Around Town
Calendar casting call; only pets need apply page 13
Island Scene
A woman’s place? Female voices of the civil war revisited page 11
Ferry Home Companion
Red tape or not, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and finish the community ballfields page 7
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Ballot Shot for the history books tracker system dumped
Court ruling prompts fee hike
But clash in court over barcodes remains unresolved
Journal staff report
By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter
The ballot bar code lawsuit, White v. Reed, is now eight years old and does not appear to be ending any time soon. The lawsuit claims that bar codes on the ballot envelope and on the ballot itself violate the Washington law that states, “No paper ballot or ballot card may be marked in any way that would permit the identification of the person who voted that ballot.” Multiple motions have been filed, briefed and argued, but the only clear result is that San Juan County is likely to save money by abandoning the Mail-in Ballot Tracking system previously used here. County Auditor Milene Henley said that after Superior Court Judge Don Eaton decided that the tracking system violated a state law that requires any voting system to obtain federal certification, she decided not to appeal that decision, but instead to abandon the MIBT system, even though Henley insists that the MIBT system did not in any way compromise ballot secrecy. Not using the MIBT system “would require more staff hours
Contributed photo / Chris Teren
An aerial photograph captures the crowd gathered at Lime Kiln State Park, Thursday, July 25, in observance of the 100th anniversary of Washington State Parks. The fly-by photo was choreographed by Friends of Lime Kiln Society.
The present $5 per parcel assessment for San Juan Islands Conservation District programs in San Juan County will be raised by five cents an acre if an ordinance under consideration by the San Juan County Council is enacted. The district provides technical assistance and grants to landowners for conservation-related projects to promote local agriculture, improved farm and forest management practices, habitat protection and restoration. In 2012, the district provided free advice and assistance to about 80 county See hike, Page 4
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In response to a recent Washington Court of Appeals ruling in a Pierce County case, San Juan County and the Town of Friday Harbor are in the process of amending their dangerous dog ordinances. Both amendments are scheduled for initial consideration by the County Council and the Town Council at meetings on Tuesday, July 30, and Thursday, Aug. 1, respectively. Although the town may amend its dangerous dog ordinance immediately, both town and county are expected to pass the new ordinances in coming weeks. The court case determined that fees charged for
“fact-finding hearings” on appeal, following a determination by a local animal control officer that a dog should be classified as a “dangerous dog” or a “potentially dangerous dog, were unlawful. And there’s more. In addition, both county and town ordinances now set forth a “probable cause” standard for the dangerous dog determination; the new ordinances will change that standard to a “preponderance of the evidence” standard , which is now used for most civil court cases. As of 2011, there were 19 potentially dangerous dogs in the county, according to the Sheriff ’s department statistics at the time, and of those, 10 were pitbulls. The town, which previously had only public nuisance rules to apply to incidents involving dog attacks, amended its rules two years ago to be consistent with the county’s laws on dangerous dogs.
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