Small Agency Services Bulletin - August 2020

August 2020

Important Dates Important Messages Small Agency Financial Services News Travel Tips Contact Us

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Important Dates

Sept 9

  • To reflect in your agency's Aug monthly financial statements, all invoices and travel reimbursement requests are due to Accounts Payable.

Sept 14

  • 2021-23 budget requests are due to OFM. Please submit all decision package narratives to your DES Budget Analyst. We will work closely with you to review and complete the decision packages to meet OFM's deadline.

Sept 18

  • Phase 2 CAFR Close. Please note that during year-end close, payment batch processing may be delayed. Contact DES Accounts Payable if there are any items that require priority processing to ensure batches are paid on time.
  • Phase 2 State Disclosure forms are also due to OFM Accounting. Your DES Budget Analyst will prepare and submit these forms in the system. Please notify us if you will be unavailable during this time.

Sept 22

  • DES / OMWBE Small Business Certification Workshop

Oct 1

  • New travel reimbursement rates for per diem and lodging go into effect.

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Important Messages

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource

Keep informed via Washington State's coronavirus response website Coronavirus.wa.gov

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Small Agency Financial Services News

DES Teams up with OMWBE for Workshop on Small Business Certification - Sept 22 - 1:30 p.m.

Caleb McInvaille from the Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises (OMWBE) will be presenting on two main topics:

1) Details of certification for small businesses owned and controlled by minority, women, and socially and economically disadvantaged persons

  • What the certification is for
  • What the process looks like
  • What is verified during the process

2) How to utilize OMWBE's directory to find certified firms

  • A demonstration of how to use the directory
  • Tips on how to get the best search results
  • Sample searches of specific type of goods or services frequently purchased

Please join us!

SAFS (Small Agency Financial Services) Team Updates

Did you know? Your DES financial support team consists of ALL of our SAFS team members. Even though you may work with specific SAFS members regularly, other SAFS members often step in to assist and provide continuity of services. We would like you to know about our whole SAFS team. Below is a list of each work group within SAFS, the members you may hear from, and recent news or a message from each team.

 

Team Members News / Message
Accounts Payable

Sarah Parker
May Davida-Jackson
Ian Shelley
Sasha Sudirjo
Amanda Overstreet

To ensure coverage in some capacity every day, we will be staggering our 1 day a month furlough days for Sept, Oct, and Nov.
Budget

Chad Johnson
Diann Lewallen
Paul Bitar
Seth Flory

To ensure coverage in some capacity every day, we will be staggering our 1 day a month furlough days for Sept, Oct, and Nov.
Payroll

Carrie Knudson
Bona Blume
Vanno Non
Tasha Fitzgerald (shared leave)
Whitney Brabant (benefits)
Phuong Luong (shared leave)

To ensure coverage in some capacity every day, we will be staggering our 1 day a month furlough days for Sept, Oct, and Nov.
Revenue Management

Kara Skinner
Crystal Marshall
Amy Johnson

To ensure coverage in some capacity every day, we will be staggering our 1 day a month furlough days for Sept, Oct, and Nov.
Administrative Assistance

Danelle Guerin

Please reach out to Gwen McClanahan should you need something when Danelle is out of the office.

 

DES Payroll statistics for July 2020 (40 agencies served)

Total Employees Paid 1,251
New Hires / Rehires 6
Transfer In / Transfer Outs 7
Separations 20
Supplemental Payments / Walk Throughs 1
Overpayments 19


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Travel Tips

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Travel Advice

Experts advise canceling all non-critical travel plans. The World Health Organization has tips about traveling if you absolutely must during COVID-19.

New travel reimbursement rates for per diem and lodging go into effect in October

If you have questions, please contact us at travel.safs@des.wa.gov

Contact Us

If you would like to know what budget analyst, payroll analyst and HR business partner is assigned to your agency, see our Agency Assignments webpage.

If you would like to get contact information for DES SAFS and HR staff, see our Contacts webpage.

If you have suggestions or feedback about the Small Agency Services Bulletin, please send your comments to SmallAgencyBulletin@des.wa.gov.

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