HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-11-10-minutes-2017-preliminary-budget-discussionCOMMISSIONERS' MINUTES
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
COMMISSIONERS' AUDITORIUM
SPECIAL MEETING
THURSDAY 10:00 AM NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Board members present: Paul Jewell, Vice Chairman; Laura
Osiadacz, Commissioner; Obie O’Brien Absent
Others: Greg Zempel, Prosecutor; Angela Bugni, Legal Secretary
III; Pat Gigstead, Chief Probation Officer; Nick Henderson,
Coroner; Michael Stafford, Juvenile Court Administrator; Kari
Elkins, Juvenile Court Administrator Assistant; Kay Kresge,
Fiscal Analyst, Judy Pless, Budget and Finance Manager
SPECIAL MEETING COMMISSIONERS
2017 Preliminary Departmental Budget Discussions
Prosecutor, Misdemeanant Probation, Coroner, Juvenile
Prosecutor
Greg Zempel and Angela Bugni presented their 2017 preliminary
departmental budget. The following items were discussed:
Personnel – discussion of an IT person (joint position with the
courts and the transition to paperless), the receptionist
position. Commissioner Osiadacz asked is IT could assist with
this. Request to adjust wage for a deputy prosecutor, the
funding of BARS dues ($4200 per year for all attorneys);
software upgrade total $97,000. The Chief deputy prosecutor has
been elected to Superior Court Judge (salaries need to be looked
at); lease buy-out; cut special prosecutors line item, Greg
Zempel advised there will still be a special attorney so that
line item stays.
Misdemeanant Probation
Pat Gigstead presented the 2017 preliminary departmental budget.
The following items were discussed: Revenues are starting to
look better, the Ford Taurus has some electrical issues, inter-
fund rent contribution from the General Fund, adjusting fund
balance.
Coroner
Nick Henderson presented his 2017 preliminary departmental
budget. State revenues were discussed; $9,000 for a copier is
included in the budget, current leasing is $180 per month and a
new machine would be $197 per month. The Coroner’s cell phone
was also discussed.
Juvenile
Michael Stafford and Kari Elkins presented their 2017
preliminary departmental budget. Case load is still low,
Juvenile staff has three cell phones; populations at $50,000 are
to build and staff a detention facility. BOCC working on
changing the law and Mike Stafford was asked if his association
was working on it as well (to modernize the statute).
KITTITAS COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Judy Pless, Budget & Finance
Manager
Paul Jewell, Vice-Chairman