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They're treasuring the moment
Lynn Rostvold, incoming treasurer of
PUD 3, left, shares a light moment with
Commissioner John Whalen and retir-
ing treasurer Gall Olson. Whalen of-
ten lightened the mood during Olson's
monthly reports by asking: "How much
money is in the cigar box?" Olson is re-
tiring on Friday after 27 years with the
PUD, the last 10 as treasurer. Rostvold
was officially designated as the new
treasurer by vote of the PUD 3 Commis-
sion on Tuesday.
[3PA budget casts a shadow
,c00ver Groundhog Day debate
Public power officials think
the seeds of a future rate hike
might be embedded in a pro-
posed 2008 budget for the Bonn-
eville Power Adminis,tration.
The BPA is the major supplier
of electricity to homes and busi-
nesses in Mason County and so
the budget was a subject of some
recent discussion by the PUD 3
Commission. Wyla Wood, gener-
al manager of the public utility
district, circulated a memoran-
dum about the budget from Kev-
in O'Meara of the Public Power
Council.
He described the budget as
a "good news/bad news" situa-
tion and Jay Himlie, the PUD's
power supply manager, put the
accent on the negative. "They're
making another run at us once
again," he said.
President Bush presented
the budget for consideration of
the U.S. Congress earlier this
month. The good news, as far as
O'Meara is concerned, is the that
administration will make it eas-
ier for the BPA to borrow money
from lenders other than the U.S.
Treasury. The bad news is that
the budget as presented would
Flrrested but
not charged
ii
No charges were filed in Mason
County Superior Court against
three people who were scheduled
for arraignment on Monday, Feb-
ruary 12.
Jesse Blair Gassier, 20, of
50 North Buckhorn, Hoodsport,
had been arrested January 30
in an investigation of possession
of methamphetamine. Jeremy
Dale Kempton, 22, of 223 West
H Street, Shelton, and Heather
Karin Hudson, 23, of 9142 Wen-
dy Drive, Lacey, were arrested
January 29 in an investigation of
possession of meth.
All were released from condi-
tions imposed on them by the
court.
i
t
7,
u
AI,I, OUT CONSTRUCTION
CONPANI" LL.C.
allow the BPA to use income
from its surplus power sales
to pay off more of its Treasury
debt in advance. People in pub-
lic power prefer that this money
be used to keep electricity rates
low in the Pacific Northwest.
O'MEARA WROTE that the
budget assumes prepayments of
$533 million through 2012, and
by his calculation this could re-
sult in rate hikes in excess of 5
percent "depending on the year,
and exactly who the money is
collected from."
Another concern expressed by
Wood about the budget at last
week's commission meeting has
to do with efl'orts of the BPA to
try to get the people who buy its
wholesale power to pay for im-
provements to its transmission
lines. "Power customers and
transmission customers are not
the same," she said.
Commissioner John Whalen
recalled that there was a time
when the public utility districts
had a chance to buy the BPA and
lamented the fact that this was
not done. "It's a cash cow now,"
Wood replied. "They're not going
to let it go."
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell,
D-Washington, also threw her
two cents in on this subject when
she quizzed U.S. Energy Secre-
tary Samuel Bodman on Febru-
ary 2, also known as Groundhog
Day. The BPA budget had a
hearing that day before the Sen-
ate Energy Committee, ot" which
she is a member. She described
the proposal on transmission
lines as "illegal" and a rehash of
last year's plan to raise electric-
ity rates in the Pacific North-
west as a way of" shrinking the
federal deficit.
"LAST YEAR, a bipartisan
coalition of Northwest senators
made it very clear that we will
not allow tile administration to
use BPA as the deep pockets to
pay tbr the President's irrespon-
sible deficit," said Cantwell. "A
year has not changed my mind
or the minds of my colleagues.
This illegal plan will go nowhere
in the Congress and I'm not sure
why the administration is wast-
ing our time with this propos-
al."
Cantwell complained of her
own "Groundhog Day frustra-
tion" (referring to the movie in
which the main character lives
the same day over and over) and
asked Bodman whether the ad-
ministration has the legal au-
thority to implement the trans-
mission funding plan on "its own.
