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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 prooram - 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 oublic opinion - through a series of public participation events and resolve final project, plan, and financing particulars based on the results of public input. Public lnvolvement 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 efforl, Kittitas County conducted a series of: lnternet survevs - of county residents and tourists to determine their knowledge, use, condition assessments, and plan proposals during this planning process. Hand-ouUhand-back surveys- of Kittitas County Fair and Ellensburg Rodeo aftendees 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 Cle 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 alternatives. lnternet survev of reoistered 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. a 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 20'16 plan that are not appropriate for Kittitas County to lead, and identifying overlap or intenruorking the Tourism Plan and the PROS Plan. Workshop 2: lmplementation 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