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City commissiOn rounduo: At last week's meeting: ,.-:_________ _ .... C00ty eyes s00te policy Port commission hears repo:'t for cell-phone towers on a rail transl,00ading proposal GREEN Planning Director Paul on Continues to work at ordinance that will a new tool to regu- siting of cellular-phone where a zone for the cell towers would be located. The commissioners have also resisted efforts to allow cellular- phone antennas affixed to city water tanks, opting to reserve those locations for city communi- cations antennas. Once Rogerson returns with the draft ordinance in two weeks, he recommended commissioners give themselves another two weeks to review it. A public hear- ing could be held on November 22, with the first reading of the ordinance a week later and final adoption December 6. IN OTHER city business, the commissioners: • Proclaimed October as Do- mestic Violence Awareness Month. Molly Aalbue, executive director of Mason Matters, and Peter Epperson, director of United Way of Mason County, presented commissioners with the proclamation. Safeplace in Thurston County provides interim housing for Ma- son County victims of domestic violence, Epperson said. By next February or March, there will be a new local organization to pro- vide shelter, advocacy, food, transportation and other services for victims, he added. • AUTHORIZED Hilburn to sign a contract for design work at the Shelton Transportation Hub and David Shelton's Pear Orchard Access Corridor along State Route 3 between the down- town Lumbermen's store and the abandoned city sewage treatment plant. The contract, for $82,000, is with landscape architect Robert Droll of Lacey. The cost of, the contract is al- most entirely paid from grant monies the city has received, Ro- gerson said. The city's share of the cost is less than $4,000, he added. Under the terms of the told Shelton he could bring to the Shelton e Plan creating a for locating cell-phone said he found about during a search but added no city a special district such towers. Other standards for the tow- he said. s directed him in to draft an ordinance ng the comprehensive said the change the commissioners to Whether they want to a new zoning definition. A cellular-phone tow- talled along Olympic a few years ago, adopted an ordinance regulations govern- Such towers could be said. After that, U.S. asked to add a second a residential neighbor- request was denied filed a lawsuit the city in U.S. District Tacoma. Mediation of been unsuccessful. , matter, Shelton's ,.examiner recently denied by U.S. Cellular to new tower next to the ex- on Mountain View. decision would the city commission. me, the commission will With zoning for cellular- through a proposed eat to the comprehensive Scott Hilburn told The staff, he added, recommendations for contract, the city will get a com- i"l,l:00ttpe loses bid to :[i00lock execution wa ! legfa:chfft!c:tei!s:l:Cuk h::cio;died itn :9916'shed reports, failed recently in Superior Court. County Supe- late last month alms by Rupe's attar- life should be the prosecutor in a conflict of interest Rupe twice has been die for slaying two State Bank tellers, n and Candace Hem- in Olympia. Higher aside both of those ear- Judge John McCarthy said Sutherland had a conflict of inter- est but he wasn't satisfied the de- cision to seek the death penalty was affected by that conflict. Mc- Carthy declined to eliminate the death penalty as a sentencing op- tion. The judge added there was no evidence Sutherland treated the Rupe case any different than any other case of such magnitude. One of Rupe's lawyers said he would appeal the decision to the Washington State Supreme Court. Rupe's sentencing has been de- layed until January 10 in Thurs- ton County Superior Court be- cause of an illness in the family of one of his attorneys. plete site analysis, transportation analysis, survey and others. • Heard the second and final reading of an ordinance calling for the issuance of a $1.24-mil- lion, 20-year commissioners' bond issue to help pay for the remodel- ing of the Shelton Civic Center. The cost of the project totals roughly $5.2 million. The voters approved a $3 million bond issue last May 19. Approximately $1 million is coming from the state for con- structing and equipping the cen- ter and from other small grants. The balance, $1.2 million, will come from the commissioners' bond issue. • Heard the second and final reading of an ordinance that creates a new zone, a low-intensi- ty commercial district, for part of the Mountain View area. The or- dinance rezones the "back half' of blocks along the corridor between K and C streets and fronting one side of both Jefferson and Adams streets from Neighborhood Resi- dential to Low Intensity-Commer- cial. The new zoning allows auto and boat sales and repair (indoor only), assisted living facilities and convalescent centers and many types of retail and office uses. Ac- tivities permitted through condi- tional-use permits include con- venience stores (without gas pumps), parking lots and struc- tures, eating and drinking estab- lishments (with and without drive-through windows), grocery stores, hotels, motels, schools