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Council Public Works & Health Committee
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
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Bellingham, WA 98225-4038
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Committee Minutes - Final
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
1:30 PM
Hybrid Meeting
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COUNCILMEMBERS
Barry Buchanan
Kaylee Galloway
Kathy Kershner
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
Dana Brown -Davis, C.M.C.
Council Public Works & Health Committee Minutes - Final March 22, 2022
Committee
Call To Order
Roll Call
Committee Chair Kathy Kershner called the meeting to order at 1:30 p.m.
in a hybrid meeting.
Present: 3 - Barry Buchanan, Kaylee Galloway, and Kathy Kershner
Absent: None
Also Present: Tyler Byrd, Todd Donovan, Ben Elenbaas, and Carol Frazey
Announcements
Special Presentation
1. AB2022-160. Report from the Public Works Department
The following people presented:
Jon Hutchings, Public Works Department Director
• Jim Karcher, Public Works Department
They answered what FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) stands for as
it relates to funding, what they anticipate staffing needs to be in the short
and long term, what strategies they have in building that workforce now so
the County is not caught without the needed staff, how far behind they will
be on Annual Construction Program projects they are having to postpone
because of emergency response to November's floods, whether design staff
can be hired on contract, what the bottlenecks are in terms of staff for those
projects that are going to be delayed, whether they are at any risk of
delaying the fish passage and culvert projects, how long the delayed R5
Marshall Hill Rd - Slide Repair / Culvert Replacement project will take,
when they expect the B 12 Deal Road / Fish Passage improvement project to
start and be completed, and ways in which the Council can help with issues
the Public Works Department is facing.
This agenda item was REPORTED.
Committee Discussion
S B2O22m1 C% Discussion of proposed ordinance establishing movement restrictions on E. Hemmi
Road at the intersection with Hannegan Road
Jim Karcher, Public Works Department, briefed the Councilmembers and
stated this discussion covers both AB2022-162 and AB2022-163 which are
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on the Council agenda for introduction tonight.
He answered whether the school approved the times of day that the
restrictions will be in place, how they plan to post the restrictions and
whether there will be signs, whether there will be a special indicator that
calls attention to the new signs when they are put in place, whether there are
examples of this type of restriction anywhere else in the county (where
people cannot turn a certain way within a certain period of time), whether
the turn restriction would affect the middle school or whether the start
times for the middle school are different, and what the alternate routes
would be if a driver is trying to travel south or west from the school.
Buchanan moved to recommend for approval but Karcher stated this was
just a discussion.
This agenda item was DISCUSSED.
Items Added by Revision
Other Business
Adjournment
There were no agenda items added by revision.
There was no other business.
The meeting adjourned at 2:18 p.m.
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Kathy Kershner-via email 3/26/2022
Kathy Kershner, Committee Chair
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