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No Mason County
shops were among the
state Liquor Control
Board's first batch of li-
censes for retail pot shops.
The board handed
out 24 licenses Monday.
Stores were allowed to
open as early as Tues-
day. Five stores across
the state were able to
open Tuesday.
The closest licensed can begin selling mari- one licensed producer,
business to Mason Coun- juana at their discretion or grower -- Highwater
ty, as of Monday, was 420 following receipt of prod- Farms of the Skokomish
Carpenter at 422 Car- uct and entering it into Valley.
penter Road in Lacey. the traceability system. On July 1, the Mason
A list of all of the The Liquor Control County Board of Com-
licensed retailmarijuana Board plans to licensemissioners approved a
stores is at liq.wa.gov/ 334 retail marijuana lo- moratorium on marijua-
records/frequently- cations inthe state, na production and pro-
requested-lists. As of Monday, 58 pro- cessing in most zoning
The 24 licensees were ducers and 48 processors areas in Mason County.
notified of their approved have been licensed by the Some of the county's
applications via emailstate. No processors in producer and processor
early Monday morning. Mason County have beenlicense applicants will be
Marijuana retailers licensed. The county has affected by that decision.
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By NATALIE JOHNSON
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Mason County elected officials
and department heads will soon
begin drafting their 2015 budgets,
The Mason County Board of
Commissioners met with Budget
Manager Frank Pinter on Monday
afternoon to discuss its annual
budget instruction letter to county
staff.
According to Pinter's briefing to
the commission, the county can ex-
pect $27.4 million in revenue and
$28.8 million in expenditures in
2015.
The commission asked Pinter
to draft a letter instructing county
staffto budget to 2014 levels, or to
draft status quo budgets.
The letter is scheduled to go out
to county staff Monday. The pre-
liminary budget will be available
to the public Nov. 17. The county
will have a preliminary budget
hearing on Dec. 1 and the budget
must be passed by Dec. 31.
Commissioner Tim Sheldon
said he did not agree that drafting
the 2015 budget to 2014 levels is a
good idea.
The county commission ap-
proved its 2014 budget on New
Year's Eve, just hours before the
deadline. Total expenditures for
2014 were budgeted at $28.5 mil-
lion and revenue was budgeted at
$27 million.
Sheldon instead suggested that
county staff budget to 2013 levels.
However, Jeffreys noted that the
2013 budget was balanced partial-
ly by cutting $700,000 in county
reimbursements to its equipment
rental and revolving (ER&R) fund.
Last year, the state Auditor's
Office listed the move as a finding
against the county's 2013 account-
ability audit, and directed the
commission to pay back the money
to its ER&R fund.
In addition to the projected ex-
penditures for 2015, the county
could face another $2.9 million
in expenses, including a potential
$8,945,000 operating shortfall for
the Belfair sewer, a $500,000 set-
tlement to BOSS Construction of
Bellingham, over issues related to
the completion of the Belfair sewer
and more than $1 million in wage
increases.
Of that $1 million, $495,635 is
for 2015 wage increases for Mason
County sheriffs deputies, which
was awarded after arbitration this
spring.
Tim Ripp, a corporal in the
Mason County Sheriffs Office
and guild president of the Mason
County Sheriffs Office lodge of
the Fraternal Order of Police, said
Tuesday he was concerned the
Sheriffs Office would be directed
to absorb the increase into its ex-
isting budget, with no increase in
funding from the county.
"We bargained in good faith,"
he said.
The Sheriffs Office will be di-
rected to list the wage increase on
what was called a supplemental
budget and is now referred to as
an "expenditures above status quo
form," Commissioner Terri Jef-
freys said.
Deborah Lippincott, a labor
specialist from the Fraternal Or-
der of Police who was involved
in the county's negotiations with
the union, said the county never
mentioned during meetings that it
could not afford to fund the wage
increase. ....
'~e would have had much more
discussion about the county's abil-
ity to pay," she said Tuesday.
Pinter gave the commission
several suggestions for increasing
revenue in 2015. These include a
levy shift, which could add $1.5
million in revenue or a 0.2 per-
cent public safety sales tax, which
could add more than $600,000 in
revenue.
Sheldon said Monday he is not
in favor of a tax increase, but Com-
missioner Randy Neatherlin said
the commission should consider
its options to increase revenue.
"I think we need to have a con-
versation about other revenue,"
Neatherlin said.
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