BOCC update for Sept. 23 & 24, 2024, Agenda for week of Sept. 30, 2024
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:17 am
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The email contains links to the complete notes for each meeting.
Monday, September 23, 2024 AM
• Commissioner Hover discusses changes in the membership of the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee.
• Isabelle Spohn, a member of the public, comments on appointing members to planning committees for Methow Review District’s sub-units B & C, and would also like clearly defined boundaries between the sub-units.
• Nick Bates, Fairgrounds Manager, discusses a proposed raise for one of his employees. He also makes a case for more security after hours during next year’s fair.
• Pete Palmer, Planning Director tells the commissioners that the comment period for the zone code review will begin a week later than originally planned.
• The commissioners have recently received a number of emails complaining about new road closures on Department of Natural Resources (DNR) land to Off Road Vehicles. The DNR responds that there are no new road closures, but that they’ve been able to hire new enforcement personnel and so there is more signage and enforcement on roads that have been closed for a long time but were being heavily used. The problem of illegal use of motorized vehicles on roads closed to them is especially acute in the Loomis Landscape.
• The commissioners discuss how to consolidate the Oroville Rural EMS District and the Tonasket EMS District with State Senator Shelly Short, Esther Milner, Chief Civil Deputy Prosecutor and Larry Gilman, County Assessor. The RCW includes a process to consolidate fire districts, there is nothing in state law that allows a county to combine two rural EMS districts. Sen. Short will try to get the situation fixed in the next legislative session.
• The commissioners hold an executive session for 12 minutes under RCW 42.20.110(1)(i)—potential litigation. Esther Milner and Shelley Keitzman (Human Resources and Risk Management) are included.
• Meeting adjourns at 11:55.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 AM
• No Public Comments
• Search and Rescue, Conservation staff (Community Wildfire Protection Plan- CWPP) request Title III funding. No decision made at the meeting BOCC asks CWPP for priorities—Wednesday, Sept. 25 is the public meeting on results of the CWPP.
• Two Public Hearings- Budget Supplemental Appropriations for Loomis Kiosk Survey and CE Clerk Training.
• County Engineer update on Public Works projects;
o Lost River Road, Foster Bridge repair, and asphalt pad at landfill.
o Loomis Kiosk – looking at LTAC (Lodging Tax Advisory Committee) funds.
o Twin Lakes Rd. Speed Study complete.
o 1st draft on construction project.
o Equipment needed to purchase – new guidelines of buying so many electric vehicles, along with diesel fueled ones.
• Meeting adjourned at 11:41, will return at 1:30 PM
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 PM
• Bids for Morgue/Sheriff’s storage building upwards of $4M, sewer hook-up to add costs
• Architects ready to sound out departments for best combination at former forest service building, possibly Auditor, Treasurer, Assessor, Elections; Planning and Building could share space in to-be-renovated public works building
• Grant funds for courthouse to ensure disabled access to courtrooms, jury rooms and bathrooms; interior will adopt more historic look; asbestos testing needed
• Commissioner Hover announces BOCC consensus that administrator to ensure continuity and oversight should be hired
• Department heads reports:
o Dispatch to use AI in transcribing audio, move will off-set rising staff costs.
o Sheriff faces flack from “anti-coasties” in Tonasket, is collaborating with Omak School District to create Law Enforcement study course;
o Court clerk pursued by dissatisfied customer, is grateful for security agents;
o Assessor reports big construction year but home prices at 82% of market;
• Commissioners discuss battery disposal, archiving of building project plans, security policy, RV park rentals, and use of opioid settlement spending.
• Meeting adjourned at 4:14.
