2024-01-08-minutes-public-works-study-session

Home Browse Search

KITTITAS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS PUBLIC WORKS — BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 2024 STUDY SESSION STAFF REPORT STUDY SESSION DATE: January 8, 2024 TOPIC: Dunford Barn ACTION REQUESTED: Direct Staff LEAD STAFF: Mark R. Cook RECOMMENDATION: Direct staff prepare enabling documents BRIEFING SUMMARY: • The Board of County Commissioners agreed to have staff work with the Dunford Barn owner to prepare ownership transfer documents. • The owner's representative has delivered a draft deed that requires the county to construct access improvements. • The Engineering Division of Public Works has prepared preliminary improvement plans supporting the new access to the barn. BACKGROUND: Previously, discussions around ownership transfer have not included the mandatory requirement that the County construct access improvements. The proposed deed requires the county to construct access improvements to the Dunford Barn. The improvements are scheduled for construction in 2026 and appear in the recently adopted Kittitas County Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) — "Six -year parks and tourism capital plan" (EXHIBIT 1). DISCUSSION: The deed reservation does not have a timeline associated with it. Public Works designed the access to benefit the plat as a secondary access (EXHIBIT 2). Our thinking is that we would complement the developer's timeline constructing the access ahead of the full roadway and parking lot. This could be done with county forces in 2024. There is no problem with the deed as restricted so long as the county follows through with the full tourism improvements as designed and programmed in the CIP. FISCAL IMPACTS: $660,000 in design, permitting and construction is programmed in the 2024 — 2029 Six -year CIP — Recreation/Tourism. The final design is slated for 2024, permitting in 2025 with construction in 2026. ATTACHMENTS: EXHIBIT 1: RECREATION/TOURISM CIP (2024 — 2029) EXHIBIT 2: DEED Page 1 of 3 Public Works "Work Session Staff Report", 2024