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Port Angeles City Council to consider ethics, fluoridation panels
The Port Angeles City Council will appoint a three-person ethics committee to consider a complaint against Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd and consider the structure of an ad hoc committee to study water fluoridation when it meets Tuesday. The council will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St. It […]
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Port Angeles. OUR VIEW: Conduct fluoride advisory vote
IT’S NOT WORKING. The Port Angeles City Council has mismanaged the process of obtaining public input on the fluoridation of city water to the point that many members of the public feel disenfranchised rather than empowered by those elected to represent them. The issue has gone beyond fluoridation to the question of whether democracy works […]
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Ethics complaint filed against Port Angeles deputy mayor
PORT ANGELES — A former City Council candidate has filed an eight-part ethics complaint against Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd over her conduct while presiding at a City Council meeting Tuesday night. Marolee Smith, who unsuccessfully ran for a position in November now occupied by Michael Merideth, filed the action Thursday under a section of the […]
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Early Port Angeles council adjournment still simmering; members at odds over rules, signs
Issues that arose as a result of Tuesday’s aborted City Council meeting continued to simmer Thursday — and will likely surface at the council’s regular Feb. 16 session. Councilman Lee Whetham said he disputes a posted notice banning political signs inside the council chambers and Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd’s decision to cut short public comment […]
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Port Angeles: Deputy mayor cuts meeting short — but fluoride foes continue with three council members
Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd reached her tipping point this week when a City Council meeting speaker compared four pro-fluoridation council members — including herself — to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Kidd, standing in for pneumonia-stricken Mayor Patrick Downie, abruptly adjourned Tuesday’s meeting during the second public comment session — it was the last […]
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Fluoride activists call for withholding water payments in Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES — In a call for civil disobedience, fluoride activists have mounted an effort to get city utility ratepayers to withhold payment of the water-usage portion of their utility bills. The goal: Get the city to stop fluoridating its drinking water. Ratepayer Jessica Grable put the $40 she would have paid for her December […]
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Effort to change Port Angeles city government ongoing amid questions
PORT ANGELES — Fluoridation opponents are pressing forward with a petition to change city government and elect a new City Council despite questions over the petition. The petition would transform Port Angeles from a code city with home-rule powers and a City Council-city manager government to a more narrowly defined second-class city with fewer powers, […]
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Port Angeles fluoridation debate spurs county Board of Health discussion
PORT ANGELES — As the debate over water fluoridation in Port Angeles rages on, the Clallam County Board of Health will step back and take a broader look at oral health countywide. Clallam County Commissioner and health board member Mike Chapman broached the fluoride subject Tuesday, saying the City Council should listen to its constituents […]
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Port Angeles City Council Votes On Fluoride Option
Port Angeles – The use of fluoride in the Port Angeles water supply appears to have been upheld, even after last night’s lengthy city council meeting. Tuesday night’s city council meeting was again packed with people, there to participate in the public comment portion of the meeting. After about three hours of discussion on the […]
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Port Angeles City Council votes 4-3 to reaffirm fluoridation decision; ad-hoc committee to study alternatives
PORT ANGELES — Four City Council members dug in their heels Tuesday, standing firm on the decision to continue fluoridation of the municipal water system despite a recommendation broadly supported by city staff that the practice be stopped. At their regular meeting, Mayor Patrick Downie joined Deputy Mayor Cherie Kidd and council members Dan Gase […]
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