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Port Townsend-Jefferson Countys Daily Newspaper September 5, 2012 | 75

JeffCom911 to cut ties with county

Emergency dispatcher will fund manage self by first of October
BY CHARLIE BERMANT
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT HADLOCK The agency that handles Jefferson Countys emergency dispatching will become independent Oct. 1 and no longer come under the auspices of county government. At that time, JeffCom911 Communications will manage and fund itself instead of being a county department.

This will make everything more efficient, said JeffCom911 Director Janet Silvus. The board will have more control over what we do, and all the information we need will be accessible to us, and we will be better able to respond. Silvus said people who call 9-1-1 in an emergency will not see any difference when the agency becomes independent. JeffCom was never meant to

be a county agency; most emergency service agencies are standalone, said East Jefferson Fire-Rescue Chief Gordon Pomeroy. Once it is Pomeroy independent, the users will have more say about what goes on in the agency, and it will be able to get what it needs immediately without having to go through a lot of bureaucracy. On Monday, the three county

commissioners approved a measure that created two new funds for JeffCom911, for general and capital purposes. The funds which come mainly from a 2006 property tax levy and the agencies that respond from JeffCom911 calls still will be administered by County Treasurer Judi Morris, but JeffCom911 will not need commissioners approval for spending them.

Sheriffs Office of responsibility for emergency services. Sheriff Tony Hernandez said making JeffCom911 independent of his department was necessary because it prevented a dilution of resources.

Employs 20 people

Currently, JeffCom911 employs 20 people and has a $1.8 million annual budget, Hernandez said. Granting independence from Created in 2002 the county will allow JeffCom911 to find other funding sources, he JeffCom911 was created in said. June 2002 as an independent TURN TO JEFFCOM/A4 agency that relieved the county

Celebrating all things maritime

Wooden Boat Festival to start Friday in PT
BY CHARLIE BERMANT
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT TOWNSEND The three-day Wooden Boat Festival that starts Friday is a unique attraction where attendees can celebrate the maritime trades, organizers said. Its a wonderful community gathering, said Jake Beattie, executive director of the Northwest Maritime Center, which is home to the Wooden Boat Foundation and the Wooden Boat Festival. It has an incredible electric energy, Beattie said. When it is happening, the whole town comes alive. Now in its 36th year, the event draws boating enthusiasts from around the world to the Point Hudson Marina festival grounds to learn the latest and greatest maritime techniques or just to appreciate the lines of a particularly

compelling craft. Although the festival begins in earnest Friday, a Music & Bar Harbor open to the public will kick it off Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The festival will run from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Music in the big tent

Music begins at 11 a.m. each day in the big tent next to the Cupola House, and festival attendees can dance until midnight Thursday, Friday and Saturday. General admission tickets for nonmembers of the Northwest Maritime Center are $15 for a single day and $30 for the entire festival. Seniors, students and military pay $10 for one day or $20 for all days.
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Port Townsend Maritime Center Executive Director Jake Beattie shows off the new Pilot House Training Center, tours of which will be conducted during the three-day Wooden Boat Festival.

Sequim license office weeks from reopening

BY ARWYN RICE
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

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DAY OF SCHOOL

New Grant Street Elementary School Principal Mary Sepler welcomes third-graders Jaycee Zack, Grace Taracka, Hunter Alley and Raiden Kaspersonon in Port Townsend on Tuesday.

SEQUIM East Clallam County and Gardiner-area residents still will need to drive to Port Angeles or Port Townsend to register their vehicles for another two months while a new licensing agent is trained and completes paperwork. But Clallam County Auditor Patty Rosand said residents should again be able to take care of auto and boat licensing in Sequim by around Halloween or Election Day. Suzan Mansfield was announced in August as the replacement for agent Karen

Shewbert, w h o s e contract with the county was ended in May. Rosand said: We a r e e x c i t e d Mansfield that this appointment has been approved by the director of [the state Department of Licensing] and that we are one step further in restoring service to Sequim customers. The Sequim Licensing Office will be located in a wheelchair-accessible building in the mall anchored by

J.C. Penney at 645 W. Washington St. Mansfield and an employee must complete a certification process with the state Department of Licensing before the new subagency can open. The certification course can take as long as 10 weeks. Mansfield formerly operated the subagency in Sequim, Rosand said.

Did an excellent job

She did an excellent job serving the citizens of Sequim in the past, and I am sure she will in the future, the auditor said.
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