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School board wants more County acts fast hirin,
lnfo on grade-level groups. GMA work ultants
!; : ' Board members THAT PROPOSED reconfig theyre talking about when they
want some cost estimates before uration would provide, by the go out to talk to the public." She
2003-2004 school year, three ele-
mentary schools somewhat small-
er in enrollment (413 students
each) than the current average, a
moderate jump to a middle school
of 530 students, a junior high of
891 students and a high school of
1,134 students.
Based on enrollment projec-
tions for the 2003-2004 school
year if the current grade configu-
ration is kept, Shelton's school
enrollments would include 413
students each in three elementa-
ry schools, 839 students at Shel-
ton Middle School and 1,662 stu-
dents at Shelton High School.
The school district administra-
tion is predicting a continuation
of the current dip in enrollment
for the next several years com-
pared to the sustained growth
previously anticipated. The dis-
trict's current enrollment of 3,870
students would decline in each of
the next five years to a level of
3,741 students by the 2003-2004
school year, based on district pro-
jections.
McGee said the board needs
cost estimates for the proposed
changes in district facilities so
board members "will know what
was referring to a proposed school
bond measure that is targeted for
February 2000.
"THERE ARE SOME things
that we don't know," Hundley
said, using as an example the re-
cent $7.75-million sale of more
than 722 acres on the west side of
Highway 101 off Wallace Knee-
land Boulevard and its for-now-
unknown affect on the district.
He said school district adminis-
trators are talking to city and
county officials about other poten-
tial developments.
"We can get better cost
figures," Hundley assured the
board. He said the motion gives
him the green light to proceed.
Shelton attorney Joe Snyder, a
former school board member,
complimented the board for its
slow, deliberative process. He
said he has warmed to the idea of
grade reconfiguration. "It's a plan
for the future," he said. But re-
configuration has challenges, he
added.
"The effort you're doing now is
building a bridge for eventual
passage (of a bond issue) in the
future," Snyder said.
By MARY DUNCAN
While at times it seems the
wheels of county government
move at a turn-of-the-century
pace, when the issue is obtaining
professional services to help the
county out of a jam, the speed ap-
proaches new millennium
warps.
On March 16, the Mason
County commissioners decided
to hire outside expertise to aid
them in their attempts to comply
with the state Growth Manage-
ment Act (GMA), and at Tuesday
night's commission meeting
they learned those positions have
been filled.
Gary Yando, community de-
velopment director, informed
commissioners Mary Jo Cady
and Cindy Olsen that he had so-
licited telephone bids from the
consultant roster for the services
of a GMA policy advisor and a
planning consultant. Yando
said he would offer contracts to
Michael J. McCormick of Olym-
pia for the advisor's work and to
David Evans and Associates of
Tacoma for the planning con-
sultant.
The consultants will assist
Yando and county staff in re-
sponding to items of noncom-
pliance and invalidity in the
comprehensive plan and devel-
opment regulations which were
identified by the Western Wash-
ington Growth Management
Hearings Board in its rulings.
FOR THE ADVISOR position,
Yando reported, he contacted
three firms. After reviewing the
proposals, he said, "it is felt Mc-
Cormick would best fit our
needs." The cost for his services
is not to exceed $6,000, he added.
McCormick will assist the
county in reviewing background
information, meeting with coun-
ty staff at least two times, devel-
oping and presenting recom-
mendations, meeting with and
advising the GMA planning
consultant as needed, and re-
viewing draft products with
county staff and the consultant,
Yando noted.
For the planner position, Yan-
do continued, David Evans and
Associates will send Mike Davo-
lio, who has worked with the
they'll conmit to reconfiguring
tilt, grades in local schools.
Tuesday night the board di-
rected Superintendent Bill Hund-
Icy* to bring back a more detailed
grade reconfiguration plan, in-
cluding the estimated cost of re-
placing Bordeaux and Evergreen
elementary schools, of demolish-
ing the Angle Education Center,
of building a new school to house
sixth- and seventh-graders and of
making other planned improve-
ments in the district.
In voting unanimously to sup-
port board member Annette Mc-
Gee's motion for the additional in-
formation, the board also indicat-
e(t it wants projected enrollment
figures for the schools.
