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WHEREAS: <br />WHEREAS <br />WHEREAS: <br />WHEREAS <br />WHEREAS: <br />WHEREAS: <br />and improvement of emergency communication systems and facilities in <br />Kittitas County; and <br />by KITTCOM Administrative Board Resolution 2023-7, which is attached <br />hereto and herby incorporated by reference, KITTCOM has requested that <br />the Board of County Commissioners submit a ballot proposition at the <br />ApriI23,2024 Special Election to the voters of Kittitas County proposing <br />the adoption of the two-tenths of one percent (0.2%) sales and use tax for <br />emergency communication systems and facilities authorizedby RCW <br />82.14.420; and <br />KITTCOM and its participating agencies, including Kittitas County, the <br />City of Ellensburg, KVFR, and other stakeholders, affirm the need to <br />maintain and improve the emergency communications systems and <br />facilities in Kittitas County; and <br />after public hearing, the Board of Commissioners of Kittitas County <br />deems it to be in the best interest of the County and its constituents to <br />submit such a proposition to the voters; and <br />a passing vote must be recorded by the Kittitas County Auditor in order <br />for the tax to be enacted; and <br />the tax, if approved, shall be imposed commencing January 1,2025,by <br />operation of further ordinance; and <br />equal time to receive public comment from citizens in support of, or <br />opposition to, Ballot Proposition No. 1 was made available at the city <br />Council's regularly scheduled meeting on March 18,2024; and <br />WHEREAS the Kittitas County Commissioners adopted Resolution2023-224 to place <br />on the Aprrl23,2024 Special Election a ballot measure which would <br />authorize the two-tenths of one percent sales and use tax to be used by <br />KITTCOM to pay for costs associated with financing, design, acquisition, <br />construction, equipping, operating, maintaining, remodeling, repairing, re- <br />equipping, and improvement of emergency communications systems and <br />facilities; <br />NOW THEREFORE' BE IT RESOLVED that the Kittitas County Board of Commissioners <br />hereby declare its support for, and encourages approval of, Ballot Measure, entitled, "KITTCOM <br />Emergency Communications and Facilities Sales and Use Tax," which will be presented to the <br />voters at the Aprrl23,2024 Special Election. <br />BOARD OF C COMMISSIONERS <br />Dated this 2nd day of Apr112024. <br />Brett <br />AS <br />Chairman <br />GTON