and lumberyards, among others. The new zoning allows a maximum building size of 6,000 square feet on the ground floor. • Reappointed Shirley Erhart and Dana Tilton to three-year terms on the city's Historic Pres- ervation Board. Two openings ex- ist on the board and commission- ers will appoint those members later. City residents interested in serving on the board can contact Jeannette Valley at Shelton City Hall for more information. • Heard a request by city em- ployee Laura Morissette and her husband, Jerry, to change the city's policy about medical leaves of absence without pay. The cur- rent policy requires that em- ployees exhaust all of their vaca- tion time before they can take an unpaid medical leave. Federal law allows up to 12 weeks a year of unpaid medical leave. Commis- sioners John Tarrant and Janet Thornbrue agreed the policy de- serves further study and that the city's new human resources direc- tor should look at it. • Announced a reception to honor Director of Development Services Gary Rhoades, who is leaving the city after a tenure of more than 28 years. The recep- tion will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Fri- day, October 29, at the Shelton Civic Center. Rhoades is taking a job as the executive director of the Evergreen Rural Water Asso- ciation, which is headquartered in Ellensburg, starting November 1. County Pros- md was one of of the bank where took place. Suther- Was also part owner of Super Senior Tuesdays Inviting Our 55+ Guests Buy-in Bonus! Buy-in for $10 ANYTIME On Tuesday! You will receive: $S Added Free Play Credit • $3 Seniors-Only Food Coupon • $1 Seniors-Only Keno Coupon Bonuses limited Blackjack Players! additional tables $3 minimum [ Gift Shot} Discount I ;4= r I For Se.lm-O. I CASINO l lS%DbcountonTue!dws. I The Port of Shelton Commis- sion got a look last week at a draft study of the proposed rail transloading facility at the Johns Prairie Industrial Park. Michael Davolio and Charlie Burnham of the Tacoma engi- neering firm of David Evans & Associates handed out copies of the draft report and gave a pre- sentation at the October 7 meet- ing of the port commission. The consultants looked at three potential sites for a railroad loading facility and are recom- mending that the port consider developing eight acres located west of the south end of Export Road. Cost estimates range from $900,000 to $1.6 million. THE PROPOSED improve- ments include extending the Pu- get Sound and Pacific Railroad tracks by 1,000 feet and making improvements to Export Road and the stormwater system. The main variable is the paving of an area that will provide loading for up to 10 railroad cars. In preparing the report the consultants talked to people with a number of businesses that cur- rently ship by truck. These in- clude forest products companies, garbage haulers and other busi- nesses in Mason County. "The majority of the businesses that we talked to indicated that the presence of this type of facili- ty would be something that they would be interested in using," Da- volio said. THE CONSULTANTS provid- ed the commission with an execu- tive summary of their findings. The options include developing of the site by the port commission and the leasing of raw land to a developer who could build and op- erate the facility. "A rail transloading facility is projected to provide significant benefits to local businesses, as well as to the community at large," the consultants wrote. "The facility can help in efforts to diversify the local economy, it can assist in encouraging the crea- tions of new jobs by existing busi- nesses, and it can help to create 'spin-off jobs by new businesses." The consultants said the facili- ty could also produce indirect benefits through higher local pay- rolls, more local spending and more tax revenue. They noted that the port can raise the money needed to build the new facility by floating gener- al obligations bonds. They sug- gested the port seek to lower the local cost by seeking state and federal grants through the Eco- nomic Development Council of Mason County. "IT WILL BE useful to exist- ing business and help them to ex- pand and it will also be helpful to new businesses in the future," Davolio told the commission. The consultants described the proposed facility as having plenty of upside potential. He added that even if "you build this and they Reading at Southside: -Iazen offers kid ,m. 1 pie-bald incentiv Southside School students are lie: .... in the midst of a month-long All of the outside reading must read-a-than ;that will end with  beVverifigd by parents. Besides Superintendent Harvey Hazen ,,,ft.he pleasure of watching their getting pies tossed in his face. For every 10,000 minutes of reading outside of school that the students in grades one through seven rack up in October, Hazen will get pasted by one cream pie, said teacher Heather Knight. That figures out to about 45 minutes of reading for each of Southside's 230 students. The goal is 100,000 minutes and 10 superintendent eat a few cream pies during an assembly, the stu- dents are securing pledges as well and hope to raise $2,100 to bring the highly acclaimed Missoula Children's Theatre to the