The Mason County Board of County Commissioners on July 22 approved its action agenda, confirming routine warrants and a series of staffing and funding items, including the appointment of Travis Adams as county administrator and authorization to negotiate his contract.

During the action-agenda roll call, the auditor’s warrants and direct deposit listings were presented, followed by staff requests covering personnel, grants and contracts. The board then moved and unanimously approved the action agenda as presented.

The agenda items read into the record included approval of warrants (treasurer’s electronic remittance claims and direct-deposit warrants totaling several million dollars across funds) and the approval to appoint Travis Adams as county administrator and “negotiate the contract,” as listed on the agenda. A commissioner who spoke in favor of the appointment said the individual’s “integrity is unmatched” and that “the quality of the person is extremely high,” while noting continued personal reservations about creating the administrator position itself.

Other approved items included adoption of a resolution recommending the county’s 2025–2026 comprehensive economic development strategy (CEDS) as presented by the Economic Development Council; approval of requests for defense and indemnification under county ordinance 6-18 for named employees in the case John L. Corrigan Sr. v. Mason County et al. (case no. 25-2-00390-23); and procurement and capital items such as the purchase of an air conditioner unit for the Building 10 server room for an estimated $13,627.03 to be paid from real estate excise tax (REET) funds.

The board also approved closeout actions and contract funding items reported by staff: authorization for the county administrator to sign a closeout deobligation certification for a Community Development Block Grant jail study to deobligate $345,467.89 of unspent grant funds; allocation of treatment-sales-tax funds to expand the county’s co-responder program in the amounts of $5,400 for 2026 and $32,571.68 for 2027 to close a grant funding gap reported by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC); and approval of a Community Action Council contract amendment for consolidated homeless grant (CHG) housing and essential needs (HEN) funding totaling $220,000 for a two‑month period.

Public-health and environmental funding items included approval for the director of public health to sign a Local Solid Waste Financial Assistance Program (LWSFAP) contract renewal with the Washington State Department of Ecology for $175,352, with Department of Ecology funding of $131,514 and Mason County providing $43,838 for solid-waste tipping fees, as presented.

Public Works was authorized to advertise a request for quotations for hauling biosolids and to execute a two-year contract with three one‑year automatic renewal options. The board also accepted staff reports that it would consider a potential new voting systems supplier and a tabulation vendor recently qualified to Federal Elections Assistance Commission standards; Mason County Auditor Steve Dunkel said staff will “take a close look at features in that system for election security and ballot processing integrity.”

Commissioners gave staff and county employees public thanks during the meeting. The action agenda passed with no recorded roll-call dissent and no separate votes called on individual items in the minutes for this meeting.