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COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
COMMISSIONERS AUDITORIUM
SPECIAL MEETING
TUESDAY 2:00 P.M. APRIL 18, 2017
Board members present: Chairman Paul Jewell; Vice-Chairman Laura
Osiadacz; and Commissioner Obie O’Brien.
Others: Julie Kjorsvik, Clerk of the Board; Mark Cook, Public Works
Director; Dan Carlson, CDS Director and 3 members of the public.
PUBLIC HEARING MARIAN MEADOWS PUBLIC WORKS
At 2:00 p.m. CHAIRMAN JEWELL opened a Public Hearing to consider a
proposed Development Agreement for Funding of Processing Planned
Unit Development of Marian Meadows.
DAN CARLSON, CDS DIRECTOR reviewed a Staff Report. He explained how
the proposed Development Agreement does not provide for any
preliminary approval but only funding and it does not change the
process as outlined in County Code. MARK COOK, PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR
reviewed a proposed amendment to Attachment A regarding the Staff
rate. He asked the Board to consider changing the rate from $56.00
per hour to $92.00 per hour.
THOSE PRESENT & TESTIFYING: JOHN JENSEN said he lives across the
road from the proposed project and hoped the EIS which had been
previously done would still be in force and if not, the County
should require a new one to be conducted. He said there was a lot of
history with the project and described the area including its rural
character, steep slopes, scenery, and it being a wildlife corridor.
He thought the proposed small lots would affect their daily lives.
JERRY MARTENS provided information and expressed concerns relating
to the accounting of expended funds and billable hours of the
project over the past years. He said Easton Ridge Land Co. has paid
in excess of $400,000.00 to the County towards the application with
approximately $300,000.00 of expenditures and they have not received
any accounting or acknowledgement other than the recent submittal
last month. They are requesting that it be corrected and a priority
with the new agreement. He asked if he could review the proposed
Development Agreement prior to the Board’s approval. THERE BEING NO
OTHERS REQUESTING TO TESTIFY, THE PUBLIC PORTION OF THE HEARING WAS
CLOSED.
MR. CARLSON said the proposed Agreement did not include the travel
time, etc. for the consultants and suggested adding it to the
document. He recommended that the Board of County Commissioners
continue the Public Hearing to allow him time to add the additional
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language relating to the travel time as an expense and to address
the monthly invoices.
COMMISSIONER OSIADACZ moved to continue the Public Hearing to
Tuesday May 2, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. under Board Discussion & Decision.
COMMISSIONER O’BRIEN seconded.
COMMISSIONER OSIADACZ made disclosures including how her parents own
property next to the proposed project. There were no objections
made. CHAIRMAN JEWELL explained how the proposed Agreement related
to funding of the application process and not project specific.
Motion carried 3-0.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:25 p.m.
KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CLERK OF THE BOARD KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Julie Kjorsvik Paul Jewell, Chairman