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Kittitas County commissioners approve higher weed assessments to sustain services
Summary
After a presentation showing rising personnel and benefit costs and shrinking reserves, commissioners approved a resolution to raise the county weed assessment and to expand assessments to incorporated cities and state road miles.
Ellensburg, Kittitas County — The Kittitas County Board of Commissioners voted to approve a resolution increasing county weed-control assessments after a public hearing held in the Commissioner's Auditorium. County weed program staff told commissioners that expenses have outpaced revenues for years and that reserves are declining, and proposed raising the per-parcel assessment for most county lands from $15.40 to $18.
Tom Davis, a presenter for the county weed program, told the commissioners that total annual revenues are about $513,000, split roughly between district contracts ($223,000) and county assessments ($208,000), with roughly $80,000 coming from interagency contracts with state agencies. "We've been running on that same assessment countywide for the past, like, 13 years. And we're finally at the point where, like, we need to bump up the assessment if we're gonna continue our…
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