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10.04.22 PM - BOCC

Meeting Highlights: 

Department Heads Quarterly Reports:

  • Assessment values up $1B from last year

  • High suicides, overdoses, reflect national trend

  • Three Sheriff’s hirees in training, two more to begin

  • Many trials in preparation

  • Short-staffed Auditor to ask for help with elections

  • Nutrition, Ag teaching posts available through WSU Extension

  • Fairgrounds busier than ever

  • Morgue, District Court (Public Works building) construction scheduled for spring

  • Public lands money received

  • Master Plan priorities shift to infrastructure; “ridiculous” bids received

  • Lack of housing, daycare, hindrances to county hiring

  • Guest internet works like a charm

  • Sheriff’s special employee contract, incentives for sharing workload worked out,

  • Burn ban on campfires ends Oct.7th, other burning  to resume Oct. 12th “on recommendation”

  • Meeting adjourned at 3:50

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