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Positions
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creating jobs."
Cronce said that while he
hasn't served in an elected
office before, his business
experience would be use-
ful if elected mayor. Cronce
said he ran against Tarrant
four years ago. He is also a
past president of the Mason
County Homebuilders Asso-
ciation.
Cronce said his first prior-
ity if elected would be public
safety.
"If I was elected mayor I
would be proactive on neigh-
borhood safety," he said.
"We need to prioritize - ev-
eryone has their priorities. I
don't necessarily believe it's
a money issue."
Cronce said that he also
wanted to create jobs in the
City of Shelton and work to-
ward historic preservation
and street repair. He also
said that he is not in favor of
tax increases.
"It's not a high prior-
ity. If it was we'd be paving
streets," he said.
Cronce has lived in Ma-
son County for 35 years and
in Shelton for five. He runs
Case By Case Jewelers with
his wife.
Tract Moore said that it
was only a matter of time
before she decided to run for
mayor.
"I have always suspected
that I would run for mayor.
I always thought it would be
after I retired," she said.
While Moore has never
held elected office, she said
that she has experience
in leadership in volunteer
boards for 20 years, particu-
larly as the president of the
Shelton Historic Preserva-
tion Board. She has also
served in the City Planning
Board, the city's Plan Imple-
mentation Committee and
the Plan Advisory Board.
As part of those boards,
Moore helped write ordi-
nances and zoning for the
city. She also worked in the
city's community and eco-
nomic development depart-
ment as a permit technician.
"I'm very familiar with
city zoning," she said.
iii 'i M re said that if elected
as Mayor she would take a
"mainstroet approach," and
focus on the strength of
Shelton neighborhoods, local
businesses and city pride.
She said that her efforts as
mayor would also encourage
tourism to Mason County
and Shelton.
"We need to explore every
avenue possible for attract-
ing new businesses and pro-
moting them," she said.
Moore plans to work with
the city's limited funds to
improve civic pride and pub-
lic safety. She suggested
education programs to pro-
mote crosswalk safety as one
option.
"I would really like to do
some community education
and promotions to make it a
safer community to walk in,"
she said. "Obviously we're
not going to have the money
to redo all the streets in the
near future."
Moore has lived in Shel-
ton for 24 years.
The Commissioner of
Finance seat at the city of
Shelton is also up for elec-
tion this year. Incumbent
commissioner Mike Byrne
is running for reelection
against local contractor
Mike Olsen. Because there
are only two candidates for
the office, there will not be a
primary election for this po-
sition.
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Byrne was elected as the
Commissioner of Finance
four years ago, but stepped
into the position in the
middle of the previous term
as an appointed replace-
ment for Dick Taylor, who
resigned to work with the
chamber of commerce.
Byrne said that he chose
to run for reelection because
he wanted to continue the
plans that he and the oth-
er two commissioners had
made for the future.
"We've had a pretty tough
four years and nobody ex-
pected that and we really
had to make some tough
decisions and reduce pro-
grams and reduce staff and
still keep the city going,"
Byme said. "We've really
set in place the future bud-
get years into 2012 and 2013
with a plan to rebuild pro-
grams providing the funding
increases a bit."
Byrne also served two
terms at the city in the
1970s as Commissioner of
Public Works.
Byrne said that as the
Commissioner of Finance
his main goal is to increase
efficiency in government
and push for economic devel-
opment in the city, ~o pro-
mote economic development
in the city as much as we
can in order to increase our
tax base and meet demands
of the people."
Bymo ban lived in $h0L
ton his entire life, except for
seven and a half years he
spent in Olympia teaching
school. He previously owned
a contracting business and
worked for Mason County
for 18 years as the Director
of General Services, and the
Director of Parks.
Shelton contractor Mike
Olsen will run against By-
me in the general election.
Olsen said that he wants to
make sure the interests of
downtown neighborhoods
are well represented at the
city commission.
Olsen has never held pub-
lic office but has been a part
of several advisory boards,
and is the vice president of
the Shelton Historic Pres-
ervation Board. Olsen also
owns his own business in
Shelton.
l've been here for 30
years as a resident, and for
22 I've owned my own busi-
ness- M.H. Olsen Construc-
tion," he said.
