Kittitas County ILA Consolidated Lodging Tax Agreement Amendment

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• Any proposed changes to the grant application, such as format or hosting location/medium, must be communicated to the Clerk of the Consolidated Lodging Tax Advisory Committee ("CLTAC") no later than December of the preceding year. • The CLTAC Clerk will make reasonable efforts to accommodate a municipality's requests; however, any requests that exceed staff capacity may be deferred at the Clerk's discretion. • The CLATC Clerk shall approve and prepare the final version of the consolidated application based on the feedback from each municipality. After approval, applicants for consolidated lodging tax grants will be required to submit applications to Kittitas County. B. Coordinated Schedule. The schedule for application deadlines, review and awards will be coordinated by the municipalities. C. Coordinated Funding. Each participating municipality will make available 13% of their annual lodging tax collections to be awarded through the consolidated lodging tax grant process. The funds provided by each municipality will be noticed publicly for award consideration, and each municipality providing funding for the coordinated process shall be guaranteed grant awards will be made for applications that will directly impact that jurisdiction in an amount equal to or greater than the funding level which has been committed (subject to qualifying applications). D. Streamlined Application Review and Award Process. Lodging tax grant applications will be processed as follows: 1) Categorizepplications. Applicants may apply for one or both funding categories. Applications will be categorized as follows: a. New Projects/Events. This category is for applications from events/projects which are within the first four (4) years of existence. Applications may also be considered in this category for established projects/events which have previously received funding but are proposing anew or expanded project/event which will increase tourism as part of an ongoing project/event. b. Ongoing Project/Event Support. This category is for applications from established projects/events (ongoing for more than four (4) years) which may request continuing support. Grant awards are limited in this category to no greater than 10% of the projects's/event's expense budget. Review, Ranking and Recommendations by LTAC'sµ The County will compile and distribute all applications to the municipalities for review by each LTAC (or appointee(s) if no LTAC) for review, ranking, and funding recommendation, which will then be processed as follows: a. Each municipality's LTAC (or appointee(s) if no LTAC) will review every application and assign it a rating based upon an agreed scoring system. b. Each municipality's LTAC (or appointee(s) if no LTAC) will rank the applications in order by score. Page 6of11 Page 412 of 452