Four summer meetings of the Klickitat County Board of County Commissioners, in one sitting. The Board maps out how a data center would actually get approved, weighs shrinking where solar can be built, gets its first real short-term-rental numbers, bets on a City of Seattle trash contract, and redraws the map of which rural roads get a painted safety line. Plus fire season, a "hiring freeze" fight, and a mid-year budget check.

In This Episode

• The county's new data-center permitting roadmap, and what "community benefit" could mean
• A Planning Commission move to shrink the county's solar zone
• The first hard short-term-rental data: 143 properties, and sixteen rented illegally
• The road-striping decision: Snowden, Bickleton, and Canyon Road for just under thirty-eight thousand dollars
• Republic Services, the Roosevelt landfill, and a Seattle-sized bid
• The "hiring freeze" that commissioners say is really "a conversation," and a calm mid-year budget report
• A hard fire weekend, new radio agreements, and a new 911 coordinator
• A shrinking public-health contract, a childcare workshop, and Dallesport wastewater rates

Resources & Links

• Read the full written Dispatch at skamaniadispatch.com
• Klickitat County agendas, Zoom link, and meeting recordings: klickitatcounty.org
• Submit written comment: [email protected]
• Open Gorge's Public Benefit Lab (mitigations and community-benefit options for data centers, battery storage, solar, wind, and transmission): opengorge.org/public-benefit-lab

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