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Skagit County commissioners approve consent agenda including WSU Extension agreement, PulsePoint promotion and IT hardware purchases
Summary
The Skagit County Board of Commissioners approved its consent agenda March 24, 2025, 3-0, approving an interlocal agreement with WSU Extension, support for the PulsePoint emergency-response app, a pictometry partnership with the City of Burlington and multiple information-technology purchases listed in the meeting packet.
Skagit County commissioners voted 3-0 March 24 to approve the consent agenda, which included an interlocal cooperative agreement with Washington State University Extension, support for the PulsePoint emergency-response app, continued participation in a regional pictometry program with the City of Burlington and several information-technology procurements.
The action cleared 23 consent items “including all items requiring ratification vouchers and warrants for Monday, 03/24/2025,” a motion moved by Commissioner Browning and seconded by Commissioner Wiesen, and recorded as approved by all three commissioners.
The agenda packet included an interlocal cooperative agreement with WSU Extension to provide education programs in agriculture, natural resources, family and consumer sciences, food science, forage and youth programming. “Really appreciate being able to work with WSU on that,” Commissioner Wiesen said during the consent discussion.
Commissioners also discussed PulsePoint, a mobile app that locates nearby automated external defibrillators and can notify qualified responders of cardiac emergencies. “If anybody has an advanced first aid degree, and they’ve got a computer, or iPhone, or a phone, they should sign up,” Commissioner Browning said. Browning and Wiesen described the app as both a responder-notification tool and a public resource for mapping AED locations.
The county’s continued participation in shared pictometry — high-resolution aerial imagery hosted in partnership with the City of Burlington — was noted as a cost-sharing arrangement that benefits multiple jurisdictions.
Several information-technology purchases were on the consent calendar. The packet lists a Cisco backbone switch purchase in the amount of $99,359 and a resolution awarding a bid for F5 BIG-IP hardware; the transcript’s rendering of the F5 amount was unclear, reported in the meeting audio as “over 200 209 hundred and $26,000.” The commissioners acknowledged the high cost of enterprise IT and the concurrent need for security and protections around county data.
No members of the public participated online for the consent agenda items.
The board recessed briefly and reconvened later in the afternoon for separate appointment business.
