Thurston County's proposed courthouse plan would locate this critical structure in the middle of a "high risk" earthquake location (based on DNR geologic hazard soil studies) on old 100yr. old landfill at the Plum Street location. A high risk of "liquefaction" during an earthquake.
Thurston County’s Proposed New Courthouse is a Planned Disaster – financially as well as the chosen location. We can do better than this

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To see the follow up video (Part 2) go here.

To see John Pettit’s better proposal (2% the cost, solves most of the “problems” which the current courthouse has). See here. Note: Producing this option costs zero taxpayer dollars (compared to $500,000 for the county’s version) , took a few days to research (instead of four years).

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Background articles and documents:

WA Dept of Natural Resources – 1999 Geologic Map GM-47 – Geologic Folio of the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater Urban Area, Washington: Liquefaction Susceptibility Map

What happens if the bond is approved, and a mini-recession hits? How Thurston County public services would be cut

PFM Financial Advisors – Mar 8, 2019 – report to Thurston County, WA – Potential Use of Levy Lid Lift – Update

Thurston County Commission Minutes – August 14, 2018 – see Item 5a and 5b for a $200,000 City of Olympia “Interlocal Agreement for new courthouse” and $300,000 for New Courthouse “Consultant”

Thurston County Commission Agenda – April 30, 2019 – see Item 6a for new tax proposal

Thurston County Elway Poll Survey (conducted March-April 2019) summary

Thurston County Elway Poll Survey supporting doc – crosstab banners

Thurston County Elway Poll Survey supporting doc – topline

Thurston County Courthouse Draft Feasibility Report – 12-14-18

SouthSoundBiz – “Thurston County to Place New Courthouse Request on April 2020 Ballot”

The Olympian – ” Vote to pay for Thurston County’s new courthouse not coming until April 2020″

The Olympian – “County commissioners vote 2-1 to move courthouse to downtown Olympia”

Thurston County demonstrates how NOT to build a jail

Thurston County spends $8 million and 18 years to make a $4 million empty building worth $2 million

Childish political leadership in Thurston County is costing taxpayers millions

Thurston County staff create fraudulent data to justify tax increase

A plague of Consequences

Jon Pettit – Plan A – proposed in July 2019 as better, more cost effective option

Document detailing Life Cycle Engineering and Budgeting for Public Facilities (Hint: Thurston County building maintenance doesn’t even come close to this)

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4 COMMENTS

  1. The proper term is “liquefaction” not “liquification.” Liquefaction maps, other than the one you referenced, are not easy to find. The one you referenced has most of the detail needed but one has to really focus in on the particular area and the roads are not named. I searched both Thurston County and Olympia. Oddly, the one map I found was for the county and had the city maps blanked out! It always seems that the deeper one digs the more corruption and incompetence one finds. 🙁

    One should know that RCW 36.23.080 states “The clerk of the superior court shall keep an office at the county seat of the county of which he or she is clerk.” Note that is “AN” office and there is no requirement that the superior court itself be located there that I can find.

    • By the way, this map and this information was presented to both the staff and the commissioners on multiple occasions, but Thurston County Staff, the City of Olympia, the vendors used to craft the plan, and the others who support this scheme have all tried to dismiss it, bury it, or pretend it doesn’t matter. The public has been kept in the dark on this issue.

  2. Interesting how the City of Olympia pumps unfiltered Stormwater into Moxie Creek which adjoins with Indian Creek that flows to the same culvert under this property. You would think that the City of Olympia would be responsible for the cleanup and restore this Salmon run but when this was identified, the County Manager throws $13 million for the mess owned by the City of Olympia.

    Next is Governor Inslee who directs state agencies to immediately ramp up culvert repairs ignored by Legislators because Indian Creek is owned by the State.

    https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/inslee-directs-state-agencies-immediately-ramp-culvert-repairs-ignored-legislators

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