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Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014 - Mason County Journal- Page A-11
Proposed 549.1M budget
includes no cuts to employees
By GORDON WEEKS
gordon@masoncoun com
The Shelton City Commission is
hosting the final public hearing on the
proposed 2015 budget at its regular
meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in the Shel- nary budget. Marilyn Vogler encouraged the city
ton Civic Center, 525 W. Cota Ave. The budget of $49,129,281 is an in- to find money to fund annual fall and
The proposed 2015 budget calls for crease of $1,662,459 from the 2014 city spring cleanup days, where the city
$49.1 million in revenue and expen- budget. The increase is primarily due uses equipment and personnel to help
ditures and includes money for one to the expanded Upper Mountain View people in need haul away things and
new full-time employee who would Pressure Zone construction project, ac- spruce up their yards. The cleanup
work with three city programs: the cording to the city's Finance Department. days were not offered this year.
Storm Fund, equipment mainte- Only one resident commented on theVogler also recommended that the
nance and rental, and sewer collec- proposed budget during a public hear- city look into requiring businesses
tion. ing at the commission's meeting Nov. to recycle, just as it requires its resi-
No employee cuts are in the prelimi- 6. dents.
The Journal of Record is pro- glar turned off the home's to deter burglars.
duced using 911 call informa- power.
tion the Mason County Emer- NOV. 20
gency Communications, the Fire -- At 6:01 p.m., a caller Assault -- At 2:14 p.m., a caller
Mason County Sheriff's Office reported a structure fire in the reported an assault on West
and the She/ton Police Depart- 100 block of Pacific Court in state Route 108 in Shelton. The
ment provide. Shelton. assault reportedly happened in
October.
NOV. 18 NOV. 19
Burglary -- A burglary was Theft -- At 3:06 p.m., a caller NOV. 22
reported in the 300 block reported the theft of cameras Theft -- At 2 a.m., a caller
of North 13th Street. The from his property. The caller on Southeast Canna Place in
caller reported that the bur- stated he installed the cameras Shelton reported that some-
one stole gas out of his or her JR50 motorcycle.
vehicle.
Assault - At 8 p.m., a caller re-
Theft of forest products -- At ported being head-butted in the
2:48 p.m., a caller reported a 700 block of Cascade Avenue
brush theft on Green Diamond near the former Red Apple. The
Resources Co. 5100 Road near two men knew each other and had
Matlock. disagreed about a $10 debt, ac-
cording to the Shelton Police De-
Theft -- At 3:05 p.m., a caller partment. Alcohol was involved.
in the 1200 block of Harvard
Avenue in Shelton reported the • Compiled by reporter Natalie
theft of a yellow 1993 Suzuki Johnson
This list of new criminal charges filed Donald Kinsman Parsons was charged
in Mason County Superior Court is with failing to register as a sex offender.
compiled from information the Mason
County Clerk's Office provides. NOV. 19
Kayla Marie Miller was charged with
NOV. 18 forgery.
Gregory Scott
possession of
heroin.
Colello was charged with
methamphetamine or
Corey Eugene Clay was charged with
possession of methamphetamine.
Rebecca Lynn Burkett was charged NOV. 21
with possession of methamphet- Paul Jack Ron Boysen was charged
amine, with residential burglary.
NOV. 20 Ray Russel Walkup was charged with
James Charles Cutting was charged theft in the second degree.
with unlawful imprisonment, domestic
violence and liability for another's ac- • Compiled by reporter Natalie
tions, or complicity in a crime. Johnson
1626 Olympic Hwy N ° Shelton
