I found the testimony of others very compelling. I agree with much of it. I feel that the County is following the same process today that it does with all its public works projects. Mason County designs projects that are in the long-term public interest rather than bending to the sole interest of private industry. I encourage you to continue this practice. Everyone should pay their fair share. Everyone should be treated equally. The need to state this surprises me, but it feels lost in the current rhetoric. New connections should pay the same rates and fees that everyone on the system already has but they need to be higher than the initial connection fee of$3,000.00. Costs increase and cannot be held static. It makes sense that the current connection fee is significantly more than the initial connection fee. This increase is one of the ways that new growth helps pay off the debt of the system. New growth cannot expect to receive the subsidy that the initial system connection fees did years ago. I am concerned that the people are using the term corruption broadly. It is a very pointed accusation and does not build trust or partnership, it salts the land and destroys opportunity for all. Mason County has been a loving community for my family for five generations, we are excited for its future. Thank you for hearing this testimony and I hope we return to a time when we all feel welcome and the quick words of anger pass. Best, David Overton i McKenzie Smith From: Ben Pak <ben_pak@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 2:09 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Possible sewer rate hike Dear Randy, Thank you for letting us know about potential sewer rate hike. Having worked in water and sewer district before retiring, I had a huge concern over existing outrageous sewer rate. I have not seen a sewer rate as high as Mason County anywhere in California.They want to raise the rate again to accommodate a single developer property to subsidize? It is absolutely outrageous. I am totally with you on this. If you need any support on this matter, please let me know. I will support you all the way. Sincerely, Benjamin Pak McKenzie Smith From: Ben Pak <ben_pak@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 2:27 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Potential sewer rate hike Dear commissioners, I absolutely disagree with current residents subsidizeding a single developer for additional sewer infrastructure. The current sewer rate already is one of the highest in the nation and had been increasing every year as long as I have been living here in Mason County.The developer should pay for the necessary cost for sewer extension not the current residents. I am flabbergasted that you guys are even considering this unless you guys are getting some kind of kickbacks from the developer. Regards, Benjamin Pak McKenzie Smith From: Richard Paul <ricsha@wavecable.com> Sent: Saturday,January 29, 2022 8:52 AM To: McKenzie Smith Cc: Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Stop this travesty nowH The developer is responsible for this cost not the general public. What kind of hold does this developer have on the commissioners supporting this outlandish spending bill on the general public? Stop this proposal before it goings any further! The contract who owns the land is responsible for this cost and no one else. McKenzie Smith From: Erinn Pervis <erinnjean@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 12:56 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Loan Proposal To whom it may concern, I do not support the decision to take on a loan for sewer infrastructure in a privately owned property. As a citizen of Mason County, I think it is unwise to take on additional debt that will not immediately benefit the county and will put us at risk. It is not the taxpayers' responsibility to pay for sewer infrastructure costs in a privately held development.The developed should shoulder this cost on there own. I do not approve the decision to take on this burden/loan/risk for our community. Please, do the right thing and refuse to approve this proposed debt. People in Mason County are already struggling to remain here.With the new developments coming up,we will need to add other infrastructure to support an expanding population. As a taxpayer, I do not want my tax dollars spent to line a private developer's pockets when we clearly have other areas that require funding and are actually for the greater good of Mason County and it's residents. Respectfully, Erinn Pervis t McKenzie Smith From: Erinn Pervis <erinnjean@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:56 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer Loan To whom it may concern, I do not support the decision to take on a loan for sewer infrastructure in a privately owned property. As a citizen of Mason County, I think it is unwise to take on additional debt that will not immediately benefit the county and will put us at risk. It is not the taxpayers' responsibility to pay for sewer infrastructure costs in a privately held development.The developed should shoulder this cost on there own. I do not approve the decision to take on this burden/loan/risk for our community. Please, do the right thing and refuse to approve this proposed debt. People in Mason County are already struggling to remain here.With the new developments coming up, we w;ll need to add other infrastructure to support an expanding population.As a taxpayer, I do not want my tax dollars spent to line a private developer's pockets when we clearly have other areas that require funding and are actually for the greater good of Mason County and it's residents. Respectfully, Erinn Pervis McKenzie Smith From: Erinn Pervis <erinnjean@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 12:57 PM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer Loan Proposal To whom it may concern, I do not support the decision to take on a loan for sewer infrastructure in a privately owned property. As a citizen of Mason County, I think it is unwise to take on additional debt that will not immediately benefit the county and will put us at risk. It is not the taxpayers' responsibility to pay for sewer infrastructure costs in a privately held development.The developed should shoulder this cost on there own. I do not approve the decision to take on this burden/loan/risk for our community. Please, do the right thing and refuse to approve this proposed debt. People in Mason County are already struggling to remain here.With the new developments coming up, we will need to add other infrastructure to support an expanding population.As a taxpayer, I do not want my tax dollars spent to line a private developer's pockets when we clearly have other areas that require funding and are actually for the greater good of Mason County and it's residents. Respectfully, Erinn Pervis i McKenzie Smith From: Erinn Pervis <erinnjean@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:S7 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer Loan Proposal To whom it may concern, I do not support the decision to take on a loan for sewer infrastructure in a privately owned property. As a citizen of Mason County, I think it is unwise to take on additional debt that will not immediately benefit the county and will put us at risk. It is not the taxpayers' responsibility to pay for sewer infrastructure costs in a privately held development.The developed should shoulder this cost on there own. I do not approve the decision to take on this burden/loan/risk for our community. Please, do the right thing and refuse to approve this proposed debt. People in Mason County are already struggling to remain here. With the new developments coming up, we will need to add other infrastructure to support an expanding population. As a taxpayer, I do not want my tax dollars spent to line a private developer's pockets when we clearly have other areas that require funding and are actually for the greater good of Mason County and it's residents. Respectfully, Erinn Pervis McKenzie Smith From: Cheryl Pflug <cheryl@pflug.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 S:33 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer expansion question Commissioner, Do you know if the proposed sewer extension is to serve properties within the Belfair UGA, or any UGA? The state Growth Management Act (GMA) imposes planning requirements on Mason County. Two of the goals of the Growth Management Act, as set forth in RCW 36.70A.020, are: (1) Urban growth. Encourage development in urban areas where adequate public facilities and services exist or can be provided in an efficient manner. (2) Reduce sprawl. Reduce the inappropriate conversion of undeveloped land into sprawling, low-density development. RCW 36.70A.100 reads, in pertinent part: (3) Urban growth should be located first in areas already characterized by urban growth that have adequate existing public facility and service capacities to serve such development, second in areas already characterized by urban growth that will be served adequately by a combination of both existing public facilities and services and any additional needed public facilities and services that are provided by either public or private sources, and third in the remaining portions of the urban growth areas. Urban growth may also be located in designated new fully contained communities as defined by RCW 36.70A.350. (4) In general, cities are the units of local government most appropriate to provide urban governmental services. In general it is not appropriate that urban governmental services be extended to or expanded in rural areas except in those limited circumstances shown to be necessary to protect basic public health and safety and the environment and when such services are financially supportable at rural densities and do not permit urban development. Thank you for your service, Cheryl McKenzie Smith From: Marcel Poliquin <mjpoli@prodigy.net> Sent: Saturday,January 29, 2022 8:17 PM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer Expansion Good evening Mr. Netherlien, First and foremost, thank you for attempting to bring a little clarity and light to the opacity of county government. There is a lot to unpack here, and I can't hope to address it all so let me start by saying not only"NO", but"HELL NO" to the idea of extending the sewer system another 6 inches until a method can be found to retire the existing debt without additional cost to the citizens. I have railed against this kind of thing my entire life. If Walmart offered to come to Mason County on the condition that all of the infrastructure and building would be funded by a loan from the citizens. I am pretty sure this conversation would not even be necessary. Or the sports stadiums to support franchises owned by billionaires but funded by taxpayers. And for the record I am an avid sports fan. Can you imagine what New York City would be today if in the beginning the citizens were forced to pay for the infrastructure to support the cities expansion? I dare say they would be emptying golden chamber pots out of Trump Tower as we speak. Now to be fair, this is largely a shell game and Mason Countys shells just plain are not big enough. Walmart supports the infrastructure they need by including it in the price they charge the consumer for a particular product. Their footprint is so large that the number of purchases requires only pennies to be added per transaction. The same cannot be said for Mason County and its fledgling sewer system. The debt needs to be shouldered by the entity that provides the service that requires that infrastructure. End of story. Wave Cable needs to provide the infrastructure for providing cable. The same for the various PUDs and garbage collection. What they charge INCLUDES upgrade, expansion, and maintenance and as a result they perform their due diligence and then some before they even propose changes and price increases. The best local example I can think of is the building of the Amazon warehouse in Kitsap County by the airport. The traffic circle improvement was paid for by Amazon not because they could charge a toll for its use but because it helped them and made good business sense to do it. Nothing more. And again because of their volume the cost was absorbed as the cost of doing business. Not possible in Mason Countys situation. I am sure I am preaching to the choir, but these comments are not off the cuff and I hoped that these examples would help to make very clear that I understand the game being played. I do have 1 question. The term ERU has several meanings in the legal text I consulted. About half referenced it as a unit to account for adding a non-porous or impervious surface in construction to account for additional runoff. It also refers to a unit of measure to account for the waste of a residential dwelling or accommodation unit, which I take to mean an apartment or condo. So, my question is why an accommodation unit would be charged .75% of a residential dwelling? Does the poop provided by a residence cost more to process? Is the rental poop more profitable to the treatment plant? I must admit to being baffled by this. Maybe that's the place to start, All poop shall be created equal. Then use the additional revenue to pay down the debt more quickly. But under no circumstances should any further debt be placed on the citizens of Mason County for this purpose. Yours truly, Marcel Poliquin, Belfair Resident. