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6.27.2023 Tues PM BOCC
Meeting Highlights:
Petition signatures may let Twisp voters decide on construction of year-round, two-pool swimming complex
- Department Heads Update: Commissioner Branch urges departments to submit infrastructure project ideas such as the planned sewer-water connection to Rodeo Trail between Okanogan and Omak, paid for by .09 sales tax dollars;
Wenatchee’s “Methow Fire” not in the Methow;
air filters to be distributed to senior centers, libraries, public buildings;
Computer back-up system overloaded, departments must sort out old documents;
Public records website now “live”, small information request fees to be waived;
budget request letters going out.
Finance Committee sets new interest rates, following rise in prime rate, differentiating between registered warrants and inter fund loans;
junior districts to be reminded to submit budget figures in time to set levy amounts