We are currently being taxed to death! Our "assessed" value rose by 40% last year alone, the Hospital will get another 700 per year from my family, the Fire District has a couple levies proposed....Where does it end?!?! We know the answer already, it doesn't....
These idiots are overlooking the national 'debt' which exceeds $35,000,000,000,000, (Trillion, with a T)...Americans are currently BORROWING DOLLARS from the Fed TO PAY THE INTEREST...The county relies on state/federal grants...where is the subsidy money coming from?
We are on the verge of a global financial collapse and all we can talk about is tax and spend...we live in a fantasy about to become a nightmare and most of the agents in our gov't are completely clueless. Instead of tax and spend it's going to be expand and collapse. WTH? History repeats.🫣
Ask Commissioner French where the money comes from for grants...His answer will be 'it doesn't cost taxpayers anything because the Government will just print more.' That was said by French at a public commissioners meeting. Ozias concurs. And that's who we have running this county. No wonder we're in so much trouble. But people keep voting blue and voting these idiots in.
"After the same residents had elevated concerns about speeding cars, Ozias fast-tracked their request that the county lower the speed limit. A traffic study revealed that since the road has been dead-ended for over two years, the speeding cars are attributed to the lead-footed residents who live on Towne Road."
Thanks, Jeff! I'm only at the beginning but am enjoying the update immensely.
Hey Barney guys, I testified at the planning commission, get this...we cant have overpasses and interchanges, because it would be a "catastrophe" if it collapsed during an earthquake..Kenneth Reandeax,,,said that. The same guy that testified in favor of a reservoir...Thinks...an overpass is too dangerous for the public.....yet......1600 acres of stored water..is safe....With that much water Irwin Allen could make a disaster movie if he were alive. There is an over under 2 miles away at the scenic view over four seasons.. Sound transit has overhead structures all over Pugetropolis. Were in real trouble if we have guys like this on our planning commission. I'd rather have someone who uses the road be involved than some greeny sophist muleskinner jumping from one foot to the other.. I am up to contradiction number 18 with this county.
18. An overpass or interchange is a bigger potential catastrophe than a 1600 acre 550 gallon reservoir.
The previous list of lies...
1. Good stormwater. Remove dam
2. Bad stormwater. mitigate sediment Port Angeles stormwater project
3. We need sediment. Remove dam
4. We have to mitigate sediment. Same dam project
5. Good stagnant water. Reservoir
6. Bad stagnant water. Dam
7. Good methane. Reservoir
8. Bad methane. Dam
9. We need saltwater marshes. Dungeness
10.We don't need saltwater marshes. Jimmycomelately /Elwha
11.We need the river meandering in the flat part of the river close to the mouth. Dungeness
12 We don't need river meandering at the flat part of the river close to the mouth. Jimmycomelately /Elwha
13. We need high water tables so the wetlands can develop. Dungeness
14. We need to divert stormwater, so the high-water tables don't create a wetland. Jimmycomelately /Elwha
15.The state does not need stormwater project on Dungeness river because there is not enough traffic runoff to justify it.
16. 6PPD-q is in the water we have to block a ¾ mile road on the Dungeness.
17. The tribes are not responsible for any of the climate change issues.
Tell the lying fool that San Francisco Bay Area structural engineers have learned how to build freeway overpasses and interchanges that are earthquake proof. The guy is a maroon!
The same outfit that gives you and I a credit score is over 35 trillion in debt and growing without an end in sight. We celebrate the irrigation festival...I think the oldest in the state... The irrigation system worked for how long without pipes? Pipe it and wells will start drying up. The county has tried already.
Its the lack of tribal impact user fees that irks me. The tribal tax exemptions have to stop somewhere. They should be paying the same environmental user and impact fees the rest of us pay. If they are going to operate by traditional means fine, but their commercial operations must pay impact and user fees like the other businesses pay period. Or its anti trust violations.
Isn’t there already a fee on our property taxes called, “concerned citizens for future generations” that takes money from you and gives it to nonprofits to land grab, then give it to the tribe? All of the nonprofits are run by Jefferson land trust. They make up a new trust frequently so it sounds like they all support each other. They are working to take 30% of Washington by 2030. It’s a bill from Biden called 30 by 30. Right under our noses
It goes to Jefferson land trust first, then down to the other 50 nonprofits, they also run. JLT is having a public meeting in Quilcene on Friday. The top guy invited us to ask him any questions about their projects. JLT has also handed over land to the tribe in Jefferson county, paid for by citizens tax dollars.
I find it strange that everyone is okay paying for land to be taken away and off limits to human for 100 years.. for future generations of course.
There are many opportunities in the county budget to reduce, cut or remove that would fund this goal. This is an opportunity to learn where those opportunities lie. What is needed is legislation that limits our Governing budget. Once that limit is established various budget priorities can then be established. The logical end game of increasing taxes any time a new need is brought forward is the loss of very tax base upon which Government relies.
I know it would never fly, but if we, the people, could make all these pork barrel projects funded PARTIALLY out of the commissioners' own salary, we would be assured more judicial expenditures of our tax money. I know they will also pay taxes, but if they had to pay a significant one-time fee from their salaries for every boondoggle project they come up with, it might go a long way to slowing them down.