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Kathy &John Poole <cairnparents@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 9:44 AM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kshutty@masoncounty.wa.gov; Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer System Commissioners, I would like to voice my opposition to the proposed additional sewer system debt. As a senior citizen, my taxes are high enough to put a strain on my budget. Further, there are many working citizens in Mason County who are in the same predicament. Please do not add any tax burden to the taxpayers for the benefit of one landowner. Yes, I realize that somewhere far down the road the rest of Mason County will see some benefit, but not nearly as much as that one landowner will amass, and that's just plain not fair. Further, if you want to incur debt 'because it's low interest' (which makes no sense fiscally), maybe you should borrow the money to fix roads. I can personally tell you that the hill on Trails Road is a disaster waiting to happen. Maybe you should borrow the money to pay the lawsuit that is bound to happen if that road isn't fixed properly. That's only one road - there are many examples in Mason County of roads that need to be repaired - properly. Or, how about paving some of the private roads in the county-that would at least benefit more than one landowner. I realize this is ridiculous, but not any more than what you are proposing. I know it is your absolute right to make this decision, but I certainly hope you will listen to the voices of the Mason County community before voting to incur this debt. Respectfully, Kathaleen Poole McKenzie Smith From: Jessica Psaros <psajg@wavecable.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 2:29 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer debt Borrow more debt?No, no, no! Jessica Psaros Sent from my Wad McKenzie Smith From: HOMER &SUE ANNE PURDY <thepurdys@wavecable.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 2:05 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Cc: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: The Belfair Sewer Situation Dear Randy, This is the first time I have ever, in my 80 + years, addressed an issue with an elected public servant. But............ THE SEWER ACTION described must be stopped. I am a widow, fortunately living in my mortgage free home in Lakeland Village, yet still on a limited income. I currently pay $118.91 a month for sewer, which in itself is outrageous when considering my water bill is less than $30 every 2 months. To impose another $87 per month, bringing the bill to $205, is totally unacceptable for seniors such as myself who are living on Social Security only or a pension. The amount of the increase is in many weeks more than I pay for groceries in a week. Developers must be charged for the improvements they are demanding. They are the ones who reap the financial benefits. Certainly NOT the any of us mortals. Residential population in Mason county is expanding, but our business population is not keeping up. With this type of an increase on businesses such as QFC, Safeway and mom and pop types will think twice or more about locating where the sewer bills could put them out of business. I hesitate to think how much the fees assessed would be for an individual private citizen to build a single family home on a lot in the Belfair Sewer District. I enjoy living here. I don't want to be forced to move elsewhere by the rising cost of sewer and other utilities to live with a relative. Please, please put this to an end. At this time a very belated THANK YOU for arranging the Covid Vac site at the High School. Much appreciated. Sue Anne Purdy 160 East Soderberg Road Unit A-3 Allyn, WA 98524-7700 (360) 275-6660 thepurdys@wavecable.com i McKenzie Smith From: diane rae <diane75rae@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 9:44 AM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Proposed loan for sewer expansion to private developer Follow Up Flag: Flag for follow up Flag Status: Flagged Basta! Enough already.Taking out a huge loan to expand the sewer onto a private developer's property is not in the best interest of any of your constituents...but one. My sewer rates are already higher than I have paid anywhere. Borrowing more money to go deeper in debt is not fiscally responsible. Count this landowner "%against this proposal to enrich one person from the already bent over backs of the rest. Truly, Diane Rae 100 E Marine View Dr,Allyn, WA 98524 McKenzie Smith From: Thomas Rasmussen <tompamcharlie@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 1:30 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer debt increase We DO NOT SUPPORT the proposed increase in Debt for the proposed extension of the sewer system. This should and can be financed by the land owner/developer(s), not the County. Do Not pass this increase. Thomas & Pam Rasmussen Homeowners in LakeLand Village Sent from my 1Pad McKenzie Smith From: Thomas Rasmussen <tompamcharlie@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 10:35 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Re: Sewer debt increase Sorry I was misinformed about the sewer districts and being in LakeLand Village apparently have no say in the proposed debt increase. Sorry again... Tom Rasmussen Sent from my iPad >On Jan 27,2022,at 4:37 PM,McKenzie Smith<MSmith@masoncountywa.gov>wrote: >Good afternoon Thomas and Pam, >Thank you so much for sending me your comment. I will make sure to forward this to the Commissioners as well as add it as public comment for the Hearing on Monday,January 31,2022 at 6:00 p.m. >Please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you. >Warm regards, >McKenzie Smith > Clerk of the Board,Records Specialist > Mason County Commissioners Office > (360)427-9670 ext. 589 1 msmith@masoncountywa.gov > http://www.masoncountywa.gov > "Please note: Mason County complies with the Public Records Act Chapter 42.56 RCW.As such,any e-mail sent to and/or from the County may be subject to public disclosure. >-----Original Message----- >From: Thomas Rasmussen<tompamcharlie@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday,January 27,2022 1:30 PM >To: McKenzie Smith<MSmith@masoncountywa.gov> > Subject: Sewer debt increase >We DO NOT SUPPORT the proposed increase in Debt for the proposed extension of the sewer system. This should and can be financed by the land owner/developer(s),not the County. Do Not pass this increase. >Thomas&Pam Rasmussen >Homeowners in LakeLand Village > Sent from my iPad 1 McKenzie Smith From: Diana Rhodes <canal roads@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 6:28 PM To: Randy Neatherlin The developer should included in the cost of each property that it benefits. Not as a tax we all have to pay. McKenzie Smith From: JENNY RICE <jennylynnrice@aol.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 7:10 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer Dear Mr.Shutty,I am writing about the the sewer and borrowing 4.5 million dollars. You are proposing to go further in debt to aid one property owner?I don't care what kind of incentives this person is offering you,or the sewer system. The answer should be NO! The citizens of Belfair and Mason county do not need or want this burden.Please listen to the citizens. Sincerely,Jenny Rice 1 McKenzie Smith From: JENNY RICE <jennylynnrice@aoLcom> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 7:19 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Hi Randy,First I would like to thank you for all you do for our community. You have had a such positive impact on Belair and Mason county. I am asking you to please fight this nonsense with the sewer. We can not afford to make the mistake of borrowing money for expanding th system for an individual. If I can help in anyway please let me know.My number is 3602750885. Sincerely, Jenny Rice 1 McKenzie Smith From: Jim Richards <jkricha22@live.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:23 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Who Pays The Bill Dear Council Member, My wife and I are new to Mason County but we have been lifelong residents of Washington State. We have lived on Mercer Island, and in Snoqualmie as well as Issaquah. We have seen substantial development in every community over the years and always supported the growth and prosperity it provides to current and future residents. The one constant was each developer's plan included paying for the infrastructure that their project added to each community. Bill and John Buchan for the Lakes on Mercer Island. Quadrant for Snoqualmie Ridge and Blakely for the Issaquah Highlands. Never have the other citizens helped defray the costs of sewers and infrastructure. Please don't burden our community with the proposed sewer extension. Respectfully James Richards Get Outlook for iOS McKenzie Smith From: Moody Ann Richards <moodyannrichards@live.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 6:43 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Proposed Sewer Extension Dear County Council Member, Thank you for providing the information on the proposed borrowing for a sewer extension on the Belfair sewer system. I agree with your viewpoint and would not support the approval of borrowing for the benefit of one developer. We have lived on Mercer Island, Snoqualmie Ridge and Issaquah Highlands. In all these communities the developer paid for additional infrastructure and they were the ones that directly benefited. It is unfair to tax the community for a developers gain and to impose a tax on other community members and businesses. I strongly oppose this proposal. Please share this with other council members as needed. We are new citizens of Mason County and appreciate your outreach and information. Respectfully, Moody Ann Richards Get Outlook for iOS McKenzie Smith From: TC Robb <trosings@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2022 10:34 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair sewer and financing information Hello Randy, Thank you for the heads up information on the Belfair sewer project. I plan to sit in on Monday's meeting to find out more facts but wanted to let you know in advance the following 3 things: 1) 1 live in Allyn & know we have a separate system from Belfair but I am opposed to any loan/additional debt action that adds to the financial tax burden on Mason County homeowners in general -- particularly when there is no benefit to the county at large. Property taxes have risen in double digits every year in the 4 years we have lived here--the last time 33%and that was without the school levy. Now that the levy has passed our property taxes will have (at least) doubled in the time we lived here. I'm sure you're aware of the increase in everything else these past two years: internet service, trash, waste,groceries--and possibly water(here in Lakeland Village).This is no time for irresponsible spending of public monies. 