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KITTITAS COUNTY <br />EC STUDY SESSION MINUTES <br />BOCC CONFERENCE ROOM, 205 WEST 5TH ROOM 108 - ELLENSBURG <br />Regular Meeting <br />MONDAY 1 10:00 AM I March 25, 2024 <br />Board members present: Chairman Brett Wachsmith, Vice -Chairman Laura Osiadacz, <br />Commissioner Cory Wright <br />Others: Kady Porterfield (Event Center Director), Robert Eddings (Fair Board President) <br />1. Call to Order: 10:00am <br />2. Citizen Comments (1 min. time limit): None <br />3. Approve Request for Chair's Signature on the 2023-2025 WSDA Grant Agreement: <br />Kady reported that the project under this grant had no issues for the Department of Historic <br />Preservation and it received no tribal comments, so it's time to finalize the agreement. <br />Commissioner Osiadacz moved to approve the request for chair's signature on the 2023-2025 <br />WSDA Agreement. Commissioner Wright seconded the motion. Motion passed. <br />4. Update on Account Assistant III Position: KVEC management completed interviews <br />and selected a candidate for hire who accepted the position. She will start on April 2, 2024. <br />5. Discussion on 2025 Proposed Bedding Fees: Fair Board President, Bob, is looking for <br />feedback on the Bedding Fees structure as it's a continued item of discussion amongst the <br />Fair Board. The Livestock Directors have conducted some calculations and have some ideas <br />of decreasing the bedding fees for small livestock and raising them for large livestock, like <br />Beef. It was discussed that the fees are only a small portion of the actual cost and don't really <br />serve as a true fee as it is very subsidized. The current bedding fee is also structured more as <br />a per animal entry fee. The feedback received said it might be wise to consider changing the <br />wording of the fee to an animal entry fee, rather than a bedding fee, as it's truer to its nature <br />that way. The Commissioners all expressed that they do not want to see fees decreased when <br />everything else is so heavily subsidized as is. If fee changes are brought forward in the <br />future, a full cost analysis is to be presented that includes hauling off bedding waste, staff <br />time to clean up and haul it, equipment use and fuel, and any other connected costs to that <br />piece of the Fair operation. <br />6. Update on Livestock Sale Management Progress: Kady is waiting to hear back from <br />Friends of the Fair President, Becky McDowell, on a time to meet to answer questions <br />2024-03-25 MINUTES <br />