The National Association of County Engineers will hold its annual meeting and management & technical conference from April 9-13, in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Pierce County Engineer Brian Stacy will be conducting his final meetings as NACE President so we need a good turnout of WSACE members to give Brian a...

HB 1367, which allows counties to provide funding for maintenance of private roads, was heard in the House Local Government Committee, where we testified in opposition.  The bill is on the committee schedule on February 2nd for executive hearing to be reported out. HB 1165, which changes the opt-in...

Several bills of interest have been introduced with several hearings scheduled this week. A couple of bills of concern, both sponsored by Rep. MacEwen, are scheduled for hearings. First is a bill, HB 1367, that allows counties to provide funding for private roads by allowing citizens to petition a...

Over the past three biennia, state funding for infrastructure from the public works assistance account has been eliminated due to hundreds of millions of dollars being shifted from the account to the state general fund to balance the state budget. Over the past three decades the public works board...

The 2017 legislative session is underway with a few transportation related bills being dropped in the first week.  Both the Governor’s supplemental transportation budget, HB 1146,  and the 2017-19 transportation budget, HB 1147,  have been introduced in the House, along with their companion bills in the Senate.  The 2017-19...