"She said she was born into the poop business as her dad was the city’s public works director. He would bring home biosolids and grow tomatoes. Janine started the OSS Operation and Maintenance program before there was O&M. In the late 1990’s, Tania Busch-Isaksen pulled together grant funding to look at OSSs in the Sequim-Dungeness watershed. Janine developed colorful overhead slides for septic education classes before they were required (she treated each slide like a coloring book) and now has colorful PowerPoint slides. She has a gift of story-telling and loves to talk to people about poop! Hearing her laugh is a joy as she emphatically talks about the law enforcement officer who couldn’t go near a failing system because it smelled bad and how he was dumbfounded that it was her job to find smelly puddles of sewage on the ground. In addition to the years in the O&M program, Janine learned the permitting side of OSS. She is extraordinarily knowledgeable on the technical aspects of the state OSS code, WAC 246-272A. She ensures the County is consistent and fair with implementation of the codes. She has the respect and cooperation of the professionals in the field. She worked hard to develop a respectful, open and firm relationship with the OSS professionals in Clallam County. And we all know how hard it can be to gain the trust of a field of “good-ole-boys.” But the OSS professionals in Clallam County trust her."

 - excerpt from nomination