County to hold special session in Clarkston

Finding Whitman County too distracting, county commissioners plan to have a strategic planning session in Clarkston for two days at the end of July.

The session will include all three commissioners, along with commissioners’ clerk Maribeth Becker, county administrator Gary Petrovich, finance administrator David Ledbetter and Public Works Engineer Mark Storey.

Commissioner Dean Kinzer said the $1,000 cost of the two-day session, scheduled for July 30-31, will come out of the general fund.

“We’ll be working from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. both days,” he said. The group will work mostly on the budget, he...