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Simpson Lumber Co. has gifted land to the City of Shelton, including all of its railroad right-of-way from First Street to us. Highway 101. Courtesy map Land: ‘Great opportunity’ continued from page A—1 suggest recreational and other uses for the land, City Manager Jeff Niten said. “This is a great opportunity for peo- ple to have walking trails out of Knee- land Park,” said council member Eric Onisko. “I’m excited.” The city’s report on the offer states, “These properties will be considered for potential recreational amenities by advisory bodies or other alterna- tives as those opportunities present themselves. Other properties under consideration are generally steep and/ or remnants that the city will likely keep in an undeveloped state to pro- vide open space.” The report continued, “If rejected, the rail line would likely remain in the same or similar condition as it exists today, and has the potential to carry rail traffic if desired by a future poten- tial buyer.” Beginning Aug. 17, a cleanup crew hired by the city spent a week clear- ing debris from homeless camps on the hillside above state Route 3 across the street from the Shelton Yacht Club. At the Aug. 18 meeting, Niten es- timated the cleanup crews would fill five or six large dumpsters with the trash collected on the hillside. The city states any collected items believed to have monetary value can be picked up at the Shelton Police Department un- til about mid—September. “It looks fantastic,” Niten said at Tuesday’s meeting. “We hauled tons of garbage out of there.” In a letter to the city, Green Dia- mond Resource Co. offered its support for the city taking the offer. No one from the public offered comments on the offer at Tuesday’s meeting. City directs lobbyist to seek state funding By Gordon Weeks gondon@masoncounty. com The City of Shelton’s wish list from the state includes money to upgrade its well No. 1, improve West Railroad Avenue from Eighth Street to Pacific Court, and build a roundabout at East Wallace Kneeland Boulevard and Shelton Springs Road. Those are the instructions the Shel- ton City Council On Tuesday gave the city’s lobbyist, Troy Nichols of Phillps Burgess Government Relations. Nichols was also instructed to lobby for state dollars for .such capital proj- ects as ceramic plates for the city’s wastewater plant, and a reclaimed water tank. Nichols told the council at the work session the state is in dire financial shape. A revenue forecast in June projects a revenue reduction of $8.8 billion over the next three years, he said. Nichols gave a breakdown of the makeup of the Legislature: 28 Demo- crats and 21 Republicans in the Sen- ate, 57 Democrats and 41 Republicans in the House of Representatives. He projected no changes in that balance in 2021 in the Senate, and believes the Republicans can gain two seats in the House. Nichols said state Reps. Dan Griffey, R-Allyn, and Drew MacEwen, R-Union, have “commanding double- digit leads” in their races for re-elec- tion. State'Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Pot- latch, is in the middle of his term. “I don’t expect much will change come November 4,” Nichols said. The city’s Western Gateway Project, which stretches from Eighth Street to Pacific Court, is the top project on the city’s Six-Year Transportation Im- provement Plan, City Public Works Director Jay Harris wrote in an email to the Shelton-Mason County Journal. The project would replace a water main, widen and repave the road, and install sidewalks, Harris wrote. The engineering consultant has prepared 60% of the design plans for the road- way and waterline improvements and the project design, and bid documents should be completed early next year, he wrote. The 4,800 feet of steel pipe from well No. 1 to the tank near Shelton High School needs to be replaced, Har- ris wrote. The proposed project replac~ es the pipes —— which measure 18 to 24 inches —— eliminates connections that are no longer used, and pressurizes the new system, he wrote. The city’s wastewater treatment plant near Sanderson Air Field uses membrane filtration technology to treat the wastewater, Harris wrote. 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