2) I'll admit, I'm not happy about all the building going on in our little community in general! There's way too much of it, in my opinion, and, clearly, we do NOT have the infrastructure to support it--from phone/internet service,to electrical capacity,to roads! Why Rte 3 was made a thoroughfare for large trucks-- I don't understand. But I digress. My point is: adding the expense of these extra homes should not rest with existing homeowners-- it's like adding insult to injury. Anyway, 3) 1 have zero experience with the addition of multi-unit living structures to any community but if indeed,the builder has the responsibility to provide sewers to the homes he/they build, they should have responsibility for financing it and NOT shift that expense to existing homeowners in the community. Belfair does not strike me as an affluent community and (see above)the rest of the county shouldn't have to pay for something the builder will profit from,yet have no financial responsibility for creating. The primary reason I plan to listen to the public meeting is to understand what the Commissioners are thinking in regard to such an arrangement that, it seems, may benefit the builder(s) at the expense of the community. Thank you for lending an ear. I hope to learn more as that unfolds and very much appreciate your stance in this matter and responsiveness to our community. Warm regards, Tami Robbins Lakeland Village, Allyn 1 McKenzie Smith From: TC Robb <trosings@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 8:46 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Belfair Sewer project and financing information Dear Commissioners, I received, and appreciate, the heads up information on the Belfair sewer project I saw from Com. Neatherlin. I plan to sit in on Monday's meeting to find out more facts but wanted to let you know in advance the following 3 things: 1) 1 live in Allyn & know we have a separate system from Belfair but I am opposed to any loan/additional debt action that adds to the financial tax burden on Mason County homeowners in general -- particularly when there is no benefit to the county at large. Property taxes have risen in double digits each year in the 4 years we have lived here --the last time 33%and that was without the school levy. Now that the levy has passed our property taxes will have (at least) doubled in the time we've been here. No doubt you are all aware of the increase in everything else these past two years also: internet service, trash, waste, groceries--and possibly water(here in Lakeland Village).This is no time for irresponsible spending of public monies. 2) I'll admit, I'm not happy about all the building going on in our little community in general! There's way too much of it, in my opinion, and, clearly,we do NOT have the infrastructure to support it--from phone/ internet service,to electrical capacity, to roads! Why Rte 3 was made a thoroughfare for large trucks-- I don't understand. But I digress. My point is: Adding the expense of these extra homes should not rest with existing homeowners-- it's like adding insult to injury. 3) 1 have zero experience with the addition of multi-unit living structures to any community but if indeed, the builder has the responsibility to provide sewers to the homes he/they build, they should have responsibility for financing it and NOT shift that expense to existing homeowners in the community or, particularly, the rest of the county. Belfair does not strike me as an affluent community and (see above)the rest of the county shouldn't have to pay for something the builder will profit from,yet have no financial responsibility for creating. The primary reason I plan to listen to the public meeting is to understand what the Commissioners are thinking as I cannot understand why county leaders would even consider an arrangement that, it seems, solely benefits a builder at the expense of the community. Thank you for your time and attention regarding this matter. I hope to learn more as things unfold and very much appreciate Com. Neatherlin's stance on this matter as well as your collective responsiveness to our community's concerns. Warm regards, Tami Robbins Lakeland Village, Allyn 1 McKenzie Smith From: Lisa Robson <lisarbt@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 11:25 AM To: Sharon Trask; kshutty@masoncountuwa.gov; McKenzie Smith Subject: Denial for 5 Million to install sewer for private property Belfair Sewer Commissioners, After reading about the proposed extension and loan for the Belfair Sewer District, I am compelled to write to you regarding the absolute disgust I have regarding this matter. First of all, why should the struggling businesses in Belfair and the local residents on the sewer system pick up the tab for the building contractor? It isn't our responsibility to make sure the contractor is successfully meeting his financial obligations for development? Secondly,The Belfair community hasn't paid off the most recent loan and incurring additional debt would crush some businesses already struggling to survive. Adding an additional $5,000,000 to the debt and an additional 87 dollars to an already excruciatingly high monthly sewer tab., as well as the ridiculously high fee to hook up to the sewer also affects the residents of this small town where many who live here struggle to survive. Who benefits from this? It looks like the Contractor receives the biggest benefit and then the county commissioners who receive contributions to promote this project. It clearly doesn't benefit the Belfair community. Instead of creating more financial suffering in this area, why not find ways to build this community up, not destroy it with greed. Ask the community about how they feel about this, don't try to sneak it in without consulting us first we are the one who have to pick up the tab. Lisa R Robson McKenzie Smith From: Linda Rogers <genieyc@wavecable.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 10:36 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Cc: Sharon Trask; Kevin Shutty Subject: SEWER SYSTEM AWASH IN CORRUPTION I read Randy Netherlands post and it takes a BIG MAN to blow the whistle on such corruption as this. RECALL RECALL RECALL Your supposed to represent all the People, not just few. County's growing and its time we replaced those who don't represent us. WE COULD NOT AFFORD ALLYN SEWERS, WE CERTAINLY COULD NOT AFFORD THE BELFAIR SEWERS. NOW WE SHOULD MAKE IT CLEAR - NO MORE SEWERS. IF THE CONTRACTORS WANT THEM THEN THEY SHOULD PAY FOR THEM! This is just the start Steve Rogers 781 E Old Ranch Rd Allyn, WA 98524 0 . This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com 1 McKenzie Smith From: P Savage <pegavasl @gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 7:58 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer expansion on public back, No! Randy, I'm totally against taking on more debt to expand the sewer system for one landowner. It is not right for businesses to profit because the public paid for improvements to said property. Stick to paying off the current debt; especially before taking on more debt. If the landowner wants sewer for development they should do as the development above McDonald's; put the sewer in themselves include in the cost of units for sale. Seems a no-brainer. Prolly some kickback going on with commissioners. Thanks for watching out for the people. Paul Savage Belfair Resident. McKenzie Smith From: P Savage <pegavasl @gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 6:49 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer expansion on public back, No! Commissioners, I'm totally against taking on more debt to expand the sewer system for one landowner or even a few landowners. It is not right for businesses nor private individuals to profit because the public paid for improvements to said property. Stick to paying off the current debt (which has taken years to get where we are); especially before taking on more debt. If the landowner(s) want sewer for development they should do as the development above McDonald's; put the sewer in themselves, include in the cost of units for sale. Landowners can create a partnership and split cost to develop properties sewer systems, similar to Road maintenance agreements. Same as developing a road to access various properties, building to meet county rules and codes before county takes road into routine maintenance. Seems a no-brainer. Seems like some kickback going on with commissioners to use public funds for private profits. Thanks for watching out for the people in Belfair and not taking on more debt load. Also, for listening to my point of view Paul Savage Belfair Resident. 1 McKenzie Smith From: Linda Schure <Ischure@hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2022 4:20 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Issue To: Mr.Neatherlin,Mason County Commissioners&To Whom It May Concern: I have become aware of some very disturbing information regarding a potential rate increase in county sewer services to subsidize a developer in Belfair. In short,my opinion is as follows: Do NOT borrow money to extend sewer services in Belfair,WA. NO MORE DEBT!!! Make the developer(s)pay for their own sewer system/services and/or development JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES!!! It is hard enough as a senior citizen living on Social Security to justify the most recent rate increase to $118.91/month for sewer services, let alone the possibility of increasing that an additional $87.00/month. THAT IS SO WRONG!!! DON'T DO IT!!! Please give this scenario serious consideration and make the developer responsible for his own sewer system! Respectfully, Linda Schure Soderberg Rd. Allyn,WA Sent from my iPhone McKenzie Smith From: jrdeb@wavecable.com Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 12:41 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Mason County Sewer System Mason County Commissioners, I do not agree with a new loan and extension of existing loan with the sewer system. Mason county is a poor community and should not be burdened with massive amounts of debt. What is being proposed is an inappropriate use of tax dollars. I think developers should pay for their own infrastructure, and not put that burden on the local community. It is not right to put sewer on undeveloped land. If a builder needs to put in a sewer system, the builder should be responsible for the cost and pass that cost onto whom ever the property is being developed for. My sewer bill is already high enough, but yet it continues to go up. As a home owner in Mason County, I do not want my sewer bill to go up expotentially, due to poor management of tax payers dollars. Mason County can not afford for a mass exodus of businesses in our community. Business are struggling enough in these current times. Do not make it harder for them to survive. I ask that you make sound and fiscal responsible decisions for the Mason County Community and tax payers. Thank you for your time. James and Debra Seibold McKenzie Smith From: leonard sevall <lensevall@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 11:34 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer extension I oppose any new loans. Gifting $4.5 million taxpayer dollars to a developer is not something I will support. This deserves a full public hearing. I live in Lakeland