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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />COUNTY OF KITTITAS <br />STATE OF WASHINGTON <br /> <br />RESOLUTION <br />NO. 2018-_______ <br /> <br />A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CREATION OF A TRUST FUND <br />#622 PRIVATE WATER BANK TRUST <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Kittitas County operates a water banking program through its Department of <br />Health to provide water mitigation certificates for applicants for certain development permits; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, those mitigation certificates are backed by water rights the County has purchased <br />that are in the trust water program administered by the Department of Ecology; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Kittitas County wishes to offer mitigation certificates backed by water rights from <br />other private water banks (charging them the fees necessary to achieve cost recovery for Kittitas <br />County); and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, The Kittitas County Auditor’s Office desires to create a separate fund into which <br />to place the fees received from the transactions selling mitigation certificates to applicants backed by <br />private water banks; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Kittitas County could have multiple private water banks which will require the <br />tracking of each bank in individual sub-funds. <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, fund #622 Private Water Bank Trust is hereby <br />created for the administration and accounting of sales of mitigation certificates by the Kittitas County <br />Health Department of mitigation certificates backed by private water banks. <br /> <br />DATED this 19TH day of June, 2018, at Ellensburg, Washington. <br /> <br /> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON <br /> <br /> __________________________________________ <br /> Laura Osiadacz, Chair <br /> <br /> __________________________________________ <br /> Obie O’Brien, Vice-Chair <br /> <br /> __________________________________________ <br /> Paul Jewell, Commissioner <br />ATTEST: <br /> <br />_____________________________ <br />Clerk of the Board