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If this is your first visit, some preliminary information is below. For other information, see the blog, linked at left, and newsletters, linked at bottom. Also, please visit  http://www.islandcounty.net/ for Island County department and document info.

I have been a Camano Island resident and a professional, independent journalist, editor, and volunteer for 25 years before voters, in the 2006 general election, gave me the honor to serve as an Island County Commissioner for four years. That first term of office has produced: new mental health program funding, the addition of an emergency services planner for Camano Island, the addition of an economic development facilitor for Camano Island, the purchase of new public shoreline park access on Camano, community-based drafting and county adoption of a new Camano Gateway ordinance for the island's SR 532 commercial corridor, and a balanced county budget that maintains county services deemed essential by community and courthouse staff concensus.

I am happy to continue serving the people of Island County for another term if that is the wish of voters in 2010.

Thank you!

The Board of Island County Commissioners meets the first three Mondays of every month at 10 a.m. to conduct county business. We meet on fourth Mondays at 11 a.m. for roundtable discussion with elected county officials and appointed department heads, followed by regular sessions to conduct county business at 2 p.m. (excluding holidays). These public meetings are held in the Commissioners Hearing Room, located downstairs in the Courthouse Annex Building, Room #B102, at 1 NE 6th Street in Coupeville.

 Click here for courthouse campus map.

Monday meetings are televised via a videoconferencing link to Island County's Camano Annex offices, 121 N. East Camano Drive, Camano Island, located south of Camano Plaza and Camaloch Golf Course.

Click here for map to Camano Annex

A public comment period is scheduled at 10 a.m. on the first three Mondays of each month.

The Board also meets on the first and third Wednesdays beginning at 9 a.m. for staff sessions with department heads and the third Monday of each month at 1:15 p.m. as members of the Island County Board of Health. All of these are, of course, open to the public.

Please, stay in touch. Sign up for e-mailed newsletters (register now) and check the website's blog (read it here). Also, please send an e-mail (send e-mail now) or call (toll free number) if you have a concern or an idea to share.

John Dean
"Your Voice for a United Island County"