school. Knight came up with the idea during her summer studies for a master's degree. The idea is to get the kids excited about reading, but also to have some fun. O I FALL DECORATIONS I, ' Gourds * Corn Stalks • Dry Floral I[ • Large variety of Ornamental Corn • Straw • Mini-Pumpkins I WINTER SQUASH . APPLES POTATOES Red Gold Galas 5 PEPPERS • Jonathon * Jonagold ONIONS C WHITE POTATOES C 25#- 2.98 I HUNTER CORN • Red Rome I I iiii i Mountain Ice Cream OYSTERS & C CLAMS 0 "0 €: sire i i _x o Z ,J\\; 50# " 5.49 SALMON  A Family Farm Tradition -- .4L I 898 2222 or g" , U-PICK PUMPKINS OPENCC(__)'O ©©©© don't come" the port will have a marketable site for future growth. "That's your worst case and we think the worst case is workable and that you've got an up side from there," he said. The study was the subject of a brief interchange between Com- missioner George Radich and Mary Faughender, his challenger for a six-year term on the com- mission in the November general election. Faughender said that when he was on the Mason County Com- mission railroad officials told the county they couldn't haul garbage with the equipment that is avail- able locally. "Evidently the county misinterpreted the information they had," Radich said. "Not so," Faughender replied, going on to describe Davolio's re- port as "a very big fluff job." He said the port commission needs more detail about the future mar- keting possibilities of the pro- posed facility. "If you go to market analysis that really increases the pad be- cause that really increases the documentation," Radich said, in retrence to the cost of a market- ing study. I i iii Don't Spend Too / Much To 'JI WINTERIZE See the PROFESSIONALS at VERLE'S - with over 70 years of combined technical experience servicing all your boating needs since 1948 BOAT MAINTENANCE --101-- .... Winterizing q marine engine is the single most important maintenance duty a boot owner con perform -- Coil now to schedule your winterization for stern drives/inboard and outboards. $UZUl(I fBIINE} Super Service 10 Years Running II Servicing and Winterizing • Merc-Cruiser " OMC • Suzuki " Johnson • Evinrude " Volvo • Mercury • Sport Jet • Also other brands FALL SHRINK WRAP SPECIAL One Free dehumidifier with boat shrink wrap One Month Free Storage with purchase of boat shrink wrap and 3 months storage See store for details r ;"/7 ; C.: Έ J j ,,', VERLE'S HAS MOVED New Store New Location Same Great Customer Service ve VERLE'S SPORTS CENTER & MARINE 741 W. GOLDEN PHEASANT RD. SRELTON, WA 426-0933 426-0933 L I I ....... I __ . I II II!IIIL Thursday, October 14, 1999- Shelton'Mason County Journal- Page 3 City commissiOn rounduo: At last week's meeting: ,.-:_________ _ .... C00ty eyes s00te policy Port commission hears repo:'t for cell-phone towers on a rail transl,00ading proposal GREEN Planning Director Paul on Continues to work at ordinance that will a new tool to regu- siting of cellular-phone where a zone for the cell towers would be located. The commissioners have also resisted efforts to allow cellular- phone antennas affixed to city water tanks, opting to reserve those locations for city communi- cations antennas. Once Rogerson returns with the draft ordinance in two weeks, he recommended commissioners give themselves another two weeks to review it. A public hear- ing could be held on November 22, with the first reading of the ordinance a week later and final adoption December 6. IN OTHER city business, the commissioners: • Proclaimed October as Do- mestic Violence Awareness Month. Molly Aalbue, executive director of Mason Matters, and Peter Epperson, director of United Way of Mason County, presented commissioners with the proclamation. Safeplace in Thurston County provides interim housing for Ma- son County victims of domestic violence, Epperson said. By next February or March, there will be a new local organization to pro- vide shelter, advocacy, food, transportation and other services for victims, he added. • AUTHORIZED Hilburn to sign a contract for design work at the Shelton Transportation Hub and David Shelton's Pear Orchard Access Corridor along State Route 3 between the down- town Lumbermen's store and the abandoned city sewage treatment plant. The contract, for $82,000, is with landscape architect Robert Droll of Lacey. The cost of, the contract is al- most entirely paid from grant monies the city has received, Ro- gerson said. The city's share of the cost is less than $4,000, he added. Under the terms of the told Shelton he could bring to the Shelton e Plan creating a for locating cell-phone said he found about during a search but added no city a special district such towers. Other standards for the tow- he said. s directed him in to draft an ordinance ng the comprehensive said the change the commissioners to Whether they want to a new zoning definition. A cellular-phone tow- talled along Olympic a few years ago, adopted an ordinance regulations govern- Such towers could be said. After that, U.S. asked to add a second a residential neighbor- request was denied filed a lawsuit the city in U.S. District Tacoma. Mediation of been unsuccessful. , matter, Shelton's ,.examiner recently denied by U.S. Cellular to new tower next to