Bodman said he didn't know the
answer and recalled that he and
Cantwell "had this discussion a
year ago, as I remember. It is a
little bit like Groundhog Day, I
think in that sense."
Steve Johnson of the Wash-
ington Public Utility Districts
Association said the proposal "is
nothing more than a hidden at-
tempt to gouge the Northwest's
ratepayers to the tune of about
$1 billion, and at the worst pos-
sible time."
By Popular Demand
February 22"23" 24
Watch next week's
Journal for details
You don't want to miss it
Remember: 10% Senior Discount Parts & Service
SALES:
Monday-Saturday
"FAMILY OWNED PARTS AUTO SERVICE:
SINCE 1928" Monday-Friday
,'" a Grove 426-4424
CHEVROLET Downtown SHELTON SHELTON
Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, February 15, 2007
City commission roundup:
Upgra [e o1" sewers
enters a new
The City of Shelton is about to
embark on the next phase of its ef-
forts to improve the way it handles
stormwater in downtown Shelton.
Commissioner of Public Works
Dawn Pannell announced Mon-
day that the city will solicit bids
next week on the job of upgrading
the pipes in Basin II. That means
crews will soon be tearing and
then repairing sewer lines in an
area bounded by 12th and Front
streets on the west and east and
the alleys between Pine and Alder
streets and Franklin Street and
Railroad Avenue on the north and
south.
"The city is very excited about
this project," Pannell said.
Her remarks came at this week's
meeting of the Shelton City Com-
mission. The project will go out to
bid on February 20, with bids to
be opened on March 16 and a con-
tract to be awarded in April. Once
the bidding process is complete the
heavy lifting can begin.
"WE'RE ON TRACK for that,"
Pannell said.
The city is under an order by
the Washington State Department
of Ecology to reduce the infiltra-
tion of stormwater into its
sewer system. The old
designed to let rainwater
the new view is this leads
dumping of pol!ution into
Bay as the city s wastewatert
ment plant becomes
the event of a rainstorm.
Work on an area
Basin I was completed in
and the city has a $1-million
grant to design a new
system for Basin II. ResidentS
shop owners in downtown
are being asked to let crews
ing on Basin II go onto their t
erty as the scope of the
thorizes the contractor to
lateral lines as well.
"We do ask the
indulgence as we are di
the street and replacing th
lines," Pannell said. "It
bit of a mess, but we are
100-year-old pipes with
and that is a good thing."
CITY OFFICIALS will
with officials of the
Ecology as work on Basin II
der way. Pannell said the
lines will be fitted with
(Please turn to
r ' A (( T
The UW Coastal Observation and Seabird
Survey Team is looking for volunteers to help
monitor marine birds in south Puget Sound.
Training session
Shelton Public Library .Meeting Room
Saturday; Feb:"17, 10:30 am-4:30 pm
Contact: info@coasst.org, 206-221-6893
10-Yard Truck
most sizes
CRUSHED
ROCK
delivered into Shelton
s165 Call for details
for and pricing to
just other areas.
Plus tax, Price effective 9/1/05. Prices subject to change without notice.
CONSTRUCTION GRADE
ED.O00,%,a
3" Minus
EO.B.
Located on Highway 101
between Shelton and Olympia
Year-round delivery
Creek
Quarry
Call for details
(36000 426
IS YOUR CHECKBOOK
MORE BALANCED THAN
YOUR 40 l(k)?
Most brokers will tell you that itwesting in a 401(k) is aa
impollant way to save for retirement. What few bother to
say is that it's not enough just to have a 401(k).
% get the most from y,,.r .401(k) when you retire, yOU.
have to actively manage it now. At Edward Jones..e
work with you to help ensure that your 401(k) portloli°
accurately fits your goals. So your 401 (k) can wo,'k fir yoU,
not the other way around.
To learn how Edward Jones can help you make settSe
of your 401(k), call or visit your local financial advis0t
today.
