Department of Children, Youth, and Families
| Average Annual FTEs | Near General Fund State | Other Funds | Total Funds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Dollars in Thousands) | ||||
| Current Budget | 4,960.6 | 3,819,651 | 1,442,548 | 5,262,199 |
| 2025-27 Maintenance Level | 4,998.5 | 5,065,333 | 1,287,795 | 6,353,128 |
| Difference from 2025-27 Original | 37.9 | 1,245,682 | (154,753) | 1,090,929 |
| % Change from 2025-27 Original | 0.76% | 32.6% | (10.7%) | 20.7% |
2025 Policy Other Changes |
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| Family Child Care CBA | 0.0 | 183,539 | 0 | 183,539 |
| Lease Adjustments | 0.0 | 38 | 6 | 44 |
| Basic Foster Care Rate | 0.0 | 7,362 | 4,907 | 12,269 |
| Administrative Efficiencies | 0.0 | (2,600) | 0 | (2,600) |
| CCDF-TANF Audit Resolution | 0.0 | (1,190) | 0 | (1,190) |
| CCWIS | 0.0 | 33,093 | 33,093 | 66,186 |
| FFPSA Backfill | 0.0 | 17,850 | (22,850) | (5,000) |
| Zero Emission Fleet Staff | 1.0 | 0 | 241 | 241 |
| CIHS Underspend | 0.0 | (2,914) | 0 | (2,914) |
| Continue Prevention Pilot | 0.0 | 2,500 | 0 | 2,500 |
| CSEC and Missing Tribal Youth | 2.0 | 1,129 | 0 | 1,129 |
| CSEC Receiving Centers | 0.0 | (2,000) | 0 | (2,000) |
| Referrals and Transition DS Undersp | 0.0 | (2,000) | 0 | (2,000) |
| ECEAP Underspend | 0.0 | (17,040) | 0 | (17,040) |
| ECEAP Entitlement Date | 0.0 | (145,894) | 0 | (145,894) |
| ECEAP Rate Increase | 0.0 | 55,683 | 0 | 55,683 |
| ECEAP Slot Conversion/Expansion | 0.0 | 9,393 | 0 | 9,393 |
| Comply With New CCDF Requirements | 3.0 | 67,490 | 20,529 | 88,019 |
| Family Preservation Services Rate | 0.0 | 3,500 | 0 | 3,500 |
| Professional Development | 0.0 | 500 | 0 | 500 |
| D.S. Compliance | 4.0 | 19,911 | 694 | 20,605 |
| JR Stafford Creek | 124.5 | 31,272 | 563 | 31,835 |
| OUD Intervention Contract | 0.0 | 2,096 | 0 | 2,096 |
| Classification Specialists | 3.0 | 798 | 16 | 814 |
| Infractions Specialists | 2.0 | 518 | 10 | 528 |
| EG Perimeter Security | 0.0 | 3,494 | 0 | 3,494 |
| Surveillance Records System | 2.0 | 3,976 | 0 | 3,976 |
| Intercept | 0.0 | 872 | 1,000 | 1,872 |
| Independent Living Funding | 0.0 | 1,500 | 0 | 1,500 |
| Language Access Providers Agreement | 0.0 | 54 | 47 | 101 |
| LifeSet Funding | 0.0 | 1,416 | 430 | 1,846 |
| Naselle Warm Closure Costs | 1.5 | 1,418 | 0 | 1,418 |
| Plan of Safe Care | 0.0 | 1,220 | 0 | 1,220 |
| Positive Indian Parenting | 1.0 | 777 | 112 | 889 |
| Consolidate Seasonal Child Care | 0.0 | (3,120) | 0 | (3,120) |
| Relocation costs | 0.0 | 220 | 36 | 256 |
| 17M EA Reduction | 0.0 | 0 | (791) | (791) |
| CT EA Adjustment | 0.0 | 0 | (100) | (100) |
| Rising Strong | 0.0 | 4,702 | 0 | 4,702 |
| Risk Mitigation | 0.50 | 243 | 79 | 322 |
| Sexually Aggressive Youth Undrspnd | 0.0 | (170) | 0 | (170) |
| JR MOUD Access | 1.6 | 0 | 1,302 | 1,302 |
| WCCC Outreach | 2.0 | 4,800 | 12 | 4,812 |
| WCCC 75% SMI Expansion Date | 0.0 | (119,503) | 0 | (119,503) |
| Youth Counsel AG Underspend | 0.0 | (1,434) | 0 | (1,434) |
| 2025 Policy Other Changes Total | 148.1 | 163,499 | 39,336 | 202,835 |
2025 Policy Comp Changes |
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| WFSE General Government | 0.0 | 52,038 | 8,433 | 60,471 |
| Non-Rep General Wage Increase | 0.0 | 3,701 | 468 | 4,169 |
| Non-Rep Premium Pay | 0.0 | 383 | 0 | 383 |
| SEIU 1199 General Government | 0.0 | 1,234 | 104 | 1,338 |
| Updated PEBB Rate | 0.0 | (1,310) | (243) | (1,553) |
| PERS & TRS Plan 1 Benefit Increase | 0.0 | 538 | 98 | 636 |
| Pension Benefit Amortization | 0.0 | (1,947) | (362) | (2,309) |
| 2025 Policy Comp Changes Total | 0.0 | 54,637 | 8,498 | 63,135 |
2025 Policy Central Services Changes |
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| Archives/Records Management | 0.0 | 19 | 3 | 22 |
| Audit Services | 0.0 | 31 | 5 | 36 |
| Legal Services | 0.0 | 6,482 | 1,062 | 7,544 |
| Administrative Hearings | 0.0 | 196 | 32 | 228 |
| WTS Central Services | 0.0 | 411 | 68 | 479 |
| DES Central Services | 0.0 | 265 | 43 | 308 |
| OFM Central Services | 0.0 | 9,270 | 67 | 9,337 |
| GOV Central Services | 0.0 | 68 | 11 | 79 |
| 2025 Policy Central Services Changes Total | 0.0 | 16,742 | 1,291 | 18,033 |
| Total Policy Changes | 148.1 | 234,878 | 49,125 | 284,003 |
| 2025-27 Policy Level | 5,146.6 | 5,300,211 | 1,336,920 | 6,637,131 |
| Difference from 2023-25 | 186.0 | 1,480,560 | (105,628) | 1,374,932 |
| % Change from 2025-27 Original | 3.7% | 38.8% | (7.3%) | 26.1% |
Policy Changes
Family Child Care CBA
Consistent with the 2025-27 collective bargaining agreement, funding is provided for a Family, Friends, and Neighbors per hour rate increase from $4.00 to $4.50 beginning in fiscal year 2026; a cost of care rate enhancement increase for licensed providers from $2,100 to $2,200 per month beginning in fiscal year 2026; and a monthly health care contribution increase from $646,000 to $878,500 in fiscal year 2026 and $925,000 in fiscal year 2027. (General Fund - State)
Lease Adjustments
In alignment with the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (Department) Leased Facilities Plan, funding is provided for the ongoing cost of unsigned leases. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
Basic Foster Care Rate
The enacted 2024 supplemental budget assumed a rate increase for the basic foster care rate in the outlook. A cost analysis by Western Washington University determined that the current rate, last updated in 2020, does not fully cover the current cost of care. Funding is provided to phase an increase to the basic foster care rate over four years, implementing half the cost of full care in the first fiscal year and getting to full cost of care in the final fiscal year of the outlook. The cost of diapers, which was mistakenly omitted from the Department of Children, Youth, and Families' (Department) prior request is also included. (General Fund - Family Support/Child Welfare, General Fund - State)
Administrative Efficiencies
Savings is captured to reflect administrative efficiencies at the Department. (General Fund - State)
CCDF-TANF Audit Resolution
Funding and FTE were provided in the 2024 enacted supplemental budget to support the Department in tracking expenditures for the subsidy child care program at the client level. This was done to reduce the risk of audit findings from the State Auditor's Office and to comply with requirements associated with the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) grant. The Department receives TANF grant funds from the Department of Social and Health Services for its subsidy child care program, and TANF grant funds must be tracked at the child level. The Department was able to develop an in-house solution for tracking expenditures at the client level, which reduced some of its need for an IT solution planned out of the enacted funding. Savings is captured to reflect this efficiency and underspend. (General Fund - State)
CCWIS
The Department currently uses a child welfare case management system, FamLink, which is Washington state's Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System. FamLink's complexity limits the Department's ability to make system changes resulting from federal rule changes, streamline functionality to support day-to-day case management work, and ensure interoperability with other state IT systems. The Department can also claim additional federal funds once the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) is complete. Prior enacted budgets funded a feasibility study and the initial stages of procurement for CCWIS. Funding and FTE is provided for the next phase, which includes starting the design, development, and implementation phase, completing procurement, and beginning organizational change management. (General Fund - Family Support/Child Welfare, General Fund - State)
FFPSA Backfill
A fund swap of state to federal funds in the 2021-23 budget was made in anticipation that the Department could claim Family First Prevention Services Act funds. It later became known that the Department cannot claim these funds until a Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System is completed in fiscal year 2030. The Department has absorbed the state funding reduction through CPS staffing vacancies and prevention services excess capacity, but these funding areas are projected to be fully expended. Federal expenditure authority is removed since it cannot be claimed and some of the state reduction is backfilled in anticipation that a supplemental adjustment may be considered. (General Fund - Family Support/Child Welfare, General Fund - State)
Zero Emission Fleet Staff
Funding is provided for Zero Emission Fleet Staff (Climate Commitment Account - State)
CIHS Underspend
Savings is captured to reflect underspend in combined in home services. (General Fund - State)
Continue Prevention Pilot
Funding is provided for the Department to continue its contract with a countywide nonprofit organization with early childhood expertise in Pierce County for a project to prevent child abuse and neglect using nationally recognized models. The project includes a countywide resource and referral linkage system for families of children who are prenatal through age five and a voluntary, brief newborn home visiting program. (General Fund - State)
CSEC and Missing Tribal Youth
SSSB 6006 requires the Department to use a validated screening tool to screen children and youth for commercial sexual abuse and integrate labor trafficking into its definitions. In addition, the Department has a unit to locate dependent children missing from care, which is difficult in the case of Tribal dependent children due to jurisdictional limitations. Funding is provided for two screeners to fill a need in the remaining regions so CSEC screening can take place statewide, a position to integrate labor trafficking into Department practices, and a missing Tribal youth locator position. (General Fund - State)
CSEC Receiving Centers
There is funding in the enacted budget for the Department to contract for receiving centers for commercially sexually exploited children (CSEC). However, this funding is far too low to enter into a contract for such services and consequently, remains unexpended. This underspend is captured as savings. (General Fund - State)
Referrals and Transition DS Undersp
Savings is captured to reflect underspend in the referrals and transition provision of the D.S. lawsuit. (General Fund - State)
ECEAP Underspend
Part-day slots are in low demand by providers and families and do not offer the dosage of preschool hours that children need. 845 unfilled part-day slots are reduced and captured as savings. (General Fund - State)
ECEAP Entitlement Date
Since 2013, nearly 10,000 Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) slots have been added with the goal of making the program an entitlement by the 2026-27 school year. Due to a constrained operating budget alongside an insufficient workforce, it is not possible to meet entitlement on this timeline, which is delayed until the 2030-2031 school year. This change removes funding in the maintenance level that was based on the November 2024 ECEAP forecast assuming entitlement in the 2026-27 school year. (General Fund - State)
ECEAP Rate Increase
ECEAP providers are struggling with recruitment and retention in a tough labor market and do not have a sufficient workforce. Additionally, the Department is tasked with providing ECEAP as an entitlement program in fiscal year 2031, so there is a need to maintain existing ECEAP slots and incentivize new slots that will meet the needs of families. An 18% rate increase on school-day slots is provided in fiscal year 2026 to stabilize and encourage growth among ECEAP providers to continue to make progress toward entitlement. (General Fund - State)
ECEAP Slot Conversion/Expansion
The Department is tasked with providing ECEAP as an entitlement program beginning in fiscal year 2031. School-day slots provide the dosage of hours children need for strong kindergarten readiness outcomes and are the types of slots in highest demand among providers and working families. Funding is provided in fiscal year 2027 to convert 250 part-day slots to school-day slots and add another 500 school-day slots. (General Fund - State)
Comply With New CCDF Requirements
The federal Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families updated the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) regulations through a Final Rule, effective April 30, 2024. Compliance with these new rules is necessary to maintain access to the CCDF grant that supports the subsidy child care program. One-time funding is provided for IT staff to make system changes associated with the new federal requirements. (General Fund - Family Support/Child Welfare, General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State, other funds)
Family Preservation Services Rate
Family Preservation Services received a one-time rate increase in the enacted supplemental budget. Family Preservation Services is part of combined in-home services and among the most highly accessed service lines by families in the child welfare system. Funding is provided to maintain existing service capacity by making the one-time rate increase ongoing. (General Fund - State)
Professional Development
Funding is provided for the Department to continue contracting with a relationship-based professional development organization providing support to providers such as family, friends, neighbors, child care centers, and licensed family care providers. This will help open approximately nine child care businesses per year. (General Fund - State)
D.S. Compliance
In January 2021, a class action lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on behalf of youth experiencing placement instability through night-to-night placements in hotel and overnight stays in Department offices. In June 2022, the Department and plaintiffs reached a settlement agreement, which requires certain system improvements. Funding is provided for improvements to the Adolescent Transitional Living Program, Hub Homes, Exceptional Placements, Receiving Care, and plaintiff legal fees. (General Fund - Family Support/Child Welfare, General Fund - Medicaid Federal, General Fund - State, other funds)
JR Stafford Creek
The state’s JR population is increasing, with a 60% increase in young people housed at the Green Hill School since 2023. The resulting overcrowding has created unsafe conditions and reduced the ability for young men to receive services. With this funding, the department will open a 48-bed unit on the campus of the Stafford Creek Corrections Center to add capacity for youth sentenced to JR. (General Fund - Family Support/Child Welfare, General Fund - State)
OUD Intervention Contract
Young people entering JR come with increasingly complex behavioral health challenges, including opioid use disorder. This funding continues a contract with Seattle Children's Hospital for a team of opioid use interventionists and education focused on youth just before and after their release. The program is part of a National Institute of Health study of interventions that prevent opioid use once youth transition back to their communities. (General Fund - State)
