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PDC grants partial F‑1 disclosure exemption to Clay Norris for spouse’s customer lists
Summary
The commission granted a partial exemption so Clay Norris does not have to disclose his spouse's business customer lists that paid $12,000 or more, finding that the statutory exemption standard was satisfied given the size and impracticability of compiling the lists.
At the May 1 hearing the commission granted a partial exemption from personal financial affairs disclosure to Clay Norris, a former Skagit County Regional Fire Authority commissioner, allowing him not to disclose business and governmental customers that paid $12,000 or more to his spouse’s businesses during the covered 2024 period.
Jennifer Hansen outlined the request, saying, "Mister Norris is requesting a partial exemption from, disclosing business and other governmental customers that paid $12,000 or more during the 2024, time period that his f 1 covers for his spouse's business interests." Hansen said Norris’s spouse is affiliated with three entities — Pioneer Today LLC, Modern Homesteading Events LLC, and Homestead Living Inc. — and that Norris told staff he had no access to customer lists and that compiling them would cause an unreasonable hardship given an estimated customer base of more than 25,000. Hansen also said there were no payments from the Skagit County Regional Fire Authority to those entities.
Chair Jay Robert Leach granted the request, stating he would "find that under the unique circumstances of this case, the requirements of the statute have been satisfied by the showing made." The commission’s order will be reflected in a written decision and staff will note the exemption conditions in the filer’s record.
