Washington County unveils service‑level inventory; staff warn data is FY23 snapshot

Chair Catherine Harrington opened the Oct. 30 roundtable by asking staff to walk the five‑member board through a new county Service Level Assessment database meant to catalog Washington County’s services and help guide budget decisions.

The county’s assistant county administrator Faiza Noor told commissioners the SLA began as a two‑phase project: staff gathered a departmental inventory of services, then cataloged characteristics for each service — including geography, mandate status and approximate funding — and validated those entries through department review.

“We finalized a list of 297 services,” Noor said, noting that earlier tallies had reached roughly 1,000 entries before iterative review pared the inventory down. Noor and the assistant county administrator Marnie explained that the data include mandate source categories…