Classification Specialists
The JR system is made up of multiple settings and security levels depending on the risk for a young person to exhibit dangerous behavior. Many youths exhibit positive behavior and are eligible for less restrictive, community-based placements, despite the initial risk assessment associated with their crimes. This funding provides three specialists to create and run a formal classification process to provide more frequent individualized security-level reviews, ensuring the youths are in the most appropriate placement during their sentence. (General Fund - Family Support/Child Welfare, General Fund - State)
Infractions Specialists
Transparent, fair, and consistent procedures for behavior management at the juvenile rehabilitation campuses promote positive behavior and safety. By funding two positions to create and implement an infractions policy at Echo Glen and Green Hill to better respond to incidents of violence or harmful behaviors, the department will promote a more rehabilitative environment and be more consistent when making referrals to law enforcement. (General Fund - Family Support/Child Welfare, General Fund - State)
EG Perimeter Security
The Echo Glen campus does not currently have a perimeter fence to deter and prevent youth escapes. The department is in the process of building a full fence and is using this funding in the interim to have private security forces patrol the perimeter of the facility 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (General Fund - State)
Surveillance Records System
When critical incidents occur on campus, the department must ensure timely investigation of and response to incidents, as well as responsivity to video records requests. The department will use this funding to implement a new system that combines video recording and storage into one platform, complete with appropriate data privacy protections. The funding also provides two technician positions necessary for security technology infrastructure. (General Fund - State)
Intercept
Intercept is an evidence-based, comprehensive in-home services model that works to prevent or limit out-of-home placement for youth from birth to age 18 (and their families) who are involved in child welfare, children's mental health, and/or juvenile justice systems. It was funded through fiscal year 2026. Funding is provided to maintain the existing two sites through the biennium, which includes private-local authority for fiscal year 2026 not granted in the enacted budget. (General Fund - Local, General Fund - Private/Local, General Fund - State)
Independent Living Funding
The enacted 2023-25 biennial budget issued a one-time rate increase for independent living services. Funding is provided to make this rate increase ongoing to maintain service capacity. (General Fund - State)
Language Access Providers Agreement
Funding is provided for interpreter services based upon the language access providers collective bargaining agreement for the 2025-27 biennium. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
LifeSet Funding
The Department is working to ensure all young people exiting systems of care successfully transition into adulthood, which requires a robust services array in partnership with communities. LifeSet, a comprehensive, community-based intervention model designed to serve young people 17-22 years old who have been involved in the foster care, juvenile justice, and mental health systems or who find themselves without the necessary skills and resources to make a successful transition to adulthood, is currently in place in King, Yakima, Spokane, and Snohomish counties. Funding is provided to expand to an additional two sites for a statewide total of six LifeSet sites. This expansion is necessary to achieve the statewide scale necessary to claim private philanthropic dollars for the project. (General Fund - Local, General Fund - Private/Local, General Fund - State)
Naselle Warm Closure Costs
The department discontinued housing youth at the Naselle Youth Camp in 2022, but has a small team on campus to maintain security and basic operations. This funding will continue to cover those 'warm closure' costs as the state works with partners and community to determine the next use of the facility. (General Fund - State)
Plan of Safe Care
A Plan of Safe Care (POSC) is a family-centered prevention plan designed to promote the safety and well-being of birthing parents and their infants with prenatal substance exposure. The Department currently supports POSC for pregnant women in nine counties and substance-exposed infants in some birthing hospitals. Funding is provided to expanding POSC for substance-exposed infants to all birthing hospitals and for pregnant women in three additional counties. (General Fund - State)
Positive Indian Parenting
