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2 commissioners knew the results BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Christian Bolanos of Corona, Calif., left, and his daughter, Masda Bolanos, 5, cut lavender stalks to take home at the Lavender Connection during the Sequim Lavender Weekend. Events continue today. For more information, see story on Page C1.
Union wins dispute, large award over hours worked Arbitrator sides with Teamsters against Clallam BY ROB OLLIKAINEN PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A union representing Clallam County employees has won a grievance against the county and a significant award in arbitration. County officials say they won’t honor
the award to Teamsters Local 589 because it is illegal to pay hourly employees for time they did not work and that if forced to do so, layoffs are possible. Arbitrator James Lundberg ruled May 27 that Clallam County violated a collective bargaining agreement when it placed about 45 union employees on a 37½-hour work week in January of 2014 and again in January 2015. Lundberg ordered the county to “cease and desist” from departing from a normal 40-hour work week and ordered the county to back-pay the affected workers with interest from Jan. 13, 2014. “Although we have not precisely calculated that amount, we certainly believe
it to be in excess of $150,000,” Teamsters Local 589 representative Dan Taylor told commissioners in the public comment period of Tuesday’s business meeting. “This is unfortunate, because during the last contract negotiations the county’s negotiating team proposed to settle the grievance for just $33,000,” Taylor continued. “The union negotiating team accepted the proposal and the membership ratified it, only to have the Board of (County) Commissioners repudiate the settlement and force the union to proceed with arbitration.” TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Two Clallam County commissioners already knew the answer to their question. But Commissioners Jim McEntire and Bill Peach kept their colleague, fourterm Commissioner Mike Chapman, in the dark. McEntire and Peach said last week they already knew the state Auditor’s Office had determined the board acted properly in approving $1.3 million in Opportunity Chapman Fund grants that have become a battle line between the commissioners and Treasurer Selinda Barkhuis. But they said nothing Monday when they joined Chapman, the board’s senior member, in voting unanimously to ask the agency to conduct a special compliance review-audit on the grant awards and warrants that had effectively already been completed. They asked for an audit that already had been conducted. Had Chapman had the same knowledge as his fellow commissioners, he would have voted no on the request. “Why would I ask them to look at something if they had already looked at it,” he said last week. “That would have been stupid.”
Dispute over warrants Barkhuis has refused to sign warrants releasing the funds, threatening legal action unless the commissioners hold public hearings and sign contracts with the city and port. TURN
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Peninsula pot shops pass compliance test Checks targeted underage sales PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIA — North Olympic Peninsula marijuana retail stores passed the first round of checks on compliance with laws directing no sales be made to those under 21. Mister Buds, Hidden Bush and Sparket in Port Angeles, Sea
Change Cannabis in Discovery Bay and Herbal Access Retail in Port Hadlock passed the compliance checks conducted at 157 stores from mid-May until the end of June, the Washington State Liquor Control Board reported Friday. Eighteen stores in the state
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The employee “did her own math, and that was the problem,” he said. The checks represent an 88 percent no-sales-to-minors compliance rate, the state said. “Our goal is 100 percent compliance,” said Jane Rushford, chairwoman of the liquor control board. TURN
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