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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COUNTY OF KITTITAS STATE OF WASHINGTON A Resolution Amending the Kittitas County Homelessness and Affordable housing Committee's Grant Application, Guidelines and Instructions for Distribution of SHB 2060 "Affordable Housing Surcharge Funds" Pursuant to RCW 36.22.178 WHEREAS, in 2002 the Washington State Legislature enacted a provision known as the "affordable housing for all surcharge," by laws first enacted as SHB 2060, Wash. Laws Ch. 294 sec. 2, as amended in 2005 by Wash. Laws Ch. 484 sec. 18, and further amended in 2007 by Wash. Laws 427 sec. 1; and WHEREAS, SHB 2060, thereafter codified in RCW 36.22.178, authorized a Ten Dollar surcharge on certain documents recorded with the County Auditor's office for the purpose of providing funds to operate and maintain low-income housing projects (hereafter "SHB 2060 surcharge funds"); and WHEREAS, the County's portion of the SHB 2060 surcharge has been retained and deposited into a fund to be used by the County and its Cities and towns for eligible housing activities described. in SHB 2060, as amended, that serve very low-income households with incomes at or below fifty percent of the area median income; WHEREAS, the portion of the SHB 2060 surcharge funds retained by the County must be allocated to eligible housing activities that serve extremely low and very low-income households in the County and its Cities and Towns according to an Interlocal Agreement consistent with countywide and local housing needs and policies; and WHEREAS, a funding priority for the SHB 2060 surcharge funds must be given to eligible housing activities that serve extremely low-income households with incomes at or below thirty percent of the area median income; and. WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 2002-61, on June 4, 2002, the Board of Kittitas County Commissioners established separate funds for the deposit and accounting of the Ten Dollar surcharge required to be collected by the County Auditor under SHB 2060, with the first Five Percent (5%) retained by the County Auditor for the collection, administration, and local distribution of the funds, and of the remaining funds, Forty Percent (40%) allocated to the State Treasurer and Sixty Percent (60%) allocated to a County Low Income Housing Fund; and WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 2008-174, on December 16, 2008, the Board of Kittitas County Commissioners combined the former Affordable Housing Committee (first established in 2007) and the former Homelessness Committee (first established in 2005), to address comprehensively the issues of homelessness and affordable housing; and Resolution Amending Kittitas County Affordable Page lof 3 Housing Grant Application per RCW 36.22.178