the ex- on Mountain View. decision would the city commission. me, the commission will With zoning for cellular- through a proposed eat to the comprehensive Scott Hilburn told The staff, he added, recommendations for contract, the city will get a com- i"l,l:00ttpe loses bid to :[i00lock execution wa ! legfa:chfft!c:tei!s:l:Cuk h::cio;died itn :9916'shed reports, failed recently in Superior Court. County Supe- late last month alms by Rupe's attar- life should be the prosecutor in a conflict of interest Rupe twice has been die for slaying two State Bank tellers, n and Candace Hem- in Olympia. Higher aside both of those ear- Judge John McCarthy said Sutherland had a conflict of inter- est but he wasn't satisfied the de- cision to seek the death penalty was affected by that conflict. Mc- Carthy declined to eliminate the death penalty as a sentencing op- tion. The judge added there was no evidence Sutherland treated the Rupe case any different than any other case of such magnitude. One of Rupe's lawyers said he would appeal the decision to the Washington State Supreme Court. Rupe's sentencing has been de- layed until January 10 in Thurs- ton County Superior Court be- cause of an illness in the family of one of his attorneys. plete site analysis, transportation analysis, survey and others. • Heard the second and final reading of an ordinance calling for the issuance of a $1.24-mil- lion, 20-year commissioners' bond issue to help pay for the remodel- ing of the Shelton Civic Center. The cost of the project totals roughly $5.2 million. The voters approved a $3 million bond issue last May 19. Approximately $1 million is coming from the state for con- structing and equipping the cen- ter and from other small grants. The balance, $1.2 million, will come from the commissioners' bond issue. • Heard the second and final reading of an ordinance that creates a new zone, a low-intensi- ty commercial district, for part of the Mountain View area. The or- dinance rezones the "back half' of blocks along the corridor between K and C streets and fronting one side of both Jefferson and Adams streets from Neighborhood Resi- dential to Low Intensity-Commer- cial. The new zoning allows auto and boat sales and repair (indoor only), assisted living facilities and convalescent centers and many types of retail and office uses. Ac- tivities permitted through condi- tional-use permits include con- venience stores (without gas pumps), parking lots and struc- tures, eating and drinking estab- lishments (with and without drive-through windows), grocery stores, hotels, motels, schools and lumberyards, among others. The new zoning allows a maximum building size of 6,000 square feet on the ground floor. • Reappointed Shirley Erhart and Dana Tilton to three-year terms on the city's Historic Pres- ervation Board. Two openings ex- ist on the board and commission- ers will appoint those members later. City residents interested in serving on the board can contact Jeannette Valley at Shelton City Hall for more information. • Heard a request by city em- ployee Laura Morissette and her husband, Jerry, to change the city's policy about medical leaves of absence without pay. The cur- rent policy requires that em- ployees exhaust all of their vaca- tion time before they can take an unpaid medical leave. Federal law allows up to 12 weeks a year of unpaid medical leave. Commis- sioners John Tarrant and Janet Thornbrue agreed the policy de- serves further study and that the city's new human resources direc- tor should look at it. • Announced a reception to honor Director of Development Services Gary Rhoades, who is leaving the city after a tenure of more than 28 years. The recep- tion will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Fri- day, October 29, at the Shelton Civic Center. Rhoades is taking a job as the executive director of the Evergreen Rural Water Asso- ciation, which is headquartered in Ellensburg, starting November 1. County Pros- md was one of of the bank where took place. Suther- Was also part owner of Super Senior Tuesdays Inviting Our 55+ Guests Buy-in Bonus! Buy-in for $10 ANYTIME On Tuesday! You will receive: $S Added Free Play Credit • $3 Seniors-Only Food Coupon • $1 Seniors-Only Keno Coupon Bonuses limited Blackjack Players! additional tables $3 minimum [ Gift Shot} Discount I ;4= r I For Se.lm-O. I CASINO l lS%DbcountonTue!dws. I The Port of Shelton Commis- sion got a look last week at a draft study of the proposed rail transloading facility at the Johns Prairie Industrial Park. Michael Davolio and Charlie Burnham of the Tacoma engi- neering firm of David Evans & Associates handed out copies of the draft report and gave a pre- sentation at the October 7 meet- ing of the port commission. The consultants looked at three potential sites for a railroad loading facility and are recom- mending that the port consider developing eight acres located west of the south end of Export Road. Cost estimates range from $900,000 to $1.6 million. THE PROPOSED improve- ments include extending the Pu- get Sound and Pacific Railroad tracks by 1,000 feet and making improvements to Export Road and the stormwater system. The main variable is the paving of an area that will provide