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Kittitas County Transfer Station <br />Public Feedback Summary <br />September 13, 2017 – April 27, 2018 <br />1 <br />Introduction and Background <br />Kittitas County is performing a study to relocate the Ellensburg Transfer Station to a site already owned <br />by the County or to another suitable location within the greater Ellensburg area. The new facility will <br />replace the existing Ellensburg transfer station and will be designed to address some existing site <br />challenges (including location and size constraints, customer access issues during significant rainfall or <br />spring runoff events, long queuing times and small unloading and processing areas) and prepare the <br />County for future growth. <br />In June 2017, an initial phase of outreach, including an Online Open House, survey, and community <br />meeting, was conducted to better understand the interests of people in the communities served by the <br />current transfer station and how best to involve community members during siting, permitting, design, <br />and construction of the new station. <br />In Fall 2017, an additional feedback period was held to gather feedback on the three potential sites (the <br />Tjossem Road site, Cement plant site, and Airport site) and on how the secondary siting criteria should <br />be weighted. After removing the Airport site from consideration and adding the US97/Old Highway 10 <br />site, an additional online-only feedback period was held in Winter 2018 to gather feedback on the <br />US97/Old Highway 10 site. In order to hear from more members of the community and provide a chance <br />for community members to leave feedback on all three current potential sites (the Tjossem Road site, <br />Cement plant site, and US97/Old Highway 10 site, an additional feedback period was held in Spring <br />2018. During this feedback period, additional input was also gathered on how the secondary screening <br />criteria should be weighted. <br />The community meetings included a brief presentation, Q&A session, informational display boards, and <br />feedback forms (see our September 13, 2017 and April 9, 2018 meeting summaries online for more <br />information). The project also engaged community members using the Online Open House engagement <br />platform, which contained the same information and feedback opportunities as the community <br />meeting. Details regarding the Fall 2017, Winter 2018, and Spring 2018 feedback periods are listed in <br />the following table: <br />Feedback period Public meeting date Online Open House <br />feedback period date <br />range* <br />Total number of <br />comments survey <br />responses received <br />Fall 2017 September 13, 2017 September 13 – <br />October 3, 2017 <br />59 (Appendix A) <br />Winter 2018 None January 12 – <br />February 23, 2018 <br />33 (Appendix B) <br />Spring 2018 April 9, 2018 April 9 – 27, 2018 52 (Appendix C) <br />Total number of comments/survey responses received 144 <br />*The Online Open House remained online and accessible between feedback periods for those seeking <br />more information on the project.