HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution_Ratify Chair Signature_WaterRightsPSAKITTITAS COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
2023 AGENDA STAFF REPORT
AGENDA DATE: April 4, 2023
ACTION REQUESTED: Request to Approve a Resolution to Ratify the Chair's
Signature on the Water Rights Purchase and Sale
Agreement for Water Right Certificate No. 54-84269-J and
Authorizing Chair Signature on Closing Documents.
BACKGROUND: Public Works desires purchasing Water Right Certificate
No. 54-84269-J. This water right will be used to expand
water bank coverage in an expanded area of the Wilson-
Naneum subbasin. Several contingencies must be satisfied
to close on this transaction, including approval of a
resolution ratifying the purchase and sale agreement.
INTERACTION: Public Works.
RECOMMENDATION: Approve a Resolution to Ratify the Chair's Signature on
the Water Rights Purchase and Sale Agreement for Water
Right Certificate No. S4 -84269-J and Authorizing Chair
Signature on Closing Documents.
HANDLING: Return one original to Public Works.
ATTACHMENTS: Resolution.
LEAD STAFF: Arden Thomas, Water Resource Manager.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSII
COUNTY OF KITTITAS
STATE OF WASHINGTON
RESOLUTION
NO. 2023 -
RATIFYING THE CHAIR OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SIGNATURE ON THE WATER
RIGHTS PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT FOR WATER RIGHT CERTIFICATE NO. S4-
84269 -J AND AUTHORIZING CHAIR SIGNATURE ON CLOSING DOCUMENTS
WHEREAS: Kittitas County maintains a water banking program accepted by the Washington State
Department of Ecology (WDOE) as administered by the Public Works Department; and
WHEREAS: On March 13, 2023, the Kittitas County Board of Commissioners entered into a Purchase
and Sale Agreement with David W. Adams, LeAnn T. Adams William S. Craig, and
Constance M. Craig to purchase the consumptive and non -consumptive portions of the
Water Right with a priority date of June 30, 1871, and assigned Certificate No. S4 -84269-
J; and
WHEREAS: The Purchase and Sale Agreement identifies several contingencies that need to be satisfied
to close the transaction; and
WHEREAS: One identified contingency is for the Kittitas County Board of Commissioners to pass a
resolution in the ordinary course of its business ratifying the Purchase and Sale
Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Kittitas County,
Washington, in the best interest of the public, does hereby ratify the Chair signature on the water rights
purchase and sale agreement for Water Right Certificate No. S4 -84269-J.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, once all contingencies in the Purchase and Sale Agreement have been
met, the Chair of the Kittitas County Board of Commissioners is authorized to execute any further
documents, on behalf of Kittitas County, necessary to close the transaction.
DATED this 4' day of April 2023, at Ellensburg, Washington.
Attest:
❑ Clerk of the Board- Julie Kjorsvik
❑ Deputy Clerk of the Board- Mandy Buchholz
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Cory Wright, Chairman
Brett Wachsmith, Vice -Chairman
Laura Osiadacz, Commissioner