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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019/07/15 - Briefing BOARD OF MASON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' BRIEFING MINUTES Mason County Commission Chambers,411 North 5th Street,Shelton,WA Week of July 15,2019 Monday,July 15,2019 9:00 A.M. Thurston Mason Behavioral Organization—Mark Freedman Commissioners Shutty,Trask and Neatherlin were in attendance. • Request to approve a second amendment to the ILA between Mason County and Thurston County which formed the Thurston-Mason Behavioral Health Organization(TMBHO)in response to 2019 legislation,SB5432,which allows for the formation of a Behavioral Health Administrative Service Organization(BH-ASO)for Non-Medicaid services,with a priority for crisis care. • The treatment facility in Mason County is slowly moving along with the goal of opening by end of this year. 9:15 A.M. Support Services—Frank Pinter Commissioners Shutty,Trask and Neatherlin were in attendance. • Review of the Email Management Policy. Cmmr.Neatherlin asked that deleted emails be retained for 1 year before being purged. The policy will be placed on the agenda for approval. • The June Financial Statements were reviewed.The Commissioners asked for more detail on the sales tax. • Two offers to purchase two parcels of county surplus property were reviewed. One offer has an escalation clause that places the offer at$11,000 and the Commissioners accepted that offer. • Discussion of the delay of the Mason Transit Park and Ride and round about project at Log Yard Road. Cmmrs. Shutty and Neatherlin are good with going to bid in August. 9:45 A.M. Community Services—Dave Windom Commissioners Shutty,Trask and Neatherlin were in attendance. e Review of Water Quality program needs and funding options. There are five shellfish protection districts in Mason County that do not charge any fees. Funding options include charging a fee in the shellfish protection districts or charge all parcels county-wide. Currently there is a.5FTE that is grant funded doing water quality work in the North Bay Shellfish Protection District,which was downgraded in 2017. Annas Bay was recently downgraded. They need two FTE's in the Water Quality program. Cmmr.Shutty noted that Seattle Shellfish supports the Skagit County program and suggested Mason County explore this option. He asked staff to design a program that could be funded by Mason County to consider in the 2020 budget process. Cmmr.Neatherlin supports$5 per parcel for a water quality program;he doesn't support charging those who do not have septic problems. Alex stated the Skagit County has a fee schedule that is applied county-wide based on the use of the parcel. There are restrictions to charging fees on certain types of parcels in shellfish protection districts. • Consolidated Homeless Grant with the Department of Commerce to provide resources to homeless crisis response systems. There will be an additional briefing next week. • Weekly building permit report was reviewed. • No applications have been received for the Plans Examiner position. • The Fire Marshal position will be vacated. This will impact commercial building permits. Staff is exploring options on how to cover this service. A Building Inspector V includes Building Official and Fire Marshal duties. • There is a logging operation on the north shore that is under a DNR permit. 10:20 A.M. BREAK Board of Mason County Commissioners' Briefing Meeting Minutes July 15,2019 10:25 A.M. Public Works—Loretta Swanson Utilities&Waste Management Commissioners Shutty,Trask and Neatherlin were in attendance. • Request to bring forward the Interlocal Agreement between the City of Bremerton,Port of Bremerton and Mason County was approved. • $2M award grant for the Belfair Sewer will be brought forward. • Deputy Director recruitment for Utilities is still open and they are exploring options,including reassigning some duties internally and contracting for some services. The current job description has a P.E.requirement. • Water meter project update was provided. Staff will provide the information to the Commissioners on what the charges will look like. • WSDOT Coffee Creek project is moving forward. • Street lighting requests are being reviewed. • Belfair Financial Study-$54K cost per$1 M of debt. Information will be coming forward on project options. • Hoodsport pedestrian safety improvements. Working on placing our speed trailer in WSDOT right of way;staff will obtain a permit. Pedestrian crossing at Schoolhouse Road will impact two parking spaces. WSDOT stated they will put in the pedestrian crossing this summer. Staff is working on the rapid flashing beacon and who will maintain.Discussion of speed signs— using a trailer or the type that is placed on a speed limit sign. Staff will bring back the cost of purchasing the speed signs. • Equipment purchase continued from last week. Staff reported there are no used tractors available that meet the specs. Cmmr.Neatherlin doesn't understand how there cannot be any used tractors available. Commissioners asked staff to look at Ritchie Brothers. This will be brought back. • The Highland Road project has started. 10:45 A.M. Juvenile Court Services—Jim Madsen Commissioners Shutty,Trask and Neatherlin were in attendance. • Request to move two grants for 2020-2021 to agenda for approval: Consolidated Block Grant and Evidence Based Expansion Grant. 11:00 A.M. Sheriff's Office—Chief Spurling Commissioners Shutty,Trask and Neatherlin were in attendance. • Quarterly report for traffic division funds was reviewed. There are nine dedicated traffic deputies to road purposes and YTD expenses are 47%or$1,016,495 of the traffic diversion total of$2,160,000 has been spent. Due to retirements,the expenses are a bit lower and these positions are being filled so staff doesn't expect a shortfall of expenses from traffic diversion. Discussion of vehicle purchase from traffic diversion.Speed trailers and radars are acceptable capital purchases. Cmmr.Shutty asked this report be provided at the TIPCAP meeting. The meeting adjourned at 11:05 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Diane Zoren,Administrative Services Manager BOARD OF MAJSQN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS -ql Wdff IeZ ><�-,7 1 � Kevin Shutty k4y ea �aronrasl Chair Commissioner Commissioner