Village. Leonard Sevall Sent from my iPhone McKenzie Smith From: leonard sevall <lensevall@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 11:43 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer extension I am opposed to the sewer extension that only benefits one developer. Let him fund his own development. Please do NOT give him a$4.5 million dollar gift that I have to pay for. I am a Lakeland Village resident. Sincerely, Leonard Sevall Sent from my iPhone McKenzie Smith From: leonard sevall <lensevall@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 11:50 AM To: Kevin Shutty Cc: Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer extension I am opposed to the sewer extension that only benefits one landowner who happens to be a developer. Let him fund his own development. He should NOT get a gift of$4500000 that i have to pay for. I am a resident of Lakeland Village. Leonard Sevall Sent from my iPhone McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:05 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: County Sewer Extension Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From: S S<shermanlaw@hotmail.com> Date: 1/26/22 10:51 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: County Sewer Extension Commissioner, The $5 million sewer extension proposal you mentioned recently is absurd and contrary to the best interests of Mason County citizens. Are you free to divulge the identity of the developer and the location of the property; or is a public records request necessary? Thanks. Steven C. Sherman Attorney at Law Allyn, WA McKenzie Smith From: Gary Shirbish <RevShirb@outlook.com> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:15 PM To: Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; McKenzie Smith Subject: Expansion of Belfair Sewer District I urge you to approve the expansion of the Belfair Sewer at this time. The public has the need to much more input into such an investment that we currently have no control over. You are elected and or hired to look after the publics interest not just the County Government and Agencies interest. Your election and or appointment are dependent upon how we the people view your actions on our behalf. Rev. Gary Shirbish revshirb@outlook.com Sent from Mail for Windows 1 McKenzie Smith From: Cynthia Shotts <cindyshotts@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:06 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From: Cynthia Shotts Dept Sent To: Commissioner Dist 3 Message: Dear Commissioner: Please slow down a final vote on the Belfair Sewer Extension to allow for more citizen education and participation with this issue. We all will be impacted for many years with additional debt and increases in sewer fees for the Belfair area. Sincerely, Cynthia Shotts McKenzie Smith From: Cynthia Shotts <cindyshotts@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday,January 28, 2022 10:08 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Question Received from the Mason County Website - From: Cynthia Shotts Dept Sent To: Commissioner Dist 1 Message: Dear Commissioner: Please slow down a final vote on the Belfair Sewer Extension to allow for more citizen education and participation with this issue. We all will be impacted for many years with additional debt and increases in sewer fees for the Belfair area. Sincerely, Cynthia Shotts McKenzie Smith From: Deanna Smith <mdpritt@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 8:14 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer loan Good morning.Our name is Michael&Deanna Smith. We have lived in Belfair since 1984 and have watched the growth.The sewer system was a good idea but implemented horribly. The cost is WAY over what it was told to be and each land owner is stuck with it now. I agree with Randy that you do not borrow to get out of debt.To do this to the benefit of one landowner is totally wrong and asinine. You all as commissioners shouldn't even be thinking about putting such a burden on this small community. If you want to continue with this, it should go to a complete open forum and not only on Zoom. Way too many can't get on it. Respectfully,this should be a complete no vote. Deanna and Mike Smith mdpritt@hotmail.com Sent from my iPhone 1 McKenzie Smith From: Deanna Smith <mdpritt@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 8:13 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Loan for sewer Good morning.Our name is Michael&Deanna Smith. We have lived in Belfair since 1984 and have watched the growth.The sewer system was a good idea but implemented horribly. The cost is WAY over what it was told to be and each land owner is stuck with it now. I agree with Randy that you do not borrow to get out of debt.To do this to the benefit of one landowner is totally wrong and asinine. You all as commissioners shouldn't even be thinking about putting such a burden on this small community. If you want to continue with this, it should go to a complete open forum and not only on Zoom. Way too many can't get on it. Respectfully,this should be a complete no vote. Deanna and Mike Smith mdpritt@hotmail.com Sent from my iPhone McKenzie Smith From: Andrea Lehner <dreyal2@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 11:08 PM To: Randy Neatherlin; Sharon Trask; Kevin Shutty Subject: Please vote no on sewer loan and extension Dear Commissioners, My husband and I own a place at Lake Cushman. I'm interested in reviewing the packet and materials when available to learn more, but from what I have heard to date, I'm concerned the sewer expansion plan burdens the cost of growth on existing residents, instead of the new ones who will benefit. How would the loans be paid back? If REET dollars or property tax, this is inequitable and I would also argue unnecessary. While I respect what you're trying to do for economic development, this subsidy really isn't necessary for growth to occur given the market and current demand for housing and shouldn't be done on the backs of tax payers--especially those who will not directly benefit. Growth should pay for growth, and developers all around the state do this regularly. It's part of doing business. Otherwise, we're just selling Mason County and Belfair for a discount, and aren't we worth more? If you insist the loan and expansion to be the correct course of action now,then I hope it can be paid back using an LID or newly available TIF where those benefiting from the investment pay for it. Not with general fund dollars. Thank you for your consideration and your service. Andrea Snyder McKenzie Smith From: Jerald Sparks <hookemhigh50@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 10:20 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Belfair sewer project 1/26/2022 Dear commissioners, As our county is now considering another new loan and tax for the sewer system in Belfair, it is time to take a break from this spend and tax mission the govt. is on. NO MORE DEBT, until the previous loan is paid off.This is too much.... STOP. As usual, these increases will be put unfairly on the senior citizens. We can't keep up with these increases since we have no way of continually increasing our income to pay for it all. No more increases until you in the govt.find a way to exempt the seniors from these outrageously increasing taxes. My taxes in Mason County went up 86% in the last five years! How can you justify that to the income strapped seniors. We have paid taxes all our life and now when we have put so much in,you want to take all that we have left. It is called the Nazi confiscation process of tax, lien and sell. Basically,you want to put it on the seniors to bail out and cover your projects and your screw ups. No more. It is time to get your own house in order and balanced before putting the rest of us in more debt. Jerald L Sparks, Timberlakes McKenzie Smith From: Jerald Sparks <hookemhigh50@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 10:21 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair sewer project 1/26/2022 Dear commissioners, As our county is now considering another new loan and tax for the sewer system in Belfair, it is time to take a break from this spend and tax mission the govt. is on. NO MORE DEBT, until the previous loan is paid off.This is too much.... STOP. As usual, these increases will be put unfairly on the senior citizens. We can't keep up with these increases since we have no way of continually increasing our income to pay for it all. No more increases until you in the govt. find a way to exempt the seniors from these outrageously increasing taxes. My taxes in Mason County went up 86% in the last five years! How can you justify that to the income strapped seniors. We have paid taxes all our life and now when we have put so much in,you want to take all that we have left. It is called the Nazi confiscation process of tax, lien and sell. Basically,you want to put it on the seniors to bail out and cover your projects and your screw ups. No more. It is time to get your own house in order and balanced before putting the rest of us in more debt. Jerald L Sparks, Timberlakes McKenzie Smith From: Ej S <eleanor.stamas1002@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2022 8:26 AM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer's While I understand the need for growth, I don't understand how you can justify the greed of contractors expecting the taxpayers to foot the bill for sewer installation. Ask any of your constituents if they are willing to foot the bill for their(developers/contractors) profits, I'm sure it would be close to 100% NO!! Not only sewers but all infrastructure should be paid for by the developers.They will continue to build even if the commission gets a backbone and says no. Thank you, Eleanor Stamas i McKenzie Smith From: Jim Stark <jstark99@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 1:31 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Cc: curt fugere Subject: Belfair sewer project Randy, I agree fully....no more debt....but you confuse me in your Jan.27th.Journal statement...you say"...If we do nothing what happens?The developers(unnamed)put the sewer infrastructure in themselves,on their own dime. Either way,the county gets positive cash flow instead of more debt and we aren't"gifting"your tax dollars to one single landowner."To me that means we don't borrow the $4.5 or$ 5.0 million to have it done...let the unnamed developer do it himself.Am I missing something here?Again,based on your comments,no.Just want to make sure.NO MORE DEBT! Thanx, Jim Stark Grapeview Sent from my Wad 1 McKenzie Smith From: Rich Stites <milwaukeerr@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 4:23 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer project and fees Mason County Commissioners I absolutely do not think any Mason County taxpayer should be paying a developer's fees for him. This is the type of backdoor politics that I resent. The only way we can make a change is at the ballot box. Best regards Rich Stites McKenzie Smith From: Rich Stites <milwaukeerr@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 4:06 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer fee Mr. Neatherlin, I absolutely do not think any Mason County taxpayer should be paying a developer's fees for him. This is the type of backdoor politics that I resent. The only way we can make a change is at the ballot box. Best regards Rich Stites McKenzie Smith From: s ws <swsdds1999@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 8:07 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: sewer project My comments on this supposed sewer additional is that is absolutely absurd.. DO NOT DO THIS> it is totally unnecessary and I"m not actually sure who would benefit from this other than a possible guy who owns some property in town. You do not have my support on this. as a business owner in belfair I should have some input. thanks best regards Scott Studerus