Focus on Employees
Guidelines
Healthy Workplace Funding Initiative (HWFI) expenditures are governed by the following criteria:
Expenditures
- Must be for the purpose of encouraging or facilitating healthy eating (Eat Smart), physical activity (Move More) or stress management (Stress Less) in the workplace or during the work day;
- Must be the result of a process involving management and employees;
- Must be for goods, services or programs that benefit the greatest number of workplace employees;
- Must be within HWFI funding limits;
- Must be accomplished in accordance with King County approved policies and procedures for the procurements of goods and services; (take out the and)
- Must be marked or acknowledged in the workplace as goods or services provided through the HWFI.
- Must be used for the calendar year for which the proposal was submitted; funds are not eligible for carry over.
- Consumable items must be consumed at the work place. .
- Equipment purchased remains the property of King County.
Approval:
Applications are submitted to the manager of Executive Audit Services who is charged with determining that proposed expenditures meet the above criteria. Any applications in question are reviewed by a Steering Committee comprised of county departmental representatives including Facilities, Risk Management, Public Health, PAO’s office, and Procurement and the Health Reform Initiative staff. Next - Categories
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