City of Port Angeles Has Several Vacancies
The City is accepting applications for:
Planning Commission — two positions.
Lodging Tax Advisory Committee — two tax-collector positions, two tax-recipient positions and three citizen-at-large positions.
Civil Service Commission — two positions.
Board of Adjustment — one position.
Construction Code Board of Appeals — four positions.
Utility Advisory Committee — one community representative and one medic I representative.
Port Angeles Forward Committee — one citizen-at-large position.
Parks, Recreation and Beautification Commission — two positions, plus two vacancies for student representatives.
Anyone who is interested can obtain applications from the City Manager’s office at 321 East Fifth Street, or from this website.
All applications must be received by 3 p.m. February 15th.
Planning Commission — two positions.
Lodging Tax Advisory Committee — two tax-collector positions, two tax-recipient positions and three citizen-at-large positions.
Civil Service Commission — two positions.
Board of Adjustment — one position.
Construction Code Board of Appeals — four positions.
Utility Advisory Committee — one community representative and one medic I representative.
Port Angeles Forward Committee — one citizen-at-large position.
Parks, Recreation and Beautification Commission — two positions, plus two vacancies for student representatives.
Anyone who is interested can obtain applications from the City Manager’s office at 321 East Fifth Street, or from this website.
All applications must be received by 3 p.m. February 15th.
posted by Tom Harper at 6:30 PM
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CITY SEEKING APPLICANTS FOR POSITIONS ON COMMITTEES
I hate committees and working with idiots. Been there, done that, F*** it.
WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING DONE MAKE YOURSELF A COMMITTEE OF ONE
Committees,a way to dilute responsibility and spread the blame for whatever.
Hey Billy...you oughta apply for the Parks & Recreation commission! Maybe you could get us a whorehouse, that's recreation!!
Well, if this city had any kind of track record of actually TRYING to improve it's own situations, or actually listening to it's citizens, I'd guess they would not have SO MANY vacancies in all these committees.
There comes a point when a lot of folks see that the Emperor's New Clothes are not what the public was told they would be.
A lot of folks have learned to say "Why bother..?"
What about that PDN article that the Port of Port Angeles is thinking about taking over the Rayonier property?
Like, they don't already have enough land contaminated with toxics that the public is going to have to pay to clean up?? They don't already have enough commercial/industrial properties they can't manage properly?
And, what was the $1.3 MILLION spent on HarborWorks for, if the Port of Port Angeles could, according to Calhoun, manage and aggressivly market that property? (Even though the "due diligence" studies are showing there is no market for the property?)What is the POINT of a "due diligence" study, if the purchasers don't pay any attention to it's conclusions? The city is determined to buy a property their own studies are saying is a bad investment.
This whole thing stinks. Stinks like something fishy is going on.
Taxpayer money flows into some dark hole with nothing to show for it.
Anon 11:37Pm is onto something - a VERY important subject.
Let's follow the trail...Suddenly the Port is talking like it, and it alone, will be determining the future of the Rayonier site.
But Port commissioner John Calhoun could not be reached for comment because, to quote the PDN: "...(he) was out of town presenting a report on behalf of the Olympic Natural Resource Commission, where he is employed."
(Forget the sidebars for now about how he is already paid QUITE WELL to be a Port Commissioner, and how no one ever REALLY gets fired from the Port...)
Now, if you go to the homepage (www.onrc.washington.edu/) for the ONRC, the FIRST thing you'll see is a report touting biomass as THE coming thing for Washington. Here's a sample quote from the report: "...it is carbon neutral (carbon released into the atmosphere from wood-to-energy production has been previously removed from the atmosphere by the growing woody plants)..."
This is like saying your family is absolutely safe because the meth-addicted serial killer living next door to you was "previously" incarcerated.
Tie this all together with the rumors that are going around about the Gov - and her close friends at Rayonier - wanting the old Rayonier mill site to be a biomass facility, and you don't have to be a genius to see the fix that's in. And the fix Port Angeles could be in.
We'd go from one outdated, heavily polluting use to another, newer outdated, heavily polluting use.
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. Both in terms of the stupid choice that has apparently already been made for us - and in terms of the choice being made for us. Representative government? Not here, not now, apparently.
We need to rise up and flood the offices of the City Council, the Port and the Govenor with e-mails and letters demanding to know what's REALLY going on here. This lunacy can be stopped, and exposed, but only if we raise a stink.
LET'S GET GOING, PEOPLE.
A biomass facility would be good...so long as it is NOT run by the tribe!!
