2019-07-02-minutes-event-center-parking-lot

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07/02/2019 MINUTES 1 COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON COMMISSIONERS CONFERENCE ROOM SPECIAL MEETING TUESDAY 9:00 A.M. JULY 2, 2019 Board members present: Chairman Cory Wright; Vice-Chairman Brett Wachsmith and Commissioner Laura Osiadacz. Others: Mandy Buchholz, Deputy Clerk of the Board II; Patti Johnson, Solid Waste Director/Project Manager and Kady Porterfield, Event Center Director. SPECIAL MEETING EVENT CENTER PARKING LOT PROJECT COMMISSIONERS At 9:00 a.m. Chairman Wright opened a Special Meeting with County Staff to receive an update on the discussion that Commissioner Wachsmith and Patti Johnson, Solid Waste Director/Project Manager had on June 18, with CWU regarding the Event Center Parking Lot. Patti Johnson, Solid Waste Director/Project Manager stated that after the meeting and looking at the space they anticipate being able to get approximately 500 parking spaces in the proposed area. She stated that the Master Plan calls for 922 spaces, and if there wasn’t a need for water hookups it would provide some additional spaces but still not 900 spaces. She reviewed the options that were discussed and explained that either the County could lease the space to CWU with language in the Agreement calling out specific times where the Event Center would have rights to the lot during events, etc. She stated that they had parking lot zones figured out for different types of use. She stated that another option would be that the County funds the project and CWU would pay to use it. She stated they are anticipating the project being roughly 5 million dollars. There was discussion on funding options for both parties and timelines. Commissioner Wachsmith indicated that he would meet with the County Treasurer and work on getting a meeting set up with the County’s bonding agent and the Board to run numbers to see the impacts they would have with different scenarios. The Board also indicated they would like to include their Prosecutor into the conversations so depending on the route they go, the language would be clear in the Agreement. The meeting was adjourned 9:25 a.m.