Year in Review 2020: Point Roberts Community Advisory Committee

The PRCAC had more than usual change in membership in 2020 at the same time that meetings were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and then resumed as Zoom-hosted events.

Just before the pandemic, newly elected Whatcom County Executive Satpal Sidhu met with the PRCAC to express the hope that the PRCAC would continue discerning the consensus of Point Roberts residents and property owners and representing that position to county government.

In late 2020, the PRCAC’s proposed changes to WCC 20.72 regarding some aspects of zoning in Point Roberts were adopted by Whatcom County Council. The PRCAC decided to present a popular opinion among some Point Roberts residents by asking county council to reduce the basic service level from one 32-gallon trash container every two weeks to the same volume once a month.

Bylaws have been reviewed by the full PRCAC and sent to executive Sidhu for comment. Also at year end, Whatcom County Council approved councilmember Rud Browne’s proposed amendments to WCC 2.98, the ordinance creating the PRCAC, to add two more at-large members and to require one-week notice for meetings with detailed agendas, and detailed meeting minutes.