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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: November 23, 2020 <br />TOPIC: HYAK Maintenance Facility <br />ACTION REQUESTED: Support Evaluating a Sale to SPUD <br />LEAD STAFF: <br />Mark R. Cook <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Support staff s evaluation of sale of our interest in the joint Hyak maintenance facility <br />with Snoqualmie Pass Utility District (SPUD) and authorize the Public Works Director to <br />begin negotiations with SPUD. PW will return to the Board prior to finalizing any sale. <br />BRIEFING SUMMARY: <br />• SPUD desires buying our interest in the joint maintenance facility in Hyak. <br />• Sale must consider offsetting storage of our grader and snow blower. <br />• Increasing development in Hyak will eventually require trucking of snow that <br />Public Works cannot support. <br />• Eventual abandonment of our presence in Hyak seems inevitable. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />SPUD's wastewater expansion is driving the conversation surrounding our joint <br />maintenance facility in Hyak. As their operation expands, they will require additional <br />operational space. The same expansion favoring SPUD is working against PW <br />snowplow capabilities. At the current development rate in Hyak, PW will be unable to <br />plow and blow roadway snow within the next three to four years. Once trucking of snow <br />becomes reality, we will no longer require our space in the joint maintenance facility with <br />SPUD. <br />DISCUSSION: <br />Now is the time to begin planning our withdrawal from snowplow operations in Hyak. <br />SPUD can use the entire facility and its location is better suited for an eventual office <br />facility than for our use storing our grader and snow blower. PW is discussing options <br />with SPUD including sale and rent back or sale and accept storage in the pending new <br />wastewater operations building proposed behind the current maintenance shop. These <br />options allow SPUD control over the shop recognizing the limited time remaining for PW <br />maintenance operations in Hyak. The logistics of trucking snow are such that there <br />appears no path forward for PW. Area streams designated for Bull Trout habitat preclude <br />local disposal of roadway snow and trucking to lower elevations is the likely outcome. <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />PUBLIC WORKS BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />