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Kittitas County approves consent agenda covering contracts, grants, hearings and routine resolutions
Summary
The Board of Commissioners approved a broad consent agenda that included contract updates, grant acknowledgements, public hearing notices and several departmental requests; items were approved collectively with no recorded roll-call votes in the transcript.
Kittitas County commissioners voted to approve the consent agenda, which bundled multiple routine and substantive items including contract amendments, grant acknowledgements, public hearing notices and resolutions.
Items listed and approved on the consent agenda included acknowledgment of a contract usage agreement with the state DES for cooperative purchasing; amendments and requests related to the lodging tax advisory committee (a 2024 ratification of increased internal operational appropriations and a 2025 staff/administration contract); a request to set a public hearing to close out project performance for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) project with Friends in Service to Humanity (the food bank/food pantry expansion); approval of Amendment 3 between the Kittitas County Health Network and Kittitas County Public Health Department for opioid use disorder funding and contact updates; a notice of call for sealed bids for the Kittitas County Jail Facilities Renovation (Tenant Improvement) project; acknowledgement of the annual equitable sharing certification for federal asset sharing; a resolution amending Law and Justice Council grant awards (combining prior and new partial awards) for an event center emergency notification system; acknowledgment of a cyber-security grant to the sheriff’s office for a remote backup system; acceptance of an HSGP (Fiscal Year 23) extension covering regional purchases; acceptance of a $140,000 award to enhance evidence and firearms property security from the attorney general’s office; approval of an annual service contract resolution for a Smiths Detection body scanner service agreement; final mylar signature for the Nelson View final plat (MLIR) following hearings-examiner approval; setting a public hearing to reconsider the Ranch on Suwak Creek development agreement on Feb. 4 to correct retired parcel numbers; setting a public hearing for a nonexclusive sewer and water franchise application from Kittitas County Water District No. 2 in Ronald for Feb. 18, 2025; approval of lease amendments for multiple T-hangar leases at Bowers Field using an 8% standard increase (noting the CPI reference in existing leases is discontinued); authorization of a Puget Sound Energy easement at Bowers Field to expand electrical service to undeveloped hangar areas; adoption of a Kittitas County Airport 2024 Wildlife Hazard Evaluation and Management Plan; ratification of signatures on water-right purchases with Suncadia Resort LLC; and approval of a personal services agreement with Bill Clark.
County staff presented each item briefly. Several items included clarifying details in staff remarks: the lodging tax 2024 increase was to cover an additional $32,970 in unbudgeted personnel costs, bringing the total 2024 appropriation to $138,333; the 2025 lodging tax internal operational request totals $156,244; the jail facilities renovation tenant-improvement project will be the subject of a sealed-bid process; and the Nevada (?) — county staff described the HSGP amount as regionally allocated and that night-vision equipment purchases would be distributed across regional partners (Okanogan, Douglas, Chelan, Grant and Kittitas counties).
A commissioner moved to approve the consent agenda and a second followed. The motion passed; the transcript records the board saying “aye” but does not provide a roll-call tally in the public record excerpt.
