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Planning department unveils in‑house land tracker; staff seek $7,208 in out‑of‑class pay

Okanogan County Board of Commissioners · October 27, 2025
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Summary

Okanogan County Planning and GIS staff demonstrated a newly deployed in‑house parcel tracking application that replaces Riverbank and automates parcel lookup and reporting; director Pete Palmer asked the board to approve $7,208.53 in out‑of‑class pay for three GIS employees who developed the tools.

Pete Palmer, Okanogan County director of planning, presented a live demonstration of the county’s new in‑house parcel and permit tracking system — described in the meeting as a ‘debit tracker’ with an index page, live SQL backend, autofill for parcel numbers and Python‑generated reports intended for the county website. Palmer said staff migrated fully from Riverbank to the new system in recent days and that the county’s planning and GIS team simplified data entry, removed redundant fields and wrote standard operating procedures to support…

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