Community Budget Forum - Regular Meeting

Morning, everyone. We'll call to order the Snohomish County Council for our finance budget and administration committee. Today is Tuesday, August April fourteenth twenty twenty six at 10AM. We're meeting in the Jackson Boardroom and also remotely. I'll read the script for public comment, and then our clerk will take role. We'll take public comment beginning in person and then remotely on Zoom. Click on the high hand icon to raise your hand. If you're calling in by phone, press 9 to raise your hand and 6 to unmute. Each speaker will have three minutes to speak, and please start your comment with your name and city of residence. Next is roll call. Committee Chair Dunn. Here. Vice Chair Nearing.

Here.

Committee Member Low.

Present.

Committee Member Mead.

Here.

Committee Member Peterson. Here. Chair, there are five members present. Thank you. Next is public comment. Did anyone wish to provide public comment? We have no one in person. Anyone online? No. Hands are raised. Okay. So close public comment. We have three action items today. First is ordinance 26 dash zero one two.

Thank you, chair Dunn. Good morning, council members. For the record, Jim Martin, council staff. Rose ordinance 26 dash zero one two approves an amendment to the Snohomish County Public Facilities District Charter. The PFD board of directors met on January 22 and considered proposed amendments to the PFD charter and adopted resolution two zero two six dash zero one, approving the proposed amendment and recommending the proposal to council final adoption. The amendments include attending allowing attendance at meetings virtually, changing the annual budget deadline from September 1 to November November 1, changing designations to be gender neutral, and other housekeeping changes to the bylaws. Requested action is to move to GLS on April 22 to set time and date for public hearing.

Thank you. Questions from council? Does there does that budget deadline, meet any of our internal requirements?

Does it have any conflict with anything? Our side at all.

Okay. Okay. Okay. We can move this to consent. It needs a public hearing.

Yeah.

So we can move this, to GLS on April 22 to set time and date. Is there any objection to putting that on the administrative matters agenda? Okay. Seeing none, that can go on admin, for the twenty second to set time and date for public hearing. Next is motion 26 dash one five two.

Proposed motion 26 dash one five two approves and authorizes the execution of the agreement for professional services between the county and Intermountain Claims Incorporated. RFP Dash25Dash0637BC was issued for a third party administrator for the workers' compensation program. Scope of of work includes receiving, reviewing, and analyzing all petitions for workers' compensation benefits made by claimants, investigate as required to determine validity, determine proper benefits due to claimants on compensable claims, make timely payment to claimants, and other tasks associated with administration of workers' compensation claims. Term of the agreement is from 07/01/2026 through 06/30/2028 with the potential for up to two additional two year terms at discretion of the county. The not to exceed amount is $1,375,000, which includes extensions or renewals.

After submittal, the department reached out to me with a substitute motion as the language in the enacting clause did not include funding of up to a $125,000 for the issuance of claim payments still outstanding with the existing third party administrator. Today's request would be to move the substitute motion to GLS on April 22 for consideration.

Thank you. Questions from counsel? And we have motion 26 dash one five two, but you've, if we just move it verbally as a substitute, that'll update.

Correct. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Then the clerks will just move that that motion to the agenda.

Okay. So if there's no objection, the substitute motion 26 dash one five two will move, to, consent on the twenty second? Okay. Seeing no objection. That'll move to consent. Next is item three, motion 26 dash one five seven.

Well, motion 26 dash one five seven approves the TPA agreement with DVA advertising and public relations for the twenty twenty six FIFA phase three marketing. Scope of work includes creation and maintenance of media strategy, project management, administration, and account management, implement digital media management optimization and reporting, and full FIFA campaign report production. Contractors through 12/31/2026 with a not to exceed amount of $178,723 and requested action is to move to GLS on April 22 for consideration.

K. Questions from counsel? K. Is there any objection to consent? Hearings and seeing none, this will move to the, April 22 for consent. That concludes our action items. We had one discussion item, which is our budget note and conditions matrix. So I'll turn it over to Jim.

Thank you. Updates to the budget notes and conditions include that the secure withdrawal management facility is not going forward and the $6,000,000 in affordable health behavioral health funds are a return to fund balance with $5,000,000 having been reappropriated specifically for recovery housing. Additionally, for the Lynnwood crisis care facility, human services has issued a contract to the North Sound Behavioral Health Administrative Services Organization and is waiting for the contract to be returned for execution. There is no update related to the testing for contamination and housing note. The department indicates that there are numerous technical, operational, and fiduciary issues with the budget note as written. And those are all the updates provided by the executive's office at this time.

K. And you also included, a written report?

So Yeah. The matrix is attached to the to the agenda that has all all of the updates, old and new.

Thank you. Any questions or comments? Okay. Appreciate the chance to check-in, and thanks for, organizing the the budget note matrix. Okay. If there's no other questions or comments, that concludes our agenda, and council's in recess until our 11:00 committee meeting.