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Forks Didn’t Get the Welding Classes. Jamestown Got the Hydroseeder. French Still Calls It 900 Jobs.
Commissioner Mike French sold Clallam County voters a five-year plan to put 900 people into family-wage jobs. The number has already been cut to 603. The coordinator calls even that target extremely ambitious, and the public scoreboard shows roughly 21 people who finished training and later reported a job or higher pay. Meanwhile, a $733,000 mobile welding trailer sits delayed by safety problems, Jamestown gets equipment for a new enterprise, and the fine print shows real growth in government and NGO payrolls.
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