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The Mason Transit Authority will work this month to hire a successor
General Manager Dave O'Connell.
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
for retiring
By NATALIE JOHNSON ager for Veolia Transportation/
Capital Metropolitan Transporta-
The Mason Transportation Au-tion Authority in Austin, Texas.
thority (MTA) will begin the pro- Hager has more than 18 years of
cess of hiring a new General Man- experience managing public trans-
ager to replace the retiring Dave portaion systems.
O'Colmell. Steve Hamelin, the director of
On Aug. 16 Mason Transit transportation operations for the
Authority Board members met mass transportation authority in
as part of the "ad hoc BM selec- Flint, Mich., has 12 years of expe-
tion committee" to discuss how rience and is currently working on
to go about hiring a successor to a master of business administra-
O'Connell's long-held position, tion degree.
At that meeting committee Ken Mehin is the only candidate
members planned the following from Washington and is currently
schedule, which will be followed the public transportationmanager
throughout the interview process, for the City of Yakima and has 28
On Wednesday, Sept. 28 MTA years of experience in transit.
has planned a reception so mem- Brad Patterson is the transit
bers of the public can meet the five services manager at Greeley-Ev-
candidates for the GM position, arts Transit in Greeley, Colo. and
The reception is scheduled for 6 has 14 years of experience.
p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. During the Tuesday, Sept. 13
28 at the Shelton Civic Center. regular joint meeting of the MTA
The candidates will stay in and the Mason County Transit Ad-
Shelton from Sept. 28 through visory Board (MCTAB) members
Sept. 30 for interviews and assess- of the boards approved expendi-
ment exercises, tures of up to $5,000 to pay for the
Mason Transit will interviewtravel expenses of the candidates
four candidates for general man- for the general manager position.
ager during the interview process. Select members of the MTA
All four candidates will be avail- board will interview the candi-
able during the public reception, dates on Sept. 30 in an executive
All but one candidate come session and hopefully pick a top
from outside Washington State. candidate for the position that
Chris Hager is the general man- day.
City updates traffic laws
By NATALIE JOHNSON
The City of Shelton Commission be-
gan a process Monday of updating city
traffic laws.
Portions of the Shelton Municipal
Code relating to traffic laws were origi-
nally adopted in 1969.
"I recommended that the city adopt
the model traffic ordinances," Shelton
Police Chief Dave Eklund said.
While some parts of the city's traf-
fic laws had been updated, some of Ti-
tle 11 of the Shelton Municipal Code,
which pertains to traffic, was inconsis-
tent with state laws.
"Because the code was first adopted
in 1969, there were some RCWs (Re-
vised Codes of Washington) missing,"
city attorney Kathleen Haggard said.
"I recommended that the city adopt the
model traffic ordinances."
The Washington Model Traffic Ordi-
nance is a set of standard traffic laws
common to Washington, complete with
current Washington RCWs and some
Shelton-specific information.
Haggard and Eklund recommended traffic laws.
Journal photo by Natalie Iohnson
City of Shelton Police Chief
Dave Eklund advised the city
commission to update its traffic
laws Monday.
ing in downtown Shelton.
"It was my understanding that we
had taken that out ... we don't have the
technology to deal with that," she said.
Pannell described previous disputes
over parking violations that led the city
commission to remove that part of the
that the ~ity completely replace the ex- "It was pretty painful at the time,"
isting Title 11 with the Model Traffic Mayor John Tarrant said.
Ordinance. The commission requested that time
While a fairly straightforward ex-limits for parking be removed before
ample of city business, the city com- they vote on the traffic law update.
missioners had some questions, par- The city commission had a first read-
ticularly pertaining to parking laws ing of the proposed ordinance during
included in the proposed traffic law Monday's meeting and will discuss
update, it again during tbeir 2 p.m. Monday,
Commissioner Dawn Pannell asked Sept. 26 meeting at the Shelton Civic
specifically about time limits for park- Center.
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City attorney Kathleen Haggard, left, speaks to the Shelton City
Commission with Dave O Leary on the city's options at the end of the
city's six-month moratorium on cooperative medical marijuana gardens.
City passes pot moratorium,
By NATALIE JOHNSON O'Leary also echoed a concern of County
Commissioner Tim Sheldon.
Two weeks after the Mason County "The other thing that is of particular con-
Board of Commissioners voted to approve sequence is that these would not be legal un-
a six-month moratorium on medical mari- der federal law," he said.
juana collective gardens, the city has passed During the moratorium, city staft would
its own. consider issues for the gardens like location,
While the city lies within the county, the building code issues, permits and permit
county's moratorium does not necessar- fees.
ily apply to the city, said city administrator "The reason for the moratorium is it
Dave O'Leary. gives us a chance to get our arms around it,"
"There are some interesting dilemmas O'Leary said.
associated with this," he said. "The law was The city commissioners spoke in favor of
not well done, I would argue." the moratorium and passed it unanimously.
State legislators recently legalized collec- "We need to do this and follow through
tive marijuana grow gardens in Washington with the regulations," Mayor John Tarrant
state through the passage of Engrossed Sec- said.
ond Substitute Bill 5073 (ESSB 5073). The city comnlission has scheduled a
The city already has some zoning regula- public hearing at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 3,
tions in place for medical marijuana, but not during the regularly scheduled commission
for the cooperative gardens outlined in the meeting to consider whether to continue the
law, O'LemT said. moratorium based on available facts and
"Essentially, all uses are regulated except public input.
cooperative gardens," he said. If city staff does not complete zoning rec-
O'Leary said if the commission chose to ommendations for the medical marijuana
pursue drafting and adopting zoning regula- gardens in six months, the city would have
tions for the grow gardens without a mora- the option to continue the moratorium.
torium, it may create problems in the long "State law authorizes renewal of the mor-
run. atorium in six month increments," said city
"You'll have non-conforming uses at the attorney Kathleen Haggard. "It seems like
end of the process," he said. six months should be ample time."
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