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COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
COMMISSIONER’S CONFERENCE ROOM
SPECIAL MEETING
WEDNESDAY 10:00 A.M. MARCH 7, 2018
Board members present: Chairman Laura Osiadacz and Commissioner Paul
Jewell. Excused: Vice-Chairman Obie O’Brien.
Others: Judy Pless, Budget & Finance Manager; Stephanie Hartung, Deputy
Prosecutor; Doug Mitchell, Deputy Prosecutor; Jim Goeben, IT Director;
Jill Scheffer, Event Center Director;
Fair Board Members: Becky Sherley, Roylene Crawford, Clay Myers, Jerry
Lael, Jared Fudacz, C.L Clarke and Jessie Blackwood.
SPECIAL MEETING FAIR BOARD COMMISSIONERS
Stephanie Hartung, Deputy Prosecutor provided information on some
concerns that have been raised by various County Departments over the
years relating to Fair Board operations including if the Board members
were employees; should they have email; should they track their time for
L&I purposes; and if they are subject to the same policies and
disciplinary proceedings as traditional County employees. She indicated
that according to RCW 36.37.040 the Counties are required to host a
Fair. After review there were two options the County could go including
delegating the Fair operations to a non-profit group like Friends of the
Fair, or have them be County employees. She reviewed obligations
relating the Public Records Act and the Open Public Meetings Act; the
new law requiring an hour of sick leave per 40 hours worked for PRA &
OPMA obligations; the new sick leave law; tracking hours in Novatime and
compensation. There was discussion on various ways to track email of
Board members and the Commissioner preferred setting up G Suite emails
instead of having County emails.
Clay Myers said the Fair Board doesn’t have an interest at this time in
putting on the Fair as a Non-Profit. Commissioner Jewell said there were
various models of how counties host their Fair as required by RCW, but
they don’t operate it, rather it’s another entity that does. The Board
came to a consensus to appoint a committee to work on possible solutions
which would include a representative from the Prosecutors office, Human
Resource Department, IT (when needed), Auditors office (when needed)
Event Center Director, a Commissioner and 4 or less members of the Fair
Board. Once the Fair Board has determined who will be representatives on
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the committee they were instructed to contact Commissioner Osiadacz so
she could set up a meeting with all parties involved.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:51 a.m.
KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CLERK OF THE BOARD KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Julie Kjorsvik Laura Osiadacz, Chairman