McKenzie Smith From: Sue Sumsky <suesumsky@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:34 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer system I agree with you. Taxpayers should not be paying for a private entities sewer system. As a business person I am well aware that this would be part of the cost of doing business for my own property. Please keep fighting against this. Sincerely Susan Sumsky Sent from my iPhone McKenzie Smith From: Sue Sumsky <suesumsky@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 2:36 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Taxpayers paying for sewer system for a developer As an add-on to my previous email, I would highly suspect anyone supporting this to be in it for their own profit and would not want to reelect them. Susan Sumsky Sent from my Whone McKenzie Smith From: bob <bob2diane@zoho.com> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2022 10:15 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: sewer Attachments: sewer new.docx The attached is in response to the email I received from Lakeland Village. Bob Supino In response to your email to Lakeland Village: First encounter with Mason County We moved to Lakeland Village in Mason County from Seattle in 1978. While getting to know the area someone we were talking with told us that Mason County is the most corrupt county in Western Washington. I mentioned this to someone nine months ago who was dealing with the county. She told me it is still the most corrupt county in Western Washington. Your email supports that notion. Reid Reality At the time we moved here or shortly after, the county was building roads in the forest that lead to nowhere. Some after the road was built Reid Reality was building a development which just happened to be at the end of the road which now was leading to somewhere. An article appeared in the Bremerton Sun about Mason County building roads for a private developer. The county backed off after the article. The county got caught in one of its corrupt schemes for the realtors and developers who look at the populace of Mason County as their private bank for which they can get money to build their infrastructure. Sewer We and other neighbors sewed the county over the sewer project. We lost 2 to 1 in the appeals court because of our lawyer. One of the judges who voted against us said that we had a legitimate case but our lawyer did not properly present it and judges cannot make arguments for us. The one judge who voted for us did make the arguments the lawyer should have made. US Department of Agraculture To be able to get the loans necessary to build the sewer the USDA required 1000 homes be connected to it. I talked to someone at the USDA in Western Washington who knew about the sewer project. I told him that the engineering company and the county have knowingly presented falsified documents and lied about the reasons for the project. It made no difference and I understood why. A branch of the federal government cannot admit that it was fooled by a backwoods county government. To do so would make them look incompetent. Being corrupt as the rest of government they covered their hind end and ignored any lies. Anyway it is not their money that is being wasted and there is a lot more of it to waist where that came from. To get the necessary 1000 homes Lakeland Village had to be forced to be on the sewer and that required one of the two big lies the engineering company and the county came up with. Washington State Department of Ecology I also informed the Washington State Department of Ecology that they were being lied to. They also could not react for the same reason. The person I was talking with kept telling me that the State Department of Ecology was not demanding that a sewer system be installed. The county had taken action on what the State Department of Ecology had found concerning pollution in Case Intel and the State Department of Ecology was satisfied. The Problem in Case Inlet High fecal coliform was detected in Case Inlet. The problem was houses built early last century that had septic systems that dumped directly into the inlet instead of a septic field. Those areas were addressed and fixed and the State Department of Ecology was satisfied. That problem was solved. But the problem for the Port of Allyn and Windermere Reality had remained, which was how to get the populace to pay for infrastructure for development that realtors and developers could financially gain from. Port of Allyn The Port of Allyn was part of the sewer cabal whose goal was to defraud the public. The Port of Grapeview was more interested in the welfare of those it represented. The sewer stops at the boundary of the Port of Allyn and the Port of Grapeview. It would appear that only those who lived in the Port of Allyn area contributed to pollution in Case Inlet not those that lived in the Port of Grapeview area although both are along the inlet. Richard Bell As the sewer project was more than half way completed, I received a letter from a lady with the League of Woman's Voters in Shelton. Bell had given a talk to the ladies. They were surprised at what he said concerning the sewer project and thought we would be interested. Bell told them the project was not about ecology but development. I believe Bell was associated with Windermere Realty. He likely felt he was far enough away from those paying for the project and it being so far along that he could be honest. University of Washington I talk with a professor of ecology at the University of Washington. I asked about sources of fecal coliform. The source can be any mammal that lives in a house or is wild in the woods. I asked if DNA testing could determine the animal source. The answer was yes. A test could have been made of the fecal coliform in Case Inlet to determine if it was of human origin. Of course, such a test could have eliminated the need, ecological need, for a sewer system. The State Department of Ecology would not have been interested in such a test because it was satisfied with the remedies already taken. I also asked why 40 years after the book Silent Spring was written tests for fecal coliform were still being made by taking vials of water from various locations. I asked why in this age there wasn't electronic instrumentation that could be placed in the water that constantly monitored such levels. I was told it could be done but there was no money to do it. The professor told me that politicians liked to talk about ecology and use it for pet projects and to look concerned but they do not put much money into it. That was a surprise. Vials are still being used as they were 60 years ago. My analysis I contacted the State Department of Ecology and asked if they could send me the readings they had taken every month of fecal coliform levels at various locations in Cast Inlet. They were very willing to do so. I think they were glad to see someone was interested in what they do and wanted to do something with the data they take. I used a math program called Matlab to place the readings over an outline of the inlet and interpolate between readings getting a visual view. I don't remember all the results. I think the levels in the north part of the inlet where the creek comes in stood out likely owing to animal fecal coliform washing down from the creek. The highest levels were at the end of the Allyn dock. I assume that was either from birds, which are major contributors to fecal coliform or more likely boats tying up and dumping their waist in the water. The view did not show one of the two big lies by the engineering firm and the county. Big Lies One of the big lies was mention above. High levels of fecal coliform were resulting from septic tanks dumping directly into the water. That problem was fixed and the state was satisfied. The county and engineering firm continued claiming we were the problem after the problem was fixed. As I said above, the USDA required 1000 homes on the system before they would loan any money. To get Lakeland Village on the system resulted in the biggest and most ridicules lie. The engineering company and county were saying that over the years fecal coliform was collecting in the ground and seeping downhill toward Allyn and the inlet. Any mention of fecal coliform on the internet has to do with animal fertilizer, runoff from farms, sewage treatment plants, animal or human waste on the surface of the ground. Fecal coliform is not going to build up over the years or decades and move down a hill. It sounded reasonable to anyone who did not know any better. There was never any fecal coliform found in the lake here before the sewer was put in which disputed the claim of fecal coliform building up in the ground over the decades and draining to a body of water. The lies were not needed to get the money. The government agencies are more than happy to give away tax payer money. The lies were needed to quell the public paying for the project. No one outside of the county was demanding a sewer system. The state demanded the problem be fixed which it was. As I said above, the person I talked with at the State Department of Ecology kept telling me that they were not asking that the county put in a sewer. He said it several times without me asking him. Washington State Auditor's Office The Washington State Auditor audits every county once a year from what I understand. I asked the office to do an in depth audit of the where the money paid into the sewer system around Case Inlet goes. By state law it can only be spent on the North Bay Sewer System. I was told an in depth study would be done. I received a letter that essentially told me the in depth study amounted to asking the county if all the money collected from the sewer system went to the sewer system and the county said yes. It did not surprise me that the Washington State Auditor's Office is as corrupt as the rest of government I dealt with. Mason County Mason County is run by realtors and developers. Developers want to maximize their profits by not paying for infrastructure needed for their plans. In Mason County they can get the public to pay for it such as building roads that lead to nowhere until a development pops up at the end of the road. Nothing has changed since then. A better solution A friend I worked with lives in University Place near Tacoma. He told me an area of University Place was looking into putting in a sewer system and asked a department at the University of Washington to look at the situation and give a recommendation. The conclusion was that the best waist system they could have was working septic systems. Instead of building a costly sewer system the county, if it was interested in anything other than supporting friends of the county, could have mandated that everyone have their septic system pumped once a year. That would be extreme but much less costly to the public, but of no advantage to developers. Other matters of corruption in the county Belfair Bypass There is no Belfair Bypass and it does not appear one is being build. However, the traffic problem in Belfair has been fixed. In the spring six or seven years ago construction was started in Belfair to fix the problem. Traffic was disrupted off and on until spring four years later. The traffic problem was totally remedied with the addition of sidewalks along Highway 3 in Belfair. In those four years four Belfair bypasses could have been built. Solving the traffic problem in Belfair is not the county's main interest or of any interest. Its interest is infrastructure that genders higher property taxes and profits for developers and realtors. What happened in the mid 1990's? The mid 1990's was boom time in America and Washington State. The state had the money, the asphalt, the workers, the plans and the desire to put in the Belfair bypass. The problem was the definition of"bypass". To the state and the public a bypass is a 50 to 55 mph road that bypassed an area. To the