BOCC update for Jan. 13 & 14, 2025, Agenda for week of Jan. 20, 2025
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:58 pm
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WEEKLY SUMMARY:
Monday, Jan 13, 2025 AM
Because of audio problems, County Watch was not able to listen to the Monday morning BOCC session.
Monday, Jan 13, 2025 PM
• Jessica Simon, Family and Adult Homelessness State Grants Team Manager, Washington Department of Commerce, presents information about grant opportunities to deal with homelessness. The county currently opts out of these opportunities, allowing the Okanogan County Community Action Council, a non-profit agency, to apply for the grants directly. When Simon learns that the county is aware of the grant opportunities available, she ends the meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 1:55.
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 BOCC AM
• Public comment: Teresa Swanson (Sale to county of property adjacent to courthouse) Isabelle Spohn (Transparency Issue: Public access to county legal notices)
• Water Conservancy Board members discuss ongoing funding of their board.
• Consent agenda begins early with Fairground water system issues.
• Future agendas: Upcoming BOCC absences, webinar.
• Bids opened for re-construction of county facilities, remodeling; discussion
• Public Works update: Tank/temperature difficulties, Sno Park funding, legislative bills, expense issues related to Tesla, & more.
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 Board of Health
• Resolution 2025-1 passed to codify a paid lunch break for non- overtime-exempt public health employees
• Blue Sky Minds director Maria Hines shares recent food assessment action plan objectives: sustainability of land, living wage for farmers, eliminating hunger and food deserts, creating food access, promoting access to native foods on Colville reservation¬
• Top priorities from food survey: housing, farmers’ need for living wage
• Food Council working toward local-based farm-to-school program for school lunches
• Health Officer’s report: influenza cases well above seasonal average, four-year low in Covid cases, “pretty brutal” past two months for drug overdoses, north central Washington’s need for treatment center, problem with fentanyl-laced drugs
Tuesday, Jan 14. 2025 PM BOCC
• Single bid received for jail heat pump repair: $478,000, lengthy discussion with maintenance technician and project engineer; system failing for years, additional heat exchanger should modify the raw water coming out of the well, improve flow pressure; more plates in heat exchanger would increase efficiency, filter system needed for wells
• Differences between different EMS districts explained; Commissioner Timm wonders about “liability” of rescuing tourists in the Methow, likes NT’s notion of additional Discovery Pass tax; Hover says they pay very little for Search and Rescue thanks to volunteers and federal funds for national forest activities
• Renovations: schematic plans for Ringhoffer building added to master service contract, “substantial completion” of courthouse window project declared, Approval of Ringhoffer Building fire alarm/water system upgrade ($33,621) and Prosecutor’s office carpet ($45,013) contracts
• Commissioner Timm introduces his intern, is working on college credit for internship idea
• Behavioral Health sends last year’s invoices late and grouped together; Commissioner Hover would prefer to see exactly what they’re paying for
• Meeting adjourned at 5:02 until Tuesday, Monday being a holiday.
AGENDA for the week of Jan. 20, 2025
Monday, January 20, 2025
Closed in Observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Normal Business to resume on Tuesday January 21, 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Join Zoom Audio & Video: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88591469116 Meeting ID: 885 9146 9116 Or
Join Audio Only: +1 253 205 0468 Meeting ID: 885 9146 9116
9:00 AM Review Meeting Minutes- January 13, 14 and 15, 2025
9:15 AM Public Comment Period
9:30 AM Legislative Update Zak Kennedy
10:00 AM Finance Committee Meeting – Treasurer Pam Johnson
11:00 AM Update Public Works-Engineer Josh Thomson
1:30 PM Update Building – Dan Higbee
2:00 PM Forest Service Meeting – NW Forest Plan DEIS - TEAMS
2:30 PM Update Noxious Weed – Larry Hudson
3:00 PM Update Superior Court Clerk – Susan Speiker
3:30 PM Discussion National Landslide Preparedness Act Grant application Letter of Support – Planning Director Palmer & DNR Manager
4:00 PM Approve Consent Agenda
1. Interlocal Agreement – Emergency Services – Colville Confederated Tribes
2. Award Recommendation – Energy Audit – Custom Energy
3. Proposal - Clean Buildings Compliance – Custom Energy Consultants
4. Bid Award – Detention Center Heat Pumps – TD&H Engineering, Inc.
5. Bid Authorization – 2025 Traffic Paint – PW Shasta Stidman
6. Bid Authorization – CRP No. 9155-21 Old 97 Plata to Ophir
4:05 PM Approve Meeting Minutes for January 13, 14 and 15, 2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Join Zoom Audio and Video: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87854826531 Meeting ID: 878 5482 6531 Or
Join Phone Audio Only +1 253-215-8782 Meeting ID: 878 5482 6531
Commissioners to decide on Tuesday whether or not they meet Wednesday.
State, Community and Other Meetings or Notices
(Meetings in this section may not be opened to the public, however a Commissioner may attend one or all of these meetings.
Meetings that more than one Commissioner attend will be noted above. Location of meeting will follow meeting name.)
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
11:00 AM Economic Alliance Meeting
4:00 PM Noxious Weed Board Meeting – 1234 Second Ave S. Okanogan
Thursday, January 23, 2025
8:30 AM Juvenile Family Therapeutic Courts – Yadi Godina, Belinda Brown Raub – CMRS Hearing Rm
UPCOMING MEETINGS
Jan 27 Planning Commission Meeting – Commissioner Hearing Room
Jan 29 Community Action Council Meeting – 424 2nd Ave S Okanogan
Jan 30 Juvenile Family Therapeutic Courts – Yadi Godina, Belinda Brown Raub – CMRS Hearing Rm
Jan 31 COG (Coalition of Governments) Meeting – Lincoln County Courthouse – Davenport, WA
Feb 03 Solid Waste Advisory Committee - Public Works Conference Room – 1234A 2nd Ave S Okanogan
Feb 05 Safety Committee Monthly Meeting – Commissioners’ Hearing Room
Feb 05 Okanogan County Water Conservancy Board Meeting
Feb 05 Hearing Examiner Meeting – Commissioners’ Hearing Room
Feb 06 LEOFF (Law Enforcement Officers’ and Fire Fighters’ Pension Plan) Board Meeting – Commissioners’ Conference Room
Feb 06 FAC (Fair Advisory Committee) Meeting – Commissioners’ Hearing Room
Note: All times are estimates to assist in scheduling and may be changed subject to the business of the day at the board’s discretion. The board may add and/or delete and take any action on any item not included in the above agenda. The board may act upon any subject placed on the agenda regardless of how the matter is stated. All matters listed within the consent agenda have been distributed to each member of the board to read and study. The items are considered routine and will be enacted on by one motion by the commissioners with no separate discussion. If separate discussion is desired, then that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda by request. Items discussed during Citizen Comment Period shall be limited only for issues not otherwise on the Agenda or scheduled discussion topics.
The weekly updates include links to our complete notes for each meeting.
WEEKLY SUMMARY:
Monday, Jan 13, 2025 AM
Because of audio problems, County Watch was not able to listen to the Monday morning BOCC session.
Monday, Jan 13, 2025 PM
• Jessica Simon, Family and Adult Homelessness State Grants Team Manager, Washington Department of Commerce, presents information about grant opportunities to deal with homelessness. The county currently opts out of these opportunities, allowing the Okanogan County Community Action Council, a non-profit agency, to apply for the grants directly. When Simon learns that the county is aware of the grant opportunities available, she ends the meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 1:55.
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 BOCC AM
• Public comment: Teresa Swanson (Sale to county of property adjacent to courthouse) Isabelle Spohn (Transparency Issue: Public access to county legal notices)
• Water Conservancy Board members discuss ongoing funding of their board.
• Consent agenda begins early with Fairground water system issues.
• Future agendas: Upcoming BOCC absences, webinar.
• Bids opened for re-construction of county facilities, remodeling; discussion
• Public Works update: Tank/temperature difficulties, Sno Park funding, legislative bills, expense issues related to Tesla, & more.
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 Board of Health
• Resolution 2025-1 passed to codify a paid lunch break for non- overtime-exempt public health employees
• Blue Sky Minds director Maria Hines shares recent food assessment action plan objectives: sustainability of land, living wage for farmers, eliminating hunger and food deserts, creating food access, promoting access to native foods on Colville reservation¬
• Top priorities from food survey: housing, farmers’ need for living wage
• Food Council working toward local-based farm-to-school program for school lunches
• Health Officer’s report: influenza cases well above seasonal average, four-year low in Covid cases, “pretty brutal” past two months for drug overdoses, north central Washington’s need for treatment center, problem with fentanyl-laced drugs
Tuesday, Jan 14. 2025 PM BOCC
• Single bid received for jail heat pump repair: $478,000, lengthy discussion with maintenance technician and project engineer; system failing for years, additional heat exchanger should modify the raw water coming out of the well, improve flow pressure; more plates in heat exchanger would increase efficiency, filter system needed for wells
• Differences between different EMS districts explained; Commissioner Timm wonders about “liability” of rescuing tourists in the Methow, likes NT’s notion of additional Discovery Pass tax; Hover says they pay very little for Search and Rescue thanks to volunteers and federal funds for national forest activities
• Renovations: schematic plans for Ringhoffer building added to master service contract, “substantial completion” of courthouse window project declared, Approval of Ringhoffer Building fire alarm/water system upgrade ($33,621) and Prosecutor’s office carpet ($45,013) contracts
• Commissioner Timm introduces his intern, is working on college credit for internship idea
• Behavioral Health sends last year’s invoices late and grouped together; Commissioner Hover would prefer to see exactly what they’re paying for
• Meeting adjourned at 5:02 until Tuesday, Monday being a holiday.
