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RESOLUTION AMENDING RESOLUTION NO.2023-002
VETERANS' ADVISORY BOARD/VETERANS' ASSISTANCE
Adding Additional Language around Minimum Requirements
WHEREAS,Mason County established a levy per RCW 73.08.080 for the purpose of creating the
Veterans' Assistance Fund for the relief of honorably discharged veterans or for veterans discharged for
physical reason with an honorable record;and,
WHEREAS,RCW 73.08.035 authorizes the establishment of a Veterans' Advisory Board and the
Mason County Commissioners adopted Resolution no. 58-13 establishing the Veterans' Advisory Board
(VAB);and,
WHEREAS, RCW 73.08.010 provides for relief of indigent and suffering veterans and their
families or the families of those deceased veterans and on December 14, 2022 Veterans' Advisory Board
meeting the Board made the recommendation to increase the annual limit of cash award from the Veterans'
Assistance Fund to one thousand eight hundred ($1,800) dollars, increase the burial assistance amount to
one thousand six hundred($1,600)dollars,and increase the one-time catastrophic amount to two thousand
($2,000)dollars effective February 1,2023;and,
WHEREAS, additional language is being added to Section I. Organizational Policies to define
minimum time required for eligibility and to Section IV. Eligibility Policies to require income verification
from within the previous twelve(12)months;and,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of County Commissioners of Mason
County that the Veterans' Advisory Board Operating Policy and Guidelines is amended to include
additional language being added to Section I.Organizational Policies to define minimum time required for
eligibility and to Section IV. Eligibility Policies to require income verification from within the previous
twelve(12)months as shown in Attachment A.
DATED this 7'day of February,2023.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
ATTEST: MASON COUNTY,WASHINGTON
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McKenzie SmiLA,Cler of the Board Sharon Trask,Chair
APPROVED AS TO FORM: X/\,_#�
Rano Neatherlin, ice-Chair
Tim ead,Chief Deputy Prosecuting l
Attorney Kevin Shu ,Co P
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