Resolution_2021 Kittitas Co Recreation and Tourism Plan Adoption

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park, and recreation facilities and recreation program levels -of -service (LOS), particularly the possible use of innovative financing tools or methods. Define an implementation program — outlining the actions necessary to realize the plan including supporting actions necessary to resolve agreements with the county, cities, school districts, state, and other private non-profit and for-profit agencies. Determine public opinion — through a series of public participation events and resolve final project, plan, and financing particulars based on the results of public input. Public Involvement The Kittitas County Board of Commissioners (BoCC) and Kittitas County Department of Public Works (PW) oversaw this revision planning process, with the assistance of the Kittitas County Treasurer's Office and the Community Development Services Department. During the 2016 planning effort, Kittitas County conducted a series of: Intemet surveys — of county residents and tourists to determine their knowledge, use, condition assessments, and plan proposals during this planning process. Hand-out/hand-back surveys.— of Kittitas County Fair and Ellensburg Rodeo attendees to determine their current utilization, program and park priorities of Kittitas Valley Event Center and other county destinations. Public workshops and forums — with agencies and city residents in Cie Elum and Ellensburg to brainstorm their ideas for open space, trails, park, and recreation facilities; and to review and critique the resulting brainstorm proposals prior to the development of final plan alteratives. Internet survey of registered voter - towards the end of the process to determine final voter project and program priorities from among the alternative proposals and resolve financing preferences with which to implement this plan. During the 2021 revision process, Kittitas County staff conducted a series of workshops with the Board of County Commissioners creating a draft plan for stakeholder and public review and comment. An outline of the workshop process appears below: • Workshop 1: Defining prioritization for implementation of specific goals agreed upon by the BoCC, identifying redundancies in the 2016 plan where goals may overlap, identifying goals and policies within the 2016 plan that are not appropriate for Kittitas County to lead, and identifying overlap or interworking the Tourism Plan and the PROS Plan, • Workshop 2: Implementation strategy • Workshop 3: Funding options Community outreach was conducted prior to the public hearing considering revised plan adoption. Drawing upon potential Federal, State, local, and private key stakeholder groups and Countywide resident comment on the draft plan is incorporated were appropriate by staff and as supported by the Board of County Commissioners. 4