AGENDA for the week of Jan. 20, 2025
Monday, January 20, 2025
Closed in Observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Normal Business to resume on Tuesday January 21, 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Join Zoom Audio & Video: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88591469116 Meeting ID: 885 9146 9116 Or
Join Audio Only: +1 253 205 0468 Meeting ID: 885 9146 9116
9:00 AM Review Meeting Minutes- January 13, 14 and 15, 2025
9:15 AM Public Comment Period
9:30 AM Legislative Update Zak Kennedy
10:00 AM Finance Committee Meeting – Treasurer Pam Johnson
11:00 AM Update Public Works-Engineer Josh Thomson
1:30 PM Update Building – Dan Higbee
2:00 PM Forest Service Meeting – NW Forest Plan DEIS - TEAMS
2:30 PM Update Noxious Weed – Larry Hudson
3:00 PM Update Superior Court Clerk – Susan Speiker
3:30 PM Discussion National Landslide Preparedness Act Grant application Letter of Support – Planning Director Palmer & DNR Manager
4:00 PM Approve Consent Agenda
1. Interlocal Agreement – Emergency Services – Colville Confederated Tribes
2. Award Recommendation – Energy Audit – Custom Energy
3. Proposal - Clean Buildings Compliance – Custom Energy Consultants
4. Bid Award – Detention Center Heat Pumps – TD&H Engineering, Inc.
5. Bid Authorization – 2025 Traffic Paint – PW Shasta Stidman
6. Bid Authorization – CRP No. 9155-21 Old 97 Plata to Ophir
4:05 PM Approve Meeting Minutes for January 13, 14 and 15, 2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Join Zoom Audio and Video: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87854826531 Meeting ID: 878 5482 6531 Or
Join Phone Audio Only +1 253-215-8782 Meeting ID: 878 5482 6531
Commissioners to decide on Tuesday whether or not they meet Wednesday.
State, Community and Other Meetings or Notices
(Meetings in this section may not be opened to the public, however a Commissioner may attend one or all of these meetings.
Meetings that more than one Commissioner attend will be noted above. Location of meeting will follow meeting name.)
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
11:00 AM Economic Alliance Meeting
4:00 PM Noxious Weed Board Meeting – 1234 Second Ave S. Okanogan
Thursday, January 23, 2025
8:30 AM Juvenile Family Therapeutic Courts – Yadi Godina, Belinda Brown Raub – CMRS Hearing Rm
UPCOMING MEETINGS
Jan 27 Planning Commission Meeting – Commissioner Hearing Room
Jan 29 Community Action Council Meeting – 424 2nd Ave S Okanogan
Jan 30 Juvenile Family Therapeutic Courts – Yadi Godina, Belinda Brown Raub – CMRS Hearing Rm
Jan 31 COG (Coalition of Governments) Meeting – Lincoln County Courthouse – Davenport, WA
Feb 03 Solid Waste Advisory Committee - Public Works Conference Room – 1234A 2nd Ave S Okanogan
Feb 05 Safety Committee Monthly Meeting – Commissioners’ Hearing Room
Feb 05 Okanogan County Water Conservancy Board Meeting
Feb 05 Hearing Examiner Meeting – Commissioners’ Hearing Room
Feb 06 LEOFF (Law Enforcement Officers’ and Fire Fighters’ Pension Plan) Board Meeting – Commissioners’ Conference Room
Feb 06 FAC (Fair Advisory Committee) Meeting – Commissioners’ Hearing Room
Note: All times are estimates to assist in scheduling and may be changed subject to the business of the day at the board’s discretion. The board may add and/or delete and take any action on any item not included in the above agenda. The board may act upon any subject placed on the agenda regardless of how the matter is stated. All matters listed within the consent agenda have been distributed to each member of the board to read and study. The items are considered routine and will be enacted on by one motion by the commissioners with no separate discussion. If separate discussion is desired, then that item may be removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda by request. Items discussed during Citizen Comment Period shall be limited only for issues not otherwise on the Agenda or scheduled discussion topics.