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RESOLUTION NO. 2024.A1 <br />A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the City of Ellensburg adopting the <br />distribution of the 2024lodging tax fund grants. <br />WHEREAS, RCW 39.34.080 and other Washington $tate law, as amended, <br />authorizes any city to contract with any other city/county to perform any governmental <br />service, activity or undertaking which each contracting city/county is authorized by law <br />to perform; and <br />WHEREAS, the governing bodies of Kittiias County and the citles of Ellensburg, <br />Cle EIum, and Roslyn previously entered into an interlocal agreement for the purposes <br />of creating a consolidated lodging tax grant proces$ for special events and projects; and <br />WHEREAS, in accordance with the interlocal agreement, Kittitas County solicited <br />applications for the distribution of the 2024 HoteliMotel tax funds in the form of <br />reimbursable grants for speclal events and projects throughout Kittitas County; and <br />WHEREAS, in accordance with the interlocal agreement, the respective Lodging <br />Tax Advisory Committees (LTACS) or designees of Kittitas County and the cities of <br />Ellensburg, Cle Elum, and Roslyn have reviewed all the applications submitted to <br />Kittitas County; and <br />WHEREA$, in accordance with the interlocal agreement, Kittitas County <br />compiled the various participating entity's scoring and funding recommendations and <br />forwarded them to the combined county-wide LTAC Consolidated Work Group for <br />further review; and <br />WHEREA$, in accordance with the interlocal agreement, the combined county- <br />wide LTAC Consolidated Work Group met in an open public meeting December 1, <br />2423, at Ellensburg City Hall to receive presentations from applicants, and deliberated <br />to reach a final funding recommendation which is to be fonrvarded to each entity's <br />legislative body for final approval; and <br />WHEREAS, in accordance with an amendment to the interlocal agreement, each <br />participating munlcipality agreed to make available 13o/o of their annual lodging tax <br />collections to be awarded through the consolidated lodging tax grant process; and <br />WHEREAS, Kittitas County designated $323,014.59 to be available for grants as <br />part of this process, Ellensburg designated $87,753.09, Cle Elum designated <br />$14,815.90, and Roslyn designated $3,923.37; and <br />WHEREAS, the combined county-wide LTAC Work Group recommended <br />expending $429,506,95 of the designated funds; and <br />Resolution - 1