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County, cities received
$2,366,306 in liquor sales tax revenues in 2003
fiscal year
Liquor sales
during fiscal 2003 generated $2,366,306 in taxes for
Clark County and its seven municipalities, according
to the state Liquor Control Board.
In addition,
the state general fund received $224.4 million
revenues from the sale, licensing, and taxation on
wine, beer and distilled spirits.
Clark
County’s share of revenue was $624,777. Vancouver
received $1,384,527, Camas, $124,919, Battle Ground,
$99,981, Washougal, $84,903, Ridgefield, $20,299, La
Center, $16,678, and Yacolt, $10,222.
Including
sales tax and mark up, $12.10 of every 750-milileter
of booze goes to the state.
Skills
Center grads beat unemployment rate
Clark County
Skills Center graduate students unemployment rate of
4 percent is four times better than the statewide
high school age unemployment rate of 16 percent,
according to Dennis
Kampe, director of the 800-student center in
Vancouver.
According to
Kampe, the 2002 employed Skills Center graduates
earned an average of $19,698.
County’s
Salmon Creek Wastewater Treatment plant gets EPA
award
The Clark
County Salmon Creek Wastewater Treatment plant has
earned the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2003
Clean Water Act Recognition Award for Region 10,
which includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska.
The plant was
recognized for its overall environmental benefits
and its cost-saving techniques.
The award
will be presented to
Kay Hust, wastewater treatment plant manager,
in a ceremony at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, just
prior to the county commissioner’s regular session
at 10 a.m. in the 6th floor commissioner’s hearing
room of the Public Service Center.
49th
District town hall meeting tonight
State Sen.
Don Carlson
(R-49th) and 49th District Democratic Reps.
Bill Fromhold
and Jim Moeller
will discuss the 2004 short legislative session in a
town hall meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in room 680, at
the Public Service Center.
Vancouver
consolidating environmental ordinances; sets open
house for Wednesday
In order to
provide a more consistent policy, the City of
Vancouver is consolidating its existing ordinances
that cover various aspects of environmental
protection into a single document.
The proposed
new ordinance will also contain changes in some
existing regulations.
The first
public presentation of the proposed ordinance is
during an open house from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Dec. 17, in City Hall.
For further
information, call
Vicky Ridge-Cooney,
619-0219, or
visit the county website,
www.ci.vancouver.
wa.us/longrangeplanning/EPO/default.asp.
People
Kara Klein,
Mountain View High School student, is appearing in
the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular in
New York City. Klein is also in the new
Julia Roberts
film, Mona Lisa
Smile, which opens Friday, Dec. 19. ---
State Sen. Don
Benton (R-17th, along with 75 state
legislators and tribal leaders across the country,
has been invited to an Americans for Tax Reform
meeting at the White House with President
George W. Bush
and senior advisor
Karl Rove.
News
briefs
The
Vancouver City Council meets in workshop session at
4 p.m. today to discuss its 2004 legislative agenda
and to hear an update on the financing proposal for
the downtown conference center and hotel.
--- The
Vancouver City Council, meeting in regular session
at 7 p.m., is expected to approve the downtown
conference center financing plan. In addition, the
council is expected to approve first readings of
separate ordinances that would annex the 80-acre
Vancouver Tech Center property at NE 1st Street and
192nd Avenue and the 218-acre Bircher Business
Center property between NE 137th and 152nd Avenues,
north of Burnt Bridge Creek.
---
Clark Public Utilities’ commissioners meet in
workshop session at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, when
they will discuss the utility’s risk management
policy. ---
Clark County commissioners, meeting at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 16, will discuss county participation
in financing the Vancouver downtown conference
center and hotel project. Following that, the
commissioners will continue their public hearing,
but without further oral testimony, on the proposed
update of the county’s 20-year Growth Management
Plan.
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