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COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
COMMISSIONERS AUDITORIUM
SPECIAL MEETING
TUESDAY 2:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Board members present: Chairman Obie O’Brien; Vice-Chairman Paul
Jewell and Commissioner Gary Berndt.
Others: Julie Kjorsvik, Clerk of the Board; Brenda Larsen, Fire
Marshal; Jerry Pettit, Auditor; Josh Hink, Deputy Fire Marshal; Neil
Caulkins, Deputy Prosecutor and Stephanie Hartung, Deputy
Prosecutor.
PUBLIC HEARING EMERGENCY BAN – FIREWORKS FIRE MARSHAL
At 2:00 p.m. CHAIRMAN O’BRIEN opened a Public Hearing to consider a
change to County Code and Policy that would allow the Fire Marshal
to place an emergency ban on fireworks when certain criteria have
been met.
JOSH HINK, DEPUTY FIRE MARSHAL reviewed a Staff Report and provided
background information on the proposed changes to County Code and
Policy. He said a committee had been formed in August 2015 to
identify and create criteria necessary for when to determine whether
a ban on fireworks could be implemented. He said after the Fire
Marshal has attended training and research over the past 10 fire
seasons, the criteria had been modified to better serve the County
and therefore created policy FM-01-10. BRENDA LARSEN, FIRE MARSHAL
reported that with the data pulled from over the past 10 years, the
last 2 years would have been the only years which would have met the
criteria to implement an emergency ban. The Board asked Staff
questions and for clarification relating to the proposed
implementation of the County Code and Policy.
THERE BEING NO ONE REQUESTING TO TESTIFY, THE PUBLIC PORTION OF THE
HEARING WAS CLOSED.
The Board provided direction on a few changes to the language and
requested that Staff bring enabling documents back for their
consideration on the March 1, 2016 Commissioner Agenda Session at
10:00 a.m.
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The meeting was adjourned at 2:40 p.m.
KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CLERK OF THE BOARD KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Julie Kjorsvik Obie O’Brien, Chairman