county a bypass is a 35 mph road with land on both sides that can be developed for stores and shops that the county can get property tax from and developers and realtors can profit from. The state wanted the bypass to come out near the high school. The county wanted it to come out at Razor Road so that Razor Road could be made into a major road that can be developed on each side. The state gave up and took its workers and asphalt and money and went somewhere else. During this time the county made noises that Belfair was built on wet lands and had to be moved up the hill to where the bypass would be. When the state said no to Razor Road becoming a major road the county said they would do it and charge a toll to pay for it. Someone in county government who must of at least graduated from grade school asked why someone would pay a toll on a road that went south between the South Shore Road and Highway 3 when people could drive on those roads for free. I am sure it must have been agonizing for the county to comprehend the question and figure out an answer. The county screwed the public again and no bypass was built. Is the same thing happening again? Twenty years later maybe the state forgot who they were dealing with. PUD 3 1 have been told there is a warning in the naval officer's handbook that says "remember the enlisted men are not very intelligent but they are sly and cunning and bare considerable watching". The same warning can be given to the public about many politicians. It is most amazing that while many politicians can make lower income people and those who want to conserve believe they have an ally looking out for them, those same politicians can screw over the same lower income people and those conserving. The state has hoodwinked the public with what is called a cover charge. PUD 3 claims a low power rate. I grafted the actual rate adding in the cover charge. Since the cover charge is the same for all, the more power used the lower the rate, at least up to where the rate increases for high use. So if one is of lower income and uses less electricity or one conserves and uses less electricity, they pay a higher rate. I sent my finding to PUD 3 and showed up at a monthly meeting. I pointed out that small PUD 3 in small Mason County built a campus with auditoriums that looks like a well groomed small college campus. The people here would be better served by an outside company such as Puget Power. Final thoughts This has been somewhat long but you hit a nerve. I still have all the papers form the sewer battle. We had demanded to see all public papers the county had concerning it. I do not believe I have all of them. I do remember seeing a memo from the county stating that the county could not let the public vote on the sewer because they would vote it down. So our representatives in representative government always represent some group but not necessarily those that put them in office and pay their salary. Having fought the sewer project, I am well acquainted with it. Much of what I know or think I know about the Belfair bypass in the mid 1990's is hearsay. There are some undisputable facts. 1. Everything was in place to build the bypass. 2. The bypass was not built. There are some other facts. 1. There are sidewalks in Belfair that took four years to complete. 2. There is still no bypass. Paraphrasing form Dr Strangelove "Mason County and how I learned to stop being afraid and love corruption". P.S. After the sewer project the county wanted to dredge the inlet so that bigger boats could come into Allyn. When I heard this I though, after the county scamming the federal government and the state for money these same people and their friends are living in a power delusion. Neither Mason County nor the Port of Allyn is in control of the inlet. The Army Corp of Engineers has authority over all inland waters. I doubt there was any discussion within the Army over the matter. They likely figured the county higher ups got a hold of some bad weed. McKenzie Smith From: TRACY SUSAN <johnntracy@wavecable.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 3:32 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Possible sewage rate increase Gentlemen, We have been made aware that there is the possibility of a sewage rate increase to cover the cost of new development. Why, as a retired homeowner in Allyn, am I being asked by the "DEVELOPER" to pay for improvements of his property in BELFAIR? I would not expect my neighbors to fund the cost of an addition to my home. Why should this even be considered? If the property was going to be used to help the county in some way, (infrastructure, etc,) I might feel differently. He purchased the land with a specific use in mind. It was NOT to help anyone but himself. The community of Belfair and the surrounding area can not, and should not, be asked to take on that extra burden. We could very possibly lose businesses in the area. This is outrageous! vehemently appose this proposal. I ask that the council to the same. John and Tracy Susan Lakeland Village Allyn, WA 98524 McKenzie Smith From: Dave Sutton <dlsutton51@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 12:05 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewage Increase Dr Mr. Neatherlin , Thanks for sending the info on the proposed Sewage Fee increase. As a Retired individual and on a fixed income„ which is the majority of Residents of Lakeland Village, I am very concerned about a potential $87/month increase for our sewer service. I agree completely that the burden of this expense should be covered by the Developer. What is the name of the Developer? Is there specific language you can suggest that can be sent to both Commissioner Shutty and Commissioner Trask to voice our concerns to this proposal? Thanks for your continued battle to block this proposal. David Sutton.... McKenzie Smith From: Bill Tabor <ramrod@q.com> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 3:52 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair Sewer Project Randy - I read your article in the Jan.27, 2022 issue of the Shelton-Mason County Journal. You have correctly analyzed the situation and I agree with you that the county should not be spending tax payer dollars on private property for the benefit of a developer/land owner. This could be considered "gifting of public funds," which is against the law. It is up to the developer to pay for the cost of the infrastructure to that serves his development, as well as any upgrades to existing infrastructure that is impacted by his development. The Commissioners should get legal advice on this issue before approving this type of spending. Another resource is MRSC (Municipal Research and Service Center). mrsc r,mrsc.orq (206) 625-1300. 1 am sure that they have addressed this issue more than once. Take care. Bill Tabor Shelton, WA i McKenzie Smith From: Anna Taylor <anna.ehlers32@googlemai1.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:12 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Potential Sewer Rate Increase Commissioner Neatherlin, Thank you for informing the residents of Lakeland village regarding the potential to see our sewer rates increase. We already have unusually high sewer rates in our area - I was stunned when we bought our house to learn that they were so high (the Washington Average is$77).With these increases we will outpace the notoriously high sewer rates in Seattle. Quite a feat for a rural county. I do not believe my tax dollars are well spent funding sewer costs for a developer to make money.Thank you for your work countering this effort. Please count me on board with trying to stop this additional financial burden from harming our community. Anna Taylor McKenzie Smith From: McKenzie Smith Sent: Friday,January 28, 2022 1:44 PM To: Kevin Shutty, Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair Sewer Extension Comment Good afternoon Commissioners, I received a call from Barb Thompson,who lives in Lakeland Village,regarding the Belfair Sewer Extension. Her concern is the rates going up and she feels that Lakeland Village has the highest sewer rates in Washington. If an additional fee is tacked on,that would be outrageous and could hurt the housing market with the unnecessary cost. It is unfair to pay for someone else's private land. The developers should take the cost. Warm regards, McKenzie Smith Clerk of the Board, Records Specialist Mason County Commissioners Office (360)427-9670 ext.589 1 msmith(a masoncountvwa.gov hitp://www.masoncoun"a.p,ov "Please note:Mason County complies with the Public Records Act Chapter 42.56 RCW.As such,any e-mail sent to and/or from the County may be subject to public disclosure. McKenzie Smith From: Tom THYER <tthyer@msn.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 1:36 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair sewer project Randy, I am writing in response to your Guest Column in yesterday's Shelton-Mason County Journal. I want to go on record as being in support of your position regarding the Belfair Sewer Project. I have no experience in relationships between local government and real estate developers, but your logic as to the precedent of developers paying the infrastructure costs of the projects which will lead to their own profits makes total sense. From my perspective,yes,you should continue this fight. On a personal note, I want to let you know that my opinion of you as a county commissioner when I first moved here from out-of-state three years ago did not begin on a very high note, due to some negative letters to the editor in the Journal.The Randy Neatherlin that I encountered passing out drinking water while I was volunteering as a parking lot worker at the Belfair COVID vaccination clinics last year, showed me a very caring and supportive public servant. Your stance on the Belfair sewer project adds to the positive opinion you are earning in my esteem.Thank you, for caring enough to stand up for what you believe. Tom Thyer Harstine Island i McKenzie Smith From: Steven Truitt <steven.truitt4@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 3:49 PM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer bill increase PLEASE don't allow this increase that I can't afford, to take place to benefit one land owner at the cost of the community. Should I need consider voting for someone else that may support their constituents needs better? McKenzie Smith From: Steven Truitt <steven.truitt4@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 3:45 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer bill increase Please do not allow this gift to a developer to happen at the taxpayers expense. It seems this area is becoming more like New York every day. Will I be forced to vote for someone else who might care about their constituents? McKenzie Smith From: Earl VanBuskirk <earldvm@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:01 PM To: Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty Subject: Response to Commissioner Randy's Facebook post on sewer expansion I have read commissioner Neatherlin's concerns about the possibility of additional investment in the sewer.I am personally not worried about additional investment in the sewer and much more concerned about making sure that investment and expansion are focused in areas that can be responsibly developed.Keep high density development out of the union river valley. No matter what direction the sewer expands to development will come next.With development there will be significant profits for the developers,that's how development works. Randy, in your post you mentioned if the community doesn't care you would back off. This could of been worded better so I'm going to do my best to reword and refocus this.I feel the higher priority should be to focus your energy on traffic. Development is going to happen. If the county can expand the sewer to aid development in responsible areas we all need to put all our efforts into tackling traffic issues.Traffic is horrible and is set to become unbearable. Do something now. Thanks Dr. Earl VanBuskirk Sent from Dr.Earl VanBuskirk McKenzie Smith From: Ken VanBuskirk <kenvanb@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 7:49 AM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Cc: Randy Neatherlin; Mark Neary Subject: Public comment in Reference to Commissioner Neatherlins facebook post January 25 Commissioner Trask and Commissioner Shutty, I was very disappointed to see the social media post that Commissioner Neatherlin posted and all the character assassination and defamation of yourselves and others that is ongoing and continuing to spread like wildfire. It is very inappropriate. Commissioner Neatherlin you should apologize for all the angst and stress that you have precipitated on your perceived "bully pulpit". Regarding the sewer expansion in to all areas of the Belfair and Bremerton UGAs; on the plateau: As you all are aware; it has long been my opinion and many other in Belfair community that the Old Belfair highway and the Newkirk area that it is impractical to extend the sewer down Old Belfair highway and the only logical, ecological and economic option available to expanding and growing our community for the future is to all buildable lands of both the UGAs on the plateau. It is also my opinion that; 1. The sewer should be expanded as far as the PSIC to capture the open sewage lagoons in the PSIC directly adjacent to the NE fork of the impaired Union River. 