2018-03-26-minutes-public-works-study-session

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has been movement at DOE and three (3) to four (4) months ago the Board of County Commissioners were briefed about DOE contacting Public Works to potentially look at several sites in the county that they were expressing interest in. Mark Cook continued that the current effort now is to reissue MS4 permits in August of 2018 and in that process DOE determined that they had sufficient interest in Kittitas County that they sent over the nominating criteria and have the ability to petition the inclusion of the county, if the county were to meet certain criteria as set by DOE. Mark Cook added that he spent a better part of last week preparing a response to DOE that was sent over Friday afternoon. Mark Cook continued that DOE has only expressed interest in the Urban Growth Area of Ellensburg. Mark Cook added that he has a meeting with a representative of DOE this week and will update the Board of County Commissioners after that meeting. Discussion was held. OTHER BUSINESS FLOODPLAINS BY DESIGN GRANT Mark Cook reported that a grant was submitted for the acquisition of property south of Hansen Pits. Kittitas County recently sent a letter of support signed by the Board of County Commissioners recognizing the importance of the acquisition. Mark Cook continued that the first round of scoring has been completed for the applications with Kittitas County's application currently being rated sixth (6th) out of twenty-four (24) applications. Mark Cook noted that the City of Ellensburg's application was rated first (15t) out of the twenty- four (24) applications. Mark Cook added that he will update the Board of County Commissioners after the second round of scoring is complete. No direction was given. COOPERATIVE TECHNICAL PARNTERSHIP GRANT WITH FEMA Mark Cook stated that recently FEMA had reached out to staff to consider working with them through their Cooperative Technical Partnership program to develop another two (2) dimensional flow model for a creek system in Kittitas County. Mark Cook continued that he nominated Reecer Creek and the rationale for this is that the Currier Creek model has been accepted and the confluence of Reecer and Currier at the casino has been modeled, however, from that point to the river has not been done. FEMA is offering $50,000 for the project with the match being the same amount. Discussion was held. No direction was given. 2018-03-26 MINUTES