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KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
IT Study Session
Regular Meeting
Monday February 23, 2026 - 11:00 AM
BOCC Conference Room
205 West 5th Room 108 - Ellensburg
1. Call to Order
2. Citizen Comments (1 min. time limit)
3. Discussion: Public Website/Intranet Update
4. Other Business - No Action to be taken
5. Concluded
2026-02-23 MINUTES 1
KITTITAS COUNTY
IT STUDY SESSION MINUTES
BOCC CONFERENCE ROOM, 205 WEST 5TH ROOM 108 - ELLENSBURG
Regular Meeting
MONDAY 11:00 AM February 23, 2026
Board Members Present: Chairman Cory Wright, Vice-Chairman Brett Wachsmith,
Commissioner Laura Osiadacz
Others: IT Director Doug Fessler, Assistant IT Director Zane Kinney, Infrastructure Manager
Bill Davis, Administrative Assistant Grant Shimada
Call to Order at 11:00 a.m.
Citizen Comments – There were no citizen comments.
Public Website/Intranet Update – Discussion
Diagram Inc. continues to make steady progress on the County’s new public website. Assistant
IT Director Zane Kinney reports that he’s very pleased with their work and with how the website
is turning out. Mr. Kinney will soon begin scheduling training for departments – a date has not
been chosen yet.
IT Director Doug Fessler and Mr. Kinney have been working on plans to implement Microsoft
SharePoint to replace the County’s in-house built intranet platform. Mr. Fessler and Mr. Kinney
have met with StoneShare Inc., a consulting firm who specializes in supporting small
government organizations to configure and deploy SharePoint. Mr. Kinney is working with the
finance team to determine a funding source for this project.
OTHER BUSINESS
Microsoft Purview – Discussion
Microsoft Purview is an application that allows users to search for any Microsoft record stored
within the County server through a single application.
Meeting adjourned at 11:24 a.m.
KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Grant Shimada, Administrative Assistant Cory Wright, Chairman
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Information Technology “Study Session Staff Report”, 2/23/2026
KITTITAS COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
STAFF REPORT FOR
STUDY SESSION
Information Technology
STUDY SESSION DATE: 2/23/26
TOPIC: Discussion of the Public Website/Intranet Update
ACTION REQUESTED: No Action - Information Only
LEAD STAFF: Zane Kinney
RECOMMENDATION:
No recommendation requested.
BRIEFING SUMMARY:
Work with Diagram on the county public website is progressing according to the
timeline. Work continues on CAMAS features but attention has been needfully diverted
to an employee data migration project due to the retirement of NOVAtime.
BACKGROUND:
In 2023 the Board directed IT to work on modernizing CAMAS. Since that time, IT has
developed a project plan, and progress has been made to reach our goals.
DISCUSSION:
• CAMAS features currently being addressed are:
o Preliminary Site Analysis (stalled),
o Purchasing & Vouchering (planning),
o Claim for Reduction of Assessment (awaiting user adoption),
o Asset Management (nearly complete)
In addition to feature replacement, IT is studying options for how Microsoft
SharePoint might be best deployed to replace CAMAS as an intranet platform. IT
met with a potential consultant, StoneShare, whose expertise and services could
be very beneficial in launching this complicated task correctly.
• Website project core team, and the Diagram team are meeting weekly. Each
weekly meeting is dedicated to reviewing the progress being made.
To date, Diagram has provided a preview of several components of the website,
and some of those have moved to user acceptance testing (UAT). An initial color
palette was proposed, and adjustments were made to attempt to accommodate the
Public Health Department’s preselected style guide.
Zane is also working with Diagram on data integrations.