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Whereas, Whereas, Whereas, Whereas, Whereas, Whereas, Whereas, Whereas, Project kick-off with the public began in February 2016 with four visioning workshops held across the county in Snoqualmie Pass on 2/1/16, Cle Elum on 2/2/16, Ellensburg on 2/3/16, and Vantage on 2/10/16. At theses workshops staff gave a presentation on the update process and then included a number of exercises for community input that helped form the revised County Vision Statement; and Report back meetings from the visioning workshops occurred in Cle Elum and Ellensburg in March 2016; and Six advisory committees, made up of stakeholders and members of the public, were formed to review the various chapters of the comprehensive plan. These advisory committees were known as the Economic Development committee, Housing committee, Land Use committee (which included land use, rural lands, capital facilities and utilities), Recreation and Natural Environment committee, Resource Lands committee, and Transportation committee. Each advisory committee was responsible for auditing portions of the existing Comprehensive Plan and help with the reformatting of the plan to switch for GPOs (goals, policies, & objectives) statements to determining which GPOs should be considered a goal and which should be considered a policy. These groups met July through October 2016; and Two members from each advisory committee were selected to become the working group which was comprised of twelve individuals. This group met ten times from March 2017 through April 2018. At each of the meetings a chapter and/or section of the Comprehensive Plan was discussed along with the audits of the GPOs that were completed by the advisory committees. Staff reported back with changes at the following meetings. The public was invited to attend and provided an opportunity to provide comment at the end of each meeting; and Berk and Associates presented their projections to Kittitas County Conference of Governments and the BOCC at several public meetings throughout 2016. The BOCC adopted population and employment projections for 2037 on April 4, 2017 through Resolution 2017- 068; and In March 2017, the County entered into a contract with CREA Affiliates that allowed for commencement of consultant services effective February 27, 2017. The county terminated services effective June 2, 2017 with CREA Affiliates and re-evaluated the direction the update was headed based on the direction given by the BOCC in 2015 and re-affirmed in spring of 2017;and In June of 2017, Kittitas County entered into a contract with SCJ Alliance for consulting services related to the preparation and completion of the 2017-203 7 Comprehensive Plan Periodic Update; and Kittitas County Community Development Services (CDS) issued a press release on March 19, 2019 advertising two open houses and Planning Commission work sessions regarding the draft Comprehensive Plan update and associated maps. An open house was held in Ellensburg on March 26, 2019 and followed that evening by the work session with the Planning Commission. A second open house was held in Cle Elum on March 27, 2019. Public comments were accepted at both open houses; and 2017 -2037 Comp Plan Update Enabling Ordinance Page4 June 18, 2019