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continued until 2017, when Ellensburg City Council canceled the contract for staffing with the Chamber, and in 2018, the City created a position for a part-time Executive Director who received city staff support for financials, etc. Coming full circle, CenterFuse hired a part-time Executive Director in December 2020. The CenterFuse board adopted the 2022 workplan at their January 2022 meeting. The workplan contains four goal statements. One of the goal statements is"Continue to improve and evolve our organization's structure and alignment to ensure the long-term sustainability and relevance of CenterFuse and the efficient execution of our mission" and a related objective to this goal is to " ldentify and pursue staffing needs, now and in the future". Tasks for this objective are to update Executive Director job description, identify gaps in staffing needs and options to fill gaps, and create a short-term (3-5 year) staffing plan. Using an RFP process, we sought the professional services of a human resource consultant to perform a staffing study. FIT HR was the consultant selected to perform the staffing study. Bill Swan, Principal at FIT HR, led the study process and presented his findings at the September 21,2022, board meeting. An excerpt from the FIT HR staffing study, September 2022, addressing the need "The single employee agreement is for the person to work a 30-hour work week, and be paid accordingly to that schedule, but the reality is the person consistently exceeds 30 hours by an average of 5 additional hours per week. Working 35 hours per week by many organization standards equates to working 'Full Time' and have accompanying benefits... For the organization to achieve its broad goals of recruiting businesses, ensuring organizational effectiveness, marketing and building local capacity and opportunity, there must be more inputs to see desired outputs." 3. Will your orqanization be capable of supportinq this position in the future without support from this fund? Please describe vour plan and include tarqet dates for implementation and completion. lf no plan is currentlv in place and/or no plans are beino made. please explain why. It is the goal of CenterFuse to be a self-supporting organization. There are challenges with this as organizationally we are not a charitable nonprofit 501c3; we are a 501c6 which means we cannot offer donors a charitable deduction. lt also means we have less access to grant funding available from non-governmental grantors who support economic development such as Herbert B. Jones Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, MJ Murdock Trust, and Yakima Valley Community Foundation to name a few. We do not have members, so we do not collect member dues. We do not promote tourism so any funding available to promote tourism is not available. But we also recognize there are opportunities. CenterFuse is looking to advance organizational self-sufficiency and leverage Distressed County grant funds to maximize grant funding received in Kittitas County