Answers from the City Clerk, re potential discounts for Street LID payments in full, and when first payments on an installment plan will be due:

Any discount for property owners within LID 2007-01 who prepay their assessments would be a decision of the City Council when it confirms the assessment roll. With its prior LIDs, the City has offered a 10% discount.  City staff will recommend to the Council that a 10% discount be offered for prepaid assessments for LID 2007-01.

Deferrals of Street LID payments may be available for those over 60 with “combined disposable income” of less than $40,000.  Details posted on the City’s web site (buried in the “Final Assessment Report” folder), or here: LID Assessment Deferral 09-08-10

Al Lizakowski, after requesting the information through a Freedom of Information form, has received Macaulay’s report with land value. He posted it at the LOST site.

By our man on Duck Lake:

My nomination: “I’m off to buy Gary Iversen’s 2011 Calendar, on sale at the Dusty Trunk!”

My feelings about a proposed Hospital District/”Critical Access Hospital” on the North Beach is best expressed by:

This was from a month ago — anyone having problems with coyotes since then?

“I am sending a warning out to ones who live in Ocean shores area. Please keep careful watch on your cats and small dogs. A coyote came in my drive yesterday after my cat. Around 5 pm. Picked her up and dropped her. She is a big cat and that is what saved her. She climbed a tree and would not come down. Poor thing Had to have some one go up and get her. Also I am missing my other cat. A lot of cats are missing here.”

Michael Rosencrans coyote photo from a while ago:

As many as 5,000 men, women and children are expected to descend upon Hoquiam’s Olympic Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 18 for the first-ever Grays Harbor Convoy of Hope outreach.
Thousands of dollars in free groceries, goods and services will be distributed to the less fortunate.

September is National Preparedness Month. On Wednesday September 15th, the All Hazard Alert Broadcast (AHAB) Sirens will actually wail with the true siren at 10:15am. Grays Harbor County Emergency Management will also be activating the Grays Harbor Notification System at 9:00 am to test our ability to communicate with the public via text, e-mail and a phone call. The sequence of events will be as follows:

According to Chuck Wallace, the Grays Harbor County Emergency Management Director who recently gave a presentation in Ocean Shores, if you feel a strong earthquake here:

a) “You better take the official tsunami evacuation route out of the city”

b) “You better be high stepping to the hotels”

c) “You better go to the Ocean Shores Electric Boat Company and get a ride”

d) “You better get on the Internet and Google ‘where to go in an earthquake in a coastal town’”

All Hazard/Tsunami siren tests, at noon the first Monday of every month, holiday or not . . .