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Posture Recommendation _ <br /> Rural central Washington affords businesses Promote, in broad terms, natural <br /> with clean, accessible, low-cost water; fresh air resource availability to all, and provide <br /> for recreation and those with compromised comprehensive information to a business <br /> health conditions; and clean, vacant, available, whose profits depend on having clean, <br /> buildable land. Beautiful setting contributes to low-cost water. <br /> overall quality of life. <br /> Taxes <br /> Ellensburg has some of the lowest property, sales, and lodging taxes in Washington state. As <br /> example, a comparison of property taxes in six jurisdictions (Bellevue, Issaquah, Wenatchee, <br /> Moses Lake, Yakima and Ellensburg) using Smartasset.com indicates Ellensburg (0.80) is the <br /> lowest, next lowest is Wenatchee (0.838). <br /> Posture Recommendation <br /> The lowest property taxes, third lowest sales tax Feature Ellensburg's position in <br /> (per WA DOR), and second lowest lodging tax (per marketing. <br /> WA DOR) in Washington state. <br /> Schools <br /> K-12 schools include both public and private options. Public schools benefit from university- <br /> sponsored enrichment, including the dual-credit Running Start program. A new middle school <br /> opened in 2017, and two new elementary schools are planned for the near future. <br /> Posture Recommendation <br /> Good schools, progressive leadership meeting Locate nuggets of success in the K-12 <br /> today's student needs, and looking ahead to system that would be meaningful to share <br /> adding buildings and teachers to accommodate with new/existing businesses. <br /> steady population growth. <br /> WEAKNESSES <br /> No comprehensive, central source of information about available business properties. <br /> "Business" properties are listed by numerous agents and brokers. There is no commercial real <br /> estate sector among area realtors.As a result, there is no one place to go to identify buildable <br /> land or vacant space. These are found generally on real estate search engine sites and <br /> commercial real estate sites, as well as CraigsList and similar"sales" websites. EBDA lacks the <br /> resources and expertise to create and maintain this one-stop information source. <br /> 3 <br />