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COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
COMMISSIONERS AUDITORIUM
SPECIAL MEETING
MONDAY 3:00 P.M. MARCH 28, 2016
Board members present: Chairman Obie O’Brien; Vice-Chairman Paul
Jewell and Commissioner Gary Berndt.
Others: Julie Kjorsvik, Clerk of the Board; Doc Hansen, Planning
Official/Interim CDS Director; Lindsey Ozbolt, Staff Planner;
Robin Estes, Oregon/Washington BLM FERC Coordinator and Project
Manager; Linda Clark, BLM District Manager, Coeur d’Alene
District Office; Myria Foisy, Department of Transportation; Dave
Dean, Power Engineers, Project Manager/Wildlife Ecologist and 1
member of the public.
SPECIAL MEETING VANTAGE TO POMONA TRANSMISSION PROJECT CDS
At 3:00 p.m. Chairman O’Brien opened a Special Meeting to
receive an update from the Bureau of Land Management regarding
the Vantage to Pomona Transmission project.
Lindsey Ozbolt, Staff Planner, gave a brief history of the work
that has gone into the project over the past two years. She said
if the project were to go through Kittitas County, it would
require a Development Agreement and Conditional Use Permit,
which the Board of County Commissioners would be making a final
determination on those applications. Commissioner Jewell asked
why they are meeting at this point if there was potential to be
having to make a decision on the project. Ms. Ozbolt said they
spoke with the Prosecutors office and they did not see any issue
with providing the Board an update, as long as they disclosed it
at the appropriate time if it were to come before them. They
also recommended to not allow the Board to ask specific
questions at this time.
Robin Estes, Oregon/Washington BLM FERC Coordinator and Project
Manager reviewed a power point with information relating to the
Vantage to Pomona Transmission project. She said it was a little
different practice as they were trying to get the NEPA and SEPA
process done at once, which had been asked by their department
as well as the Governor’s office for streamlining and better
efficiency. Updates that were provided included milestones,
participants, location, description, project alternatives, key
issues and resolutions, a summary of Counties jurisdictions,
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summary of County alternative preferences, identification of the
environmentally preferred alternative and lead Federal Agency
preferred alternatives for the FEIS.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m.
KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CLERK OF THE BOARD KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Julie Kjorsvik Obie O’Brien, Chairman