2. The sewer should be expanded to the South to capture the North Mason school campus; perhaps by simply adjusting the UGA boundaries to remove the Union River valley and extending UGA boundary to South. Something I have advocated for 20 years. It is the appropriate thing to do. Sincerely, Ken VanBuskirk McKenzie Smith From: Aliahna Watts <Aliahna.Watts@freeman.com> Sent: Monday,January 31, 2022 10:00 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: FW:Vote Tonight Regarding $5 million Sewer Expansion From:Aliahna Watts Sent: Monday,January 31, 2022 9:33 AM To: RandyN@masoncountywa.gov; KShutty@masoncountywa.gov; STrask@masoncountywa.gov Subject:Vote Tonight Regarding$5 million Sewer Expansion Good morning, I am writing to you regarding the meeting and vote on the schedule for this evening regarding the loan of approx. 5 million to a developer for sewer development on their property. I am not sure why such a thing would even be a consideration. We live in the furthermost corner of what is considered the Urban Development area, and have for many years.This area is behind the industrial area off Log Yard Rd. We have one way in and out and even on your plans it is listed as unlikely to develop and unlikely that the sewer would ever reach us. And yet, when my parents subdivided a piece of property and gave one piece of it to us to build a house on, before we could even get our building permits approved we had to pay$11,300 for a sewer hook up we will probably never see, with the promise that if it doesn't arrive I will get that money back in 10 years. When my 21 month old daughter is almost 12 years old. Exactly how do you intend to pay that back if you are going to add another 5 million in debt?We would not be here at all if we had not both lost our jobs to Covid and had to sell our house in Georgia. We CERTAINLY cannot afford that extra out of pocket expense and yet you are already forcing that on us. What will the cost be for the next poor sod if you add that debt? Not to mention all the people who are already on sewer line. Do you think they can afford to have their bills raised yet again?To benefit someone else? If a developer can afford to buy property with developing it in mind,then it is up to them to figure in the cost of doing so. It is not on the backs of everyone else. Everyone else is not making the profit off of it when it is resold. Do the developers intend to share their profits with everyone else when it is done? I have to question the motive behind even considering this. Is one of you getting a kick back if you vote yes? I surely don't want to think that. I want to think that you have the best interest of all the people of the county at heart or that you would have resigned by now if you no longer did. I certainly hope you prove that to me tonight when you vote no. You MUST VOTE NO, on this increased cost to our already overtaxed citizens of Mason County. Best, Aliahna Watts i McKenzie Smith From: Mark Neary Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 1:00 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Cc: McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: County sewer Attachments: County sewer support letter.docx FYI -for the record. Mark From: Dale Webb<dwebb.bwd@hcc.net> Sent: Monday,January 31, 2022 10:15 AM To: Mark Neary<MNeary@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: County sewer Good Morning Mark, Hope you are healthy and well. Just wanted to express my appreciation and support of the efforts of Mason County in our area as we both prepare for the growth that is beginning here. I look forward to working together to facilitate this growth and to overcome the challenges together. Have a wonderful day and a great week. Dale 2)a& 7pea General Manager Belfair Water District#1 dwebb.bwd(a�hcc.net Cell 360-801-0119 Office 360-275-3008 i wp PER DIST� ESTARLISHED 1966 �'#r F January 28, 2022 To our valued County Partners in the Belfair UGA, This is a brief statement on behalf of myself and the Belfair Water District to express support of the current and the long-range sewer infrastructure planning in the Belfair UGA. As many of you know,the District is currently trying to act on the planning and growth that is going to occur in the Belfair UGA. We already see it beginning and it is my belief that it will not only continue but is likely to increase moving forward. We are trying to stay in front of the needs addressed in our Water System Plan as it appears that the growth rate will far exceed our projections in the plan. Proper sewer infrastructure and proper planning is vital to protect the water resources that are currently located there serve the UGA, and future resources to be located within the UGA, as well as protecting the current users of this crucial resource. I look forward to working with you all in any way that is possible to provide the services needed and protect the resources we have. Sincerely, Dale Webb General Manager Belfair Water District#1 360-275-3008 McKenzie Smith From: JACK WEDEL <judywedel@wavecable.com> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 2:17 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: sewer cost Developers need to pay for their own sewer connections. As a homeowner in Allyn and on a fixed income we are not alone in wanting the new construction to pay their own way. lease be fair. Judith and Jack Wedel McKenzie Smith From: Christina Williams <chrissyleewilliams@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 8:28 AM To: Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer system extension Hello Mrs.Trask, I'm writing you today to voice my objections to the county covering any part of the sewer extension for the property located north of Belfair.The cost should be covered by the developers and not tax payers. We,the tax payers, were hit hard this year by property taxes and cost of living increases. Please don't add this burden to our plate while allowing the developers to pocket millions on our investment. Thank you for your time, Christina Williams-Owens McKenzie Smith From: Christina Williams <chrissyleewilliams@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 8:25 AM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer System extension Hello Mr Shutty, I'm writing you today to voice my objections to the county covering any part of the sewer extension for the property located north of Belfair.The cost should be covered by the developers and not tax payers. We, the tax payers, were hit hard this year by property taxes and cost of living increases. Please don't add this burden to our plate while allowing the developers to pocket millions on our investment. Thank you for your time, Christina Williams-Owens McKenzie Smith From: Randy Neatherlin Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 8:27 AM To: Mark Neary; McKenzie Smith Subject: FW: Mason county sewer Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message-------- From: Sue williams<suewilliams007@gmail.com> Date: 1/26/22 7:36 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin<RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Mason county sewer I agree with you Randy. Please, please keep up the fight for Belfair residents. We don't want to fund sewer for a developer. Let the developer pay for infrastructure of their new residential lots. Let me know what we can do to help. Kindest Regards, Gary and Susan Williams Belfair Residents and Mason County voters Sue Williams McKenzie Smith From: Sue williams <suewilliams007@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 2:30 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Re: Mason county sewer Shared with everyone I know Thanks again Sue Williams On Jan 26, 2022, at 9:29 AM, Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov>wrote: Thank you. I agree with you and appreciate you sending this email. You can make sure the other Commissioners know your opinion and share this with others. More people might make the difference. Thank you Randy Neatherlin Mason county Commissioner Dist 1 Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone --------Original message -------- From: Sue williams<suewilliams007@gmail.com> Date: 1/26/22 7:36 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Randy Neatherlin <RandyN@masoncountywa.gov> Subject: Mason county sewer I agree with you Randy. Please, please keep up the fight for Belfair residents. We don't want to fund sewer for a developer. Let the developer pay for infrastructure of their new residential lots. Let me know what we can do to help. Kindest Regards, Gary and Susan Williams Belfair Residents and Mason County voters 1 McKenzie Smith From: Sue williams <suewilliams007@gmail.com> Sent: Friday,January 28, 2022 3:06 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; McKenzie Smith Subject: Belfair Sewer Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Belfair Sewer Commissioners, After reading about the proposed extension and loan for the Belfair Sewer District,I am compelled to write to you regarding the absolute disgust I have regarding this matter. First of all,why should the struggling businesses in Belfair and the local residents on the sewer system pick up the tab for the building contractor?It isn't our responsibility to make sure the contractor is successfully meeting his financial obligations for development? Secondly, The Belfair community hasn't paid off the most recent loan and incurring additional debt would crush some businesses already struggling to survive.Adding an additional $5,000,000 to the debt and an additional 87 dollars to an already excruciatingly high monthly sewer tab., as well as the ridiculously high fee to hook up to the sewer also affects the residents of this small town where many who live here struggle to survive. Who benefits from this? It looks like the Contractor receives the biggest benefit and then the county commissioners who receive contributions to promote this project. It clearly doesn't benefit the Belfair community. Instead of creating more financial suffering in this area,why not find ways to build this community up,not destroy it with greed. Ask the community about how they feel about this,don't try to sneak it in without consulting us first we are the one who have to pick up the tab. Sue Williams 1 McKenzie Smith From: Mike Williams <mdwilliams@mdwilliams.net> Sent: Wednesday,January 26, 2022 2:17 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: