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, The Mason County Board of Com-
missioners on Aug. 25 authorized Sup-
port Services Director Frank Pinter to
apply to the Department of Commerce,
for the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Re-
lief, and Economic Security) Act’s
CDBG (Community Development
Block Grant) CV—l Coronavirus grant.
Pinter explained this would offer
Lews and Mason counties, and the
cities within those counties, the op—
portunity to extend their CARES Act
funding, through the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, in
the amount of $597,614.
Pinter said the money would be
made available as grants for public
services, public health, emergency
responses and temporary housing fa-
cilities that address the impacts of
COVID-19, and that they must benefit
low- to moderate-income persons.
Before their unanimous vote in
favor of its authorization, District 3
County approves CARES
Act moneyLERAP grant
Commissioner Sharon Trask cred—
ited the program with “helping our
residents at a critical time.” District.
1 Commissioner Randy Neatherlin
praised county staff with working
to draw more money from such pro-
grams, which he said are “not just a-
feel-good thing.”
The Board of Commissioners also
approved entering into a contract
with the .Department of Commerce
for the Eviction Rent Assistance Pro-
gram (ERAP) Grant, and to subcon-
tract funds to Crossroads Housing, the
Shelton Family Center and North Ma—
son Resources.
The ERAP Grant is intended to pre-
vent evictions by paying 80% of up to
three months of past due, current due
and future rent, while targeting lim-
ited resources to those with the great-
est needs, and working to distribute
money equitably.
The total award to Mason County
would add up to $500,876, of which
$75,313 would be retained for grant
administration.
Commissioners look to
reopen county buildings
Kirk Boxleitner
kbox/eitner@masoncounty com
Mason County commissioners ad—
dressed local disaster relief and re-
visited the county’s pandemic policies
during the board’s Aug. 31 briefing.
Support Services Director Frank
Pinter introduced another extension
of the Mason County local declara-
tion of disaster resolution that was
discussed in more detail by Ross Mc-
Dowell, manager of Mason County’s
Parks Department, Division of Emer-
' gency Management and Information
Services.
The Board of County Commission-
ers had previously declared that Ma-
son County was still in a state of di—
saster due to the COVID-19 epidemic,
and while the emergency authority
granted under the resolution was set
to expire Sept. 21, McDowell request-
ed the board extend the county’sdi-
saster declaration until Washington’s
disaster declaration also eXpires.
McDowell suggested this would
avoid unnecessary reissuances of the
county’s disaster declaration, while
District 3 Commissioner and board
chair Sharon Trask concurred with
McDowell by noting the uncertainty of
when the state’s disaster declaration
might end. '
Pinter acknowledged that Corona-
virus Aid, Relief, and Economic Se—
curity (CARES) Act funding is part
of the county’s. disaster declaration,
and described the exact application
of those funds as “constantly chang-
ing,” with the Port of Allyn modifying
its funding request, increasing it to
$18,000, which Trask expressed inter-
est in reviewing, while $25,000 was
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proposed to assist the local media of
iFIBER One (with $10,000), Mason-
WebTV.com (with $5,000) and the
Shelton-Mason County Journal (with
$10,000).
District 1 Commissioner Randy
Neatherlin asserted the importance of
ensuring the funding for these three
local media would not be taken from
any one district alone, since they
serve all three districts, but he also ex—
pressed a desire for further conversa-
tion about CARES Act funding among
all three commissioners, including the
absent District 2 Commissioner Kevin
Shutty. ‘
Neatherlin also said he would con-
tact MasonWebTV.com to determine
whether it was still in need of its por-
tion of the funds, since that had ap-
parently been in question.
Trask added that she wouldn’t want
to see the county lose its local media,
before Pinter promised the item would
be on the agenda for the board’s next
regular meeting on Tuesday.
Pinter also told the board an agen-
da item on its Sept. 14 briefing would
address the degree to which the coun—
ty government should be reopened to
the public.
In addition to safeguarding every—
one’s health, Pinter outlined his goals
of making the pandemic policy both
coherent to county employees and
consistent with the requirements of
the state, public health agencies, and
labor and industries, among others.
Pinter concurred with Trask that
the county should take care not to
run afoul of any legal requirements,
either, which was why he pledged to
work with the county prosecutors’ of-
fice between now and Sept. 14.
Avery John Nicholas Wilbur, a boy, was born Aug. 21, 2020, to Rachael
Jean Wilbur and Nicholas Glen Wilbur III, at Capital Medical Center. He was
9 pounds, 13 ounces.
Jude Francis Blaine Vadnais, a boy, was born Aug. 26, 2020, to Crystal
A.C. Kingery and Matthew Blaine Vadnais, at Capital Medical Center. He was
7 pounds, 10 ounces.