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.

Vancouver, Wash. – Clark County Public Health is opening a call center to help respond to public questions around COVID-19 and local vaccination efforts.

Call center representatives can provide callers with resources for determining COVID-19 vaccine eligibility and options for scheduling vaccine appointments. Representatives can also help people fill out the COVID-19 vaccine request form on the Clark County Public Health website. This form is used to refer people who live or work in Clark County to a local facility with COVID-19 vaccine.

Beginning at 9 am Wednesday, Feb. 10, elections officials will perform a hand count of approximately 600 ballots randomly selected as part of a manual comparison against machine results.

The selected ballots will be counted in the total returns on Election Day. But for this comparison, the Battle Ground School District levy will be counted by hand, to check the accuracy of the ballot tabulation equipment.

If a voter has not received their ballot, they should contact the Elections Office at 564.397.2345 or elections@clark.wa.gov.

The county manager is seeking applicants with an interest in government and educational access television and cable television franchising to fill a position on the volunteer city/county Telecommunications Commission. 

The position is for an unexpired three-year term that ends April 30, 2023. Applicants must be Clark County residents.

The Commission on Aging will hold a joint meeting with the Clark County Council and present a summary of its eighth year of work on Wednesday, Feb. 17. The 4:30 p.m. meeting will be held in a virtual format via Webex.

Vancouver, Wash. – More than 930 residents and staff at adult family homes and other long-term care facilities were vaccinated against COVID-19 on Thursday and Friday, as volunteer teams fanned out across Clark and Cowlitz counties.

The Clark County Charter Review Commission met Wednesday, Jan. 27, to discuss its bylaws and select officers. The commissioners chose two members to act as co-chairs and one to serve as secretary.

The co-chairs are Kim Harless and Mike Dalesandro. Anthony Vendetti was selected to be secretary for the commission. The commission also finalized its bylaws.