Hey Billy...you oughta apply for the Parks & Recreation commission! Maybe you could get us a whorehouse, that's recreation!!
Not if I have to be on a committee to do it. I'm the head pimp in charge of the whole thing or forget it.
Biomass sounds like some crazy lib treehuggin thing. I say NO!!!!!!!! What we need is a refinery to produce gas to run my beautyful SUV and a good steakhouse.
"... a report touting biomass as THE coming thing for Washington."
Perfect! Gales Addition got rid of ONE smokestack industry, and will now get another?
Property values in Port Angeles? If they had ANY hope of ever "recovering", forget it if this happens. The real estate folks in this town should be the first in line to oppose THIS plan.
BIOMASS baaabbbyyy!!
"The real estate folks in this town should be the first in line to oppose THIS plan"
You don't understand, my friend. The real estate/constraction cabal are going to make a ton of money from this perverse deal.
The bottom line is the further padding of their bank accounts and screw the people who have to live down wind of this pollution-belching "solution." In fact, they'll clean up on selling the homes those folks will put on the market. For them it's a win-win-win situation.
The real estate gang ran four candidates for City Council and one got elected. The real estate gang is heavily connected with the Port of Port Angeles, PABA and Harborworks. How long do you think it will be before ex-Wall Street shark Kaj Ahlburg, and newly made member of the Cabal, runs for City Council? Six, two and even he runs against Brad Collins.
The real estate gang needs to control the City Council so that it can continue brokering behind the scenes sweetheart deals with their cronies and fill their bank accounts with plunder.
LOL...ya gotta laugh, there's no pleasing the enviros. First they love biomass, then they hate it. I guess it really is true, they just want everyone to freeze in the dark living in caves! Except for them....
You tell em sister! LMAO!!!! When I think biomass I think of some hippie pachoulie factory or something. Smells like biomass around here. lMAO!!!!!
"Sally", "Charlie", "Linda", "Rex","Johnny", "Big Shirley" ... c'mon. We all know it's the same person spouting the same tired conserva-nonsense. Time to grow up, troll.
LOL! I wonder how many people have the name "Anonymous?" Talk about the pot callin the kettle black! Typical liberal, always afraid that everyone else out there thinks different than them! LMAO!
"In fact, they'll clean up on selling the homes those folks will put on the market. For them it's a win-win-win situation."
I dunno. They can't sell anything, as it is. There are so many vacant buildings and "for rent" signs, and have been for quite awhile. This bio-mass fantasy would not be built by local construction folks, any more than the new Walmart is being built by local guys.
This town continues to go downhill. Anyone with open eyes can see it.
It will go downhill unless we get rid of over-regulation and liberal whack-jobs.
"Perfect! Gales Addition got rid of ONE smokestack industry, and will now get another?"
They already got one with all the meth houses there.
"What we need is a refinery to produce gas to run my beautyful SUV and a good steakhouse."
But... think of the children!!
Rex, define 'whack job' in words that you have not heard by listening to a.) Rush, b.) Fox News, c.) your local 'teabagger' Please, try and come up with an original thought..but do not get a brain-hernia. If you cannot, then, please stay silent. Your addition to the conversation, thus far, amounts to "duhhhhhhh". Pick up the pace.
The Rex-Charlie-Linda-Sally-Johnny-Luke-Big Shirley-troll won't be back now that Tom's tightening up the comments. Not that the troll could have said anything beyond his usual spew.
What gets me is that these people think they're such "individualists" yet they all parrot the same talking points and stereotypes they learned from Rush/Foxnews/Teabagger Central. Talk about mind control and indoctrination ... they're like cult members.
"What gets me is that these people think they're such "individualists" yet they all parrot the same talking points and stereotypes they learned from Rush/Foxnews/Teabagger Central. Talk about mind control and indoctrination ... they're like cult members."
Yes, but we see this indoctrination nationwide, and impacting the country as it tries to move forward. Fox "news" and Rush are on affiliated networks beamed into virtually every household. If you order a cable or satellite TV system, you automatically get Fox "news", but will have to pay more to get any other nrws/information sources.
So, is it any wonder that such a large number of people on a limited budget espouse the Fox party line, and have adopted their name calling/accusatory approach to discussions about public affairs?
Never before has such a small group (Rupert Murdock and his conservative agenda aired via Fox) had such an instantaneous and pervasive influence in a nations' political affairs. We are experiencing a never-before-tried experiment in social manipulation on a huge national scale, and the results so far do not look encouraging.
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