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Sign at county boundary, 1970 Sheriff's Department vehicle in Bellingham. Whatcom County (/ ˈ w ɒ t k ə m /, / ˈ hw ɒ t k ə m /) is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington, bordered by the Lower Mainland (the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley Regional Districts) of British Columbia to the north, Okanogan County to the east, Skagit County to the south ...
Whatcom County became a home rule county in 1978, governed by a county charter. [4] Every 10 years, a Charter Review Commission is formed to review the charter and recommend charter amendments, which then must be voted on by the citizens of the county. The most recent charter review was in 2015.
During the meeting, Roche described the county’s “risk pool,” a form of self-insurance that Whatcom County and 23 others participate in. There’s a $20 million cap on payouts and a $250,000 ...
In summer 2021 the city of Bellingham stopped streaming the Whatcom County Council meetings on its BTV Live channel at YouTube for the same reason. Government agencies are required by state law to ...
Whatcom County is looking at how it can add electric cars and trucks to its fleet, part of a countywide effort to reduce greenhouse gases through its Climate Action Plan. ... and the government ...
County voters approved the adoption of a home-rule charter for Whatcom County on November 7, 1978, creating the position of a seven-member county council. [2] The position of county executive was created in 1996. Prior to the adoption, the county government was led by three commissioners elected at-large. [3]
County Council members voted 4-3 on Aug. 6., acting as the Whatcom County Flood Control Zone District Board of Supervisors, to accept funding from the Washington State Recreation and Conservation ...
County Executive Satpal Sidhu told the council that he’d like to see the Medical Examiner’s Office become a full county agency. “This is a transition process. It may take a couple of years.