In January, Hundley unveiled
a sweeping list of recommenda-
tions fl)r modernizing Shelton
School District facilities, includ-
ing a reconfiguration of grades
within local schools. He asked the
board to adopt the following
grade reconfiguration: elementary
schools with kindergarten
through grade 5, middle school of
grades 6 and 7, junior high with
grades 8 and 9 and high school of
grades 10 through 12.
Jury acquits in informant drug case
lated his contract with the sher-
iffs office by fleeing the state.
"Apparently there were threats
against his life by a certain
person," O'Brien said.
The officer testified that he
never saw the exchange of money
for drugs, could not hear what
Hudson and the man said to be
Cloud were saying and lost sight
of the Ford Thunderbird used in
Hudson's second purported meet-
ing with Cloud.
PRESSED BY Lane, O'Brien
said he never found Cloud in pos-
session of the prerecorded money.
"The lapse of time between the
actual buys and the time he was
arrested was too long," he said.
Sandy Jones of the Mason
County Transportation Co-op
testified that Hudson's first pur-
ported meeting with Cloud took
pace within 1,000 feet of a bus
stop. That would have meant two
more years of prison time had
Cloud been convicted of dealing
drugs outside the Hoodsport
Ranger Station.
Finlay then called Hudson to
the stand. He said he promised to
help the deputies make 12 con-
trolled buys. He then told the
court that he arranged with
Cloud to buy methamphetamine
on April 17.
He testified that O'Brien
searched him and his car at Pot-
latch State Park and then gave
him $80 to buy a "teener," street
slang for a sixteenth of an ounce
of methamphetamine.
HE SAID HE made the buy
and gave the evidence to O'Brien,
and then made another buy of an
"eight ball," or an eighth of an
ounce, on April 21.
Hudson said he fled the State
before the evidence could be
brought to court. "I received a
threat against my life and my
wife also received a threat from
Mr. Cloud," he said, explaining
that Cloud suspected he might be
working with law officers.
He quoted Cloud as saying,
"I'm more dangerous to you in
prison than I am on the streets so
that better not be a problem."
He said he was extradited back
to Washington and received mon-
ey for working as a confidential
informant. He denied targeting
Cloud because of problems they
had had in the past.
DETECTIVE Jim Petraitis of
the Mason County Sheriffs Office
said he watched the April 17
meeting between Hudson and a
man purported to be Cloud
"He knew me by sight so I was
laying low," Petraitis said. Under
cross examination by Lane he tes-
tified that he saw no money or
drugs change hands.
Kimberly Hefton, a forensic
scientist with the Washington
State Patrol, testified that she
weighed and tested the contents
of two baggies reputedly pur-
chased by Hudson and found
them to be methamphetamine.
She said she calculated the
weight of the contents of the bag-
gies and found that they weighed
less than witnesses had testified.
AT THIS POINT the state
rested its case. Lane called Ron
Ault of Hoodsport to the stand.
He said Hudson 'has the reputa-
tion of being "not truthful." Under
cross examination by Finlay he
testified that he knows Cloud ca-
sually. "We're not friends," he
said.
Lane then called Earl William
Davis Jr. of Hoodsport to the
stand. He owns the Sunrise Motel
and Diving Resort and was asked
to describe Hudson's reputation
in the community. "He is any-
thing but truthful," Davis said.
Susan Watts, an Olympia pri-
vate investigator, said one
couldn't see the northeast section
of the Hoodsport Ranger Station
parking lot from the east.
In her closing remarks Finlay-
said, "People who deal drugs in a
small community aren't going to
deal them to somebody they don't
know. They are going to deal to
somebody they do know because
they don't want to get caught,"
Finlay said.
Lane's closing focused on in-
consistencies in the testimony of
witnesses. He said Deputies
O'Brien and Petraitis relied too
heavily on Hudson's credibility.
The jurors who concluded that
the state did not prove its case
were Dane Zugsenwerdt, Nadine
Webster, Joseph Sandegren,
James Elmore, Robert Bossard,
Tina Coburn, Robert August,
Mark Johnson, Katherine Allard,
Darlene Sunday, Bill Yocum and
Mary Roudebush. James Lisner
was the alternate.
Woman admits she
forged spouse's will
Shirley Mae Clevenger, 60, of
411 Grove Street, Shelton, pied
guilty in Mason County Superior
Court last Thursday to the charge
of forging her late husband's will.
