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CDS STUDY SESSION MINUTES
COMMISSIONERS' AUDITORIUM, 205 WEST 5th ROOM 109
Regular Meeting
MONDAY 1:30 PM March 13, 2023
Board members present: Chairman Cory Wright, Vice -Chairman Brett
Wachsmith and Commissioner Laura Osiadacz.
Others: Dan Carlson, Toni Berkshire, Jeremy Larson, Steph
Mifflin, Zach Torrance -Smith, and Jessica Miller, Community
Development Services; Arden Thomas, Josh Fredrickson, and .
Rebecca Cruse, Public Works; Neil Caulkins, Deputy Prosecutor;
and zero (0) members of the public.
At 1:30 pm Chairman Wright opened the Community Development
Services Study Session.
CITIZEN COMMENTS (1 MIN. TIME LIMIT)
There were no citizen comments.
EXECUTIVE SESSION RCW 42.30.110(1)(i) TO DISCUSS WITH LEGAL
COUNSEL REPRESENTING THE AGENCY MATTERS RELATING TO AGENCY
ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS, OR TO DISCUSS WITH LEGAL COUNSEL
REPRESENTING THE AENCY LITIGATION OR POTENTIAL LITIGATION TO
WHICH THE AGENCY, THE GOVERNING BODY, OR A MEMBER ACTING IN AN
OFFICIAL CAPACITY IS, OR IS LIKELY TO BECOME, A PARTY, WHEN
PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE REGARDING THE DISCUSSION IS LIKELY TO RESULT IN
AN ADVERSE LEGAL OR FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCE TO THE AGENCY
At 1:31 p.m. Chairman Wright announced the Board would recess
into an Executive Session for ten (10) minutes with Dan Carlson,
CDS Director; Neil Caulkins, Deputy Prosecutor; Toni Berkshire,
Code Enforcement Officer, and Jessica Miller, CDS Office
Administrator. There was no action anticipated.
At 1:41 p.m. the Board reconvened out of Executive Session.
There was no action taken. Direction to staff to pursue this
item and bring to future study session.
CDS PRIORITIZED WORK PLAN
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CDS Director Dan Carlson stated the CDS prioritized work plan is
set up by division. The Planning Division has many projects and
they have been listed by priority. CDS will be scheduling a
meeting for late March with the new on-call contracted
consultants to look at the GIS Predictive Mapping and help come
up with a scope for it and the land capacity analysis. During
the docket, the Board remanded the Contractor Yards item back to
CDS for further work. This item will be brought to the Planning
Commission to work on and will be introduced at the next meeting
on 3/14/23. A timeline has also been included for creating a
work group to discuss Agricultural Tourism. The Board requested
an update at the next Study Session regarding how it was
received by the Planning Commission to review these items.
FOUNDATION ONLY PERMITS
CDS Director Dan Carlson reviewed that at the last Study Session
Foundation Only permits were discussed and CDS was asked to
research more into what would be the benefit to our customers if
they were stopped. One option is to start with limiting them to
seasonally to help with those higher snow load areas. CDS was
directed to go ahead with limiting the Foundation Only permits
to seasonally and to begin public outreach to communicate this
change. The communication plan will be provided to the Board at
the next study session.
RV OCCUPANCY
CDS Director Dan Carlson stated CDS is looking at the option of
amending the RV occupancy code language. Code Enforcement
Officer Berkshire researched many other jurisdictions, and the
results were provided to the Board. CDS is requesting an ok to
move forward with the concept to be included in our upcoming
code updates. The direction from the Board was to proceed
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forward and present this item to the Planning Commission for
review.
REVIEW DRAFT JOINT RESOLUTION WITH CITY OF CLE ELUM REGARDING
INTERLOCAL PLANNING AGREEMENT
CDS Director Dan Carlson stated the City of Cle Elum sent CDS a
draft joint planning resolution stating the intent to work on an
interlocal agreement similar to the one with the City of
Ellensburg. It will be submitted to legal for review and then
brought as an agenda item at an upcoming study session.
OTHER BUSINESS
There was no other business.
Meeting concluded at 2:02 p.m.
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KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Cory Wright, Chairman