Armln Baumgarlel Dan Baumgartel
www.edwardjones.com
Member SIPC
Armin Baumgartel
Dan Baumgartel
Financial Advisors
821 West Railroad Avenue,
Suite A, Shelton
426-0982. !-800-441-0982
They're treasuring the moment
Lynn Rostvold, incoming treasurer of
PUD 3, left, shares a light moment with
Commissioner John Whalen and retir-
ing treasurer Gall Olson. Whalen of-
ten lightened the mood during Olson's
monthly reports by asking: "How much
money is in the cigar box?" Olson is re-
tiring on Friday after 27 years with the
PUD, the last 10 as treasurer. Rostvold
was officially designated as the new
treasurer by vote of the PUD 3 Commis-
sion on Tuesday.
[3PA budget casts a shadow
,c00ver Groundhog Day debate
Public power officials think
the seeds of a future rate hike
might be embedded in a pro-
posed 2008 budget for the Bonn-
eville Power Adminis,tration.
The BPA is the major supplier
of electricity to homes and busi-
nesses in Mason County and so
the budget was a subject of some
recent discussion by the PUD 3
Commission. Wyla Wood, gener-
al manager of the public utility
district, circulated a memoran-
dum about the budget from Kev-
in O'Meara of the Public Power
Council.
He described the budget as
a "good news/bad news" situa-
tion and Jay Himlie, the PUD's
power supply manager, put the
accent on the negative. "They're
making another run at us once
again," he said.
President Bush presented
the budget for consideration of
the U.S. Congress earlier this
month. The good news, as far as
O'Meara is concerned, is the that
administration will make it eas-
ier for the BPA to borrow money
from lenders other than the U.S.
Treasury. The bad news is that
the budget as presented would
Flrrested but
not charged
ii
No charges were filed in Mason
County Superior Court against
three people who were scheduled
for arraignment on Monday, Feb-
ruary 12.
Jesse Blair Gassier, 20, of
50 North Buckhorn, Hoodsport,
had been arrested January 30
in an investigation of possession
of methamphetamine. Jeremy
Dale Kempton, 22, of 223 West
H Street, Shelton, and Heather
Karin Hudson, 23, of 9142 Wen-
dy Drive, Lacey, were arrested
January 29 in an investigation of
possession of meth.
All were released from condi-
tions imposed on them by the
court.
i
t
7,
u
AI,I, OUT CONSTRUCTION
CONPANI" LL.C.
allow the BPA to use income
from its surplus power sales
to pay off more of its Treasury
debt in advance. People in pub-
lic power prefer that this money
be used to keep electricity rates
low in the Pacific Northwest.
O'MEARA WROTE that the
budget assumes prepayments of
$533 million through 2012, and
by his calculation this could re-
sult in rate hikes in excess of 5
percent "depending on the year,
and exactly who the money is
collected from."
Another concern expressed by
Wood about the budget at last
week's commission meeting has
to do with efl'orts of the BPA to
try to get the people who buy its
wholesale power to pay for im-
provements to its transmission
lines. "Power customers and
transmission customers are not
the same," she said.
Commissioner John Whalen
recalled that there was a time
when the public utility districts
had a chance to buy the BPA and
lamented the fact that this was
not done. "It's a cash cow now,"
Wood replied. "They're not going
to let it go."
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell,
D-Washington, also threw her
two cents in on this subject when
she quizzed U.S. Energy Secre-
tary Samuel Bodman on Febru-
ary 2, also known as Groundhog
Day. The BPA budget had a
hearing that day before the Sen-
ate Energy Committee, ot" which
she is a member. She described
the proposal on transmission
lines as "illegal" and a rehash of
last year's plan to raise electric-
ity rates in the Pacific North-
west as a way of" shrinking the
federal deficit.
"LAST YEAR, a bipartisan
coalition of Northwest senators
made it very clear that we will
not allow tile administration to
use BPA as the deep pockets to
pay tbr the President's irrespon-
sible deficit," said Cantwell. "A
year has not changed my mind
or the minds of my colleagues.
This illegal plan will go nowhere
in the Congress and I'm not sure
why the administration is wast-
ing our time with this propos-
al."
Cantwell complained of her
own "Groundhog Day frustra-
tion" (referring to the movie in
which the main character lives
the same day over and over) and
asked Bodman whether the ad-
ministration has the legal au-
thority to implement the trans-
mission funding plan on "its own.
