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JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
Philip Morley, County Administrator
FROM: Leslie Locke, Executive Assistant
DATE: December 7, 2020
SUBJECT: AGREEMENT, Amendment #1 re: 2020 Lodging Tax Funding; To
Allow Grant Recipients to Invoice up to the Amount of their Voluntary
2020 Funding Reduction during the 11t Quarter of 2021; Jefferson
County Farmers Market
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
2020 Lodging Tax Funding Recommendations from the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (LTAC) to
extend the invoicing of 2020 funds through the 1st Quarter of 2021.
ANALYSIS:
The Lodging Tax Advisory Committee have submitted a recommendation the County Commissioners to
authorize amendments to the 2020 contracts. The amendments would allow grant recipients to invoice up
to the amount of their voluntary 2020 funding reduction, during the 1 st quarter of 2021. All recipients will
be given the opportunity to amend their 2020 funding agreement. On October 26, 2020, the BOCC
approved the LTAC's recommendation.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No impact. The funds have been budgeted in 2020. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic there has been a
decrease in tourism. 2020 grant recipients were asked to make any reductions with the understanding that
any reduction would be earmarked for potential use to promote Jefferson County in 2021, contingent on a
recommendation by the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee to award those funds in 2021 and approval by the
Board of County Commissioners.
RECOMMENDATION:
Approve the LTAC's recommendation authorize amendments to the 2020 funding contracts to allow grant
recipients to invoice up to the amount of their voluntary 2020 funding reduction, during the 1st quarter of
2021.
RE 7orley,
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CONTRACT AMENDMENT #1
By and Between
JEFFERSON COUNTY
and
JEFFERSON COUNTY FARMERS MARKET
For Hotel -Motel Funding 2020
This Amendment #1 is by and between JEFFERSON COUNTY (hereinafter known as
"COUNTY" and JEFFERSON COUNTY FARMERS MARKET (hereinafter known as "FARMERS
MARKET").
WHEREAS, the COUNTY and FARMERS MARKET entered into an Agreement on June 15,
2020 for Hotel -Motel Funding in 2020; and
WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the terms of that Agreement; and
WHEREAS, in recognition of the unavoidable disruption to tourism activities from the COVID-19
pandemic, FARMERS MARKET has volunteered to reduce the amount of their 2020 grant funding; and
WHEREAS, on October 7, 2020 the Jefferson County Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (LTAC)
reviewed and recommended to the Board of County Commissioners to amend their current funding
agreements to allow grant recipients to invoice up to the amount of their voluntary 2020 funding
reduction, during the 1 sc quarter of 2021;
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED BETWEEN BOTH PARTIES AS NAMED HEREIN that
the Agreement executed on June 15, 2020 is hereby amended as follows:
1. Paragraph 4 is added to "Section 3: Responsibility of Jefferson County" of the June 15, 2020
agreement as follows:
4. The $7,224 reduction from 2020 will be made available during the 1st quarter of 2021 for
potential use by FARMERS MARKET to promote the Chimacum Farmer's Market in Jefferson
County in 2021.
2. "Section 4: Term" of the June 15, 2020 agreement is hereby amended as follows:
This agreement shall be for a term of fifteen (15) months, commencing on January 1, 2020 and
ending on March 31, 2021. The reports referenced in Section 2, will be due January 31, 2021 and
February 28, 2021.
3. All other terms and conditions of the original Agreement executed on June 15, 2020 will remain the
same.
APPROVED and signed this
Attest:
Carolyn Gallaway, CMC
Deputy Clerk of the Board
Approved as to Form:
day of December, 2020.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Greg Brotherton, Chair
JEFFERSON COUNTY FARMERS MARKET
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Philip Hunsucker, t'% 2.i Deirdre Morrison, Manager
Chief Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney