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  • Washington State Public Employer Overtime Guide

    Dec 20 2017

    The Overtime Guide, revised in 2024, outlines the major provisions of overtime laws and the implications for public employers in Washington; identify options for complying with the revised regulations; and learn best practices for performing audits and communicating changes to exempt status employees.

  • Tutorials on working with the media

    Dec 20 2017

    Watch two short videos to learn how to get the media to cover an issue you care about and team up with other cities to get local editorial board attention.

  • AWC Data Story Portal

    Dec 20 2017

    Research and data for fact-based decision making. Data is presented in tabular, map and graphic formats on timely topics ranging from city election results to utility rate trends to recreational marijuana revenues.

  • Numbers don’t lie

    Dec 20 2017

    A video resource for city officials to demonstrate the important relationship between cities and the state. The video reinforces the long-standing partnership between the state and its cities.

  • Low impact development

    Dec 20 2017

    This video series helps local governments with the code review and update process for managing stormwater, explaining what low impact development (LID) is and how these stormwater permit requirements present both new opportunities and challenges for local governments.

  • Lodging tax

    Dec 20 2017

    Get information about how to report your annual lodging tax expenditures.

  • Liquor Cannabis Board fact sheets available now

    Dec 20 2017

    View the Liquor Cannabis Board’s (LCB) fact sheets on legislation enacted during the 2017 legislative session.

  • LEOFF 1 Disability Board Best Practices Resource Guide

    Dec 20 2017

    The LEOFF 1 Disability Board Best Practices Resource Guide contains valuable information for LEOFF 1 board members, board secretaries, and anyone involved with LEOFF 1 medical responsibilities and costs. The resource guide outlines key responsibilities, guidance, statutory requirements and provides sample policies to help navigate this complex issue.

  • Legislative Bulletin

    Dec 20 2017

    The Legislative Bulletin, emailed weekly during session and monthly during the interim, is one of AWC’s most valuable legislative resources for cities. It covers what you need to know about issue areas, hot topics, and how to take action on city priorities.

  • Guidelines for city streets as part of state highways

    Dec 20 2017

    AWC and the Washington State Department of Transportation provide guidelines on the interpretation of RCW 47.24 and the construction, operations and maintenance responsibilities of WSDOT when a city street is part of a state highway.

  • Cityvision September/October 2016

    Dec 20 2017

    Developing story: strategies for a new generation of resilient infrastructure

  • Guidelines for elected and appointed officials using social media

    Dec 19 2017

    Social media is a tool growing in popularity for developing direct communications with your community and creating informal opportunities to reach out beyond official publications. City policies should cover the “official” city account, employee use of social media inside and outside of work, and elected official use of social media.

  • Legislators return in 2018 with different expectations and challenges – what might it mean for cities?

    Dec 18 2017

    The balance of power has again shifted in Olympia and how that impacts cities will be a major focus of AWC during what we hope will be a short 60-day session beginning January 8 and ending March 8.

  • NLC: Net neutrality is just the tip of the preemption iceberg

    Dec 18 2017

    As Washington’s cities prepare for the deployment of small cell technology by telecommunications companies, we look to do so in a way that protects the rights of local governments and the taxpayers to decide how we lease public property.

  • AWC board finalizes legislative priority to address behavioral health challenges

    Dec 18 2017

    On December 8, the AWC board approved more specific language for our legislative priority to address behavioral health challenges across the state.

  • Governor’s 2018 budget includes increased law enforcement training

    Dec 18 2017

    The Governor’s proposed supplemental budget released on December 14 includes funding for one additional Basic Law Enforcement Academy (BLEA) class in 2019.

  • Streamlined sales tax mitigation advisory committee meeting

    Dec 18 2017

    EHB 2163 implements a state version of marketplace fairness (aka internet sales tax) on January 1, 2018, by imposing new requirements on more out-of-state internet retailers to collect sales tax or to report customer sales and notify customers for use tax purposes.

  • Another bill seeks to implement a Washington Voting Rights Act

    Dec 18 2017

    Proposals implementing a state Voting Rights Act have been introduced and debated in the Legislature for several years.

  • Liquor and Cannabis Board releases marijuana home grow report

    Dec 15 2017

    As directed by the Legislature, the Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) studied and reported on the possibility of legalizing and regulating recreational marijuana plant possession, also known as “home grow.”

  • PERS/TRS 1 COLA recommended by the Select Committee on Pension Policy

    Dec 15 2017

    The Select Committee on Pension Policy met on December 12 and voted to recommend a Cost-of-Living-Adjustment (COLA) for members of the Teachers’ Retirement System Plan 1 (TRS 1) and Public Employees’ Retirement System Plan 1 (PERS 1).

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