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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- You Call This Spring? We are having a Spring Sale anywaysI Mutual .. Enulnclaw Another increase on auto or homeowner insurance renewal? Call us for a quote. You'll be glad you did. Arnold & Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 426-3317 1535 Olympic Highway North, Shelton Page 2 Shelton-Mason Journal March 25 1999 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. an underachl We offer a free service that can closely what your IRA could be worth at it's not achieving the results you want, you all of our available IRA choices. we'll Armin Baumgartel Call or stop by todSY' i Armin Baumgartel Investment Representative 821 West Railroad AvenUe, Shelton 426-0982 * www.edward Member SIP(= Serving Individual Ir 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 This event is sponsored by the City of Shelton For more information contact Joel Myer, Special Projects Coordinator at 426-4491 jmyer@westsound.com Visit the City of Shelton Web Site www.ci.shelton.wa.us 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- You Call This Spring? We are having a Spring Sale anywaysI Mutual .. Enulnclaw Another increase on auto or homeowner insurance renewal? Call us for a quote. You'll be glad you did. Arnold & Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 426-3317 1535 Olympic Highway North, Shelton Page 2 Shelton-Mason Journal March 25 1999 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. an underachl We offer a free service that can closely what your IRA could be worth at it's not achieving the results you want, you all of our available IRA choices. we'll Armin Baumgartel Call or stop by todSY' i Armin Baumgartel Investment Representative 821 West Railroad AvenUe, Shelton 426-0982 * www.edward Member SIP(= Serving Individual Ir 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 This event is sponsored by the City of Shelton For more information contact Joel Myer, Special Projects Coordinator at 426-4491 jmyer@westsound.com Visit the City of Shelton Web Site www.ci.shelton.wa.us