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06/27/2024 MINUTES 1
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<br />mission statement, financial summary and history, budgeting methods,
<br />2025 budget emphasis, & the preliminary 2025 budget.
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<br />Kylee Wuesthoff, Finance Officer, reviewed the general fund tax and
<br />investment revenue 2023, 2024 property tax levy, historical property
<br />tax collections trends & average collections 2017-2024, historical
<br />sales tax collection and forecast-regular & optional sales and use
<br />tax, tax collections by sector 2023, historical sales tax collection
<br />- law & justice related sales tax, total REET collection 2018 – May
<br />2024, local REET collections 2021 to May 2024, general fund
<br />investment earnings, pool average & daily balance, county and
<br />district funds, & historical rate comparison.
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<br />Andrew Yoder, Finance Manager, gave an overview regarding personnel,
<br />2025 preliminary budget, personnel budgeting process, budget books,
<br />growth and savings, county personnel, DRIFT method; bargaining units
<br />& projected personnel costs.
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<br />Zack DeHaven, Assistant Finance Director, gave an overview and
<br />reviewed projects for physical asset management, history of deferred
<br />maintenance, deferred maintenance cost-curve, generational deficit,
<br />balancing desired service level, asset management cycle,
<br />collaborative asset management, & budget books & project requests.
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<br />Doug Fessler, IT Director, gave an overview of IT challenges faced,
<br />solutions they came up with, why they feel these solutions will work
<br />and what they need from the County Departments/Offices to complete
<br />the work, operational bankruptcy, solutions overview for CAMAS,
<br />solutions overview ETF(enterprise technology fund), microsummary,
<br />review of old and new mission statement, CAMAS facts; CAMAS working
<br />environment; CAMAS solution review; CAMAS shopping review; review of
<br />success story with new approach NeoGov; ETF origin, solutions,
<br />attributes, 2024 technology expenses, going away, review of success
<br />story VoIP Phone invoice and what IT needs help with; ETF project
<br />budgeting & projects the CSC will be involved with.
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<br />Director Carlson provided closing comments and recapped the
<br />preliminary budget process, as a starting point, noting analysis
<br />with finance through August; requests to BoCC in October; General
<br />Fund 8MM deficit, noting personnel contracts are not included nor
<br />are the “orphans”.
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<br />The Board & Bryan Elliott thanked everyone for attending.
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<br />The meeting was concluded at 11:02 a.m.
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<br />KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
<br />OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
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