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Page A72 - Shelton-Mason County Journal Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021
CITY BRIEFS
City moves ’
to surplus
properties
The Shelton City Council
made a preliminary move
Tuesday to declare seven city
properties surplus and make
them available for purchase.
The council can make the
move official at its Oct. 19
meeting. The council is re-
quired to hold a public hear-
ing on the surplus of any
property originally acquired
for pubic utility purposes.
The properties include
four adjoining 0.21—acre lots
on West Harvard Avenue,
with estimated values be—
tween $32,380 and $33,035.
Two other properties are on
13th Street near Mason Gen-
eral Hospital, one a 2.15-acre
lot estimated to be worth
$16,630 and a 5.17—acre lot
north of the Maurice Apart-
ments estimated at $99,125.
The seventh property is
half an acre at 224 N. Front
St. estimated to be worth
$57,250.
If the council passes the
measure, city staff will order
an appraisal to determine
the fair market value of the
properties and market them
for sale, said Public Works ‘
Director Jay Harris. The
council can discuss the sale
prices in closed executive
session if it believes disclo—
sure of the negotiation pro-
cess would lead to the likeli-
hood of a decreased price,
according to the report to the
council.
Mason General might be
interested in purchasing the
lot across the street, Harris
said. The surplused plots can
also become right of ways or
conservation land, he said.
New HOPE
Garden at
Callanan Park
The Shelton City Council
on Tuesday evening gave
final agreement to allow
Hands on Personal Empow-
' erment (HOPE) Garden
and the Mason Conserva-
tion District to establish a
community garden of about
10,000 square feet in Cal-
lahan Park’s southeast cor-
ner at the junction of West
E Street and Van Buren
Street, across the street from
Shelton Memorial Park
The noncommercial gar-
den will produce food to feed
clients of two Shelton-based
nonprofits, Community Life-
line and The Saints’ Pantry
food bank, and offer plots to
low—income residents.
The council gave prelimi-
nary approval at its Sept. 21
meeting.
The city will assist with
site preparation and ex-
tend utilities to the garden.
HOPE will construct the
garden beds and support in-
frastructure. The city will
provide water and power to
the garden, and HOPE will
maintain and manage it.
Just as he did at the Sept.
21 meeting, councilmember
Eric Onisko asked about the
possibility of setting up se-
curity cameras at the new
garden to discourage vandal-
ism. Mark Ziegler, the city’s
director parks & recreation
and community develop-
ment, said security hasn’t
been an issue at the park,
but he will look into the
possibility.
Agencies in
line for tourism
tax money
The Shelton City Council
on Tuesday gave prelimi-
nary approval to a recom-
mendation of its Lodging
Tax Advisory Committee to
award $62,900 to agencies
that entice tourists to town.
The money comes from
the collection of lodging
taxes from hotels and motels
in the city. The council can
pass the measure at its Oct.
19 meeting.
In the committee’s recom-
mendation, “Borders,” a cel—
ebration of Mason County’s
arts legacy, receives $2,600.
The Kristmas Town Kiwanis
receives $7,000 for its annu-
al Bluegrass from the Forest
Festival. The Mason County
Forest Festival Association
gets $12,000, the Mason
County Historical Museum
Visitor Center $15,000, the
Northwest Event organiz-
ers $2,300 for Outlook Park
murals, and the Shelton-
Mason County Chamber of
Commerce Visitor’s Cen-
ter $24,000. Some of those
awards might increase
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The Mason County Forest Festival Association, which 2
staged four Timber Days weekends this year, on Tues'day' ,i
received a preliminary grant of $12,000 in lodging taxes 5
move can be made official at the Oct. 19 City Council meet-
ing. Journal file photo by Gordon Weeks ~
before the next meeting as on advertising.
city staff re-examines the
criteria, in particular wheth-
er the money must be spent
I Compiled by reporter
Gordon Weeks
Homeless: Council mulls law for people who camp on city land
continued from page A-1
a Colorado mayor who posed as a homeless person have to follow rules.”
Council member Eric Onisko pointed out some
homeless people aren’t allowed to stay in the
shelters.
“Cri'minalizing this would put them in a circle,
like driving on a suspended license and you get a
ticket, and you can’t pay the ticket, and then you
get a warrant and then you don’t go to court and you
go to jail and then you owe thousands of dollars for
something that should have been $35,” he said. “I
don’t know if this is the right direction.”
The police chief said she read an article about
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and checked out legitimate shelters that offered ser-
vices, and then visited homeless camps.
“They simply wanted a place to do drugs or drink
alcohol They basically just wanted to live off the
grid,” she said.
Council member Jim Boad said the proposed
ordinance is not aimed at people who have lost a
spouse and are living in a car. It’s for people who
don’t comply with laws and think, “I’m just going
to shoot up on this bench and get drunk and there’s
nothing you can do about it,” he said.
He added, “Being poor doesn’t mean you don’t
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Onisko said he agrees.
“People who have sex in our parks should go to
jail,” he said.
Council member Joe Schmit said he sees the pro-
from the City of Shelton to help stage events in 2022. The 1:
posed ordinance as “housekeeping more than any— :
thing.” The current ordinance doesn’t comply with I
the Boise court ruling, he said.
“We have to have some teeth to our city code
and this is a good step to starting that process and
then we can talk about how we can integrate our
shelters, and create options to work on this issue,” '
Schmit said.
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