Clark County Council Meetings

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Clark County Council meetings are open to the public, in person or online. 
 


Council Meetings are held in a hybrid format. You can join in person, on the 6th floor of the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street, Vancouver, WA 98666, or virtually. 

For meeting dates and times, please see the County Council Calendar or the Weekly Calendar on our Meeting Information page. 

If you would like to participate in public comment, you can come to the Public Service Center 6th floor Hearing Room, provide comment over the phone, or by logging into WebEx.

All documents are in PDF format unless noted otherwise.

To request a document not available here, call 564-397-4305 or email:
rebecca.messinger@clark.wa.gov.

To request a video not available here, contact CVTV.

Date Agendas & Minutes Related Documents Audio/Video
3/15/2016

Hearing Agenda 

Minutes

Consent Items:
1. Final Plat for Recording: Hidden Glen North Subdivision
2. Request General Fund support to complete the Heritage Farm Low Impact Development (LID) Parking Lot
3. Approval of the Clark County Equal Employment Opportunity Plan (EEOP) for November 2015 - November 2017 : Staff Report
4. Warrants: Feb 29, 2016 - March 4, 2016; Feb 22 - 26, 2016
5. Final 2016 Budget from Clark County Protection District No. 5

Public Hearing: Election Precinct Boundary Changes

Board Hearing

3/14/2016

Weekly Calendar

3/9/2016

Board Time Agenda

Minutes

Work Session Items:
WS: Spring 2016 Supplemental
Spring 2016 Budget Requests

WS: Fire and Life Safety Inspection Program for Business Occupancies

Board Time Items:
- Legislative Update with Mike Burgess
- Minutes for March 2, 2016
- Resolution to schedule a hearing on a Charter Amendment to Limit Property Tax Increases and Resolution to place a Charter Amendment on the November 2016 ballot
- Port of Vancouver USA's Foreign-Trade Zone Application

 

WS: Spring 2016 Supplemental

WS: Fire and Life Safety Inspection Program for Business Occupancies

Board Time
No audio records are available due to equipment malfunction 

3/8/2016

Hearing Agenda

Minutes

Consent Agenda Items:
1. Professional Services Agreement with Waldron to perform a 360 performance evaluation of the Acting County Manager
2. Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Information Technology (IT) Guild - Staff Report 
3. Donation of a surplus county passenger van to the Lifeline Connections Sobering Unit
4. Concept plan for Cougar Creek Woods Community Park
5. Warrants: Feb. 25 - Feb. 26, 2016; Feb. 15 - Feb. 19, 2016; Feb. 8 - Feb. 12, 2016 
6. Approve minutes for Feb. 23, 2016 and Mar. 1, 2016
7. Approval of County Manager Appointments and Letters of Acceptance for:
- Judith Walseth appointed to the Community Action Advisory Board
- Elizabeth Scott appointed to the Railroad Advisory Board
8. Ad Valorem 2016 Final Budget received from:
- Clark County Fire Protection District No. 6

Public Hearing: Residential Care Facilities
To consider amending Clark County Code 40.210.030 to conditionally allow Residential Care Facilities on larger parcels in rural centers. Staff Report; Maps

 

Board Hearing

3/7/2016

Weekly Calendar

3/2/2016

Board Time

Minutes

Work Session Items:
Clark County Quarterly Financial Report
 

Board Time Documents:
- Legislative Update with Mike Burgess
- Minutes for February 24, 2016
- Affordable Housing
- Amusement Rides in Employment Districts

WS: Clark County Quarterly Financial Report
Audio recording unavailable

Board Time

3/1/2016

Hearing Agenda

Minutes
 

Consent Agenda Items:
1. Approval of a resolution that gives direction for continuing work on the 2016 comprehensive Plan update, which is to complete the SEPA review
- Exhibit 1
- Exhibit 2
2. Final Plat: The Gardens (formerly Rock Creek Village Subdivision)
3. Contract approval with the Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program
4. Final Plat: Kysar Short Plat
5. Minutes for February 16, 2016

Public Hearing: Rural Industrial Land Bank * canceled
The hearing on the rural industrial land bank is being rescheduled to Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.