Judge James Sawyer ordered a
presentence investigation and
scheduled sentencing for April 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Clevenger were
married in May of 1997. Kenneth
Clevenger died last April 17 fol-
lowing gall bladder surgery at
Mason General Hospital. Accord-
ing to court papers, on April 25
she left a message for his son, Da-
vid, in which she said she had
found a will and had given it to
her attorney, Robert Brungardt.
The document gave all his
property to his widow, according
to court papers. On April 27 Da-
vid Clevenger filed an affidavit al-
leging that the will was a forgery.
Detective Rocky Pfitzer of the
Shelton Police Department inves-
tigated the charge.
Pfitzer contacted Donna and
Virgil Vant, who purportedly wit-
nessed the will, according to court
papers. They eventually admitted
that they saw Shirley Clevenger
prepare the will on a home com-
puter after her husband's death,
according to Pfitzer's statement of
probable cause.
Pfitzer then contacted Shirley
Clevenger, who confessed to the
forgery, according to court papers.
She made an Alford plea of
guilty after consulting with attor-
ney Brungardt. That means she
maintains her innocence but be-
lieves the evidence is such that a
conviction is likely if she takes
the case to trial.
Lake Cushman area resident
Richard Kenneth Cloud was ac-
quitted of drug delivery after a
three-day trial in Mason County
Superior Court last week.
Cloud, 43, of North 5751 Lake
Cushman Road, Hoodsport was
found not guilty of two counts of
delivering an illegal drug by a
jury of his peers on Wednesday,
March 17.
"The defendant is released
from all conditions. That's all, Mr.
Cloud. Thank you," Judge James
Sawyer said after the jurors
handed down their verdict.
Earlier in the week, the jury
heard testimony from a confiden-
tial informant (CI) who told the
court he purchased methamphe-
tamine from Cloud last April 17
and 24. Deputy Prosecutor Amber
Finlay presented Frank O'Brien,
now a deputy of the Pierce Coun-
ty sheriff, who testified that last
April, as a Mason County deputy,
he worked with Steve Hudson of
Hoodsport on efforts to arrest
Cloud for dealing drugs.
O'Brien said Hudson had been
arrested for a robbery connected
to the sale of drugs and wanted to
become an informant to clear his
record and make money. O'Brien
then described the procedures
used before two meetings between
Hudson and a man purported to
be Cloud.
When making a controlled buy,
the informant is supervised,
coached and searched beforehand,
O'Brien said. After the buy he
hands over the drugs, is searched
again, and makes a tape-recorded
statement, O'Brien told the court.
ON APRIL 17 and 21 Hudson
was searched and given pre-
recorded money "to buy narcotics
from Rick Cloud," O'Brien said.
Each time, he told the jury, Hud-
son returned with a substance
thought to be methamphetamine,
O'Brien said.
Cross-examined by Lane,
O'Brien testified that Hudson vio-
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county before, as project manag-
er and Mary Lynne Evans,
"whose recent experience as
manager of the growth manage-
ment division of Washington
State Community, Trade and
Economic Development can pro-
vide special insights into GMA
requirements." The cost for these
services, on a time-and-expense
basis, is not to exceed $15,000,
Yando stated.
Yando said the scope of the
work must specifically address
the following issues raised by the
hearings board's order:
Bringing the final supple-
mental impact statement into
compliance;
Revising the land-use ma-
trix;
Revising sections related to
Rural Activity Centers to estab-
lish new boundaries and to re-
solve questions related to densi-
ties and population allocations;
Reviewing and revising the
county's critical areas ordi-
nance, drafting revisions to the
capital facilities plan and devel-
opment regulations related to the
Belfair Urban Growth Area; and
Revising the rural lands
section to address maximum
residential densities, population
allocations, boundarieS,
ing and the range
uses.
WHEN CADY
the $21,000 will corn
fund these positions,
the planning budget'
source. He
$18,000 remained in
ton State
Economic D
growth planning
$9,000 was in a
the department's budget.
Neither contract
the amount sP
board approval.
Last week Yando
would use the small
to find the help.
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roster.
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board issued
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School board wants more County acts fast hirin,
lnfo on grade-level groups. GMA work ultants
!; : ' Board members THAT PROPOSED reconfig theyre talking about when they
want some cost estimates before uration would provide, by the go out to talk to the public." She
2003-2004 school year, three ele-
mentary schools somewhat small-
er in enrollment (413 students
each) than the current average, a
moderate jump to a middle school
of 530 students, a junior high of
891 students and a high school of
1,134 students.
