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Snohomish County Council authorizes chief of staff to sign conflict-waiver letter; moves multiple items to set public hearings
Summary
At its March 25 in-district meeting in Granite Falls the Snohomish County Council unanimously authorized the chief of staff to sign a waiver of concurrent conflict of interest requested by outside counsel and repositioned several agenda items for public hearings and future consideration.
Snohomish County Council members on March 25 authorized the council’s chief of staff to sign a waiver of concurrent conflict of interest dated March 24, 2025, requested by the law offices of Ogden Murphy and Wallace, PLLC, and agreed by consensus to move several agenda items to be set for public hearings and further consideration.
The action came during the council’s in-district meeting in Granite Falls after Chief of Staff Heidi told the council she had received “a memo from our internal prosecuting attorney’s office related to the request to waive outside an outside counsel conflict,” and asked the council “to pass a verbal motion authorizing me to sign that letter in support.”
The council made and seconded the motion authorizing the chief of staff to sign the waiver. The motion passed unanimously; the clerk announced the motion “passes unanimously” and returned the meeting to the chief of staff report. The transcript records the action as a passed motion; the motion text in the record directed the chief of staff to sign the waiver dated 03/24/2025 presented from Ogden Murphy and Wallace, PLLC.
Separately, council members moved several committee items for scheduling and public hearing. The council agreed to move items labeled a through c to the next day’s agenda and set a time and date for a public hearing; it also moved items d through h for consideration (recorded as moving those items to the same agenda for consideration). The council also moved ordinance 25-025 and motion 25-171 to a future General Legislative Session for setting a time and date for public hearing. The transcript does not specify the subject matter of items a–h or the full text of ordinance 25-025, and those details are recorded in the official packet for forthcoming hearings.
Council members noted there was no need for an executive session that evening and closed a brief agenda after hearing two brief public comments from Granite Falls residents. Craig Krueger, identified as a member of the county’s historic preservation commission, thanked the council for its work on grants and encouraged approval of the preservation-related grants, saying, “I encourage you to approve those if you can.” Matt Hartman, mayor of Granite Falls, welcomed the council to the city and thanked staff for hosting the meeting.
The meeting record shows the council handled the administrative conflict-waiver authorization as a formal motion with a unanimous outcome and used consensus votes to reassign multiple committee items for public hearing scheduling. No executive session was called; the meeting then adjourned.
