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2021-10-04 MINUTES 1 <br />COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ROOM/WEBEX SPECIAL MEETING MONDAY 11:00 A.M. OCTOBER 4, 2021 <br />Board members present: Chairman Brett Wachsmith & Vice-Chairman <br />Laura Osiadacz & Commissioner Cory Wright. <br /> <br />Others: Julie Kjorsvik, Clerk of the Board; Judy Pless, Budget & <br />Finance Manager and Kady Porterfield, Event Center Director. <br /> SPECIAL MEETING PRELIMINARY BUDGET AUDITOR <br />At 11:00 a.m. Chairman Wachsmith opened a Special Meeting to receive a <br />general overview of the 2022 budget. <br /> <br />Judy Pless, Budget & Finance Manager provided a general overview of the <br />proposed 2022 budget including the fund balance. She said overall the <br />budget is looking good. She said she would be putting 3.6% into <br />salaries for COLA as a place holder. Ms. Pless noted the Management <br />Team recommended to the Board putting $250,000.00 a year into the <br />General Fund until the balance has reached 3.16 million dollars. There <br />is currently a balance of just over 1.7 million dollars. The Board said <br />they would like reach 4 million dollars by 2026 and to reassess the <br />Rainy-Day Fund every 5 years. <br /> <br />Ms. Pless suggested hiring a project employee to work on grants the <br />County has been receiving as there’s a lot of federal administration <br />requirements that go along with them. <br /> <br />OTHER BUSINESS <br /> <br />At 11:48 a.m. Chairman Wachsmith announced the Board would recess <br />into an Executive Session for 10 minutes to evaluate the <br />qualifications of an applicant for public employment or to review <br />the performance of a public employee. However, subject to RCW <br />42.30.140 (4), discussion by a governing body of salaries, wages, <br />and other conditions of employment to be generally applied within <br />the agency shall occur in a meeting open to the public, and when a <br />governing body elects to take final action hiring, setting the <br />salary of an individual employee or class of employees, or <br />discharging or disciplining an employee, that action shall be taken <br />in a meeting open to the public. No action was anticipated. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />