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BEFORE THE BOARD OF KITTITAS COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
Resolution No. 22-______
A Resolution Authorizing Placing the Increase of the Real Estate Excise Tax on the November Ballot.
WHEREAS, RCW 82.46.035 provides for an additional real estate excise tax of one quarter of one percent
that a Board of County Commissioner may impose ; and
WHEREAS, after due notice, the Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners met at 2:00 p.m. on
September 21, 2021 to consider the matter; and
WHEREAS, the Kittitas County Board of Commissioners voted to place the question of raising the real
estate excise tax from the current rate of half of one percent to three quarters of one percent to a vote of the
people on the 2022 general election ballot .
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners hereby directs that the
question of whether or not to increase the real estate excise tax by one quarter of one percent tax be placed
before the county voters in the next general election, and hereby approves the fo llowing ballot title:
PROPOSITION NO. 1
KITTITAS COUNTY REAL ESTATE EXCISE TAX INCREASE
Should the Board of County Commissioners raise the excise tax on the sale of real property in unincorporated
Kittitas County by one quarter of one percent from the current half of one percent to three quarters of one
percent?
Should this proposition be: Approved Rejected
Passed by the Board of Kittitas County Commissioners meeting in regular session at Ellensburg, Washington
the ____ day of ___________________, 2022.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Chairman
Attest: Vice-Chairman
Clerk of the Board Commissioner