Based on enrollment projec-
tions for the 2003-2004 school
year if the current grade configu-
ration is kept, Shelton's school
enrollments would include 413
students each in three elementa-
ry schools, 839 students at Shel-
ton Middle School and 1,662 stu-
dents at Shelton High School.
The school district administra-
tion is predicting a continuation
of the current dip in enrollment
for the next several years com-
pared to the sustained growth
previously anticipated. The dis-
trict's current enrollment of 3,870
students would decline in each of
the next five years to a level of
3,741 students by the 2003-2004
school year, based on district pro-
jections.
McGee said the board needs
cost estimates for the proposed
changes in district facilities so
board members "will know what
was referring to a proposed school
bond measure that is targeted for
February 2000.
"THERE ARE SOME things
that we don't know," Hundley
said, using as an example the re-
cent $7.75-million sale of more
than 722 acres on the west side of
Highway 101 off Wallace Knee-
land Boulevard and its for-now-
unknown affect on the district.
He said school district adminis-
trators are talking to city and
county officials about other poten-
tial developments.
"We can get better cost
figures," Hundley assured the
board. He said the motion gives
him the green light to proceed.
Shelton attorney Joe Snyder, a
former school board member,
complimented the board for its
slow, deliberative process. He
said he has warmed to the idea of
grade reconfiguration. "It's a plan
for the future," he said. But re-
configuration has challenges, he
added.
"The effort you're doing now is
building a bridge for eventual
passage (of a bond issue) in the
future," Snyder said.
By MARY DUNCAN
While at times it seems the
wheels of county government
move at a turn-of-the-century
pace, when the issue is obtaining
professional services to help the
county out of a jam, the speed ap-
proaches new millennium
warps.
On March 16, the Mason
County commissioners decided
to hire outside expertise to aid
them in their attempts to comply
with the state Growth Manage-
ment Act (GMA), and at Tuesday
night's commission meeting
they learned those positions have
been filled.
Gary Yando, community de-
velopment director, informed
commissioners Mary Jo Cady
and Cindy Olsen that he had so-
licited telephone bids from the
consultant roster for the services
of a GMA policy advisor and a
planning consultant. Yando
said he would offer contracts to
Michael J. McCormick of Olym-
pia for the advisor's work and to
David Evans and Associates of
Tacoma for the planning con-
sultant.
The consultants will assist
Yando and county staff in re-
sponding to items of noncom-
pliance and invalidity in the
comprehensive plan and devel-
opment regulations which were
identified by the Western Wash-
ington Growth Management
Hearings Board in its rulings.
FOR THE ADVISOR position,
Yando reported, he contacted
three firms. After reviewing the
proposals, he said, "it is felt Mc-
Cormick would best fit our
needs." The cost for his services
is not to exceed $6,000, he added.
McCormick will assist the
county in reviewing background
information, meeting with coun-
ty staff at least two times, devel-
oping and presenting recom-
mendations, meeting with and
advising the GMA planning
consultant as needed, and re-
viewing draft products with
county staff and the consultant,
Yando noted.
For the planner position, Yan-
do continued, David Evans and
Associates will send Mike Davo-
lio, who has worked with the
they'll conmit to reconfiguring
tilt, grades in local schools.
Tuesday night the board di-
rected Superintendent Bill Hund-
Icy* to bring back a more detailed
grade reconfiguration plan, in-
cluding the estimated cost of re-
placing Bordeaux and Evergreen
elementary schools, of demolish-
ing the Angle Education Center,
of building a new school to house
sixth- and seventh-graders and of
making other planned improve-
ments in the district.
In voting unanimously to sup-
port board member Annette Mc-
Gee's motion for the additional in-
formation, the board also indicat-
e(t it wants projected enrollment
figures for the schools.
In January, Hundley unveiled
a sweeping list of recommenda-
tions fl)r modernizing Shelton
School District facilities, includ-
ing a reconfiguration of grades
within local schools. He asked the
board to adopt the following
grade reconfiguration: elementary
schools with kindergarten
through grade 5, middle school of
grades 6 and 7, junior high with
grades 8 and 9 and high school of
grades 10 through 12.
Jury acquits in informant drug case
lated his contract with the sher-
iffs office by fleeing the state.
"Apparently there were threats
against his life by a certain
person," O'Brien said.
