Professional Services

The vendor is required to provide professional services for Puget sound salmon commission.
- Financial and operational management:
• Conduct at least one board meeting and one member meeting each year, ensuring that all announcements and accompanying documents are distributed in a timely fashion and in compliance with the open public meetings act.
• Include the agenda, minutes from the previous meeting, financial report and all accompanying documentation and any other materials necessary to conduct the meeting.
• Establish and maintain necessary committees as instructed by the board. ensure that relevant issues are brought to committees in a timely fashion and that board members are periodically updated on the progress of committees.
• Conduct an annual meeting, usually after the Puget sound harvester’s association annual meeting, where a commission update is provided.
• Provide input and support at industry and grower events as directed by the board.
• Oversee the proper dispersal of funds pursuant to its legal obligations.
• Maintaining a current list of Puget sound wholesale salmon buyers who are required to collect and send in assessments collected from fishermen.  
• Includes maintaining a relationship with buyers and handlers to ensure a good understanding of who their fishermen are; issuing assessment notices in a timely manner; aggressively pursuing delinquent assessments up to and including legal action; and depositing assessments in approved account(s) in accordance with state standards.
• Establish and maintain department headquarters.
• Work with the board to establish operating policies and procedures.
• Maintain all department records
- Provide financial management/oversight, budgeting, and information/records management, using tight fiscal controls.
- Provide regular financial updates to the board
• Maintain tight fiscal control of the operating budget and all collected assessments.
• Fully cooperate with the state auditors during periodically required audits.
• Work with the board to establish, provide oversight for and management of an annual budget and accurate financial records.
• Providing financial statements to and assisting the department in budget preparation, and maintain expenditures within established budget.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: March 25, 2025