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COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ROOM/WEBEX SPECIAL MEETING MONDAY 11:00 A.M. OCTOBER 4, 2021
Board members present: Chairman Brett Wachsmith & Vice-Chairman
Laura Osiadacz & Commissioner Cory Wright.
Others: Julie Kjorsvik, Clerk of the Board; Judy Pless, Budget &
Finance Manager and Kady Porterfield, Event Center Director.
SPECIAL MEETING PRELIMINARY BUDGET AUDITOR
At 11:00 a.m. Chairman Wachsmith opened a Special Meeting to receive a
general overview of the 2022 budget.
Judy Pless, Budget & Finance Manager provided a general overview of the
proposed 2022 budget including the fund balance. She said overall the
budget is looking good. She said she would be putting 3.6% into
salaries for COLA as a place holder. Ms. Pless noted the Management
Team recommended to the Board putting $250,000.00 a year into the
General Fund until the balance has reached 3.16 million dollars. There
is currently a balance of just over 1.7 million dollars. The Board said
they would like reach 4 million dollars by 2026 and to reassess the
Rainy-Day Fund every 5 years.
Ms. Pless suggested hiring a project employee to work on grants the
County has been receiving as there’s a lot of federal administration
requirements that go along with them.
OTHER BUSINESS
At 11:48 a.m. Chairman Wachsmith announced the Board would recess
into an Executive Session for 10 minutes to evaluate the
qualifications of an applicant for public employment or to review
the performance of a public employee. However, subject to RCW
42.30.140 (4), discussion by a governing body of salaries, wages,
and other conditions of employment to be generally applied within
the agency shall occur in a meeting open to the public, and when a
governing body elects to take final action hiring, setting the
salary of an individual employee or class of employees, or
discharging or disciplining an employee, that action shall be taken
in a meeting open to the public. No action was anticipated.
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At 11:58 a.m. the Board reconvened out of Executive Session. No
action was taken.
Meeting adjourned at 11:58 a.m.
KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS CLERK OF THE BOARD KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Julie Kjorsvik Brett Wachsmith, Chairman