Budget and Finance

Director: Trisha Logue

Role of the Budget and Finance Department

Facilitates the Board of County Commissioners in developing the Annual Budget.
Administrates and maintains the financial system for the County including all system processes, security, and structure in accordance with BARS.
Works with County offices and departments to assure that compliance with proper internal control procedures, laws and grant requirements are achieved and maintained.
Researches, develops and reviews funding sources.

Indirect Cost Allocation Plans
2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023

For use in billing grants for January 1 - December 31

Skagit County Launches OpenBook Financial Transparency Tool

The County Commissioners are committed to providing an open and transparent budget process for the community each year. In order to share financial information in a more accessible manner, the County has launched Euna OpenBook, an interactive website to allow residents and interested stakeholders to review preliminary budgets, adopted budgets, and previous actual expense and revenue reports, including live, monthly updates of actual expense and revenues.

Residents may now visit the site to review actual revenue and expenses from 2024 – 2026. The preliminary 2027 budget information will be available online by November 23, 2026.

News and Updates

July 15, 2026
County Commissioners Adopt 2027 Budget Priorities, Launch Live Budget Transparency Website
This annual resolution helps provide departments and elected offices with guidance and constraints as to how they should prepare budget requests for the following year. Local governments in Washington state are required to adopt a balanced budget.

November 17, 2025
Preliminary 2026 Budget Now Available
The Skagit County Budget and Finance Department has published the preliminary 2026 budget online and is available for public comment through Monday, December 1st, at 4:30 p.m.

November 17, 2025
Skagit County Commissioners Adopt 0.1% Public Safety Sales Tax
Washington State House Bill 2015 (HB 2015) provides local governments the ability to adopt a 0.1% sales tax to provide additional resources for improving public safety.

October 20, 2025
Skagit County to Host Public Hearing on 0.1% Public Safety Sales Tax
The bill permits cities and counties to adopt the tax increase through approval by the local legislative body. In Skagit County, the legislative body is the Board of County Commissioners

September 22, 2025
Skagit County Commissioners to Host Annual Budget Meetings
Commissioners will host a series of budget work sessions over the next two weeks with each department and elected office to discuss 2026 budget requests

Applications and Forms

Lodging Tax
Funding

You can apply for lodging tax funding. Review and complete the application and related exhibit.

Due Date: September 30, 2026

Applications now accepted online!

Application | Exhibit B Form

Economic Development: Public Facilities

Use this application for economic development affordable workforce housing projects.

Applications will open spring 2027.

Read the economic development public facility project reimbursement application instructions before you apply.

Economic Development: Affordable Workforce Housing

Use this application for economic development affordable workforce housing projects.

Applications will open spring 2027.

Read the economic development public facility project reimbursement application instructions before you apply.

Economic Development: Public Facilities Reimbursement

Use this form to request reimbursement for an economic development public facility project.

Download the economic development public facility project reimbursement form

Financial Reports

Below you can find the annual financial reports of Skagit County. The financial statements follow generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and the Office of the Washington State Auditor audits them using generally accepted auditing standards.

The annual reports follow the reporting model in Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement 34. The reports include government-wide financial statements based on full accrual accounting with capital assets, infrastructure, and long-term debt reporting. The fund financial statements use the modified accrual method.

Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports

Review the annual comprehensive financial reports for the following years.