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RESOLUTION <br />NO. Z.OIl.I-' III <br />A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE 2017 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 the <br />distribution of the 2017 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 Work Group for further review; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the interlocal agreement, the combined county-wide LTAC Work <br />Group met in an open public meeting November 18,2016 at the Ellensburg City Hall <br />Council Chambers to receive presentations from applicants recommended for <br />funding and deliberated to reach a final funding recommendation which is to be <br />forwarded to each entity's legislative body for final approval; and <br />WHEREAS: Kittitas County designated $175,000.00 to be available in for grants as part of this <br />process, Ellensburg designated $34,650.00, Cle Elum designated $8,000.00, and Roslyn <br />designated $2,000.00; and <br />WHEREAS: the combined county-wide LTAC Work Group only recommended expending <br />$216,990.00 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 LTAC Work Group, <br />Kittitas County's designation is reduced to $172,787.00, Ellensburg's designation is <br />reduced to $34,303.00, Cle Elum's designation is reduced to$7,920 .00, and Roslyn's <br />designation is reduced to $1,980.00; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the interlocal agreement, Kittitas County will provide notice to each <br />successful applicant and will require a contract be agreed to by each successful applicant <br />prior to funding awards being available for reimbursement; and