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From: pat kelleher <psk98926@vahoo.com> <br />Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2025 8:08 PM <br />To: Kittitas County Commissioners Office <bocc@co.kittitas.wa.us>; Cityclerk <br /><cityclerk@ci.ellensburg.wa.us>; Brian Kelly <bkelly@kvnews.com> <br />Subject: Public comments Mon April 14,2025 PW study session OURSPRINGWOOD <br />I— <br />CAUTION: This email originated from outside the Kittitas County network. Do not click links, <br />open attachments, fulfill requests, or follow guidance unless you recognize the sender and <br />have verified the content is safe. <br />Commissioners <br />Kittitas County is in crisis. <br />For 2024 expenses exceeded revenue by over $4,000,000 <br />The 2025 Budget was approved with a similar projected revenue shortfall. <br />The public voted down a new Road Tax levy in the fall of 2024. The "consultant" cost $125,000. <br />Commissioners raised property taxes 3-0 in the fall of 2024. <br />It is time to cut expenses which are perpetual savings. An emergency hiring freeze should be <br />immediately implemented. There are 28 vacant positions. <br />Kittitas County spent over $250 per person per night for a 1/2 day warming center that operated 5 <br />months. <br />Kittitas County is spending $250,000 per year on five year leases on 28 vehicles. Warranty repairs cannot <br />even be preformed in Kittitas County. I don't have all the data but $250,000 gets you 10 new Mavericks <br />every year. Love that vehicle. <br />Now we have a seat at the table to dine with OURSPRINGWOOD. The dinner check is $473,000 per <br />year. Get any Farmer in the OUR valley to sign off on Kittitas County's proposal which confirms <br />OURSPRINGWOOD "is valuable asset with significant long-term but realizing that potential requires <br />strategic investments." <br />Gifting OURSPRINGWOOD to the Yakama Nation/WDFW saves $473,000 today! <br />(the Nation will approve any improvements that WDFW pays for.... suckers) <br />The only way to get value out of OURSPRINGWOOD IS to rezone it through the comprehensive <br />plan and forward to a land trust for a manufacture home community. This is and always be the least <br />expensive option to address the 30% AMI Kittitas County Housing deficit. The mobile home community <br />on Vantage Highway is in play. You will soon hear the screams at the Courthouse when the lot rents <br />double. <br />Kittitas County needs to to stick to its Knitting of roads, facility maintenance and comprehensive <br />planning. <br />Pat Kelleher <br />The information transmitted by this email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. This email may contain confidential <br />and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any use, review, retransmission, distribution, <br />or reproduction is strictly prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from all <br />devices. <br />messageid:38eb45916c6dcbdac24bb8719d004a14 <br />