AGENDA for the week of Sept. 30
Monday, September 30, 2024
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9:00 AM Review Commissioners Agenda and Consent Agenda
9:05 AM Briefing Among Commissioners - Discuss Individual Weekly Meetings & Schedule
9:15 AM Public Comment Period
9:30 AM Commissioner’s Staff Meeting
10:30 AM Update – Veterans Relief Board – Thomas Even
11:00 AM Consider Title III Funding Awards
11:45 AM Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation – ARPA
1:30 PM Discussion Extension 4-H Update – Kayla Wells-Yoakum
2:00 PM Discussion Homeless Housing Proposal – OCCAC Rena Shawver
2:30 PM Discussion Sub Area B & C Advisory Committees – Pete Palmer
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Join Zoom Audio & Video https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88591469116 Meeting ID: 885 9146 9116 Or
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9:00 AM Review Meeting Minutes September 9 and 23 & 24, 2024
9:15 AM Public Comment Period
9:30 AM Round Table Finance Discussion
10:30 AM Update – Communications/Dispatch – Mike Worden
11:00 AM Public Hearing Okanogan Irrigation District Waterline Franchise – Jo Ann Stansbury
11:05 AM Update Public Works – Engineer Josh Thomson
1:30 PM Update Okanogan Behavioral Healthcare – David McClay
2:00 PM Update Human Resources/Risk Management – Shelley Keitzman
2:30 PM Video Tour – CGI Colin Baker
3:00 PM Consent Agenda
1. Resolution 129-2024 – Tax Title Property – Okanogan County
2. Resolution 130-2024 – Annual Road Program – Public Works
3. Resolution 131-2024 – Sole Source Kennametal ICE Blades – Rebuilding & HardFacing Inc
4. Purchase Authorization – Two Tandem Axle Dump Trucks – Bruckner’s Truck & Equip.
5. Purchase Authorization – One Water Truck – Bruckner’s Truck & Equip.
6. Letter – Marijuana License Renewal - WSLCB
7. Ratify – Insurance Payout – Fairgrounds Horse Barn
3:10 PM Approve Meeting Minutes September 9 and 23 & 24, 2024
3:20 PM Commissioners to set Wednesday’s Agenda
State, Community and Other Meetings or Notices
(Meetings in this section may not be opened to the public, however a Commissioner may attend one or all of these meetings. Meetings that more than one Commissioner attend will be noted above. Location of meeting will follow meeting name.)
Wednesday October 2, 2024
11:00 AM Safety Committee Monthly Meeting – Commissioners’ Hearing Room
2:00 PM Okanogan County Water Conservancy Board Meeting - Zoom
Thursday October 3, 2024
8:30 AM Juvenile Family Therapeutic Courts – Yadi Godina, Belinda Brown Raub – CMRS Hearing Rm
10:00 AM LEOFF (Law Enforcement Officers’ and Fire Fighters’ Pension Plan) Board & Quarterly Meeting – Commissioners’ Conference Room
6:00 PM FAC (Fair Advisory Committee) Meeting – Commissioners’ Hearing Room
UPCOMING MEETINGS
Oct 7 Public Hearing Okanogan County 2025 Taxing District Revenue Sources for Current Expense, & Public Works Road Funds and District Budgets RCW 84.55.120
Oct 7 Public Hearing Oroville Rural EMS 2025 Taxing District Revenue Sources & Budget RCW 84.55.120
Oct 7 Public Hearing Methow Valley EMS 2025 Taxing District Revenue Sources & Budget RCW 84.55.120
Oct 7 Public Hearing Tonasket EMS 2025 Taxing District Revenue Sources and Budgets RCW 84.55.120
Oct 7 Work Session Budget Review – Finance Committee/BOCC
Oct 7 Solid Waste Advisory Committee
Oct 8 Discussion Tonasket & Oroville EMS District
Oct 8 Update County Auditor-Cari Hall
Oct 8 Board of Health-1234 S. 2nd Ave, Okanogan
Oct 8 Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation-Infrastructure Fund 117
Oct 8 Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation-Opioid Abatement Fund 173
Oct 8 Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation Noxious Weed
Oct 10 Juvenile Family Therapeutic Courts – Yadi Godina, Belinda Brown Raub – CMRS Hearing Rm
Oct 10 Aging & Adult Care -Commissioner Branch 270 9th St NE Ste 100 East Wenatchee
Oct 10 Alta Vista Irrigation Meeting
Note: All times, are estimates to assist in scheduling and may be changed subject to the business of the day at the board’s discretion. The board may add and/or delete and take any action on any item not included in the above agenda. The board may act upon any subject placed on the agenda regardless of how the matter is stated. All matters listed within the consent agenda have been distributed to each member of the board to read and study. The items are considered routine and will be enacted on by one motion by the commissioners with no separate discussion. If separate discussion is desired, then that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda by request. Items discussed during Citizen Comment Period shall be limited only for issues not otherwise on the Agenda or scheduled discussion topics.
The email contains links to the complete notes for each meeting.
