"PLEASE,We have contacted the governor's office twice now about clarification for short term vacation rentals operating in our area and have received 2 very different responses. These vacation rental owners in our town of Packwood are NOT renting to essential workers for work reasons nor are they housing Covid 19 patients. Our community is experiencing several vacationers coming to our area for anywhere from 1 to 7 nights usually and having guests departing and new ones checking in on the same day. The owners are "choosing" to categorize themselves as a motel (essential) or in a gray area (which the short term rentals are NOT listed as either essential or non essential). This is putting tremendous stress on our community (for supplies) and for the housekeeping workers being forced (in their opinions) to work by these owners. Concerning our grocery store, we have had several out of town people come for a weekend visit and been a large contributing factor in our shelves being wiped out. All of our small communities that are tourist locations need clarification on the operations of short term rentals and the cleaning/management staff for them and if either one of these businesses or both are currently allowed." - Kristen Richardson-Roberson
The aforementioned complaint was filed by Kristen Richardson-Roberson in Packwood, Washington on Wednesday April 8, 2020 with Essential Business against Several Different ones saying Non-essential business is open. Email address given was Angels.Touch.Cleaning@Hotmail.com and phone number given was 360.496.1072.