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COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON COMMISSIONERS AUDITORIUM SPECIAL MEETING
TUESDAY 2:00 P.M. JUNE 18, 2019
Board members present: Chairman Cory Wright and Commissioner Laura
Osiadacz. Absent: Vice-Chairman Brett Wachsmith.
Others: Julie Kjorsvik, Clerk of the Board and Patti Johnson, Solid
Waste Director/Project Manager.
PUBLIC HEARING SETTING FEES SOLID WASTE
At 2:00 p.m. CHAIRMAN WRIGHT opened a Public Hearing to consider a
proposed Resolution for Setting Fees for the Solid Waste Department.
PATTI JOHNSON, SOLID WASTE DIRECTOR/PROJECT MANAGER reviewed a Staff
Report which included the responsibilities of the Kittitas County
Board of Commissioners and their managing of the countywide Solid
Waste System under the terms of RCW 70.95, RCW 36.58 and the Joint
Solid Waste Disposal System of Agreement of March 12, 1979. She
reviewed the proposed fee increases, including unsecure loads in an
effort to try and reduce the litter on County Roads and traffic
hazards. The Board asked Staff questions relating to the proposed
fees and the new one for unsecured loads and what would constitute
an “unsecured load”.
THERE BEING NO ONE IN ATTENDANCE REQUESTING TO TESTIFY, THE PUBLIC PORTION OF THE HEARING WAS CLOSED. COMMISSIONER OSIADACZ submitted comments into the record that were
received on the Commissioners Facebook page relating to the proposed
fee increases and unsecured loads.
RESOLUTION 2019-102 SETTING FEES SOLID WASTE COMMISSIONER OSIADACZ moved to approve Resolution No. 2019-102,
Setting Fees for Solid Waste Disposal Facilities and Operations, and
to Amend the Resolution eliminating the proposed Unsecured Load fee
at this time. COMMISSIONER WRIGHT seconded. Motion carried 2-0.
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The meeting was adjourned at 2:21 p.m.
KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS CLERK OF THE BOARD KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Julie Kjorsvik Cory Wright, Chairman