Skagit County Treasurer

Description

Treasurer for county government and all taxing and assessment districts, which includes hospitals, schools, ports, fire, library, sewer, cemetery, dike, drainage, park, flood control, noxious weed and water districts. As such, we collect miscellaneous revenues, distribute funds to the appropriate fund accounts (we currently have 326 accounts), invest all funds in our possession, and finally, disburse those funds at the direction of the county auditor or district commissioners, bill and collect all real and personal property taxes for the county, cities and districts, play a key role with our mortgage, title, real estate companies and legal community through processing of real estate excise affidavits, issue all mobile home moving permits, serve as loan administrator for the Water Quality Improvement Loan Program making low cost Department of Ecology funds available to Skagit County citizens to replace failing septic systems, spearheaded development of the Skagit County Cash Collection Policy Manual and BUCKS (Better Understanding Cash Kontrols) Training Program for Skagit County and provide the ongoing training and certification of all individuals in the county who handle or are responsible for funds of the taxpayers. Also contained in that figure are funds of the Skagit Council of Governments, SKAT, The North Sound Regional Support Network, the Air Pollution Authority and the Skagit Housing Authority; these funds we invest through Interlocal agreements, carry out foreclosure, tax title and surplus property tax sales as well as the financial administration of the yearly county equipment surplus auction, perform audits on sales tax paid and motor vehicle licenses issued in Skagit County, with thousands of dollars erroneously coded being reallocated back to the county by the Departments of Revenue and Licensing

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’s 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’s 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