Bodman said he didn't know the
answer and recalled that he and
Cantwell "had this discussion a
year ago, as I remember. It is a
little bit like Groundhog Day, I
think in that sense."
Steve Johnson of the Wash-
ington Public Utility Districts
Association said the proposal "is
nothing more than a hidden at-
tempt to gouge the Northwest's
ratepayers to the tune of about
$1 billion, and at the worst pos-
sible time."
By Popular Demand
February 22"23" 24
Watch next week's
Journal for details
You don't want to miss it
Remember: 10% Senior Discount Parts & Service
SALES:
Monday-Saturday
"FAMILY OWNED PARTS AUTO SERVICE:
SINCE 1928" Monday-Friday
,'" a Grove 426-4424
CHEVROLET Downtown SHELTON SHELTON
Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, February 15, 2007
City commission roundup:
Upgra [e o1" sewers
enters a new
The City of Shelton is about to
embark on the next phase of its ef-
forts to improve the way it handles
stormwater in downtown Shelton.
Commissioner of Public Works
Dawn Pannell announced Mon-
day that the city will solicit bids
next week on the job of upgrading
the pipes in Basin II. That means
crews will soon be tearing and
then repairing sewer lines in an
area bounded by 12th and Front
streets on the west and east and
the alleys between Pine and Alder
streets and Franklin Street and
Railroad Avenue on the north and
south.
"The city is very excited about
this project," Pannell said.
Her remarks came at this week's
meeting of the Shelton City Com-
mission. The project will go out to
bid on February 20, with bids to
be opened on March 16 and a con-
tract to be awarded in April. Once
the bidding process is complete the
heavy lifting can begin.
"WE'RE ON TRACK for that,"
Pannell said.
The city is under an order by
the Washington State Department
of Ecology to reduce the infiltra-
tion of stormwater into its
sewer system. The old
designed to let rainwater
the new view is this leads
dumping of pol!ution into
Bay as the city s wastewatert
ment plant becomes
the event of a rainstorm.
Work on an area
Basin I was completed in
and the city has a $1-million
grant to design a new
system for Basin II. ResidentS
shop owners in downtown
are being asked to let crews
ing on Basin II go onto their t
erty as the scope of the
thorizes the contractor to
lateral lines as well.
"We do ask the
indulgence as we are di
the street and replacing th
lines," Pannell said. "It
bit of a mess, but we are
100-year-old pipes with
and that is a good thing."
CITY OFFICIALS will
with officials of the
Ecology as work on Basin II
der way. Pannell said the
lines will be fitted with
(Please turn to
r ' A (( T
The UW Coastal Observation and Seabird
Survey Team is looking for volunteers to help
monitor marine birds in south Puget Sound.
Training session
Shelton Public Library .Meeting Room
Saturday; Feb:"17, 10:30 am-4:30 pm
Contact: info@coasst.org, 206-221-6893
10-Yard Truck
most sizes
CRUSHED
ROCK
delivered into Shelton
s165 Call for details
for and pricing to
just other areas.
Plus tax, Price effective 9/1/05. Prices subject to change without notice.
CONSTRUCTION GRADE
ED.O00,%,a
3" Minus
EO.B.
Located on Highway 101
between Shelton and Olympia
Year-round delivery
Creek
Quarry
Call for details
(36000 426
IS YOUR CHECKBOOK
MORE BALANCED THAN
YOUR 40 l(k)?
Most brokers will tell you that itwesting in a 401(k) is aa
impollant way to save for retirement. What few bother to
say is that it's not enough just to have a 401(k).
% get the most from y,,.r .401(k) when you retire, yOU.
have to actively manage it now. At Edward Jones..e
work with you to help ensure that your 401(k) portloli°
accurately fits your goals. So your 401 (k) can wo,'k fir yoU,
not the other way around.
To learn how Edward Jones can help you make settSe
of your 401(k), call or visit your local financial advis0t
today.
Armln Baumgarlel Dan Baumgartel
www.edwardjones.com
Member SIPC
Armin Baumgartel
Dan Baumgartel
Financial Advisors
821 West Railroad Avenue,
Suite A, Shelton
426-0982. !-800-441-0982