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Commission ratifies termination of SunCadia water-rights purchase agreement
Summary
Kittitas County’s water resources manager said the county terminated a water-rights purchase agreement with SunCadia after failing to secure grant funding; the board moved and approved ratifying the chair’s signed termination.
Arden Thomas, Kittitas County water resources manager, told commissioners that in late 2025 the county’s chair signed a termination agreement with SunCadia for a water-rights purchase and sale because the county was unsuccessful in securing grant funding to support the acquisition. Thomas said the termination was a formality and asked the board to ratify the signature.
A motion to ratify the termination was made and seconded; an "Aye" was recorded and the chair announced the motion passed. The transcript records the board's approval of the ratification but does not include a roll-call tally or individual named votes.
Thomas framed the termination as administrative follow-up after the county could not obtain the grant funding needed for the purchase. The ratification completes the record of the chair’s prior signature but does not itself reinstate any funding or acquisition authority.
