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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
AGENDA STAFF REPORT
AGENDA DATE: November 20, 2018
ACTION REQUESTED: Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider the Formulation of
Road Improvement District 2018-01 Wiehl Road
BACKGROUND:
Public Works has been working to present a proposed road improvement district (Wiehl
Road) to the Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) for the past
several years. The BOCC issued a Notice of Intent to Formulate Road Improvement
District 2018-01 Wiehl Road pursuant to Resolution 2018-162 (10-16-2018). Notices to
benefitted property owners were issued via registered mail on October 26, 2018. A total
of 38 letters were sent encompassing all properties within the proposed district boundary.
Multiple ownership accounts for the total of 38 letters with individual owners receiving
separate letters for each legal lot of record. Owing to legal lot status, a total of 73 lots are
identified within the benefitted boundary. Of the 74 legal lots, Kittitas County defines
nine (9) lots as having to be sold with a mother parcel. This requirement reduces the total
number of benefitted lots to 65.
Public Works was provided a preliminary petition from benefitted owners identifying a
total of 63 benefitted lots. In addition, one owner had six parcels. Until recently, the
property owner with six lots committed to covering the cost of three (3) lots within the
RID. The basis of RID benefitted lot cost estimate has been based, until now, on a total
of 66 benefitted properties.
Meeting the BOCC's direction, the cost borne by benefitted properties is set at $600,614.
Project costs are currently estimated at approximately $875,000, with the BOCC agreeing
to cover the project balance. Using $600,614 in benefitted property owner contributions,
a fifteen (15) year cost recovery period, an interest rate of three (3) percent, with the first
payment due at the beginning of the recovery period: an annual cost of $740.09 has been
forecast per lot for the 66 benefitted lots.
Recently, the property owner with six (6) lots has suggested that he is now willing to pay
only one (1) assessment. It is Public Works' understanding that the property owner is
considering placing a large amount of land into conservancy trust. The effective date of
the transfer is unknown. Presuming that all but one lot is transferred to conservancy, the
total benefitted lot count reduces to sixty (60).
INTERACTION:
Public Works
RECOMMENDATION:
While state statue allows the use of bonding to fund RIDs, Public Works is suggesting
Road Fund (109) reserves as the project funding mechanism. Public Works is currently
earing various rates of return on investments with the County Treasurer's office. Current
rate vary from 1.7 to 2.5 percent. If the BOCC concurs, RID 2018-01 Wiehl Road could
go forward with a lot count of 65 and a reduced interest rate of 2.5%.
This equates to approximately $728.10 per lot per year for a 15 year period using a total
lot count of 65. Reducing the number of lots from 65 to 60 (counting only one of the six
lots as requested); raises the annual per lot payment to $788.77. It might be prudent to
capture all six lots now and credit back the lot owner once the final number of lots is
determined post conservancy. This represents a consistent approach taken with all other
lot owners.
HANDLING:
Return one original to Public Works
ATTACHMENTS:
Ordinance formulating RID 2018-01 Wiehl Road
LEAD STAFF:
Mark R. Cook, Director
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIN
COUNTY OF KITTITAS
STATE OF WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE No. 2018 -
ORDERING THE ENACTMENT OF ROAD IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT 2018-01 WIEHL ROAD
WHEREAS: County Road Improvement Districts are authorized in state law pursuant to Revised Code of
Washington at Chapter 36.88; and
WHEREAS: Counties are allowed to utilize an alternative method of road improvement district
formulation in Revised Code of Washington Chapter 36.88.065; and
WHEREAS: After due consideration the Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners elects to utilize
Revised Code of Washington Chapter 35.43.065 formulating Road Improvement District
(RID) 2018-01 Wiehl Road; and
WHEREAS: The Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners directed the Department of Public
Works to publish a Notice of Intent to Formulate Road Improvement District 2018-01 Wiehl
Road pursuant to Resolution 2018-162; and
WHEREAS: The Nature of Improvement is generally described as: The grade of the roadway is adjusted
to meet a maximum of twelve (12) percent grade. The roadway is widened to a paved hot
mix asphalt width of 24 feet. Drainage improvements are constructed along the inside slope