If I owned a parcel that had an open irrigation ditch that was replenishing my acquifer, among other things, and they piped it without my permission, I would hire a back hoe with a spike on the bucket to perforate their pipe on my property, thereby replenishing my aquifer without being visible above ground.
My understanding is tribes must pay “fees” not taxes. So maybe there is a work around? Maybe the county needs to change the verbiage and call property taxes “fees” from now on.
In 2017 they signed an "agreement" with the City of Sequim (I believe it's a legal HUD requirement) that they pay a mere $150/year per unit on thirteen properties they rent out as low income or rent to purchase. The agreement says the city won't collect tax and that this 'fee' covers services such as police, roads, etc. for those properties. From what I've found so far no fees have been paid. Future properties were supposed to be added to the agreement so I have no idea how many more there may be by now.
Floodplains help prevent flooding and evaporate water ! NGOs are great at suggesting what to do with tax payers money as long as they get their cut , when they run out of other peoples money they run out of solutions .
I want to know more about this reservoir! If/when the reservoir is built the Tribe will have full control over Dungeness River water via damming of the Dungeness just up from the reservoir site as well as using the reservoir to "control" the river through the seasons. Have the property owners below this proposed site been personally notified? Nope. It's not a stretch to imagine that the reservoir might suddenly and mysteriously fail. All that water unleashed at once will flood every property downstream and that damaged land can then be scooped up for a fraction of it's heretofore value. Who would gain from such a catastrophic mishap?
It seems as though we are paying for the nonprofit and tribes absence of paying their fair share. Property taxes rise, people sell to the nonprofits, taxes are taken away from the community and the people left have to make up for it. And who really is behind all the nonprofits? Our own government and foreign investors
The north Olympic land trust has taken many many properties from of the community, (some worth 3 million) that do not pay taxes for the community.
The tribe has over 385 titles to property in Sequim. These properties should be named “foreign land” now because they don’t belong to our community or help pay for our community by way of taxes for our roads and schools.
We are currently being taxed to death! Our "assessed" value rose by 40% last year alone, the Hospital will get another 700 per year from my family, the Fire District has a couple levies proposed....Where does it end?!?! We know the answer already, it doesn't....
Just wait. The Sequim School District is about to put another bond on the ballot for November.
Omg… 😔
These idiots are overlooking the national 'debt' which exceeds $35,000,000,000,000, (Trillion, with a T)...Americans are currently BORROWING DOLLARS from the Fed TO PAY THE INTEREST...The county relies on state/federal grants...where is the subsidy money coming from?
We are on the verge of a global financial collapse and all we can talk about is tax and spend...we live in a fantasy about to become a nightmare and most of the agents in our gov't are completely clueless. Instead of tax and spend it's going to be expand and collapse. WTH? History repeats.🫣
Ask Commissioner French where the money comes from for grants...His answer will be 'it doesn't cost taxpayers anything because the Government will just print more.' That was said by French at a public commissioners meeting. Ozias concurs. And that's who we have running this county. No wonder we're in so much trouble. But people keep voting blue and voting these idiots in.
Priceless:
"After the same residents had elevated concerns about speeding cars, Ozias fast-tracked their request that the county lower the speed limit. A traffic study revealed that since the road has been dead-ended for over two years, the speeding cars are attributed to the lead-footed residents who live on Towne Road."
Thanks, Jeff! I'm only at the beginning but am enjoying the update immensely.
The traffic study didn't determine the source of the litter Towne Road residents complain about.
Hey Barney guys, I testified at the planning commission, get this...we cant have overpasses and interchanges, because it would be a "catastrophe" if it collapsed during an earthquake..Kenneth Reandeax,,,said that. The same guy that testified in favor of a reservoir...Thinks...an overpass is too dangerous for the public.....yet......1600 acres of stored water..is safe....With that much water Irwin Allen could make a disaster movie if he were alive. There is an over under 2 miles away at the scenic view over four seasons.. Sound transit has overhead structures all over Pugetropolis. Were in real trouble if we have guys like this on our planning commission. I'd rather have someone who uses the road be involved than some greeny sophist muleskinner jumping from one foot to the other.. I am up to contradiction number 18 with this county.
18. An overpass or interchange is a bigger potential catastrophe than a 1600 acre 550 gallon reservoir.
The previous list of lies...
1. Good stormwater. Remove dam
2. Bad stormwater. mitigate sediment Port Angeles stormwater project
3. We need sediment. Remove dam
4. We have to mitigate sediment. Same dam project
5. Good stagnant water. Reservoir
6. Bad stagnant water. Dam
7. Good methane. Reservoir
8. Bad methane. Dam
9. We need saltwater marshes. Dungeness
10.We don't need saltwater marshes. Jimmycomelately /Elwha
11.We need the river meandering in the flat part of the river close to the mouth. Dungeness
12 We don't need river meandering at the flat part of the river close to the mouth. Jimmycomelately /Elwha
13. We need high water tables so the wetlands can develop. Dungeness
14. We need to divert stormwater, so the high-water tables don't create a wetland. Jimmycomelately /Elwha
15.The state does not need stormwater project on Dungeness river because there is not enough traffic runoff to justify it.
