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Clallam County commissioners prepare letter seeking talks with Jamestown Tribe on trust land transfers
Summary
Commissioners discussed drafting a county letter to the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe inviting negotiations about fiscal impacts of recent trust land acquisitions, and asked staff to add lodging-tax language and to draft a template response for future trust applications.
Clallam County commissioners on Aug. 18 discussed sending a letter to the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Council to open talks about the countywide fiscal effects of recent tribal land-into-trust conversions. The commissioners said the letter would invite conversation about a possible formal agreement similar to one the county signed with the Quileute Tribe, and asked staff to incorporate lodging-tax language and to prepare a generic response template for future trust-transfer applications. Why it matters: commissioners said Clallam County has limited taxable upland — roughly one-third private ownership by their…
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