Olsen has been a huge
proponent of historical pres-
ervation in Shelton, and has
even restored his own house,
which is on the Shelton His-
toric Register.
"It's the Grisdale house-
it's 104 years old, I bought
it from the Catholic Church
and restored it," he said.
Olsen said that taking
more, and quicker, action
towards historical preserva-
tion would be a good move
for the city.
"There aren't too many
little towns like Shelten
left," he said. "It's a dying
type of a city environment -
it's important that we keep
that here."
Olsen also said he would
push for downtown revital-
ization and increased tour-
ism in Shelton as a city com-
missioner.
"It would also bring some
pride to the community if
people could get involved in"
helping keep the downtown
clean and growing," he said.
Olsen addressed the city's
continuing budget woes as
well.
"We don't have any mon-
ey, we're not going to get any
money, but we're not going
to give up," he said.
Hearing
Continued from page A-1
in advance to lock in the current
charges, called a capacity reserva-
tion charge. Those parcels would
then also be charged a capital ser-
vice charge of $25 per month, in-
stead of a monthly sewer rate.
The rate ordinance outlines
other charges like strength charg-
es and capacity charges for those
whose water usage later exceeds
their original allocated ERU value.
Belfair property owner Earl Lin-
coln, among many others, testified
that the ERU value would stamp
out many businesses in Belfair.
=This is about what it's going
to cost the business people," Lin-
coln said. "Why do these business-
es have to absorb this mandated
growth management?"
Lincoln advocated for spread-
ing the costs across the county, in
the form of an assessment, or ask-
ing the state to distribute the costs
statewide.
"Why would someone in
Wenatchee want to pay for your
sewer in Bolfair?" Sheldon asked in
response.
Others compared the 135 ERU
value in Bolfair to the higher, and
therefore more affordable, ERU
Rescue
Continued from page .A-1
values in Allyn and Olympia and
argued for more equity.
"Why should a Mexican restau-
rant in Allyn pay less (in sewer
fees) than a Mexican restaurant in
Belfair?" said business and prop-
erty owner Brian Petersen. =I just
don't understand."
• Business owner and North Ma-
son Chamber Chairperson Cassan-
dra Hoffman asked whether the
county had a plan for what would
happen if too many businesses shut
down because of sewer costs, affect-
ing the data for the how much the
costs would be for everyone else.
"I think unfortunately some
people will not be able to connect,
that's just how the world is," Shel-
don said. "Who knows for sure? ...
We have no choice but to build the
infrastructure."
Emmett Dobey, county director
for utilities and wastewater, and
Sheldon said that under those cir-
cumstances proposed by Hoffman,
the county could restructure its
debt, consolidate utilities in Bel-
fair, turn over the utility to the
ratepayers or incorporate, if pos-
sible.
Developer Jack Johnson asked
the county to re-look at the water
usage data provided by the Belfair
Water District and eliminate sea-
sonal users and users at the Golden
Bell Trailer Park, which is not re-
quired to connect to the sewer un-
der state law.
Under Johnson's calculations,
the ERU value would then be clos-
er to 176 gallons per day.
In the last week, several promi-
nent groups and persons have
spoken out against the county's
interim rate ordinance, includ-
ing the North Mason Chamber of
Commerce, the Mason County As-
sociation of Realtors and the North
Mason School District Board and
Superintendent.
At the public hearing, most peo-
ple urged the commissioners to take
their time coming to a decision, so
as to give the public and the county
more time to go over the ordinance
and any new calculations.
"It will be cheaper to build a
business in Silverdale than it will
be to build in Belfair," said prop-
erty owner Bob Harris. "I don't
think there's an incentive to move
te Belfair ... because it's just fiat-
out cheaper to be somewhere else."
The commissioners voted to con-
tinue the hearing in two weeks at
9:30 a.m. on August 2 in the com-
missioner's chambers.
To read the interim sewer rate
ordinance, visit www.mason-
countywastewater.com and click
"Project Library."
the dog, but it was a
training mission."
While Wright said it
=The owner called for =There was this one
it and we called for it and ledge that a couple of
I think a lot of people people who had gone
thhiking that we down the south side had
found the dog it wouldn't really wanted to look
be good," she said. there," Wright said.