of the roadway along with retaining walls on the outside of the roadway. Guardrail is
placed at areas of high risk on the outside edge of the roadway. A paved turnaround is
constructed at the end of the improvement at the intersection with Loping Lane; and
WHEREAS: The Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners has determined that benefitted
property owners are equally benefitted by the Nature of Improvement and that funding
assessment shall be by individual lot owner and estimated assessments (Exhibit I attached)
and the proposed RID 2018-01 boundary map are attached to this Ordinance (Exhibit 2
attached); and
WHEREAS: The Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners find that no specially benefitted
property owner has constructed facilities qualifying for any credit towards any property
assessment; and
WHEREAS: The Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners acknowledges that no preformation
expenditures have occurred other than those incurred by Kittitas County Department of
Public Works and that those expenditures are not being south for cost reimbursement; and
WHEREAS: Upon consideration of Revised Code of Washington Chapter 35.43.188 the Kittitas County
Board of County Commissioners elects not to allow assessment reimbursement accounts as
part of RID 2018-01; and
WHEREAS: The Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners believes that all benefitted property
owners are included within the RID 2018-01 boundary, the Board reserves the right to
amend the boundary or create a process for allowing late comers to join the RID should the
need arise prior to the date of RID completion or to make final adjustments should lots be
removed for any reason; and
WHEREAS: The Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners did hold a public hearing on
November 20, 2018 at 2:00 pm receiving testimony from specifically benefitted property
owners within RID 2018-01 district boundaries regarding the enactment of RID 2018-01;
and
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED That the Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners, after
due deliberation and in the best interest of the public, does hereby order the enactment of RID 2018-01
Wiehl Road; and
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED That the Kittitas County Department of Public Works is directed to solicit
construction of RID 2018-01 improvements and to construct said improvements in 2019; and
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED That upon completion and acceptance from Kittitas County Department of
Public Works of RID 2018-01 Wiehl Road improvements, the Kittitas County Treasurer is directed to begin
collecting benefitted property RID assessments the amount of true and fair value for the improvement as
substantially presented in Exhibit 1 attached.
ADOPTED this 20th day of November, 2018, at Ellensburg, Washington.
Attest:
❑ Clerk of the Board- Julie Kjorsvik
❑ Deputy Clerk of the Board- Mandy Buchholz
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSION.
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Laura Osiadacz, Chairman
Obie O'Brien, Vice -Chairman
Cory Wright, Commissioner
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EXHIBIT 2 — BOUNDARY MAP AND DESCRIPTION
The following lands described as follows:
All of Section 22, Township 20 North, Range 16 East, W.M.; AND all of Section 23,
Township 20 North, Range 16 East, W.M.; AND that Portion of Section 27, Township 20
North, Range 16 East, W.M., shown as Lots 1- 6 upon that certain Survey recorded as
Volume 28 of Surveys, Page 224, under Auditors File No. 200305060025; AND that
Portion of Section 26, Township 20 North, Range 16 East, W.M., shown as Lots E - M
upon that certain Survey recorded as Volume 24 of Surveys, Page 97, under Auditors
File No. 199907130024; AND that Portion of Section 26, Township 20 North, Range 16
East, W.M., shown as Lots 1-4 upon that certain Survey recorded as Volume 18 of
Surveys, Page 10, under Auditors File No. 541082; AND that Portion of Section 26,
Township 20 North, Range 16 East, W.M., shown as Lot A upon that certain Survey
recorded as Volume 25 of Surveys, Page 67, under Auditors File No. 200006270006;
AND that Portion of Section 26, Township 20 North, Range 16 East, W.M., shown as
Lots 1 - 3 upon that certain Survey recorded as Volume G of Short Plats, Page 208,
under Auditors File No. 200410280023; AND that Portion of Section 26, Township 20
North, Range 16 East, W.M., shown as Lot 4A upon that certain Survey recorded as
Volume 9 of Plats, Page 223, under Auditors File No. 200507150048; AND that Portion
of Sections 26 and 27, Township 20 North, Range 16 East, W.M., shown as Lots A and
B, upon that certain Survey recorded as Volume 27 of Surveys, Page 140, under
Auditors File No. 200204190051.