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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 25, 2018 <br />TOPIC: Weihl Road RID Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: Direct Staff Prepare "Notice of Intent to Formulate" RID <br />Documents for RIX] 2018-01, Weihl Road Improvements <br />LEAD AFF: <br />Mark K Cook <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Direct that staff prepare necessary documents supporting the establishment of Road <br />Improvement District 2018-01, Weihl Road Improvements. <br />BRIEFING SUMMARY: <br />Previously, the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) has agreed to contribute <br />$150,000 towards the cost of improving Weihl Road. <br />Area property owners have previously agreed to contribute $600,614 toward <br />project costs. <br />Final, design costs are estimated at being $123,656 beyond Public Works (PW) <br />preliminary engineering estimate. The final project cost of $874,270 represents <br />the highest acceptable cost associated with improvement construetian. <br />Providing the BOCC contributes the final amount needed to #'ally fund the RID, <br />the BOCC's project contribution would be $273,656 or approximately 31% of the <br />project cost. <br />B ACKGROL'ND: <br />For the past several years, PW has worked with area property owners defining the scope <br />and cost of a road improvement district at Weihl Road on Upper County. In late 2017, <br />area residents seemed supportive of an RID and associated cost model, based on <br />$600,400 contributed from all property owners in the RID boundary (PW letter dated 10- <br />27-2017 as EXHMIT 1). <br />PW met with the BOCC's legal representative several months ago verifying the use of <br />RCW 35.43 as the formulating statue. The Prosecuting Attorney's Office agrees use of <br />the statue as being at the discretion of the Board. This preferred process does not require <br />an election reducing overall project costs. <br />Phi recently received design plans and specifications from our consultant KPG. KPG's <br />final estimate of project cost exceeds the preliminary cost estimate from PW by <br />Page 1 of 5 <br />PUBLIC WORKS HOARD OF COUNTY COMUSSIQNERS WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />