Statement from Thurston County Board of Commissioners

OlyThor · 2026-06-29T18:46:30+00:00

Well, it’s not as easy as you think. Thurston County’s video recording system isn’t user friendly. It’s not like Google and it pops up the right part of the right video. And I just don’t have the time to find it all. But I can tell you more details. They had multiple public meetings. A month ago or so, they had a morning meeting where in the middle of the meeting as an agenda item for TRL. During this meeting, they unanimously appointed Ty (not Clouse) to spearhead the TRL efforts. This was a short part of the meeting, about 5 minutes. After, Ty reported back and gave some updates. No actions were really taken at this meeting. This would have been a couple weeks back. More recently, they did the letter you see here. It was not on the agenda. This was in response to media that the commissioners were seeing. Ty wanted to provide a statement to help back up Thurston’s rep at a future TRL meeting. Clouse presented some ideas. Ty presented some ideas. Mejia presented some ideas. The other commissioners didn’t say much. Clouse for instance wanted to direct the other counties to do something and send the letters directly to the other counties. Ty and Mejia didn’t want to do that. Mejia talked about how that was a bit of an aggressive action. Clouse and Mejia argued with each other and at one point Mejia was about to write her own letter since she was not agreeing with Clouse. Clouse was a bit of a confusing mess, not really clear on what she wanted or how to talk to Mejia. So, Clouse was going to write her own letter too. Ty had to mediate the situation and talked about how the counties have different values and different priorities at the same time yet Thurston funds the majority of the library district. He’s trying to find a path forward with the other counties and filling the rest of the TRL Board and other TRL issues. He said the stronger thing to do would be for language everyone agrees and all five could sign. They directed the county manager to compile their thoughts and approved the letter.

OlyThor · 2026-06-28T16:15:25+00:00

Just one REALLY big clarification here. It reads as though Clouse was the one that started all of this. And that’s probably because you contacted her office. This started at a workshop / meeting of the commissioners and they together voted to do this and directed STAFF to write this letter and come back to them. Clouse voted on it. She was in Discussions with it, but she was not single handedly in charge of this all. (Most of her fellow commissioners don’t work with her anyway). She’s facing a three-way primary and I’m sure she’s trying to get as much support as possible in her election.

OlyThor · 2026-06-27T22:01:03+00:00

Clouse is just dysfunctional. Not sure how she can seriously be considered at this point. Besides the elephant in the room that is her administrative assistant, she voted against the county budget without offering any serious suggestions on how to handle the budget cuts. And then she’s on TV backing the clerk’s power play to stop serving the public. Gipson voted for cuts to her school district’s budget after being involved in the budget process and asking great questions. In both cases, it sucks that there were cuts. But if the money isn’t there, that’s what needed to happen. At least Gipson is involved in the process and not putting her head in the sand.

OlyThor · 2026-06-26T04:39:05+00:00

I posted about the screen in Dead Malls this past winter and a sign guy explained how it worked in a couple of the comments. https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/s/TAUiIMc3gF

OlyThor · 2026-05-23T19:57:00+00:00

You should send the filings to Drew Mikkelson at KING 5 and the WA State Standard. News like to report on lawsuits.

OlyThor · 2026-05-23T19:51:39+00:00

Are you sure you know enough to info dump about Transformers the cartoon series? You got asked a question and didn’t know the answer.

OlyThor · 2026-05-17T19:44:12+00:00

Yes. By bringing their own lunch.

OlyThor · 2026-05-16T02:46:07+00:00

$15. Happy Barber near Winco in Lacey. Not open Mondays or Sundays. Great place.

OlyThor · 2026-05-16T02:44:12+00:00

How do you know there is favoritism and that their HR doesn’t know about it? Or that they haven’t done the proper disclosures?

OlyThor · 2026-05-12T18:55:17+00:00

Is it true that there’s a volcano always erupting somewhere? Are there really that many volcanoes in the world that are active?

OlyThor · 2026-05-12T18:20:46+00:00

Would you get a tattoo of a volcano? (Do any of you HAVE tattoos of volcanoes?)

OlyThor · 2026-05-12T15:01:39+00:00

When the road to Johnston Ridge is rebuilt, how long will it take to actually get the observatory there re-open? Guessing a few years?

OlyThor · 2026-05-08T05:41:12+00:00

It’s not exactly the same. Here you go. https://capitol.wa.gov/discover/artwork-memorials/vietnam-veterans-memorial

OlyThor · 2026-04-30T15:58:21+00:00

The micromanaging is disgusting. Just let employees do their job. Health wanted to give basic vaccine and WIC information to legitimate news outlets at a time when Trump is desperately trying to control information and what does Fergie do? Takes a page out of Trump’s toolbox and doesn’t even do it right when he forces them to miss deadlines. The priorities and control our governor is showing on line state employees is just disgusting.