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Commissioners approve consent agenda including $1.52M in warrants, sheriff promotion and behavioral health interlocal
Summary
The Mason County Board of Commissioners approved the action agenda items 8.1–8.11, covering warrants, personnel changes, equipment purchase, interlocal behavioral health funding and other routine county business.
The Mason County Board of Commissioners approved its action agenda (items 8.1–8.11) at the Feb. 4 meeting, adopting routine and programmatic measures including approval of warrants totaling $1,520,095.88, personnel adjustments, an interlocal behavioral health agreement and an equipment purchase for public works.
Key items approved included: claims clearing fund warrants numbers 8110308 through 8110601 totaling $1,520,095.88; direct deposit warrants 113190 through 113593 totaling $999,746 (amount listed as expenses); and salary clearing fund warrants 7008654 through 7008680 totaling $677,685.38. The board also approved lead pay requests for named employees covering specified date ranges and acknowledged the treasurer's 2024 refund report.
Other approved actions listed on the consent agenda were a resolution to cancel uncollectible personal property taxes; conversion of a sheriff's deputy position to a sergeant supervisor in the administrative division; authorization for the treasurer to schedule an online auction of tax-title properties via bid4assets.com; and an interlocal agreement with Thurston Mason Behavioral Health Administration Service Organization (TMBH ASO) to fund judicial services at $817 per case, not to exceed $175,000, for Jan. 1–Dec. 31, 2025.
The board authorized Facilities Department staffing changes including creating and filling one FTE maintenance 2 to maintenance 3 and 1.5 FTE seasonal maintenance positions, extended a food-and-beverage concession agreement with North Mason Little League at Sandhill Park for one year to expire March 1, 2026, and approved a public-works equipment purchase: trading a 2019 John Deere excavator for a $50,000 trade-in and purchasing a John Deere 135 excavator for $243,345.07 off a Sourcewell cooperative contract with Pape Machinery.
The board also accepted a resignation in lieu of termination from Terry Myers effective June 14, 2023, and approved a release and hold-harmless agreement related to that employment separation; the transcript records the item but provides no further details at the meeting.
Commissioners moved and seconded adoption of the action agenda; the motion carried. Individual vote tallies and names for yes/no/abstain were not recorded in the public transcript.
