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RgSOLUTION <br />NO. 24-001 <br />A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE 2024 HOTEL/IVIOTEL <br />TAX FUND GRANTS - ROSLYN <br />WHEREAS: RCW 39.34.080 and other Washington State law, as amended, authorizes any city <br />to contract with any other city/county to perform any governmental service, <br />activity or undertaking which each contracting cityicounty is authorized by law to <br />perform; and <br />WHEREAS: the goveming bodies of Kittitas County and the cities of Ellensburg, Cle Elurn, <br />and Roslyn previously entered into an interlocal agreement for the purposes of <br />creating a consolidated lodging tax grant process for special events and projects; <br />and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the interlocal agreement, Kittitas County solicited applications <br />for thc distribution of the 2Q24 Hotel/Motel tax funds in the form of reimbursable <br />grants for special events and projects throughout Kittitas Counfy; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the interlocal agreement, the respective Lodging Tax Advisory <br />Committees (l,TACs) or designees of Kittitas County and the cities of Ellensburg, <br />Cle Elum, and Roslyn have reviewed all the applications submitted to Kittitas <br />County; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with the interlocal agreement, Kittitas County compiled the various <br />participating entity's scoring and funding recommendations and forwarded them <br />to the combined county-wide LTAC Consolidated Work Group for further <br />review; and <br />WHEREAS: in acoordance with the interlocal agreement, the combined county-wide LTAC <br />Consolidated Work Group met in an open public meeting on December 1,2023, <br />at Ellensburg City Hall to receive presentations from applicants, and deliberated <br />to reach a final funding recommendation which is to bc forwarded to each entity's <br />legislative body for final approval; and <br />WHEREAS: in accordance with an amendment to the interlocal agreement, each participating <br />municipality agreed to make available l3% of their annual lodging tax collections <br />to be awarded through the consolidated lodging tax grant process; and <br />WHERDAS; Kittitas County designated $323,014.59 to be available for grants as part of this <br />process, Ellensburg designated $87,753.09 Cle Elum designated $14,815.90, and <br />Roslyn designated $3,923.37; and, <br />WHEREAS: the combined county-wide LTAC Work Group recommended cxpending <br />5429,506.95 of the designated funds; and