Skagit County Commissioner, Seat 1

Employer / Organization

Skagit County

Next Election

Aug 04, 2020

Filing Window

May 11, 2020 - May 15, 2020

Description

The primary duty of a county commissioner is to levy the taxes to operate the County and to adopt a balanced budget for each calendar year. The Commissioners fix the budget amount for each department of the County, but variances and increases can be permitted during the year if extraordinary circumstances can be shown. Other elected officials in the county are responsible for their own adopted budget and the County Commissioners are responsible for the operation of budgets under the control of appointed department heads. Also within their legislative capacity, the Commissioners are responsible for adopting, amending and repealing all County ordinances (which are essentially laws of the County). These include traffic, zoning, planning and public safety ordinances, and any other ordinance concerning the general welfare of the County. As administrators, County Commissioners are responsible for public roads and public works programs, public health services, planning and zoning of unincorporated areas, emergency Services or civil defense programs; County park and recreation systems and other services and programs, which are not clearly the responsibility of other elected County officials. Commissioners also have a key role in a wide variety of community boards and commissions, which affect citizens within and beyond their jurisdictions. Commissioners serve on a variety of multi-county boards, state boards, and/or national committees, with other public officials and private citizens. Commissioners are also responsible for appointing members of many County boards and commissions.

Application Guidelines
The filing window for this Seat begins the Monday two weeks prior to Memorial Day and ends on the Friday of that week (5 days). Candidacy filing papers can be acquired at and are submitted to either the county elections office or the Secretary of State Office in Olympia. For non-partisan offices, if there is only two candidates filed for a Seat they will run against each other in the November election. If more than two candidates file for a non-partisan office, than the non-partisan office will go through the August primary and the top two vote getters will advance to the November election for the seat. For a partisan office, the candidates will run in the August primary even if only two people are participating. This may create scenarios where the same candidates participate for the same seat in the August primary and November election. For any further questions, the Skagit County Elections office can be reached at (360) 336-9305, or at [email protected] and the Secretary of State Office can be reached at (360) 902-4151 ***Washington is one of the only states with online filing for candidacy. For more information regarding filing online, please see here: https://wei.sos.wa.gov/county/skagit/en/Documents/Submission%20Guidelines/2015%20Skagit%20County%20Candidate%20Pamphlet.pdf

Submit application to:
Skagit County Elections, P.O. Box 1306, Mount Vernon, WA, 98273, US