October 6, 2026 - Lewis County BOCC Meeting

At the October 6, 2026 Lewis County Board of County Commissioners business meeting, the board unanimously approved a batch of resolutions that included several procurement actions. The county approved a request for qualifications for fire-alarm engineering evaluations at county sites; awarded a contract to Pioneer Masonry Restoration Company for historic courthouse repointing (no amount stated); and increased the 2025 cultural-resource contract with Northwest Heritage Consultants by $100,000, bringing its maximum payable amount to $350,000. It also approved a $60,000 contract with Difference Makers for homeless-housing consulting services through June 30, 2027, and continued banking-officer consulting at two hours per week through year-end at the requested rate. The board also approved a dispatchers’ guild MOU covering retention bonuses and new-employee training incentives. Contract details for the surplus forklift item were not available in the transcript.

The board unanimously approved a 2026 budget amendment. The published amendment showed expenditure increases of $2,488,720 and revenue increases of $1,673,372; subsequent changes to other funds added $675,565 in expenditures and $2,107,096 in revenue. The general fund increase was $350,326, with major items including a $1.5 million grant to the Department of Emergency Management and other planned capital-project costs. The board also approved a resolution setting a public hearing on a proposed franchise. Other actions included approval of an alley vacation and an urban-growth-area mapping amendment; staff recommended deferring one area for further coordination. All recorded votes on the resolutions and hearings were 3-0.