16. 6PPD-q is in the water we have to block a ¾ mile road on the Dungeness.
17. The tribes are not responsible for any of the climate change issues.
Tell the lying fool that San Francisco Bay Area structural engineers have learned how to build freeway overpasses and interchanges that are earthquake proof. The guy is a maroon!
The people that appointed him were fooled.
The same outfit that gives you and I a credit score is over 35 trillion in debt and growing without an end in sight. We celebrate the irrigation festival...I think the oldest in the state... The irrigation system worked for how long without pipes? Pipe it and wells will start drying up. The county has tried already.
Its the lack of tribal impact user fees that irks me. The tribal tax exemptions have to stop somewhere. They should be paying the same environmental user and impact fees the rest of us pay. If they are going to operate by traditional means fine, but their commercial operations must pay impact and user fees like the other businesses pay period. Or its anti trust violations.
'We gotta pay our dues if we wanna sing the blues, but you know it don't come easy.
It's too big to overthrow now... like the Roman Empire...it'll just have to collapse and rot under it's own weight...
🎶
Isn’t there already a fee on our property taxes called, “concerned citizens for future generations” that takes money from you and gives it to nonprofits to land grab, then give it to the tribe? All of the nonprofits are run by Jefferson land trust. They make up a new trust frequently so it sounds like they all support each other. They are working to take 30% of Washington by 2030. It’s a bill from Biden called 30 by 30. Right under our noses
Yep. "Conservation futures." It goes to North Olympic Land Trust which the Tribe's transportation director leads.
Agenda 2030-2050 and beyond.
Carlin coffee in Quilcene Friday at 8:30
It goes to Jefferson land trust first, then down to the other 50 nonprofits, they also run. JLT is having a public meeting in Quilcene on Friday. The top guy invited us to ask him any questions about their projects. JLT has also handed over land to the tribe in Jefferson county, paid for by citizens tax dollars.
I find it strange that everyone is okay paying for land to be taken away and off limits to human for 100 years.. for future generations of course.
There are many opportunities in the county budget to reduce, cut or remove that would fund this goal. This is an opportunity to learn where those opportunities lie. What is needed is legislation that limits our Governing budget. Once that limit is established various budget priorities can then be established. The logical end game of increasing taxes any time a new need is brought forward is the loss of very tax base upon which Government relies.
We're not going to vote or petition our way out of this.🤔
I'm confused about the Tribe's "management" of Dungeness Recreation Area - are roads NOT included in the management????
I think it's still county property up to the start of the walk down to the bluff. Then the tribe takes over.
OH.... so THAT is how "management" works!!!!
They don't want the responsibility...only the power and control!
I know it would never fly, but if we, the people, could make all these pork barrel projects funded PARTIALLY out of the commissioners' own salary, we would be assured more judicial expenditures of our tax money. I know they will also pay taxes, but if they had to pay a significant one-time fee from their salaries for every boondoggle project they come up with, it might go a long way to slowing them down.
If I owned a parcel that had an open irrigation ditch that was replenishing my acquifer, among other things, and they piped it without my permission, I would hire a back hoe with a spike on the bucket to perforate their pipe on my property, thereby replenishing my aquifer without being visible above ground.
My understanding is tribes must pay “fees” not taxes. So maybe there is a work around? Maybe the county needs to change the verbiage and call property taxes “fees” from now on.
In 2017 they signed an "agreement" with the City of Sequim (I believe it's a legal HUD requirement) that they pay a mere $150/year per unit on thirteen properties they rent out as low income or rent to purchase. The agreement says the city won't collect tax and that this 'fee' covers services such as police, roads, etc. for those properties. From what I've found so far no fees have been paid. Future properties were supposed to be added to the agreement so I have no idea how many more there may be by now.
Yes especially user and impact fees. Fill up a tribal company truck with gas..Impact user fees. Tribal boats over a certain length etc.
Floodplains help prevent flooding and evaporate water ! NGOs are great at suggesting what to do with tax payers money as long as they get their cut , when they run out of other peoples money they run out of solutions .
I want to know more about this reservoir! If/when the reservoir is built the Tribe will have full control over Dungeness River water via damming of the Dungeness just up from the reservoir site as well as using the reservoir to "control" the river through the seasons. Have the property owners below this proposed site been personally notified? Nope. It's not a stretch to imagine that the reservoir might suddenly and mysteriously fail. All that water unleashed at once will flood every property downstream and that damaged land can then be scooped up for a fraction of it's heretofore value. Who would gain from such a catastrophic mishap?
It seems as though we are paying for the nonprofit and tribes absence of paying their fair share. Property taxes rise, people sell to the nonprofits, taxes are taken away from the community and the people left have to make up for it. And who really is behind all the nonprofits? Our own government and foreign investors
The north Olympic land trust has taken many many properties from of the community, (some worth 3 million) that do not pay taxes for the community.
The tribe has over 385 titles to property in Sequim. These properties should be named “foreign land” now because they don’t belong to our community or help pay for our community by way of taxes for our roads and schools.