Information

Type: Deliberation

Department: CRNR - Coroner

Directors' Update: March 19, 2025

Business Meeting: March 25, 2025

Summary:

This is an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) between the Lewis County Coroner' Office to provide the use of the autopsy facility for cases from Mason County Coroner's Office. 

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Resolution

WHEREAS, RCW 39.34, the Interlocal Cooperation Act, provides for interlocal cooperation between governmental agencies to make the most efficient use of their powers by enabling them to cooperate with other agencies on a basis of mutual advantage; and

WHEREAS, the Lewis County Coroner’s Office would like to enter into an interlocal agreement with the Mason County Coroner’s Office to provide for use of the Lewis County Coroner’s Office autopsy facility to perform postmortem examinations on Mason County Coroner’s Office cases; and

WHEREAS, the Lewis County Coroner’s Office will charge the Mason County Coroner’s Office a fee of three hundred and fifty dollars ($350.00) per postmortem exam, with the Lewis County Coroner’s Office invoicing the Mason County Coroner’s Office monthly; and

WHEREAS, all other costs related to the postmortem examinations will be paid by Mason County Coroner’s Office, to include the fee for the forensic pathologists, all lab testing fees, decedent transportation costs; and

WHEREAS, it is beneficial to both counties as Mason County Coroner’s Office does not have autopsy facilities and Lewis County Coroner’s Office has a full and accredited autopsy facility.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners hereby approves the interlocal agreement between the Lewis County Coroner’s Office and the Mason County Coroner’s Office providing the use of the autopsy facility to perform postmortem examinations for Mason County Coroner’s Office cases through December 31, 2026.

DONE IN OPEN SESSION this 25th day of March, 2025.