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Definitions
- “Agency”
- “…all state agencies and all local agencies. “State agency” includes every state office, department, division, bureau, board, commission, or other state agency. “Local agency” includes every county, city, town, municipal corporation, quasi-municipal corporation, or special purpose district, or any office, department, division, bureau, board, commission, or agency thereof, or other local public agency.” (RCW 42.17A.005 (2))
- “Benefit”
- “…a commercial, proprietary, financial, economic, or monetary advantage, or the avoidance f a commercial, proprietary, financial, economic, or monetary disadvantage.” (RCW 42.17A.005(5))
- “Policy”
- A carefully designed, broadly stated, written guideline for decision-making that is formally adopted by the library board. It is the governing principle upon which the director and staff develop specific procedures and regulations for the operation of the library.
- “Mission statement”
- A brief statement that provides the nucleus for strategic and long-range plans, annual plans, and policies.
- “Municipal officer” and “officer”
- “shall each include all elected and appointed officers of a municipality, together with all deputies and assistants of such an officer, and all persons exercising or undertaking to exercise any of the powers or functions of a municipal officer.” RCW 42.23.020(2)
- “Municipality”
- “shall include all counties, cities, towns, districts, and other municipal corporations and quasi municipal corporations organized under the laws of the state of Washington.” RCW 42.23.020(1)