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6.20.2023 Tues PM BOCC
Meeting Highlights:
- Solid Waste manager announces 1) upcoming grant application opening for air monitoring equipment 2) need for new liner costing upwards of $40,000 to remedy leach pond leak
- County Engineer gives progress on Cecile Creek road work, discusses road-vacation petition, gravel crushing; Twisp River Bridge rehabilitation project to start soon
- Behavioral Health CEO pleased with staffing gains, medicaid increases; opioid settlement money could finance crisis responder at jail
- State auditors say Accountability Audit to test for deficiencies, examine grant spending
- Planning director ready to hire consultant for Copperstone development, “considerable changes” being required;
Milltown property annexation to Twisp approved; review of Mazama advisory group candidate scheduled for Commissioner Hover’s return