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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />COUNTY OF KITTITAS <br />STATE OF WASHINGTON <br />RESOLUTION <br />NO. 2017-!) 0 d.. <br />A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE 2018 HOTEL/MOTEL TAX <br />FUND GRANTS <br />WHEREAS: RCW 39.34.080 and other Washington State law, as amended, authorizes any city to <br />contract with any other city/county to perform any governmental service, activity or <br />undertaking which each contracting city/county is authorized by law to perform; and <br />WHEREAS: the governing bodies of Kittitas County and the cities of Ellensburg, Cle Elum, and <br />Roslyn previously entered into an Interlocal Agreement for the purposes of creating a <br />consolidated lodging tax grant process for special events and projects; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the Interlocal Agreement, Kittitas County solicited applications for <br />the distribution of the 2018 Hotel/Motel tax funds in the form of reimbursable grants for <br />special events and projects throughout Kittitas County; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the Interlocal Agreement, the respective Lodging Tax Advisory <br />Committees (LTACs) or designees of Kittitas County and the cities of Ellensburg, Cle <br />Elum, and Roslyn have reviewed all the applications submitted to Kittitas County; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the Interlocal Agreement, Kittitas County compiled the various <br />participating entity's scoring and funding recommendations and forwarded them to the <br />combined county-wide LTAC Consolidated Work Group for further review; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the Interlocal Agreement, the combined county-wide LTAC <br />Consolidated Work Group met in an open public meeting November 17,2017 at the <br />Ellensburg City Hall Council Chambers to receive presentations from applicants that <br />were recommended for funding and deliberated to reach a final funding recommendation <br />which is to be forwarded to each entity's legislative body for final approval; and <br />WHEREAS: Kittitas County designated $165,000.00 to be available in for grants as part of this <br />process, Ellensburg designated $34,400.00, Cle Elum designated $8,000.00, and Roslyn <br />designated $2,000.00; and <br />WHEREAS: the combined county-wide L T AC Work Group only recommended expending <br />$197,869.00 of the designated funds thereby reducing each participating entities share; <br />and <br />WHEREAS: as a result of the funding recommendation from the county-wide L T AC Work Group, <br />Kittitas County's designation is reduced to $155,914.00, Ellensburg's designation is <br />reduced to $32,506.00, Cle Elum's designation is reduced to $7,559.00, and Roslyn's <br />designation is reduced to $1,890.00; and