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KITTITAS COUNTY <br />DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS <br />PUBLIC WORKS — BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />STUDY SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />STUDY SESSION DATE: June 24, 2019 <br />TOPIC: Community System Rating Audit Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: Informational Brief — No Action Required <br />LEAD STAFF: <br />Mark R. Cook <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Informational briefing only, no Board action required. <br />BRIEFING SUMMARY: <br />• Kittitas County participates in the Community Rating System (CRS) <br />• CRS is administered by Insurance Services Office Inc (ISO) <br />• The system allows communities to receive reduced floodplain insurance rates <br />based on performance within system requirements <br />• The County currently participates in the program as a 6 rating receiving 20 <br />percent reduction for floodplain insurance premiums <br />• A five year audit of County program performance in underway <br />• The potential to slip to 15 percent reduction is more likely than not <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The Flood Control Zone District (FCZD) entered the CRS and placed as a 6 in the rating <br />system. The bandwidth for placement as a 6 is 500 points and we got in the band with 30 <br />points. The County barely qualifies as a 6. ISO is currently conducting an audit of <br />County CRS activities during the past five years. Several mandatory pass fail items are <br />of specific interest to ISO. Significant evaluation is placed on County performance of <br />elevation certificates supporting building permits. <br />DISCUSSION: <br />Elevation certificates are produced by professional land surveyors licensed to practice in <br />the State of Washington. During the past five years, ten certificates have been issued and <br />are currently under audit by ISO. ISO requires a minimum of 90% performance on <br />elevation certificate review to remain in CRS. Our initial submittal resulted in 30% <br />acceptance. A second submittal raised our performance to 50%. A third submittal (due <br />06-28-2019) must result in 90% or the County will be dropped from the CRS program. <br />The FCZD has been engaged in numerous activities that are expected to generate <br />additional points towards insurance premium rate reduction (two dimensional flow <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />PUBLIC WORKS BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />