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COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
COMMISSIONERS AUDITORIUM
SPECIAL MEETING
TUESDAY 2:00 P.M. MAY 3, 2016
Board members present: Chairman Obie O’Brien; Vice-Chairman Paul
Jewell; and Commissioner Laura Osiadacz.
Others: Julie Kjorsvik, Clerk of the Board; Mark Cook, Public Works
Director/Interim Engineer and Nick Plath, Applicant.
PUBLIC HEARING IRRIGATION FRANCHISE – WASHINGTON FRUIT PUBLIC WORKS
At 2:00 p.m. CHAIRMAN O’BRIEN opened a Public Hearing to consider an
Irrigation Franchise with Washington Fruit, a/k/a Selah Ranch, LLC
along Lawrence Road.
MARK COOK, PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR/INTERIM ENGINEER, reviewed a Staff
Report relating to a Commercial Irrigation Franchise within the
Lawrence Road Right-of-Way. He said the proposed project was for
planting an apple orchard requiring an irrigation pipe to be
installed. NICK PLATH, REPRESENTING WASHINGTON FRUIT, a/k/a SELAH
RANCH, LLC, reviewed the proposed project and plan for an apple
orchard which requires the installation of an irrigation pipe along
the northwest corner of their property to irrigate the orchard.
THERE BEING NO PUBLIC IN ATTENDANCE REQUESTING TO TESTIFY, THE
PUBLIC PORTION OF THE HEARING WAS CLOSED.
AGREEMENT IRRIGATION FRANCHISE – WASHINGTON FRUIT PUBLIC WORKS
COMMISSIONER JEWELL moved to approve a Non-Exclusive Irrigation
Franchise to Use County Roads, Rights-of-Way and Other County
Property within Kittitas County, between Kittitas County and
Washington Fruit, a/k/a Selah Ranch, LLC. COMMISSIONER OSIADACZ
seconded. Motion carried 3-0.
The meeting was adjourned 2:09 p.m.
KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CLERK OF THE BOARD KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Julie Kjorsvik Obie O’Brien, Chairman