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Page 14 — Shelton-Mason Journal Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023 Budget: Back to School Festival Saturday at Olympic MS continued from page for maintenance and operations, $1,763,525 for utilities and insur— ance, $900,670 for other services, and $86,230 for public activities. The district’s 2022—23 budget was $7 8 million. The district projects enrollment of 4,150 students this school year at its three elementary schools (Ev— ergreen, Mountain View and Bor— deaux), Olympic Middle School, Oakland Bay Junior High School, and three high schools: Shelton, HOPE and Cedar. The school year begins Sept. 6. A Back to School Festival is hosted from 10 am. to 1 pm. Saturday at Olympic Middle School. Everyone is invited to attend an Open House Tailgate Party to help kick off the school year at 5:30 pm. Sept. 8 in the courtyard behind the A building at Shelton High School. The event includes music by DJ Tye, food, and information about clubs, athletics, teachers, classes, district services and strategic plans. At 7 p.m., the Highclimbers football team plays Bremerton High School at Jack Stark Field at Highclimber Stadium. This summer, Evergreen Elementary School received new fencing along Franklin Street to help prevent students from running into the street. Mountain View Elementary School received the same. The Shelton School Board on Tuesday passed a $78.3 million budget for the 2023-24 school year. Journal photo by Gordon Weeks PermitzPresentation says aquaculture ‘apermitted use’ continued from page comments in support of the project and many com— ments against the project. He said those comments prioritize aesthetic and residential interests over shellfish aquaculture. “As one commenter put it, they envision Oakland Bay as having an opportunity to being Seattle’s nic— est bedroom or summer community and are con— cerned this project could compromise that poten— tial,” DeNike said during the hearing. “That’s not the vision Mason County has adopted for Oakland Bay, nor has the Legislature or the Department of Ecology. Collectively, they’ve stated in the Shoreline Management Act and implementing regulations at WAC {Washington Administrative Code), and in the shoreline master program for Mason County that floating aquacultures is permitted use of' Oakland Bay, that shellfish aquaculture is a preferred use of the water. It’s in the statewide interest (and) can result in long-term or short—term benelit that can protect the resources and ecology of the shoreline. They’ve also said priority should be given to aqua— culture uses in areas that have a high potential for it, given potential locations for shellfish farming are relatively restricted.” Ewald gave a presentation, stating there are 328 farms in the state that are 9.1 acres or larger. One— hundred and 78 oi'the projects are :36 acres or larger and 148 are 50 acres are larger. South Puget Sound has the second highest amount of these larger farms on a regional scale, and five farms are bigger than the proposed project in Oakland Bay, three more than :36 acres and two more than 50 acres, includ- ing Taylor Shellfish’s Chapman Cove farm, which is 90 acres. Chris Cziesla, CEO and senior principal marine and fisheries biologist at Confluence Environmental Company, gave another presentation in response to public comments. He stated the project is not large or of unprecedented scale when considering oyster culture, with 45,000 acres of shellfish cultured in the state and 5,000 acres of shellfish cultured in South Puget Sound. He talked about the floating culture operation approved for Willapa Bay, which has 15- foot spacing as opposed to the 30—foot spacing in the proposed 'llaylor Slielliish project and a maximum oi” 452,000 versus 33,000 cages in the proposed Taylor project. Olbrechts questioned both Ewald and Czies— la on some of the aspects of the project and both answered questions from the public. There were only four public comments, two in favor ol'the project and two against the project.