The Skagit County Board of Commissioners on Monday approved its consent agenda and two miscellaneous items, including a one-year extension of a Port of Skagit broadband project and a $64,000 Community Development Block Grant interagency agreement to support public services at the East County Resource Center.

Commissioners voted unanimously to approve consent agenda items 1 through 28, which commissioners said included a mix of contract amendments, vendor agreements and grant match funding. Commissioner Wiesen highlighted item 7, a county action to extend the Port of Skagit Bow Outlying Area Broadband Project completion deadline from December 2025 to December 2026 and to provide matching funds to support federal grant funding for deployment in the Bow Hill area west of Interstate 5.

The consent agenda also included a resolution to provide legal defense for a county employee, Thomas Wenzel, in Tulip Valley Farms LLC v. Skagit County, Case No. 25CB-01304. The board’s packet listed the matter as item 19; the commission approved the resolution as part of the overall consent vote.

Other consent items noted by commissioners included an amendment to the Trico contract to complete renovation work in an older county facility that consolidated prosecutor office space, a renewed agreement for hearing-examiner services with Wackenlock, and a real-estate purchase-and-sale agreement with a Land Trust to create a park at Big Rock (referred to in the meeting as “Yudwasta,” an item the commissioners said had multiple spellings in discussion).

Commissioners described several programmatic items carried on the consent agenda. They said the Washington State Health Care Authority criminal justice treatment account funding (item 22) aligns with the county’s North Star project by enabling initiation of substance-use and behavioral health treatment for individuals while in custody and helping with post-release transition to longer-term care. The board also noted Welcome Home Skagit will deploy a sixth pallet shelter (increasing from five), with some shelters pre-purchased by public health ahead of winter.

A separate miscellaneous item was an interagency agreement with the Washington State Department of Commerce under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program: $64,000 to Community Action Skagit County to provide public services at the East County Resource Center in Concrete. Commissioners said the contract is annual through June 30, 2026, and will be ratified back to July 1. Commissioner Wiesen recused himself from that item, stating he is a member of the committee action board and had been advised to recuse from county dealings on that committee. The motion to approve the CDBG interagency agreement passed 2–0 with one recusal.

The board also named Commissioner Wiesen as Skagit County’s representative to the Washington State Association of Counties’ Legislative Steering Committee and added Commissioner Browning as the county’s alternate. The board approved the amendment and the appointment by voice vote, 3–0.

Votes at a glance: The board approved the full consent agenda (items 1–28) by voice vote, carried unanimously 3–0; it approved the CDBG interagency agreement to Community Action Skagit County (item listed as miscellaneous item 1) 2–0 with Commissioner Wiesen recused; and it approved naming Commissioner Wiesen as WASAC legislative steering committee representative and Commissioner Browning as alternate, 3–0.

Commissioners scheduled a noon virtual assembly with WASAC and a 1 p.m. work session in the same room with Skagit Citizens Climate Education; the regular meeting adjourned to that work session.