The officer testified that he
never saw the exchange of money
for drugs, could not hear what
Hudson and the man said to be
Cloud were saying and lost sight
of the Ford Thunderbird used in
Hudson's second purported meet-
ing with Cloud.
PRESSED BY Lane, O'Brien
said he never found Cloud in pos-
session of the prerecorded money.
"The lapse of time between the
actual buys and the time he was
arrested was too long," he said.
Sandy Jones of the Mason
County Transportation Co-op
testified that Hudson's first pur-
ported meeting with Cloud took
pace within 1,000 feet of a bus
stop. That would have meant two
more years of prison time had
Cloud been convicted of dealing
drugs outside the Hoodsport
Ranger Station.
Finlay then called Hudson to
the stand. He said he promised to
help the deputies make 12 con-
trolled buys. He then told the
court that he arranged with
Cloud to buy methamphetamine
on April 17.
He testified that O'Brien
searched him and his car at Pot-
latch State Park and then gave
him $80 to buy a "teener," street
slang for a sixteenth of an ounce
of methamphetamine.
HE SAID HE made the buy
and gave the evidence to O'Brien,
and then made another buy of an
"eight ball," or an eighth of an
ounce, on April 21.
Hudson said he fled the State
before the evidence could be
brought to court. "I received a
threat against my life and my
wife also received a threat from
Mr. Cloud," he said, explaining
that Cloud suspected he might be
working with law officers.
He quoted Cloud as saying,
"I'm more dangerous to you in
prison than I am on the streets so
that better not be a problem."
He said he was extradited back
to Washington and received mon-
ey for working as a confidential
informant. He denied targeting
Cloud because of problems they
had had in the past.
DETECTIVE Jim Petraitis of
the Mason County Sheriffs Office
said he watched the April 17
meeting between Hudson and a
man purported to be Cloud
"He knew me by sight so I was
laying low," Petraitis said. Under
cross examination by Lane he tes-
tified that he saw no money or
drugs change hands.
Kimberly Hefton, a forensic
scientist with the Washington
State Patrol, testified that she
weighed and tested the contents
of two baggies reputedly pur-
chased by Hudson and found
them to be methamphetamine.
She said she calculated the
weight of the contents of the bag-
gies and found that they weighed
less than witnesses had testified.
AT THIS POINT the state
rested its case. Lane called Ron
Ault of Hoodsport to the stand.
He said Hudson 'has the reputa-
tion of being "not truthful." Under
cross examination by Finlay he
testified that he knows Cloud ca-
sually. "We're not friends," he
said.
Lane then called Earl William
Davis Jr. of Hoodsport to the
stand. He owns the Sunrise Motel
and Diving Resort and was asked
to describe Hudson's reputation
in the community. "He is any-
thing but truthful," Davis said.
Susan Watts, an Olympia pri-
vate investigator, said one
couldn't see the northeast section
of the Hoodsport Ranger Station
parking lot from the east.
In her closing remarks Finlay-
said, "People who deal drugs in a
small community aren't going to
deal them to somebody they don't
know. They are going to deal to
somebody they do know because
they don't want to get caught,"
Finlay said.
Lane's closing focused on in-
consistencies in the testimony of
witnesses. He said Deputies
O'Brien and Petraitis relied too
heavily on Hudson's credibility.
The jurors who concluded that
the state did not prove its case
were Dane Zugsenwerdt, Nadine
Webster, Joseph Sandegren,
James Elmore, Robert Bossard,
Tina Coburn, Robert August,
Mark Johnson, Katherine Allard,
Darlene Sunday, Bill Yocum and
Mary Roudebush. James Lisner
was the alternate.
Woman admits she
forged spouse's will
Shirley Mae Clevenger, 60, of
411 Grove Street, Shelton, pied
guilty in Mason County Superior
Court last Thursday to the charge
of forging her late husband's will.
Judge James Sawyer ordered a
presentence investigation and
scheduled sentencing for April 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Clevenger were
married in May of 1997. Kenneth
Clevenger died last April 17 fol-
lowing gall bladder surgery at
Mason General Hospital. Accord-
ing to court papers, on April 25
she left a message for his son, Da-
vid, in which she said she had
found a will and had given it to
her attorney, Robert Brungardt.
The document gave all his
property to his widow, according
to court papers. On April 27 Da-
vid Clevenger filed an affidavit al-
leging that the will was a forgery.
