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KITTITAS COUNTY <br />COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES <br />COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES — BOARD OF COUNTY <br />COMMISSIONERS <br />2023 STUDY SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />STUDY SESSION DATE: August 14,2023 <br />TOPIC: CDS Planning Commission Standing Subcommittee <br />ACTION REQUESTED: Support Proposed Standing Subcommittee <br />LEAD STAFF: <br />Jamey Ayling, Planning Manager <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff proposes to add the proposed standing subcommittee recommendation to the next <br />agenda of the Planning Commission for the full commission to consider. <br />BRIEFING SUMMARY: <br />The Planning Commission Chairman has put forth a proposal to the Commission to formulate <br />a standing subcommittee identified as the Strategic Planning Committee. The Commission <br />Chair is hopeful that the standing subcommittee will facilitate bilateral communication <br />between the Commission and various County Departments concerned with regulating land <br />use activities. It is also intended as a platform to provide input. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />In the Planning Commission By -Laws Section 16 authorizes the commission having full <br />power, from time to time, to create standing or temporary subcommittees of one or more <br />members and the committee shall be charged with such duties of examination, investigation, <br />and inquiry relative to some one or more subjects of interest to the commission. <br />DISCUSSION: <br />It appears that the Planning Commission is responding well to staff s challenge for increased <br />interaction between the commission and staff. We propose placing the subcommittee <br />farmulationon the next Planning g Commission agenda and allowing the commission to take <br />formal action formulating the committee. Staff will prepare a committee work program in <br />the next several weeks, present and adjust according to committee wishes, and return to the <br />Board with an update on the work program at our September 28, 2032, study session. <br />FISCAL IMPACTS: <br />None. Administrative work by planning staff is programmed in the 2023 Planning budget. <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />Standing Subcommittee Proposal <br />Pagel of 2 <br />Community Development Services "Work Session Staff Report", 2023 <br />