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KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
IT Study Session
Regular Meeting
Monday June 22, 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. IT Department Stabilization, Requesting Board Direction
4. Executive Session – RCW 42.30.110 (a)(i) To consider matters affecting national security;
(ii) To consider, if in compliance with any required data security breach disclosure
under RCW 19.255.010 and 42.56.590, and with legal counsel available, information regarding
the infrastructure and security of computer and telecommunications networks, security and
service recovery plans, security risk assessments and security test results to the extent that
they identify specific system vulnerabilities, and other information that if made public may
increase the risk to the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of agency security or to
information technology infrastructure or assets
5. Other Business - No Action to be taken
6. Concluded
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KITTITAS COUNTY
IT STUDY SESSION MINUTES
BOCC CONFERENCE ROOM, 205 WEST 5TH ROOM 108 - ELLENSBURG
Regular Meeting
MONDAY 11:00 AM June 22, 2026
Board members present: Chairman Cory Wright, Vice-Chairman Brett Wachsmith, and
Commissioner Laura Osiadacz
Others: Deputy Prosecutor III James McCubbin, IT Director Interim Zane Kinney,
Infrastructure Manager Bill Davis, Administrative Assistant Grant Shimada
Call to Order – 11:00 a.m.
Citizen Comments – There were no citizen comments.
IT Department Stabilization, Requesting Board Direction
IT Director Interim Zane Kinney discussed some of the major projects the department is working
on with a request to the Board for direction on prioritization. The Board directed Mr. Kinney and
Mr. Davis to continue working through their queue using the department’s normal procedures.
Executive Session
At 11:36 a.m., Chairman Wright announced the Board would recess into an executive session for 13
minutes with Zane Kinney, IT Director Interim, James McCubbin, Deputy Prosecutor III, Bill Davis, IT
Infrastructure Manager, and Grant Shimada, IT Administrative Assistant under RCW 42.30.110(a)(i) To
consider matters affecting national security; (ii) To consider, if in compliance with any required
data security breach disclosure under RCW 9.255.010 and 42.56.590, and with legal counsel
available, information regarding the infrastructure and security of computer and
telecommunications networks, security and service recovery plans, security risk assessments and
security test results to the extent that they identify specific system vulnerabilities, and other
information that if made public may increase the risk to the confidentiality, integrity, or
availability of agency security or to information technology infrastructure or assets. No action was
anticipated.
At 11:49 a.m., the Board reconvened out of Executive Session. No action was taken.
OTHER BUSINESS
Deputy Prosecutor III James McCubbin informed the Board and the IT department that an IT
employment sheet had a typo for the salary section. The BoCC will correct this and send out a
public statement for this correction.
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Meeting adjourned at 11:51 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”, 6/22/2026
KITTITAS COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
STAFF REPORT FOR
STUDY SESSION
Information Technology
STUDY SESSION DATE: 6/22/2026
TOPIC: IT Department Stabilization, Requesting Board Direction
ACTION REQUESTED: Direct Staff
LEAD STAFF: Zane Kinney, Bill Davis
RECOMMENDATION: Zane Kinney, Interim Director of the IT Department, is seeking
to inform the Board of current projects that IT is currently working and would like to
receive Board direction on setting near-term goals and priorities. Our desire is to focus on
the most critical projects and to see them to completion as quickly as is reasonably
possible.
BRIEFING SUMMARY:
Recently, IT staff, across all divisions, has recognized that we:
• Are actively working on 50 projects
• Are blocked from working on 34 projects due to resource constraints, budget
constraints, or dependencies.
• Have 31 projects that are planned or scheduled as near-term initiatives.
DISCUSSION:
Mr. Kinney, in coordination with each division, has determined that the following
projects are the highest priority:
Network/Systems
• Core switch rotation*
• M365 enhanced security and phishing resistant MFA*
• Server Migrations
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)*
Applications
• Public website replacement
• CAMAS feature replacement
• Laserfiche migration to new servers
• Application service account refresh
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GIS
• Services migration
• COMPAS migration to Esri solution
• Noxious Weeds application replacement
Administration
• IT records management project
Management
• Incident Response Plan
• Purview implementation
• Project management
Mr. Kinney is requesting that Board give the IT department direction to focus our
energies on completing these projects as quickly as possible.
FISCAL IMPACTS: *These projects will require professional services to complete
implementation. While some associated costs have been included in the budget,
significant increases in technology equipment prices and other unforeseen expenses may
require us to seek budget amendments. Grant funding is also being sought.
ATTACHMENTS:
Legal consultation? No
Finance consulted? No