- Presentation 
Documents
- Staff Report, March 1, 2016
- Draft Ordinance
- Intro & Addendum: Part 1 Inventory
- Addendum Part 2: Alternative Sites Analysis
- City Letters
- Appendix A: Concept Plans
- Appendix B: Agricultural Lands Analysis
- Appendix C: Critical Areas Report
- Appendix D: Docket Application & SEPA Checklist
- Appendix E: Docket Site Utilities Analysis
- Appendix F: Docket Site Transportation Analysis
- Appendix G: Excerpt, 2007 Comp Plan EIS
- Proposed Development Regulations
- Planning Commission Minutes: 12/17/2015
- Public Comments prior to PC Hearing on 12/17/2015
- Public Comments after PC Hearing on 12/17/2015
SEPA Appeal
- Staff Report
- SEPA Comments
- SEPA Responses to comments
- SEPA Appeal 

 

 


 

Board Hearing

2/29/2016

Weekly Calendar
revised

2/24/2016

Board Time Agenda

Minutes

Board of Health link

Work Session:
WS: Reconsideration of 5 Resolutions adopted Dec. 22, 2015 & Rescinded Jan. 5, 2016

- Light Rail Policy Resolution 2015-12-23
- Bus Rapid Transit Policy Resolution 2015-12-24
- Transportation Policy Resolution 2015-12-25
- Free Market Principles on Zoning Resolution 2015-12-26
- Policy to cut unnecessary red tape and lower costs Resolution 2015-12-27

Board Time Documents The Board will convene in Executive Session at the end of Board Time for approximately 2 hours

- Legislative Update with Mike Burgess
- Approval of minutes for February 17, 2016
- PSC Limited Use Resolution
- Work Session Request: Cost of Service and Fee Study for Community Development
- Work Session Request: Clark County Sustainable Forestry Program

 

WS: Reconsideration of 5 Resolutions adopted Dec. 22, 2015 & Rescinded Jan. 5, 2016

Board Time

2/23/2016

Hearing Agenda

Minutes

Comp Plan Verbatim Minutes

Consent Items:
1. Contribution in the amount of $100,000 to the Columbia River Economic Development Council's (CREDC) Employment Lands Inventory project (also known as the Lands for Jobs project)
2. Grant application to the Washington Department of Health to add a new 1.0 FTE Community Health Specialist position
3. CRP #350822: NE 94th Avenue Planting and approval of the Notice to Contractors to advertise the contract for bids
4. Federal-Aid Project Prospectus and Local Agency Agreement for the Working to Refine IntelliGent Highway Transportation (WRIGHT) Project, CRP #361422
5. CRP #352522: 2016 Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Overlays project and approval of the Notice to Contractors to advertise the contract for bids
6. Resolution authorizing the initiation of contract negotiations with Executive Information Services, Inc. (EIS) for a Records Management System, and to waive the competitive negotiation requirements of RCW 39.04.270
7. Warrants: Feb. 2 - 12, 2016
8. Approval of minutes: Feb. 9, 2016

Public Comment: Clark County Issues
Please note that due to the number of citizens expected to be present for the public hearing on the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan, public comment will follow after the public hearings.

Public Hearing: Road Vacation - Portion of NE 106th Avenue
To consider the County Engineer's Report on the advisability of a road vacation of an unopened, unconstructed platted road being a portion of NE 106th Avenue dedicated as Stalnaker Avenue lying north of the northerly of right-of-way line of NE 59th Street (Marion Street) and lying South of the Southerly right-of-way line of NE Rosewood Avenue (Railroad Avenue) within “Orchards Park”, according to the Plat thereof, Recorded in Volume C, of Plats, at Page 54, Clark County, Washington, Auditor’s Records(approximately 0.15 acres). If approved, Clark County shall retain an easement for all existing utilities. *continued to March 22, 2016 at 10 a.m. 
 

Public Hearing:  Reconsideration of a Preferred Alternative for 2016 Comp Plan Update (link to Community Planning) New Preferred Alternative adopted *Resolution will came back on consent agenda on March 1, 2016 at 6 p.m.

Supplemental Staff Report

Rural VBLM Model Overview_DSEIS

Map link

Presentation: 20-Year Comprehensive Management Plan Update 2015-2035

Board Hearing