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08.06.2024 Tues PM BOCC
Meeting Highlights:
• Human Resources Director Keitzman announces a clean energy audit including buildings between 20,000 and 50,000 sq. ft., must be up to standard by 2027
• Jail chief to be given discretion on grant-funded nurses’ contracts
• Zone code amendments to be discussed in public hearing include three-acre or more quarries reverting to conditional use permit, PUD verification of charging stations’ impact on energy demand, re-inserting deleted portions preventing reduction of water supplies to senior water rights holders relative to fire flow certification
• Disagreement on necessity to include demands for reduced outdoor lighting in current amendments; consensus on ridgetop restrictions
• Planning chief directed to move forward on amendments to nightly rental code that would eliminate requirement for permit from health district
• Commissioner Branch says Dept. of Ecology Staff should invite Planning chief when investigation possible permit violations; discussion on over-reach on permit
• Meeting adjourned at 2:57 (Notes will be loaded soon!)