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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />COUNTY OF KITTITAS <br />STATE OF WASHINGTON <br />RESOLUTION <br />No.2021- 0Ah <br />A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE aO}IHOTEL/VIOTEL <br />TAX FUND GRANTS <br />WHEREAS: RCW 39.34.080 and other Washington State law, as amended, authorizes any city <br />to contract with any other city/county to perform any govemmental service, <br />activity or undertaking which each contracting citylcounty is authorized by law to <br />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 pu{poses of creating <br />a consolidated lodging tax grant process for special events and projects; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the interlocal agreement, Kittitas County solicited applications <br />for the distribution of the 2021Hotel/Motel tax funds in the form of reimbursable <br />grants for 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, <br />Cle Elum, and Roslyn have reviewed all the applications submitted to Kittitas <br />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 <br />the combined county-wide LTAC Consolidated Work Group for fui.ther review; <br />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 20,2020 on <br />WebEx to receive presentations from applicants recommended for funding and <br />deliberated to reach a final funding recommendation which is to be forwarded to <br />each entity's legislative body for final approval; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with an amendment to the interlocal agreement, each participating <br />municipality agreed to make available l3% of their annual lodging tax collections <br />to be awarded through the consolidated lodging tax grant process; and <br />WHEREAS: Kittitas County designated $154,241.31 to be available for grants as part of this <br />process, Ellensburg designated $46800.00 Cle Elum designated $23,706.35, and <br />Roslyn designated $615.14; and <br />WHEREAS: the combined county-wide LTAC Work Group recommended expending <br />$219,244.99 of the designated funds; and