News

• County

Vancouver, WA – A reception for two Clark County artists who work with recycled metal and materials will be in the Anstine Sixth Floor Gallery of the Public Service Center during the June 3 First Friday art walk.

Works by Wendy Armstrong and Angela Ridgway are on display in the gallery through June. The show is entitled Wanderings.

The Public Service Center is at 1300 Franklin St. The building is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, except holidays.


• County

Vancouver, WA – The Clark County Arts Commission has rescheduled its regular board meeting from the third Tuesday of the month to the first Tuesday of the month for the rest of 2016.

The next Arts Commission board meeting will be 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 7 in room 678 of the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin St. The meetings are open to the public.

The 11-member arts board advises and collaborates with the Board of County Councilors and city councils and reports accomplishments to the community. Members advocate for the arts at public hearings and other public forums.


• Public Health

Vancouver, WA – Clark County’s Green Business Program will host a Morning Blend networking event 8-9 a.m. Thursday, May 19, at Boomerang Generosity Shop and Coffee House, 808 Main St.

The Morning Blend event is an opportunity to network and discuss green business efforts in a relaxed setting. Sustainable Wealth Management, a 12-year-old Vancouver firm, will start the May 19 event by explaining what sustainable, socially responsible investing is and why it is a fast growing area of the investment world.


• Community Planning

Vancouver, WA – County officials will be considering two ways to allow more homes on properties currently zoned for forestry or agriculture when public hearings begin next week on proposed changes to the local growth management plan.

The proposed plan update would reduce minimum lot sizes from 20 to 10 acres on land zoned for agriculture and from 40 to 20 acres where forest land is zoned FR-40.

At the request of the Board of County Councilors, county planners have drafted two options for how homesites could be created on those lands.


• Public Works

Vancouver, WA  ̶  Services now housed in Environmental Services will be reassigned to other departments to reduce expenses and boost efficiencies, Acting County Manager Mark McCauley announced Thursday.

The reorganization is an example of the county’s ongoing dedication to finding effective ways to serve the community and be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. Making the changes now helps put the county on better financial footing as it faces a possible 5 percent General Fund shortfall for the 2017-2018 budget.


• Public Health

Vancouver, WA – Clark County and the city of Washougal will hold a Green Neighbors Recycling Day event and Debris Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at the Washougal Transfer Station, 4020 S. Grant St.

Clark County residents can drop off block foam, electronic equipment, old tires without rims, refrigerators, freezers, air conditioning units and scrap metal. Participants are limited to five tires per person. No business waste will be accepted.


• Elections

Vancouver, WA ‒ Each year, the Clark County Auditor’s Office publishes a local voters’ pamphlet for the primary election and mails it to all households in Clark County. It includes statements by and photographs of candidates for elective offices as well as local ballot measures with supporting and opposing statements written by citizens.


• Community Planning

Vancouver, WA – Home designs that help people age-in-place and within their budgets will be the topic of a Tuesday, May 17, meeting of the Commission on Aging. The group is hosting a 2016 series of discussions focused on housing.

The meeting will be in the sixth-floor hearing room of the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin St. It will begin at 4:30 p.m. and be open to the public.


• County

Vancouver, WA – Clark County’s Property Information Center, Maps Online and other web resources are not working correctly at the moment. Unfortunately, that means property-related services and information in several county departments are temporarily unavailable.

County Information Technology and GIS staff are working together to solve the issue as quickly as possible.


• Elections

Vancouver, WA - County Auditor Greg Kimsey announced today ballots for the May 24, 2016 presidential primary will be mailed May 6 to the 259,240 registered voters of Clark County.