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Kittitas County Transfer Station April 2018 Community Meeting Summary Updated 5/31/2018 1 Meeting Details Date: Monday, April 9, 2018 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Location: Armory Main Hall, 901E 7th Avenue, Ellensburg, WA Agenda • 6:00 p.m. Doors open • 6:15 – 6:30 p.m. Presentation • 6:30 – 6:45 p.m. Question & Answer session • 8:00 p.m. Adjourn Attendees Approximately 30 community members attended the meeting. Key Topics The following topics were brought up by members of the public during the community meeting: • Suggestions to modify the current site • Potential impacts to groundwater • Floodplain impacts • Impacts to residential communities • Traffic impacts and studies • Increased recycling options • Coordination with current property owners Outreach Materials Project staff publicized the meeting through a variety of outreach methods: Notifications • Postcards were mailed to approximately 15,000 households within the project area as the initial invitation to the community meeting (Appendix A). o Note: Meeting sign-in sheet responses revealed most attendees learned about the meeting from the postcard. • A radio announcement was aired on Friday, March 30, 2018 and Monday, April 2, 2018 on KXLE radio to remind and encourage the public to attend (Appendix B). • A display ad advertising the meeting ran in the Ellensburg Daily Record on March 29 and 30 and April 3 and 4, 2018. Online advertisements were also posted on the Ellensburg Daily Record’s website from April 2 – 13, 2018 (Appendix C). • An email listserv update was sent out to the project listserv on April 3, 2018 to inform community members of upcoming public feedback opportunities (Appendix D). • A press release was issued to inform local media outlets of the next phase of outreach. The Ellensburg Daily Record also ran an article regarding this phase of outreach and the current potential sites (Appendix E).