The group continued She said group mem-
was meant to be a "no- with their training mis- ber John Kaster agreed
risk" mission, and was sion and started looking to rappel down the slope.
technically only for train- for paw prints and other
ing purposes, the major- clues for the dog's where-
ity of the six volunteers abouts.
who went looking for Eventually, the rescu-
Sasha the morning of ers started taking turns
Friday, July 8 were dog rapelling down cliff faces
lovers in search of some- to look for the dog.
body's lost friend. =Nobody could find
They were pragmatic, any signs that the dog
As he descended, he
looked around for prints,
looked in trees, bushes
and around rocks.
When he got to the
bottom, he called up to
the group, "I found Sa-
sha," Wright said.
"We heard him say
however, and suspected had ended up on any of 'I found Sasha,' but it
that ffthe dog had in fact the snow down there,"wasn't with a whole lot
fallen the full 150 feet, it Wright said. "Nothingof excitement, so we
may not have survived, would indicate where were all thinking, 'oh
At 8:30 a.m. that Fri- something fell and got up no," she said. =He didn't
injuries in her right paw,
and a broken tooth. She
was conscious, so nobody
]mows why she made no
noise when her owners
or the rescuers called for
her.
After finding Sasha,
the volunteers had to get
her back up the 150 foot
slope.
They were relieved to
find that although Ber-
nese Mountain Dogs can
be quite large, Sasha was
only 65 or 70 pounds,
Wright said.
They put the dog in
a "litter" or a kind of
mountain rescue gurney
and hauled her to the top
with a rope. Wright even
passed down her fleece
day Wright and five oth- and panicked." elaborate, then he said, jacket to keep the cold,
er volunteers reached the After little success,'I found Sasha and she's hungry and dehydrated
trailhead, and two and other than getting train- alive.' I think he was dog warm.
a half hours later they ing, the volunteers were shocked." "Nobody thought the
reached the summit and almost ready to go, l ome, AmazinKly, the dog outcome was going to be
: decided to try l king only s tls slight in, the way it was," Wright
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District one who is running. I can see value people equal representation and
in every one of them." create more oversight of the dis-
Continued from page A-3 She has a website at www.lin-trict, he said.
niegriiTm.com. Jill Satran-Loudin has lived in
Griffin decided to run because In the running for the two-year Belfair her whole life and has been
she's "a person of common sense," Commissioner Position No. 2 race working for 22 years for the City
she said, and she encourages peo- are Jack Kimball, 80, and Jill Sa- of Port Orchard's Public Works de-
pie to read up on state laws and the tran-Loudin, 49. partment.
community's six-year plan. Kimball said he is running be- She decided to run after others
communicate with a lot ofcause the meetings don't take into suggested she attend the water dis-
people and I care about our public account the input from the public, trict's meetings.
water district," she said. "I've been "I think they need to open it up, "The first meeting that I went
attending other meetings, asking open up the meetings," said Kim- to, I couldn't believe it," she said.
questions, creating a network of ball, who once served a two-year rhey were picking on old people
people who work within [the indus- term in Mason County Fire District and, I mean, [they need to] answer
try]. I hope I can help create some 2 . "Now, you can't say anything the questions ... I think that the
of the forward changes. We need to until the meeting's over. The peo- district's being mishandled and I
take care of the past, work on the pie that actually open up their time think that it's sad that the ques-
future and take care of the here to be there should have something tions aren't being answered to the
and now." to say about how the business is be- public."
If she were elected, Griffin would ing conducted." Satran-Loudin said she would
allow anyone who signs in to speak Kimball has lived in Belfair remove arbitrary rules and create
at meeting a chance to talk. since around 1960 and retired in fairness among the ratepayers.
=I want to hear each and every 1985 from his career as a pipe fit- "I just want to be honest and I
one of them, she said. =If we're ter and then general foreman in just care about the public's money,"
transparent it helps us work. I the Bremerton shipyard, and is a she said.
want unity on the commissioner member of the North Mason Corn- She has been married for 11
beard and respect for each other's munity Voice and the local metal years and has volunteered for the
knowledge, and I know we will detector's club. Beard's Cove Community Associa-
have that. I am delighted by every- If he were elected, he would give tion.
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