Detective Rocky Pfitzer of the
Shelton Police Department inves-
tigated the charge.
Pfitzer contacted Donna and
Virgil Vant, who purportedly wit-
nessed the will, according to court
papers. They eventually admitted
that they saw Shirley Clevenger
prepare the will on a home com-
puter after her husband's death,
according to Pfitzer's statement of
probable cause.
Pfitzer then contacted Shirley
Clevenger, who confessed to the
forgery, according to court papers.
She made an Alford plea of
guilty after consulting with attor-
ney Brungardt. That means she
maintains her innocence but be-
lieves the evidence is such that a
conviction is likely if she takes
the case to trial.
Lake Cushman area resident
Richard Kenneth Cloud was ac-
quitted of drug delivery after a
three-day trial in Mason County
Superior Court last week.
Cloud, 43, of North 5751 Lake
Cushman Road, Hoodsport was
found not guilty of two counts of
delivering an illegal drug by a
jury of his peers on Wednesday,
March 17.
"The defendant is released
from all conditions. That's all, Mr.
Cloud. Thank you," Judge James
Sawyer said after the jurors
handed down their verdict.
Earlier in the week, the jury
heard testimony from a confiden-
tial informant (CI) who told the
court he purchased methamphe-
tamine from Cloud last April 17
and 24. Deputy Prosecutor Amber
Finlay presented Frank O'Brien,
now a deputy of the Pierce Coun-
ty sheriff, who testified that last
April, as a Mason County deputy,
he worked with Steve Hudson of
Hoodsport on efforts to arrest
Cloud for dealing drugs.
O'Brien said Hudson had been
arrested for a robbery connected
to the sale of drugs and wanted to
become an informant to clear his
record and make money. O'Brien
then described the procedures
used before two meetings between
Hudson and a man purported to
be Cloud.
When making a controlled buy,
the informant is supervised,
coached and searched beforehand,
O'Brien said. After the buy he
hands over the drugs, is searched
again, and makes a tape-recorded
statement, O'Brien told the court.
ON APRIL 17 and 21 Hudson
was searched and given pre-
recorded money "to buy narcotics
from Rick Cloud," O'Brien said.
Each time, he told the jury, Hud-
son returned with a substance
thought to be methamphetamine,
O'Brien said.
Cross-examined by Lane,
O'Brien testified that Hudson vio-
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county before, as project manag-
er and Mary Lynne Evans,
"whose recent experience as
manager of the growth manage-
ment division of Washington
State Community, Trade and
Economic Development can pro-
vide special insights into GMA
requirements." The cost for these
services, on a time-and-expense
basis, is not to exceed $15,000,
Yando stated.
Yando said the scope of the
work must specifically address
the following issues raised by the
hearings board's order:
Bringing the final supple-
mental impact statement into
compliance;
Revising the land-use ma-
trix;
Revising sections related to
Rural Activity Centers to estab-
lish new boundaries and to re-
solve questions related to densi-
ties and population allocations;
Reviewing and revising the
county's critical areas ordi-
nance, drafting revisions to the
capital facilities plan and devel-
opment regulations related to the
Belfair Urban Growth Area; and
Revising the rural lands
section to address maximum
residential densities, population
allocations, boundarieS,
ing and the range
uses.
WHEN CADY
the $21,000 will corn
fund these positions,
the planning budget'
source. He
$18,000 remained in
ton State
Economic D
growth planning
$9,000 was in a
the department's budget.
Neither contract
the amount sP
board approval.
Last week Yando
would use the small
to find the help.
day night he said he
ken. He clarified that
solicited from the
roster.
On January 14, the
board issued
validity, partial c
continued no'.
continued invalidity
county's revised plan
use regulations. The
180 days from the date
der to respond to
on the amended plan
August.
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March 30 7:00 p.m.
Shelton Middle School Commons
A Community Forum on
Year 2000
Local businesses, government and others have been
ing for Year 2000. Leam more about their efforts and hoW:
can prepare for the new millenium. The forum will
representatives from:
City of Shelton
E911 Communications
A local bank branch
A local credit union
Mason County PUD #3
Mason General Hospital
Shelton School District
Mason County E
Management
Simpson Timber ComparlY
KMAS Radio
Washington CorreCtions
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Visit the City of Shelton Web Site www.ci.shelton.wa.us