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December 9, 2014
JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
Philip Morley, County Administrator
FROM: Tami Pokorny, Environmental Health Specialist II
DATE: December 15, 2014
SUBJECT: Agenda Request: 2014 Conservation Futures Funding
Amendment —Snow Creek Watershed Acquisitions
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Environmental Health staff requests the opportunity to discuss a possible onservation futures funding
amendment for the Snow Creek Watershed Acquisitions (2014) Project.
ANALYSIS /STRATEGIC GOALS:
Revenue to the Conservation Futures Fund in the 2014 funding cycle totaled $228,000. To date, all
but $73,000 have been allocated:
Cost
Item
Remaining
Water Quality
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Balance
83,500
Tarboo Creek Conservation Project
144,500
(Resolution No. 31 -13)
31,176
Quimper Wildlife Corridor 2014
113,324
(Resolution No. 28 -14)
10,824
Snow Creek Watershed Acquisitions
102,500
Project (Resolution No. 29 -14)
73,000
Proposed Snow Creek
29,500
Acquisitions Project Supplement
(New request)
29,500
Staff and expenses
0
On July 7, 2014, a public hearing and was held, and resolutions approved, for the use of up to $10,824
towards the Snow Creek Watershed Acquisitions Project and up to $31,176 towards the Quimper
Community Health
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Developmental Disabilities
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Wildlife Corridor 2014 Project. Staff believed at that time that the previously approved Winona Basin
Bloedel Project had yet to be deducted from the available fund balance. In fact, the project cost had
already been deducted, leaving additional funding available to award in 2014. July's Snow Creek
award had been artificially reduced to stay within budget at the lower funding figure, and full project
funding is now requested.
Jefferson Land Trust is the project sponsor and originally requested $90,824. Of that amount, up to
$73,000 additional is potentially available which would bring the total project award for Snow Creek
up to $83,824.
The purpose of the CF Program is to address the "general and increasing need to provide a system of
public open spaces... for the health, welfare, benefit and safety of the residents of Jefferson County,"
and to maintain "Jefferson County as a desirable place to live, visit and locate businesses."
FISCAL IMPACT:
The costs for this discussion are negligible.
RECOMMENDATION:
Meet with staff to discuss a possible amendment to the conservation future funding for the Snow
Creek Watershed Acquisitions Project.
REVIEWED BY:
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Developmental Disabilities
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Environmental Health
Water Quality
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JEFFERSON LAND TRUST
Helping the community preserve open space, working lands and habitat forever
1033 Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368
360 - 379 -9501 - office 360- 379 -9897 - fax
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December 8, 2014
Jefferson County
Board of County Commissioners
County Courthouse
Port Townsend, Washington
Dear Sirs;
We appreciate the opportunities afforded by the Conservation Futures Fund (CFF) to join with you "to provide a
system of public open spaces, those open spaces being necessary for the health, welfare, benefit and safety of
the residents of Jefferson County and the maintenance of Jefferson County as a desirable place to live, visit and
locate businesses ".
Jefferson Land Trust applied for two CFF projects in 2014, one to add two parcels to the Quimper Wildlife
Corridor, and the other for acquisition, protection, and restoration of properties along Snow Creek. Thanks to
the CFF and to generous neighborhood support, the Quimper Wildlife Corridor parcels are now permanently
protected.
The application for our second 2014 project, the Snow Creek Watershed Acquisitions Project, requested
$90,824 to help match a $370,854 grant received the State's Salmon Recovery Funding Board. To date it has
been awarded $10,824 from the CFF. At its November 19, 2014 meeting, the Conservation Futures Citizen
Advisory Committee recommended that we ask you to approve this Snow Creek Project for the use of the
remaining CF funds ($73,000) now available to projects in this funding cycle. If granted, these additional funds
would bring the total amount of CF funds awarded to Snow Creek to $83,824 and take us closer to successful
completion of the project. Our SRFB grant now specifies a minimum of 25% local match ($123,618) and we will
seek the balance of the match from donated restoration work, Jefferson Land Trust staff time, and bargain sales
if the landowners agree.
Appraisals are currently underway for these two properties, and once those are complete we will be negotiating
with the landowners.
Sincerely yours,
Jefferson Land Trust
Conservation Projects Committee chair
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Jefferson Land Trust is a 501 (c) (3) non - profit, tax- exempt private corporation.
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