Charter committee approves recommendation to present water-resources specialist amendment to commissioners

The Clallam County Charter Commission Water Committee voted to approve a proposed charter amendment and an accompanying recommendation that would authorize contracting for a water-resources specialist to provide scientific water-data collection and analysis for county decisionmaking.

The committee chair, Paul (director, Department of Community Development), framed the action as a package to send to the full commission for its next meeting. "The amendment we just went through and this recommendation is what we wanna put on the table for the commission's consideration on Monday," Paul said during the July meeting.

Committee members spent more than an hour refining a draft job description and a companion recommendation that describe duties for a contracted water-resources specialist: collecting and compiling water science data, supporting streamflow and aquifer analyses, maintaining a long-term data repository, and providing technical findings to the…