By Mark Ozias

Voters Guides have been mailed and Clallam County voters are being asked to consider a “levy lid lift” for the County General Fund. Property tax is the primary funding source for county government, supporting the broad work and scope of responsibilities that counties are required to handle.

The General Fund supports all county government functions that are not otherwise funded via a fee, a grant or a contract; for example, the Sheriff’s Department. In Washington State we have extremely high standards for our law enforcement officers. High standards are good, but come with high costs for training and salaries. This means that our state lags behind others when it comes to per capita funding for law enforcement, and in fact our county even lags behind our state with one of the

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