I attended the regularly scheduled meeting of the BOCC today to try and stop our commissioners from giving away $30,000 to a private citizen who filed a lawsuit against the county that included the following allegation: “On April 10, 2019 Plaintiff made a request for public records from Defendant for which the Defendant intentionally and in bad faith, denied said records in an effort to conceal from Plaintiff records of significant importance relating to a proposed gravel mine application on Hood Canal.”

“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today” is a line made famous by the portly character, ‘Wimpy,’ in the comic strip, ‘Popeye.’ But the funny part is not that payment be deferred, but the understanding that payment will never be forthcoming.

County 2020 budget numbers are based on the first full year of accounting using Cash Basis accounting, as adopted in July 2018 (Resolution #48-18).

This letter is in response to a couple of comments made by 35^th Leg. Dist. Rep. Drew MacEwen as appeared in the August 22 edition of the Shelton-Mason County Journal.

Mason County government has never been the poster child for transparency, but what happened to one rural community should be a wake-up call for us all (see “County road project stumbles” MCJ July 11^th.)