The legislature’s fiscal bill cutoff was Friday, February 2oth, so several bills have been moved to the dead bill list. Several infrastructure financing bills did not make it past cutoff.  The Senate is focused on passing SB 5033 (Keiser), which gives authority to the Public Works Board to develop a...

WSACE Past President Owen Carter was recognized by Snohomish County as the inaugural recipient of the Snohomish County Public Works Professional Achievement Award. The award was given in recognition of Owen’s dedicated and long term service with Snohomish County Public Works, his professional standards and ethics, his mentorship and...

The 2017 legislative session passed its first cut-off milestone last Friday at which time policy bills needed to be reported out of committee.  Fiscal bills, including transportation and capital budget committee bills have until Friday, February 24th to get their bills reported out of committee.

As promised, here are the materials which were shared at the 2017 Professional Development Conference. Thank you again to all those in attendance, and for the great speakers we had this year! Lean Leaderhship Workshop – FINAL (John Dickson) WSACE Lean Leadership Commitment Worksheet (John Dickson) Bridge Simulation –...

The first legislative cutoff is Friday, 2/17/17, so policy bills have to be passed out of committee for further consideration. Policy bills referred to fiscal committees have another week for consideration. Many of the bills being tracked are scheduled for executive session and we’ll soon know if they are...