Positive Indian Parenting (PIP) is an evidence-based program that is used to help Tribal families reunite with their children. Tribal children are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system. There are currently service deserts of culturally responsive programs for Tribal families. Funding and FTE is provided to implement PIP in three locations underserved by culturally responsive programming, which includes a Western and Eastern Washington location. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
Consolidate Seasonal Child Care
The seasonal child care program is unused, and this population is now captured in the Working Connections Child Care forecast, making this proviso redundant. This step captures unutilized funding as savings. (General Fund - State)
Relocation costs
One-time funding is provided for costs associated with relocating Department offices critical to execute core agency functions. (General Fund - Local, General Fund - Private/Local, General Fund - State)
17M EA Reduction
Expenditure authority is adjusted to align expenditures with revenues. (Indivi-Based/Portable Background Ch - Non-Appropriated)
CT EA Adjustment
Expenditure authority is adjusted to align expenditures with revenues. (Children's Trust Account - Non-Appropriated)
Rising Strong
The enacted supplemental budget provided one-time funding in fiscal year 2025 for a grant to a nonprofit organization in Spokane with expertise in the Rising Strong model that provides family-centered drug treatment and housing programs for families experiencing substance use disorder. Funding for the 2025-27 biennium is provided to continue contracting for this capacity, assuming 20-50 families may be served depending on family size. Increased service costs of the provider are also assumed. (General Fund - State)
Risk Mitigation
The number of critical incident reviews has increased in recent years. Critical incident reviews result in improvements in Department practice and policy that enhance safety for children and families involved in the child welfare system. Funding is provided for an additional critical incident review staff member. (General Fund - Family Support/Child Welfare, General Fund - Medicaid Federal, General Fund - State, other funds)
Sexually Aggressive Youth Undrspnd
Savings is captured to reflect underspend in the sexually aggressive youth program. (General Fund - State)
JR MOUD Access
Young people entering JR come with increasingly complex behavioral health challenges, including opioid use disorder (OUD). The demand in JR for medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment and overdose prevention has outpaced DCYF’s current resources. The funded nurse and physician will provide MOUD counseling, case management, direct medication delivery, and education to residents with OUD. (Opioid Abatement Settlement Account - State)
WCCC Outreach
The Working Connections Child Care (WCCC) program is available to families who are 60% state median income or below but is currently underutilized. There is an opportunity to serve more families with subsidy childcare within current law. Funding is provided for subsidy benefit outreach, including two FTEs to increase utilization of the WCCC program. (General Fund - Family Support/Child Welfare, General Fund - State)
WCCC 75% SMI Expansion Date
The Fair Start for Kids Act requires the WCCC program to expand to 75% of state median income (SMI) in fiscal year 2026. Due to a constrained operating budget, expansion to 75% SMI is delayed until fiscal year 2031. This change removes funding in the maintenance level that was based on the November 2024 WCCC forecast assuming 75% SMI expansion in fiscal year 2026. (General Fund - State)
Youth Counsel AG Underspend
Savings is captured to reflect underspend in attorney general services. (General Fund - State)
WFSE General Government
Funding for bargaining includes a 3%/2% general wage increase, targeted job classification increases, wildfire disaster leave, expanded bereavement leave, and paid vaccine travel time during pandemic emergencies. The agreement also includes: an additional $1 per hour supplemental shift premium for eligible employees who are assigned to a facility that provides direct care to residents, patients, and/or clients and whose duties are performed on location on evenings and weekends; 5% premium pay for employees who are assigned to a 24/7 facility that provides direct care to residents, patients, at-risk youth, and/or clients and whose duties are required to be performed on location, which will be in effect for the 2025–27 biennium; three additional steps on the nurse salary schedule; and an increase to the annual lump-sum payment for employees in LNI risk codes 7200/7201 from $500 to $750. (Education Legacy Trust Account - State, General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State, other funds)
Non-Rep General Wage Increase
Funding is provided for wage increases for state employees who are not represented by a union or are not under a bargaining agreement that is subject to financial feasibility determination. It is sufficient for a general wage increase of 3%, effective July 1, 2025, and a general wage increase of 2%, effective July 1, 2026. This item includes both general government and higher education workers. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State, Home Visiting Services Account - State, other funds)
