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CITY OF CLE ELUM <br />WASI{INGTON <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2020-026 <br />A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DISTRIBUTION OF TEE 2021 <br />HOTELA{OTEL TAX T'UND GRANTS <br />WHEREAS:RCW 39.34.080 and other Washington State law, as amended, authorizes any city to <br />contract with any other citylcounty to perforrn any govemmental seruice, activity or <br />undertaking which each contracting city/county is authorized by law to perform; and <br />WHEREAS:the goveming bodies of Kittitas County and the cities of Ellensburg, Cle Elum, and <br />Rosiyn previously entered into an Interlocal agreeinent for the purposes ofcreating a <br />consolidated lodging tax grant process for special events and projects; and <br />WIIEREAS:in accordance with the lnterlocal agreement, Kittitas County solicited applications for the <br />distribution of the 2020 Hotel/Motel tax fi:nds in the form of reimbursable grants for <br />special events and projects throughout Kittitas County; and <br />WHEREAS:in accordance with the Interlocal agreernent, the respective Lodging Tax Advisory <br />Committees (LTACs) or designees of Kittitas County and the cities of Ellensburg, C1e <br />Elum, and Roslyn have reviewed all the applications submitted to Kittitas County; and <br />WHEREAS:in accordance with the Interlocal agreement, Kittitas County compiled the various <br />participating entity's scoring and funding recommendations and forwarded them to the <br />combined county-wide LTAC Consolidated Work Group for firrther review; and <br />WHEREAS:in accordance with the Interlocal agreemont, the combined county-wide LTAC <br />Consolidated Work Group met in an open public meeting November 15, 2019 at the <br />Ellensburg City Hall Council Chambers to receive presentations from applicants <br />recommended for funding and deliberated to reach a frnal funding recommendation <br />which is to be forwarded to each entity's legislative body for final approval; and <br />WIIEREAS:in accordance with an amendment to the Interlocal agreement, each participating <br />municipality agreed to make available 13% of their annual lodging tax collections to be <br />awarded through the consolidated lodging tax grant process; and <br />WHEREAS: Kittitas County designated $154,241.y, to be available for grants as part of this <br />process, Ellensburg designated $46,800.00, Cle Elum designated 523,706,35, and Roslyn <br />designated $61 5.14; and <br />WHEREAS: the combined county-wide LTAC Work Group recommended expending <br />5219,244.99 of the designated funds; and <br />in accordance with the Interlocal agreement, Kittitas County will provide notice to each <br />successful applicant and will require a contract be agreed to by each successful applicant <br />prior to firnding awards being available for reimbursement; and <br />WHEREAS: