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Skookum Rotary suggest event center partnership
By NATALIE JOHNSON guage in the MOU. fundha4 for the construction of an event participate in the planning process and
natalie@masoncounty.com
Organizations in Mason County are
moving ahead with efforts to make plans
for a new fairgrounds and event center.
The Mason County Board of Commis-
sioners reviewed a memorandum of under-
standing (MOU) prepared by the Shelton
Skookum Rotary Club Foundation out-
lining a partnership among the club, the
county commission and the Port of Shelton
to create plans for a new event center.
Patti Case of Skookum Rotary ad-
dressed the commission on the MOU
Tuesday.
"This can't be a Taj Mahal," she said.
"Right now we need some basics."
The Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) has mandated that the Port of
Shelton use its fairgrounds property on
Sanderson Field for airport use rather
than an event center, by Dec. 31.
County Commissioner. Tim Sheldon
said he had some issues with the lan-
guage of the MOU, particularly passages
such as, "All parties believe that the peo-
ple of Mason County agree that an event
center is in the financial and cultural
best interests of the country."
"Absent a public advisory vote, we
don't know what the entire Mason Coun-
ty community feels," he said. "I think it's
a great start but I think it needs to be
wordsmithed."
Case said she would revise the lan-
"We're continuing with this effort re-
gardless of whether this piece of paper is
signed," she said.
Commissioner Terri Jeffreys said she
thought the election of Kristy Buck to
the Port of Shelton, who supported the
movement of the fairgrounds from pert
property, over incumbent Jay Hupp, who
wanted to keep the fairgrounds at the
port, indicated that the public supported
moving the fairgrounds.
FAA officials have previously said
that the port could lease the space for
events in the near future if it provided a
plan to move the fairgrounds to another
location by a set date.
The FAA sent the county commis-
sion a letter dated Jan. 15 thanking the
commission for forwarding a petition by
citizens of Mason County to keep the fair-
grounds at its current location, but said it
would not be able to reverse its decision.
"Unfortunately, a fairground does not
meet the definition of airport purpose or
aviation reserve," wrote Randall S. Fi-
ertz, director of airport compliance and
management analysis. "In addition, the
fairground does not pay the required fair
market value for aeronautical uses."
As outlined in the MOU, Skookum
Rotary will "facilitate meetings of poten-
tial funding sources over a period of six
months from the date of this agreement."
The MOU also states that Skookum
Rotary has already identified that groups
within the county are willing to provide
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son County, the Port of Shelton and pri-
vate groups, have land that could host an
event center.
The MOU would require Mason
County and the Port of Shelton to pro-
vide one representative each who will
assist Skookum Rotary. The MOU also
asks that the county and pert agree to
provide all materials, such as previous
pert plans, that might help the process.
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cuss the MOU again at its Feb. 4 meet-
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