GOLDENDALE — The June 3 Klickitat County Commissioners meeting was one primarily concerned with housekeeping measures.
Most of the news from the morning workshop session concerned the jail. Administrator Bill Frantz said that the ductwork had been cleaned for the first time in years, that cameras would be installed next week, and that the jail was receiving a generator from FEMA.
The public works department also reported that the county has received a $618,000 grant for repainting and re-stuccoing the original courthouse building.
In the afternoon formal session, Klickitat County was identified as one of four — out of 39 — in Washington to have no animal shelter. That was the message brought to commissioners by Danielle Olson. She told them that when Gina Mosbrucker was in the legislature, she got funding passed to build a shelter in Klickitat County.
“We have the land, and we have the funding,” she said, “but what gives me heartburn is we don’t have any funds for operations, supplies and maintenance.”
That funding construction money is set to expire unless at least a temporary structure is up by Sept. 30.
Commissioners agreed to bring the issue to a workshop session in the near future.
Under the consent agenda, commissioners approved:
• A fee schedule for behavioral health substance use disorder services.
• A contract extension with Washington State Department of Ecology.
• The final acceptance and release contract bond for Bickleton area paving.
• A memorandum of understanding with the Coalition for Preventing Abuse in Klickitat County.
• The final covenant of purpose and the agreement and mortgage for the EDA loan at the Columbia Gorge Regional Airport.
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