Monday, September 23, 2024 AM
• Commissioner Hover discusses changes in the membership of the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee.
• Isabelle Spohn, a member of the public, comments on appointing members to planning committees for Methow Review District’s sub-units B & C, and would also like clearly defined boundaries between the sub-units.
• Nick Bates, Fairgrounds Manager, discusses a proposed raise for one of his employees. He also makes a case for more security after hours during next year’s fair.
• Pete Palmer, Planning Director tells the commissioners that the comment period for the zone code review will begin a week later than originally planned.
• The commissioners have recently received a number of emails complaining about new road closures on Department of Natural Resources (DNR) land to Off Road Vehicles. The DNR responds that there are no new road closures, but that they’ve been able to hire new enforcement personnel and so there is more signage and enforcement on roads that have been closed for a long time but were being heavily used. The problem of illegal use of motorized vehicles on roads closed to them is especially acute in the Loomis Landscape.
• The commissioners discuss how to consolidate the Oroville Rural EMS District and the Tonasket EMS District with State Senator Shelly Short, Esther Milner, Chief Civil Deputy Prosecutor and Larry Gilman, County Assessor. The RCW includes a process to consolidate fire districts, there is nothing in state law that allows a county to combine two rural EMS districts. Sen. Short will try to get the situation fixed in the next legislative session.
• The commissioners hold an executive session for 12 minutes under RCW 42.20.110(1)(i)—potential litigation. Esther Milner and Shelley Keitzman (Human Resources and Risk Management) are included.
• Meeting adjourns at 11:55.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 AM
• No Public Comments
• Search and Rescue, Conservation staff (Community Wildfire Protection Plan- CWPP) request Title III funding. No decision made at the meeting BOCC asks CWPP for priorities—Wednesday, Sept. 25 is the public meeting on results of the CWPP.
• Two Public Hearings- Budget Supplemental Appropriations for Loomis Kiosk Survey and CE Clerk Training.
• County Engineer update on Public Works projects;
o Lost River Road, Foster Bridge repair, and asphalt pad at landfill.
o Loomis Kiosk – looking at LTAC (Lodging Tax Advisory Committee) funds.
o Twin Lakes Rd. Speed Study complete.
o 1st draft on construction project.
o Equipment needed to purchase – new guidelines of buying so many electric vehicles, along with diesel fueled ones.
• Meeting adjourned at 11:41, will return at 1:30 PM
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 PM
• Bids for Morgue/Sheriff’s storage building upwards of $4M, sewer hook-up to add costs
• Architects ready to sound out departments for best combination at former forest service building, possibly Auditor, Treasurer, Assessor, Elections; Planning and Building could share space in to-be-renovated public works building
• Grant funds for courthouse to ensure disabled access to courtrooms, jury rooms and bathrooms; interior will adopt more historic look; asbestos testing needed
• Commissioner Hover announces BOCC consensus that administrator to ensure continuity and oversight should be hired
• Department heads reports:
o Dispatch to use AI in transcribing audio, move will off-set rising staff costs.
o Sheriff faces flack from “anti-coasties” in Tonasket, is collaborating with Omak School District to create Law Enforcement study course;
o Court clerk pursued by dissatisfied customer, is grateful for security agents;
o Assessor reports big construction year but home prices at 82% of market;
• Commissioners discuss battery disposal, archiving of building project plans, security policy, RV park rentals, and use of opioid settlement spending.
• Meeting adjourned at 4:14.
