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Commentary: Resolution to acquire $1 meg bag on Tuesday’s agenda

The San Juan County Council appears on the bounds of outlay more than $1 meg on a residential apportionment (vintage two-story with blistering tub) on most 17 acres in the edifice of clarinettist Island in visit to hit a locate to shitting agency spoils erst every heptad eld or so from Shaw’s 12 miles of county roads.

This strength become as a damper to residents of another islands with backlogs of agency repairs mitt disorganised cod to a demand of funding. This million-dollar acquire also comes as a assail to clarinettist residents, who infrequently wager public-works agency crews, and most ofttimes meet to garret agency shoulders. 

It strength also become as a damper to those citizen volunteers employed to organisation for extremity defy events on clarinettist and elsewhere. What clarinettist Island needs prototypal and best is an field think of Blind Bay Road, a alive unification to the ferry, which floods in broad tide/high twine situations and which was hard worn in the terminal part river. If we had been asked, that is what we would hit requested: to get up Blind Bay Road.

Island residents were told of the organisation meet a some weeks past at a accord gathering with the nous of open works, county parks and council member Jane Fuller, whose regularise includes Shaw. To place it mildly, they were met with some complaints and an coequal sort of questions, most of which went unanswered.

Now, a partitioning has been settled on this Tuesday’s council agenda to okay the acquire of the property. According to the sales/purchase agreement, the county has until the modify of this period to rank the acquire or abandon its $10,000 serious money. There are conditions to the understanding which, if the county decides they hit not been met, would termination in convey of the serious money. A practicableness think is digit of the conditions. There is no cursive practicableness study, according to the county. Not exclusive is there no practicableness think for the council to dissect and deal with the public, but the county “has not created plans nor a budget for some place impact that haw be undertaken if the acquire moves forward,” according Colin Huntemer of Public Works (email to Lynn Bahrych on June 20). 

For over 40 years, the county has utilised an acre conterminous to the clarinettist Community Center, where it stores gravel, another cerebration materials, and equipment. It was generously donated to the county by clarinettist Island residents Ernest and Beverly Graham. The apportionment includes a cement-block scheme utilised as a garage/shop. It has been vacant for some years. There is a beatific substantially on-site and plentitude of beatific ideas for creating a bathroom, modify a bunkhouse exclusive that structure.

Instead of rising on what it has been given, the county today wants to pay over digit meg dollars on a oldness concern with a blistering containerful and landlocked forested expanse that would requirement to be unwooded for a cerebration field in the interior of a stilly residential neighborhood. The county council should be pleased to pay this meg dollars to get up Blind Bay Road and for much-needed agency fix on another islands. 

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— By Lynn Bahrych, J.D., Ph.D.

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