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County approves agreement with Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe for high-resolution topographic/bathymetric data
Summary
The commissioners approved an interlocal/subrecipient agreement tied to WDFW grant 25-26492 to collect high-resolution topographic and bathymetric lidar data for Clallam County’s shoreline; county staff said the county will own and publish the resulting data.
Clallam County commissioners voted Oct. 21 to approve an agreement with the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe as a subrecipient under a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife grant to obtain high-resolution topographic and bathymetric lidar for the county’s shoreline.
County staff explained the project is a grant-funded mapping effort (referenced as grant 25-26492) that will produce topo-bathy lidar mosaics along the county’s coastline. The county will own the collected data; staff said the deliverables will be posted publicly through county GIS and also made available via USGS and DNR data portals.
Why it matters: high-resolution topo-bathy data are used for coastal planning, flood modeling, habitat mapping and public access. County staff framed the agreement as preserving public access to the data while delegating field-collection and grant accounting to the tribe as a subrecipient.
What commissioners and staff said: staff clarified the agreement’s recordkeeping language requires the tribe to retain accounting records, and county staff said the tribe must share all reports and data with the county. Chandra (staff referenced during the discussion) confirmed the county will host the data on its GIS site.
Vote and next steps: the motion to approve the agreement with the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe passed with an affirmative voice vote. Staff will manage subrecipient oversight and publish the data when delivered.
