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RESOLUTION NO. 2O2O -39 A RESOLUTION adopting the distribution of the 2021Hotel/Motel tax fund grants WHEREAS, RCW 39.34.080 and other Washington State law, as amended, authorizes any city to contract with any other city/county to perform any govornmental service, activity or undertaking which each contracting city/county is authorized by law to perform; and WHEREAS, the governing bodies of Kittitas County and the cities of Ellensburg, Cle Elum, and Roslyn previously entered into an Interlocal Agreement for the purposes of creating a consolidated iodging tax grant process tbr special events and projects; and WHEREAS, in accordance with the Interlocal Agreenrent, Kittitas County solicited applications for the distribution of the 2021HotellMoteltax fnnds in the fonn of reimbursable grants for special events and projects throughout Kittitas County; and WHEREAS, in accordance with the Interlocal Agreement, the respective Lodging Tax Advisory Committees (LTACs) or designees of Kittitas County and the cities of Ellensburg, Cle Elum, and Roslyn have reviewed all the applications submitted to Kittitas County; and WHEREAS, in accordance with the Interlocal Agreement, Kittitas County compiled the various participating entity's scoring arrd ftinding recommendations and forwarded them to the combined county-wide LTAC consolidated Work Group for further review; and WHEREAS, in accordance with the Interlocal Agreement, the combined county-wide LTAC Consolidated Work Group met in an open public meeting November 20,2A20 on Webex to receive presentations from applicants recommended for ftinding and deliberated to reach a final ftinding recommendation which is to be forwalded to each entity's legislative body for final approval; and WHEREAS, in accordance with an amendment to the Interlocal Agreement, each participating municipality agreed to make available l3% of their annual lodging tax collections to be awarded through the consolidated lodging tax grant process; and WHEREAS, Kittitas County designated $154,241.31 to be available for grants as part of this process, Ellensburg designated $46,800.00, Cle Elum designated $23,706.35, and Roslyn designated $61 5, l4; and WHEREAS, the combined county-wide LTAC Work Group recommended expending $219,244.99 of the designated funds; and WHEREAS, in accordance with the lnterlocal Agreement, Kittitas County will provide notice to each successful applicant and will require a contract be agreed to by each successftll applicant prior to funding awards being available for reimbursement; and Resolution - Page I