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Methadone, marijuana planning move ahead City planners grapple with both BY TOM JAMES TJAMES@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
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Rows of “kickers” work the floor at Kitsap Kickers Linedance Club dance at Scout Hall in Silverdale on a recent Friday evening. The club will celebrate 30 years on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 5 p.m. at Scout Hall with dancing and a potluck.
Treasurer resigns from Kitsap 9/11 Memorial Committee, says spending a problem Treasurer says 40 percent of funds raised go to “expenses” for loosely-run organization BY KRISTIN OKINAKA KOKINAKA@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
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heryl Stauff is not opposed to having a 9/11 memorial at Evergreen Park in Bremerton, but she does oppose the methods of the committee seeking to build it. In mid-August, Stauff quietly resigned as treasurer of the Kitsap 9/11 Memorial
Committee. Last Wednesday, Stauff spoke a little louder when, before the Bremerton City Council, as she addressed the reasons behind her resignation – communication and a lack of budget. “I didn’t want any impropriety in anything I was responsible for,” Stauff later said. Stauff became involved with the
memorial project when she helped at the Committee’s March auction fundraiser and attended her first meeting the next month. The previous treasurer gave Stauff all bookkeeping files at the end of June and she officially assumed her duties as treasurer on Aug. 1 just as a new bank account for the memorial was activated. She resigned from the position Aug. 15 at the Committee meeting. The Committee’s director of operations also SEE MEMORIAL, A8
Bremerton city planners hope to submit their first recommendations on where methadone clinics should be allowed to the planning committee within a month, according to officials. Both medical marijuana collective gardens and methadone clinics were the subject of moratoria, passed Aug. 17 and July 22, respectively. Any recommendations the planning office may have on medical marijuana collective gardens, another contentious issue the office has been tasked with studying, will not come until a much later date, said Allison Daniels, a community development project manager charged with coming up with recommendations on both issues. Andrea Spencer, director of the community development office, said that slow progress, with creating zoning laws that deal with methadone clinics and collective medical marijuana grows, was to be expected. In addition to creating actual recommendations for both, state law requires her office to give the State Department of Commerce 60 days to comment on any proposed changes to city land use codes. City planners hope to submit a first set of recommendations to the city planning commission at their monthly meeting, Oct. 18, Spencer said. Everg reen Treat ment Services, a developer of methadone treatment facilities, pulled its bid on a Bremerton location shortly after City Council’s vote to extend the moratorium, said Ron Jackson, SEE TREATMENT, A8