loading for up to 10 railroad cars. In preparing the report the consultants talked to people with a number of businesses that cur- rently ship by truck. These in- clude forest products companies, garbage haulers and other busi- nesses in Mason County. "The majority of the businesses that we talked to indicated that the presence of this type of facili- ty would be something that they would be interested in using," Da- volio said. THE CONSULTANTS provid- ed the commission with an execu- tive summary of their findings. The options include developing of the site by the port commission and the leasing of raw land to a developer who could build and op- erate the facility. "A rail transloading facility is projected to provide significant benefits to local businesses, as well as to the community at large," the consultants wrote. "The facility can help in efforts to diversify the local economy, it can assist in encouraging the crea- tions of new jobs by existing busi- nesses, and it can help to create 'spin-off jobs by new businesses." The consultants said the facili- ty could also produce indirect benefits through higher local pay- rolls, more local spending and more tax revenue. They noted that the port can raise the money needed to build the new facility by floating gener- al obligations bonds. They sug- gested the port seek to lower the local cost by seeking state and federal grants through the Eco- nomic Development Council of Mason County. "IT WILL BE useful to exist- ing business and help them to ex- pand and it will also be helpful to new businesses in the future," Davolio told the commission. The consultants described the proposed facility as having plenty of upside potential. He added that even if "you build this and they Reading at Southside: -Iazen offers kid ,m. 1 pie-bald incentiv Southside School students are lie: .... in the midst of a month-long All of the outside reading must read-a-than ;that will end with  beVverifigd by parents. Besides Superintendent Harvey Hazen ,,,ft.he pleasure of watching their getting pies tossed in his face. For every 10,000 minutes of reading outside of school that the students in grades one through seven rack up in October, Hazen will get pasted by one cream pie, said teacher Heather Knight. That figures out to about 45 minutes of reading for each of Southside's 230 students. The goal is 100,000 minutes and 10 superintendent eat a few cream pies during an assembly, the stu- dents are securing pledges as well and hope to raise $2,100 to bring the highly acclaimed Missoula Children's Theatre to the school. Knight came up with the idea during her summer studies for a master's degree. The idea is to get the kids excited about reading, but also to have some fun. O I FALL DECORATIONS I, ' Gourds * Corn Stalks • Dry Floral I[ • Large variety of Ornamental Corn • Straw • Mini-Pumpkins I WINTER SQUASH . APPLES POTATOES Red Gold Galas 5 PEPPERS • Jonathon * Jonagold ONIONS C WHITE POTATOES C 25#- 2.98 I HUNTER CORN • Red Rome I I iiii i Mountain Ice Cream OYSTERS & C CLAMS 0 "0 €: sire i i _x o Z ,J\\; 50# " 5.49 SALMON  A Family Farm Tradition -- .4L I 898 2222 or g" , U-PICK PUMPKINS OPENCC(__)'O ©©©© don't come" the port will have a marketable site for future growth. "That's your worst case and we think the worst case is workable and that you've got an up side from there," he said. The study was the subject of a brief interchange between Com- missioner George Radich and Mary Faughender, his challenger for a six-year term on the com- mission in the November general election. Faughender said that when he was on the Mason County Com- mission railroad officials told the county they couldn't haul garbage with the equipment that is avail- able locally. "Evidently the county misinterpreted the information they had," Radich said. "Not so," Faughender replied, going on to describe Davolio's re- port as "a very big fluff job." He said the port commission needs more detail about the future mar- keting possibilities of the pro- posed facility. "If you go to market analysis that really increases the pad be- cause that really increases the documentation," Radich said, in retrence to the cost of a market- ing study. I i iii Don't Spend Too / Much To 'JI WINTERIZE See the PROFESSIONALS at VERLE'S - with over 70 years of combined technical experience servicing all your boating needs since 1948 BOAT MAINTENANCE --101-- .... Winterizing q marine engine is the single most important maintenance duty a boot owner con perform -- Coil now to schedule your winterization for stern drives/inboard and outboards. $UZUl(I fBIINE} Super Service 10 Years Running II Servicing and Winterizing • Merc-Cruiser " OMC • Suzuki " Johnson • Evinrude " Volvo • Mercury • Sport Jet • Also other brands FALL SHRINK WRAP SPECIAL One Free dehumidifier with boat shrink wrap One Month Free Storage with purchase of boat shrink wrap and 3 months storage See store for details r ;"/7 ; C.: Έ J j ,,', VERLE'S HAS MOVED New Store New Location Same Great Customer Service ve VERLE'S SPORTS CENTER & MARINE 741 W. GOLDEN PHEASANT RD. SRELTON, WA 426-0933 426-0933 L I I ....... I __ . I II II!IIIL Thursday, October 14, 1999- Shelton'Mason County Journal- Page 3