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CITY OF ROSLYI{ <br />WASHINGTON <br />RESoLUTIoN No. /Q ' 91 <br />A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE 2023 HOTEL/N{OTEL <br />TAX FUND GRANTS <br />WHEREAS: RCW 39,34.080 and other Washington State law, as amended, authorizes any city <br />to contract with any other city/county to perform any govcrnmental selice, <br />activity or underlaking which each contracting city/cotrnty is autho/rzedby law to <br />pertbrm; and <br />WHERBAS <br />WHEREAS <br />WHEREAS <br />the governing bodies of Kittitas County and the cities of Ellensburg, Cle Elum, ancl <br />Roslyrr previously entered into an intcrlocal agreement fbrthe purposes of creating <br />a consolidated lodging tax gmnt process for special events and pro.jects; and <br />in accordance with the interlocal agreement, Kittitas County solicited applicatiorrs <br />lor the distribution of the2023 Hotel/Motel tax funds in the fonn oI r'e imbursable <br />grants firr spccial events and projects throughout Kittitas County; and <br />in accordance with tlie interlocal agreemenl, the respective Lodging Tax Advisory <br />Committees (LTACs) or designees of Kittitas County an<l the cities of Ellensburg, <br />Cle Elum, and Rosiyn have reviewed allthe applications submitted to I(ittitas <br />County; and <br />WHEREAS: in accotdance with the interlocalagreement, I(ittitas County cornpiled the vadous <br />participating entity's scoring and funding recommenclati<lns and forwanleil thcm to <br />the combined county-widc LTAC Consolidated Work Group for further review; <br />and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the interlocalagreement, the combined county-wide LTAC <br />Consolidated Work Group tnet in an open public meeting Novernber 18,2022, at <br />Ellensburg City Flall to receive presentations from applicants recommended for <br />funding. On January 4,2023, the combined county-wide LTAC Corrsolidated <br />Work Group met in an open public meeting on WebEx and deliberated to reach a <br />final funding recomm€ndation which is to be forwarded to each entity's legislative <br />body for final approval; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordancc with an amendment to the interlocal agreement, each participating <br />mr"rnicipality agreed to make available l3o/o of their annual lodging tax collections <br />to bc awaded through the consolidated lodging tax grant process; and <br />WTIEREAS: Kittitas County designated $232,378.87 to be available for grants as parr of this <br />process, Ellensburg designated $53,321.22 Cle Elum designated $23,529.60, and <br />Roslyn designated $ l,0l8.2 [; and <br />WHEREAS: thc combinc<J county-wiclc LTAC Work Group recornmended expencling <br />5310,241.90 of the designated tunds; and