My full support Dear Commissioner Netherlin: I read your post on the Harstine Is. Facebook page, and I'm letting you know that as a property owner in Mason County, I fully support your position on this sewer issue in Belfair. Egregious, is all I can say, if the county pushes this expense off on the tax payers, only to allow the developer to profit. Please consider this e-mail as my position of support for your stance on this issue. Thank you for your advocacy. I hope the other commissioners wake up before it's too late. Whose pocket is the developer in, I wonder? Sincerely, Michael Williams e-mail: mdwilliams@mdwilliams.net MP: 253-301-8707 (USA-Pacific Time Zone) Skype: Michael_williams_2006 WeChat: TwoKnots auTal"M) P.S. My property is located at 3451 E. Pickering Rd.; Shelton, WA 98584 (we do not receive US Post at this address however) 1 McKenzie Smith From: Mike Williams <mdwilliams@mdwilliams.net> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 9:13 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Sewer Project in Belfair Dear Mason Co. Commissioners: I became aware of the planned sewer project in Belfair, and the county plan to push the payment for this project to the taxpayers instead of having the developer pay for this infrastructure. With this e- mail, I'm letting you know that as a property owner in Mason County, I fully support the position of having developers pay for such infrastructure projects, rather than shifting this burden to tax payers. In the end, the developer reaps the benefits when the land is sold or rented. Egregious, is all I can say, if the county pushes this expense off on the tax payers, only to allow the developer to profit. Please consider this e-mail as my position of support for having developers, not tax payers fund this project. I hope all commissioners wake up before it's too late. Whose pocket is the developer in, I wonder? Sincerely, Michael Williams e-mail: mdwilliams@mdwilliams.net MP: 253-301-8707 (USA-Pacific Time Zone) Skype: Michael_williams_2006 WeChat: TwoKnots i McKenzie Smith From: Jeremiah Wills <wi1lsj10481 @gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 2S, 2022 9:14 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer system extension Good evening, The new sewer system extension up for consideration SHOULD NOT happen. It needs to be dropped dead in the water and the developer needs to front the cost of this burden out of their own packets. WE the people will not see any return for the county fronting such a project. Which commissioner(s) are in this devopers pockets? It screams government corruption. Said commissioner that thinks the people that they work for would be ok with it should be ashamed of themselves and resign immediately. Such a disgrace that this would even be a consideration. WE pay the taxes,WE should ALWAYS be asked in open forum with timely notice before ANYTHING like this is even a consideration. Disgusted Mason County Resident Jeremiah Wills McKenzie Smith From: Kim Wilson <kimwilsonre@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:01 AM Subject: Mason county sewer extension in Belfair I understand that there is a proposal before the County Commissioners to approve a loan of nearly$5,000,000 in order to extend the sewer system in Belfair to accommodate the development of a vacant parcel of land. I want you to please understand me when I say that I completely DISAGREE with this! I have been in the real estate business for over 30 years and been involved with many MANY developments and NEVER has a county, city or any municipality gone into debt to bring the utilities to the property for the benefit of the developer. The developers have always paid for this and the county, city or municipality has benefited without debt! I cannot wrap my head around the reasoning for this additional debt that the commissioners are considering. Doing this would be at the burden on the community of the Belfair residence and businesses that advised against the existing sewer system, as it was way too big for what was needed and it really hasn't done much for the body of water, known as the Hood Canal. The properties on the North Shore road and the South Shore road are the properties that have been contaminating the Hood Canal for years....those are the properties that need a sewer line! But the county Commissioners didn't listen to the community and so we still have a huge existing debt and now they want to ADD to that debt? Any financial advisor would tell you your don't borrow more money when you can't afford what you owe already! Classic case...the development on the hill just north of McDonalds in Belfair...the county Commissioners wanted to pay to extend the sewer to that development at a HUGE cost to the county and GUESS WHAT? The development paid the cost...LET the developers pay to bring the utilities in! It is the cost of development....not a freebee on the shoulders of the community. Its common sense, its common development costs, its NOT the county's expense! �� Your WQst Sound REAL.TORSe Since 11)67' REAL ESTATE Q' Designated 66ker Reid Real Estate 00 Kim Wilson, Designated Broker, REO Specialist Reid Real Estate - Servicing the West Sound Area 360-731-1040 - Direct KimWi1SOnRE ctgmail.com KimWilson.ReidRealEstate.com i McKenzie Smith From: Paula Winslowe <winslowepaula1 @gmail.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 7:08 PM To: McKenzie Smith; Kevin Shutty; Strask@masoncounty.gov; Randy Neatherlin Subject: RE: Sewer topic January 28, 2022 Am commenting that I fully support the position that developers should finance the infrastructure required (in the current case: sewer)for their projects . At some point the developer reaps profits from their investments and it is not the private citizens' responsibility to subsidize the developer's interests. I am encouraging the commission to come to a decision commensurate with this stance.Thank you. Paula Winslowe 1 McKenzie Smith From: Troy And Judy Woodard <strod33@hcc.net> Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 12:48 PM To: Randy Neatherlin; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Belfair sewer expansion Randy, Thank you for your great article in the Journal on the Belfair sewer expansion. I encourage you and the other commissioners not to move forward with this project and additional debt. We should not be taking on further debt until the current sewer debt has been paid off and certainly not to benefit one land owner. Thank you for listening to my concerns. Sent from my Wad McKenzie Smith From: outlook_A12872412A72EFD5@outlook.com <kevinjwoodland@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 4:34 PM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Belfair Sewers Do not put us into additional debt for the Belfair sewer system!!! The developers of additional properties should pay for all expenses to connect. The Community Food Pantry, for example can not afford a rate increase.The CFP is dependent on small donations to feed the hungery in the North Mason area. Kevin Woodland Sent from Mail for Windows i McKenzie Smith From: lakelanders@wavecable.com Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 9:30 AM To: Randy Neatherlin Cc: McKenzie Smith; Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask Subject: Sewer System Development Mason County Commisioners: FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!! There have been many wrong decisions made about utilities and infrastructure in our little towns of Belfair and Allyn. Shouldn't our historical decisions on land development shed some light on the right thing to do? The right decision was made regarding the sewer system on the hill. Although, there are many concerns regarding the soil stability for that development. Why would we put our residents in debt when we already have higher sewer rates than surrounding areas. The development of our community should have input from its residents. Community development should benefit the community and not an immediate benefit to one developer or a group of developers. We need to grow and pay as we go!!! Thank you Commissioner Neatherlin for standing up for our community!!! Linda Zeh Mason County Resident Allyn, WA McKenzie Smith From: KURT ZIMMERMAN <kurtzimmerman@att.net> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:12 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: excessive sewer costs My monthly sewer costs are already too high($118.00) I reside in Allyn, Lakeland. Please fight any more unjustified increases to my sewer costs. The extension costs should not be added to our area. McKenzie Smith From: HWAN JA PERREAULT <phja@msn.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 5:31 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer system Thank you for the heads up Randy. The sewer system was forced on Lakeland Village because of problems in other areas. It was accompanied by a promise that the rates would not be raised. Just about everything that was promised has been violated and this so called agreement as you correctly point out it not a benefit to the area. Please do what you can to see this proposal does not go through. John Lakeland Village Sent from Mail for Windows McKenzie Smith From: Mr Brownbag <saiga12g@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday,January 28, 2022 6:15 AM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: Mason County Sewer Hello, as a 21 year lakeland village resident who was forced into the sewer years ago after losing the lawsuit against it in the first place, We are completely against any more sewer increases in price. Goodness! What started out as a promise to be no more than $50.00 a month has ballooned to $118.00, now they want to almost double it?Totally unacceptable! You all have our full support to fight against us having to pay any more! Make the developers pay for it! All my neighbors feel the same on this... Thanks,John Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone McKenzie Smith From: Lynne2 <Lyn ne2@wavecable.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 9:33 PM To: Kevin Shutty Subject: Sewer expansion This is not something that the taxpayers of Belfair should have to bear! One person doesn't get to benefit from a whole towns misery. It's shameful that we are here and at a time when the community is still in the throws of a pandemic and economic crisis! Do not allow this to be approved.Thank you! Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone McKenzie Smith From: McKenzie Smith Sent: Thursday,January 27, 2022 10:50 AM To: Kevin Shutty; Sharon Trask; Randy Neatherlin Subject: Belfair Sewer Extension Comment Good morning Commissioners, I had a gentleman call who shops and works in Mason County and feels that a private company should have to pay for the sewer extension. He requested to keep his name anonymous but shared that his income is limited and he would not be able to afford an additional tax. Warm regards, McKenzie Smith Clerk of the Board, Records Specialist Mason County Commissioners Office (360)427-9670 ext.589 1 msmith a,masoncounjywa.eov hitp://www.masoncouniywa.gov "Please note:Mason County complies with the Public Records Act Chapter 42.56 RCW.As such,any e-mail sent to and/or from the County may be subject to public disclosure. McKenzie Smith From: cruisrgrl <cruisrgrl@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 8:12 PM To: Randy Neatherlin Subject: Sewer Costs Randy, please continue to fight for us. It seems so logically reasonable that developers pay for their own infrastructure. There is no benefit to us in subsidizing the development of our county at further expansion of the debt we incur. Thanks, Randy! Lakeland Village resident Sent from my Verizon,Samsung Galaxy smartphone McKenzie Smith From: epmarvik@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2022 12:03 PM To: McKenzie Smith Subject: new sewers Baloney too much debt!!! Sent from Mail for Windows