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08.15.2023 Tues AM BOCC
Meeting Highlights:
· Maintenance department helping staff to get ready for the Fair.
· Public Comment: Isabelle Spohn had questions/comments regarding long overdue updating of the 2013 Community Wildfire Protection Plan and promised yearly review of the 2022 All Hazards Mitigation Plan (AHMP) for Okanogan County, especially in light of the devastation and breakdown of mitigation plans in Maui, Hawaii. Ruth Hall asks if the Staff Report for the Monse Road Vacation request is available, with the hearing scheduled for August 22nd.
· Central Services: Discuss computer upgrades.
· Fire by Wannacut Lake.
· Discuss transfer of DOT property in Mazama to County ownership, working with the Conservancy and considering shoreline policy.
· Finance Committee: (Treasurer, Auditor and Finance Manager) Cash on hand, expenditures, and receipts from July.
· County Engineer: maintenance and road condition, status of current projects, guardrail repair from Eagle Bluff Fire going out to bid. Staff report for Monse Road Vacation should be available this Thursday. Public Records Request needed. Barnholt Loop speed limit change. Meeting is scheduled and residents notified.
· Meeting adjourned at 11:37 for lunch, working lunch with consultants.