AGENDA for the week of Sept. 30
Monday, September 30, 2024
Join Zoom Audio and Video https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85243019263 Meeting ID: 852 4301 9263
Join by phone Audio Only• +1 253 215 8782 Meeting ID: 852 4301 9263
9:00 AM Review Commissioners Agenda and Consent Agenda
9:05 AM Briefing Among Commissioners - Discuss Individual Weekly Meetings & Schedule
9:15 AM Public Comment Period
9:30 AM Commissioner’s Staff Meeting
10:30 AM Update – Veterans Relief Board – Thomas Even
11:00 AM Consider Title III Funding Awards
11:45 AM Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation – ARPA
1:30 PM Discussion Extension 4-H Update – Kayla Wells-Yoakum
2:00 PM Discussion Homeless Housing Proposal – OCCAC Rena Shawver
2:30 PM Discussion Sub Area B & C Advisory Committees – Pete Palmer
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Join Zoom Audio & Video https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88591469116 Meeting ID: 885 9146 9116 Or
Join Audio Only: +1 253 205 0468 Meeting ID: 885 9146 9116
9:00 AM Review Meeting Minutes September 9 and 23 & 24, 2024
9:15 AM Public Comment Period
9:30 AM Round Table Finance Discussion
10:30 AM Update – Communications/Dispatch – Mike Worden
11:00 AM Public Hearing Okanogan Irrigation District Waterline Franchise – Jo Ann Stansbury
11:05 AM Update Public Works – Engineer Josh Thomson
1:30 PM Update Okanogan Behavioral Healthcare – David McClay
2:00 PM Update Human Resources/Risk Management – Shelley Keitzman
2:30 PM Video Tour – CGI Colin Baker
3:00 PM Consent Agenda
1. Resolution 129-2024 – Tax Title Property – Okanogan County
2. Resolution 130-2024 – Annual Road Program – Public Works
3. Resolution 131-2024 – Sole Source Kennametal ICE Blades – Rebuilding & HardFacing Inc
4. Purchase Authorization – Two Tandem Axle Dump Trucks – Bruckner’s Truck & Equip.
5. Purchase Authorization – One Water Truck – Bruckner’s Truck & Equip.
6. Letter – Marijuana License Renewal - WSLCB
7. Ratify – Insurance Payout – Fairgrounds Horse Barn
3:10 PM Approve Meeting Minutes September 9 and 23 & 24, 2024
3:20 PM Commissioners to set Wednesday’s Agenda
State, Community and Other Meetings or Notices
(Meetings in this section may not be opened to the public, however a Commissioner may attend one or all of these meetings. Meetings that more than one Commissioner attend will be noted above. Location of meeting will follow meeting name.)
Wednesday October 2, 2024
11:00 AM Safety Committee Monthly Meeting – Commissioners’ Hearing Room
2:00 PM Okanogan County Water Conservancy Board Meeting - Zoom
Thursday October 3, 2024
8:30 AM Juvenile Family Therapeutic Courts – Yadi Godina, Belinda Brown Raub – CMRS Hearing Rm
10:00 AM LEOFF (Law Enforcement Officers’ and Fire Fighters’ Pension Plan) Board & Quarterly Meeting – Commissioners’ Conference Room
6:00 PM FAC (Fair Advisory Committee) Meeting – Commissioners’ Hearing Room
UPCOMING MEETINGS
Oct 7 Public Hearing Okanogan County 2025 Taxing District Revenue Sources for Current Expense, & Public Works Road Funds and District Budgets RCW 84.55.120
Oct 7 Public Hearing Oroville Rural EMS 2025 Taxing District Revenue Sources & Budget RCW 84.55.120
Oct 7 Public Hearing Methow Valley EMS 2025 Taxing District Revenue Sources & Budget RCW 84.55.120
Oct 7 Public Hearing Tonasket EMS 2025 Taxing District Revenue Sources and Budgets RCW 84.55.120
Oct 7 Work Session Budget Review – Finance Committee/BOCC
Oct 7 Solid Waste Advisory Committee
Oct 8 Discussion Tonasket & Oroville EMS District
Oct 8 Update County Auditor-Cari Hall
Oct 8 Board of Health-1234 S. 2nd Ave, Okanogan
Oct 8 Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation-Infrastructure Fund 117
Oct 8 Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation-Opioid Abatement Fund 173
Oct 8 Public Hearing Budget Supplemental Appropriation Noxious Weed
Oct 10 Juvenile Family Therapeutic Courts – Yadi Godina, Belinda Brown Raub – CMRS Hearing Rm
Oct 10 Aging & Adult Care -Commissioner Branch 270 9th St NE Ste 100 East Wenatchee
Oct 10 Alta Vista Irrigation Meeting
Note: All times, are estimates to assist in scheduling and may be changed subject to the business of the day at the board’s discretion. The board may add and/or delete and take any action on any item not included in the above agenda. The board may act upon any subject placed on the agenda regardless of how the matter is stated. All matters listed within the consent agenda have been distributed to each member of the board to read and study. The items are considered routine and will be enacted on by one motion by the commissioners with no separate discussion. If separate discussion is desired, then that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda by request. Items discussed during Citizen Comment Period shall be limited only for issues not otherwise on the Agenda or scheduled discussion topics.