Vancouver, Wash. – Clark County Public Works has closed Southeast 347th Street between Southeast Lawton Road and Southeast Jennings Road in Washougal, Wash. due to deteriorating weather conditions.

Crews with Clark County Public Works have been focusing on the Washougal and east county area over the last 48 hours due to the severity of winter-weather conditions. This quarter mile of road has eight-foot or more snow drifts that make it impassible to both residential vehicles and county snow plows.

Vancouver, Wash. – Clark County has declared a state of emergency for the Greater Clark County area effective Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021.

Multiple roads throughout the county, especially in Washougal, have become impassable due to deteriorating weather conditions.

As of 6 a.m., six Public Works snowplows were stuck in deep snow and ice in the Washougal area. One vehicle has since been recovered and crews are working to recover the remaining five vehicles.

Due to the inclement weather, the COVID-19 community testing site at Tower Mall (5403 E. Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver) will be closed Saturday, Feb. 13.

People who have pre-registered for testing will be notified if their scheduled appointment is affected by the closure. Notification will be delivered using the contact information provided during pre-registration. Pre-registration information will remain in the system so people can be tested at their convenience when normal operations resume.

Please note: In a local publication, the Finance Team meeting was incorrectly listed as scheduled for Feb. 17. The actual meeting was 9:30 am Tuesday, Feb. 16.

The Clark County Finance Committee is scheduled to meet at 9:30 am Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.

The meeting will be held via WebEx, and participation information is below.

The Clark County Auditor’s Office recently provided the county council detailed information on how the county has spent Coronavirus Relief Funds in the community. Details on the distribution of CARES Act Title V and Title VI funds are available on the county’s website at https://clark.wa.gov/covid19/coronavirus-relief-funds-distribution.

The distribution of the funds covered a wide variety of services to the community including:

Reducing the amount of trash you produce can be easy and fun. Join the annual WasteBusters Challenge that provides encouragement in your sustainability efforts! Clark County residents can register individually or form groups in this challenge, which runs Feb. 22 through March 15. The challenge format is virtual, with participants setting up accounts to interact with others in the waste-busting community.

Due to the inclement weather, the COVID-19 community testing site at Tower Mall (5403 E. Mill Plain Blvd.) will be closed Friday, Feb. 12. The closure will continue as needed to ensure the safety of staff and visitors.

People who have pre-registered for testing will be notified if their scheduled appointment is affected by the closure. Notification will be delivered using the contact information provided during pre-registration. Pre-registration information will remain in the system so people can be tested at their convenience when normal operations resume.

Vancouver, Wash. – Clark County and the rest of the Southwest Region will move to Phase 2 of the state’s Healthy Washington – Roadmap to Recovery reopening plan. The move is effective Sunday, Feb. 14. (The start date has been updated. Gov. Inslee announced Thursday evening that the change would be effective Sunday, not Monday.)

Property owners within the Battle Ground city limits will see an additional tax on their 2021 tax statements. Clark County Fire District 3 will now appear on all tax statements within the city boundary area as a result of the voter approved annexation of Battle Ground into the Fire District.

On the back of each tax statement a Comparison of Tax History breaks taxes down into voted and non-voted levies. Fire District 3’s fire levy will appear under the non-voted levy portion of the tax breakdown.

The B.1.1.7 variant of COVID-19 has been detected in two Clark County cases.

The two Clark County residents recently tested for COVID-19 were found infected with the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Specimens from the two cases were sent to Northwest Genomics Center, a lab at the University of Washington. The lab confirmed the variant by whole viral genome sequencing and notified Clark County Public Health of the results this week.

These are the first two cases of the B.1.1.7 variant identified in Clark County.