2022-04-12-minutes-solid-waste-and-maintenance

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KITTITAS COUNTY SOLID WASTE AND MAINTENANCE MINUTES BOCC CONFERENCE ROOM, 205 WEST 5TH ROOM 108 - ELLENSBURG Regular Meeting-Webex TUESDAY 2:00 PM April 12, 2022 Board members present Laura Osiadacz, Chairman, Cory Wright, Vice -Chairman and Commissioner Brett Wachsmith. Others: Patti Stacey, Solid Waste/Facility Maintenance Director, Erica Luce, DLR Group team members: Lori Coppenrath, Erica Loynd & Lisa Lazar Meeting called to order at 2:02 p.m. Executive Session - Chairman Osiadacz called meeting to order at 2:03 p.m. and announced per RCW 42.30.110, the Board would recess into Executive session for 15 minutes, with anticipated action, to discuss the consideration of selecting a site or the acquisition of real estate by lease or purchase when public knowledge regarding such consideration would cause a likelihood of increased price. At 2:18 p.m. the Board reconvened from executive session. The action taken was as follows: Public Works agreed to acquire land from Solid Waste. The original requested purchase price for the land being $1,074,717.97. Included in this total is a Signal Light cost of $204,422.42, which a 50/50 cost split was agreed upon between Public Works and Solid Waste equaling $102,211.21 cost per department. Public Works agreed upon a purchase price of $500,000.00 from Road Funds. The Commissioners agreed to pay remaining balance of $472,506.76 to Solid Waste by REET Funds. DLR Group Presentation — Patti introduced engineering company DLR Group who then conducted a presentation to the Board regarding the Kittitas County Courthouse replacement options. DLR Group's presentation included three main schemes involving locations and sizes of potential future government, courthouse, sheriff, and jail buildings. DLR Group team members informed the Board they used analytical data and are following modern best practices along with speaking to the Kittitas County Sheriff's department about realistic needs. Team members also stated their overall goal of the presentation was to narrow down a location. Discussion was held on current jail size and capacity, parking, site-specific zoning difficulties and possible city variances. The Board held further discussion on location options, cost and requested the next presentation to include price estimates on locations and options. The next meeting with DLR Group was set for June 14th, 2022. Patti agreed to present the information to department heads at the next Management Team meeting as the needs for each department contribute to the need of the project.