Non-Rep Premium Pay
Funding is provided for increases in premium pay for state employees who are not represented by a union or not covered by a bargaining agreement subject to financial feasibility determination. (General Fund - State)
SEIU 1199 General Government
Funding for bargaining includes a 3%/2% general wage increase, targeted job classification increases, wildfire disaster leave, expanded bereavement leave, and paid vaccine travel time during pandemic emergencies. The agreement also includes: an additional $1 per hour supplemental shift premium for eligible employees who are assigned to a facility that provides direct care to residents, patients, and/or clients and whose duties are performed on location on evenings and weekends; a 5% premium pay for employees who are assigned to a facility that provides direct care to residents, patients, and/or clients and whose duties are required to be performed on location, which premium pay will be in effect for the 2025–27 biennium; three additional steps on the nurse salary schedule; an increase to the annual lump-sum payment for employees in LNI risk codes 7200/7201 from $500 to $750; a 5% assignment pay for RN2s and RN3s at DCYF, Juvenile Rehabilitation Institutions; and $100 standby rate for ARNP and ARNP leads. (General Fund - State, Home Visiting Services Account - State)
Updated PEBB Rate
This item adjusts the employer funding rate for public employee insurance benefits to reflect policy-level decision packages. It increases the rate by $8 per month in the first fiscal year and decreases the rate by $34 per month in the second fiscal year, compared to the maintenance-level update, for a total rate of $1,315 in the first year and $1,355 in the second year. (Education Legacy Trust Account - State, General Fund - Federal, Home Visiting Services Account - State, other funds)
PERS & TRS Plan 1 Benefit Increase
An adjustment is made for pension contribution rates, including to fund a benefit increase of 3%, up to a maximum of $110 per month for eligible Public Employees' and Teachers' Retirement Systems Plan 1 members. (Education Legacy Trust Account - State, General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
Pension Benefit Amortization
An adjustment is made to the base pension rates, as set out in a proposed bill addressing the calculation of the base rate for the 2025–27 biennium, as well as amortization of Plan 1 benefit increases. (Education Legacy Trust Account - State, General Fund - Federal, Home Visiting Services Account - State, other funds)
Archives/Records Management
Adjustments are made for each agency's anticipated share of charges for archives and records management services provided by the Secretary of State's Office. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
Audit Services
Adjustments are made for each agency's anticipated cost of audits performed by the State Auditor's Office. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
Legal Services
Adjustments are made for each agency's anticipated cost of legal services provided by the Attorney General's Office. Because legal services expenditures are based on consumption, funding provided in the central service model is not all inclusive. The methodology to estimate consumption is a two-year average and allows for analysis to incorporate unique agency circumstances. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
Administrative Hearings
Adjustments are made for each agency's anticipated cost of hearings performed by the Office of Administrative Hearings. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
WTS Central Services
Adjustments are made to reflect each agency's anticipated share of charges from Washington Technology Solutions for the Office of Cybersecurity, state network, enterprise and small agency IT services, enterprise architecture and data management, Microsoft 365 licenses, and other items. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
DES Central Services
Adjustments are made to reflect each agency's anticipated share of charges from the Department of Enterprise Services for Capitol Campus costs; real estate, risk management, and small agency services; the Perry Street and Capitol Campus child care centers; enterprise applications, and other items. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
OFM Central Services
Adjustments are made to reflect each agency's anticipated share of charges from the Office of Financial Management for existing statewide applications, the One Washington program, and other central services. See Chapter 11 of the 2025–27 OFM Budget Instructions for allocation methodologies. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
GOV Central Services
Adjustments are made to reflect each agency's anticipated share of charges from the Office of the Governor for the Office of Equity. (General Fund - Federal, General Fund - State)
