Posted 12/12/2013
(Sequim Gazette Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series on planned spending on public facilities. Next week we’ll look at how Clallam citizens will pay for these construction projects.)
In 2014, and in the years following, look for an explosion in spending on new public facilities in Clallam County.
Plans now call for more than $50 million in new construction spending in the next three years alone — maybe much more.
No one can say with certainty what’s behind the remarkable boom in capital projects, but the same theories repeatedly emerge.
Jim McEntire, who represents the eastern portion of Clallam County on the county board of commissioners, suggests one cause is the “pent-up capital spending plans due to the financial meltdown of 2007 and 2008.”